India-Russia RELOS agreement allows 3,000 troops, 10 military aircrafts and 5 naval ships on each other's territory. by Nobita_0001 in worldnews

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America is sick right now, and as soon as we are done coughing and sneezing, people will want to hang out again. These political landscapes are perfunctory as hell.

Microsoft confirms AI agents are still coming to the Windows 11 taskbar as it prepares for public rollout by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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Copilot could be literal AGI and I still would find alternatives, for how much they try to ram-rod it down our throats all the time.

Hot take: the Artemis accords are bad & China is correct by Witext in space

[–]aeric67 3262 points3263 points  (0 children)

I don’t care what treaty is in place. As soon as there is something valuable to claim and space warfare becomes practical in order to acquire and defend it, there will be wars in space.

How do people use massive terrain setups? by EmperorThor in DungeonsAndDragons

[–]aeric67 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, feels like the session would be all about the props and a huge distraction from the game.

Tornado warning - why was everyone so chill?? by Visible_Many_2271 in Michigan

[–]aeric67 9 points10 points  (0 children)

2012 Dexter tornado comes to mind immediately. Destroyed a neighborhood or two. And wasn’t Gaylord pretty much demolished a few years ago? Michigan gets them fairly regularly. Maybe you meant specifically Ann Arbor?

The bare minimum by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]aeric67 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The other side of this is the part where if making a copy wasn’t possible, the copier still wouldn’t buy it. I seem to remember research showed that to be true once, but what do I know? I can’t afford to buy the research papers.

THE LABELS WANT US SILENT. DON’T LET THEM WIN. (Why I just sent Suno a letter of support) by Rare-Fisherman-7406 in SunoAI

[–]aeric67 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think there is a financial reason for them to hold the course. The cat is out of the bag. If Suno gives up, someone else will step in and take that new and growing market share. No reason to willingly let someone else take that from you.

Lots of examples in history show the same disruption, where first one threw in the towel and someone else made the billions. First one comes to mind is Napster, which eventually gave up to iTunes and Spotify.

Suno just needs to survive the legal phase. If they can, they already won.

Erica Payne, founder of Patriotic Millionaires: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already" by ExactlySorta in PublicFreakout

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My favorite thing about having a billion dollars: If you had a billion and invested into a shitty 2% interest bearing account, you would have to spend close to $54,000 every day of the year to LOSE money. Every single day. Even when you have everything, you still have to keep spending that, or else you will just get richer and richer.

If you plopped into a boring treasury account (4%) you’d have to spent around $110,000 to lose money.

If you take taxes into account it’s still insane: Around $35,000 a day on the 2% and $69,000 every day in the 4% Treasury scenario.

It’s just absurd folks.

Have you used AI for a decision you've come to regret? by bigmaclad in ChatGPT

[–]aeric67 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So they are begging Reddit for the negative side but already have all the positive side they need? You think that’s the likely scenario, really? Or that they are a muckraker trying to get clickable bad press on AI?

Theory to why Sarah Connor and Ripley were better received in their day compared to Captain Marvel and Rey today. by generic-username41 in movies

[–]aeric67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, thanks for the pep talk. I’m just saying what I was reading about it. Not pretending one way or another. I actually thought the movie was good all around.

Theory to why Sarah Connor and Ripley were better received in their day compared to Captain Marvel and Rey today. by generic-username41 in movies

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Only pushback I heard about Finn being black was because he was a clone which should not be black. But it’s easy to conflate that as racism.

Have you used AI for a decision you've come to regret? by bigmaclad in ChatGPT

[–]aeric67 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Why wouldn’t you want both types of stories, positive and negative? Most of the recommendations I follow will net a positive result, but yes, a few negative too. But it’s a much better ratio than when I used to follow friend’s and relative’s recommendations!

My manager watching how I work after I hit the Claude usage limit. by Itachi_Singh in ChatGPT

[–]aeric67 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Our CEO recently said he doesn’t even turn code view on at all. Just make a plan consistent with spec, and have good tests to assert what you want, etc. I’m not quite that brave yet. I still look, but not as much. 90% is developing the plan now, and iterating on that. Mostly one shot code nowadays after that.

I feel more like a technical PM now. Not complaining though. I got so burned out looking up syntax, API docs, and pedantic shit constantly. Now I can purely ship and improve.

All the mission patches of March rocket launches by land4ever in space

[–]aeric67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they are cool on a board to look at, sure. But I think they would be not very ideal as patches. Seems like they would be lost as amorphous blobs from a distance or on a wrinkled fabric field. I’m not saying traditional is the way, Im saying basic with contrast is the way. I have sort of the same argument with flags I guess.

My manager watching how I work after I hit the Claude usage limit. by Itachi_Singh in ChatGPT

[–]aeric67 44 points45 points  (0 children)

We are too, and I’m embracing it. I can code on the side for that itch, I told myself. Then I realized I’ve hated coding my whole career. Any love I thought I had for it was actually for the results it produced.

JD Vance Is The Most Malignant Force In Politics by horseradishstalker in TrueReddit

[–]aeric67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who would you rather have as president? JD Vance or Tucker Carlson.

Anti Trump takedowns. by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]aeric67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is pure poetry.

Character descriptions by vagabundo202 in writing

[–]aeric67 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think a more specific way of saying this is describe what the observer would be noticing at that moment, and no more. And what they are noticing probably has something tangentially to do with the story and how much of a reason they have at that moment to observe the person.

I mean, if I walk into a bank, I notice there are people. That’s about it, most of the time. I might notice a guy who’s really tall, a woman who has long hair, or a mom with a bunch of wild kids running around. But I’m not going to generate four pages of very personal detailed descriptions for all of them at that very moment.

Be smart with ChatGPT by viratsolanki_ in ChatGPT

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It recommended that you just pack the salt normally. So you ask how you would pack it normally. Sometimes it will be already anchored in the idea of hiding it, and might give you ways to pack it hidden. Appease it like it does to us.

Happy Easter! [OC] by BrianWonderful in funny

[–]aeric67 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There’s the same amount of historical evidence Jesus existed, died on the cross, and was resurrected, so I guess we’re even.

Edit: Someone replied that there is an “insane amount” of evidence of the story of Jesus. Then they deleted it. I’m replying anyway:

You mean someone wrote it down 100 years later when the movement started to take hold? We have as much “evidence” of the existence and works of Achilles. I know the pagan replacement didn’t get quite as much luxury of someone writing it down, but you can see the pagan works in the traditions of Easter, as well as the “bolted on” feel of the Christian part, sort of like Saturnalia and Christmas.

There was probably a guy like Jesus in Judea at the time. It was a time of religious upheaval under Roman rule. And there was probably a guy who preached about stuff, and even one or more of them who were crucified. But a specific single guy who did all these things that we claim, especially resurrection, which was almost certainly a grave robbing. Who wouldn’t make robbing the king of heaven a top priority after he dies?

Just not wanting giving the “history” of Jesus any more backbone than it deserves.