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Daily Tech News 3 June 2025
Top Story
- A pro-AI subreddit (one of the individual forums on the Reddit site) has started banning crazies who think the AI trees are talking to them. (404 Media)
The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning "a bunch of schizoposters" who believe "they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god," highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.
Yep, that sounds like Reddit alright."LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities," one of the moderators of r/accelerate, wrote in an announcement. "There is a lot more crazy people than people realise. And AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment."
Oh. Those guys.
They are also crazy.
Tech News
- AMD's new 9060 XT could be 5% slower than Nvidia's 5060 Ti rather than 5% faster, according to leaked third-party benchmarks. (Tom's Hardware)
On the other hand, the 16GB 9060 XT at $349 is cheaper than even the 8GB model of the 5060 Ti at $379, making it the easy and obvious choice given that 8GB cards are terrible for recent games.
On the third hand, these MSRP numbers are all imaginary and we'll have to wait and see what is actually available.
- AMD meanwhile is trying to defend the existence of the 8GB model of the 9060 XT. (WCCFTech)
Both the current Xbox and PlayStation have 16GB of RAM, so games ported from consoles to PC very often want more than 8GB of video RAM to run smoothly, or sometimes to run at all, sometimes turning into slideshows at even modest settings, or simply crashing entirely.
Intel's B580 is not a fast card, but it does provide 12GB of VRAM at a nominal $249, something that neither Nvidia nor AMD can provide.
- After running 80,000 simulations across all available polling data, researchers have concluded that the Milky Way is less than 50% likely to collide with the Andromeda Galaxy over the next ten million years. (Science Alert)
They announced that it is more likely to collide with Hillary Clinton.
- The Liberux Nexx is a Linux-based smartphone with more-or-less adequate specs. (IndieGogo)
It has an Arm Cortex A76 chip, which ranks as "okay, I guess".
And flagship pricing - around $1500 during the pre-order stage and a proposed $2000 if it ever reached retail.
- It's a small world after all: The planet is in the midst of a climate catastrophe and here's Google doing Google things. (Notebook Check)
I'm not sure what exactly is going on at Notebook Check, but maybe someone should check on them.
Anyway, the reason I bring this nonsense to your attention is this:On May 20th 2025, MIT released an article breaking down the energy costs associated with each query run through a range of AI models, including Large Language Models (LLM) and image and video generators (Diffusion).
The Earth is 40,000 kilometres in circumference.
Even if you exclude the 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity it took to train GPT-4, the smallest text-based model with 8 billion parameters uses 57 joules of energy per response or 114 joules when accounting for cooling. On a large model with 50 times more parameters, that number climbs to 3,353 joules (6706 with cooling) for each response.
It would be counterintuitive to get into the maths here, as MIT do a far better job, likening each response to travelling 400 feet (122 meters) on an e-bike. Google processes around 158,500 searches every second. So, by MIT's maths, if we could capture the power associated with running Gemini for 1 second, a person could travel 19,337 kilometres on an e-bike, or roughly one and a quarter times around the planet.
Almost exactly. It was exact, because that's how the metre was originally defined, but they got it slightly wrong and it was a little too late to change once they got GPS operational and found the real number.
- AirBnB wants to build the "everything app". (The Verge)
No.
- Salesforce has bought Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring, for an undisclosed sum. (Tech Crunch)
Also no.
- How Digg is building a website for humans. (Tech Crunch)
A novel concept in this era.
I don't think the new Digg is likely to succeed, but anyone willing to take on the festering groupthink hugbox of Reddit is welcome to try.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Do not. There is no. The spice must. You have five.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at June 03, 2025 04:30 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ciampino - I is hungrier at June 03, 2025 04:30 AM (sPQoU)
Or what's left of it
Posted by: Skip at June 03, 2025 04:31 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at June 03, 2025 04:31 AM (gHSfI)
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Did they use a pole star to gather the data?
