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- Comment on Two-shay 25 minutes ago:
Please hands off the smartees I hoard in pants.
- Comment on ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads 2 days ago:
Unless they make trump the chairman of the board and replace the rest with his chosen mouthpieces, he’d rather pocket the trillion in a Qatar slush fund.
If it was like 25b maybe they would do it, but 1400b is better spent erecting gold monuments in every city with a 3 year lease that has terms to drop the monuments off in maralago
- Comment on ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads 2 days ago:
The scale of their commitments is just… too big.
- Comment on ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads 2 days ago:
I don’t have ads with them. Their poor tier is the ad tier.
I’m close to dumping them though. Price increases are out of hand. Content feels razor thin compared to how it used to be.
It should cost less per person as they grow userbase but instead it costs more. They pocket the economy of scale while we get fucked.
- Comment on ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads 2 days ago:
These guys are desperate for revenue. It’s a last ditch effort cash grab so they don’t go bankrupt.
They’ve already committed to spend over a trillion dollars on infrastructure. They’re going down long before that ever happens.
- Comment on Is this worth anything to a collector? 2 days ago:
Do you collect? what do you think it’s worth?
Certainly looks to be corn-fed.
- Comment on Huh? 3 days ago:
I know a guy who removed his motorcycle’s muffler and rode around for a couple of days. He can’t really hear in his right ear much anymore (because that’s where the pipe was cut off, to the right of the bike.) I did ride for a time, but always wore earplugs even if I wasn’t going on the highway.
I don’t really like large crowds or bars either man. I like 1:1 conversations and interactions. My heavy bar scene and parties only lasted maybe a couple years and I was always a +1.
My wife took me to a wedding where her cousin was getting married and the volume was cranked to 11. I sat through a two hour catholic service before the party which was fine. We got to the party afterwards and I just wanted to go back to the room and sleep. We were traveling, I was sick from what I thought was the food or having some of the local water but it later turned out to be full blown covid but I was trying to be supportive and there for her because her enormous extended family was just meeting me for the first time.
I was in line for food since we hadn’t eaten, and the speakers were to my right. The noise was so loud you couldn’t hear someone yelling “what” at point blank range. I only stood in that line for a minute before leaving and my wife gave me so much shit for leaving, even though it was after her own father left. I wouldn’t be surprised if some or even most of my tinnitis came from that one party. I’ve never told her about this suspicion though, but I still remember it as I notice my ears ringing, right now. The right is substantially worse than the left.
Anyway, fortunately the tinnitus is extremely mild and I generally don’t notice it. If I start thinking about it, it gets worse and very persistent until I manage to distract myself. It’s always there, pulsating to the beat of my heart, and will not go away until I die or go deaf.
- Comment on CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage 4 days ago:
Shit happens.
I have crowdstrike. I have no plans to drop them come renewal time. I had to work overnight to recover some things but I still believe they are one of the best at what they do.
It’s not like this is a common occurrence.
- Comment on Huh? 4 days ago:
Weird, my friends and I may occasionally talk about the bad stuff, but there’s always something good going on. We can be excited for upcoming things too.
I like being able to have conversations at bars and restaurants. In my bachelor days when I was dating an amazing person she knew all the good bars and restaurants that you could actually have conversations in. We always knew going in to a social thing if it was gonna be a good conversation or just yelling and “what?”
Plus the ear damage from the loud shit is no joke. Tinnitus started for me by mid 30s and I never listen to loud music or do stupid stuff, beyond bars and parties.
- Comment on US | Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule 6 days ago:
Yay! This is what makes america great! Republicans are the best EVER!
so stupid.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 week ago:
A ton of factors have increased energy costs on the web over the years. It’s insignificant per person, but bandwidth is exponentially higher because all websites have miles of crud formatting code nowadays. Memory usage is out of control. Transmission and storage of all the metadata your web browser provides in realtime as you move your mouse around a page is infinitely higher than what we had in the early days of the web.
The energy cost of ML will reduce as chips progress, but I think the financial reality will come crashing down on the AI industry sooner rather than later and basically keep it out of reach for most people anyway due to cost. I don’t see much of ROI for AI. Right now it’s treated as a capital investment which helps inflate company worth while it lasts, but after a few years the investment is worthless and a giant money sink from energy costs if used.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 week ago:
Genie is out of the bottle forever unfortunately.
They could have instituted a system of genuine authentic reviewers who manually curate content so that your search is great, but that would result in less clicks. Less clicks means less revenue. They’re financially incentivized to make you click as much as you’re willing to.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 week ago:
I don’t think so man. They were just started to mass train on SEO in the ad industry 15 years ago. Now it’s practically a household term.
