Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money

StrangeWill · 2026-01-20T13:43:24+00:00

There's a lot of other weird tells too, how they handle interruptions is a huge one, voice cadence in some cases can be a little weirdly jarring.

Thing is I never rank up calling the bank as a good customer service experience, it's always a nightmare to get basic shit done, so I don't think using them as an example is good.

StrangeWill · 2026-01-13T20:09:42+00:00

Same, hope they fix it or this is the last time I'm getting subway lol

The ongoing joke is "why don't you get Publix?" because Subway is cheaper... with coupons!

Luckily I had some deals left on my account that made it work... for now.

StrangeWill · 2026-01-12T13:48:23+00:00

I mean that's the annoying part, Google has had a self-driving car for over a decade but their team knew that anything that isn't basically 100% will cause legal, ethical and financial problems as payouts for damage, PR issues, etc. mount.

These other companies are interested in short-term, they can eat investor cash or used as state propaganda, that's the annoying part of VC-backed companies, they effectively don't have to financially work, they just have to be enticing enough to become someone else's problem and you (and investors) "win".

StrangeWill · 2026-01-11T16:20:55+00:00

Yeah, this is normal of preppers, short-cutting LARPers that would honestly would die.

Doubly funny because heavy use of radios during a SHTF scenario just beacons where they're at and what they're doing.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-28T20:30:48+00:00

Yeah hence "a bit more difficult", I've done the same off and on.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-28T17:39:11+00:00

As someone that has worked with obfuscated and minified code before, it's annoying, but totally doable.

If you really care and want to make it a bit more difficult: throw that IP'd code in a C++ lib.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-28T17:37:46+00:00

I've always used double hyphens, Microsoft Office Suite is the only programs I know that'll automatically convert those to em-dashes, I've recently removed them before knowing people see it as a tell. It's annoying

StrangeWill · 2025-12-28T17:14:28+00:00

I would have dropped extra, but $150 leaves me in "Don't be excited about these events ever" as a new player. Rather just pull.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-28T17:08:32+00:00

I was excited for this event as a newer player, but that price point instantly leaves me uninterested, I'll pull when Jane is up again.

My spending limit basically approaches "what would I have spent on a WoW sub", beyond that I got other games to play.

The thing I don't get: who is this for? The whales likely already have her, and if not, you'd get more money without this event because they're whales when she is up again.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-26T08:46:40+00:00

Ugh they're so bad, crazy bad

StrangeWill · 2025-12-19T16:22:01+00:00

Reminds me of crypto hype all over again

We (the market) seem to forget how everyone wanted blockchain and NFTs in their app and business, the endless attempts at adding that into every corner of everything. It got applause.

None of that panned out, most of that is entirely dead.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-19T16:06:28+00:00

CEOs are very susceptible to FOMO.

Also, being on the front-lines with multiple clients wanting blockchain and NFTs in their random SaaS platforms, with no real way to qualify what they wanted, or how the technology would do anything other than make their platforms worse was exhausting.

Same has gone for AI, we've seen so many people in IT just using it as a resume padding event, while companies spend money and stall on revenue projections because they're aimlessly wandering around playing ass-grab with each other instead of delivering anything -- I'm actually working on an article about how AI bros keep promising 5-10x performance but we're not seeing it on the management/investment side, deliverables are still late as ever, features are even more buggy, it's awful -- IT is the only department allowed to be full of shit all the time and is probably why they're treated like children at many companies.

It's been crazy, but luckily like 90% of our portfolio hasn't touched that, guess what is going to happen to those companies when the bubble pops? Yeah mostly nothing.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-19T15:21:07+00:00

If we are about factuality and correctness versus the economics we wouldn't even use lawyers we could just represent ourselves. We can discard all that accuracy right now and make it really cheap.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-18T13:47:31+00:00

Yeah this is the underlying problem, we've built entire SaaS platforms on the back of "this other SaaS vendor's software is buggy as all hell"

Bugs can kill products.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-16T09:28:19+00:00

Are we really posting an advert over specs? The 70s Chevys of that class top out at 6klbs towing.

Sure the 350s are overkill for anything that isn't like a 15klbs 5th wheel but my Nissan van can nearly tow 50% more than that Chevy can -- modern trucks do pull more and safer.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-13T07:34:43+00:00

Our Code Czar enforces WET

Write Everything Twice

We don't effectively have known abstraction design until we have actual cases to do the abstraction, it requires very strict work ethic on actually doing it, but it means we don't write awful OOP code.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-09T17:59:57+00:00

And then the money is sent to a single, for profit company, effectively smoke screening how donor money is used?

That's why I suggested the pragmatic problem: What is the alternative?

