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ZiiS commented on Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499   cnbc.com/2025/08/25/nvidi... · Posted by u/tiahura
themafia · 6 hours ago
I happen to have an envelope handy:

2000 kilocalorie converts to 8.3 megajoules. This should be the amount of energy consumed per day.

8.3 megajoules / 24 hours is 96 watts. This should be the average rate of energy expediture.

96 watts * 20% is 19 watts. This should be the portion your brain uses out of that average.

96 watts * 24 hours is 464 watthours. This should be the average amount of energy your brain uses in a day.

This is why I've never found "AI" to be particularly competitive with human beings. The level of energy efficiency that our brains operate at is amazing. Our electrical and computer engineering is several orders of magnitude out from the achievements of nature and biology.

ZiiS · 6 hours ago
Calculate how much energy needs to be input into acriculture and transport to provide that wattage.
ZiiS commented on The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world   openculture.com/2025/08/t... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
SomeHacker44 · 2 days ago
...is from 350AD and looks like a bottle of sludge. (To save you a click.)
ZiiS · 2 days ago
It is a bottle of sludge.
ZiiS commented on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally   pydevtools.com/blog/uv-fo... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
rbits · 4 days ago
Does it have the capability to use a different formatter than ruff?
ZiiS · 4 days ago
This is about providing an opinionated default. uv will still support installing and runing any formater as before.
ZiiS commented on LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers   threedle.github.io/ll3m/... · Posted by u/simonpure
ZiiS · 9 days ago
Also surprising good at OpenSCAD if you keep reminding it not to assign shapes to variables.
ZiiS commented on Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription   autoexpress.co.uk/volkswa... · Posted by u/t0bia_s
ZiiS · 10 days ago
Whilst I hate subscriptions, I am not imediatly offended by a £650 reduction in the cost of a car to lock out the last 10% of power that I would expect to have a disproportionate cost to the warrenty.
ZiiS commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy   theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
geoffpado · 11 days ago
ZiiS · 11 days ago
Yes, very damming considering their spend to not ever have won a best picture/actor/actress/screenplay.
ZiiS commented on Ashet Home Computer   ashet.computer/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
uticus · 13 days ago
> an expandable and hackable computer in the spirit of the 80's home computers

cool!

> Dual Core CPU

hm that will make for some interesting first steps in learning

ZiiS · 13 days ago
Tbh having a seperate io core can simplify scheduling.
ZiiS commented on PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?   thephp.foundation/blog/20... · Posted by u/moebrowne
4ndrewl · 15 days ago
I doubt anyone here is working to 1% of fb scale, let alone 10%.

The answer to "why Hack" needs to be viewed in the historical context of "when Hack" and what was happening (or not) in the php ecosystem at that time.

Things have changed a lot since, in terms of performance, language longevity, ecosystem etc. Its a perfectly reasonable language to adopt for many orgs.

ZiiS · 15 days ago
Some people here work at (exactly) 100% of fb scale.
ZiiS commented on My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=pf3Bx... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
ZiiS · 15 days ago
Need a price to know if I will buy. I doubt you would cover R&D at >$1000, could easily be >$100 unit cost for a short run, but more complex watches can be <$10 strait from China.

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