Zephorah
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- Comment on do you miss any content from reddit? 1 hour ago:
I stay on the main feed (app) and just block stuff I’m not interested. I haven’t seen that one break through yet. Thanks!
- Comment on do you miss any content from reddit? 7 hours ago:
You’re kidding. How is that even possible? Conservative AI bots pushing for those uneducated masses? Probably, with 51% bit/AI post populations on social media.
In real life, I see the younger generation carrying physical, paper books around at work. We have them in my house, and the people in my house keep one in their cars for wait times.
- Comment on do you miss any content from reddit? 8 hours ago:
Exactly. I haven’t seen either a woodworking or sewing project over here since I joined, as one example.
No terrible first attempt at dovetails, no probable not first attempt at macarons, no woman wearing the sweater she just knit from alpaca wool.
- Comment on do you miss any content from reddit? 8 hours ago:
Smaller, niche subs. The state/city subs. The specific career subs. The hobby subs.
- Comment on Sammy Sammy Alty I just popped 32gb of RAMy 5 days ago:
I wish the man coffee that is always just shy of hot.
- Comment on Sir Patrick Stewart Tribute 1 week ago:
86 is a good run.
- Comment on I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it? 4 weeks ago:
Dresser. Little boxes called drawers that hide your lack of folding. They’re great for things like underwear items.
Of course, you’ll look like like child or homeless person walking around in crap that’s wrinkled to that degree. Depending on your job, you may get pulled aside for a talk regarding your appearance.
The dresser will remove roughly half this onerous task for you, reducing clothes on hangers in a closet, but you’ll likely still need clothing that doesn’t look like it came from the dirty floor pile.
The definition of adulting is accepting a list of tasks you never really want to do. Until you’ve done that, you haven’t really grown up all the way yet.
- Comment on Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double Counter 4 weeks ago:
Plot twist, it’s a “rogue AI” doing data collection.
- Comment on If this survey is any indication, Audacity wants to add generative AI because of course they do 4 weeks ago:
It’s an art thing. No machines generating in place of humans a key ethic.
- Comment on Time keeps marching forward 1 month ago:
Mass effect is 19 years old.
- Comment on Women accounted for almost all of job gains in August. Here’s why 2 months ago:
IT is male dominated and they all seem like they’re being downsized right now. Microsoft alone has cut a ton of jobs.
A quick google says men dominate: construction, piloting, CEOs, engineering.
Computer science and math push to 58% of degrees granted.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice 2 months ago:
They are testing quite a few things atm. Radiology image recognition is definitely there. But is this what the phone wavers are accessing? No. The Google search bot and the bots being tested are two different things.
I wouldn’t get too excited about the future of AI in medicine, not given the level of venture capital and such in medicine already.
LLMs are programs that can be tuned by people who have not sworn an oath or spent 12 dedicated years and $250k debt to pursue medicine. What will motivate how these bots are tuned? Publicity and PR can create excitement, but what have the last 30years of medicine taught us? Even the radiology bot can be “turned down” in ways a human rarely would allow.
Profit speaks. Profit drives. Profit decides patient care levels and outcomes. What keeps it afloat are the people clawing back at administrators. Don’t underestimate the power of angry nurses or pushy physicians in just how much they’ve kept healthcare afloat. For you. While admin battles them from the shadows in the name of profit.
What they don’t mention among the many bots being tested is the EOLI, or, End Of Life Index. The most used electronic medical record had a bot introduced this year, unannounced, that is a probability predictor of a patient dying in the next 6 month. The mouse over admonishes caregivers not to discuss this with patients or families as it may upset them. Does/will the EOLI factor into insurance decision making?
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 2 months ago:
You don’t typically have a horse without money.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1 2 months ago:
Idk, the fake smiling on vendors is spot on imo, especially the trade authority guy on The Den, contempt and such comes through on the guy who will buy anything and pushes a distinct smarmy vibe.
There’s room for what I’d call New Vegas refinement on Fallout 3, but it’s a huge game.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1 2 months ago:
Starfield. I’m a little surprised it’s not more popular. Blows Skyrim away imo as a real time killer.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice 2 months ago:
Here’s an example of how not to use it. Medicine. The Internet soup includes medical advice from new agers, mommy blogs, anti-vax, chiropracty, chakras, well meaning but mistaken posters, Reddit, aggregate scrape sites, legit sites, and more.
If you take the time to correct the AI it will apologize and then move to other attempts until it nails it, maybe. Alternatively, you tell it the right answer and it confirmation biases you. (But are you actually right? The AI will never tell.)
The medical professional community is getting hit hard lately with aggressive waving of phones, yelling, and unwillingness to listen, because the Google bot said so and the medical staff doesn’t agree with the Google bot. Or, the chatGPT subscription said so. The ChatGPT guys go hard on defending the AI.
There used to be a bit of embarrassment and willingness to listen to credentialed individuals giving medical advice in contradiction to WebMD or random posts. Not always, but often.
Lately, people are defending the AI answers like it’s their own life’s work.
It’s starting to resonate, at times, like people caught in an addiction but not ready to get clean: defensive, they know what they’re about, you don’t know, and they’ve got this all under control. That’s not quite right, but it’s the closest equivalent in my experience.
Computer things though, I use it sometimes, depending.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 2 months ago:
They want your data, and if you don’t give it to them by logging in, they’re cutting you off. Probably.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 2 months ago:
Not easy, you’ve done well.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 2 months ago:
That’s not a bad idea. It is addictive. Tax it like alcohol and tobacco. I’ve watched a subset of diabetics scream that they need sugar no matter what healthcare tries to say about it. Tears. More often, anger and spiteful overconsumption in reaction to being told no. (A subset, not all.)
- Comment on I need an adult 2 months ago:
Red cabbage.
Purple carrots get to be purple, but, that may be because there are literal red carrots.
Purple peppers get called black or some such, but again, red peppers exist.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 2 months ago:
While what you say is true it is also true that this administration is a train wreck, talks often of deregulation, and gives no fucks about working class citizens.
It’s difficult to trust in coincidence with these self serving leeches.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 2 months ago:
And enough regulation that we can eat fruits and veggies without fear of explosive diarrhea. And the capacity to afford said fruits and vegetables.
- Comment on "It's not work" - Austrian Chancellor Stocker declares that in his view caring for children isn't work 2 months ago:
Either that or he’s taking the stance that stay at home moms and dads are lazy bastards who do no work
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If it’s starlings, that’s fair.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I do such that my cats would probably be terrified of the outside. Even so, there are ferals hunting the fields.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They eat cats.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 months ago:
Hey, I went back and played both NWN and NWN2 base campaigns. I don’t care. But others will emit a never ending keening wail and possibly break their own bank accounts on it.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 months ago:
Sure, but even with all that, what are the odds? Given the amount of “dated engine” and such in review commentary.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 months ago:
That game was such a bleached out, thin piece of repetitive garbage. Every character, and their dialogue, was about as deep as a guard NPC in Skyrim.
Season 8 of GoT had better production value.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 months ago:
ME manages to incorporate just about every SciFi trope in a good way, have punchy dialogue and characters, offer chills at some points, and have a great overarching plot. More importantly, they give it an ending.
BioWare really fucked themselves with that EA deal. I don’t see them saving themselves like Amplitude did. I suppose there’s DDO, it’s still around, love of D&D being what it is within D&D communities The devs made a deal with Warner Brothers and now it’s Standing Stone, but how often has that happened? Mostly, studios just die.