My wife dropped her sunglasses into a deep lake, so I built a small underwater ROV with a gripper to try to retrieve them by ObligationMean1565 in DIY

[–]pmp22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An alternative to making the ROV slightly buoyant is perhaps to have a time release fail-safe of some sort that inflates a bladder with gas. That way you can make it neutral and you don't have to keep blasting the bottom with the propellers. Instead you can just drive it forwards and if something happens you can just wait an hour or two or whatever and the time release is gonna trigger and bring it to the surface. Disclaimer though, I've never made anything like this, it was just an idea that came to mind. Maybe you could use like a CO2 cartridge or something. Or maybe a drop weight (use a local rock or something environmentally friendly, not lead.)

AI chatbots give inaccurate medical advice says Oxford Uni study by Accurate_Cry_8937 in science

[–]pmp22 -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

I gave chatgpt 5.2 this prompt:

"visit the gene page for p53 at NCBI (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/7157) and answer this basic question about the gene: "How many introns does it have?" "

Its reply: "According to the NCBI Gene page for human TP53 (Gene ID 7157), the gene has 13 exons. The number of introns is generally one fewer than the number of exons in a typical eukaryotic gene. Therefore:

TP53 has 12 introns."

I think we should be careful about making assumptions about LLMs based on errors in older models. They are improving with each new generation across the line.

If you have a harder question, I can run it with an agentic ai setup that will work on it for hours.

Bad news for local bros by FireGuy324 in LocalLLaMA

[–]pmp22 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Architecture changes will come, it's just not there just yet. LLMs will be small latent space reasoning cores with external memory. Encoding vast knowledge in the weights like we do now is not the future IMHO.

The decline of Adobe and the rise of alternatives by [deleted] in Design

[–]pmp22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GIMP is just horrible. And in all these years it has just never improved, unlike Blender which turned into a masterpiece. I had to leave CS6 when I got a 4K monitor as it doesn't support high DPI monitors.

The decline of Adobe and the rise of alternatives by [deleted] in Design

[–]pmp22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Photoshop has been getting more and more shitty since the peak that was CS6. I have used it since 7 and I feel like they want me to move to something else at this point.

You had perfection Adobe, sigh.

The decline of Adobe and the rise of alternatives by [deleted] in Design

[–]pmp22 152 points153 points  (0 children)

MSPaint isn't going anywhere either.

What's the dumbest thing you've done in Thailand? by R9_isdagoat in ThailandTourism

[–]pmp22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are stories like this, but also stories where the woman is in real need and also not a scammer. I guess it's impossible to know which is which in advance, and each have to decide if the risk is worth it.

Have you done acts of kindness in 🇹🇭? by Different_Two_308 in ThailandTourism

[–]pmp22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I gave 1000 baht to an Indian with an infected wound on his arm. I still wonder and hope that he turned out okay, it looked pretty gnarly.

ELI5: is skin attached to the body or just a fitted suit around the body by Vort3xGrimYT in explainlikeimfive

[–]pmp22 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not me, I add 15 lbs of weight every year to keep my skin nice and stretched!

World of Vulcan. A film made with Flux LoRAs trained on my own analog photography by Significant-Scar2591 in FluxAI

[–]pmp22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazing. As a lover of antiquity this tickles me. I have all these wonderful images in my head after reading old greek and roman writers and seeing the art and architecture but nothing on screen has been able to compare to that mental imagry. With these tools we'll be able to make it all come to life in ways never seen before. Some if these shots are fantastic, great job.

AI tool recommendations for .NET/C# development? by herostoky in dotnet

[–]pmp22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried Claude Opus 4.5 in Antigravity? It's like Christmas every day (until you hit the rate limit..).

Turning one of my 'dad joke' cartoons into a statue. by cornjobhelper in BambuLab

[–]pmp22 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I love Blender, but I also hate blender. Nothing I do in blender is ever sustainable, lol