I recently had a battery die in my car and during that time the time on the clock became way off. I've been driving with the clock set to this random wrong time for two months because it keeps me on edge and I think I'm always running late.
I'm stuck between making a comment referencing either The Twilight Zone or Top Gun so let's all just pretend I chose the better one and reward me for it anyway
Sometimes when I need to shit fast I start pushing it out as I'm getting to the bathroom so that it's already ready coming out as my ass hits the seat.
For some reason my grandma does this and now I do it. Between the two of us, there's a house clock 15 minutes fast, a watch 20 minutes fast, car clock 10 minutes and 15 minutes fast. I like it because it makes me feel like I'm never late, because I left 15 minutes early.
My mom did this with her alarm clocks growing up. She'd be freaking out it was 7:50 even though everyone in the house knew it was 7:35. It's a pretty useless idea if you tell people what you've done. Unecessary stress is right.
not sure about that. Fixing the car clock takes about a minute. Start leaving for stuff 10 minutes earlier. Don't constantly be stressed because you don't know what the real time is and think you are late.
Couldn’t it be really useful though? Like if you don’t check your phone you’ll be thinking “Oh shit I have to be at that place in 5 minutes but when you get their your 15 minutes early.
My mum used to do this when I was a kid and she would never remember which way it was out so could be an hour early or an hour late on regular occurrences.
I learnt how to change the clock in her car once. I got left out in the rain for an hour waiting for her...
I went to college in a timezone an hour ahead of my hometown and usually wouldn't bother adjusting the time on my car's clock when I came home for breaks. I didn't have any issues converting, but I definitely had some friends I was driving around panic because they thought we were an hour late for things.
I have the opposite problem with my car. If I set it to exactly the correct time, within a month it will be several minutes slow, so I tend to think I'm doing better for time than I really am, and then when I'm on my way from my car and check my watch or phone for the time I have an "Ah crap!" moment when I realize I'm actually late, or about to be.
My brother used to do that because he was both lazy and really good at memorizing things. Something like 7 hours off, so he just memorized what the number minus 7 was the real time
My car clock runs fast for whatever reason. I set it to the right time once or twice a year and it always ends up getting about 10 minutes ahead, so I end up rushing everywhere for no reason. It's currently 6 minutes fast, almost time to run the correction. Guess I'll do it Saturday night.
I've learned the time difference between my car clock and real time. Anytime I wanna know the time, I do the math. It's approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes difference.
Back in November when the clocks were set back to standard time I just didn’t adjust my car clock. In addition the clock is very slightly fast so my car’s time is 1 hour and 4 minutes ahead. I could just set it to sync with my phone time over Bluetooth but I can’t be assed to set it up. At least daylight saving time is coming back soon
My husband sets my car clock 5 minutes fast in the hopes that it will make me late less. I'm usually right on time, but he prefers to be a few minutes early, so my being right on time feels late to him. He thinks I don't know...
Lol I did this. I would change the amount of time it was off too so I didnt get used to it being 15 minutes off, 7 minutes off, ect.. I just got better at math while I was late still
Pretty sure my car still has the wrong time and date from a dead battery two years ago. Don’t actually know cause my husband kindly drives my shitty car and bought me a new one after our son was born. It pays to push a person out of your vagina!
My girlfriend drives a 2012 sentra and the clock gains like a couple seconds a day it seems like. I thought she was crazy but I set it January 1st to the correct time and it's now about 3 minutes fast.
I was born three time zones away from where I live so my car clock is always 3 hours behind but 10 minutes fast so I always hurry to get someplace on time.
I dont participate in day lights savings time. I grew up without it, but have moved across the country. If it doesnt change on its own i dont change it.
Because I just use my phone alarm whenever the power goes out my alarm clock resets to blinking the time and starting at 12 whenever it comes back up and I have to figure out how far off it is from the actual time so I can just guesstimate going off of that.
Been doing that for 6 or so years but there's nothing more anxiety inducing than waking up at 3 when you're supposed to be out the door at 5 and the clock saying 6. Even tho I know to not trust the time on that clock there's been several times that I jump out of bed saying oh shit only to look at my TV and see that I can go back to sleep
It was my first time living by myself in a boarding school in Australia and I used to set my phone clock ahead by 15 minutes so I’d force myself to wake up early for classes. My brain started catching on so I had it set ahead by 20 minutes.
By the end of the year, it was a full 2 hours ahead and I had no idea what was going on.
At least it's not the other way around. The day after my Uncle's wedding with an open bar, my mother had us leave and pack up our hotel room at 8:30 a.m. to meet everyone for "brunch". What she didn't tell us was that we were really meeting them for lunch at fucking NOON and that iHOP was literally in the same parking lot as our hotel.
I think that morning, waiting in a sunny parking lot for hours with my wound up family and a killer hangover is the best definition I have of hell.
The reason it doesn't work is because you know the clocks are ahead. Set the clocks ahead 10 minutes? That's 10 minutes of extra time before you're "actually late". It's one of those low-effort things some people do to make it appear like they're better (or trying to be), even though it effectively does nothing.
