Glittering_Tart51 t1_izoe6bj wrote on December 10, 2022 at 5:04 PM

Reply to comment by ReginaldIII in [P] I made a command-line tool that explains your errors using ChatGPT (link in comments) by jsonathan

You're going hard with the waste of electricity bs.

The guy did a cool project, your comment is not constructive at all and just mean

I like his project, it's true that as a begginer these errors could be hard to understand sometimes. I don't think you should be mean and disrespectful to him if you don't like his idea.

Ypu should come up with more ideas to make his idea better. It would be a better use of electricity than just what you did.

ReginaldIII t1_izoevj0 wrote on December 10, 2022 at 5:09 PM

Sustainability in ML and HPC is a huge part of my job.

If you dont consider that important and think its bs that doesnt actually change that an important part of my job is to consider it.

At no point was I mean to OP. Im not being mean to a person who is littering by telling them not to litter. And I'm not being mean to a person making and distributing confetti as their hobby by pointing out how it is also littering.

Glittering_Tart51 t1_izoile1 wrote on December 10, 2022 at 5:33 PM

We're not at you job. It's a reddit post about someone who's trying to build a tool to help other people.

If you're so good at your job, you might want to give insight or knowledge on how to improve his project.

Just saying the project is trash and a waste is not helping anybody here

ReginaldIII t1_izojcm7 wrote on December 10, 2022 at 5:38 PM

Okay. Allow me to use my knowledge sustainability in HPC to help you solve this problem in a more environmentally friendly way.

Read the stack trace.

Glittering_Tart51 t1_izojmrr wrote on December 10, 2022 at 5:40 PM

You're missing the point of the project then

ReginaldIII t1_izok4r8 wrote on December 10, 2022 at 5:44 PM

No. I'm actually not.

Granny__Bacon t1_j0xpwqa wrote on December 20, 2022 at 4:37 AM

I'm quite sure you are.

ParanoidAltoid t1_izom5vz wrote on December 10, 2022 at 5:57 PM

GPS costs pennies to produce this type of output, even with a 100% carbon tax such that the cost of pollution was internalized, it would cost less than a dime.

If you're going to be a useful expert reducing waste, you should account for the actual magnitude of the waste before you scold others. This is why half our public will to be environmental was blown on paper straws.

The benefit of testing out new ways to use GPT to code faster clearly outweighs the dollars of electricity spent running the model, if you can't see those tradeoffs but instead scold any miniscule use of electricity you don't like, I believe you are a hindrance to saving the planet.