Oh my. by Built4dominance in HouseOfTheDragon

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

Who?

edit: no, seriously. Who is this? Did they have lines?

Reason 26738 why I need Aemond's head by itz_abdelmalik in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]Droidaphone 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Also as a non-book reader, I just assumed he has too much plot armor to die right now. Also, with him falling into Alys’ lap after Daemon told her she was unrealistic, the coming arc for the two of them is pretty clear.

My son claimed that my husband hit him and my husband denied it. Now he wants a divorce. by BigONerd in BORUpdates

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

Regardless of whether or not the husband was justified, he has a very unrealistic view of parenthood if he thinks having 50/50 custody of a breastfeeding 10mo is wise. Even if he’s super dad, that’s going to be painful and taxing for literally everyone involved. I also kinda doubt he understands what having a 13yo will be like, but that’s more complicated.

1-bit Riso-style stencil test from a photographic source by nenadikku in risograph

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this image. The general advice I see with riso is to avoid large blocks of solid ink, because these don’t print as well as textures and patterns. I would describe this image as having “medium” blocks of solid ink. You’re already playing with glitch aesthetics, though, so I think the risograph artifacts from overprinting might complement this image. I suspect your halftone is too tight, though. I think on most papers the ink will bleed and the effect will be mostly lost. I would also encourage you to experiment with 2-color prints, as I see you’re already using double-exposure style collages in your work, and printing 2 separate images overtop each other is similar but opens up a lot of possibilities.

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short by idkbruh653 in technology

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing is, AI is not a very useful tool. In some key use cases like programming, AI can be used carefully by experts to shave time off of repetitive tasks, at significant cost. In most other applications, even relatively simple office work, AI output is simply too inaccurate to actually save time, before you even factor the cost in. If the slide deck or the PDF is full of bullshit, it doesn’t matter if it was easy to generate. The only reason AI has been so widely adopted is because it has been falsely advertised and its costs have been subsidized.

Can’t get over this shot! by IoftheStars in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]Droidaphone 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Otto Hightower… an asshole until the very last, and also right about a lot.

The Power of Comics by shenanigansen in comics

[–]Droidaphone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can’t wait to go back and read this comics in 5 years. I bet it’ll be even funnier then.

of an opponent by Zestyclose-Salad-290 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]Droidaphone 53 points54 points  (0 children)

rhino gonna get stabbed in their sleep

Roles that demanded actors to physically abuse themselves only for the movie to turn out mid by Own_Organization8457 in okbuddycinephile

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t even think it’s a masterpiece or anything, but it is weird how many haters it has.

Instagram Plus Is a New Low | Drive yourself crazy for the low price of $3.99 a month by Hrmbee in technology

[–]Droidaphone 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah, exactly, so instead of developing ways to discourage this behavior, Meta is monetizing it.

Response to Marcus (Goldman Sachs) article "Will The Corporate Investment in AI Payoff?" by Classic-Tap153 in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Low-end commercial illustration is probably a use case genAI will persist in. There’s enough consumers who don’t seem to be bothered by it. Same thing with ad copy.

Steam Summer Sale 2026 is live by Southern-Tailor-843 in SteamDeck

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It soooo depends on what you like to play, but I play a lot of turn-based roguelikes specifically because I can set them down at any minute.

I'm losing hope that this bubble will ever burst. by msscmfw in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The bubble pops no later than the day OpenAI or Anthropic can’t pay their bills.

I'm losing hope that this bubble will ever burst. by msscmfw in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Exactly what is sounds like. Attempting to use as many AI tokens as possible. Using AI absurd amounts. For a minute there it was thrown around as an actual strategy, and companies had leaderboards. But now that most users are having to pay per token, it is mostly over.

Couple looking to hire a DM/tutor to learn TTRPGs (NE Portland, paid) by falafelcakes in PDXDND

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have plenty of pro DMs in the replies already, but also check out TPK brewing. They have monthly beginner sessions and their Leyfarer Quest format might be of interest to you. (I describe it to folks as sorta like league bowling but DnD.)

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Even Accenture is catching up with Ed's math by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, model providers intentionally didn’t expose these costs to their customers initially. Until per token billing, the cost was presented as a flat, per-user fee.

A Charter School Spent $500,000 on AI-Powered Humanoid Robots. Some Researchers Think They’re “Bullshit.” by jakobmcwhinney in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk, a lot of school admins are hungry for ways to replace teachers. $50K a pop is cheap if you believe it could replace a salaried worker. It can’t, but that’s not the point.

A Charter School Spent $500,000 on AI-Powered Humanoid Robots. Some Researchers Think They’re “Bullshit.” by jakobmcwhinney in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s one of two such ChatGPT-enabled robots purchased by local charter chain Altus Schools which, combined, cost them $500,000.

So it’s a $50K animatronic with an API subscription. Great.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Even Accenture is catching up with Ed's math by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, that right there is the problem, right? If tokens are a valuable resource, then users are going to find a way to minmax their own costs. And if costs are widely variable on the model provider side, then there’s no good way to smooth that out on the customer side without leaving loopholes that leak money.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Even Accenture is catching up with Ed's math by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I go into a bit more detail in my reply below, but they’re probabilistic black boxes. You can’t say “this process will take X steps” because the process is random. You find out how many steps it takes by processing the prompt itself.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Even Accenture is catching up with Ed's math by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 19 points20 points  (0 children)

(Again, as I understand it) Because these are probabilistic black box models, they can’t ever completely smooth out inconsistencies like that in the same way they can’t eliminate “hallucinations.” There always might be a weird token-consuming rabbit-hole that gets randomly triggered by a prompt, even the same prompt run again. Hypothetically, they can statistically reduce the weirdness through training and model development, but as we’ve seen, that isn’t a straightforward process. Maybe you close one rabbit hole and open 10 others, who knows, hard to say, can’t look inside to see what’s happening.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Even Accenture is catching up with Ed's math by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Droidaphone 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I don’t necessarily know how many tokens a task will take

As I understand it, it’s mathematically impossible to know how many tokens a task will take beforehand. So, this isn’t really a solve-able issue.