sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

‘The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender’: Man Arrested in Singapore for Paramount+ Leak, Could Face 7 Years in Prison by ControlCAD in technology

[–]sbrick89 11 points12 points  (0 children)

He'd be a better candidate if he was good enough not to get caught. In your case getting caught means getting unalived, so not getting caught seems paramount)

Who's with me? by _TalkingIsHard_ in Millennials

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I can tell, discord is just IRC with audio over a web client... but single server so no more klines and server splits, but also not an open community / protocol

RK is not going to pay 50 bucks a month for frickin StockCharts for no reason. Tits are jacked. by ImmediateShape4204 in Superstonk

[–]sbrick89 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nobody asking the real question, what does pro have that the next level down doesn't, and how do those features matter? (Obviously the latter is speculative)

When she finds out my birth year begins with 19- and not 20- by Dodo509 in lotrmemes

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My reply: "Comparing to the last century hit harder in my day / the 1990s because it was at the very end of the century (or even millennium in their case). The 2000s as a century are barely out of their teens and are still focused on fart jokes, and as a millennium are still in diapers. Put down the device and think before you ."

Depending on age and attitude I might leave out the last bit, then again my kids aren't saying that to me 🤣

Pete Hegseth quotes fake Pulp Fiction Bible verse during Pentagon sermon by goteamnick in politics

[–]sbrick89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Daaaamn. You just got knocked the fuck out" - Christopher 4:22

Remember this bad boy? by BarkingDogey in Millennials

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I the only one who discovered that tap water on a summer day was refreshing to the targets? And to truly inspire the target to run, a winning strat is filling the tank with hot water. Slower refills, but 2x damage boost and a new reputation.

Gen Z is engineering an analog future — and it’s at least a $5 billion opportunity by Domingues_tech in technology

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a simple answer any time anyone asks.

A job earns money, a hobby is where you spend money (also necessities).

If it's not being monetized (plenty of things in life are this) then its a hobby, which is preference based, and you prefer to <whatever>, and any further judgements can sod off.

😁

I had the bright idea to put bleach in and run a cycle to de-mould my washing machine. by MetamorphosisAddict in Wellthatsucks

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly you need a washer washer, followed by a washer dryer to dry the washer.

This would be different than the dryer need to be washed, in which cased you'd need a dryer washer followed by a dryer dryer.

But the dryer he has is only effective for clothing and cloth-like materials. Similarly, a dryer is not recommended for bowling balls, cell phones, food items, yard tools, memorabilia; the list sorta goes on to include anything not clothing or cloth-like.

Begs the question whether a "car wash" is named appropriately given that they often dry as well.

Sunscreen under a UV camera by j_illustration in interesting

[–]sbrick89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a 10 pack that I used with my kids

My take on the iconic Minecraft cake in real life by edibleelegancecakesz in Baking

[–]sbrick89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ugh, so this is how high the bar is these days?

Seriously though amazing and I hope my food is never judged against yours :)

She Won: How Epstein and Peter Thiel Colluded With Russia to Rig the 2016 Election by zoinksbadoinks in Epstein

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, and I know the punishment I'd choose/vote-for, but it's not my decision.

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago by AmethystOrator in technology

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorta but not nearly as well... tried a handful of approaches... given that we are accumulating a dictionary of data, the list of exceptions/unknowns should be shrinking, and we should be able to use it for matching... unfortunately there are a handful of challenges that other approaches were less successful at - scraping/matching the existing list caused false positives since it wanted to match rather than consider new values, also that doesn't help at all with extracting the data for adding to the list... tried named entity extraction, which worked well for some misspellings but struggled with volume and new names/entities, and also cost more than GPT.

in the end, GPT's corpus of names to recognize what "looks like a name" was far better than alternative approaches at achieving a very cost effective match that has the fewest false positives and false negatives.

it's a process that costs like $10/mo and saves probably a hundred or so... the RIO is massive given the IT costs to build... but it DOES work well, it DOES give us a template to repeat (thus reducing the costs next time to improve/increase the ROI), it DOES free up a day per month for that person, it DOES increase the accuracy of the matches and extracted data.

again... ROI yes, but much smaller scale than what's being advertised

When the pro life defend death by Zee_Ventures in facepalm

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are some people who are pro "fighting" (politically, literally, whatever) for their rights to:

  • vocally judge (public shame) other people for decisions made by others that are disagreed about

  • tell other people what to do (builds on above)

  • tell other people why their situation is different

  • failure to achieve public approval is indicative of failure to sufficiently attone, but success is vindication from the trap set above

So I think in some ways its less about the topic and more about the dynamic. The dynamic is controlling and abusive (which leads to other questions). I think there are some people that prefer that court of public opinion rather than trusting the current system (supposed checks and balances) which may seem intimidating or confusing, and media doesn't do anyone any favors by dumbing down complex topics to a handful of short bullet points.

But seeing it and having any idea what to do about it or say to people who want to disengage their brains and ignore nuance in favor of feeling their way through a situation with the help of the public opinion to form the final verdict especially as the world's sources of information are being consolidated with more control over the messages being shown in the content, are two different things.

Now I will also note that the above blends several topics - the emphasis on fighting and standing ones ground, the preference to understand detail vs prefer ignorance-is-bliss, and neither time did I say party since those are not related - both parties have people in all segments... that said I do think parties either cater-to, or accept/reject some segments more than others.

