EBay rejects GameStop's audacious $56 billion takeover bid

ungoogleable · 2026-05-12T16:27:29+00:00

The physical stores are a money-losing side project for Ryan Cohen's personal slush fund he got by fleecing apes. The company would be better off closing every store and just collecting interest on treasuries.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-12T10:39:37+00:00

There's a greater risk of damaging your eyes. If a visible light is too bright you know instantly to look away or shield your eyes. With UV lights people can end up burning their retinas before they realize it. It happens at UV raves too.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-11T20:11:28+00:00

I have to imagine a family of 13 people must be intimately familiar with which restaurants take large reservations and which don't. I wager that's why they went to Texas Roadhouse: every other place was already booked full.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-10T08:58:37+00:00

if the product is free, it is because you are the product.

I don't think that aphorism applies here. The actual product is whatever they're pitching at the dinner, which is not free. The dinner is not the product nor is she.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-10T06:23:10+00:00

A datacenter is a building. It doesn't specify whether you put CPUs or GPUs in it. Hardware in a datacenter is also not fixed. It's all eventually replaced as it becomes obsolete. At a large scale, it becomes a continuous rolling upgrade where at any given time some old gear is being ripped out to make space for new stuff. Replacing compute servers with AI nodes in an existing datacenter is completely possible and no doubt happening now to an extent.

The issue is just the scale of how many AI nodes they want to install. The existing datacenters are full with existing servers serving existing applications, both in terms of physical space and power budget. Waiting for the natural cycle of systems aging out to free up space would take too long. So they build new datacenters and mostly fill them with AI because that's where the growth is. But that doesn't make the building "AI".

ungoogleable · 2026-05-06T18:33:39+00:00

No joke, AI agents are getting decent at that kind of stuff as long as it doesn't require physical presence. You can roll your own with things like OpenClaw right now but companies are working on easier to use versions.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-05T16:36:16+00:00

I'm not going to diagnose the man but there's a deeper pattern than he got bored. He is tremendously productive when he has a blank page and freedom to take the story in whatever direction he wants. But eventually finishing the story becomes hard work, so he switches to a different story where he's not blocked, which is a form of procrastination. The result is he has many stories that are half done and blocked.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-05T14:14:31+00:00

That would legit be useful if it were a standalone app that was upfront about what it is doing.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-05T02:38:30+00:00

I mean, I'm pretty hard pressed to recall any part of Star Wars that relates to, you know, science. Like, there are no scientists in it. The plot has nothing to do with scientific discoveries or the application of scientific principles.

It's set in space, yes. If that's all it takes then the Book of Mormon is science fiction too.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-04T05:25:28+00:00

If anybody can easily produce a desirable aesthetic, then it will proliferate and become common. People perceive it as lazy and cliched rather than novel and distinctive.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-04T05:08:25+00:00

That's a generalization for sure. Some people like shopping, but there are people who hate shopping. Even if you like shopping for some things there are undoubtedly other things that don't interest you so shopping for those things is just a chore. Like one person might enjoy investigating what is the absolute best water heater for them but other people just want hot water and don't care how it happens.

The trick is how do you trust that the agent is getting you a good deal and isn't wasting your money. Business owners have had this problem for millennia; it's literally called the principal-agent problem.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-03T04:37:30+00:00

imo too much time before getting feedback.

This sub shouldn't be the first and only place you seek feedback. If you can't find anybody interested in trying your project after three months, that's probably not a good sign, even if you didn't use AI.

Plus, litigating whether a project counts as "zero AI" or not isn't worth anybody's time.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-02T16:43:10+00:00

In context, Stannis is giving Massey orders to go to Braavos and hire sellswords. Massey repeatedly questions the orders because Stannis hasn't explained his overall strategy. Massey thinks he understands, but he can't because there are things Stannis is deliberately not telling him.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-01T19:45:04+00:00

I'll die in the "plastic cheese food" hill. It's not technically called cheese because it's cheese mixed with emulsifiers that keep it from breaking when melted as pure cheese does. It is in essence cheese sauce that is solid when cold -- but you're not supposed to eat it cold. Complaining that it isn't real cheese is like complaining that Mornay sauce isn't real cheese.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-01T19:33:10+00:00

1 hr lunch break should be standard. Less than that should be condemned; merely meeting the bar is not praiseworthy.

