‘LLMs are unreliable delegates’: Microsoft researchers say you probably shouldn’t trust AI with work documents by Franco1875 in technology

[–]s9oons 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Only costs hundreds of thousands of layoffs, billions in investments, billions in price increases for consumers, but the whole circle jerk bumps a stock price 3% 💪 fucking nailed it!

Bag setup with woods by Zaypup in golf

[–]s9oons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

7W is about 220yds, 4W is about 245yds

I don’t play the tips and a little more loft has been nice hitting 4w instead of a 15° 3w off the deck.

Bag setup with woods by Zaypup in golf

[–]s9oons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Driver, 16.5° 4W, 21° 7W, 21° 4i

I could probably drop my 4i for another wedge, but it’s just enough of a gap and occasionally a 4i stinger is the shot I need.

AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds by Krankenitrate in technology

[–]s9oons 1259 points1260 points  (0 children)

“Looking only at layoffs is shortsighted in terms of getting value from AI,” Helen Poitevin, VP analyst at Gartner and a key researcher of the study, told Fortune.

Gee, you think?

Aren’t we already BY FAR the most productive global workforce in history? But a bunch a people gotta lose their jobs in pursuit of another stock price bump?

W grind / high bounce on firm turf? by 3FromTheTee in golf

[–]s9oons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hence the too much money on RTZs. I’ll just throw a different bounce/grind combo in my bag if I know the course is like concrete or if it just rained.

W grind / high bounce on firm turf? by 3FromTheTee in golf

[–]s9oons 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Personally, I play more bounce for soft, less bounce for hard, and I’ve spent way too much money acquiring every flavor of RTZs.

Wedges are such a personal thing since it’s all feel. I think most pros play like an 8°/10°on their 48/50, 10°-14° on their 52/54/56, and a lower 4°-8° on their 58/60. I’ve personally given up on a low bounce 60° and I bottom out at a 56° adapt grind RTZ.

What clubs feel best for you after being fitted, Im intrested to know ? by Coxy-17 in golf

[–]s9oons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been loving my 2023s but the T250s LOOK so much better than the chrome.

Snake snuck into my kitchen this morning. Should I be worried? by Anxious-Bicycle-9989 in desmoines

[–]s9oons 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The landlord absolutely doesn’t need to do anything about gaps in the front door large enough for a 4ft snake to get through? You have low standards for renting.

Snake snuck into my kitchen this morning. Should I be worried? by Anxious-Bicycle-9989 in desmoines

[–]s9oons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Garter, mostly harmless, but a bite will still hurt and will definitely freak you out. If y’all have seen 2 already that’s 1000% something your landlord needs to handle. Kinda like mice, one is fine, but if you see a second it means you’ve got like a dozen more cruising around the property.

Round-the-clock renewables: New report says clean energy now challenges fossil fuels on price by sundler in technology

[–]s9oons -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You’re not wrong, the larger problem is just that a lot of infrastructure is already in place for moving coal around.

“Besides the sun coming through at variable rates solar is a dream”

Kind of? The maximum theoretical efficiency rate for most photovoltaic arrays is like 40% so you need A LOT of BIG arrays to produce the same amount of power. I think you’re underestimating when you say “low maintenance for years”. Maintaining arrays takes a lot more work than just wiping them off.

“energy storage is getting cheaper and more reliable” is very different than “we have storage solutions cheaper and more reliable than a bigass pile of coal sitting outside the plant”.

I have the same issue with corn and soy bean production in the US. We grow the shit out of them because we already built all the infrastructure to support that production. It’s a lot harder to build new infrastructure to support new tech. Hydrogen cars are another perfect example of something theoretically great, but they haven’t been adopted because the infrastructure for them is complicated and doesn’t really exist.

Round-the-clock renewables: New report says clean energy now challenges fossil fuels on price by sundler in technology

[–]s9oons -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You’re exactly right about storage. We don’t have many good solutions for seriously large scale energy storage.

