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mrstone··on ChatGPT Health
Not a chance.
mrstone··on Haiku Validator
A little flask app to write and validate haikus. It's definitely not perfect and makes some mistakes. It uses the syllables python library to estimate how many syllables are in each word.

You can check the override list at https://haikuvalidator.com/overrides and if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know any words that are broken.

This is my first time making a web app. Hoping that someone finds it fun / useful.

mrstone··on Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says
I feel like I've heard this one before. With this administration, I can't seem them actually doing it.
mrstone··on Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says
How many times is Ticketmaster going to be slapped on the wrist before something is actually done? They are clearly corrupt and colluding with scalpers and every 4 years or so the FTC says "hey now don't do that" and Ticketmaster goes back to their old schtick. It's immensely frustrating because they are also a monopoly and no one can feasibly compete with them because they also control the event venues. I guess this is end-stage capitalism though..
mrstone··on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
They sure do, but not enough to be self sustaining, and tariffs aren't going to magically produce more aluminum and steel. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47294. Canadian aluminum is critical to the US supply.

Bananas may not matter (to you), but coffee certainly will.

mrstone··on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
This is one of the most surface-level understandings of national economics that I have seen. Sure, all of that would be great, if not for two things a) these tariffs are not targeted and b) your country could produce everything that it is tariffing. What is the plan for cocoa beans? bananas? aluminum and steel?

These thinly veiled pro-trump people are much too common the internet and I'm getting tired of it.

mrstone··on OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
> I wonder if there's a way to automatically detect how "fast" a person talks in an audio file.

Hilbert transform and FFT to get phoneme rate would work.

mrstone··on TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
I'm on Firefox and it doesn't flash for me.
mrstone··on Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]
At the very least, here's a scan from Jotti.

https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/filescanjob/svl9focwgt

mrstone··on A Canadian payroll dependency chart
Thanks for this comment. Duty? Customs? On a 10 dollar part? Especially for agricultural purposes - this guy is a little off his rocker. It seems like he tried to buy a part, found out shipping was expensive and the seller wanted to use a broker (probably $20), neither of which have anything to do with regulations.
mrstone··on "Et Tu, Ilya?"
I have to agree - the amount of self-importance in this is hilarious. I would really like someone to be able to point to something definitive that Sam has actually built. In my view, he was a classic techbro who built one MVP and immediately went on an Regulation World Tour to secure his market cap. It seemed pretty transparent, but I guess people must like that?
mrstone··on How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis
A neurologist is a medical doctor. Neuroscientists are the PhDs who do the actual research.
mrstone··on Odorant diffuser improves memory and neural functioning in older adults
Do you think they faked the data? Or something else?
mrstone··on The Speed of the Librem 5
The phone itself looks like junk from 2011. The ghosting on the screen is apparent in the video demonstrating its "speed". The apps they are demoing look very poorly designed, but all of this to be forgiven because "they aren't collecting your data".

Disappointing but I didn't really expect much from them.

mrstone··on Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players
Excellent contribution. A truly well thought out, concise brief answer. Bravo.
mrstone··on YouTube Removes R.F. Kennedy Presidential Candidate Interview
Yikes.
mrstone··on Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty
Francesca Gino is a woman.
mrstone··on Zluda: Run CUDA code on Intel GPUs, unmodified
I imagine they could, but it is probably more of a legal thing.
mrstone··on OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request
A surprise to no one, Sam is a knob.
mrstone··on Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT
I think LLMs are great, but most companies have not figured out what they are truly useful for. Hint: it's not for search. LLMs are not knowledge databases, and should not be relied on for unknown information. In my opinion, they are more useful 24/7 editing service. Write a paragraph and ask it to paraphrase. Ask it to make a new story that can be edited. If you don't have any idea what the answer to the thing you're asking is, you shouldn't rely on the response from the bot.
mrstone··on Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
Still complete and utter dipshit move from the admin.
mrstone··on ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
I agree. I regularly use ChatGPT to help reword paragraphs to be more succinct. I rarely ask it for actual information that it has to look up. At its core, it's an LLM which models how language is structured, and that's what it's good at.
mrstone··on New Mac Mini
> On the other hand, maybe there should be pushback against shitty inefficient software?

I think that war has been lost. Apple should just allow more RAM to be put in.

mrstone··on Detangle: AI-generated summaries of legal docs
You do nothing with the data in the interim? I find that hard to believe.
mrstone··on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
Seems like a great product, but something about the URL is reminiscent of those scammy websites that try to trick you into downloading scamware.
mrstone··on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
Incredibly pathetic. I am so disappointed in LastPass. I was willing to forgive their subpar UX because hey, at least my passwords were safe. I've moved over to Bitwarden and am happy for now, but man what a shitshow.
mrstone··on Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator
I don't assess the value of an image of triangles to be $8. That's all.
mrstone··on Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator
If it was like, $1 or something, I would be willing to buy it. $8 is entirely too much.
mrstone··on GTA VI Leak [video]
Honestly such an odd take. The games are all plenty immersive
mrstone··on Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator
Looks nice, but $8 for a PNG? Come on.
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