I don't think the PR people at OpenAI are at the top of their field.
Honestly? They might be.
Readit NewsReverseCold commented on Vibechart vibechart.net/... · Posted by u/datadrivenangel
except text was published in 2025
It's quoting text published before 2025.
what's the point of having "price in XX year" if it isn't consistent?
why compare to 2021 and 2011?
The price shown is dynamically updated to today’s dollars, and the subscript is the original value at the publishing date of the source text.
> inflation adjustment: Inflation.hs provides a Pandoc Markdown plugin which allows automatic inflation adjusting of dollar amounts, presenting the nominal amount & a current real amount, with a syntax like [$5]($1980).
ReverseCold commented on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-... · Posted by u/alexslobodnik
The last thing I will ever give a rats ass about is insurance companies. They are the scourge of this earth but they have used legislation to embed themselves in our every day lives.
I live in California and have no claims ever. My home insurance has doubled in 4 years to almost $4000 a year. My car insurance is about $2800/yr.
So I hope insurance companies break. Like Danerys said in Gamr of Thrones, I hope someone breaks the wheel.
> I live in California
Car insurance companies in CA actually lose money on the state, if that makes you feel better: https://money.com/car-insurance-policies-problems-california...
There are laws that prevent them from charging enough to even break-even on the policies.
ReverseCold commented on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon tomshardware.com/networki... · Posted by u/Tuldok
I don’t understand this article! PC motherboards with 10GbE ports have existed for years in premium offerings? Is this notably cheaper than the current chip they use?
pcpartpicker shows ~89 such boards, with mid-high level pricing: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#c0=2x10000-2x...
ReverseCold commented on Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers wsj.com/world/flight-deat... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
A few years back I was flying to London, and when I got the ticket it was for an Embraer landing in London City Airport. I was excited about the airport as after flying many times to London it was the only one out of the five nearby airports I had never been to, but the aircraft got me nervous: I never heard of Embraer and it was smaller (I thought bigger=safer, maybe that’s still true?) than the usual Airbus and Boeing I was using regularly. Ignorance will do that, I wonder if this (ignorant customers) is still a factor when airlines buy aircrafts.
BTW the airline sadly put me in a different plane to a different airport in the last minute, no reason given.
Most of my flights (within the USA) are on ERJ-175. I even switched airlines midway through the year and this was still true. I only see Airbus and Boeing for transcontinental flights.
ReverseCold commented on Character amnesia in China globalchinapulse.net/char... · Posted by u/nabla9
I'm studying Japanese at the moment and what struck me is how important context is, particularly in reading. You need to know where to read 1-3 letters ahead to read a word and interpret it. That's not really a thing in English - a word is a word, and the individual letters that it's composed of are almost always pronounced the same way.
I think digital is a big crutch for Japanese/Chinese because you have input methods that help you write what you want to say, so you don't actually need to remember how to write kanji as much in daily life.
> in English - a word is a word, and the individual letters that it's composed of are almost always pronounced the same way
Are you sure about that?
Wait why not have both esc x3 and shift x3 work? Any of these are "weird" keypresses right?
a gigabit customer who was paying $50 extra per month for unlimited data was flagged by Cox because he was using 8TB to 12TB a month
"Unlimited data" should mean you can saturate the connection 24/7. Anything less is deceptive advertising. For a gigabit connection, that would mean around 300TB per month.
I don’t know why they don’t advertise their oversubscription rate. The FCC should probably require this to be disclosed in some standard location. So many people are mad because “I paid for a gigabit and I can’t use the whole thing”… but like you didn’t pay for a gigabit you paid for a gigabit shared among 100 other people, which means peak-of-sums you should usually get gigabit, but it’s not guaranteed.
The internet is a series of tubes! You can get a dedicated gigabit sized tube but it’ll cost 1-2 orders of magnitude more.
E: Even elsewhere on this thread people are like
> I dunno, I pay $70 a month for gigabit from Google Fiber and absolutely saturate that thing all day long up and down.
Yes! You are the noisy neighbor getting lucky that your neighbors aren’t also noisy!
ReverseCold commented on I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT time.com/7026050/chatgpt-... · Posted by u/williamstein
This is terrifying. Our ability to think has been our biggest differentiator as a species. LLMs threaten this, and I'll die on that hill.
> [Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
- Socrates (written down by Plato)