CompactFlax

@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA waking up and seeing the election results⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I anticipate so many speeches without any meaningful actions, followed by a return in 2028 to previous red/blue splits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This guy already voted, did you ?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That explains the Royal insistence on inbreeding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This guy already voted, did you ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But what if there’s a last minute announcement and it turns out the democrats are all aliens?

  Spoiler: I’d probably still vote Democrat in the unfortunate event that I’m an American and in that situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"cO₂ iS pLaNt FoOd"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that nutrition has got more to do with selective breeding, soil microbial ecosystems, and depletion of plant micronutrients - we focus on macronutrients (N-P-K) in fertilizer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do companies that use AI for things like AI customer service representatives pay the AI company for its use ? It is a token based thing per call or just a weekly billing ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly it.

  The VCs are following a well worn script - the freemium model worked well for SaaS.

  The problem is that the cost of customer acquisition in SaaS is high relative to the long term profitability of the customer, while for AI it’s the inverse - the more the customer uses the product, the more cost they generate for the AI provider. Unless that cost can be returned to the customer, in the form of per-token billing, the math doesn’t work out to a positive income.

  So not only do you have a sharp increase in cost when the company stops burning VC money and needs actual revenue from customers, but the increase goes from a flat rate to a pay as you go. GitHub Copilot made a change like that earlier this year and caused havoc, but i think that the token rate is still lower than cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do companies that use AI for things like AI customer service representatives pay the AI company for its use ? It is a token based thing per call or just a weekly billing ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So is an automatic transmission. AI in this context is specifically referring to LLM/generative AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"cO₂ iS pLaNt FoOd"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile we are cutting the last of old growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"cO₂ iS pLaNt FoOd"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, if you let the plants grow at a pace that matches your co2 output.

  (We’re not doing that)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trend of websites blocking old versions of Chrome -- is this sensible?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what you’re doing. Your less technical friend or relative may for some reason have broken auto updates on chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two young action movie actors, Tom Holland and George Lazenby, both at 29 in their respective photos. Or: a 2020s man of action vs. a 1960s man of action.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lighting helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon owns a gym⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  absolutely no barbells

  dumbbells go up to 45 lbs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, Canning is the process I was thinking o.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s broadly two types of pickles. One is fermented. The other cooked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this fermented or cooked?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've already got a chest freeze. 🥶⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting away the wallet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨furries in shambles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the gay guys, pups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨furries in shambles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Goddamn this post has a lot of comments.

  Wonder what the image is. My pihole is blocking the domain and … it’s hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That buccal fat removal trend is going to age like milk though.

  Also millennials use sunscreen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the problems of bombardment be resolved by building underground?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They they build Bigger bombs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheers up a friend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What else were we expecting from 4chan user?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This map shows where oil and gas is found. Is there no oil and gas under the rockie mountains (circled red) or they just haven't found any because it's too difficult to drill through the mountains?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Too difficult to drill that far when it’s closer to the surface.

  But maybe it’s also because mountains are effectively tall barriers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is "sunsetting" used as a term to indicate a service is shutting down?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sunset is “no end date but we’re no longer maintaining or investing except hotfix.” That is, riding off into the sunset. An honorable retirement.

  In contrast to EOL - “we are going to be/we have shut down as of 2030-01-01”.

  Don’t get me started on deprecate vs depreciate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the idea. I hate the shitty unreliable overly digital implementation. Induction came around after everything was already well on the way to enshittification. Components are sized to last through warranty, not to last 20 or 30 years.

  My gas stove, which has certainly many issues, hasn’t got a chip in it, and with occasional replacement of igniters will likely outlast me and my kids, unless we choose to replace it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do both travelers and citizens still have to pay tariffs for brining in stuff physically (not via mail)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel free to not declare international purchase at your own peril. CBP doesn’t search every bag. Sometimes if your declaration is close enough to the limit they don’t care. However if they do search and you haven’t declared, you’re going to have a longer border crossing than normal and very likely that will be the case in the future.

  There are tariffs on many or most things under this administration. No matter the form of import (mail, carried personally, courier), you will need to pay the tariff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science says your boss should talk less in meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  organizational psychologist Liana Kreamer of the Florida Institute of Technology, who coauthored a review of over three decades of meeting science in the 2026 Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you fear for children's future with social media growing even more?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an aspect I can control. Geopolitics and climate change are vastly more impactful and I don’t control them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for closed NAT bypass methods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale also may be an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The British chose to tax the productive members of society instead of those who benefitted, in a nutshell. I’m not sure how much the landed gentry could afford, though; they seem to be constantly on the edge of bankruptcy due to a variety of factors not excluding their profligate spending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Creating energy independence is defence spending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"How long is this supposed to TAKE!" ~King Julian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought RAM just in the cusp of the jump. September I put it in the cart waiting for Black Friday and October came by and it was up 50% and I jumped on.

  But I’m deleting stuff on my NAS. I neeeed some big drives.