The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread
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Complaint: I was woken at 2:30am MDT by one of the fire alarms chirping that its battery needed changing. After changing the one outside my door, I realized it was the one outside my flatmate's! He had closed his door. I waited until he got up, and found out it started chirping at 11:30pm previous evening, when he woke up, closed his door, went back to sleep. I went to change his battery, then found the lid was broken, could not sit properly due to breakage inside and the chirping continues. An urgent workorder to the apartment maintenance team may be answered next week. Of course I have a doctor's appointment within an hour of their arrival for work today.
To add to my fun this morning, Charlie my cat who threw up on my bed Wednesday when I was out, started to do it again this morning. I managed to run in the room in time to shoo him off my bed just in time. So he has been spitting up all over the floors. Sigh.
I have a headache.
(Thom has been known to sleep through the fire alarms going fully off.) (Me, I have 'Mommy Radar' and the slightest noise out of the ordinary triggers me awake.)
I'm at a cinema about to watch Minecraft. The seat I was assigned is kaput. I decided to visit the lady's room before reporting that seat 13 is kaput. I also let them know I am sitting now in seat 12 of the same row.
There is only one mum with her children here and myself. Also there is free WiFi set up so I can use it.
The previews should start soon.
Non-complaint: Just got a Corsair 64GB RAM kit for £100. Now I just need a beast of an SSD to go with it.
Yes. It means I've finally got a new rig.
Complaint: I had to get a veterinary nurse to come to come to the house to "escort" my cat to the vet. I told her she should've brought a suit of armour... I can't believe it's come to this.
Ugh, sucko day for you. I'm sorry. I hope it improves.
When I was a teen I slept through my dad accidentally setting off the fire alarm by making too much particulate on a renovation project he was doing. Now I have really weirdly selective things that wake or do not wake me. My two kids don't always have synchronized sleep schedules, so often my older one is up and about while younger one and I are asleep. (Older child is of an age and responsibility level to be self sufficient about many things, and able/willing to come get me if something crosses into 'need mom' territory, so no biggie.) If my brain classifies something as 'kid going about their thing' noise, I sleep right through it. Including them using the hand vac, which is NOT quiet. Anything else, and I'm awake in a flash.
Especially the soft, repetative noise of a feline about to hurl.
When I was a kid, my younger brother toddled out of bed to inform Mom that he didn't feel good. (Bedrooms all with doors onto the same central hall.) He didn't even get the full sentence out before she was out of bed, had grabbed him up, and was bolting for the bathroom. I remember thinking at the time that she had to have super powers or something.
Now I get it. Not wanting to scrub the carpet at 2 AM is a powerful motivator for speed.
'Mummy Radar' is something my wife is entirely lacking. When our daughters woke up hungry in the middle of the night shortly after birth, they could scream their hearts out and my wife would never hear them. Once, and only once, our cat meowed quietly at me for extra food at 2am while I was bottle feeding baby having been woken up as usual by prolonged screaming. 30 seconds later she was down asking how her baby was. Not the brat, the cat. She barely registered the existence of our daughter in my arms before going back to bed.
Regards
Richard
Complaint that turned into a non-complaint: I am not into movies that have nudity for no reason other than to gain porn-addicted views. And, what also sucks is funny movies are not so funny anymore. I laughed so hard during Pink Panther movies that my ribs hurt for days. Dumb and Dumber had a similar effect and British TV humor like Faulty Towers almost broke my ribs, but finding a really funny movie as of late, is akin to searching for a needle in a haystack (my downer during coding days), But, lo and behold I stumble upon No Hard Feelings with Jennifer Lawrence. I am not a huge Jennifer Lawrence fan (outside of Hunger Games, . . . I was mostly a fan of the Hunger Games, not her). I thought, why not? This can't suck worst than some 'comedies' that didn't even make me smile, but was I ever surprised. OMG. This was the funniest, gut wrenching comedy I have seen in ions. So-o-o-o-o funny! But she does run naked on the beach beating the crap out of 3 people stealing her clothes and that was super funny, believe it or not!
I slept through a hell of a storm today as it passed overhead and hit the city. I didn't hear sirens; my wife was awake. I do have to get the roof looked at for hail damage, though.
St. Louis hit by severe storms: Photos of aftermath | ksdk.com
@KyotoKid
Crazy as it sounds, I woudn't even know where to start in explaining what it tastes like. It's been one to two years now since I had one, but all I can say is that it really was absolutely delicious! It was one of those things where as soon as you taste it, you think to yourself, yeah, if the price were not a barrier, I could quite easily put-on a lot of weight very quickly eating this stuff non-stop!
@AgitatedRiot
I'm not a fan of A.I. (due to the theft aspect of generative A.I), but thanks for the giggle! Ironically, since A.I. is supposed to be an all-seeing, all-knowing super intilligence, you would probably have been better-off asking it the following question:
"During a period spanning 2022 to 2025, please list every Sainsbury's pizza that was available as part of their Taste The Difference range, had a hand-stretched sourdough base, and included mushroom and spinach as part of the topping. Please also provide the official Sainsbury's product photo of each pizza that fits the request."
