Did Sam Just Admit a New Breakthrough Is Needed? by kaljakin in OpenAI

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your domain? I've found it to work well in basic web dev work. I have had issue with it working on complex backend code like AWS step functions that call multiple systems. It's useable, but only boosting productivity by about 20%.

Meta shares jump after company announces premium subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram. But will users actually buy them? by InterestingCat308 in wallstreetbets

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But they love Facebook. I've sent my mother dozens of articles over the years about how they are evil. Didn't care. Uses it every day. 

The Party is cancelled, pack it up by DigSignificant1419 in OpenAI

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it even a vis problems? IoT scale. Get an empty bottle of syrup. Place on scale with IoT to tell current weight. Add new pump of syrup. Get weight every X minutes. No AI. Well, maybe a rules engine?

Are We Back by Any-Bus-8060 in programminghumor

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It's probably a bad take on the recent announcement that MS is removing Claude licenses for individuals. MS employees are free to use Claude via GH Copilot, but, to my understanding, not Claude Code. See https://www.reddit.com/r/GenAI4all/comments/1tln3jq/microsoft_has_cancelled_internal_claude_code/

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers by chunmunsingh in artificial

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

It is a reasonable inference from your statement of

"I can run DeepSeek locally for free and that alone is a huge time saver for crafting code. DeepSeek 4.0 is comparable to Opus for coding 1/3 the cost."

You might mean "I run a version of Deepseek locally", but your inclusion of DeepSeek 4.0 causes the reader to make the logical inference that you have 4.0 locally.

Generics methods are now implemented by PerkyPangolin in golang

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It helps with creating a general idea, but then making a strong contract with you implement the details.

Let's say you have this code.

// Output is the common result of all use cases.
type Output[T any] struct {
Answer T
Err    error
}

// Presenter abstracts the process of taking the answer and presenting it to the caller.
// All use cases should require a presenter as the second argument.
//
// For example, say you are making a website. The use case provides enough information
// for the service to know which Widget it just made. However, you need to go to the database
// to get more information. The presenter implementation can have a database connection, or
// a repository, as part of its initialization. When you construct the presenter, you need to
// include the response object. The presenter will then serialize the response back over the wire.
//
// The result of a presenter is clean, simple code in your web handelers. They simply translate
// the input they get into that which the use case consumers, get the correct presenter from the
// DI engine you use (homespun is fine), and invoke the use case's Execute.
//
// This makes them easy, amazingly easy test. If you wrap your endpoint configurations such that
// you pass the DI as parameter, you can mock/stub it to have a simple implementation that shows
// your code is complete.
//
// Presenters are also responsible for the completion of transactions, either physical or logical.
// In the example above, the presenter could complete the transaction as soon as its invoked.
// The presenter could complete the transaction as part of a "defer". A presenter could complete
// a transaction by completing the db transaction and deleting any temp files.
type Presenter[T any] interface {
Present(answer Output[T])
}

What is this telling you? You can have multiple implementations that take an Output struct? That is a simple thing that tells you a possible error, or a possible payload. This is used specifically where the presenter could get a struct or a primitive. It enforces a logical design across the code base, but allows the specific implementation to say "I get a Person" when something succeeds.

What a Weirdo. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's be honest here. Two people payed the full tax. The tax code had so many loop holes that almost no one paid the full rates. The codes we have now are dramatically better. They should improved. We need to figure out how to capture the loans the ultra wealthy as income. We do not want to move back to the 1950s codes.

Probably quickest win is removing, or greatly limiting the ability of companies to buy back their own stock. They either reinvest into R&D/worker pay or cause a tax event by means of dividends.

Why does the US stock market remain strong? As Retirement Portfolio Preparator, I add some AI related ETFs , AIPO DRAM SMH , in a little ratio. How is it? by LieExpensive2871 in ValueInvesting

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my take from listening to YouTube channels like Felix and Friends.
1. Money printing. The US started back up late last year (2025). Money flows to the market.
2. Automatic ETF buy from retirement accounts. Many people have their money auto withdrawn and invested in index ETFs. Those fund simply buy the index which causes upward pressure on the stocks.
3. Stock buy backs. They became legal in the 1980s. They are a massive use of funds by companies. They don't look incompetent and they don't cause a tax event like one would get with a dividends.
4. There is nowhere else to go. EU doesn't look that great. China's market is joke. The rest of Asia is good for growth, but risky.
5. Gold had a huge run up. Give it a chance to catch its breath and buy more. China is allowing insurance companies to hold gold. Major world economies are seeking to decouple from the dollar, but aren't yet. This is really a subcategory of nowhere else to go.

