Vanth
@Vanth@reddthat.com
- Comment on those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me? 2 weeks ago:
I start by evaluating whether it’s 1) within my job responsibilities to be involved and 2) I feel personal obligation.
As you’ve described the situation, and also your personality with a strong avoidance of conflict, if I were in your shoes I might support my colleague by getting the person who is supposed to intervene. Maybe that’s a manager or security if there’s signs it might escalate to violence.
I’m not a bouncer, I’m not a security guard. I have no job obligation and no personal obligation to cut into a violent interaction. I can be more helpful by getting someone trained for and paid to deal with the situation.
If I’m the manager, I have more responsibility to intervene. If the person getting yelled at by the Karen is like, a family member or a close friend, I would be more likely to intervene. Work colleague does not invoke the same personal responsibility I feel towards friends and family. I would also not say this to my colleague in the way I’ve described in my paragraph.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 3 weeks ago:
Having something under my lower back sounds awful. Head and knees, yes, but back?
- Comment on A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. 3 weeks ago:
I wanna see that tattoo in 5+ years when it settles. Seems like fine detail is going to lose its sharpness regardless of whether it’s a human or a robot on the other end of the needle.
- Comment on Money Power 5 weeks ago:
Yes. We have a two-party system with both parties racing to who can kiss rich people’s’ assholes quicker and deeper. The parties aren’t opposites, they just differ on rimming techniques.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 month ago:
same wages and less jobs to go around
If we’re lucky. It’s more likely to be lower wages. “We don’t need to pay experienced programmers anymore, they aren’t writing the code after all. We just need cheaper, less skilled people to review the code that is already 99% fine”.
💯 Not about the tech, it’s about who is going to use the tech to make life worse for the working class.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 month ago:
I don’t think there is an LLM in this application. Not all AI tools involve LLM.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Never heard of it. Not gonna look into it because I’m 50/50 on you being affiliated with the app and posting this just to drive clicks.
Assuming you are legit, best of luck finding an alternate you’re happier with.
- Comment on If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? 2 months ago:
My sister is a teacher and now has her students repeat back to her, “LLMs are not search engines”.
- Comment on FTC Warns Companies(Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Discord, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, X and more) Against Censoring or Weakening the Data Security of Americans at the Behest of Foreign Powers 2 months ago:
Ok if at the behest of domestic powers tho
- Comment on i just think they're neat 2 months ago:
I kinda want to get a gourd and stencil “Stanley” on the side.
- Comment on Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him 2 months ago:
Lol, only if he were a lot poorer and a lot less white. That mother fucker launched a UK political party, acquired citizenship to Vanuatu, and rubbed elbows with the American Right in Florida. All within 2025 year to date.
- Comment on What if you had a mole of moles? 2 months ago:
A mole of moles (the mammal) is fucking up the local environment.
A mole of moles (skin condition) is death by really weird cancer.
A mole of moles (structure separating bodies of water) is a perplexing strategy of coastline management.
A mole of moles (spies) means global instability.
A mole of mole (sauces) is a tasty, taste feast.
A mole of Molé (surname) is a very French affair, hopefully some of them brought baguettes and fromage to share.
- Comment on scholarly evidences for the resurrection 2 months ago:
But like, why? If Bigfoot is as big and powerful and omniscient as the cryptozoologists claim, why did he have to die instead of just stomping his big feet?
- Comment on scholarly evidences for the resurrection 2 months ago:
critical scholars say the disciples did think they saw the resurrected Jesus (based on a survey of 1400 journal articles since 1975)
If the claim is “1400 journal articles since 1975 claim the disciples though they saw Jesus resurrect”, sure, I can believe 1400 articles do say that.
I fail to see how 1400 articles from 1975 and on prove that disciples from 2000+ years ago actually did see Jesus resurrect. Pardon any math errors, but I believe any potential eye witnesses were long dead by 1975.
- Comment on Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue 2 months ago:
I asked an LLM client to name my last batch of homebrew. It suggested, “Phresh Pilsner”. My 90 year old grandma would think that’s lame AF.
- Comment on Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue 2 months ago:
"It all starts with data, data, data, data. No company on Earth stores or computes more data than Dell today. We have a treasure trove, our customers have a treasure trove of their information.”
Sam Grocery, Dell SVP of product marketing
siliconangle.com/…/transforming-infrastructure-de…
Just say it, man, “we have a treasure trove of our customers’ information”.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 2 months ago:
I hope the Department that released this guidance is being absolutely pilloried in UK media. What an absolutely worthless, dishonest pipe of crap.