Posted by: Ciampino - I is hungrierer at June 03, 2025 04:34 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ciampino - I is hungry at June 03, 2025 04:38 AM (sPQoU)
Didn't think THX 1138 would morph into a documentary but here we are. Well, at least for the nutjobs.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 03, 2025 04:48 AM (sAmhv)
That's 3.18 BTU. Now, let's convert to watts...
Let's say you can do one search every 4 seconds or so. So 15 per minute, that's 900 per hour. That's 839 watts.
At the average electricity rate in the US of 17 cents per KW-Hr, that's 14.3 cents worth of electricity.
And that's why they're using "joules"
Posted by: deadrody at June 03, 2025 04:49 AM (vgB0v)
The Milky Way did not kill itself.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 03, 2025 04:50 AM (sAmhv)
https://mol.im/a/14774139
Posted by: Ciampino
Sure, why not. I'll just sit back and watch $100M get grifted by all the usual suspects.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 03, 2025 04:58 AM (sAmhv)
The 2nd Amendment is not doing well:
https://tinyurl.com/42adba63
Everything you already knew about the 2020 election fraud is being revealed and documented:
https://tinyurl.com/3ctk92hy
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If you want to understand why Trump's drug pricing EO should work, read here:
https://tinyurl.com/5fhtb84p
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 03, 2025 05:00 AM (KbuES)
'USAID' paperwork found in car of illegal alien Boulder terror attack suspect:
https://t.co/jvEaHp0yxC
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 03, 2025 05:03 AM (KbuES)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 03, 2025 05:10 AM (KbuES)
Posted by: Randy Wuerger at June 03, 2025 05:12 AM (Mv0gz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 05:13 AM (EJtBU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 05:19 AM (QTDrh)
50 sunny degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high somewhere in the mid 70s predicted. Not as much work today as on other Tuesdays, but enough to make me look forward to a nap in a few hours.
For a while now, I've been hooked on repeats of the 2013 - 2021 TV sitcom Mom, especially for lead actress Anna Faris, whom I have developed a hopeless crush on.
https://tinyurl.com/5a94zrcz
(with caveat that nothing is ever as it seems, especially in Hollywood)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 03, 2025 05:22 AM (Dg2sF)
Posted by: OkJohn at June 03, 2025 05:26 AM (NC/it)
Called India and pointed out that this has been going on for over a month. Contacted the Post Office and appealed their rejection of my claim. Looked up the potential cost of going to Netgear's headquarters to inflict mortal terror upon them.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2025 05:27 AM (BpO1e)
Pulling the SIM out of the old phone might silence it (as it would lose all information to contact any provider.)
Good temporary solution of banishing it to the car though.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 03, 2025 05:31 AM (O7YUW)
Thanks, The old broken phone didn't have a physical SIM. It is an e-SIM.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 05:36 AM (EJtBU)
a person could travel 19,337 kilometres on an e-bike, or roughly one and a quarter times around the planet.
And Pixy adds, "The Earth is 40,000 kilometres in circumference."
So the "article" got its facts not only wrong, but wildly wrong? One and a quarter times around the planet should be more like 50,000 km?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 05:36 AM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/5a94zrcz
(with caveat that nothing is ever as it seems, especially in Hollywood)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 03, 2025 05:22 AM (Dg2sF)
She plays a pop star (Samantha James) in a romantic comedy called Just Friends. She's really good at playing crazy.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 03, 2025 05:37 AM (zUe/H)
Posted by: Just Wondering at June 03, 2025 05:37 AM (lIgBp)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 05:38 AM (omVj0)
Shakes fist in the air. Curse you, Chat GPT!!
Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2025 05:38 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 03, 2025 05:39 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 03, 2025 05:40 AM (a1415)
"But Canadian Jews are constantly being harassed -- physically and verbally. Demonizing Jews and holding them responsible for everything that is wrong in the Middle East has been normalized in Canada. And on that, Carney has been silent."
