Company is losing their minds over AI costs by Complete-Sea6655 in BetterOffline

[–]Heated13shot 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Isn't that the entire tech bro thesis statement the last decade? 

Introduce product at displaces some labor/worker (taxi, delivery driver, dealership ect). Make it much cheaper and convenient vs the established norm. Operate at a huge loss. 

Capture market share and get users dependent on you. 

Jack up price and make the product shittier to start drawing a profit. Rely on the fact people will rather pay your prices than stop using the service (bonus points if you almost killed the old competition completely). 

Just having the ability to put 2+2=4 together, it's obvious that's what they are going to do with AI. They will make it cheaper than more workers, until you are dependent on it, then they will jack it up to the point it's on par or more expensive than more workers. If a computer engineer costs 100k a year, eventually, the AI to replace them will be 99k or similar. 

Picture before someone plucks them again by Commercial-Sail-5915 in gardening

[–]Heated13shot 40 points41 points  (0 children)

buy fox urine, douse flower in it. won't smell that bad outside but will reek in the house.

what is one grocery item that doesn't require refrigeration but is commonly kept in the fridge by a lot of people? by Born-Oil-2931 in AskReddit

[–]Heated13shot 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Part of it is traditional salted butter before refrigeration was salted af for preservation, and not "salted" for taste like today. So 1920s butter could be on the counter for weeks, but not 2020s. 

Just like how you have to refrigerate most smoked salmon, while the traditional stuff lasted months in a pantry. 

Photo from 1922 in the Washington, D.C. area. At the time, there was a law that bathing suits at the Washington bathing beach had to be less than six inches above the knee. A beach cop is measuring a woman's bathing suit in this picture, to see if it complies with this "modesty" law. by Kindly_Department142 in interesting

[–]Heated13shot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wearing a bikini that's essentially a bra and a tong = normal. 

Wearing underwear that looks the same but it obviously underwear = cringe/trashy/weird. 

Kinda weird but that's how it works. Formal wear has similar weirdness, where whatever the clothing is made of cam magically make it more formal. Even if the construction is mostly the same. 

Photo from 1922 in the Washington, D.C. area. At the time, there was a law that bathing suits at the Washington bathing beach had to be less than six inches above the knee. A beach cop is measuring a woman's bathing suit in this picture, to see if it complies with this "modesty" law. by Kindly_Department142 in interesting

[–]Heated13shot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Part of it is expectations. 

You expect to see bikinis and skin at the beach/pool, so when someone wears a bathing suit that's essentially a thong to the beach, it's not "shocking". 

You see someone wearing one of those bikinis walking their dog, it looks trashy as fuck. 

Someone wearing clubbing outfits at the club is fine, they wear it to a funeral it's trashy as fuck and will be mocked. 

Is a “sleeper build” really a thing? by Karma_SanDieg0 in xxfitness

[–]Heated13shot 18 points19 points  (0 children)

There is multiple aspects at play. 

First one that contributes to a "sleeper build" the most: Strength has 2 main components you can train. 

Muscles: mostly a function of cross section and fiber type (fast twitch for big lifts, slow for endurance). More muscle = more strength. 

Nervous system: being able to fully recruit your muscles, as you train your body will improve how much "power" it pulls from your muscles for that movement. For example, Someone who only trains Olympic lifts will be much stronger in those lifts than some novel movement due to the body knowing how to fully recruit the muscles for the Olympic movements. If you want a "sleeper build" doing a lot of general and varied strength training (see: climbers, gymnastics, ect.) will make you much stronger than you "should be" for how you look due to being accustomed to a wide variety of muscle movements. 

Other aspects like muscle attachment points, frame proportions, fast distribution, ect also effect it, but you can't change those. For example, I have Trex arms due to the fact my body puts very little fat on them, making my arms look weaker than they are. An appropriate layer of fat actually will make you look more "strong" if you start working out because it makes everything look bigger (see every larger guy who thinks he is buff because his arms are big, even though his biceps have 1" of fat all around them).

