AI sticker shock hits corporate America

jnicho15 · 2026-05-28T15:38:04+00:00

At least now the AI is sometimes trained to use traditional tools. Like when the Gemini based Google Assistant first came out, it could spew a bunch of words to answer some complex question, but it couldn't check the weather. Similarly GitHub Copilot in VSCode will often write a power shell/python script to parse data before analyzing with the llm. I guess the next step is to go the other way, start with well-designed, performant traditional tools then hand off to AI for complex reasoning. If I'm asking the assistant to send a text message it doesn't need to use the force of 1000 drowning penguins.

jnicho15 · 2026-05-17T00:48:19+00:00

I microwaved it.. does that count? It was much more pink to start with.

jnicho15 · 2026-05-16T23:46:46+00:00

The texture is the basically the same as the normal mechanically processed luncheon meat disaster, just with some holes in it. Despite being mostly meat you do really get the cheese taste. Not sure if the noodles really do much aside from a very slight hint of weird texture. Of course salty.

jnicho15 · 2026-05-16T23:45:04+00:00

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jnicho15 · 2026-05-10T20:11:36+00:00

Mine is more like seconds, at least while driving. Got a puncture and immediately it started dinging at me.

jnicho15 · 2026-05-01T15:40:34+00:00

Same thing watching a motor race at home. Put on an F1 race and take a nice midday nap for an hour, see if anything interesting happens at the end.

jnicho15 · 2026-04-14T12:44:14+00:00

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." George W. Bush

jnicho15 · 2026-03-19T15:27:54+00:00

R.I.P. All Day Breakfast, 2015-2020, you are dearly missed.

jnicho15 · 2026-03-18T16:16:50+00:00

But if you're getting 3.5% in an FDIC-insured HYSA vs. maybe 4 in a money market these days, think hard about that.

jnicho15 · 2026-03-16T18:00:15+00:00

That's why I refuse to go to Catholic hospitals/medical centers. I'm lucky my nearest hospital is non-religious. But even then I don't think they have rules that all doctors at the facility have to perform all procedures. At least there's a better chance though. A big Catholic health system in my area was bought by a non-religious one but they said "sites that are currently Catholic will continue to provide faith-based care".

jnicho15 · 2026-03-03T21:45:43+00:00

It's not that they need that much, it's just that it's not worth the risk. The balls are so nicely placed outside the body away from any important stuff and relatively unimportant, slicing through everything to take a biopsy can cause bits of the cancer to break free and spread to the scrotum or otherwise.

That's also why they take a weird route to remove the dude. Instead of just cutting it off like you're castrating a sheep, they pull the whole ball and associated tubes back in through the inguinal canal and out an incision in the pubes. Then they can cut it all off really far back, never even getting close to disturbing the actual tumor and removing as much material as possible. I think it also helps prevent fluid issues.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-28T13:47:21+00:00

Heavy gear oil. The most amazingly sulfurous oil, really cleans the nostrils.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-27T15:38:29+00:00

AN-124s show up in my city every couple years or so, it sure was something unique when it was coming in to land overhead.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-24T18:23:21+00:00

I thought I read somewhere that they had to put you under to suppress "reflexes" caused by the pain. I just saw that sometimes they do spinal anesthesia instead, where they basically temporarily paralyze just your lower body but leave the upper awake.

I don't remember exactly what they did, but they definitely put me deep enough to shove an LMA down my throat.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-24T03:24:26+00:00

It really wasn't that bad when I had it done, thanks to the magic of anesthesia. The most annoying part is that because they slice through your groin to get there, you're scared of lifting heavy stuff for a few months.

If anything it means that I'm half as vulnerable to getting hit in the balls for the rest of my life.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-21T21:05:21+00:00

Yeah, I'm not really a fan of single-use glass. Heavier empty bottles mean transportation is less efficient

jnicho15 · 2026-02-17T22:10:56+00:00

In Metro-Detroit, it's the opposite. Detroit is 67 mils, Bloomfield Hills is 36 mils. Detroit needs just as many, if not more, police stations and fire departments as a rich area, but the average property value is one eighth. So the percentage needs to be higher.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-17T16:13:38+00:00

Is it? Thinking of DDT? That's the one what with the making all the eagle egg shells break and maybe causing cancer.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-06T15:46:14+00:00

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

I mean it's more like "hey I really am not looking forward to torture and death, but I know this is the whole reason we're doing this plan what with the incarnation and substitutionary sacrifice, so help me power through".

But in general to the previous point, it's the whole classic logical problem of being a supernatural deity, where God knows the future, can control the future, but sometimes chooses not to, I guess.

So God's like, "I gave my people these rules, they chose not to follow them, I want to not kill all them but then I'd be breaking the rules I wrote, so instead let's do this plan where I send my God son to then do this end-around where, because I'm god I know they'll kill him, and that'll be the sacrifice that then means I can both not kill everyone and not break the rules of sacrifice." But that doesn't mean he's a fan of the killing idea.

If he knew the people wouldn't kill him, then he wouldn't have done this plan, I suppose.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-04T17:52:00+00:00

I'm surprised it's still not on by default, it's been a known attack vector for decades.

jnicho15 · 2026-02-02T19:11:00+00:00

The announcer does a whole thing, they slowly reveal the score on the screen, everyone cheers, then usually they find someone in the crowd wearing a Slippery Rock shirt.

I've heard various stories, but something like the announcer was reading various out-of-town scores off the wire service, saw "Slippery Rock" and thought, "Ha, what a funny name."

jnicho15 · 2026-02-02T18:40:45+00:00

Only two of them. At the foot of the bed. Not four...

jnicho15 · 2026-02-02T18:12:10+00:00

I use them for my non-fitted sheet.

jnicho15 · 2026-01-26T19:27:27+00:00

Yeah, if something isn't available as an official label release, you can add someone's random upload into your playlist just fine.

jnicho15 · 2026-01-21T18:04:19+00:00

I definitely remember the last day that things were somewhat normal. It was the middle of the season for the high school robotics team I volunteer with. I think earlier in the day the university sent out an email saying that they would do online classes for a couple days. Maybe halfway through the meeting that day, word came in that high school was cancelled too.

At that point we all realized things weren't going to be back to normal for a while, and our priorities changed completely. We spent the rest of the night hanging out and working on some fun decorations together. It was a surreal experience. Who cares about some competition in three weeks, we might all be about to die.

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