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- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 4 days ago:
I call it “comic book guy” syndrome. The desperate need to feel superior.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 4 days ago:
“Search before asking!” - Stack Overflow
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 6 days ago:
You’ve been Grokked!
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 week ago:
My company pushes us to use copilot and I end up going back to chatgpt (I use them mainly as glorified search engines, error code debuggers and coding assistants). Copilot constantly has availability issues. Sort of tough to use a site that isn’t available.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well if you want to be more than a worm you really need the brain. There is a reason most of your senses are clustered in your head.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Neurotransmitters in the gut cannot reach the brain due to the blood brain barrier (or very limited at best). Reuptake proteins and breakdown enzymes also prevent outside neurotransmitters from interfering. Your gut already produces large amounts of serotonin and it was first identified in the gut. 90% of the serotonin in the body is made in the lining of the stomach where it modulates smooth muscle contractions. About 50% of the dopamine is produced in the gut also.
However, microbes could affect gut behavior and that could effect mood simply by feeling poorly or well. There is also the matter of inflammatory responses and signaling (i.e. cytokines) that could affect one’s general sense of health. The small intestine is packed with immune cells that will also react to changes in the gut biome.
Finally there is the vagus nerve, a highway running from the gut, lungs and heart straight to the hindbrain, bypassing the spine.. More here. We are still learning about how much this ancient nerve controls and influences. I’ve even wondered if it is related to dementia and Parkinson’s because of its physical proximity to locations such as the substantia nigra (Parkinson’s) and areas that show the first signs of dementia, possible due to influences traveling up the nerve similar to the way rabies viruses travel.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 week ago:
I realized this when I first visited Mexico, what you see here is not necessarily representative of that nation. The people who come here are the hungry ones looking to make money or just get out of Mexico. When I went to Mexico City I suddenly saw lots of BMWs, Mercedes, nice homes (and a lot of rough areas), etc. The people who come here come here because they are poor and ambitious/desperate, the well to do ones stay there.
A similar thing with Indian immigrants but we get the ones with higher education, the money to leave and live here, fluent in English, curious and ambitious, etc. The poor and uneducated aren’t coming over.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 1 week ago:
I’m going to say you shouldn’t be shocked that people like this aren’t the most insightful or analytical minds.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 1 week ago:
Pretty ballsy taking down trump’s twitter account.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Yup, it would take mass unemployment and the impoverishment of the average person to trigger anything like happened in 1920s Germany.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
lol what? The US is full of guns and they just seem to get used for road rage, robberies and the occasional mass murder.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Internal collapse and/or a foreign coalition. If the US goes after Greenland I’d hope the rest of NATO stuck to their treaty obligations and fought back.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 week ago:
The only real solution isn’t reactivating roombas but cutting dependence on US goods and markets. The US market is highly desirable from a purely population angle but isn’t essential today. Moving to an alternative to the dollar, expanding production of essential goods to other nations, etc.
If you really want to spite the US use retaliatory IP lifting. “Ok, US IP protections are now invalid.”
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 week ago:
Fortunately a good number of comments point out that it is AI crap. For some reason the majority of these videos come from Pakistan and the middle east.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 week ago:
He’ll be in his Hawaii bunker.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 week ago:
FB is also a sea of AI videos that are being passed off as real.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 week ago:
Same, it is mainly a messaging platform for me for people who I otherwise can’t reach.
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 week ago:
Gum disease has been linked to heart disease and now there might be a link to dementia due to the bacteria that can enter the bloodstream from the mouth.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 1 week ago:
Just tell me when the memory shortage ends.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
The Simpsons showed us the danger of the occult section in the library.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
I use them at work to get instructions on running processes and no matter how detailed I am “It is version X, the OS is Y” it still gives me commands that don’t work on my version, bad error code analysis, etc.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
I’ve asked it for a solution to something and it gives me A. I tell it A doesn’t work so it says “Of course!” and gives me B. Then I tell it B doesn’t work and it gives me A…
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
Usually the blurb is pure opinion.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
The results I get from chatgpt half the time are pretty bad. If I ask for simple code it is pretty good but ask it about how something works? Nope. All I need to do is slightly rephrase the question and I can get a totally different answer.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
I have a friend who constantly sends me videos that get her all riled up. Half the time I patiently explain to her why a video is likely AI or faked some other way. “Notice how it never says where it is taking place? Notice how they never give any specific names?” Fortunately she eventually agrees with me but I feel like I’m teaching critical thinking 101. I then think of the really stupid people out there who refuse to listen to reason.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
Every time I think people have reached maximum stupidity they prove me wrong.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 1 week ago:
Is that why I hear so many backfiring cars now?
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 2 weeks ago:
Can China ban retina burning headlights, rear facing floodlights and aftermarket exhausts now?
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
Trump is helping the world learn to live without the US.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 weeks ago:
I’d just reduce copyright periods. Right now they are ridiculously long. No one should hold rights from 1930s works.