jaykrown
@jaykrown@lemmy.world
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 days ago:
I’m calling the lenders greedy. BNPL is similar to payday loans, taking advantage of people who don’t have money, making it cost more to be poor. The people who use BNPL are just being taken advantage of and suffer because of their situation.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 4 days ago:
It really should be called “buy now, pay more later”. When are these greedy fucks going to learn that it’s not good when consumers don’t have money to spend? If all their money goes towards interest payments then we see a collapse in demand.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 4 days ago:
as consumers looked for greater flexibility in managing their holiday budgets
Yea, that’s a really nice way to put it.
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
Doubt it, don’t think Bezos or Musk give a single shit what you think.
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
I may very well be, still researching.
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
Funny, tell that to the billionaires who have a private jet.
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- Comment on Not impressed 3 weeks ago:
Yea but they don’t own the rights to the original image so they have no right putting their advertising on it.
- Comment on Not impressed 3 weeks ago:
You think they took that photo?
- Comment on Not impressed 3 weeks ago:
Removed the annoying text next to her face.
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 5 weeks ago:
I’m so glad that the USB-C connector is reversible. Just think about the couple seconds it’s taken trying to plug into a USB-A the wrong way, having to flip it over to plug it in properly. Now multiply that by the billions of attempts over time, very detrimental.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 1 month ago:
Nuclear is a great energy source. My state (Illinois) generates over half of all its energy from nuclear. France is a great example of a country that maximizes the potential of nuclear energy. The waste is not a problem if it’s stored properly. The much bigger problem are carbon/methane emissions which are fucking our climate right now. Also, nuclear waste can be reprocessed to make it less volatile and radiotoxic, but that requires an advanced application of technology.
Batteries and solar absolutely yes, we need to be scaling up battery technology as fast as possible, particularly sodium-ion batteries for static energy storage from solar power. The biggest problems with wind/solar is the actual storage of the energy. No wind? No power. No sun? No power. That’s why you need batteries, and battery technology has only gotten good enough in the past couple years.
Scaling up hydrogen is very difficult, it’s extremely volatile, and can realistically only be used in large scale power plants because transporting hydrogen is extremely expensive. Fusion could be good, but it’s still being worked on, and who knows how long it’ll really take for us to have a practical implementation.
- Comment on some days i cant even 1 month ago:
I look forward to seeing more electric leaf blowers. Sure they have a bit of an annoying high pitched whine when you’re close by, but you’re not going to hear it more than 5 meters away. I’ve also been seeing more electric lawn mowers which are also much quieter.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 1 month ago:
It takes time to come to the realization that a lot of what we do is inefficient because that’s just what people are used to doing. Some towns survive solely due to coal mining, and they see it as an existential threat if it were shut down. Nuclear power also takes very knowledgeable individuals, years of planning, and many resources to get started. Coal is cheap, dirty, and primitive.
- Comment on Poor salmon 2 months ago:
Why does it say “Source: US government”? 😂
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
I did, it wasn’t better. What “off the shelf” OCR software are you talking about? I tried EasyOCR and PaddleOCR. Llama 4 Maverick has been more accurate.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
What a dumb take.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
It makes sense that large companies would be incapable of using it effectively. They rely on antiquated systems and rigid structures that are less likely to change than smaller companies.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
If I have a low ability in that specific area then why was I able to achieve success?
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
Yea, you can do that, but have fun doing that 1000 times a day. Manually copying was the problem, I created a system that automated that process.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
Then why was I the one to do it if anyone could have done it?
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
Skill issue. I used AI to create a web application that extracts the serial number from an image into text. This allows us to just simply take a picture rather than than having to type the serial number manually while using a magnifying glass. Significantly speeding up the process and lowering error rate.
- Comment on nostalgia 2 months ago:
I like my version better.
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- Comment on Don't worry about the job market on Earth, Gen Z: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk say you’ll be working in space soon 3 months ago:
Why would anyone trust anything that a billionaire says? They are fucking liars and will say anything that makes the number go up.
- Comment on Leaked images of soon to be released Cyber Plane 3 months ago:
Imagine seeing something and instead of enjoying it you just default to a sour ass shit take “AI slop” with no further thought.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 months ago:
This is way beyond “mildly infuriating”. Shit should be illegal, it’s terrible for progress and an epitome of greedy capitalist bullshit.