National Post article here:
https://tinyurl.com/34prfu6d
Archived version:
https://archive.is/MP41E
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 03, 2025 05:40 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 05:42 AM (omVj0)
05:40 AM (O7YUW)
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I'm familiar. Mrs. BD still has a few relatives in Canada. Most, however, have moved to Israel. I still have some distant Canadian cousins whom I haven't heard from in decades. For all I know, they've left as well.
In fact, we're about to head out the door now to lunch with Mrs. BD's niece and her husband who left Canada last year.
l8r.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 03, 2025 05:45 AM (KbuES)
Perhaps the Perfesser might mention the book Around the World on a Bicycle by Thomas Stevens. He began his journey in 1884 on a 'penny-farthing' (big front wheel, small rear wheel). Volume 1 takes him from San Francisco to Tehran and Volume 2 carries him the rest of the way.
It's available on Project Gutenberg, but also as a physical book. I've had a copy for over a decade, but never yet finished it. Not because it's bad, but because I am lazy.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 03, 2025 05:49 AM (Dg2sF)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 05:50 AM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/5acaufp8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 05:50 AM (QTDrh)
Well, I once did have that motivation and did things that way, but Reagan was president then. (No connection.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)
There already is a God, and you hate Him, so why get your knickers saturated over a fake one that only just learned yesterday that you don't eat soup with a fork?
People have been dumbasses since before walls were invented. We just made it easier for the rest of the world to see it happen live.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 05:53 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 06:00 AM (QTDrh)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 06:03 AM (yvnLa)
Hopefully the battery will just die by the time you need to ship it then.
Thanks for the reminder about e-SIMs being a thing. I'd completely forgotten that was an option. I ordered my new (and first ever) smart phone with a physical SIM because I don't trust that the phone wouldn't glitch and lose track of the e-SIM credentials at some point in the future, causing me a whole mess of trouble. That and if the phone got damaged, I knew I could move the SIM to a new replacement phone and keep on truckin'.
Oh, and by the way, that phone has become quite useful for things like "reminder alarms", using Waze as a backup GPS, receiving messages and emails from dispatch, and a few other practical things. I've seen them become focus-points (even addictions) for some people though, something I will stalwartly avoid.
Apps that get yappy at me with too many notifications get "notifications" permission removed from them. I did just fine in life without those notifications before, so I don't need them now. Have to keep that in mind.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 03, 2025 06:03 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 06:00 AM
The subjects of the first item. People claiming they've "found God" in a chatbot.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 06:04 AM (yvnLa)
Speaking of trees talking to people, there was a project queued up and completed about eight years back at a scout camp to build a teaching area (finally), including a pavilion for instructing the scout skills merit badges (orienteering, first aid, camping, cooking, pioneering and the like). To do this would involve (gasp!) cutting down some trees.
Just prior to the start of the building, when the plans had been announced, former and current members of both the nature and scout skills instructional staff had gone on a hair shirt-donning, rending of garments, and loud wailing kick in an online forum dedicated to said camp about "those poor trees".
Rather than propose any workable alternate path, they fixated on "What about the trees?" and one went so far as to warn that "the trees would extract their revenge". A scout from my troop, who was in charge of the scout skills' program, came into this de facto wake for the doomed trees to warn those speaking of trees getting "their revenge" that they had best knock that off if they had any intention of being employed at said camp for the upcoming summer. The wailing of the banshees stopped right quick.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:06 AM (xG4kz)
I remember walking all the way across town with a high school friend and stopping every few blocks to sit and recover, both of us saying "{bleep} it's hot!" as a running gag.
Oh wait, we're not their target audience, they're going after the young people with little to no life experience.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 03, 2025 06:06 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: fluffy at June 03, 2025 06:07 AM (AN2gy)
The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning "a bunch of schizoposters" who believe "they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god," highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.
Yep, that sounds like Reddit alright.
