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- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 7 hours ago:
- Comment on I bet both could lay down a sick bar 1 day ago:
Waiting for the banging supergroup featuring 50-pesos, 50-yuan, and 50-dinar.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 days ago:
Hard D. No, wait…
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 5 days ago:
I’ve had my share of botched tech demos, so I can empathize. Steve Jobs, during an early iPhone demo legitimately blamed the Moscone Center wifi (I was there).
But this was just bad demo planning at every level. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t stop laughing.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 6 days ago:
- Comment on Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds 6 days ago:
Coming soon: “The Chimp Diet book.”
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 6 days ago:
Microsoft and Google both prototyped it. FWIW, they didn’t take it to production once the data was collected.
IIRC, cooling worked fine if placed in the right place with circulation, but maintenance and part replacement was a major issue.
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 1 week ago:
Ctrl-Z guy would like a redo.
- Comment on Same, I don't get this sport at all ha ha! 1 week ago:
The oil on the outside is there so they can legitimately stick their hands down the opponent’s pants and check their oil levels.
- Comment on Name this minivan 2 weeks ago:
Organ Donor.
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 weeks ago:
Be a shame if they didn’t call it COW. Vaccinated so it doesn’t get Mad.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Llama 3 weeks ago:
Two people with decent sewing skills.
- Comment on A tale of two shires 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 4 weeks ago:
If you have control of the server or platform serving the content, could look into “robots.txt” and “tarpits.” There are a few, but one example is Nepenthes: zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
If you just own the domain and it’s hosted elsewhere, you could set it up to go through CloudFlare DNS. They have a one-button scrape-stopper: blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-…
- Comment on If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases? 4 weeks 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 New ARRL Book Release: Stealth Antennas for Ham Radio 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t having an antenna that interferes with nearby civilians a big no-no? How is it that ARRL is advocating ‘stealth’ antennas? Isn’t that a little like AAA openly publishing ways to cheat on smog tests?
Am I missing something?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 4 weeks ago:
Plot: a rival publisher hires a killer to murder a successful author over the copyright.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 4 weeks ago:
Actually, there is something you can do about it.
But it doesn’t involve Google.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears 4 weeks ago:
Kudos on consistency.
- Comment on AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea' 4 weeks 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 Every day I am Reminded how much he saw our future. 4 weeks ago:
Love George, but holy moley, that was dark even for him.
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 4 weeks ago:
They’re speedrunning to GPT-9000 just so they can lay claim to the HAL number.
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- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
If anyone has actually barbequed sausages on a grill, those are worthless wastes of money.
- Comment on PARTY TIME 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks ago:
Yet it’s always the unclassified stuff that makes life fun.
- Comment on I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File 5 weeks 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.
