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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was a multi family household along with his aunts uncles and cousins. Probably cheaper to do it that way.

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[–] SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

No it wasn't. The mom mentioned that the uncle and family drove in from Ohio.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That house is why the Lego set is so damn expensive

[+] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world -10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

From Google AI:

In 1990, the year the film was released, the actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time.

To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.

The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So, I do happen to know that they made some changes to the house including building a full size basketball court two levels underground. However, making $665,000 is not enough to afford an $5million dollar house.

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Brave posting Ai content. Surprised you have more upvotes than downvotes with this crowd.

I’m happy to see things summarised by LLMs, so thanks for the details.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn't exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Must be the time of day, as I’ve disclosed before and been downvoted to oblivion. This place is exhausting at times.

To think I found people more cynical than me, now that’s impressive.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did skim a bunch of articles first, all with the same info, but they were too long-winded or paywalled to link to. This summary seemed just right...

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yup, this (I feel) is one of the few areas where AI is valuable.

I've got a buddy who just got hired on at a large company as a software developer. Apparently their code base is so arcane and in such unusual frameworks that they recently fed all their documentation to an LLM and are using that to help onboard new employees (vs trying to have experts try to train up people personally).

While I think having a clean and clear codebase should have been their priority, patching it over with an AI teacher is far from the worst solution.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

summarized

Oh, then surely the Google AI can tell us exactly what it summarized so we can confirm accuracy, right?

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you’re not happy to see it then move along. Why you feel the need to comment on things you don’t like.

I’m happy to see so I’ll stay and engage.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm just questioning the use of "summarizing" here.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah by bad.

Is it wrong to use that word in the context I did?

Summarise: verb

give a brief statement of the main points of (something)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure, that's why I was asking about the source of what it's allegedly summarizing.

That's a problem with Google AI, you can't be sure if it's pulling the data from somewhere or just making it up whole cloth

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah i see. I guess I dont care (not in a negative way to you) for something like this where it means nothing to me if these figures are made up as I’ll never think of it again and it satiates the curiosity still.

I will say only really trust LLMs with my field of expertise as I can be confident I know when it’s talking shite.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Why don't you care about believing true things? You really don't care if the information being fed to you is true or not? Can you not understand that this is the exact mindset that has led us to the anti-intellectual hellhole we now reside in?

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