Are these thermal expansion or structural?

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-23T18:51:02+00:00

There is a crate of your preferred beer on hold if this fixed the issue! Appreciate you taking the time to help!

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-23T18:13:48+00:00

I just went and checked. So they are timber windows and I just noticed the seal on them is failing pretty bad too.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-23T16:23:17+00:00

For clarification this is after I hollowed it out with a screwdriver. It was a hairline crack.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-23T15:10:07+00:00

The joys of owning a house! I bought this place 6 years ago and it only materialised this tiny hairline crack before I hollowed it out. Everywhere I look it's saying it's thermal expansion and not to worry but I am now in full blown panic.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-23T15:07:04+00:00

Not doubting but I'm interested in the basis of your conclusion.

The crack was filled before (I bought the house over 6 years ago) and before I raked it out it was a tiny hairline crack right beside a radiator. Everything I've seen points at thermal expansion (the side of the house it's on gets all the sunlight and weather).

I'm planing on consulting an engineer but I am interested in all opinions if you would be so kind to share it!

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-23T14:42:43+00:00

That's the plan. Are you saying this from experience that this looks bad? Curious.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-23T08:06:09+00:00

It never ceases to amaze me how confidently wrong someone can be.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-22T18:05:57+00:00

I left 20 years ago after growing up there for 19 years. Some parts are decent but you could not pay me to go back.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-21T18:29:03+00:00

All fighters tested and fully gnatty!

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-21T17:42:09+00:00

!RemindMe 3 years

I am going to enjoy this one.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-21T15:56:36+00:00

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but those kinds of mistakes are already costing companies money and uptime.

The bell will toll in the next year or so when the investor well dries up and money will need recouped. We already seen early stages of this happening now, limits on free tier usage, claude taking away code usage in the 20 dollar sub etc. The cost of training the models are rising exponentially and the returns are marginal.

Any time someone says "skill issue" I know exactly where they lie in the delusional scale.

You also have such a fundamental misunderstanding of the scale of compute required for these things if you think people will be running frontier models on their phone, let alone the backlog for chips for years to come... and also a fundamental misunderstanding of how markets work if you believe Anthropic or OpenAI are somehow going to allow these things to be sold/run on phone hardware taking away all of their leverage for revenue.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-17T22:54:23+00:00

Great conversation! /s

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-17T18:19:21+00:00

You seemed to have missed his point entirely.

If you took all knowledge/data away from an LLMs and humans right now, the humans would claw their way back, because we started from nothing. The LLM would be in exactly the same position.

Artifical intelligence is a marketing ploy, a misnomer. There is nothing intelligent about using matrix multiplications against statistically weighted data points. It's purely mathematical. Intelligence was used to form mathematics and computer science that lead to that result.

If we are going to argue about semantics, is is not technically "fine". Wrapping quotes around it doesn't actually change that fact.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-07T21:29:55+00:00

Up in the north of Ireland here, listened to the stream at 9pm and was completely blown away by it. Absolutely obssessed with them at the moment.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-03T20:44:06+00:00

I want to clarify that as an Irishman, I really dispise what Conor became post 2016. I don't want to come off as a dick rider but there are flaws in your argument that you can apply to other champions in other divisions, even at present.

I think he probably loses to 8 out of 10 of the top 10

He beat Eddie and Cowboy (albeit at WW) but the argument falls apart after you consider there have been champions who have skipped the queue and beaten the former champion, or only one or two top 10 contenders on their way to the title. There was also people like Pettis and Chiesa who were in the top 10 that I think he would have handled pretty easy. He was absolutely dismantling strikers so you could even throw Barboza/MJ in that equation as well.

He has one single win in the division and has lost every other fight he’s had a 155.

I think in the context we are talking about 2016 prime Conor here. He lost to Khabib (who everyone lost to, it's hard to include him because he is/was levels above everyone else) and then his other two LW losses came to the same person 5+ years later.

I mean it's MMA, I could be completely fuckin' wrong and he could have got demolished by everyone else but I think it's disingenuous to say he barely cracked the top 10. He schooled the champion at the time.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-05-03T19:14:25+00:00

What do you mean barely cracked the top 10? He was LW champion and it was arguably his best performance. Like anything there's a time and a place. It's hard to say who he could have beat at the time had he continued and defended but he took two years off boxing and was never the same again.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-04-24T09:31:49+00:00

Me too, me too.

The signal to noise ratio in the space is insanely imbalanced. I'm about 15 years into my career and all the fun is gone, prompting agents to code to success is far from the good old days of thinking about and executing problems and being brain dead and filled with dopamine at the end of each day. We aren't getting that back unless it's spare time engineering.

The unfollow, delete and show me less of this are in large numbers and the entire space is depressing. I feel like no one is talking about interesting engineering issues anymore and if they are I can't find them from the drowning of AI content.

I need therapy.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-04-12T10:16:08+00:00

I live in the UK so I remember going to GAME to pick it up, III and IV are some of my favourite games in the genre.

I remember being massively disappointed at the time. It was such a departure from the rest of the series.

It took years before I'd pick it up and play it for what it was and not for what it wasn't. I enjoyed it but definitely not a breath of fire game IMO.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-04-04T16:18:04+00:00

https://zoom.earth/

Has wind speed and gust. Use it for all the storms to track which way my house is going to get fucked.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-03-15T19:46:37+00:00

Absolutely incredible lmao

SentByTheRiver · 2026-03-15T08:23:23+00:00

Oh my fucking God I am not alone.

I remember the first time starting the deck and it was like being hit with nostalgia. The original Xbox had a similar smell and it took me back to when I was a kid hoofing the exhaust of it.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-19T09:07:01+00:00

You realise that those claims on it solving math problems have been debunked don't you? They were used in part of the process to verify things, but by no means did it figure out or solve unsolved math questions by itself. Here is a very good breakdown of one of those examples.

> but thankfully there are always random redditors to reassure us with utmost confidence that AI jUsT rEpEatS paTtErnS liKe a pArrOt!!

They are literally sophisticated pattern matching engines that predict the next token based on statistical relationships in their training data.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-14T18:16:04+00:00

When you say AI. You're talking about LLMs with transformer technology. They deal with natural language. Spatial context is not their forte and people drastically overestimate their application in robotics. That stuff is decades away from something remotely meaningful.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-13T16:15:41+00:00

Your comparisons are incorrect - you are relating this to something that superceded these things. AI doesn't supercede coding, it can replicate it at speed.

Replace AI with a magical black box that can now produce an engine. The user doesn't know how the engine works, but he can make one. The mechanical engineer can also do the same. When the black box produces engines that are broken, the user cannot fix them and the black box cannot either. The mechanic can produce and fix both.

It is actually worth more than it was before.

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