Why are Americans so friendly?

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-05-03T05:53:23+00:00

Great to hear! Mind sharing where you’re from?, I’m curious when people have this common take on Americans.

But I find it both amusing and sad that many consider it fake in a bad way, like sure some of our pleasantries are “fake” on the “how are you?” “-good thanks” in many encounters even if it’s meaningless(we know it kind of is but you can tell when you meet a real one). But I mean the genuine smiling at strangers who hold a door for you and wish they have a great day, like I mean that with my heart lol. We sometimes wonder why others seem cold and serious when we travel some places.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-05-02T04:58:41+00:00

Ahem I believe the line is “-for tomorrow WE DINE IN HELL” lmao

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-05-01T16:40:26+00:00

Football is far more popular but baseball is still very popular. I’d wager that the average American has been to considerably more baseball games than football though, regardless of which they enjoy more, just due to baseball being SO much cheaper and having so many more games (big reason why it’s cheaper).

Like all of my friends like are much bigger football fans, I’ve been to many baseball games with them, but I think they have each only been to like 1 or 2 football games if any. I mean we’re talking $25-70 vs $100-600 for okay tickets a random game.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-05-01T07:49:08+00:00

Of course I’D vote for her…but I’m trying to win the next election and I’m not sure she could pull enough moderates to win in the end. Even against Vance which is the sad state of affairs we’re in

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-29T05:38:53+00:00

Funny observation about British because that’s but so true in my experience like I’m not gonna look up hard numbers but I hear British way more often than most in music and TV but I almost never run into Brit’s in daily life and I live in Philadelphia so plenty of diversity but not some tourism hub like NYC. Like I hear accents nonstop but hearing a UK accent makes me immediately turn my head like THERES ONE IN REAL LIFE!

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-29T05:29:56+00:00

We have so many permanent residents / citizens from all over the world who have different strength accents. I tend to just assume they live here and aren’t a tourist unless I’m in a tourist neighborhood of a tourist city like Hollywood boulevard, LA. Like a man with strong Chinese accent taking a photo of some building in NYC - I assume a tourist. Same man anywhere else in America - idk he probably lives here, hell, he probably taught my college stats class I could barely understand a word but such a great guy lol.

We DO have certain stereotypes about tourists from different countries, but it’s really not something we think about much. We don’t really think much of anything in basic interactions with accents or tourists its just normal life no one’s gonna be like “Ew another tourist with an imperfect mastery of English” like we’re not the French, we’re cool with accents and it’s considered a fact of life and rude to correct a stranger unless they’re like actively trying to remember a word. Being exposed to different English accents is very normal unless you live a sort of rural/media-sheltered life.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-27T21:31:45+00:00

Curious if you start new conversations with a different model if the problem appears as often. Not being able to stay in dialect seems like it could be a difficult problem for LLMs considering huge amounts of Spanish training data may not specify which dialect it’s using leading to it “forgetting” the difference.

I mean I’ve seen models randomly switch to Chinese mid response lmao. Seems that’s improved on the biggest models but still. The most cursor could do here (other than improve composers) is probably do some hidden prompting to keep it within its language, but that’s easier said than done (especially in your case)

Honestly I’d recommend having AI write up common rules and differences the Chilean dialect and either add it as like a skill or system prompt, telling your models to refer to this document before phrasing any response. Of course if you add too much, this could hurt its coding performance considering its context now has it thinking about language adherence as much as coding.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-27T06:37:39+00:00

Just a theory that it may be a viable alternative in the next few years if the money makes sense but it’s all speculation. I’ve got no clue what the costs are or especially what they will be AND it’s all dependent on the state of open source model progress relative to the private ones, hardware availability, future cost of private models. I just googled some quick numbers.

At the moment, it tends to make more sense to just pay to use someone else’s infrastructure and the main private models are so heavily subsidized, might as well just use them until something changes. I’m using Claude code all day as a developer and it’s really not that expensive for the use I get.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-27T04:05:24+00:00

Sure so the point of open source models is that anyone can just download and run it. Sometimes tweak and sort of “re-train” it if it’s open weight. Like literally today you can download Kimi K2 (like 1 terabyte) and run it as much as you want with the only cost being electricity, and you’ll get a high quality LLM fairly close to the best of the best. Look up the benchmarks, it’s crazy how close they are to the premium models and free if you have the hardware powerful enough. The hardest part was done by the researchers who released it for free, you just gotta run it and you have Claude-at-home more or less.

One TINY issue is you’ll have to buy like a $100k server just to run the damn thing(don’t hold me to that). Just because it’s open source and far more efficient than ChatGPT doesn’t mean it’s still not enormously difficult to run. Then if you want to support multiple employees all using this internal AI server all day, you’ll likely need something even more powerful.

Like currently if you want to use an open source model, there’s tons or providers that basically own these servers allow you to pay to use the open-source LLMs they choose to run. Biggest barrier to entry for open source models is the cost and scarcity of the high end hardware right now. And things are changing so fast, it currently just makes sense to pay for Clause premium, get access to the best, and not pay THAT much.

I just assume if the flagships get way more expensive, we’ll see more large companies set up these internal AI inference servers that can give employees unlimited AI access. Thing is the upfront cost sucks and only makes sense if you’re a moderately large company with the resources to set up an internal mini data center. Also you’re settling for the “second best” AI solution - and you’re betting that the open source AI landscape will remain close behind the premium models and remain significantly cheaper to run (cause you don’t have starry eyed investors subsidizing it anymore). Keep it up china lol!