Non-complaint: Watch to the end to resolve the mystery.
(Or possibly end up even more confused.
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And does anyone besides me get the reference to "Dr. Strangelove"?
Not ready to watch a 16 minute long YouTube video. Or maybe not in the mood for it? Don't know why?
I found a bad way to carry a cough drop with me. That is in my shoe. I think my pocket is a better option for some reason.
.....well Google's AI certianly isn;t up to the task.
Thanks for the Giggle
Proof AI isn't all Knowing. It is as stupid as the people who program them.
Hallucinations are outputs from LLMs and generative AI that look coherent but are wrong or absurd. They may come from errors or gaps in the training data. Generative AI models frequently produce false legal information, with so-called "hallucinations" occurring between 69 percent to 88 percent of the time. Hallucinations are basically errors that pop up in the output of Generative AI, presented as fact, and which it can't recognize as wrong.
AI hallucination rates vary depending on the model and the task. Recent reports indicate that OpenAI's latest models, o3 and o4-mini, have hallucination rates of 33% and 48%, respectively, when answering questions about public figures. Some reasoning models, like DeepSeek-R1, have seen double-digit rises in hallucination rates compared to previous versions. Meanwhile, a study found that even the best AI models still hallucinate at least 0.7% of the time, while some go over 25%.
AI is biased, like most humans. We cannot create an all-knowing machine if humans aren't all-knowing. AI can only mimic humans and is so fallible that, IMHO, it's a mistake even to try to let AI control things.
...the truth is out there, somwehere
@KyotoKid
Well fancy that, the world's largest privacy invader and data scalper unable to find a pizza. I'm determined more than ever now to find it, and in the process, prove the vast superiority of being a conscious human being!
@AgitatedRiot
Oh don't you worry, I know exactly how dumb these systems are, and the threat they pose to humanity. They have no intelligence whatsoever, nor will they ever, since they are not (and never will be) conscious beings no matter what they tell you.
I think it is too premature to call these things AI. I don't know if it is intelligence or just knowledge that isn't 100% accurate.
Neither. It's an applicaiton of statistical analysis - work out what usually follows from a given input and use that association for the full set of inputs in the prompt to build a response. There may then be some non-AI or semi-AI verification when dealing with questions rather than image generation.
AI (ChatGPT) has helped me out with upgrading a new computer. It sorted through all of the fluff, and got straight to the point.
It's also really hilarious. I was relaying replies from CharacterAI to ChatGPT. Chat just ripped apart certain characters not acting like they should (we've had a lot of fun with Devil May Cry).
Mind you, we've got this tech, and most of the stuff its churning out is naked anime girls... I'm pretty pure if AI does revolt, it's probably going to be because of that... Or "Vergil from Devil May Cry" images
The "AI To Be Or Not To Be", Complaint Thread.
I just wish there was an option to turn AI off. Or, better, to have to opt-in to use it in the first place.
Yes I am a curmudgeon about these things. I don't even use a cell except for roadside emergencies, and it annoys me to no end that so much of society now not only assumes you have one, but requires you to have one to participate. Want to get that great bargain at the grocery store? Scan here. Want to participate in our discount club? We need your cell number. Filling out our form? Provide cell number in this required field. I got a card in the mail last year about proposed updates to the recreational areas in the city -- specifically the playgrounds. In order to find out more or enter an opinion, you had to scan a QR code. There wasn't even a "or log on to <whatever.com>" option.
Yes, well, there was some kind of a deal at Price Chopper, one of the local grocery stores, where we were supposed to get a free turkey. It turns out you only get the free turkey through the app. We ended up paying for the turkey. We didn't even want a turkey. We only went for it because it was supposed to be free. The advertisement didn't actually mention an app. I'm sure there is some way we could have sued them for a turkey.
My mother and social partner both were told by their employers that they have to "check in" with an app on their phone instead of using a traditional record of when they start and end work. My mom's workplace app is about as reliable as DAZ when it comes to the internet. Sometimes she can't check in because it's unable to connect to the internet. The social partner has always had a flip phone and had to buy a phone that can handle apps.
Some of the phones have the ability to connect to wi-fi. And if you get that working then some of the phones have the ability to make the phone functions work using the internet connection instead of the cellphone tower. They call it VoLTE or WiFi calling, or something like that.
Yes! Everybody wants you to have their stupid app!
I was waiting in line at the bank at one point, and one of the employees came over and was like "oh, what are you here for today? Oh, you could do that with your phone!" and I'm all, "I am sure I cannot." She tried explaining how easy it was... here, she'd just show me if I got out my phone!
"I don't have a smartphone."
I swear she couldn't have looked more confused if I'd told her I'd arrived earlier that morning from Neptune.
"But... how do you...?"
"Just like I did before they existed."
In fairness, she was of an age where she probably didn't remember a time before smartphones. But still.