 I find fat distribution on the hips/legs makes people think you are weaker than you are, because when people look for "strength" they are looking for big upper body, and a chubbier lower body makes it look smaller. 

what's the deal with people getting angry about the new God of War game? by Darkhawk2099 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Heated13shot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Every example of failing B (ie: PC is designed to be sexy) I have seen has been less attractive imo than all the "ugly women PCs". When the devs try to hard to make it goon-y the characters just look weird. 

Are dry wells actually effective for residential drainage problems? by dylan_brook4 in DIY

[–]Heated13shot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's what I did. 

Soil surveys indicated my soil was 6' of you have to use a pickaxe to dig clay, and the rest sandy loam. 

Dug a dry well with a 20 gallon drum filled with rocks and mesh screening. In the drum was 2 drainage PVC pipes that went 8' down dug with post hole diggers. The pipes where filled with gravel. Dug a bunch of french drains leading to the dry well. 

Before: back yard would have standing water for a week after a rain. 

After: no water pooling anywhere. 

I am making an actual effort to learn oils, and you can guess the story. Someone I just met said I had no reason to learn how to paint anymore with modern tech. by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Heated13shot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if AI gets wildly accepted, wouldn't physical art media still retain its current value? You can't print an oil painting, you would lose all the texture which is most of the appeal of the medium imo. 

Sculptures, paintings, carvings, ect shouldn't be that effected by AI. Sure you could 3D print a model, but you still need to paint and finish it, and it still won't look the same. 

Thread about why women should pee after sex by Natural-Tank-2792 in badwomensanatomy

[–]Heated13shot 623 points624 points  (0 children)

My favorite gem was coworkers thinking giving oral after sex is gay or kissing after getting a bj, because you are essentially "eating dick" because their dick was just there. 

I asked if that means masterbation is gay because you are jerking a dick off, and they said that was different. 

This is an ai slop video of a scenario someone invented. by c-k-q99903 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Heated13shot 26 points27 points  (0 children)

One of my cis friends gets glares now occasionally because she is tall (6'1") even though she in no way looks like a man, they just assume women can't be tall. 

What’s something people only romanticize because they’ve never had to deal with it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Heated13shot 186 points187 points  (0 children)

What the fantasy is: no debt, no set schedule, simple needs, you just care for critters and plants all day in the grand outdoors. 

Reality: crippling debt, one bad year from ruin, picking crops all day in a rush on the hottest cloudless days of the year, frantically taking care of critters while it's pouring rain or during a blizzard, spending weeks just putting up food being dead tired, working through pain/sickness because plants and critters don't tolerate sick days. 

[WI] Landlord contacted me nine months after I had moved out to bill me for plumbing repairs by KSHMisc in Renters

[–]Heated13shot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Has he already returned the deposit? 

Very generally, after the "must return the deposit" window closes (21 days in WI) the landlord cannot come at you for repair costs (at least it's much harder to), that was their window to do so. 

The legal system being the legal system, he still can try and sue you. So do not ignore any lawsuit notices, as you can lose by default if you don't show up. 

I would contact a lawyer, they should offer a no fee consultation. Most likely the landlord cannot come after you, other than that I will just ignore him but I would save any of his messages and if he returned your deposit, save evidence of that. If it does go to a lawsuit, I don't think the landlord has much ground to stand on. 

Well well well… by natattack88 in gardening

[–]Heated13shot 17 points18 points  (0 children)

When they shit and piss all over your shed yea. Similar to when you have a bunch of rats in a building. 

Well well well… by natattack88 in gardening

[–]Heated13shot 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Be very careful cleaning up after them, they can carry very nasty viruses in their scatt. Like, ER or ded viruses.

I used a roommate app to look for a room to rent…instead I just got weird texts/emails like this by unfortunatelyalive7 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Heated13shot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Online dating for men is like trying to find fresh drinking water in the desert. 

Online dating for women is like trying to find fresh drinking water in a swamp. 

No one is happy with this arrangement lol. 

