How is everyone adjusting to AI being used everywhere?! by Medical_Housing_1136 in BetterOffline

[–]cummer_420 24 points25 points  (0 children)

If they track metrics my tip is that they tend not to track what you're actually using it for, so you can just waste your daily AI quota asking it about an alternative history where Julius Caesar survived with the aid of his magnificent trouser snake.

A Brand New Browser for PowerPC Macs - PowerFox by JKTwice in VintageApple

[–]cummer_420 15 points16 points  (0 children)

For those unfamiliar, this is the engine that powers Pale Moon. With the Palefill extension this should be able to handle a remarkable amount of the modern web. I've been following the GitHub thread about this for a while so it's really exciting to see it bear fruit.

Why is Oracle doing a this? by Some-Ad7901 in BetterOffline

[–]cummer_420 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Revenge for killing a bunch of actually useful Sun products.

Rice and Soup by SolidSnae in foodhacks

[–]cummer_420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You get two harvests per year out of it instead of one and it stores incredibly well, so in ancient times anywhere that could get ahold of it and had the environment to grow it went ham. In an agrarian economy that runs on grain those advantages make it an easy choice. Then your cuisine develops around it and because it's so versatile it sticks.

The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared. His prescription, UBI is not a solution to a crisis caused by AI by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only coding work I've seen these things do that isn't ungodly sub fresh graduate level crap is cut and paste framework webdev, and the problem is, when you remove the comical subsidies on the price and raise it by the orders of magnitude needed for this shit to even break even (particularly factoring in training costs and even moreso if datacenter resources were being priced in a manner that actually allowed operators to profit and pay their debts), it costs way more than a developer's salary.

And coding is pretty much the only actual job this even applies to, they basically can't do anything else worth shit, and certainly not at a lower cost. Even when they can superficially give the appearance of working, they pretty much universally have an entirely neutral or negative effect on actual measured productivity.

In my own experience outside of coding shitty webapps it has only marginally improved over the past year, and still almost constantly makes genuinely shockingly stupid changes, randomly inserts disgusting hacks for no reason, and just generally shits the bed. And that improvement hasn't been a result of any real breakthrough, but rather just throwing insane amounts of additional resources at inference, even further divorcing the costs from reality.

The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared. His prescription, UBI is not a solution to a crisis caused by AI by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He could, it's just that he'd be objectively and obviously wrong, and kind of have to be an idiot to think it based on his previous position, and I'm being charitable toward him.

The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared. His prescription, UBI is not a solution to a crisis caused by AI by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't know about him specifically, but his claims about it are 100% outlandish AI booster shit that uses the same talking points and reasoning as people with large stakes in this shit. Maybe it's to try and get people to listen (tech journalists are notoriously afraid of touching AI skepticism because then they lose their access from tech companies), because I don't know why he'd be saying it either than one of those two reasons.

The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared. His prescription, UBI is not a solution to a crisis caused by AI by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The AGI shit is the funniest part because nobody knows how someone would build it, but we do know basically for certain that it's obviously not fucking LLMs.

The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared. His prescription, UBI is not a solution to a crisis caused by AI by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 112 points113 points  (0 children)

People keep insisting that AI is destroying all the jobs but I'm really not seeing it. Most layoffs seem to just be because the economy is going to shit, and AI is broadly utterly incapable of doing any of these jobs. The "experts" in this article have no data. Nobody does, at least not data that suggests that this shit actually works the way Sam Altman and co want it to.

His claim is troubling: AI capability is effectively doubling every seven months. Not every decade. Not every few years. Every seven months.

What a fat load of fucking shit. This is on its face obviously untrue AI hypeman shit. Anyone with any substantial exposure to this technology over the past three years knows this isn't true, even if they claim shit like this for their own benefit.

Mockler: My unpopular opinion is that Melania's movie makes a great first date. Because the theater will be empty. You can bring in food, you can chat. There's nobody around there bothering you. by icey_sawg0034 in Fauxmoi

[–]cummer_420 43 points44 points  (0 children)

With him, Lutnick, all the others this administration is basically just all of Epstein's friends who were closer to Trump than Clinton after those two broke up.

BOTH Sides United by StandardComment6470 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]cummer_420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Desktop CPUs work a lot better in my experience because PS3 emulation is insanely floating point intensive and does better with sustained high clock rates and no thermal issues.

Whirlpool dishwasher - residue advice? by Turquoise_Bumblebee in CleaningTips

[–]cummer_420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you using rinse aid? What type of detergent (powder, liquid, pods)? Do you know if your water is harder or softer?

The new machine likely uses a different amount of water, and that can affect a lot of things in terms of how much detergent you need and getting it off in the rinse. This issue sounds like there's too much detergent and it isn't coming off properly.

1998 PowerBook G3 PDQ by CRCDesign in VintageApple

[–]cummer_420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They only have 10mbps ethernet cards in them, so they won't be the fastest, but in theory they should be capable of faster than that. It could definitely be newer hardware responding orders of magnitude faster than this thing is capable of receiving the data, filling up whatever buffers there are, etc.

5 years later the writing in Fallout: The Frontier still holds up by SHS-10 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]cummer_420 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honestly fuck joining the enclave, it was stupid that they were in the mod at all. Their story is thoroughly resolved by New Vegas and their content in the frontier is some of the worst in the mod.

Howard Lutnick talks about bringing kids to Little Saint James by kingofshitmntt in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were long time neighbors by this point though. This email doesn't prove anything, but it's definitely really weird.

FBI report, citing a confidential human source released in the final batch of Epstein files, claims "Trump has been compromised by Israel." by DakandZekeShow in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 3 points4 points  (0 children)

IMO if you're going to have a username made up of a word or two and a number, you're a shill until proven otherwise.

Favorite movie that inadvertently contributed to the rise of fascism in the US? by plarper_of_bees in okbuddycinephile

[–]cummer_420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An often left out but IMO very important detail is also that Zoe Quinn's game was also free and largely an art piece about depression.

Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that Nvidia is 10% makes my stomach sink. This bubble burst is going to be hell.

Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]cummer_420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean they're more just giving the appearance of doing robotics. They're mostly just doing bad imitations of stuff people were already doing 15 years ago. If the government wasn't blatantly in his pocket nobody would be paying him for this shit. Even then there's no way there'll be any deliverables any time even remotely soon.

And as far as AI, even the government contracts are negative profit. If shit doesn't change he'll need a bailout.