Google had very different goals and ambitions early on. Things changed. Now they’re like any other giant soulless corpo. Their goal is revenue, which as their platform has grown we’ve seen a metamorphosis from a focus on interesting things to a never ending professional jester troupe on every endpoint still making pennies on the dollar compared to what google earns from advertisers. They’re the middle men and should be making next to nothing since they produce next to nothing of value, but advertising sells.
Google Search revenue was something like 175bn in 2024. A tiny fraction of that is paid out to websites from clicks. Someone with a proper LLM tuned for SEO can churn out hot garbage nonstop and fill up results in perpetuity with a guaranteed revenue stream far in excess of what is possible as a worker in something in the overwhelming majority of the world. There’s just more garbage than everywhere… and people have found exactly the right formula to rise to the top despite human-useless content. Google doesn’t think of it as a bad thing, 175bn in revenue from search! lol
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 week ago:
You misunderstand. I’m not saying AI’s chats are better than a quality article. I’m saying their search results are often better.
Don’t look at what they SAY. Look at the links they provide as sources. Many are bad, but I find I get much better info. If I try google I might try 10+ links before I get one that really says what I want. If I try a chatbot I typically get a link that is relevant within one or two clicks.
There is no shortcut for intelligence… but AI “SEO” has not been perfected yet .
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 week ago:
Better search results than google though.
Unless it’s a handful of official pages or discussion forums… google is practically unusable for me now. It absolutely exploded once chatgpt came to the scene and SEO has gotten so perfected that slop is almost all the results you get.
I wish we had some kind of downvote or report system to remove all the slop, but the more clicks the more revenue from referrals… better to make people click more.
- Comment on Truth 1 week ago:
Melt the butter in the pan then put the bread on it.
I don’t know why anyone would try spreading cold butter on cold bread lol.
- Comment on Truth 1 week ago:
Low and slow is the way.
I do like the chef john method though. Crispy cheese on the outside and gooey cheese on the inside. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/236502/inside-out-grilled-cheese-sandwich/
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
Warming people up for greenland i’m guessing, if he isn’t torn down after this year’s elections when the house probably flips.
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
If Maduro is willing to bribe trump/his buddies with oil, anything is on the table.
If trump wants maduro dead, all he has to do is have a crony contact those who oppose him and let them know when he’s being dropped off.
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
Only idiots believe this is about anything other than oil / money.
Maduro is hated by many, many venezuelans for his actions to his own people, so they are amenable to him being removed. With him gone the power structure that remains can be manipulated much more easily until someone is in power and willing to bribe the US with oil to stay in power.
- Comment on Woops 2 weeks ago:
I kinda figured this would be another corn post. We have a veritable cornucopia of corn. Golden, white, popped, creamed, all possible varieties.
Do right by your grandma. Order corn.
- Comment on You wouldn't download a car 2 weeks ago:
I would steal thine ear…. 🌽
- Comment on Start-up plans to use terahertz radio frequencies for communication between servers instead of copper or optical connections 2 weeks ago:
Start-up plans to attempt using a different band of the EM spectrum for a communications medium, news at 11?
Lasers are already terahertz frequency (~200ish Thz), just higher than the radio portion (~30 Thz).
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 2 weeks ago:
… will administer the treatment to patients between the ages of 2 to 7 who are missing at least four teeth
Yeah, even if this is approved in some form.. growing new teeth for young children is not the same as for adults. Very weird this is the population they’re testing on. I’d think they would be testing on people with 10+ missing teeth in their 40s, 50s, 60s+
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 2 weeks ago:
First Na Meat eh? 🍖
Honestly I don’t think I’ve even heard of the .family TLD and im a tech worker.
I’m not surprised that a gear head autocompleted it in his mechanical brain to something completely else. Maybe he’s been replaced by AI.
- Comment on it's so fucking awesome 2 weeks ago:
Oh my god! Today’s secret word is Corn !
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 3 weeks ago:
So much ham.
If price per meal is your thing… there are so many amazing things you can make with chicken thighs. To me they’re the lobster of chicken and people haven’t figured out how tender and delicious the things are, so the price is next to nothing lol
- Comment on Good deal 3 weeks ago:
Does it come with the tarp?
What about a can of corn?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
Flip the script man.
Imagine if enabling AI was like two check boxes and it’s on, for those people who really want it.
Sounds great.
- Comment on Almost as relaxing as Getting Over It 3 weeks ago:
171 reviews, mostly positive?
Can’t be a dark souls game page lol.
Developer line also just says QLOC, doesn’t include From Software, which are listed as developers and publishers today. Wonder if this was a F12 thing where someone messed with the info of another game then did their recording.