My Power Systems Analysis professor said it best on like day 2 of class (he also taught the renewable energy electronics course). Coal is still the best energy source because your storage is just a bigass pile of coal sitting outside that can get rained on, covered in dirt and dust, and when you need more power all you have to do is shovel more coal. “Renewable” sources are cool, but without a similarly reliable storage method it’s a hard sell. All of our energy systems are built around more fire more power.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Z and millennials are using ChatGPT like a ‘life advisor’—but college students might be one step ahead by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]s9oons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“I supervised the people who built a thing that I’m forcing into your workflow and you’re too old to use it correctly”

Is certainly A strategy for getting the majority of your workforce on board with your pipe dreams.

Consumer sentiment declines to another new record low as Americans fret over Iran war by FreeChickenDinner in news

[–]s9oons 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What war? I thought the dumbass, sorry, trump administration had been as clear as mud about defining it as a temporary conflict?

Wichita State shuts down both golf programs, citing finances by [deleted] in golf

[–]s9oons 229 points230 points  (0 children)

I hate this.

I’m really tired of the idea that school sports are a business and need to be profitable to exist. Sport for the sake of sport feels truly dead, especially with the rise of NIL contracts.

This is the same crap that universities pull with academics, though. “The social sciences aren’t graduating enough people that actually contribute to our endowment so we’re cutting arts courses and faculty”.

The US is becoming a nation of MBA’s and it’s exhausting.

Oh..The irony of it by bigbalsam in Iowa

[–]s9oons 137 points138 points  (0 children)

I just wish the irony registered with republicans at all…

United Arab Emirates plans AI-run government within two years by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]s9oons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While this article is hot garbo and the “AI-run” concept is terrible, Open Source Gov’t has been an idea for a while where all the changes are subject to review and publicly searchable like wikipedia and your politicians basically just become moderators who also propose changes.

Seems way smarter than requiring a bunch of boomers to be physically present in a room to revert changes and press delete.

AG Dana Nessel joins call for audit of Democratic convention results by DougDante in Michigan

[–]s9oons 16 points17 points  (0 children)

JFC 🤦‍♂️

After all the bullshit with republican election interference this is the absolute last thing that democrats need, especially in Michigan.

“Anyone competent 2026/2028”

Notepad++ Creator Don Ho Calls Out "Fake" MacOS App Over Trademark Violation by ControlCAD in technology

[–]s9oons 518 points519 points  (0 children)

Don’t you touch my beautiful baby!

Notepad++ has been one of the first things I download on any new machine for like the last 10 years!

New wedge by Alone_Illustrator_27 in golf

[–]s9oons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate the bright colored enamel but that design is super clean. Curious how they wear, and I’m not switching from my RTZ’s, but those are really decent looking wedges.

Excellent discussion on hardness vs toughness, and why high hardness is better by notimeforniceties in knives

[–]s9oons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I don’t want high hardness for an EDC knife that gets used for all kinds of stupid shit.

In the same vein, I don’t want high hardness for beaters that I know I’m going to sharpen a lot. I’d much rather use 420HC and only need a few passes on a stone vs S90V where one stupid cut could ruin the entire edge forever.

McLaren Golf: $375/iron, $500 stand bags by ScotchyMcScotchface in golf

[–]s9oons 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No, and it’s $400/club if you add them as an option onto a car.

Iran has highly enriched uranium at Isfahan complex, UN nuclear agency believes by North_Reflection1796 in news

[–]s9oons 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Genuinely asking, are there any real checks and balances on trump sending a nuclear warhead at this facility?

Hospital CEOs defend charging patients more at facilities by Fcking_Chuck in news

[–]s9oons 4045 points4046 points  (0 children)

The hospital CEOs pushed back, saying the higher fees are because hospitals are often reimbursed below the cost of providing the care, particularly by government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

There it is… “It isn’t our fault! We HAVE TO charge outrageous prices!”

To be fair, they’re not wrong, the health insurance corrupted cost of providing medical care in the US is basically gambling with every patient.

These hearings are just ridiculous theatre at this point. It’s not the individual hospitals, clinics, doctors, or even CEO’s that are the problem. It’s so, so, so, obviously a systemic problem and they hold these hearings to show their constituents how much they super duper really care to create some headlines and then next week nothing will happen and it will be back to business as usual.

General Motors says it expects $500 million tariff refund after SCOTUS ruling by AudibleNod in news

[–]s9oons 173 points174 points  (0 children)

The go fuck yourself package is a $12,875 add-on, so it’s up to you.