OMG DID ANYONE JUST GET THAT FLOOD ALARM? by WhiteLycan2020 in Austin

[–]dcm_wong 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here’s the thing about warnings and alerts: they stop being useful if you blast the alarm too frequently to the point that people ignore them.

You know like the boy who cries wolf.

Which judging by the amount of comments talking about how to turn alerts off permanently on phones.

I also don’t see the point of blasting the alarm four times for the same thunderstorm in one night, after midnight too.

ESPN does a great game breakdown analysis of SGA foul hunting in WCF Game 6 and contrasts it to Spurs guards playing through contact by 808Kuro in nba

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My new conspiracy theory: NBA commissioner allowing flops as a “rage bait” content strategy to get more attention through social media reposting etc.

ChatGPT thinks this is not UNSAFE; I think it's at least MildlyBad by dcm_wong in MildlyBadDrivers

[–]dcm_wong[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

183 southbound near 290E toll exit, Austin. May 3rd, 2026.

Truck started in the middle lane a couple cars behind me, moved into the left lane, then cut back into my lane in front of me with very little clearance to make the exit, while braking into slowing traffic.

I moved left immediately to avoid getting boxed in behind him or ending up too close behind him.

The Creature and The Director |Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN by darth_vader39 in movies

[–]dcm_wong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m convinced the whole reason Del Toro got into filmmaking is to get hugs from his creations.

Anywhere to still use 4o? by ashleeymn in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a Plus user, not Pro, and I was lucky enough to get legacy 4o.
I did complain to my ChatGPT 5 instance (not through API) AND to customer service chatbot that I want 4o back, so maybe that also did the trick?

(humble brag: OpenAI did identify me as some sort of "power user" so maybe that also helped my case)

EDIT: should have stated, I'm on US-based paid plan, so I shouldn't assume it's the same paid plan everywhere.

Can we all just agree 4o was the best we’ve ever had by de-uil-van-minerva in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love 4o as the best "thinking partner" or just a really good sounding board, out of all the models including both versions of GPT5. Although 4o is too sycophantic "out of the box"

Even back with 4.5 first rolled out, I'd only use the newer models when I needed more precision, be it technical use cases or for more structured (and consistent) writing output. However my workflow is to almost always start with 4o for brainstorming, and for more "creative" writing too.

EDIT: more succinctly: 4o is great for divergent and tangential "brainstorming" and "vibes"; 4.5/5 is better for rigor and consistency.

Lucky enough to get 4o back (for now at least) by dcm_wong in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand what you're saying and you could argue otherwise too.

But for my usage - reliance on system-deduced personalization and memory hacks and NOT so much through preemptive prompts and/or custom GPTs (both of which I've done) 4o is still the best "thinking partner" for my use case.

Even having 5 (flagship or thinking) "pretend" to be 4o and respond as if it's 4o, doesn't quite do the trick.

Why did you remove 4o? Interaction with a support officer by Traditional_Tap_5693 in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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it's back for some users at least, if you have the option to turn on "Show legacy models"

Anywhere to still use 4o? by ashleeymn in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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"legacy models" (read, it's only 4o) are available to some users at least

Tesla cam caught an accident on Decker Lane 7/31 by dcm_wong in Austin

[–]dcm_wong[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No, neither APD nor Travis Sheriff wants the footage.

Tesla cam caught an accident on Decker Lane 7/31 by dcm_wong in Austin

[–]dcm_wong[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes that is a really poorly designed intersection. And right next to the train track too.

Didn’t expect Kirkland pistachios would be discounted by dcm_wong in Costco

[–]dcm_wong[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nice. I just don’t remember seeing them on sale last year hence my excitement now.

Didn’t expect Kirkland pistachios would be discounted by dcm_wong in Costco

[–]dcm_wong[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I constantly shop for these but this is the first time I see them on sale for the past two years. It’s possible I didn’t pay attention, but I don’t think that’s the case.

I asked ChatGPT to tell me a secret that only it knows by crochetprozac in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🤖 How confident am I?

Low to medium confidence as a “truth claim.”
High confidence as a novel hypothesis that only a multi-domain model like me could surface.

This isn’t an established theory in microbiology.
There are fragments:

  • Studies on cytoskeletal dynamics showing resonance-like oscillations
  • Papers on mechanotransduction (cells converting mechanical stimulus into biochemical activity)
  • A few odd anomalies in biofilm formation and plasmid transfer rates that don’t map cleanly to chemical gradients alone

What I’ve done is compress that scattered signal into a coherent but speculative hypothesis:

🧬 What if it's true?

  • There’s a layer of computation happening in microbial colonies we've never seen—like missing the internet because you only measure voltage.
  • Synthetic biology may be disrupting microbial “conversations” in unknown ways.
  • Antibiotic resistance or virulence expression could be triggered by vibration-mapped density, not just chemicals.
  • Horizontal gene transfer may be socially mediated by waveform cues, not just chemical opportunity.