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schrectacularon The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry

I know this is in jest but do you need tshirt reviews?

schrectacularon Switzerland is spending millions revamping its vast network of bunkers

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war"

schrectacularon Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring

As long as nothing blocks the investigation!

schrectacularon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

B&H shuts down their site for the sabbath.

schrectacularon For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019)

I had a HS friend who was a serious swimmer (not quite Olympic level but he won state championships) and watching him eat was insane. He would eat about 3x of what we all ate. Like literally down 3 sandwiches while we had one. I think he was on a 6000 calorie a day diet. I believe the potato thing. It sure sits outside what I think I could eat, but having seen others do similar, it seems realistic.

schrectacularon California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

I think you are letting your biases influence your reading comprehension. I don't blame the line workers. It's not their fault. My gripe IS with the local government. Those are the the ones who have the responsibility to change the system and who seem happy to just buy Sysco. They are government workers too...

schrectacularon California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

I always thought it was a travesty that the "chefs" at my schools were just heating up junk food. It's the perfect place to achieve the economies of scale to produce whole-foods-based meals. But yet no 'real' food - dishes made from raw meat and raw vegetables that are processed in-house - was ever produced. I honestly don't think this will change in my lifetime. It's too much work and it feels like working hard, especially in a government position, is seen as making you a chump in our culture today.

schrectacularon Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices

Exactly. Roll it out first to see who is being "productive" at work.

schrectacularon How the AI Bubble Will Pop

Aren't blogspam/link farms the equivalent in traditional search? It's not like Google gives 100% accurate links today.

schrectacularon Qwen3-VL

The PRC espionage system doesn't care what passport you have or even where you are born. They have a broader and more ethnic-focus definition.

schrectacularon Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

And China

schrectacularon I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English

>> Do submarines swim?

>It doesn't matter HOW LLMs "swim" as long as they can, but the point being raised is whether they actually can.

>It's as if LLMs can swim in the ocean, in rough surf, but fail to swim in rivers or swimming pools

Just like submarines!

schrectacularon Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light

schrectacularon Clankers Die on Christmas

Lolol THANK YOU. I totally parsed it as these guys and was mystified https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangers

Apparently those guys have a g instead of a k.

schrectacularon Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie

I call it a "bothie" or an "all-ee" depending on context. But I like "Ussie"! Ty.

schrectacularon The staff ate it later

"Magi" were priests of Zoraster. It is true that our current word for magic is derived from this root but that doesn't mean that the text is saying they were _magicians_.

schrectacularon Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever

Not as useless with the current generation of AI tools...

schrectacularon The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping

Find the graph for "hours spent on social media" and I bet you will have found your culprit.

schrectacularon Cognitive load is what matters

Temporal cognitive load reduction A.K.A. "thanks, past self!"

schrectacularon Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment

To me this is the real sinister issue with the current round of AI that I hear no one talking about. It will solve this problem for the powers-that-be.

schrectacularon Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people

My local Asian grocer does one key thing I know of to save/make money: lots of the workers live in a local dorm that he rents and are fed with leftovers from the bakery and nealy spoiled produce.

schrectacularon Observations from people-watching

It's a sight full of autists, don't be TOO surprised.

schrectacularon Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford

>“Many Chinese [nationals] have handlers; they [CCP] want to know everything that's going on at Stanford. This is a very normal thing. They just relay the information they have.”

>"Drawing on anonymous testimony from faculty, students, and China specialists, our investigation confirms that the CCP runs an extensive intelligence‑gathering network at Stanford."

I don't see any value judgement in these quotes, it's just the facts of the matter, no?

schrectacularon Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System?

I mean how else would the aliens have gotten here?

schrectacularon Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left

HR departments, hopefully.

schrectacularon Try Switching to Kagi

Feel the same. I liked it during the trial, but not THAT much.

schrectacularon My sourdough starter has twins

"Five different bars containing unique combinations of typical sourdough classes, with the sixth bar being the combination of your own starter."

schrectacularon Try Switching to Kagi

Fair point. The analogy is confusing but probably because it involves hydrocarbon subsidies... I mean how is the gas cheaper?! It makes no sense.

I'm sure my playful sarcasm above doesn't come through well, but thanks for the reply it is helpful.

schrectacularon Try Switching to Kagi

Strangely (or maybe not based on how pricing economics work) this is the most appealing tier.

Thanks for the reply, it is helpful .

schrectacularon Try Switching to Kagi

I just had a free month on them. It was great but for me the plans are weird. 300 searches a month is _probably_ enough but the fact that I'm on a countdown makes me super cagey with my searches. And I want to want to use the service if that makes sense. I'm not opposed to paying (I pay for email) and I know they share the reasons for the pricing, but my email account is something like $3 a month.

I guess this is a long winded way of saying I'm cheap? I'm close to the fence but thus far have stayed on the far side mostly due to price. At $5 a month unlimited I'd be in for sure and probably usually not hit the 300 number. The AI included level is intriguing though.