alsimoneau

alsimoneau , 18 days ago to The memes of the climate in Disaster is nearing. Mass displacement. Mass starvation. Mass death. It is all imminent. Do you understand?

The article you linked doesn't support your claims, is unpublished and reads like the homework of some undergrads.

Training AI models, while computationally expensive, cannot compare to crypto farms the size of warehouses everywhere around the world.

alsimoneau , 18 days ago to The memes of the climate in Disaster is nearing. Mass displacement. Mass starvation. Mass death. It is all imminent. Do you understand?

Because that power could have been used by someone else who's depending on coal instead. You cannot separate power sources when on the grid.

alsimoneau , 19 days ago to Linux in People who have installed Linux on their parents computer, how did it go? Which distro do you recommend? Any tips?

I have the same PC as your mom.... I'm really fit for an upgrade.

alsimoneau , 22 days ago to politics in Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031.

I think the point is that EVs are at 0L/100km, therefore lowering the average.

alsimoneau , 22 days ago to Asklemmy in Why Assassin's Creed has lost its identity?

Changing settings, changing tools. Hell, they could have made a modern one playing as Lucy or Desmond and interwoven it with Watch Dogs.

But people liked the first 3/4 games for the story and the movement. The Ezio trilogy is pretty much the same game three times! Make good stories and keep/improve on the core mechanics and they would have been successful.

alsimoneau , 22 days ago to Asklemmy in Why Assassin's Creed has lost its identity?

That was a symptom. The only inspired thing in Revelation was the bombs.

alsimoneau , 22 days ago to Asklemmy in Why Assassin's Creed has lost its identity?

Rogue was barely advertised and the concurrent release with unity was doomed. Unity was so full of bugs (and there was the whole sexual assault scandal) that Ubisoft lost a ton of goodwill before syndicate.

They fired the lead designer in the middle of Brotherhood because he didn't want to push shit games and you feel it. The only good things in Revelation is nostalgia and the bombs. After that you lost the parkour in 3 (although Rogue has some).

I'm tentatively hopeful with Mirage but I don't expect the Japan one to be any good.

alsimoneau , 25 days ago to Ask Science in Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

Yes. It gathers up people from every field working on Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) every two years. It's always very interesting and brings forth a lot on international and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Plus, it'll be in Ireland next year.

alsimoneau , 27 days ago to Ask Science in Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

You should come to the ALAN conference next year if you can.

alsimoneau , 2 months ago to White People Twitter in There's no coming back from that

I've heard it's less about the weight than the torque.

alsimoneau , 2 months ago to AskBeehaw in Why is using disposable pens still common practice?

Yes but our writing isn't. When you write right handed you pull the pen, whereas left handed you push it. It changes the angle at which the pen rests on the paper and makes it so the pen scrapes along the surface and digs into it.

Most of my cheap ballpoints have stopped writing with half the ink left because of that.

alsimoneau , 2 months ago to AskBeehaw in Why is using disposable pens still common practice?

Unless you're left handed and the ballpoint gets gummed up in paper fiber.

alsimoneau , 3 months ago to Science Memes in Mad Scientists

Oh you totally can (as long as you're working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it's a positive or negative zero.

alsimoneau , 4 months ago to Today I Learned in TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones.

My point is you use UTC to plan international meetings but keep timezones for day to day stuff. Better yet with computers meeting planning software takes timezones into account.

When I do a when2meet with my colleagues everyone fills it in their local time and it's fine, and then the calendar event is timezone aware as well so it's completely a non issue.

alsimoneau , 4 months ago to Today I Learned in TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones.

Just use UTC then.