nickwitha_k
@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 23 hours ago:
I agree and disagree at the same time. Bars/clubs/etc can be good for quick hookups. Social hobbies can lay groundwork for much greater depths of sustained sluttery.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 23 hours ago:
Honestly, one doesn’t really have to have low standards when taking that approach. Just go to bars that fit one’s vibe and talk to people, and don’t be judgemental on superficial things. Either it’ll click with someone or not.
To be fair, it does help if one finds the majority of people of their preferred gender(s) to have something beautiful about them.
And being a bit of a slut. I can state from personal experience that that helps. Embrace your inner slut (ethically).
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 2 days ago:
My two meow at each other, humans, and the dog.
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 days ago:
But Salvation Army is anti-union and damn near anti-homeless. So, they can get bent.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thank you for candidly answering people’s questions. It’s been interesting to read through. It also has made very clear to me that, while I wasn’t intending on it, escorting would not be a career that my brain could handle and demonstrating that you’re profession deserves a hell of a lot more respect.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 week ago:
where are all these Utopian “red cities” that people are apparently in favor of?
They do not and can not exist. Conservatism is an antisocial and anti-intellectual, authoritarian ideology. This pretty much rules it out of success in most conventional metrics.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 week ago:
This is exactly why I ended up in tech, despite actually getting a degree relevant to biochem/industrial microbiology. I graduated during the height of the Recession and decided not to go into academia, despite my love of data and research, because they stopped hiring tenure-track at most institutions, replacing them with adjuncts with minimal pay and benefits (even for academia) and poor bastards on the post-grad treadmill.
I fucking hate it and know that I’m not the only person who has been forced out of a research career by these objectively harmful-to-humanity economic policies.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
Hah. I know likely comedic misunderstanding but, in case it was not clear, the 27-year-old pedo was the gross one.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 week ago:
Yeah. It sure was “fun” competing with people with decades of experience and advanced degrees right after graduation. I hope that our generation and those after us are able to course correct and undo the bullshit that Boomers have inflicted upon humanity.
Note: Not generation war (no war but class war) but unfortunate reality. Boomers overwhelmingly supported neo-liberal politicians that to pulled up the ladder behind them and robbed future generations in exchange for short-term gains.
- Comment on 🐎 = 🪲 1 week ago:
They could be extensions of the scapula. This would make the renditions where pegasus appears to be galloping while flying more accurate.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
Yeah. That was my experience as well. An adult dating a highschooler was a skeezy loser who peaked in middle school.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
I got you.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
Gross.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
LeVar Burton put out a documentary recently on the topic called “The Right to Read”.
Also, yeah, I’ve gotta give Japanese a proper go at some point. The characters look really interesting to learn.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
Do note: The US public education system has raised a significant number of younger millennials, genZ, and gen-α (especially in impoverished areas) to be functionally illiterate due to both profiteering and desire to destroy education. Effectively, they switched to literacy programs meant to help people with cognitive disabilities somewhat function in a world that has writing everywhere. This does not teach people how to read or comprehend. It also robs them of capacity to self-learn from texts.
So, there’s a massive cohort of people whose parents and/or caregivers were not able to be spend time teaching this extremely important skill who are likely below 6th grade reading level.
- Comment on Best feeling 2 weeks ago:
- Cats
- Comment on Him and Elon were cybering, calling it now... 2 weeks ago:
Both were less impressive than the beard of Edward Teach.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I would say that I think it’s weird because I think shaved pubes are weird (and experienced horrific razor burn when I tried it back in college).
Sounds like you are a fucking rockstar dad though. That’s a very vulnerable thing to think about asking your parent for a teenage boy. Lots of self-consciousness and trying to figure oneself out. That he felt comfortable asking you says a lot. That you stepped up to ensure that he knew how to do so safely says a lot too.
- Comment on Project Diva 3 weeks ago:
I had to look it up a few months back. But then I remembered that there was this whole big thing that I thought was uninteresting and forgot about.
- Comment on Project Diva 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for your diligence.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 3 weeks ago:
Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 3 weeks ago:
Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.
- Comment on Anon is a survivor 3 weeks ago:
That’s also what I read from that.
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 4 weeks ago:
Just hope it isn’t The Neptune Protocol.
- Comment on cooking question 4 weeks ago:
Exactly what I said. But you missed the bit about Virginia-Perique blends.
- Comment on cooking question 4 weeks ago:
Not a good idea. Such a broth can be used as a pesticide but it’s also dangerous to humans and animals. Nicotine also absorbs through the skin so, anyone trying this (which I can’t recommend but for it’s dangers and general lack of need for pesticides in home gardens) should be extremely careful and use all PPE (durable waterproof gloves, goggles, long sleeves, trousers, and waterproof footwear, as well as respirator if there’s any chance of aerosolizing) when applying. Seriously. While it has been used historically by home gardeners, the toxicity is no joke.
And, always remember: Proper PPE is sexy.
- Comment on Welcome to Silicon Valley. People here believe parking is more important than housing 4 weeks ago:
Assumed it was either there or Palo Alto.
- Comment on Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount? 4 weeks ago:
Ah! That’s unfortunate. If adventurous, maybe hunt down a used battery that partially charges and swap sells?
- Comment on Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount? 4 weeks ago:
What sort of batteries does it use? If it’s just Li-Ion cells like 18650s, it should be fairly easy to DIY. If it’s a proprietary Li-Poly, probably going to be more problematic.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 4 weeks ago:
In your statement, you provided much more self-awareness and abstract thought than an LLM, by its nature, is capable of. They are not intelligent.
I don’t disagree that what’s going on in our meat computers (simplification) isn’t terribly special, in the grand scheme of things. And, there’s little reason that similar processes and results can’t be realized in other media. But, LLMs, by themselves, will never be capable of it because of their innate characteristics. Brains have numerous specialized structures that are networked together, so, probably the best bet would be building systems that can fullfill similar functions, and connect them.