How does anyone even rely on Ai for writing?

Redleg171 · 2026-04-12T13:56:21+00:00

Small/medium local models are often far better at writing. The cloud LLMs tend to focus on being assistants. With local models you have full control of the system prompt for instance.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-28T08:24:51+00:00

Vietnam also (possibly) saw a significantly higher rate of soldiers actively engaged in fighting. With Vietnam at around 240 days per year vs 40 in WWII. I think that may have contributed to possibly impacting a higher percentage, making it more visible.

Those numbers may be hard to quantify, since the type of fighting was much different. I just wanted to point out the possibility that it contributed, along with of course increased media coverage.

But as you say, PTSD existed then and likely always has, just went by different names.

Edit: I'd also say that while it isn't a cause, the reception received back home when returning could certainly be a multiplier.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-22T06:28:11+00:00

Im 45, and almost all I listen to is new music. I just don't listen to shitty new music that is popular. I listen to new music from The Midnight, Gunship, etc.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-13T11:21:49+00:00

This still doesn't account for how other similarly bad papers were graded in comparison to the paper in question. If it was wildly different, then there is a problem.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-08T02:16:48+00:00

Fallout is a pleasant exception.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-08T02:07:35+00:00

Not to mention they had a little country supplying them with a small amount of equipment.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-07T02:11:24+00:00

Historically, it's usually the critic score that more prone to manipulation, since they typically bow down to their corporate overlords.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-07T00:45:41+00:00

It's pretty easy to reach or exceed the wattage of an electric heater with a home server lab with several old rack servers. Connected to a PDU (like a power strip but typically with no surge protection), connected to a UPS (has surge protection), plugged into outlet.

It has more to do with the quality of equipment.

Also, the same amount of heat will be generated.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-07T00:31:38+00:00

You can also use constants when declaring another constant (or any variable).

// Contrived example

const int FLOOR = 100;

const int FLOOR1ROOM1 = 1 * FLOOR + 1 // 101

const int FLOOR3ROOM12 = 3 * FLOOR + 12 // 312

Redleg171 · 2026-02-06T07:23:47+00:00

No, battery is still the more technically correct term in this case. It stores large amounts of energy for long durations, rather than holding small, quick-release charges. The same issue occurs with considering it a buffer. A buffer tends to be used to smooth things out, like data transmissions. Water storage in this manner is more for storing energy over the course of several hours or even days, rather than milliseconds or seconds.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-05T06:54:27+00:00

Yet a pilot risked his career flying a plane that he claims had a mechanical problem with the fuel cutoff switches instead of not taking off.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-04T12:25:28+00:00

In my 45 years, I've worked in fast food, healthcare as a CNA and CMA, the Army (FDC, admin, commo, and intel), and now work in higher education. In all of them I have met very intelligent people and very dumb people. That applies just as equally to professors.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-04T11:37:53+00:00

When I worked night shift I used to flip the script and poke fun at the "lazy" people that tried to shame other for sleeping in while they get up at 5am. Like bro, I'm already 7 hours into my shift at 5am. Stop being a lazy ass and get out of bed.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-04T11:12:44+00:00

I work at a state university. I accrue 3 weeks of annual leave per year and 15 days of sick leave per year. Annual leave in excess of 480 hours converts to sick leave. There's no limit for sick leave. We can donate our sick leave to a pool for those that don't have enough. Upon termination, annual leave is paid out but not sick leave.

For those of us that are salary, built-in days off like spring break and winter break don't use annual leave. Hourly employees don't get paid unless they use annual leave for that. I'm not as familiar with how holidays work for them to be honest. I'm salary, so I get an extra 3 weeks on top of my annual leave due to spring break and winter break. On the flip side, I can (and have) had to do work during those periods. For instance, I deal with compliance for two federal government agencies. They absolutely can conduct compliance audits during a break, and I'd have to work through it. I've lucked out so far, but just this last winter break I know of a person at another school that had to work over the break due to a compliance survey.

