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Lovable Sidekick

@ LovableSidekick @lemmy.world

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  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • I wonder how much they spend for every $0 I pay them.

  • Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not an Asgardian/Judge/Doomguy!

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  • Chris Pine said after he read the first script he wasn't sure he wanted to play Kirk because it felt too easy. Then his gf asked how he could make it not easy. He decided deep down Kirk really isn't sure of himself - everybody else has more confidence in him than he does. This gave him a lot more to think about and he was able to really get into the acting.

  • Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not an Asgardian/Judge/Doomguy!

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  • He absolutely nailed that part - but I feel the same about the whole Kelvin timeline cast. I went to see the first movie thinking reboot Star Trek? Are you NUTS? They could have screwed it up in a million ways but they didn't, it felt like a perfect birthday present.

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • Cuba has developed a rich, mature DIY culture after several generations of trade isolation by the US and the collapse of the USSR. With a very limited inflow of tech goods, they basically don't throw away anything. People cobble together all kinds of machines from pieces of other machines, The maker culture is much more than a hobby, it's the predominent way of thinking.

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • Thinking now of the old SNL sketch where John Candy has a repair shop for fixing things most people throw away. Two women come in with a piece of toast they dropped that landed butter-side down on the rug. He decides to freeze it down in some liquid nitrogen and take off the fuzzy side with a belt-sander. Missin' you, Johnny boy!

  • Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server

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  • Ok here's my billion dollar idea: vapes that already are web servers!

  • This community isn't your personal adviser

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  • Okay I'm just gonna call somebody out - Imperious_melange just deleted a thread with over 200 upvotes where a thriving discussion was underway. It was about whether people perceived a pro-China and anti-west sentiment on Lemmy. I tried to post a reply and the site said "deleted by creator". The thread was just gone. They also seem to have deleted their account, so I can't even PM them. That's all just a huge dick move.

  • I'm my own person

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  • Alan Watts rules - or did.

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  • Fuck that. They look non-pseudo enough for me.

  • 'At some point you've got to make money': Goldman's top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs

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  • Ok, point by point: First, government corruption isn't a function of capitalism. Officials in every system find ways to sell favors. I personally knew Russians who bribed their way out of the USSR, which was almost laughably corrupt. Secondly, the AI industry can't "position" its own value - it is what it is, and as an industry it simply isn't "too big to fail." Thirdly, Google (founded in 1998) was still a startup during the dotcom bubble, not a "large player". We have no "huge players" in AI yet - as I mentioned, the biggest AI company only has 8000 employees.

    Based on all this I assume the prediction that the government will use retirement account stock market exposure as an excuse to bail out AI companies is something you heard or read - if you gave a link to that I'd be happy to look at the reasoning.

  • Questions and Lies [Tom Gauld]

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  • I borrowed a couple paperbacks from a friend last year (we only get together once or twice a year). He took photos of them. He and his wife have, by their estimate, at least 60,000 books. They added onto their house to shelve them and converted their garage into a "stacks" room.

  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • Youtube what? Ohhh, that annoying popup I always decline. Apparently the price only matters if you buy it.

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  • Check out the big brain on Brett!

  • I'm my own person

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  • Encapsulates some actual serious philosophies!

  • What's the best food you're had in another country that's not from that country?

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  • Disappointed that I failed the Dave Lister test tho. OTOH it means I still have more than one taste bud.

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  • Until it gets torn apart and eaten alive by something else, literally dying by getting chewed to death - pretty much the way of nature.

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  • How asshole bosses and landlords get reincarnated? (and have those crabs mentioned in the thread)

  • Pictures for Sad Children (Simone Veil)

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  • Bed Bath and Beyond fired a friend of mine for following a shoplifter out the door and confronting her. She gave back the merch but following her out the door violated company policy. Can't be doin' that! He was a 10-year employee and had been driving an hour commute for months to help open a new store across town.

    HR: "If we made an exception for you, we'd have to do it for everybody."

    Actually no, you wouldn't, but for 10-year employees who have repeatedly demonstrated commitment to the company, yes you damn well could.

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  • "Oh yeah your results say you're going blind, but why does it have a big yellow-green one and a small blue one? That's so weird..."