Treebeard and the Ents have entered the chat.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:08 AM (xG4kz)
Psalm 84:11
Posted by: Marcus T at June 03, 2025 06:10 AM (mSy8I)
He admitted that he knew it was fake, "but it gave me comfort."
Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2025 06:12 AM (BpO1e)
He admitted that he knew it was fake, "but it gave me comfort."
Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2025 06:12 AM (BpO1e)
The entire new testament is about Jesus being welcoming to people like him.
He didn't go through all that for people who *don't* need saving.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 06:14 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:15 AM (xG4kz)
Reminds me of many many years ago in the 90's when I bought one of the first CD-R drives (an external) from Yamaha, their CD-R 100.
It had cost me $1,000 USD back in 1996 ('97?) and it died on me just after one year, just past the warranty period. I contacted the company. They told me it would be $350 just as a bench charge to look at it to see what it would take to repair it. I got an RMA number just in case I decided I actually wanted to go through with the repair, but by that point, there were replacement drives on the market by multiple manufacturers that were priced less than the blasted bench charge from Yamaha, so I bought a Plextor and kept soldiering on.
I was sorely tempted to take that Yamaha drive to the range and put a few .50 caliber holes in it and send it back with the RMA number with a post-it note that said, "RMA THIS (you bastards!)"
But... I didn't want them to actually charge me that $350 bench charge, and they might have. :-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 03, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 03, 2025 06:18 AM (O7YUW)
I came up with a Bible verse where Jesus laid his hands on the transgender and said "Be healed."
His body was restored, the hormones poisoning him were flushed out and the demons whispering in his ears were banished. I figured that would be a bit closer to what Jesus would have done. -:-)
Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2025 06:19 AM (BpO1e)
And you would be on yet another list for what you did. -:-)
I'm annoyed at the whole thing. Upon reflection, I should have simply gone through Amazon. But we'll see how this plays out.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2025 06:21 AM (BpO1e)
He didn't go through all that for people who *don't* need saving.
Good news for some of us.
Posted by: fluffy at June 03, 2025 06:21 AM (AN2gy)
Still no takers for the business proposition to "create a 23andMe for trans people" that would report its test results in a manner comforting for XYs who had transitioned to become XXs?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:22 AM (xG4kz)
Thanks. I hadn't read all the items yet, and I'm glad to know it wasn't about me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 06:22 AM (EJtBU)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 03, 2025 06:23 AM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)"
I would take it further and tell people they are sea slugs if that's what they want to hear.
mornin yall
Posted by: fd at June 03, 2025 06:24 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 03, 2025 06:24 AM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 03, 2025 06:25 AM (Dg2sF)
Posted by: fd at June 03, 2025 06:27 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 06:22 AM (EJtBU)
Ha! No, i said "Feh!", as in a snort of derision, that wasn't a typo of "Fen"!!!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 06:28 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 06:29 AM (EJtBU)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 03, 2025 06:29 AM (hoCmQ)
I see the NoVa MoMe is in 2 weeks. I'd like to go, but I can't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)
We could make it a Zoom meeting MoMe!
Fully one quarter of its run time would be devoted to folks saying, "We can't hear you, turn off 'mute'!" or "Who isn't on 'mute'? Your background noises are drowning out the conversation."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:30 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:30 AM (xG4kz)
I have "dog tail periscope" on my Zoom bingo card.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 06:33 AM (yvnLa)
tinyurl.com/2xv6zxah
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 03, 2025 06:34 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 06:37 AM (XV/Pl)
"LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities"
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Sounds like social media.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2025 06:39 AM (QnmlO)
... all gone. Dumbasses.
Posted by: fd
I know of three such camps within one hundred miles closing and now are being sold that our troop had used for our program at least once during the past twenty-five years.
They are part of the pounds of flesh financial settlement from losing the sexual abuse class action lawsuit.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:39 AM (xG4kz)
>> Fully one quarter of its run time would be devoted to folks saying, "We can't hear you, turn off 'mute'!" or "Who isn't on 'mute'? Your background noises are drowning out the conversation."