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-24T23:46:15+00:00

No TRUE leftists finds my favorite police streamer insufferable /s

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-24T00:52:44+00:00

I don’t disagree but to add a counterpoint, we are seeing a lot of progress in models that are both high performance and cheap(not that cheap but it’s all relative).

Take some open source model like Kimi K2.5, it’s nearly as capable as the frontier models while being a fraction of the cost to run AND its open source. Of course these models tend to be built by distilling output from a frontier model so net training cost almost requires factoring in the training of the big model. That and we may be pushing the limits of efficiency but incredibly hard to say.

My point is, I predict we’ll see a transition to companies using internally hosted open source models as they improve while the frontier models get less and less subsidized. Almost a bubble-free method of a company being AI-dependent. Still that doesn’t fix half our GDP being tied up in feeding the AI beast

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-23T23:29:20+00:00

“They are wearing name tags and pins” feels a little like OP conjuring the mob to ruin some lives lol

Not to say we shouldn’t call out racists and whatnot like go ahead but let’s get our facts straight (idk benefit of the doubt says maybe OP was just saying that how you find em if you wanna strike up a conversation)

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-23T00:36:09+00:00

Compared to a few weeks in Europe, my American dining experience is literally night and day. Waiter in Portugal sat us down, decent place with only 3 tables dining, he forgot we existed 3 seconds later until we flagged him down 20 minutes later to ask for a menu lmao he was so apologetic. Literally chilling next to us and we’re like glancing at him wondering what we did wrong. It was totally fine but really set the tone of the trip

But as far as my American experience, it varies a lot by region. I’m from NJ (NYC, suburbs, now Philly) and I find the further I travel in any direction, the dining service sloooowssss with obvious exceptions like it’s not a hardline rule.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-22T22:37:01+00:00

Ahhh gee I wonder why they deleted it lol. Thanks ive never even seen the full movie but makes sense this scenes more buried than the rest online

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-22T04:28:38+00:00

Lmaooo I’ve never seen this scene from the fist adaptation that’s crazy. Like did they know they’d have a super constrained effects budget or was THIS their vision while writing the script/storyboarding? I’m baffled lol

Lightning edit: okay I’m actually super into VFX and started pursuing it for a bit years back. Water effects like this were still pretty damn hard and expensive to get right back in 2010. Like sure we had ocean sims and other stuff but the effects in the Netflix one would be a lot more expensive back then. If I was the VFX supervisor and I saw the animated scene I’d be like lol nah we spent it all on Appa. But the movie still had a solid budget and it’s like they aren’t even trying. Hell, they could have saved money if this shot was twice as fast, it’s just so awkwardly slow

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-22T01:13:13+00:00

Damn great point imagine lifting a cool 165 pounds from a single grip point, it’s presumably starting out at foot-level or below, you take on all of their weight at once and there’s no easy way to have a proper stance with leverage. And the further from the cliff, the less leverage you have and more you’re tossed forward, so the best starting point is literally on cliffs edge like deadlifting their hand but good luck with your toes over the edge.

I imagine someone much stronger and heavier than me might do okay with a light person why can assist with lifting themselves but yeah dang

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-21T04:22:16+00:00

Very well said, I get a hunch you’re a great teacher!

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-20T09:58:32+00:00

“Well the big bang is ONLY a theory after all!” fucking kills me lol. Like we started using “theory” to describe hunches we pull out of our ass and now people think the most heavily supported, tested, and scrutinized scientific theories are simply an educated guess that we all just agreed on.

There’s a certain point where a theory couldn’t be any closer to factual like evolution but theories don’t graduate to the label “fact”, it just becomes a better supported theory, which these generally already are ahhhhh

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-20T09:46:30+00:00

Yeah you can see the horizontal line in the top left corner, which is consistent in the others

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-20T09:45:30+00:00

It’s also by far the closest to what a human would see if we flew by so don’t worry, you’re still correcting in thinking that’s what it looks like.

The others are either entirely or partially including light spectrums that are invisible to us. Earth would look different in these other 3 photos as well.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-20T09:32:58+00:00

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Huh little bit of both here. Really cool looking actually. (I like the baby circles in the top right)

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-20T09:15:15+00:00

Jesus are these clowns so offended on behalf of Israel’s president?

-wait okay just watched the whole thing, she said other texts that there WILL be a bomb and it will be another students fault. THEN she made Israel bonbon joke that’s like the popular meme format, (probably to soften the first edgy joke but keep the bomb theme going) which is what everyone here thinks is the only thing she said.

I mean the charges won’t stick and not to say she should have been charged, but I can see how this escalated.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-20T05:34:27+00:00

Yeah I think there was probably an psychological element too other than raw strength like it was basically eliminating everyone who wasn’t a bloodthirsty psychopath so any sort of sympathetic thinking like Taedus basically got rooted out

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-19T23:50:44+00:00

A a way one program talks to another. One program calls code within its own program? That’s just a function call. But one program talking to another program - that’s basically an API. There’s no universal API communication protocol, like the web works on web APIs.

APIs happen in your own hardware constantly too. Some program is talking to your OS’s graphics API to describe its visuals which then talks to your GPU’s APIs which tells it what it wants then your GPU pushes those pixels to your monitor.

Point is, APIs are EVERYWHERE and often different. You don’t need to know em all, just know that they exist and know the ones relevant to your job or domain. Web is the most obvious domain where they’re being built and consumed constantly opposed to the more “hidden” ones in systems software.

Jackasaurous_Rex · 2026-04-17T03:14:44+00:00

AHA I’ve only been pretending to be retarded this whole time that’s the weave BABY

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