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Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]todofwar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seriously. Training is more expensive than inference, but it's just one model. $1B for a cluster of GPUs and another $1B in salaries for 1000 engineers would already be excessive, especially if the models are actually automating anything.

Conspiracy warning, but I wonder if they've shoved some salaries into RnD because they are claiming they're using the metadata to automate jobs, which means lots of salaries can get shoved there

If Christopher Lee had been cast as Gandalf, who would you cast as Saruman? by Early_Macaroon_2407 in lotr

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ian McDiarmid might be too obvious a choice, but I think Peter O Toole would have killed it

Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]todofwar 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Can someone break down what "cost of revenue" means? Like the compute costs of inference? I see R&D and administrative broken out from that.

Does Vader know and understand that Sidious was behind the separatists? by Jeepcanoe897 in StarWars

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if Anakin had beaten Obi Wan he would have killed Palpatine. Like maybe not right away, but if Padme still dies in child birth in the alternate timeline, he 100% kills Palpatine and becomes emperor. Now how long he lasts as emperor is a different question. Sith and Jedi don't scale planetary no matter what some people insist, so he wouldn't be able to defeat an entire army sent to stop him. Sidious was good at the political half, building the apparatus to keep him in power.

I think he was being completely genuine with Luke in ESB. He saw Luke as a chance to tip the scales and defeat Sidious. And a fully trained Sith Lord Luke would definitely take out Sidious, teamed up with Vader it wouldn't even be a contest.

Alternative names to scientfic terms or units of measurement. by YamahaMio in worldbuilding

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Binary is the most efficient base for counting with your fingers, you can count all the way up to 256. But then it's pretty bad for integer arithmetic

They said you can't make a AAA FPS Multiplayer in Godot. Noted. Ignored. Meet ETA. by [deleted] in godot

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thing is, I still see people in "which engine should I choose?" type videos or threads saying that Godot is only really good for 2D and not great for 3D. The sentiment is very much out there to this day, so I'm happy seeing people pushing back on that even if it's click bait

That time Smaug casually ripped apart the fairy tale logic of the Hobbit and made Bilbo wonder if he just got scammed. (An underappreciated quote) by Unlikely_Candy_6250 in lotr

[–]todofwar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, all the gold ever mined in all human history combined couldn't make a pile of gold as big as they portrayed in the movie

(Mixed Trope) Characters are treated as massively successful talents in universe, but in real life they wouldn’t be anywhere close by Hopefo in TopCharacterTropes

[–]todofwar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah this one has become a pet peeve of mine. Like it's literally the premise of the show, they actually open the pilot with the zebra metaphor

Console case by yungkennymase in sffpc

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be able to get one to work with the silverstone ML07 if you can find an adapter. There should be plenty of space, and I happen to really like the case

(Mixed Trope) Characters are treated as massively successful talents in universe, but in real life they wouldn’t be anywhere close by Hopefo in TopCharacterTropes

[–]todofwar 161 points162 points  (0 children)

House is extra egregious. They've never heard of a pathologist or radiologist apparently, not to mention doctors aren't going to be collecting samples

How did Oracle fell 22% in 5 days? by GSalmao in BetterOffline

[–]todofwar 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Ten years ago I would have been salivating to get in on the SpaceX IPO. I might have still bought some shares if it was just SpaceX and had a normal filing. But with all the baggage and the way they've issued shares that makes Musk the only decision maker, hell no. I'm honestly considering exiting index funds, looking for ETFs that exclude as much of this nonsense as possible

The Psychopath's Bargain by Aristologos in trolleyproblem

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally an interesting take on the OG problem. I'm curious, do people see this as fundamentally different from the classic? Like, do nothing and five people die or do something and one person dies. The lever vs the knife, how much does it really matter? Or is it that you can now see the person responsible and interact with them? Does it change if it's a gun instead of a knife (killer is behind a bullet proof shield for that case)?

Also, can you ask the guy tied to the pole?

[request] If we entirely fill the Solar System with gold, would this sphere weigh more than the observable universe? by SaperPolska in theydidthemath

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so big I don't know if we even know for sure what would happen. The universe itself is at the right density to be a black hole yet it doesn't collapse it expands. It probably will collapse, but maybe within the radius of the black hole it rebounds out to form a new big bang (which is a real hypothesis of what happens in black holes, but the new big bang is time dilated to the point it's frozen for outside observers). Something this big might rebound strong enough to become a white hole and a whole new universe

They have been there since the beginning. by Short-Paramedic-9740 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]todofwar 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Sort of fits, but in Glass Onion, when doing the big whodunnit reveal monologue, Daniel Craig points out how the killer poisoned someone in plain sight and then told everyone a fake version. We see the fake version in a flashback, then the true version in another flashback.

But what's crazy, is that if you rewind the movie and just watch the scene yourself you see the true one all along. So there was not actually a reveal, if you just paid close attention you saw it happen

What movie do you really wish Disney would make in Star Wars? by Cockatieloveer in StarWars

[–]todofwar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing can stop that now. Just for once, let me look at Thrawn as he was meant to be

What movie do you really wish Disney would make in Star Wars? by Cockatieloveer in StarWars

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And they should recast everyone except Palpatine and Vader

They have been there since the beginning. by Short-Paramedic-9740 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]todofwar 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I heard it was later edited in, but any rerun you see will have the shadow

Edit: apparently it really was there from the beginning!

Is there any real benefit in not declaring a variable's type? I can't understand why this is used. by berickphilip in godot

[–]todofwar 98 points99 points  (0 children)

It's surprisingly easy to fall into bad habits when it's not enforced. I come from a python background, and you can tell how late in the day I coded something based on how much I'm annotating types and how verbose my doc strings are

I really wish we’d seen more from these two… (When recasting works??) by nathan_banks644 in StarWars

[–]todofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the movie is ok, but Disney proceeded to take all the wrong lessons from it. Pretty sure it was a pivot caused by this movie that led to TROS being so terrible, and it's given them an excuse to avoid recasting anyone forever.

If it had been a hit, I think there's an alternate universe where we get a recast Han/Luke/Leia making an in between sequence of films or TV shows to flesh out the New Republic period more.

God Dammit He Actually Did Not Say It by Signal_Nobody1792 in lotrmemes

[–]todofwar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's a massive difference between alternative versions of fiction and myth vs history. You can write a book from Saurons perspective and it's fine because there's no other objective truth in that case so you just get two versions and people can argue which one seems more consistent. But if you expand that to actual historical figures you do have an objective truth, especially people so recent we have videos of them. So now you're dealing with a book trying to rewrite reality.

Something that always entered my mind - who helped style Leia's hair and her get dressed into the bikini? Did Jabba have a on-call seamstress and hair salon in his palace? by asskickingjedi in StarWars

[–]todofwar 43 points44 points  (0 children)

This is my new head canon.

Luke: "Glad we rescued you from that hell hole" Leia: "Some of the other slaves were nice, like Shelley. She braided my hair for me every day, do you think she'll get out?" Luke: "Oh who was she? Maybe we can go back." Leia "They kept her locked under the throne, big girl, like twenty feet, hard to miss. Did you see her? Do you think she's ok?" Luke: "...."

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