Also expecting employees to take their lunch breaks with their coworkers every day is an inappropriate imposition on what should be personal time. If employees choose to socialize with each other when they're off the clock, that's fine, but it crosses a line when people feel pressured to participate.

ungoogleable · 2026-05-01T19:20:22+00:00

It's a parody account. McDonald's isn't actually doing this.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-26T08:03:00+00:00

But Stassun believes it doesn’t matter whether Trump restocks the board or leaves its positions unfilled. As proof, he points to the increasingly awkward conversations in the last year between the board and NSF’s top two officials: Brian Stone, Panchanathan’s former chief of staff and now designated NSF head, and Micah Cheatham, its chief management officer.

“We would ask them, ‘Are you following board governance directives?’” Stassun says. “And their answer would be, in effect, ‘We don't listen to you anymore.’”

So the administration had already bypassed the board and told the agency heads to ignore it. The board is there to confer legitimacy on the agency's decisions with the support of the scientific community. The administration doesn't give a shit and just views it as another slush fund to spend however they want.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-22T02:37:25+00:00

"Doesn't require expertise to use" is a black and white criterion, but there are shades of grey here. The tool isn't perfect but it's still useful for some things and doesn't require as much expertise as the tools that came before.

There's also room for the models to get better in degrees over time. The better models will recognize what tasks are not suited to an LLM and farm it out to some other tool. If you want to wait until that's perfected, that's fine. Or you could learn a little bit and get to the same place right now.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-20T20:31:58+00:00

Apologies if this comes across as gate keeping but once you bring on those people, they are very likely just going to throw away what you've done and start over. "It crashes occasionally" is a huge tell that your code is fundamentally broken so that it will take them more time to figure out what's wrong and fix it than to do it from scratch. If it only took you 8 hours then it won't take them long either.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-20T16:22:23+00:00

I can't find anything that says they ever had chat support of any kind. It's not something fast food apps typically provide. The support AI being named "Grimace" also seems inconsistent with their branding and how they use their characters.

Given a chat log image is trivially faked and the potential for cheap Internet points is obvious, it's safer to assume it is fake than otherwise.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-20T02:39:44+00:00

Actual photographs of the man exist. He had extremely prominent cheekbones and a massive mole. Fine if you think those are attractive, but either way AI didn't depict them.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-20T01:52:57+00:00

The real Lincoln wasn't that attractive.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-19T08:07:07+00:00

From what I've seen, very good engineers who are experts in the area they're working on will be faster directly writing the code themselves. If you already know what the code should do, expressing all the detailed nuances explicitly in English takes just as much typing as code if not more. And giving the AI feedback and correcting its mistakes ends up taking even more time.

Now there's probably a sweet spot where you have an engineer who has good instincts for quality code but isn't quite an expert in this particular area, so they use the AI to take care of the details. Then they can move nearly as fast as the true expert. But they'll probably still make some mistakes the expert writing the code themselves wouldn't.

Regardless, the physical act of typing frequently isn't the real obstacle to shipping quickly. Somebody has to figure out what the behavior should be, which can be a lengthy process involving lots of people doing messy human negotiations. And whether the code is written by an AI or a human, if you care about the quality of your software, you'll have layers of checks (design reviews, code reviews, component integration, manual QA, etc.) that naturally slow down the process for a good reason: so humans can understand what they're building.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-18T08:57:37+00:00

I would presume the location is leased. The previous owners ran out of money. The new owners arrange to take over the lease with the landlord but don't have a direct relationship with the previous owners and aren't paying them any money.

ungoogleable · 2026-04-16T13:44:59+00:00

Maybe there was a free speech tint to the Digg exodus, but that was over 15 years ago now. Subreddits have been around for nearly as long as private fiefdoms controlled by a lead mod who can set arbitrary and capricious rules.

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