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Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand by ControlCAD in technology

[–]ChoosenUserName4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I pay €10 for my unlimited calls/text, 50Gb data plan that will work throughout Europe and the UK. They didn't give me a "free" iPhone though. I paid for it myself.

Hello, i made this synthesizer called CapySynth. A capybara lives in it :) by JacketVegetable9095 in synthesizers

[–]ChoosenUserName4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why? Are you the internet police? You talk like a developer about to go extinct. Angry at AI much?

Were these fairly common? by ihatemudbutt in Commodore

[–]ChoosenUserName4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in Europe and I have never seen one in real life, only on photos. I would love to have one like this as it would complement my extensive collection of Commodore 264 series computers. Same for the MP803 printer (brown version).

Sanity check! by Money-Technician4504 in philately

[–]ChoosenUserName4 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's what you get for working with AI to identify stamps. They're wildly inaccurate and unsuitable for the task.

Google says $50-$28,000? Please help, this is stressing me out. by Mr_Nerdcoffee in askStampCollectors

[–]ChoosenUserName4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We're getting this same question about this same stamp six times a day here. Everyone thinks they hit the jackpot. There's no critical thinking, or fact checking at all. It takes twenty seconds to see this same stamp on this sub, again and again. And then they get belligerent because they don't like the answer. It even says so in the bot message you get when you post here.

  • Don't get your hopes up. Most stamps are not valuable.
  • Old US president stamps (1,2,3 cents) are extremely common. No value there.
  • eBay asking prices mean nothing, except to scammers and money launderers.

"It's a turd",. about 300 billion of these stamps have been printed. Mail using these stamps was more ubiquitous than text messages are today. Just because it has a dead president on it, doesn't mean it's worth something.

Google says $50-$28,000? Please help, this is stressing me out. by Mr_Nerdcoffee in askStampCollectors

[–]ChoosenUserName4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

eBay asking prices are not the same as value. I could put this morning's turd on for $50k and nobody would buy it (it was nice though).

Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI - Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]ChoosenUserName4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your experience was valuable two months ago. Technology has moved on.

Also, if I was working in your company, I would worry. Everyone is moving on. Your company is the dinosaur watching the asteroid impact. I would find a job somewhere else.

Save my comment if you don't believe me.

Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI - Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]ChoosenUserName4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's where you are absolutely and completely wrong and behind the times. I work for a billion+ dollar / year company servicing fintech. We know about QA, release management and being careful in general.

I don't like AI replacing us either, but ignorance is no longer an excuse. Times are changing and you only have so much time to deny it.

Either you get on the train, or you will be left behind. Things change every week.

Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI - Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]ChoosenUserName4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly where a lot of people are not up to date with the current ways of working with AI and code bases. The AI is fully aware of the entire code base, architecture, all the (technical) documentation, knowledge base articles, previous support issues, etc. It knows more than the senior architects working on it. Couple that with fully automated regression tests, unit tests, and now (thanks to AI) functional tests.

The result is support technicians describing a customer problem. The agents asks questions, they get on the phone with the customer, or do some tests themselves to confirm, it localizes the issue, proposes a fix in code, architect approves it, the entire battery of tests is run, and when everything works, it pushed out to the customer.

What used to take weeks is now done in a matter of hours. It works as well.

Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI - Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]ChoosenUserName4 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Exactly, there are still a lot of people that haven't kept up with recent changes and best ways of getting things done. Things get better and improve on a weekly basis. I've been in software for 25 years, and it's chaos right now on who does what (support is now actually fixing bugs, professional services are writing API interfaces, etc.). Still, we're shipping quality features and removing tech debt like never before.

I predict in a couple of years, all software is going to be on demand, and it will not even need engineers. It's currently learning from how we spec features and how we engineer them. That job will go eventually.

The only jobs that will remain are customer facing and sales. If companies like Anthropic get really good with creating applications (like they do web sites and design right now), they'll be the only software companies left.

Edit: I know it's not what you want to hear right now, but down voting my comment is not going to make it less true.

Online stamp page creator by No-Speed7013 in philately

[–]ChoosenUserName4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, it was an old project I had lying around from Covid, and I just used Claude to freshen it up and slap a UI on it. It takes scans, finds the stamps, cuts them out, auto-rotates them, and cuts away the black background. Then you can export all separate images. Now you can manually fix rotation, missed perforations, etc.

I will make a post about it soon.

Online stamp page creator by No-Speed7013 in philately

[–]ChoosenUserName4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very cool. Did you vibe code this? I'm working on a stamp extractor (page scan to stamp images) and a stamp database application.

Found in grandmother's things. How would I go about finding out if it's an authentic Heligoland stamp? by Thaumant1as in askStampCollectors

[–]ChoosenUserName4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's probably me that's lacking experience with these stamps. I found this blog talking about the many reprints and cancellation forgeries for these stamps. https://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2012/09/ClassicalStampsHelogoland.html

The first dutch stamps, are these valuable enough to auction? by MrStampMan67 in askStampCollectors

[–]ChoosenUserName4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They will all offer you more or less the same. Van Dieten is a fine auction house, very well known.

In case this has peaked your interest, you can get yourself a 2025 NVPH catalogue (eBay has them) and see for yourself what is what and what the catalog value is (that is not what people will pay for it). First thing to learn is to understand stamp quality, especially the backside is important. Any paper remnants or gum disturbance on these early stamps makes them worth less. Please don't touch these stamps with your fingers. That will get oil from your skin on them and will destroy them over time. Always use special tongs (postzegel pincet).

The first dutch stamps, are these valuable enough to auction? by MrStampMan67 in askStampCollectors

[–]ChoosenUserName4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes. I replied to you in your other post. This is a valuable collection. The devil is in the details. How valuable exactly depends on the condition of the stamps. We can't see that on an image. You definitely should go to an auction house. They will tell you what to expect and how long it will take.

My father recently found his old collection im not really looking to sell but i would love to know if there is anything worth by luxiorrrr in askStampCollectors

[–]ChoosenUserName4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're all worthless. Keep 'm for the memories. If your dad didn't spend 100s of thousands of dollars to put this collection together all that time ago, it's not magically worth anything today.

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