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- Comment on How do I unrot my brain from AI, how do I start using ChatGPT less and less, and is improv a good enough way to fix an AI-rotted brain? 5 days ago:
TLDR: People take longer to give you an answer than AI or a search engine, but they are way quicker at giving you the right one.
It’s way more efficient asking people. You get info from single discrete primary sources with real-world experience that you can interrogate, rather than a machine synthesizing an ‘average answer’ i.e mashing together a load of differing and conflicting info…
People are also better at updating your own question to make it more appropriate to the task at hand.
A public discussion also leaves the answer and context visible to others who are searching for solutions in future.
I’ve wasted a lot of time trying to use AI to find answers and advice, and online articles before that. 9 times out of 10 it just ends in confusion or the answers they give simply don’t work in my case. If I ask real people I pretty much always get the problem sorted eventually.
People are awesome.
- Comment on Record number of people waiting for NHS diagnostic tests in England 1 week ago:
It goes to show how much we assume that there are infinite resources, as long as we can pay for them. But there are actual real limitations to manpower, equipment and natural resources. There is a massive difference between the whole pie getting bigger, and one person’s share of it getting bigger.
- Comment on More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest 1 week ago:
This is genuinely outrageous and terrifying.
The last time I was at A&E we had to sit quietly for four hours in a dilapidated waiting area while my partner was having a miscarriage. There were two old ladies who had been there waiting since the day before (12 hours) and a young guy with a smashed up face who gave up waiting and just left. The initial triage thing happened in what seemed like a converted broom cupboard. When they finally let us into the hospital to be seen I was expecting it to be heaving, but it was like a ghost ship.
It’s an absolute scandal.
Someone please remind me how much has been spent on HS2, Hinckley C, PPE fraud for MPs mates, Trident, the filthy-rich not paying tax etc and tell me why any of these things are more important than saving people’s lives in emergencies.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 3 weeks ago:
That’s very interesting about the relationship between nitrogen and protein.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 3 weeks ago:
My concern is that he’ll be under a lot of pressure to call an early general election. And an election campaign will completely suck the energy out of dealing with the shit really starting to hit the fan with the economy. Worse still, it will probably be followed by a chaotic Reform government, or months of wrangling over a coalition.
I think it might be actually be better in the long run if he loses the byelection. It’s hard to see any positive change happening any time soon though.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 3 weeks ago:
It seems improbable to me that absolutely none of the current risks start to become realised in the immediate future, and that we are allowed to resume muddling on like before.
As an englishman I hate to say it, but the president of the united states is a true agent of the future.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 3 weeks ago:
Same here.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 3 weeks ago:
Which foods do you think will see the highest inflation?
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 3 weeks ago:
What has been going on with Finnish trade since the invasion? I haven’t seen any reporting on this here in the UK, as far as I’m aware.
I also hope fossil fuel usage starts declining. I’m feeling cautiously optimistic, atleast about my country.
Well you will be pleased to hear that I am done with fossil fuels. Part of my reason for creating this post is to get some perspective before laying down most of my savings on offgrid renewables.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 3 weeks ago:
What is your personal hunch about where the real economy is going for the median family in Europe/US?
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 3 weeks ago:
I’m actually a bit worried about Burnham winning the byelection. If he becomes PM we’ll be having a political crisis at the same time as an economic one.
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- Comment on Half of UK adults say they spend less than three hours a week outside in nature 3 weeks ago:
Walking is so underrated that it’s easy to forget about it entirely. Thanks for remimding me about it!
- Comment on Four jailed over £6m NHS contract fraud have sentences cut 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. Arguing that crime is your way of life rather than a series of separate and discrete acts of misjudgement gets you a lighter sentence.
- Comment on Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group 5 weeks ago:
Draw a smiling penis on them.
I’m totally serious - it’s the only thing which undermines them and communicates on the same level as them.
Don’t do all of them at once or it will look like a concerted campaign or one person’s fit of passion. Just do 1 in 20 or so, and draw each one slightly differently. If they are replaced wait a while before defacing the new ones.
- Comment on Majority of Britons would back a smoking ban in pub gardens 5 weeks ago:
I’m very surprised that isn’t already banned in kids play areas and it definitely shoyld be.
I think pubs should be allowed to decide for themselves about beer gardens though.
- Comment on They got us by the balls 5 weeks ago:
I too would like to know this
- Comment on [Video] People Against Genocide target DSV in Bristol. DSV are a logistics firm which ship weapons for Elbit Systems. 1 month ago:
They’ve been in prison until this point. That’s nearly two years in prison without having been found guilty in a trial. The maximum is supposed to be six months.
- Comment on [Video] People Against Genocide target DSV in Bristol. DSV are a logistics firm which ship weapons for Elbit Systems. 1 month ago:
Elbit Systems have a weapons factory, also in Bristol, which was the site of a break-in by direct action activists who found quadcopter drones used to drop grenades on people in Gaza. The activists were imprisoned without trial.
Direct action like that in the video risks huge personal sacrifice.
- Comment on Forensic Poetry 1 month ago:
So he was smoking hemp?
- Comment on What was the stupidest form of US defaultism you've encountered in real life whilst they're abroad? 1 month ago:
“Fish and chips por favor.”
- Comment on The fuck is the point 2 months ago:
Beans actually have plenty of protein in them. They’re also high in fibre.
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 2 months ago:
Website is someone else’s computer.
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 3 months ago:
where you can talk to actual helpful humans and solve a problem together if you get stuck
I’m not directly answering your question here, but I just want to say that slrpnk.net/c/linux@lemmy.ml here on Lemmy is exactly this and there are people using all sorts of distributions. I’ve found everyone there extremely helpful.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 4 months ago:
you can expect 0-2% output from a panel in the winter time
I can confirm this. My family is off-grid and there have been extended periods the last two winters when it has simply been too dark for too long to depend on the solar without installing 50x more panels.
Also, the problem with having larger battery capacity to span these periods is that if they don’t get fully recharged or cycled properly the batteries get damaged and eventually die. We learnt that the hard way.
Solar is the undisputed champion for 80-90% of the year but needs the complemented with something else for the remainder, if you want uninterrupted on-demand electricity.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 4 months ago:
This is a good question and I’ll be interested to see what others have to say. One thing I’ve noticed is that memories can transform into ‘memories of memories’. What I remember is not the felt impression of something but what I subsequently told or showed myself about it. And it doesn’t even just apply to childhood - I have same thing for big events in my life from last couple of years.
I do find that it’s possible to consciously dig deeper and unearth forgotten memories though.
I’ll also add that I think what constitutes a sense of ‘self’ is more than just memory.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 months ago:
If there is a third world war I think either everyone will lose in one day (nuclear weapons), or it will be sabotage and ‘special military operations’ everywhere for decades, and not named as a world war until later.
- Comment on how to dust properly 4 months ago:
You need to wipe it onto a bigger ostrich
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 5 months ago:
It seems to be a way for people to have a paywalled blog without building their own website.
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 5 months ago:
Fine.
Renationalise and redistribute wealth though.