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Groups including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and SMBC are trying to find ways to distribute portions of data centre-related deals to a broader range of investors, according to people familiar with the matter.

Lenders are exploring private deals to sell stakes in the debt as well as so-called risk transfers to reduce exposure to big borrowers and free up capacity for more lending.

This gives me strong deja vu for the housing crisis of '08.

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In that scenario where AI is used to find specific code snippets or other matching text blocks, the false positives aren’t really the problem. The false negatives are the issue.

I’ve run into that myself a few times when trying to use AI. You give it a very clear prompt to find something and it sometimes just falls flat on its face. It’s easy for the AI evangelists to just blame the human who wrote the prompt, or say “you didn’t give it enough context!” But anyone who’s tried using AI and is being objective about it will tell you that’s a weak excuse that doesn’t hold water a good chunk of the time. You can give it plenty of context, and be very clear, and it still doesn’t find all the examples that clearly match the prompt.

Ultimately, you often have better luck using a well-crafted regular expression to search for text than using AI.

And that seems like the crux of the issue (which you also highlight). While there are some very good use cases for AI, it’s being waaaay over-used. And too often its faults are dismissed or glossed over.

Parking your car on the street in front of your house as a way to ensure there’s enough space for you to safely pull out… If there’s nothing parked in your driveway now then it’s arguably a bit petty. But if there’s still another car parked in your driveway (which sounds like this is the case) then imo there’s nothing wrong with that. You are within your rights, and it sounds like you’ve asked them politely on other things and they haven’t complied. So you’re taking a practical and legal step to protect full access to your driveway.

Your complaints about their noise and pollution haven’t come to anything, and you haven’t escalated those in a crazy way. As someone else said, the time of day off the noise is an important factor. But complaining on its own isn’t a sin.

It looks like some people here are very critical of you, based on downvotes. But as someone who has been in a similar situation with noisy/messy neighbors, I can empathize with you. It’s easy to take the ‘people have the right to do their things’ approach. And I agree with that in most situations. But when you are stuck next to people who are not respecting distance and who are making noise all hours it’s not pleasant to be on the receiving end.

Imo, you aren’t being an asshole with your neighbors.

ETA: Although I don’t think this is the right community for this post, and that might be the reason for the downvotes.

I played it, briefly. It was horrible. Definitely right up there for me.

It was a feature specifically requested by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski for their government airplane sexy times. And the developer forgot to remove it.

Thanks.

Might also be interested to read how in 1857 Mormon militia murdered a bunch of settlers traveling west through Mormon territory - the Mountain Meadows Massacre. And only one person was ever convicted for the death of between 120 and 140 people.

Edit: Fixed link.

It really does channel the American SNL vibe. And that’s not necessarily a good thing. I’ve watched a couple of the sketches and they are really hammy and the impersonations aren’t very good (like the Keir Starmer impression).

Tina Fey’s monologue was very good though. But having Graham Norton make a guest appearance in it is like a cheat code.

Hegseth is gonna be even more angry than born normal when he can’t drive from point a to point b because of this.

In that context, it would have been kind of funny if they’d called the band The New Lou Who, and done a few covers of songs by The Who.

Interesting (but not surprising) that aside from during the pandemic and this year, Dem opinions have been relatively consistent regardless of the president. While Rep opinions have swung so wildly - up to the low 80s when ‘their guy’ was in office, and down to about 10 when ‘the other guy’ was in.

I thought 2025 was supposed to be “the moment” for AI PCs. Dell and other manufacturers were sure as hell spamming the shit out of that premise in their incessant online ads. But then it all fell through because of the sagging economy on Main Street, and the fact that many people didn’t like AI being forced down they’re proverbial throats. So yeah, 2026 won’t be any better for this ill-thought out marketing strategy.

Allut’s deathbed confession forms the bulk of the French police records of the case [about Picaud]. The detailed description of Picaud’s experiences in prison, which could not have been known to Allut, were supposedly dictated to him by the ghost of Father Torri.

Hmm, all sounds pretty sketchy. More like a screenplay itself than solid, verifiable facts.

That must be why they are doing okay, haha.

The original creator of Twitter and now creator of Bluesky and whatever this thing that’s falling off the rails is.

Basically another billionaire living in his own little bubble and huffing his own farts too much.

Sounds about right, unfortunately.

I read a bit of the article and watched most of the YouTube video embedded in it. It’s definitely worth a read/watch.

The video narrator keeps going back to the argument “they didn’t tell the agents to do XYZ!” Yeah no shit, that’s the whole point behind agents! They are autonomous and extrapolate actions based on the situation they find themselves in. The implication the guy is trying to make is that these agents are sentient, which is a stretch and a bit misleading.

But… it’s still a really interesting series of exercises. Especially the Minecraft one. And if nothing else it gives researchers pointers about how they can improve agent decision-making, and everyone more insight into how they operate.

Hmm, interesting. Thanks for the insight.

“It’s a very empathetic place,” she says of Reddit. “For my wedding, I’ve found help emotionally, logistically and inspiration-wise.”

Empathetic? Really?! On reddit?!!

Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of good people still using it. But there are a ton of assholes and trolls poisoning a lot of discussions, deliberately antagonizing people, or derailing conversations with pedantic bullshit.

If she thinks Reddit is empathetic she’d be blown away by most of the Fediverse.

Apparently images alone don’t work. It has to be a video following a very specific set of instructions (looking to one side, then to the other, then straight ahead - or something like that).

But your point still stands. Apparently a lot of kids are getting around this by using AI generated videos, or having a parent do it for them, or just drawing giving facial hair onto themselves.

Yes, it’s definitely worse than Discord. Discord without age verification is still mostly usable. Roblox without it isn’t.

The silver lining for me is that my kids have basically abandoned the platform now. I told them I’m not sending their IDs in because there’s such a huge risk of a data breach.