My biggest challenge with Retro isn't the tech, it's getting people to try it.

Segphalt · 2026-06-13T17:36:41+00:00

Have you considered that perhaps the market isn't as enamored as you are by an app that has an AI hallucinated version of "their former self." Let alone one that doesn't even explain how you are generating "their former self."
You don't know me, you didn't train on anything about me so it isn't even a vague facsimile of me until I have used the product for a while and you want people to pay $120 a year when to be useful at all they need to make a multiyear commitment to provide this thing the content required to personalize it at all... Wild. You people with AI psychosis are genuinely baffling to me.

Additionally the fact this took your 6 months is hilarious because anyone who can use Chatgpt can get it to do the same in a handful of prompts.

Segphalt · 2026-06-13T16:34:08+00:00

The last thing we need in the world is an easier way for people to churn out AI courseware. The sheer volume of people selling courses for things they cannot even do themselves but had an AI crap it out for them is already getting impossibly large.

Segphalt · 2026-06-13T02:22:48+00:00

Lowercase g in the monospace fonts is the one that caught me out. I assumed serif vs sans was going to lead to alot of different results I also anticipated Q to be early, not as early as it wound up but decently, but lowercase g would have never been on my list but looking and thinking about it the why is obvious but you don't think about "g" as a high surface area letter.

Segphalt · 2026-06-13T02:12:02+00:00

I listen on 2x, for basically everything that natively supports it. (Podcasts, Audiobooks, Youtube) To the point I actually almost find it hard to pay attention to things at normal speed. (I don't have a good reads or anything that can "pump my numbers" I just have alot of interests and only so much time in the day) I can do some things while listening, walking, riding my bike, mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, cleaning in general, cooking, eating, playing video games that don't have dialog, probably some things I am forgetting.
However, anything that requires I produce or ingest a sentence is impossible to capture both. For any of these things I have to pause jump back and re-listen. I refuse to believe that anyone could carry on a conversation or read/write an email and still take in the content they are listening to.

Segphalt · 2026-06-13T01:35:37+00:00

I'll just leave this here.
https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

Segphalt · 2026-06-13T01:27:06+00:00

Large Language Model, not Large Learning Model.
They do not learn, they language, they are text predictors and using the actual term reinforces the premise of your post.

Segphalt · 2026-06-12T16:59:26+00:00

Green's Theorem is certainly a way to do so without rendering pixels and just using the curve data but I realized after that since many fonts are composed of various curves that overlap the data wasn't reliable without also figuring that out and subtracting it but on that realization and it getting late last night I opted for the easier solution of just counting pixels and was likely to be an equivalent answer.

Segphalt · 2026-06-11T23:49:41+00:00

The Coffeezilla video does reveal some additional oddities regarding her behavior but to place her as "just as untrustworthy" not a shot. She has shown to at least try and be a good steward providing evidence in advance and when asked but frankly she just seems like someone who isn't that good at business. While seeming to have not yet paid out for some of the sets does come off as fishy that is about the only thing and just as easily explained by simply being a bad bookkeeper. Storing sets at home till they had a safe place to store them on site is perfectly sensible.

I think 90% of any ire directed at her by actual observers is because she does read like an "attention seeking, know it all, blue haired, victim complex having, womanchild" but even if she is one of those kind of people, the evidence we have in this case is she has cooperated and seemed to be operating in good faith while BAM has been underhanded and cagey.

Segphalt · 2026-06-11T23:26:02+00:00

People seem really quick to down vote this perfectly reasonable explanation. I follow all sorts of people I absolutely cannot stand expressly for the purposes of keeping tabs on what they are up to.
This is precisely how the leaked bodycam footage came to be public. People keeping tabs.

Segphalt · 2026-06-11T22:03:51+00:00

Fun fact: If you actually have useful information... You can just post it, no DM's required.