- Comment on True or false 2 months ago:
No. They’re just providing statistically probable answers based on the information in their training models.
Ask, “what size bolt do I need for the spinner in a 2012 Maytag dishwasher model ABC123?”. It probably has the dishwasher manual in its training model, maybe even content from Maytag customer forums where multiple people asked this exact question, and so has a high probability of generating a correct answer. Ask it something more controversial or unique, where answers on similar questions are varied or rare, it will be less likely to generate an accurate answer because it has less data to pull from.
They also “hallucinate”, or generate answers that are entirely false and not directly written anywhere else. Like there have been a number of lawyers caught using an LLM to write their legal briefs, because the LLM reference sources that don’t actually exist; it just made up Adam v Bob type case names.
- Comment on OpenAI claims GPT-5 AI model can provide PhD-level expertise. 2 months ago:
They have stolen more PhD level work to dump into the training model?
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 2 months ago:
I think of the “bad” dates I would want to be able to warn other women of that didn’t rise to the level of calling the cops. The guy who ordered triple the food and drinks I did and skipped out on the bill. The guy who flat out lied about multiple things and then got irate when I politely excused myself from the date. The MAGA weirdo who went on an unhinged rant about how I needed to submit to him because God said so. I imagine some men have comparable experiences with some anti-social women. The experiences coming to mind were not illegal, but were absolutely things I want to spare my fellow humans from.
I would prefer the dating apps themselves have some mechanism for disincentivizing anti-social behaviors. It would have to be more than a simple 5-star rating.
I wonder how it would work IRL to offer the ability to write a few sentences in response to prompts about a date. The written review is not published as-is, but is used in grouping of many reviews to give a summary about a person. Like the summary product reviews on Amazon now. “Bill’s dates found he was prompt and polite. Some dates expressed discomfort at some of his political views” and “Bob’s dates warn he is often late and is quick to use foul language to describe women. Multiple dates report no intention to communicate with Bob further”. “Ben’s dates report he has skipped out on the bill repeatedly, and sends unsolicited dick pics. Multiple dates have blocked him”.
The group summary gives a buffer so the person reviewed doesn’t know which specific date said what. And ensures the summary doesn’t include negative comments about a person unless multiple dates of theirs independently report similar experiences.
Of course a bad actor could ditch their dating profile and start fresh any time they build up enough negative reviews to make their summary look bad. And of course the reviews and the summaries would have to be secured tighter than “Tea” is.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 2 months ago:
Might want to read up on the origins of Facebook before turning this into a gender wars thing.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 months ago:
I am 0% surprised that Hertz would be the first in the US to roll this out. Expecting a Steve Lehto YouTube video about it within the next three days …
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 2 months ago:
Friendly reminder that Facebook started as FaceMash, an app for men at Harvard to rate the attractiveness of women.
Both are bad. At least these women are nominally using it for safety and not just looks rating.
Finally, I would be really darn cautious of using any app like FaceMash or Tea. Seems like a great way to get sued for defamation. Or to become the target of escalated behavior of one of the bad ones.
- Comment on YSK: if you are visiting Puerto Rico from the mainland US, you can sign up to escort a rescue animal on your return flight to their adopter 3 months ago:
Well, shoot. I go down a couple times a year for work. That would be a delightful slice of joy to otherwise dull trips.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Psh, these people talking about removing one child from the world per year are trolling. This chart obviously means that by continuing to have zero children year over year, I get to drive a fleet of gas-guzzler cars as a reward.
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 3 months ago:
The manager noted such an effort would help “connect” warehouse and corporate teams.
Are they trying to build support among the white-collars for unionization of the blue? I can’t think of a better way to boost union support among the white-collars. I hope they get the full experience of having to piss into bottles because break times are too short.
- Comment on AI Job Fears Hit Peak Hype While Reality Lags Behind 3 months ago:
Only 75 out of 287,000 layoffs this year attributed to AI replacement, yet further down, IBM alone has replaced “hundreds” of HR employees with AI. Which is it?
Absolute trash article. Any vague gesture in the direction of a fact is poorly defined with no sources. This should only increase skepticism towards AI replacing writers and journalists.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 3 months ago:
But one shouldn’t have to.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 3 months ago:
So an applicant with dangerous people in their life, maybe an abusive family member or a stalker ex, is forced to expose their accounts they would otherwise keep private. That’s the first bad-case scenario that comes to mind, I’m sure there are more.
I propose a new rule - if so for me, then so for thee. Anything imposed on legal applicants is also imposed on the lawmakers who put it in place.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I only vacation in countries that have trained their LLMs to use line breaks.