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- Comment on Uhm 19 hours ago:
Even this one?
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Ok
Image - Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 19 hours ago:
I’m old enough that the vaccine was unavailable, so I got the illness and at least one scar, but my kid was vaccinated and all my peers’ kids are vaccinated so they just won’t know what it’s like.
Seems like some countries think it’s better to keep it around to keep previously sickened people exposed to keep their immune system active to mitigate shingles, but seems like the data in the ‘vaccinate most of the kids’ countries have shown that this doesn’t actually matter, so we might see more countries embrace vaccinating against it.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 day ago:
The NIH director was appointed by Trump, which came with a pretty strong anti-mask, anti-vaxx, and general ‘covid was a hoax’ sort of baggage, so he is unfortunately not that credible.
There is a study that correlates to the ages he specifies, but the conclusion is that the risks inflicted by the vaccine were still lower than the risks of COVID itself even for that age group, but no matter how they sliced it the risks either way for the age group was minimal, neither the vaccinne nor COVID were too risky overall. Pre-vaccine chicken pox was deadlier to kids than COVID was to that age group, and we didn’t consider that to be particularly risky, mostly worth vaccinating due to heading off the chances for shingles later.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 day ago:
In the age group most at risk of COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis (12–29 years), for every 100 000 vaccinated, compared to about four more cases of myocarditis we have 56 fewer hospitalizations, 13.8 admissions to intensive care and 0.6 fewer deaths. Several studies have shown that post vaccine myocarditis/pericarditis are generally short-lasting phenomena with favourable clinically course.
The paper recognizes a 0.004% increase in mild short term myocarditis, with about a 0.05% decrease in hospitalization, 0.014% decrease in intensive care needs, and a 0.0006% decreased chance of death from COVID.
Of course, all this suggests that in that age range, it’s messing with all very low percentages, so it’s pretty much a wash whether they vaccinate or not, statistically speaking. But the vaccine risk is not ‘much higher’ and the severity of the risk is generally low, and seemingly still technically lower risk than COVID itself, but the risk for any of it is kind of down in the noise.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 day ago:
It doesn’t “prevent” but it strongly mitigates how infectious you become and for how long.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 days ago:
Broadly it might not be worthy of condemnation, but in the context of “child appropriate” it would seem to be way less appropriate than what he is complaining about.
- Comment on leading ai company 3 days ago:
Merge request 1473: Remove extraneous comment
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 3 days ago:
Forget GNU/Linux, VIM/Linux is where it is at.
But say it too loud and we are going to end up with a systemd-vim
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 4 days ago:
But with Linux, you can init=/bin/vim
Why settle for running vim on your os when vim can just be your os?
- Comment on Incident 2 weeks ago:
I suppose it could be possible that the humans are entering it, also possible the timestamps are just being rounded by the system. Guess it’s hard to say, though I still say that a daycare that includes infants can reasonably be expected to log this sort of activity in case something goes wrong that would only show up as a loss of appetite or lack of bowel movement or explaining an otherwise unrecognized injury incurred during an assasination.
- Comment on Incident 2 weeks ago:
Looks like a daycare that’s taking care of toddlers and infants. Logging these events makes a bit more sense as you have to be at least roughly aware of this stuff to keep an eye out for potential health issues. The kid isn’t able to convey things directly so you have to look for signs. If diapers aren’t being soiled, then you might need a medical exam, for example.
The precision of the timestamps might seem a bit needlessly specific, but if you are noting it electronically, might as well let the system time-stamp it.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 2 weeks ago:
Keyboard substituted the wrong word, fixed.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 2 weeks ago:
Oh the CS job market may just be more persistently toast. Yes there have been layoffs attributed to AI, however I think a lot of those businesses were kind of itching to do those layoffs anyway. There was way overhiring in the security in general, plus when the AI bubble pops it’ll drag the test if the tech sector with it.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 2 weeks ago:
AGI might be just around the corner, or it might be indefinitely far off, but either way I don’t think “just more LLM” is going to get there, and that seems to be all the AI industry is really equipped to handle at the moment.