Everyone, I’m sharing my screen, can you see my screen?
** showing completely different screen that may potentially get you fired.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 06:39 AM (XV/Pl)
Are you implying that welcoming girls, trannies and everything else under the sun did not help them rebound?
Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2025 06:40 AM (BpO1e)
Why do you need a fake Bible verse to affirm your brokenness? That means that you fundamentally accept that Scripture is a valid foundation for ordering your affairs. And yet, you reject it out of hand and refuse to accept or engage with even the most rudimentary aspects of it.
Why not insist someone fan-fic a new chapter of the Avesta or the Bhagavad Gita or the Chilton's Manual for a 1978 Chevette for you? Why is it the record of the doings of Christ in particular that you feel needs "updating" to fit your particular brand of brokenness?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 06:40 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: Arthur, King of the Britons at June 03, 2025 06:40 AM (lIgBp)
Yes; I have used it and I' ve posted things from it.
A poster here was complaining it was "heretical"
( I think because it was not a RC site) but I have found it generally helpful. It could not answer )and I did not ask it to) my question about the name of devout German Lutheran composer who sadly killed himself because he was anti Hitler and didn't want to be drafted.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 06:40 AM (Qz2FB)
And that is why I refuse to use it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 03, 2025 06:41 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: The Golden Calf at June 03, 2025 06:41 AM (lIgBp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 06:44 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 06:37 AM (XV/Pl
Nothing is really different with AI being wrong about stuff. People who are given more authority and deference about stuff than they deserve have been wrong since the invention of speech. The question of "What is True" has the same answer now as it's always had. Discernment. Experience. Wisdom. Patience. It doesn't matter if it's an overgrown calculator or a monkey creating statements and propositions. Truth is still Truth.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 06:45 AM (yvnLa)
Why not insist someone fan-fic a new chapter of the Avesta or the Bhagavad Gita or the Chilton's Manual for a 1978 Chevette for you? Why is it the record of the doings of Christ in particular that you feel needs "updating" to fit your particular brand of brokenness?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
For the record, Chilton's Manuals have always dedicated significant sections to trannies and will always proudly do so.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:45 AM (xG4kz)
AA officeholder unveils plan to shovel money at AAs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 03, 2025 06:46 AM (ExV1e)
It's a shame. There is a lot more than land lost forever.
Posted by: fd at June 03, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)
Well, yes but the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community gets mad because those manuals talk about how to fix them as if trannies were broken to begin with.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2025 06:47 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2025 06:47 AM (4JRvL)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:45 AM (xG4kz)
*facepalm*
And I wasn't even trying for that setup. Bravo, Sir.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 06:47 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2025 06:47 AM (EJtBU)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 03, 2025 06:48 AM (lIgBp)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 03, 2025 06:49 AM (txBuo)
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.
My wife's headstone is up at the VA cemetery. Exudes finality.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)
>> And that is why I refuse to use it.
I understand why people would be resistant to AI, but there are certain aspects of it that are magical and time saving.
I needed to create a dummy database for my ERP, I fed in the criteria to ChatGpt and it was able to spit out a 1000 entry database in seconds, reviewed the database, asked to modify it, and it performed the modifications and spit out the new DB in a couple of seconds.
Once my program is ready, I will take manufactured price lists and feed them into chatgpt to create the final master vendor database and subsequent db updates.
The time saved is enormous.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)
AA officeholder unveils plan to shovel money at AAs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Officeholder ranks are more and more being filled by those whose chief "life skill" is grifting. They refer to themselves as "activists".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:51 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: B.O. at June 03, 2025 06:52 AM (lIgBp)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 03, 2025 06:23 AM (6YdsJ)
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There is no "try". There is only do, or not do.