Ah, old people phone stories:
About 2013 I was in Univeral's "Islands Of Adventure" in Orlando, wandering in the junglish areas near the Jurrasic dinosaur stuff and one of the park staff approached me with an electronic tablet of some sort and asked if I'd take a survey. I figured she'd ask a few questions and I'd be on my way, so I said "Sure, OK". She then proceeds to hand me the tablet and says "Just read the questions and mark the opinion that is closest to what you feel is right." I tried, for several minutes to figure out how the app worked, not knowing how to scroll, or erase mistakes, and finally handed it back to her and told her to ask somebody 30 years younger or else read it to them and work the app yourself if their hair is gray.
It's not that it was beyond me, it's just that it was a learning curve that I hadn't taken yet. I should have run off with her tablet to take time to figure it out without standing in the path of a thousand people gawking at dinosaurs while I experimented.
Old people bank stories: I still use bank checks but the only thing I use my checkbook for anymore is rent and an occasional donation to some under-technicalized organization. But I still keep the checkbook tally pages accurate and balanced with all my account's activity by check or credit card, despite also using the bank's Website records. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to see ink on paper with the same numbers as the computer.
...I'll be out there myself searching as well.
...for Google searches just preface them with -ai and it will skip using it.
Unfortunately that doesn't work on their AI assisted spell checking so I now have to depend even more on my trusty old version of Word 2000 with the custom dictionary I set up.
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I still have my old flip phone which serves now as a travel and backup home alarm clock (in case the power goes out). I actually miss using it as I could flip it open just like Capt .Kirk did with his communicator in the old Star Trek series.
...I do the same as ro pay though the management's online app costs an extra 7$. May not sound like much but when your only income is a very meagre SS benefit (from which rent takes a 47% bit out of every month) any savings is a good thing. Plus, with this flaky management company we have here, that extra proof of payment could be a life saver.
There are now young adults, perhaps even 30-year-olds, who don't know what Family Ties is and probably could not name a movie starring Michael J. Fox. And there have been some for a while now who have never used a CD player. But most of them have seen one.
The social partner I mentioned who only used flip phones is 35 years old at the time of this message. I don't think the avoidance of smartphones has to do with age. Just some people don't like technology they deem unnecessary. My cousin could not be convinced to use a tablet computer even with it being given as a gift. And that cousinnever uses computers, as far as I know.
I don't know where I'm going with this.
When I was growing up, my grandmother had a gramophone squirreled away in her attic. It had a record storage cabinet full of records underneath the player. I at the age of 10 or so, had great fun figuring out how it worked. The records were the old style, ~78RPM, flat, shellac records (not Edison wax cylinders) of various types of music, including a full Beethoven symphony in a fancy hard cover album. The records only lasted 7 minutes. Years later I inherited that gramophone and the records. I ended up selling it when my world fell apart but appreciate having had the opportunity to enjoy it for what it was. Now, my CD players and CD collection will be antiques when they get passed on.
...I still have a large collection of vinyl LPs along with CDs. "Subscription Music" interests me as much as "Subscription Software". I'd rather pay once and enjoy what I have than always have to dig in the pocket every so often to renew. Rent, Phone, Power and Net access are the only monthly bills I have (two of which are on autopay) which makes life simpler. No streaming television services as I don't have a television and some services don't work well on a PC ("drop outs", momentary freezes, and/or buffering). When I'm with friends and the discussion turns to various series they watch I am totally lost. My time is more important for other things than zoning out for hours on the latest Nerflix, Disney, or Peacock Mini/Maxi series (much of which are rather unappealing to me anyway).
If I want to watch a film, I'll go to "Movie Madness" (a local DVD rental store - yes, such places still exist) and get a DVD or two. (no adverts and I can pause it to get a snack from the kitchen).
While my phone's camera takes fairly good pictures, I still prefer film photography. I have a full 35 mm SLR kit with different lenses, filters, a tripod, and other accessories (Including a hand held light meter) To replace that with a comparable digital camera set up would be more than I could afford. Also film photography is making something of a comeback
...oh forgot, today is the 45th anniversary of the Mt St Helens eruption. Has it been that long already as I remember getting stuck for several hours in Yakima Washington on my way to start a new life in Seattle that fateful morning.
Yeah it was interesting experience
In Yakima I saw morning turn back into night by 10:30 with an odd grey "snow" falling.
When we finally made it to Seattle that evening.I checked into my hotel and watched the ongoing local news coverage of the situation. The weather report was definitely interesting, high, low, chance of rainfall, chance of ash fall. Seattle got almost nothing as the winds were coming from the west that morning and afternoon. Meanwhile Portland to the south had a ringside seat.
Not the type of "welcome" I expected.
The sky literally was falling that day..
The ash cloud approaching:
Downtown Yakima. at midday..
The view from Portland
An apocalyptic scene from east of Portland along the Columbia River.
Boy, what a memory to have.
I, too, hadn't realised it was that long. As far as I'm aware, it was the volcano that awoke the general public to the fact that volcanos weren't just the well behaved Hawaian type, and life could get quite exciting around them. And most people wouldn't want that type of exciting.
Regards,
Richard