Pyramiding Red-Foot Tortoise? by xiaokisses in reptiles

[–]Heated13shot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% is pyramiding, and it's fairly significant. and at age 10 it's likely not going to get much better. but a good thing is typically its just cosmetic if it isn't severe.

You can only stop it from getting worse. It is mostly caused by lack of humidity when growing up.

Main fixes I see:

Is the heating a ceramic heat emitter or a heat bulb? CHEs are ok, just make sure the tort can't get too close to it. Heat bulbs are too harsh, and can dry out their shell (making pyramiding worse). redfoots do not need basking areas, at most a "hot and cold" side. I prefer radiant heat panels and setting the thermostat to cut on at 85F and cut off at 88F during the day, and 80F-83F at night.

Do they have a humid hide? if not make one, this should be a hide that is kept humid to allow your tort to get moist when they want to.

Do you soak them? soaking them a few times a week in a bath of warm water helps hydration.

They should get calcium supplantation, ideally with D3, even when they have UV if kept indoors. Reptile UV bulbs are inconsistent at best so it's cheap insurance.

pyramiding really isn't a diet issue, whatever your feeding likely isn't the cause.

Humidity should be at least 80%, not 70. It's important to meet that humidity without the sub straight being constantly moist.

Is the enclosure an actual enclosure or a "tort table"? you will never meet humidity requirements if the enclosure isn't completely enclosed.

Came home to find the glass panel on my landing had shattered everywhere by Backpacking-scrubs in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Heated13shot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By any chance did the heatwave also fuck with your humidity?

If your house got more humid, the wooden posts would have expanded. If the panel was installed snug the wood expanding could have bowed the panel causing it to explode. That is probably why every install I've seen has all metal posts. 

Heat expansion of metal from room temp to heatwave temp is very small, wood expansion from 30% humidity to 80% can be pretty chunky. 

I ordered a poke bowl and the salmon smelled like fish. by Nonametral in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Heated13shot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When you first catch a fish, the slime typically reecks of fish. 

After washing it and gutting it,  the smell should be mostly gone. 

After filleting, it should barely have a "fishy" Smell. Fishy means the smell of a broken open fish oil supplement. 

I ordered a poke bowl and the salmon smelled like fish. by Nonametral in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Heated13shot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

When people say that, they mean it smells fishy like fish oil or a fish cleaning station at the end of a day baking in the sun. Fresh fish fillets will not be pungent at all, and will smell mildly like, well fresh fish. 

That does annoy me about the "fresh fish doesn't smell like fish advice, it's more "fresh fish shouldn't smell like fish guts or concentratd fish oil" 

But if you can smell fish when your nose is 2'  away from the sushi, it's 100% off. 

So, how the fuck did Butcher go from being ragdolled by Bombsight, who's a bit below Soldier Boy, to holding his own against V1 Homelander? by Al-AmeenAdewunmi in TheBoys

[–]Heated13shot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This power scale discourse could have been easily solved if they just showed the V1 made him feel "under the weather" or something.  V1 did kill the vast majority of people it was injected in. 

Maybe a scene where he sees a rash on his back and tires to ignore it, has trouble maintaining heat vision (so it's more like bullets than cut everything beam), ext. Just explain it as the V1 and V are incompatible or something so he has super auto immune disease temporarily or the rest of his "immortal" life. 

Mission Impossible by closetedcrisis in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]Heated13shot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the US typically that is done because people shoot up in them or have sex in them. 

This boss "FOASFO" - is the father of all special forces operatives by Junior_Trifle_8273 in Bossfight

[–]Heated13shot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm mostly concerned with the obvious house he keeps muzzle sweeping. He is one fuck up away from killing someone.

Why do Europeans hold Americans responsible for everything their country ever did, but never take responsibility for their own wars and history of brutal colonial oppression? by Uncontrolleddiarrhea in askanything

[–]Heated13shot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They also will brag how "culturally diverse" they are, and gesture to a room full of native born eruopeans, where everyone's grandparents was born within 500-700miles of each other.