blobjim [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020
  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Flights from Tampa are going for over 1k right nowEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Is thst really thst unusual? They are obviously going to charge more for last minute extremely popular flights. People usually book months out to get better prices. And taking a plane to get away from a storm…? I don’t know if taking a plane from Florida to Chicago like the next day is really anyone’s God given right in the first place. Not shedding tears that someone is getting “ripped off” trying to take an airplane instead of just driving for a while or going to a shelter.

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims.English
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    2 days ago

    In their defense, I’m sure there are tons of actually useful machine learning models that don’t use that much power once trained.

    I have an iPhone with Face ID and I think the way they did that was to train a model on lots of people’s faces, and they just ship that expensive-to-train model with the operating system and then it trains a little bit more when you use face ID. I can’t imagine it uses that much power since you’re running the algorithm every time you open the phone.

    I’m sure any model worth anything probably does require a lot of training and energy usage. I guess it really depends on the eventual utility whether it’s worth it.

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims.English
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    2 days ago

    I completely agree in terms of personal computing like storing photos, documents, notes, and so on. At most, they could be encrypted locally and stored remotely so that multiple devices can use the data.

    There are still plenty of use cases for server-oriented data processing. Most “infrastructure” related things work well that way. Cases where data needs to be quickly read and written from a number of different locations and the information isn’t really secret or personal. I am biased since I work on one of those systems. But there are so many internal systems at companies that really don’t need end-to-end encryption either. Although maybe some day things will still move in that direction.

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Holy hell, this reads like the Han Solo meme.English
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    9 days ago
    CW: SA

    Several days before Stines allegedly killed the judge, he was interviewed for hours in a deposition in a suit that names Stines in his capacity as sheriff. The lawsuit claimed that Stines knew or should’ve known that a former deputy had coerced a female drug defendant into having sex in exchange for freeing her from house arrest. The defendant said Deputy Ben Fields had forced her to have sex with him in Judge Mullins’ chambers after hours in exchange for Fields taking off her ankle monitor.

    Fields, who also served as the judge’s bailiff, pleaded guilty to r-word charges last year. Both Mullins and Stines denied knowing anything about Fields’ crimes.

    In the wake of the shooting, some in Letcher County have focused on the sheriff’s state of mind.

    The plaintiff and her two attorneys said Stines seemed agitated during the deposition, often turning to his attorney for guidance and asking for frequent breaks. The day after the deposition, Stines — who usually returned press calls promptly — took many hours to get back to a reporter about a fatal accident, according to The Mountain Eagle, Letcher’s weekly newspaper. Stines told the newspaper that he’d “told everyone at the sheriff’s office not to say anything to anyone until he returned.”