FanciestPants
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- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Could start by at least listing Professorozone in the canceled subscriptions.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I also don’t subscribe, but have paid to watch the occasional Marvel movie. I’m happy to pass on whatever they’ve got lined up next if it gets them to take their role in fostering free speech more seriously.
- Comment on The Left Wants Violence! 4 weeks ago:
In the official story from the FBI, the dad confronted his son about the gun used because the dad thought it looked like a gun that the suspect had gotten as a gift. Are guns typically given as gifts? I’m trying not to make assumptions about the suspect’s background, but that struck me as odd.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 4 weeks ago:
What’s with this “you” middle man? Let’s just get rid of that and have shareholders-robots.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Absurd, and delightfully wholesome. Wish I could give more upvote.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 5 weeks ago:
Following Seinfeld’s logic, maybe Michael Richards’ popping off with the n-word is a “little better here” than Jerry’s dishonest insinuation that the Fee Palestine demonstrators are all antisemitic.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 months ago:
Also kinda similar is Buried with Ryan Reynolds. Just him in a box the whole movie.
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 months ago:
Bill’s Excellent Adventure
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 months ago:
Mar Attacks
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Anecdotally, I feel like im a pretty different person than I was when I was 22. Had first kid at 34, and am now 42.
Analytically, I can’t know for sure if I would have significantly different feelings (e.g. regret, relief, etc.) if I had made different decisions. I recognize that the world is different now for 22 year olds compared to when I was 22. If “regret” avoidance is the main objective, then I’d guess that you could make a better assessment of potential outcomes (your possible feelings of regret) than your family as long as you’ve considered all of those outcome scenarios.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 months ago:
Risk Management. I have some very limited experience with using R, but not really any Python experience. There was a good set of tools (Excel add-ons) from ProbabilityManagement.org that gave a lot of flexibility in the models that you could build (e.g. not restricting a user to building financial risk models or schedule risk models like a lot of other risk management apps). I’m not really trying to complain about not being able to find this on Linux, and run an air-gapped Windows machine to hang on to this capability.
I also run silly things like modeling expected dollars needed to complete a Funko collection.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 months ago:
I recognize it may be a pretty niche issue, but i still haven’t found a Linux app that i can build Monte Carlo simulation models with, though I think some of the developers of these types of apps have made MacOS ports. The ones that I’ve historically used are Excel add-ons, but i haven’t found anything similar yet for Libre Office, or stand alone app.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 2 months ago:
Engineer: It failed because it blew up. If it hadn’t blown up, the chances of success would have been much higher.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 2 months ago:
I work in risk management, but don’t really have a strong understanding of LLM mechanics. “Confidence” is something that i quantify in my work, but it has different terms that are associated with it. In modeling outcomes, I may say that we have 60% confidence in achieving our budget objectives, while others would express the same result by saying our chances of achieving our budget objective are 60%. Again, I’m not sure if this is what the LLM is doing, but if it is producing a modeled prediction with a CDF of possible outcomes, then representing its result with 100% confindence means that the LLM didn’t model any other possible outcomes other than the answer it is providing, which does seem troubling.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 months ago:
Maybe I don’t watch enough movies, but after stumbling on the third Venom movie while it was on Netflix, I might honestly consider it the worst movie I’ve seen in the last 10 years.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 months ago:
Teletubbies; into the Snyderverse
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 months ago:
Gannt man schedules out your next battle with logic ties between precedent and subsequent activities.
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 2 months ago:
Of all the promises Trump has made, I bet this is the one that he actually intends to keep. /s
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 2 months ago:
Speaking from US perspective, our tax code is a few thousand pages. I don’t think it’s meant for most people to understand.
That said, yeah the effective tax rate being a larger percent of one’s income than the income from a second job is probably something that would be understood by most if stated differently.
- Comment on Spirit of Mumbai, everyone. 2 months ago:
Fix disparity immediately by declaring all public toilets gender neutral. No cost win.
- Comment on If you could have any vision-related superpower, what would it be? 3 months ago:
That vision ability to see people’s names from Death Note would be helpful for avoiding those awkward social interactions where someone is talking to me but I’ve completely forgotten who they are.
- Comment on Casual wear 3 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 3 months ago:
I also don’t understand how anyone could possibly not be a massive disappointment to their family without my patented Solutionbot 3600 that you can also take advantage of for just $$/month forever.
Money please!
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 4 months ago:
One of the details that I spotted was that the images in the article show the FLIR logo, which is a type of equipment that one would use to view methane plumes, and was used to dramatic effect during the Aliso Canyon gas storage field leaks. That may not be a convincing detail on its own, but one that I thought suggested some credibility.
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 4 months ago:
Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 4 months ago:
I can’t remember which movie, but some basic rom-com. Girl was in a fight with her ex and trying to make him feel bad said, “I gave you the best years of my life.” And dude, utterly confused, responds, “those were your best?” The movie was forgettable, but that absolutely savage line stuck with me.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 5 months ago:
Be engineer, draw pictures with numbers next to it that mean that your picture is important. Give picture to someone who agrees that your picture is important and presses on your picture with a stamp. Then give your picture to people that don’t work at desks to make a thing that looks like your important picture.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 6 months ago:
I don’t know why these are asked in the past tense like I don’t still do these things.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 7 months ago:
Will he really need customers much longer? I mean it seems like he can just have any government agency replace their fleet with his trash in the name of “efficiency”.
- Comment on are "brush" and "blush" really pronounced differently? i pronounce them the same. 7 months ago:
Totally fair. I only started paying attention after hearing a podcast about how the letter “D” is pronounced in names in some other cultures. I was doing it wrong. It was a similar issue with position of the tongue when saying words like “dentist” compared to “dog”.