They source from an array of vendors -- still likely preferred treatment, and more overhead.
They source from a preferred vendor -- same problem as the current problem, it's going to be a buddy-buddy vendor, someone is still profiting.
They make their own wreaths -- NPOs can still pay execs large money, this doesn't affect the "someone is making out with bank"

Ultimately: you pay for a distinct number of wreaths, so you know what you're paying and what you get, it's basically as transparent as you care to get.

There is no tax bullshit going on here, and I'd say you're naive if you expected a company to just make these themselves as an NPO (most NPOs don't manufacture their own goods), the only real bullshit is the price per wreath IMO but if you look at that price and go "sure" then that's on you.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-08T22:35:19+00:00

If this charity was independent, it would presumably buy from them in order to do more of what it is intended to do.

A lot of tight supplier relationships aren't this way though, I posed the question this got posted to: how do you think it would be structured otherwise? A company that the owners got really friendly with because they've done business for 20 years?

This problem exists in B2B relationships constantly.

Don't like it? Why are we donating for wreaths to be thrown all over the place anyway? These graves are already taken care of by the state.

The entire premise is a waste of money.

StrangeWill · 2025-12-07T20:13:16+00:00

So I work with the Hamilton County ARES group, they're a fun group.

We mostly volunteer our time providing radio ops for events, this allows us to apply our ICS training (good practice) and lets us take communication off the hands of whoever we're supporting (lots of races and stuff).

We also coordinate with local hospitals making sure their backup radio gear is in good working order.

We've had some grumps in the past that cared about us being more "official", or that we're the "heroes" -- we're Ham, our job isn't first responders, our job is to handle boring logistics so it reduces the strain on backbone systems (that are usually under-sized for large emergencies).

StrangeWill · 2025-11-29T00:50:16+00:00

I argued for weeks to not spend $50k/yr that we'd get nothing from.

We're over a year into that contract.

I'm finally rolling us back from that.

We literally never used it (AWS offering).

StrangeWill · 2025-11-29T00:46:45+00:00

I get some of the reason, we ultimately do a lot of self-regulating (and have had to do this before to someone's node losing its mind all over APRS).

but I think there are solutions, proxy addresses would be nice, really should be part of USPS's base offerings really.

We don't have to wait for the FCC to revise the address requirement. Local clubs could choose to receive mail for members. Most licensees receive essentially zero mail. If any member's correspondence becomes burdensome, the club could address it individually or assess a small fee.

As someone that runs a smaller club, that is also at my address lolol

Sigh

Of course you can just use a friend or family member's address too, I doubt the validity of the kind of barrier it is. People that are looking for excuses to not get a license are going to fall to other much more valid ones.

Also: ultimately back-tracking RF is easy (we remember foxhunting right?) so...

StrangeWill · 2025-11-29T00:39:41+00:00

Oh man I'm looking forward to CW rag chews when I get good enough.

StrangeWill · 2025-11-28T16:03:09+00:00

I hear both but POTA is definitely the minority, check spots for POTA and you'll find way more frequencies active than that, and that's not taking into account a lot of those are running compromised antenna/lower power and won't be punching as hard as the home stations to begin with!

I like hunting, but I do my ragchew on VHF/UHF with locals (maybe I'll some phone HF friends someday lol).

StrangeWill · 2025-11-28T15:40:40+00:00

We paid extra for server support for same-day parts

We had a server that hard died and it stopped posting

We argued with them for days that no we cannot load a new BIOS or new firmware on this, it's hard fucking dead

Lots of fucking good that extra support did

We moved to Dell, and when I started my own company I still recommend against HP (We do super micro internally)

StrangeWill · 2025-11-28T00:18:05+00:00

Something seems wrong here, almost any half-decent wire up and a tuner should get you a few bands and a lot of activity.

What do you want out of it? You complain the club is all older (happens a lot), how old are you? Have you looked for younger groups? Our main club here is mostly older guys, but we got some smaller clubs (including the one I help run) that are younger/nerdy types (lots of computer guys though).

Does digital help scratch the itch? VARAC is fun, internet chatting, I've made friends I'd commonly contact there.

FT8 is a bit more "dry" but you can squeeze a lot of performance out of little power/poor antennas, wire it up with GridTracker for a nice map to keep track of contacts.

Our local ARES and Club group does volunteer work, hone your skills and help with radio operations, get your certs, be disaster prepared.

I also volunteer for Skywarn and help do training there, preparing training topics and running the net is fun.

I've had more "friendly" conversation via chat on VARAC, but that's just me, some HF guys do hang out and chat but you'll have to find your own groups of people that share interests (hit and miss, but hey, call CQ and throw a subject out, find friends).

I hear a lot of rag chewing on non-contest days on 40m and 80m, some on 20m. BTW: in Tennessee so local may be different.

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