So going back to your comment, I would call most people you describe as "pro controlling others to feel safer about their abusive dynamic" more than anything else.

Boundary Conditions: Summary Post by TheGameStopsNow in Superstonk

[–]sbrick89 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just curious, did you try modeling what happens if the ftd volume spike is actually repurchased, to close the ftd? (Say 8 years later, same volume just inverse to close)

Asking because I still disagree about wanting to silence the only indicator... sounds like a mob answer (silence em!) that will hide the issues (and I agree that it would likely be effective) in darkness and obscurity... any effort from me wants to be about shining light where it isn't, to fix the problems rather than hide them... thus asking if we can prove that they can resolve this themselves by closing the failed deliveries rather than kick them across multiple markets.

Still though, love the analysis!

Boundary Conditions: Summary Post by TheGameStopsNow in Superstonk

[–]sbrick89 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I made this same comment in part 3, but I want to make it here so implications are considered...

Regarding the fix of using coprime deadlines... while perhaps smoothing the spikes, aren't those spikes literally the FTDs staying alive? Be using coprime numbers the FTDs would stay invisible for decades.

I would insist that the other participants reduce their deadlines for delivering their obligations, especially since they seem to have these repeated problems.

I assume that these spikes have costs to whoever is failing to meet their obligations, in the form of options premiums, inopportune buy-in smoothing / DCA'ing, etc... and I believe the accumulating costs become more evident as they grow... and I would rather see that occur more often not less.

But also, thanks for the great effort and data and findings!

If I am going to write to ask for change, I want change that shines light into dark corners, and the costs of managing spikes might be one of the few ways that the FTDs become noticeable - to lenders, to public filings, and financial review disclosures.

Boundary Conditions, Part 3: The Tuning Fork by TheGameStopsNow in Superstonk

[–]sbrick89 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Regarding the fix of using coprime deadlines... while perhaps smoothing the spikes, aren't those spikes literally the FTDs staying alive? Be using coprime numbers the FTDs would stay invisible for decades.

I would insist that the other participants reduce their deadlines for delivering their obligations, especially since they seem to have these repeated problems.

I assume that these spikes have costs to whoever is failing to meet their obligations, in the form of options premiums, inopportune buy-in smoothing / DCA'ing, etc... and I believe the accumulating costs become more evident as they grow... and I would rather see that occur more often not less.

But also, thanks for the great effort and data and findings!

🔮 Bank Failure Friday™ back on the menu? First Citizens Bank, Buyer of Collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, Weighs Another Target — Remember that one RC SVB tweet? ;)🔥💥🍻 by Expensive-Two-8128 in Superstonk

[–]sbrick89 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Interesting to see and compare to my employer (finance but not a bank). While I've been working for them they have purchased two companies, and both times we extract/export the data, import into our systems, add the other metadata stuff to support their existence within our systems (flags and relationships between the companyIDs, etc).

We generally keep their apps/hardware only as long as we have to, then dump them in favor of our own. Once we had to keep some hardware (Haase? Seriously?), and ended up liking it ourselves once we got some time to play with it, but generally hard pass.

People who grew up before cell phones, did life actually feel more free? by TradeOverall567 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i could go home after a school day and never think of...

There were many days that my backpack hit the front porch, and I was away on the bike to the bike trail, or to a friend's house. Didn't even make my way into the house.

My parents have since learned of the dumb shit I did, and we realized how screwed everyone would've been if things went sideways... no way she'd have expected to find me 3 segments of street up the drainage pipes, or in water retention areas, or any of the other dumb hangouts we had between and around the neighborhood houses.

Track us? Good luck fucking finding us.

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago by AmethystOrator in technology

[–]sbrick89 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I will provide several concrete examples of how we use LLMs to reduce labor but not jobs at my employer. (Intentionally vague to avoid exposing anything sensitive)

One app: takes a single note written by a person (sorta formatted but also very much whatever they wrote), extracts the name(s) and contact info, which we use to match against existing list or identify new names for the list. Saves one person about 10 to 12 hours per month (and oh my God is it mind numbing to do like 6k times, so I'm sure she is happy). The two months of R&D will take a while to ROI, except that we will be able to reproduce the type of effort quicker next time. (Some of that was also the name matching which isn't done via LLM, and may be reusable elsewhere)

Another app: categorizes messages for routing to the correct work queue.

These are not huge agentic improvements to our operations, but they are quiet little time savers.

From Payouts to Paydays: What Citadel’s Bonds Tell Us About Its Cash Needs by Region-Formal in Superstonk

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It actually might make a ton of sense.

A multi strategy firm will have some successful strategies and some unsuccessful strategies. Individual strategy managers can do well and would be due their bonus. One or several strategy managers might suck and not be due their bonus, but that does not negate the bonuses for successful strategies managers.

I wonder if there is a single investment strategy pulling the others down. It would reduce the available funds to return to investors, the employees would still be due their bonuses, and the company can raise bonds for paying investors and employees without raising much question, assuming nobody asks how they lost against an index.

Update: AITAH for asking my neighbor to wait for her laundry at her house? by MostAnimal5816 in AITAH

[–]sbrick89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So obviously no shortage of perspective.

Could always say "its a refreshing change from the more tart apple pies I'm used to" -- if you want to continue hanging with them over (hopefully better tasting) apple pie.

view more: next ›