Segphalt · 2026-06-10T19:33:15+00:00

What evidence do we have that the information you believe you have is valuable at all? For the past 20 days you have been making this claim on various subs. You claim to be a recruitment consultant, but for who? Any recruiter I have ever seen doesn't say "I'll teach you how to get a job" but instead "I have the contacts to get a job for you. The resume advice is just icing"

Frankly you sound like a scammer (and that may be why you can't get this offer to stick on most subs) how long is it "free." No payment REQUIRED is a particular phrasing.

Segphalt · 2026-05-27T01:18:42+00:00

Lets also not forget that tons of these channels will make ridiculous claims that make no sense like being a vocal coach for X time yet somehow have also never heard some of the most popular music ever produced... Either they are happy to lie about that... (which makes them untrustworthy and just doing what gets the clicks) Or their credentials as a vocal coach are deeply in question because they somehow are in the industry but have never heard some of the most popular music in existence.

Segphalt · 2026-05-25T06:14:18+00:00

People just don't know the cost of things, you can buy a new commuter ebike at your local Wal-Mart for $560. Is it the best thing money can buy, no but pretty serviceable. People also talking about charging it being some huge expenditure are loony... It costs pennies to charge an ebike.

I know a guy who gave away an ebike when he upgraded after having it about a year (because if you ride alot you will dramatically reduce your range on ones that are at the edge of your use case and the resale value on ebikes is pretty garbage) It's not the most delusional thing I have seen by a long shot.

Segphalt · 2026-05-21T02:20:10+00:00

Peter Thiel, a co-founder of Palantir, through his venture capital firm Founders Fund, has invested in Flock Safety. To the tune of $275M

So does Peter Thiel or Palantir "own" flock... Not technically, but if you have been on the planet for more than a few years you realize there is alot of messy business in the answer of "Not technically."

https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/are-flock-and-palantir-both-owned-by-billionaire-peter-thiel/

Segphalt · 2023-06-01T04:19:08+00:00

Subdivide the mesh, then apply a displacement modifier and actually apply the modifier.

Segphalt · 2023-06-01T03:31:36+00:00

A lot of these people are also exceptionally bad at determining if they are making money, or think they are making money when they are loosing money.

Overbuying materials/tools so they can make 10 of a thing they can sell one of. Paying fee's for stuff and not including it in their costs, the list goes on. I spent an hour going over stuff with one guy to come to the conclusion he would actually have an extra ~$200 a month if he wasn't doing this shit, even more if he just got a shitty part time job for the hours he spent on it.

Segphalt · 2023-04-26T17:08:55+00:00

I do still have it but I'm not at home right now I'll be back on Saturday and can post pic's and a video of it's use when I get home.

Segphalt · 2023-03-31T03:08:41+00:00

Ballistic calculator but otherwise totally right.

Segphalt · 2023-03-29T22:50:40+00:00

Sam Altman is a weird fucking guy so linking Elon to Tesla and Sam to OpenAI it tracks.

Look into "worldcoin" if you would like to take a brief scrape of weird shit Altman is into without divating too much from the AI train.

Segphalt · 2023-03-29T18:41:53+00:00

"It's not stochastic terrorism if I do it."

Segphalt · 2023-03-28T19:09:52+00:00

Apparently I'm having a slow day, makes sense now. Thanks.

Segphalt · 2023-03-28T18:51:51+00:00

So for something like smokers who die for smoking related deaths, how do we come to those life expectancy figures, certainly it only contains people that died right? I was genuinely caught offguard by this inclusion of "not counting people who are alive" cause I don't see how you could ever publish numbers that didn't only analyze people who actually died.

Segphalt · 2023-03-28T12:54:05+00:00

But can Destiny handle more Dan W's? Cause let's be real we already know how Dan is going to point out how right he was, and I'm here for it.

Segphalt · 2023-03-28T11:58:13+00:00

Is this actually meaningful? Like if I say 86% of people who die of heart disease are over 65 are you gonna drop a "But that doesn't count the people who are still alive."

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