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vrek

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  • Yeah, I'll give you a more complete response after I go to the atm machine where I'll enter my pin number. 😜

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  • True, all I'm going to say is if you look up videos on "cbt therapy" make sure to put therapy in the search and/or have safe search on, as a result I believe Mike may enjoy the splinters

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  • But think of the splinters... Oh god... Think of the splinters... Mike should get hazard pay

  • I upgraded to windows 11 by accidentally pressing spacebar on startup

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  • Is it?

  • [OC] I haven't had time to look into it, ok?

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  • Dylan bettle talks about this in one of his presentation. He made a website that did actor and actress recommendations, I believe for like extras to be hired. They kept getting alerts around 7-715am and then around 12.30pm to 1245pm.

    Eventually they figured out that casting agents typically woke up, checked email, and submitted the requests on the website. The actors and actresses typically had other jobs and had to wait till lunch to check and apply.

    They had to redesign the system and buy more bandwidth to handle these spikes.

    He's a great presenter and I highly recommend watching all of them, even if you're not a programmer. And I probably got most of the details wrong... But it was a talk at one of NDC conventions.

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • Ouch! Tell her I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for you too. All the accountants I worked with did alot more than just reports. Not to mention that sounds great until the Ai says 2+4 =2*4 and now the company owes 20 billion on taxes...

    Plus in a lot of cases people don't submit records in identical format, the number of excel workbooks I've seen where the data was on "sheet 2" for some unknown reason....

    Maybe its just me, I always provided raw data on sheet 1, analyzed data on sheet 2, and if needed complicated formulas on sheet 3. I would be willing to bet their Ai would break on that format.

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  • I don't know but implication the other poster is making is "a human can write 2 articles, a Ai can write 5, I'm being asked for 5 which is impossible. I can use Ai and risk trusting it or not meet my required outputs and also get fired."

    I made up those numbers but that's the accusation. You are damned if you use the Ai to meet your goals. You are damned if you don't meet your goals.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • Possible but back when smoking was much more common (not like 2010s, I mean like 1930s when a pack was included in mre kits given to soldiers in ww2 and the Flintstones cartoon had sponsored segments where Fred and barney had "smoke breaks" and talked about the "smooth and delicious taste" of I think it was camel cigarettes ) There were many more companies making cigarettes. It was only really consolidated in I think the 80s due to lawsuits for causing cancer, false advertising, lying to congress etc. Most of the companies couldn't afford all the fines and were bought out.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • Really? If 1% of customers of a restaurant got food poisoning... Well that's exactly why we have a health department and food inspectors

    Now if by slop you just mean "not delicious" people would probably stop going and stop recommending. Some places may be able eat that loss(pun intended) but many would go out of business. Related, sorta, there have studies that one aspect of McDonald's that added to its huge success is consistently being same basically everywhere. Yeah there's some regional differences but you can eat a big Mac basically everywhere. And they are basically the same.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • No, I don't think it was an opinion. My point is in a lot of cases something really bad would never hit 1%. Like commercial airlines, most do several hundreds of flights a day(just a guess but for the large ones seems reasonable across all airports). If one airline had say 3 crashes in a year I can't imagine them still being active.

    Population of us in 2024 was 340,000,000. If it effected 1% that would be 3.4 million people. That's like 1/2 of the holocaust victims.

    I believe most companies would be done at 0.01% if that. Only company I can think of with that body count is nestle... I don't even think Raytheon has killed that many.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • I think you drastically overestimating 99% vs 1% at scale. For example look at the Chicago Tylenol case. Atleast 7 people died. 31 million packages of Tylenol were recalled, the entire line of powder filled capsules was eliminated, nationwide redesign of medication packages was done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

  • Burgers and chips again but better

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  • These look good, but what's heme with fat?

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  • Just curious since you seem knowledgeable, is there a connection between those societies? Or is it just chance they both choose 8?

  • New York City police investigating after officers were hit with snowballs during a snowball fight

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  • True, i get that. My question is who called them? Not asking for doxxing information just that who ever it was is probably angry and hateful in general and should be ashamed of themselves.

  • New York City police investigating after officers were hit with snowballs during a snowball fight

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  • Why were they "responding to a snowball fight"? What broke law were they investigating? What even made them go there? Yes the police shouldn't of taken it to this level but also which grumpy person even called the in the first place?

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  • There is another joke there regarding the movie nightmare before Christmas but I'm not smart enough to figure it out.

  • Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow

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  • Why do I confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 is the same as Dec 25

  • Are two heads better than one?

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  • Rubber duck programming

  • Burgers and chips

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  • Maybe, but that will be a wonderful few minutes.