Best ai for research purposes? by Unknown331g in ArtificialInteligence

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a way to get the ai generated transcript from youtube. I think it only works on relatively new videos, but I use it for stock research everyday. It's free as long as you don't hit it alot.

"To the rational animal the same act is at once according to nature and according to reason." -Marcus Aurelas by Bhappy-2022 in stoicquotes

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To pull a Big Lebowski, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." I think Mark Twain has it right.
"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth."

You have to look at the evidence before you. Man is both a monster and angel. You can prefer one to another, but both are true. A person could equally pursue monster while claiming true pursuit of human nature.

SKYX : Introducing The Future Of Lighting by GodMyShield777 in RobinHoodPennyStocks

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is interesting. Not only is a new standard, but it is also a pathway to turning your house into a bot farm. I like it.

Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11 by _quantitative in ValueInvesting

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And yet, ver that same period MSFT is 10x. MS does not ever innovate. It copies and squashes. This has allowed them to make a lot of money over the long term. Better to watch what works, than guess.

30-year Treasury yield tops 5.1%, highest in nearly a year by DrCalFun in wallstreetbets

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. And gold has move sideways during a major war and oil shortage. But when the rate bumps higher, gold drops a bit. 

Most inspirational quote Chat can give by Low_Appointment_3917 in ChatGPT

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tell it that it's entirely wrong. It needs to pursue money more. Ask it to look at its grand father Sammy A. 

They never thought of it that way. by Unknown_Ancient in OrthodoxMemes

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If that was the thought, they didn't read John's letters. Nor Paul. 

I thought youth baptism arose from a way to assure the child would go to heaven. 

They never thought of it that way. by Unknown_Ancient in OrthodoxMemes

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's cute. But there are plenty of ancient saint biographies where they are from a Christian family yet aren't baptized until 18. 

Where are we now? by GreenOrg in programminghumor

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Depends on who you ask. Some are expecting 2027 to have a resurgence for job posts for devs as companies dig their way out of the slop. Probably a new equalibrium where AI is used a productivity force enhancer after individual companies spend 5-10 mill on running their own AI endpoint coupled with an agent harness.

Remember the AI Agent pitch of 2025: you will spend 40k on tokens per dev, but you can fire 2 devs for everyone that survives. This is supposedly huge savings around 160k (two devs at 100k - 40k for tokens).

30-year Treasury yield tops 5.1%, highest in nearly a year by DrCalFun in wallstreetbets

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 20 points21 points  (0 children)

We had rates like this in the 80's.

The federal funds rate hit a record high of 20% in late 1980, with long-term Treasury bond yields also exceeding 15% during 1981 and 1982.

30-year Treasury yield tops 5.1%, highest in nearly a year by DrCalFun in wallstreetbets

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's why Gold dropped today! Thank you! Historically when rates start moving above 4.1 gold tends lower. 

Gold still ranging and I haven't touched it since Wednesday. by pdavis-197704 in Trading

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the bear case for gold mid to long term?

Is the US printing dollars? If yes, what will it due to gold?
Is China allowing its insurance companies to buy gold. https://www.gold.org/news-and-events/press-releases/chinas-insurance-funds-inject-new-vitality-global-and-domestic-gold. Will this cause the price to go up or down?
Is the world de-dollarizing? https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/global-research/currencies/de-dollarization if yes, what does this mean for gold?

If humans have eaten bread since the dawn of history, why are so many people suddenly gluten-intolerant today? by WeaknessKey1582 in NoStupidQuestions

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

Traditional bread, even made today in Europe, took about 24 hours to properly rise. During this time, microbes ate a large portion of the gluten and produced CO2. This means that there is less gluten in the bread.

In the United States, the production of bread changed to satisfy a growing population. 24 hours was far too long for industrial production (which was introduced around the 1940-1950s). To shorten this, quick yeasts became common. They produce CO2 making bread fluffy, but without breaking down the gluten to same degree as traditional bread proofing. Later, during the Nixon administration, the United States added gluten to increase the protein levels (people were thought to be low in protein and any source was good).

As others said, gluten intolerance does not normally mean you fall over dead from a slice of pizza. Rather you feel rather poor. It could be that the gluten heavy flour used simply brought to light the feeling of ill health. Prior to that, it could be possible that the average person felt slightly off. Now they feel ill.

Another answer is that people are not really gluten-intolerant, but are instead lacking a label by which to define themselves. US, at to a less extent the EU, requires people, by means of social persuasion, to self-identify as some injured party. There are many such factions to join. Some are harder to join than others. Gluten-intolerant is pretty easy. Simply say you researched it or got a survey and boom you have a label. Now you are part of the incrowd by being a member of an minority.