Posted by: Yoda at June 03, 2025 06:53 AM (txBuo)
The answer to that is stepping up. I ran for office and won by 56 votes. No one ran against me the second time. I did good, lowered my slice of the mill levy thrice, and money was well spent.
Got a good team as the next office holders.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)
Nigel Fowler Sutton has an excellent selection of art to go with this you tube show.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)
There is no "try". There is only do, or not do.
Posted by: Yoda
"There is no 'try'. There is only do do, or not do do."
-- Yoda's address to the constipated
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 06:57 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: fluffy at June 03, 2025 07:01 AM (AN2gy)
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Well, that's definitely something.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 03, 2025 07:03 AM (ij71G)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 03, 2025 07:04 AM (5hfjS)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)
Ah, what have you done to improve civilization? Your Libya War destroyed the EU. You are a crime against humanity.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)
Beginning in June 2027, Meta will buy roughly 1.1 gigawatts of energy from Constellation’s Clinton Clean Energy Center
... and still not enough to power one single time machine built with a Delorean -- missed it by 0.11 gigawatts!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 07:07 AM (xG4kz)
Meanwhile, you peons turn off your lights and buy new energy efficient appliances to save electricity and the Earth.
Posted by: fd at June 03, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)
Related: there are no green alligators.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 07:15 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 03, 2025 07:16 AM (6U1c2)
Posted by: Sade at June 03, 2025 07:17 AM (vFG9F)
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"Beginning in June 2027, Meta will buy roughly 1.1 gigawatts of energy from Constellation’s Clinton Clean Energy Center"
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"Energy Crisis ver. 2.0" incoming. After several years of periodic blackouts, service interruptions and government mandates to "save power" this AI boondoggle will wither and die due to no power.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 03, 2025 07:17 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)
Greeeeen alligator
Posted by: Sade at June 03, 2025 07:17 AM (
*humming involuntarily*
You bastard!
*continues humming*
Crap!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 03, 2025 07:19 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 07:19 AM (u82oZ)
I wonder if Kathleen Kennedy was subjected to many episodes of "Shut up, Kathleen!" when she was a member of the Executive Producer triumvirate of Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Steven Spielberg.
-- Wil Wheaton, he of "Shut up, Wesley!" fame
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 03, 2025 07:19 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 03, 2025 07:25 AM (Dg2sF)
May sunshine light your path through the flowers. Avoid Cherenkov radiation if possible.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2025 07:25 AM (u82oZ)
...were
...green alligators and long-neck geese, a humpty-back camel and a chimpanzee. Some cats and rats and elephants as sure as you're born, but you're never going to see a unicorn.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2025 07:26 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2025 07:27 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 03, 2025 07:27 AM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: Don Black at June 03, 2025 07:32 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 07:37 AM (omVj0)
You're never gonna see no unicorn.
Posted by: The Irish Rovers at June 03, 2025 07:41 AM (lIgBp)
Once my program is ready, I will take manufactured price lists and feed them into chatgpt to create the final master vendor database and subsequent db updates.
The time saved is enormous.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025
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As somebody who spent a lot of work time creating tables and relationships in DBase III Plus, FoxPro, Oracle (a little), and MS Access, I think that sounds terrific.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 07:43 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 07:43 AM (omVj0)
It certainly sounds like a couple of posters I've seen over on Instapundit.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 03, 2025 07:43 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: The Ban Hammer at June 03, 2025 07:43 AM (lIgBp)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 03, 2025 09:29 AM (w9Wax)
Anyway, life is good, God is Great, & people are crazy.
Posted by: OkJohn at June 03, 2025 05:26 AM (NC/it)
Amen!
Posted by: m at June 03, 2025 01:53 PM (CQE5S)
Disclaimer: Do not. There is no. The spice must. You have five.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM
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Rejoinder: Do or. Try. Flow. Minutes.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 03, 2025 06:23 AM (6YdsJ)
Ha!
Posted by: m at June 03, 2025 02:38 PM (CQE5S)
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