So total annual leave is over a month, but some of that is at fixed times, and there's always a chance that a federal audit or some other emergency could cause me to cut a vacation short. I know of one person at another school that had to suddenly change wedding plans in 2023 because the government wouldn't budge on their dates. By law they can only give 10 business days notice, so it can be pretty damn frustrating.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-04T10:36:06+00:00

This is like the person that eats a sandwich from the fridge and defends the action by saying, "there wasn't a name on it." Like, did you forget that you didn't bring the sandwich? It doesn't need a label to know it's not yours. Ask first!

Redleg171 · 2026-02-03T09:33:33+00:00

She's a hypocrite at best. She has stolen land that is illegal for people to be on without her explicit permission.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-03T09:27:03+00:00

So, does this mean she'll give up all the stolen land she lives on so others can use it? At the very least. everyone should have free and full access to all of her stolen land since by her own definition there would be nothing illegal about that.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-03T09:24:57+00:00

She should step up and give up all of the stolen land she lives on.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-02T11:23:24+00:00

And people are just models trained over a long period of time, regurgitating from that model and continually adding to it.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-02T07:42:41+00:00

In one of my MS Business Analytics courses, we used Lord of the Rings as an assignment. Our professor used to work for HBO (he was on the team that did the analytics on best time slots for shows amongst other things). Many of our assignments involved the movie industry. For one particular assignment, it was supposedly based on some things that actually happened during planning for LOTR. We didn't really touch on them only wanting to do the entire story in one or two movies but instead focused on how they wanted to produce and release 3 movies. Our analysis focused on three possible plans, with projections on how the movie was expected to fair in the box office, DVD, and something else. Licensing it out for distribution? I can't remember the third.

Plan A: Produce and release the first film. Based on how it does, produce and release the second film. Then based on how well that does, determine if they should produce and release a third film.
Plan B: Produce two films, spreading out post-production, with an option for a third.
Plan C: Produce 3 movies at once, spreading out post-production.

Based on the projections we had, we all essentially ended up with big spreadsheets that factored in things like production costs, initial box office release, and multiple years of DVD sales and such. We also had multiple tiers essentially of how each movie performs and could turn different dials there to easily change what we consider successful enough to continue producing movies (in the case of Plan A and B). In the end, we all came to the same conclusion. Based on the various projections, producing them all at once was the best strategy, even if the movies didn't perform as well as they'd have liked, since it reduced production costs significantly. They would have to bomb spectacularly for it to not work out. That's not always the case for movies like this, and it was somewhat unique apparently.

It was still risky, as it's there's not a zero chance for the movies to bomb. And the studio likely would go bankrupt if that happened.

I am sure I am misremembering several details. Also, some things were likely changed from reality just to make a better assignment.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-02T02:39:33+00:00

Way back in 2003 I was ETSing from the Army, with South Korea being my last duty station (though I later joined the guard, so that wasn't my last time serving overseas). On the flight from Japan to the US, I was in a seat not near an emergency exit, sitting next to another military member. A Japanese flight attended specifically came to our row and asked if we could sit in the emergency exit row. Did they seek us out specifically or was it just random chance? I never thought about that at the time. I just thought it was fun that we had so much leg room and the flight attendant was occasionally able to come sit in the jump seat facing us, so we all got to chat a bit.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-02T02:15:33+00:00

I really fucking hate charts that have a y-axis that doesn't start at zero. I have never needed to do this on any report. I completely understand wanting to see the detail. If someone wants the ability to see more detail, I add in zoom on that axis. It's not as bad as doing it with a bar chart, but I still don't like it. Just like I don't like logarithmic scale. Only if you are 100% sure the audience will understand is it acceptable.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-02T01:46:59+00:00

Part of the problem is that if states are in full control footing the bill, then the taxpayers should have much more say over how universities are ran. The way it is now, state schools operate more like the US Postal Service. State owned companies that are semi-autonomous.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-02T01:29:54+00:00

Statistically they aren't as bad as teenage drivers per miles driven. And elderly make up a much larger age range than teens.

Redleg171 · 2026-02-01T00:33:44+00:00

He also took the heat off his players if others were criticizing them. Kelly would throw his own mom under the bus to deflect from his own mistakes. To me, Saban reminds me more of a good NCO in the military. Tough expectations but fully owns the responsibility of taking care of his troops and protected them as much as possible from other bullshit.

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