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davidcbc commented on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content   theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/ta988
rtp4me · 7 days ago
I dunno. I used Market Place yesterday to get a new dry erase board (new to me). And, many people use FB to communicate with friends and family. How is that working to make the world a worse place?
davidcbc · 7 days ago
Things can be good for you personally and still make the world a worse place.
davidcbc commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros   about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
jodrellblank · 12 days ago
It's amusing but it's not true. From Wikipedia:

> In 1992, Ellison shattered his elbow in a high-speed bicycle crash. After receiving treatment at University of California, Davis, Ellison donated $5 million to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Center.

> In 1998, the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center opened on the Sacramento campus of the UC Davis Medical Center

> In 2007, Ellison pledged $500,000 to fortify a community centre in Sderot, Israel, against rocket attacks

> In 2014, he donated $10 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

> In 2017, he donated $16.6 million donation to support the construction of well-being facilities on a new campus for co-ed conscripts

> In May 2016, Ellison donated $200 million to the University of Southern California to establish a cancer research center: the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC

> Between 2021 and 2023, Ellison invested $130 million in the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and has pledged a further $218 million since then

davidcbc · 12 days ago
These numbers are rounding errors to Ellison. I give a higher percentage of my net worth every year than he has in total
davidcbc commented on Advent of Code 2025   adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000
holyknight · 17 days ago
I never understood the craze for "Advent of code". Already at this time of the year the last thing I want to do is code even more.
davidcbc · 17 days ago
People like different things
davidcbc commented on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/fleahunter
aurareturn · 18 days ago
Yet, somehow I've been paying $20/month to ChatGPT for years now and I don't use Claude or Gemini even when they're free or have slightly better models.
davidcbc · 18 days ago
Oh well if YOU do something then that's that
davidcbc commented on What if you don't need MCP at all?   mariozechner.at/posts/202... · Posted by u/jdkee
whoknowsidont · a month ago
Training data =/= web search

Both ChatGPT and Claude will perform web searches when you ask them a question, which the fact that you got this confused is ironically topical.

But you're still misunderstanding the principle point because at some point these models will undoubtedly have access to that data and be trained on it.

But they didn't need to be, because LLM function & tool calling is already trained on these models and MCP does not augment this functionality in any way.

davidcbc · a month ago
Claude gives me a lengthy explanation of MCP with web search disabled
davidcbc commented on AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering   tomwphillips.co.uk/2025/1... · Posted by u/tomwphillips
simianwords · a month ago
it is also a fraction of golf courses which you again ignore. this is just typical "don't do anything!!" ism. there's no argument here.. even if data centres used .00001 millilitre of water you would say the same thing.
davidcbc · a month ago
Complaining about someone else using an "ism" during a literal "whataboutism" is rich
davidcbc commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race   nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard
culi · a month ago
This is not the case. His main opponent was Cuomo who was the Democrat "establishment" candidate. Zohran narrowly defeated Cuomo in the primary. Typically that's it but Cuomo took the unconventional strategy of running independently in the general with the backing of establishment Democrats.

Typically, the Republican candidate would have no chance in a city like NYC. This was the case here as well, but Cuomo calculated that with the backing of establishment Democrats AND the backing of Republicans/conservatives, he'd be able to defeat Mamdani. The Republican candidate did not agree to drop out, however. In the end it didn't matter though because Zohran Mamdani won by a larger margin than Cuomo and the Republican combined

In a typical election, the main election is the primary (which happened back in June). The Democrat nominee is pretty much guaranteed to win so the general is almost a formality. This general election was actually more contested than is typical

tl;dr: his main opponent was establishment democrats

davidcbc · a month ago
> Zohran narrowly defeated Cuomo in the primary.

13% is not narrow

davidcbc commented on Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%   cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alpha... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
ml-anon · 2 months ago
Wtf does “put ads in” mean? Google ads is one of the most sophisticated and profitable machines on the planet. People seem to think it’s as simple as <your ad here>.
davidcbc · 2 months ago
The competitors will either figure it out or run out of money and collapse (or, both)
davidcbc commented on Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%   cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alpha... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
ryandvm · 2 months ago
Google has the resources to win AI, but I still don't see a way to resolve the tension between good AI and ad revenue. A useful AI tells me what I need to know, but Google's cash cow is selling users to advertisers. Those are fundamentally oppositional and I don't see a clear way to resolve it.

Google can kick ass in AI all day, but soon Gemini is going to be saying shit like, "it sounds like your air conditioner is broken, maybe you should call Clearwater HVAC - they're the best!"

Once Google has to start making money from AI, talking to Gemini is going to feel like talking to that friend that invited you to dinner only to try to pitch you on an MLM.

davidcbc · 2 months ago
and you think the competitors won't put ads in?
davidcbc commented on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k   threads.com/@nthmonkey/po... · Posted by u/stevenhubertron
tptacek · 2 months ago
Couldn't have been clearer that I was referring to tuition, including the fact that I said that specifically upthread.
davidcbc · 2 months ago
Well then as long as the kids don't need housing or books or food or to pay the other fees they'll be set. Luckily those are all optional

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