We’re like 10+ years past the point where new smartphone features were worth something. Now we’re back to buying new phones because the last one finally died, not to upgrade.

Yeah, we’re gonna need some facts for those capitalist claims, bud.

If it were a long-term medical solution

It’s his examples that I’m going off. But maybe he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and an IBM engineer is losing their shit at upper management right now. I used to work for them a long time ago under Virginia and that was standard… Though, so has been every other place since.

I give IBM credit because so many of the people there are ridiculously smart. Not their business people.

“It’s a simple question for any enterprise. Would you like something that’s 10 percent of the cost if it’s 90 percent as good as the best, or do you want to pay that 10 times higher cost?”

That really depends…

90% is disasterous. It may sound good because it’s “just” 10% off 100%, but it’s awful. Two iterations reduces that to ~0.01%< but that’s still pretty bad. Obviously the more complex, the higher the risk and the more demand and time per iteration. The machine also has no concept of criticality, so how much is being saved with three or even four iterations to assure failure is basically zero?

“Then the question is: how many tasks require that? I would tell you some do, but the vast majority, summarizing an email, examining a contract, answering a customer call, composing an email, all of those can be done as well with the much cheaper answer.”

Imagine 10,000 emails an hour through your enterprise and 1,000 times It fucks up. Anything from missing info to misinterpreting to just straight up modifying/deleting. No concept of criticality per email. 8,000 in a 9–5 office. 24,000 a day for a global enterprise. That’s what 90% looks like.

Then you got “examining contracts” and all the other stuff he mentioned…

It really depends on which you hate the most; your lungs and environment, or your teeth and nervous system.

Oh, fuck.

Now my brain’s wondering how many times Sam snuck off for a wank while Frodo was asleep.

Then Golem comes along, basically blue balling him. No wonder the frustration.

It wasn’t the ring that started to test them the closer they got to Mordor. It was blue balls. But it was Sam’s determination to finally have a wank in privacy that saved Middle Earth.

Why, brain? Why you do this?

Edit: OMG! He got post-nut clarity after Cirith Ungol! He reappears and suddenly he’s so focused he can defeat Shelob.

I take it back! Good brain! I like Sam even more now and I can’t wait to ruin Return of the King for my friends.

It’s now technically Tuesday somewhere, if that helps…

Now do Empire State buildings and football fields.

My cat just shits shit. Sometimes is liquid shit. I don’t know what you’re sighing for.

I went to court once because the morning after a party, I still blew just over 0.05.

While there, I saw a guy who had his lawyer dad there speaking for him. The guy was in stopped traffic, mounted a sidewalk, hit a child on their bicycle, and fled the scene, later telling his dad who called the police.

He got a 1 year suspension on his licence, no jail time, and fine like 900€. I remember hearing the person behind me say, “Fucking bullshit” as we waited for our turn.

In comparison, I got 300€ and a six month suspension, no record. I was told it would be worse, but it was clear that I was unaware that I may have still had alcohol in my system. Which is true, because I stopped and went to bed early, knowing I had to be up early to drive to the markets.

Apparently I could’ve also hit children and sped off the road to get around traffic for just 600€ more…

I forget there’s a subculture of strangers that decide the not masturbate for a month, in solidarity, for no reason at all.

The idea that someone takes it so seriously that they include it under the Achievements section of their resume. And one day, finally, the hiring manager is a fellow cultist.

Hollywood makes “This is why we can’t have nice things” a reality.

You are right. T1 would’ve been what T2 was if it had T2’s budget and backing. T1 was so good that is started the hype train and we got T2 for it.

They’re both excellent, but T2 got the attention the idea deserved from the beginning and they made the most of it.

Yes! Both terminators were so weirdly inhuman without being inhuman. And it was the 1980s and they just kind of nailed that with total realism that had no reason for being as good as it was.

It was like a new chapter of sci-fi really leaning into the realistic expectations of the future instead of the fantastical versions. It’s the same reason why Bladerunner was so good and stood the test of time. No bullshit interpretation. Just, “Everyone calm down about your ideas of the future. What would actually happen? How would this thing actually be if it really happened?”

I just rewatched this a couple months ago. Now I want to watch it again. T2 is one of the all-time greats of cinema history. Arny is awesome in the role, the story is excellent, the directing is perfect. Edward will forever be John Connor with every other actor doing their best to fit his character, because that’s John.

I’m low maintenance because it’s a pain in the arse when others are involved.

Kind of okay with the lost city of Trumpis.

Seeing him avoid going to the UK because Trump going transtrumpic.

Mine is Loading…

They do have that spreding fine system that scales to income. We can hope…