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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Trump Steaks 2.0.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Tried it for python coding involving PDFs, OCR, and text substitution. Did worse than GPT-4o (which also failed).

Gave up and told it so. At least, it was very apologetic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No worries, nothing a little hurricane can't fix.

Edit: added 'e' to for Freedom!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

At uni, got acquainted with a rich Saudi kid. Super nice guy. There was an event in a city 30 miles away. He offered a ride. Pulled up in a bright orange Corvette. Cool.

White-knuckle ride the whole way. Ridiculously fast. On the way back, he mentioned the car was his third. Somehow, he had managed to flip over and total the first two. Fell out of touch after that.

This story reminded me of him. Hope he survived college.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

All those terrible stories during the cold snap. Hopefully, a thing in the past.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I hadn't been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.

Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.

Noped right out.

I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There was an appliance where the wifi chip was at the end of the power cable, embedded inside the plug. From the outside, you couldn't really tell. It was there so radiation inside the box couldn't affect the wireless signal as much.

I can imagine some genius thinking it's a good idea to run a server from inside a cable or a connected home appliance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That top picture made me think it was a camper bus (like EV.Buzz) but at a fraction of the price.

But, alas...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This could have led to lots of hijinks on "Red Dwarf."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ed is getting good at lobbing these darts at hype bubbles.

The thing that this writeup ignores is that the object isn't to show short-term revenue, but to put all competitors out of business, be the last one standing, and create a monopoly. Either that or get bought out so the investors can move on to the next thing. But at $150B valuation, only MSFT or Nvidia can afford to buy them outright.

Google, Meta, and Amazon burned through cash for years, but they eventually outran all competition and then monetized the users who had nowhere else to go.

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