CaptDust

We need consumer rights regulations so badly around digital goods. Absolute bullshit. If they cant host the content any more they must make it available before removal or something.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

This gif is gonna get a lot of use over the next few years I can feel it.

I've read the writers of John Wick introduced the dog as the plot motivator because just having his wife killed wasn't emotionally investing enough for audiences to "justify" (or buy into) the revenge rampage. The dog did a better job at immediately establishing the villians as irredeemably monstrous.

There's something about the innocence of animals that sets people off big time.

Meanwhile, Cyberpunk "how big do you want your dick?"

Pool's closed?

They won't just cheer, they'll insist that you cheer with them and recognize it's the brightest bulb in the brightest room anyone has seen, probably ever. If you don't agree, deported for being a satanic homosexual antifa terrorist.

They're arresting people who just stopped and touched a piece to inspect it.

He has also designed boats, paddles and other waterproof products, and said he was curious about what materials had been used to paint the pool. The 67-year-old said he only touched the material briefly before he was told by one of the park service workers helping to clean the algae from the pool to stop.

Eeesh too rich for me, but happy for anyone that gets one!

OCR libraries have undoubtedly improved but LLMs are using the same open source libraries and tools available to anyone... there's few cases where sending the work through general models is worth it for text conversion. Employees just needed a front end to upload, run something like tesseract behind the scenes, and spit out the result. It's an egregiously stupid use of resources.

I know a company that burned $100k in tokens after they they let like 50 worker bees using general AI for OCR, simply converting images and PDFs to text.

They didn't bother to create a skill, or teach the AI how to reuse a shared script so every request resulted in it writing a new python project, pulling libraries, using a frontier model rather than offloading a dumb one etc.

Basically find a business process that happens often and let em at it inefficiently, it'll happily chew through the budget.