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- Comment on If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases? 12 hours ago:
I pay for Cursor, OpenAI, and Anthropic. I was paying for Google Gemini as well, but it was returning too many errors so I canceled it. I also pay for Google office, Microsoft office, and Adobe subscriptions. They inject their own AI into their services, but I end up ignoring them or turning them off.
Mostly use it for coding in Cursor, but occasionally for research into the state of AI and to make MCP extensions. It’s been worth the investment so far, given how much more of the mundane coding tasks get done by supervising it. I also had it update a Wordpress theme because I had no interest in learning the innards.
I never let them loose in ‘agentic’ mode, as they inevitably destroy all the work. I can run decent-sized models locally through lmstudio and Cline, but they’re much slower than just using Cursor and a cloud model.
Outside coding, the only usable one I’ve found is Adobe Firefly, accessed inside Photoshop (to remove material) and Illustrator (to generate simple SVGs and icons from prompts).
Every single other one, when I’ve put it to a non-coding use has been a pile of slop. If all LLMs go away tomorrow, the only one I’ll miss is the Adobe SVG creator.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 2 days ago:
Plot: a rival publisher hires a killer to murder a successful author over the copyright.
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- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 2 days ago:
Actually, there is something you can do about it.
But it doesn’t involve Google.
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- Comment on Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers 3 days ago:
Daringly published in Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
- Comment on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems 3 days ago:
Windows MICE: en.wikipedia.org/…/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears 4 days ago:
Kudos on consistency.
- Comment on Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity: Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots. 4 days ago:
Any CEO who says AI would replace staff is pandering to short-term investors. They’re not a long-term visionary.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Last time a CEO said the opposite they got pilloried. Don’t say something your product can’t back up. The lesson has been learned.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 4 days ago:
That, and wiping off the caked dust.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 4 days ago:
Wonder if the 5% that actually made money included companies that sell enterprise AI services, like AWS, Microsoft, and Google?
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 4 days ago:
I remember being at a conference when a guy walked up to a group of us chatting. wearing a Google Glass. Everyone stopped talking, turned around, and just scattered. A while later he walked into the men’s room and someone reported him to security. That afternoon, the glass was gone.
Guess nobody learned that lesson.
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 5 days ago:
They’re speedrunning to GPT-9000 just so they can lay claim to the HAL number.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
Shades of dotcom days. Everyone hopped on the bandwagon. Most lured by the high salaries and gold-rush mentality. Nowadays, just having a CS degree isn’t enough. You want portfolio pieces to set you apart. Start by having a damn portfolio. You can set one up for free on GH Pages or CloudFlare. Or pay a few bucks and set one up on Wordpress. If you can’t figure out how, that CS degree was wasted.
You want stories that show you bring value. Show that you can build things beyond school projects. Even if you do school projects, document them and push them out. Show why they’re cool and what you can do. Throw up screenshots, diagrams, or animations. No walls of text.
Also, learn to sell yourself. Not in the oily LinkedIn way. Just be out there. Contribute back. Educate others and have a voice. Blog, newsletter, social media, book, or video channel. They’re dead-easy to set up and free so there’s no gatekeepers to go through, other than your ideas.
If in a big city, go to Meetups or demo days. Meet people and ASK WHAT THEY DO. Help connect them to others. Anyone just sitting there cranking out resumes is going to get filtered by the LLM screener. Might as well pin up your resume above the urinal at the pub.
Finally: everyone can low-code or vibecode. Those are table stakes now. You want to do better.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 6 days ago:
They’re worried he does well and more people like him show up on their home turf.
Also, Streisand Effect.
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- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 1 week ago:
Tom Cruise lives there. Maybe he can advise them on the feasibility.
- Comment on Just in case you still don't realize that men regardless of their age will always have a grammar school view of sex 1 week ago:
If anyone has actually barbequed sausages on a grill, those are worthless wastes of money.
- Comment on PARTY TIME 1 week ago:
“2 for 1 Bonus: you can BBQ the surprise marinating at the bottom.”
- Comment on Experts discuss plans to save water as dry conditions worsen across England 1 week ago:
There’s an easy way. Take all your residential and commercial customers. Export to spreadsheet. Sort by monthly usage in litres. Send the top 10% a letter saying their deliveries will be curtailed by 25% until the problems are over.
What? They’re ALL commercial services? Zero residential?
What do you mean reuse bath water for plants? What’s bottom line got to do with it? WTF! Emails?
- Comment on Tell me the truth. 1 week ago:
Yet it’s always the unclassified stuff that makes life fun.
- Comment on How many Left handed people do you know ? 1 week ago:
Three, all related.
- Comment on I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File 1 week ago:
Have tried ALL the same ones. Probably even more.
Square Post-it notes. One for what needs to be done that week. Another for that day. Cross each item as I go. When every item is crossed off, crumple into bin. End of day, whatever item is left gets scribbled on fresh one for next day. End of week for the weekly one. That’s it.
Stuck on desk, to laptop, or carried in pocket. Works great. It’s all about reducing friction and clutter. If too much effort to keep track, gets easy to drift into bike-shedding territory.
Keep going back to new, shiny apps every once in a while. Always end up back on damn sticky notes.
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 1 week ago:
Whatever you’ve heard about arterial maggots is NOT true.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 1 week ago:
Not just that but they’ve also got the Choco-SEB modular battery swap thing going. 2min battery stops to full charge.
- Comment on Any tool to visualize Traefik access logs? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean? 1 week ago:
Both Google and Microsoft tried with actual underwater data centers. It looked like it was feasible, but repairing something when it’s deep underwater was not feasible.
Near water, there will be environmental issues – similar problems to factories and nuclear power plants, debris in intakes and warm water affecting marine life.
Basically, the solution is to build more efficient or less compute-intensive software, but that’s not where we all seem to be heading right now.
- Comment on AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome 1 week ago:
It’s a gimmick to get publicity. But if it happens, the company has to generate revenue to pay it off.
Guess how browser makers make money off a ‘free’ product?
- Comment on gpt-oss: OpenAI releases 2 open-source models 1 week ago:
Ran the 20B on a Mac under LMStudio. Pretty zippy and did OK on basic coding tasks.