Ironically, getting to AGI might take a bubble pop to stop the current LLM architectures from just sucking up all the resources to let other approaches breathe a little.
More practically, I’d have expected to see more engaged robotics, but it seems all the money is being spent on pure online AI approaches.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 2 weeks ago:
Seemed a likely outcome. On the way to being late, there were stories where basically they spent ungodly amounts of money in an attempt and then scrapped it because it wasn’t actually any better. And that this happened multiple times.
So if they were truly stuck, what to do? They could admit they were stuck, and watch the economic collapse as investors realize they were mistaken on how far along the technology curve things were, or they could market the hell out of GPT-5 and pretend it’s amazing and hope enough suckers and latecomers to LLM buy into that narrative that it carries through. Like Sam Altman acting ‘scared’ of what GPT-5 is going to be, “what have we done?” in a very melodramatic way like he’s Oppenheimer or something, likening it to the Death Star (all in all, a very ‘wtf’ situation, if it were really as dangerous as you say, you seem awfully eager to get it going).
So we have an incremental iteration with some good, some bad, and perhaps overall better, but in the context of the ungodly investment in the LLM sector, it’s way way less than would should reasonably expect.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
Which is insane, it’s a percentage, compensation for inflation is baked in.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t tip on tax.
But on the flip side if I receive a discount of some sort, I tip on the pre-discount amount.
- Comment on AI is already impacting the labor market, starting with young tech workers, Goldman economist says 3 weeks ago:
There’s been a good amount of opportunity to grift an employer and in turn for functional teams to sideline those employees, since no one wants to be mean even to those employees, just put them aside, so long as the gravy train is here, why bother trying to ding someone for just being a bullshitter even if they never do work?
- Comment on AI is already impacting the labor market, starting with young tech workers, Goldman economist says 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, lots of over hiring happened and this is the perfect cover for responding to that without admitting you screwed up.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 3 weeks ago:
I mean given the right socket…
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t be surprised if they ran animated splash.
Hell, wouldn’t be surprised if they started pushing ads through the screens.
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
Next chapter needs to be: “Fucking magnets, how do they work?”
- Comment on back in those days... 4 weeks ago:
20% layoff, that’s rough
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 weeks ago:
For example, the age of consent in the US state of Delaware is 18, but it is allowed for teenagers aged 16 and 17 to engage in sexual intercourse as long as the older partner is younger than 30
16 and 17 is still under the age of consent, but they have a special exception for partners under 30. So the age of consent is still exactly what people think it is
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 weeks ago:
Your reference is your own comment? Shouldn’t somewhere down the chain there be a link explaining this? It would be nice for you to be right, but I don’t think you are.
If it were only about activities with other shouldn’t be of age people, then it makes no sense. Either they are allowed and it’s legal or it’s illegal for both of them but neither can be considered criminally responsible because neither can legally consent either.
There are stories constantly about someone older having relations with someone way too young but the jurisdiction has age of consent to make it ok.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 4 weeks ago:
As those policies are enforced client side, an industrious person could probably see how it works and do whatever. I can’t seem to trigger any age verification to see, but if it works in a web browser, you can pretty much rewrite everything about it and make it upload whatever you like.
Sy far the only ones I’ve seen are scenarios where I have to upload photo to match my appearance when I show up in person to something, so it’s not useful in that context, but I’m suspecting this scenario is similar.
The counter argument could be that if a person has that ability, they are probably close enough to being an adult and/or have earned their technically illegal access to porn, and the site operator made a good earnest attempt that stands up to casual lying.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 4 weeks ago:
So I don’t have a horse in the race, but I am curious if you follow the link to estimate age from selfie, and claimed some random picture of a politician is your selfie, would that work?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You’ll develop a deeper interest for whatever it is as time goes on.
This is so insidious. Working a job and one day you realize you actually care about something you don’t understand why you should care about it. I know I it’s stupid due me to care about something in my with and yet I do.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 5 weeks ago:
I like using Keepassxc with a file that is on a storage provider. Keeping the task of storing my file and decrypting it completely and utterly distinct. Don’t have to audit that the total solution is keeping things separate like they claim when there’s no risky interop in the first place.
