The difference, of course, is that most AI companies don't have the malicious motive that Google has by also being an ad company.
How fast we forget history. "Do no evil" my ass.
Readit Newsfoxyv commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
> The one thing I've found AI is good at is parsing through the hundreds of ad ridden, barely usable websites for answers to my questions.
One thing I can guarantee you is that this won't last. No sane MBA will ignore that revenue stream.
Image hosting services, all over again.
You are entirely correct. The enshittification will continue. All we can do is enjoy these things while they are still usable.
foxyv commented on Ukrainian startup makes 100 strike drones daily, unveils 3k km missile apnews.com/article/ukrain... · Posted by u/defly
At this rate, Ukraine will be the premier arms manufacturer for Europe. Rheinmetall better be taking notes. Battle tested, sufficiently effective and inexpensive solutions using off the shelf and easily replaceable parts.
I completely agree.
On a side note.. ya’ll must be prompt wizards if you can actually use the LLM code.
I use it for debugging sometimes to get an idea, or a quick sketch up of an UI.
As for actual code.. the code it writes is a huge mess of spaghetti code, overly verbose, with serious performance and security risks, and complete misunderstanding of pretty much every design pattern I give it..
The one thing I've found AI is good at is parsing through the hundreds of ad ridden, barely usable websites for answers to my questions. I use the Duck Duck Go AI a lot to answer questions. I trust it about as far as I can throw the datacenter it resides in, but it's useful for quickly verifiable things. Especially stuff like syntax and command line options for various programs.
foxyv commented on Smart engineers are failing embedded interviews because of one keyword medium.com/@balemarthyvam... · Posted by u/ibobev
They are busy-waiting while waiting for a volatile integer to be changed by another thread? Is this normal in embedded? Most of my compilers would scream at me with warnings about this.
foxyv commented on The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/h14h
As a person that lives on a residential street, and have my whole life, they are not straight and cleared of obstructions. At least in the Chicagoland area.
Often curved, with a center berm and trees, etc. Sure the major streets are a different issue, but then those aren't residential streets.
Chicago is one of the few exceptions to this rule in the United States. New build suburban housing looks like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4041926,-111.559976,3a,75y,8...
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5705053,-98.2668855,3a,75y,3...
foxyv commented on What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life nytimes.com/2025/08/18/op... · Posted by u/someothherguyy
The choice between human therapist and computer chat is not a choice that most people in the world have. Most humans do not have access to a human therapist.
We should absolutely be talking about how to make LLM systems better at handling critical situations like this. But those that suggest that people should only talk to human therapists about their problems are taking a very “let them eat cake” position.
An LLM based therapist should be tested like any other medical device. Your comment contains an underlying assumption that they are beneficial. That assumption has not been proven. It is just as likely that they are hurting the people they purport to help.
Without a bevy of studies to prove one way or another, their use is unethical at best and actively harmful at worst.
foxyv commented on The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/h14h
A very broad generalization that just isn't true. Certainly not for residential areas.
Have you seen how wide residential streets are in America? They are also very straight and cleared of obstructions. In other countries you will see traffic calming measures such as chicanes and road narrowing. In my own neighborhood people won't park on the street because people driving 40+mph will crash into their cars randomly.
foxyv commented on Do You Need to Own a House? Many Older Americans Decide They Don't wsj.com/real-estate/luxur... · Posted by u/lxm
> financial plan assumes that their house (the majority of their net worth) does not decrease in market value
What is this plan? (Genuinely asking because it doesn't make sense to me.) If my (paid-off) house decreases in market value, I'm pretty sure I'm just happy because my property taxes are lower. It's not like I'm expecting to profit from its price going up, literally ever; I still need a place to live and if housing prices are going up everywhere, then selling my house means I now have the purchasing power to buy ~one house. At best, I have a larger credit amount in a HELOC but I still have to pay that off so it's not really a "financial plan".
I think the usual plan is to sell it and do like they are saying in this article. Rent a place in a cheap retirement area or live aboard a boat or something. Typical retirement stuff. What happened with my parents was the 2008 crash wiped out a lot of their retirement plans because all their investments were in real estate.
foxyv commented on Do You Need to Own a House? Many Older Americans Decide They Don't wsj.com/real-estate/luxur... · Posted by u/lxm
Hundred year events are now 10 year events. I'd much rather use a diverse portfolio to move outside of the scope of a disaster and chances are good that I will actually pay less than I should for the insurance component of rent because people are irrational. For raising rents it is similar, a city is usually getting too expensive all around for someone who doesn't need to live there.
My house represents less than 10% of my portfolio cost basis. It is now 25% of my total portfolio just because it has exploded in value over the past 5 years.
Edit: In addition I get to live in it!