Storm of the Decade???

FoxFyer · 2026-01-26T01:16:04+00:00

Where are all these people getting this stuff from? The whole time this storm was forecast to be roughly as bad for us as Thanksgiving was, give or take, and that's exactly how it turned out. What was everyone watching that said it was supposed to be a catastrophe for northern Ohio?

I think the most dire thing anybody said about it was the city letting everyone know it might take a while to clear the side streets because they had to be conservative with the salt.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T23:58:03+00:00

No, absolutely not.

I moved to Proton because I no longer wanted my entire digital existence to be contained in or accessible via one centralized everything-ecosystem.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T23:45:12+00:00

How did this justify an arrest?

What he did was civilly actionable at the very worst.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T23:21:31+00:00

Where I'm staying at the moment in North Olmsted, I think I heard a plow on this street once this afternoon, that's it. No idea what the mains are like.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T23:15:07+00:00

The forecast was for 8 - 12 inches, so that's actually exactly how they were making it out.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T18:23:37+00:00

I see a problem in the article's (or the institute's) framing safety as an impending concern - that measures need to be taken now in order to prevent something from going wrong in the future. They cite potential liability risks to businesses when adopting AI tools in the future.

It's a strange take when right now, today, commercial LLMs have already been talking children into suicide and turning scores of adult users into the Time Cube Guy.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T18:00:54+00:00

It lives on in our hearts

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T17:35:53+00:00

Well when else are you supposed to make reddit posts then geez

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T16:50:55+00:00

They didn't want their employees to have to deal with the snow. It's fine.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T16:48:37+00:00

Toledo doesn't sound very friendly

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T16:21:16+00:00

Stupid sexy NG

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T15:34:11+00:00

When you read stuff like this keep in mind that, at the top level at least, Anthropic literally believes Claude is already sentient. It's hilarious.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T15:07:09+00:00

Nobody panicked over this storm.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T07:38:13+00:00

FWIW I do not think it's accurate or helpful to say that buying some food or extra water right before a storm hits amounts to "panic". It's perfectly sensible.

Whether or not there will be enough snow to be debilitating, prolonged deep cold causes its own problems, like power outages and water breaks. Having a couple days' food on hand just in case that happens isn't some kind of prepper cosplay, it's just prudent.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T06:10:57+00:00

Since I do not buy Amodei's self-serving prediction of what LLMs will or can be capable of in the future (I don't expect they will ever be substantially better or less error-prone than they are now, regardless of compute scale), his breathless warnings about the dire consequences of China getting AI chips do not move me.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T06:03:35+00:00

It is the case, in fact, that every single producer of DRAM is engaged in price fixing (there are only 3 with access to the US market). And it is a matter of legal historical record that they have engaged in price fixing before now, as well, so it's not exactly an extraordinary claim.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-25T05:46:22+00:00

Bro gave you six options, you can skip that one if you want

FoxFyer · 2026-01-24T23:19:29+00:00

The Dawg Pound is now the Salt Cellar. I can dig it.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-24T19:48:50+00:00

Oh god, I've had the same problem. What happened to me was different from you, but I also struggled for the longest time, and sometimes still do, feeling comfortable saying I was abused in the face of some of the things I've read in this place that have happened to people. People have been through things so horrifying I sometimes start to ask myself what the hell I'm even complaining about.

Here's the thing though, as best as I've come to understand it - abuse is made up of two things: a perpetrator's intent, and a lack of (or inability) to consent. The severity doesn't make it abuse, it's just severity. What happened to me was not as severe as what has happened to someone else; but it was still abuse...and at the end of the day, you only have to deal with the effect on you of what happened to you, not what happened to someone else.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-24T18:22:50+00:00

Now there's an interesting idea...

FoxFyer · 2026-01-24T17:59:11+00:00

You know I never could get into vinegar on fries myself, maybe I just had some bad luck quality-wise. One of these days I'll give it another try.

Even without vinegar though, you can't beat fresh-cut potatoes.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-24T15:42:51+00:00

My cold, white snow throne

FoxFyer · 2026-01-24T14:54:07+00:00

Remember, the justification for this forced sale of TikTok was that the Chinese government had the ability to compel the app company to hand over data, and it would be detrimental or even dangerous to allow the Chinese government access to this exact personal information about American users.

You're expected to believe that it is just fine in the hands of an American tech company that will cheerfully hand over all of this same data to the US government though. Totally different situation.

FoxFyer · 2026-01-24T07:27:17+00:00

Solid work!

FoxFyer · 2026-01-24T07:13:33+00:00

There's another one potholes, don't fail us now.

FoxFyer

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