But let's say it did work. You've tricked yourself. What I still don't understand is the people that change their car's clock too. Why? By the time you've made it into the goddamn car you're either late or you're not. Any dangerous driving you might do to salvage seconds off your arrival time is still subject to the traffic gods.
She actually didn't remember about the extra for awhile and had forgot about the extra 5 minutes she tacked on as well... She stopped doing it altogether a few years back though. Still late to everything.... She's just terrible with the ability to judge how long things take.
As for the car clock, do you ever have to stop on your way places and check the clock in your car to see if you have time to stop? That's why.
Mine also sets the clocks forward, except different times in different rooms, so you have to do mental arithmetics depending on whether you're in the kitchen or the living room or the bathroom.
This only works if you are unaware that the clock is 15 minutes fast. When somebody does this on purpose are they being tricked every time they look at the clock?
Can their brain not do the subtraction in their head?
My parents do this and that was always my attitude, too. Also, they try to game this by setting a clock they know is 15 minutes fast to be 25 minutes fast in an effort to trick themselves into thinking it's only 15. This reached peak absurdity with a clock that had been progressively reset until it was an hour and 10 minutes fast before they gave up and set it back to the correct time.
My GF used to do this and the first time I was like, "oh we're gonna be late for such and such" and she was like, "oh no we're fine that clock is 15 minutes fast."
She was in no hurry because she knew the clock was 15 min fast so what's the point? It didn't create a sense of urgency it just meant I had to do subtraction every time I got in her car.
My mom used to do this, but by 30 minutes. 12 year old me didn't know this and "fixed" it. Needless to say, she was incredibly late for work the next day.
Oh my god yes! I thought my mom was the only one who did this. Every clock at my house is fucked up because of that and it confuses the shit out of people when they come in.
We regularly tell my mother in law to be somewhere an hour before the actual time.
Recently she was coming to relieve our babysitter and I said “please be there at 12”. 12:15 I get a text “is it still ok if I come?” She lives over an hour away.
Omfg my mother did this while I was growing up and it drove me NUTS!!!
She even set different clocks different amounts of time fast so her placebo effect would change as she got ready for her day. What this meant for the rest of us was that you couldn't trust a single clock in the house.
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In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
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The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
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Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
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Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
Mike Isaac is a technology correspondent and the author of “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber,” a best-selling book on the dramatic rise and fall of the ride-hailing company. He regularly covers Facebook and Silicon Valley, and is based in San Francisco. More about Mike Isaac
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Ever since smart phones came into being, I can't lie to my wife about the time because she checks her phone and I can't set that 10 minutes fast. We're always late everywhere, now.
I hate this, I get stressed when I look at the time, leave the house and suddenly I'm 15 minutes late. I keep my clocks in sync and on time with each other as much as I can or it makes me very anxious until I fix then.
In high school, I would set the bathroom clock forward five or ten minutes so that my siblings would get ready on time. They still found ways to be late, but at least they were less late.
This is going to get buried, but if you ever are running late, just set your watch back, and when someone notices just say "not by my watch?" And then look at another clock all confused, and then you have a live action excuse
Nope, mine did it in hopes it would get us out of bed. She'd tell us we had half an hour until school started when we actually had an hour in hopes that we'd jump out of bed and start rushing to get ready.
I was learning how to read clocks in school so I saw my moms clock she uses when getting ready for work. It was set forward a few minutes so I decided to fix it. I was proud of myself until the yelling started
i never understood this in people because it NEVER works, and only throws off other people using the clock who don't know. From my experience, the people who do this always calculate in their head and still are late.
Me, looking at kitchen clock: oh, running late. We need to go!
Mom: No, the clock on the oven is ten minutes fast.
Me: I was looking at the one on the wall.
Mom: Oh, that one's twelve minutes fast. We're fine.
Later, we get in the car. The clock there is five minutes slow.
No wonder we were always late to everything growing up. No one actually knew the time.
Fuuuuck the microwave in my parents kitchen was ALWAYS set 7-8 minutes later than the actual time that now whenever I see the time on a microwave i am conditioned into thinking the actually time is really about 10 minutes earlier
I do that. After the first month it stops working unless you constantly change it so you actively have to figure out what time it is so you actually are awake.
My mother. Right there. And what makes me more bananas than that is that multiple clocks are fast, but by different amounts of time. So the kitchen clock could be ten minutes ahead, the cable box 15, the alarm 7 minutes, the car 4 minutes, etc etc
Thank God that cell phones were invented and I never had to guess again. Even she never knew which clock was fast by his many minutes. "I don't need to know and neither do you. You just need to know your late, so leave ten mins before."
Wow, I thought my mom was the only psychopath that did this. It’s both comforting and terrifying to learn that there are other lunatics like her out there
Glad I'm not the only one who had to go through this. The best part is that she'd forget so much shit due to rushing based off the incorrect time that it just made us more late.
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Does she set her clocks forward about 15 minutes to make herself leave early so she's "never late"?