The King is dead, long live the King

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[โ€“] [S] 10 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Bought a car. That's enough adulting for the day!

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Exciting times. Hope it's a good one

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)
  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Oh no lol have people turned up now?? ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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  • Why yes, 2 hours 20 mins is absolutely a reasonable time to get to Flinders. Thank you replacement bus.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 months ago

    2 of the apartments I saw today are lovely.

    One is hilarious to think of living in as a footyhead, because it has a direct sightline to the G

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 months ago

    I have seen one apartment I really like, and one I really don't

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    There's an article on the abc about how black market cigs and vapes are a huge market now.

    Gee. I fucking wonder why.

    2 years ago, in their infinite wisdom, the government decided to shut down all the legal vape stores. The ones where you had to show ID to be served. Where they didn't sell nicotine.

    And now, not only has the government's tobacco tax returned a quarter of what it did 2 years ago, but they're bleeding money combating organised crime around black market tobacco and vapes.

    These fucking people.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    There was a recent wastewater survey in SA for nicotine and/or other drugs that was reported on abc news, maybe the same article. The amount of nicotine in the wastewater has not decreased - so usage hasn't decreased. The govt shot itself in the foot by making legal nicotine hard to access and taxing it heavily. The people have decided to move their support to the illegal market. Prohibition never works.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Prohibition, fear and shame. I woulda gotten off the fuckers years earlier if i had cheaper or even free support that wasn't a fucking fruit matcher app

    "Talk to your doctor" ay that cunt costs more than a pack of darts

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Word. I went to the Dr to quit, and she prescribed these pills that cost more than two packs of 20 from woolies, or like 4x as much as the malboros I get from my tobacconist lol.

    And the gum the shit just makes my mouth feel strange and weird, it doesn't make me want to quit cigs, it makes me want to go back to them

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I took to the sunshine today. I am no longer a grumpy bum. ๐Ÿ™‚

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Decided on meatloaf. And instant pot tomato sauce. Got a busy month so that will be good freezer fillers.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Hmm...meatloaf or chilli con carne...what is the better use of this mince???

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Fuuuck me dead it has begun. Luddites actually believing to the point of argument that datacentres have and will only ever exist solely to serve llm slopshitters

    slowly crushes own face in palms

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I'm going to have to push back here. It's very easy to draw that conclusion. The largest push in history for data centres has been brought on by the LLM craze. What is ultimately a clever math function that works similar to an autocomplete.

    Don't get me wrong, I use a local LLM for data analysis. The tech has very real uses.

    The impact of data centres on both the environment, and people's well being can't be ignored.

    I wouldn't refer to people with those concerns as luddites. I'd call them reasonable.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Nono, i mean they literally think that datacentres only exist for LLM use.

    Speaking as someone who's spent most of her professional career in telecommunication datacentres...

    ...no

    Edit: basically people with little to no technical knowledge are conflating DCs and llms the same way they have pattern recognition AI and llms. Which is gonna be pretty fucking dangerous if some idiot gets it into their head to torch a colo that supports the local imaging hospital

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    DCs have been around doing essential stuff for years, agreed. Do I want the local methheads to steal copper from the DCs that are only for AIs? Yes. Yes I do.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The current explosion in data centre expansion closely aligns with the explosion in AI services. So yes I agree that there must be a connection. Two years ago 8 billion people we were doing banking, using cloud computing services, streaming movies, storing 10000 work emails each, and all the behind the scenes industry needs, and that did not not need anywhere near the amount of data centres we do today. The AIs are very very hungry.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not every DC is an LLM DC. Keep reading that line until you get it.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, thatโ€™s rude. Clearly I didnโ€™t say that? Since you know so much, what specifically are the 37 new data centres planned for Vic going to be used for? And why did we need so fewer of them only a year or two ago? Sure there will be varied uses but a huge amount must AI. AI is a tool, itโ€™s not good or evil, and itโ€™s here to stay. Most people understand that too, but at the same time they are observant and right to be asking questions about location, infrastructure, impact to power and water use, and public amenity. Which is why it is a topic of public debate.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Rude? I stated the fact that people are conflating datacentres as a whole with llm dcs.

    you decided to construct a shitty, ranty strawman in response. That's on you. I don't care. It's nothing to do with what i said.

    Not every DC is an LLM DC. Read that line until it sinks in.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If they were called Data harvesting and processing centre people might care more but I doubt it. The spy on you with all we've got centre didn't test well. "What is this? A centre for cunts?!" was heard shouted from one group.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago

    I have yet more apartments to view today

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago (9 children)

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is Catfish saying Yarrabyte has joined the recent greats up in the sky?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Good morning my little lovelies

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