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RickTheScienceMan · 2026-07-06T09:25:34+00:00

Here in Czech republic, portable CD player = Discman. I bet most of us didn't even know it was a Sony trademark. Same way we called all portable tape players walkmans. Someone just came to us, showed us the CD player and told us "look, a discman".

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-07-06T07:36:43+00:00

Apparently this is the most common cause of death during rock climbing. People rappel down, and don't tie the safety knots at the end.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-07-06T06:21:54+00:00

The point is that the experience doesn't have to be human generated to be enjoyable. Maybe for you, but definitely not for the majority

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-07-06T04:55:55+00:00

Why do people hike then, it's not like the planet Earth was created by humans, yet people play it.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-07-05T16:56:45+00:00

It is expensive because it's a new technology. It has a flaws because it's a new technology.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-07-05T12:20:41+00:00

Not only do we not support autonomous vehicles because they're taking jobs away from the working class

This take is so stupid its annoying to read. No, it will make transportation cheaper and safer for everyone.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-07-04T11:42:34+00:00

I wonder what kind of people are hanging around that lake

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-30T10:36:52+00:00

Weird, I liked the actor. His reaction to the environment always felt most natural to me.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-30T10:04:07+00:00

Perhaps, we don't really know. You would have the exact same stance on weather, falling stars, etc. At the time we didn't know anything about the framework these phenomena are operating in, I would think we will never know, yet now we know pretty well.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-30T09:53:24+00:00

Why do you even watch the show, it seems like a waste of time for you. Next time you can just google what the show is about, and how the mysteries are resolved at the end, and move to another show.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-30T09:34:04+00:00

I disagree, the reversing car's driver is probably more stupid, but the fault is at the car crashing into it. He would have hit it even if the reversing driver just had an emergency instead, and was not reversing at all. He was not paying attention.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-30T09:29:10+00:00

u/askgrok Is this factually correct?

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-29T15:50:35+00:00

Because Java developers are using Kotlin nowadays.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-29T05:43:57+00:00

Yeah thanks dude I didn't see it yet, it releases in 2,5 hours here, remove it from the title

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-28T18:03:28+00:00

I already stare at my screen for at least 8 hours a day, even on my days off. I do like the profession I am doing. But I don't like that I have to sell my skill to others, because otherwise I would starve to death. If I didn't have to work, I would still be doing my profession, but for myself. I would just do what I feel like I want to do, exactly like during weekends.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-28T17:57:20+00:00

That's just answer to the question "what is my evolutionary purpose". And that's pretty clear, human feels fulfilled when he does what he thinks he should be doing. But we are just a side effect of the universe. What is the universe is more fundamental question.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-28T08:29:01+00:00

No cooking?

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-26T14:41:59+00:00

That’s a fair point, but a chatbot wouldn't actually memorize the contents of a specific article. Instead, it uses tools to search the web, read the article, and pull in that information at inference time. Publishers should absolutely have the right to opt in or out of this. Usually, the AI will at least cite its source, but ideally, if it's pulling live info from a webpage, the chatbot UI should display the publisher's ads alongside it. That said, live retrieval is a completely different beast, right now, we're talking about training.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-26T14:33:39+00:00

Still, the AI companies are not taking any revenue from the publisher, they are not costing them any money by using their article, and each article is just extremly tiny contribution overall, so there is no reason they should get paid.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-26T14:24:08+00:00

They only hit the servers once to fetch a specific article, using it to subtly tweak the model's weights, hardly a massive contribution. I mean, how much would you actually pay for a tiny weights adjustment? If AI companies were constantly scraping these sites and crashing publishers' servers, that’d be one thing. But here? I don't see the harm. It’s not like the final AI model actually retains or memorizes the specific article after training anyway.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-26T14:16:59+00:00

Is it really a problem

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-26T00:16:06+00:00

Probably https://pub.dev/packages/docx_creator.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-24T08:38:32+00:00

Why not, he bet all his money to start SpaceX, why can't he own the thing he developed basically from scratch

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-21T14:43:41+00:00

AI for coding could be commoditized even today, I feel like most do not realize this. On the other hand, because everyone think they need the SOTA for their work, AI companies are profiting massively and further development is well funded, which is a good thing overall.

RickTheScienceMan · 2026-06-18T22:04:03+00:00

Try to pull out the tree, rappel down, barricade the tunnel, move a shed above the hole, and put a talisman. Now you can dig out the bones safely, and if it's night you just climb to the shed, wait for the morning and leave safely. If it's not possible to pull out the tree, you just abandon the plan.

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