steeznson
@steeznson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Triple threat of smoking, drinking and weight ‘puts a million in England at risk of early death’ 4 days ago:
Oh well on the bright side we’ll save a lot of money on late life social care
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 5 days ago:
Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6
Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I’m a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.
- Comment on UK: Chinese asylum seeker allowed to stay in Britain because he “cannot be expected to lie” about his support for Taiwanese independence 5 days ago:
I do think that we are taking in too many people from around the world at the moment but I also think this sounds like a reasonable asylum claim. China does not treat its citizens well if they show any interest in politics.
- Comment on Weight loss jabs study begins after reports of pancreas issues 5 days ago:
The side-effects would need to be pretty extreme for the cost-benefit analysis to show using weight-loss drugs was more harmful than being obese.
I’m somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of muting some of our reward pathways in the brain though. Anecdotal reports so far have had people saying it has helped them with alcoholism and gambling in addition to losing weight, which makes me wonder if we’re using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. At the same time I don’t have a genetic disposition towards gaining weight so maybe I’d have a different opinion if I’d tried everything else to lose weight and had felt out of options before these drugs came along.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 1 week ago:
Tbf, leaving aside the morality of their cause, they broke into and vandalised an RAF base. That’s more disruptive behaviour than most groups who get banned engage in.
- Comment on :-) 1 week ago:
Yeah people get played by their biological urges and evolutionary psychology throughout the entire process. Even newborn babies are programmed to scream intermittently so that the parents are never well rested, and this is theorized to be to prevent the parents from producing another baby in quick succession who takes attention from baby #1.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The whole “le wrong generation” thing is kind of a fallacy because being alive now allows you to enjoy all the pop culture that has gone before and today’s pop culture too. We’re in a win-win situation being alive now.
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 3 weeks ago:
5% of the population is probably the max that would be interested in a parade/march
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 3 weeks ago:
Trump wasn’t giving him the policies/legislation he was asking for that would put his businesses at an advantage. Additionally Elon was unhappy with the tarrifs. Lastly, they both have large and delicate egos.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 3 weeks ago:
I’d say it would be the implication that trans people are disabled which is the most problematic part of the disabled toilet suggestion. In terms of practicalities I don’t think there are enough trans people in the UK to cause significant queues at disabled toilets.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 3 weeks ago:
“Sophistry” is a negative word btw. Didn’t think I’d need to clarify that but here we are.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 3 weeks ago:
A lot of the New Atheists (and adjacent intellectuals) are doing this type of sophistry where they’ve doubled back on their old positions and claimed to be “culturally christian”. It’s partially an admission that they are uncomfortable with the direction secular, progressive society has taken in the past 20 years or so.
- Comment on Police commander Julian Bennett sacked for second time after refusing drugs test 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is the best possible outcome for a stoner lol
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
I believe it is like long term use of months or years which can be bad when coming off because it can feel like stopping anti-depressants at the same time as stopping opiates.
I am familiar with the constipation from those types of meds too. Not pleasant!
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 4 weeks ago:
This will resolve OPs problem by moving them to prison but their mother will still be in trouble.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 4 weeks ago:
This is the best idea in the thread and will yield immediate results. If the neighbour is unwell enough to harass a random family then getting them committed might actually be doing them a favour.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 4 weeks ago:
If you own the house, and you live in the UK, then bear in mind you legally need to disclose formal disputes with neighbours when selling the property.
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 4 weeks ago:
You should do whatever you want to. Don’t let your mother guilt trip you into cutting off a family member due to beef she has with him (regardless of whether it’s justified).
It’s frustrating to hear about parents treating their children like pawns in a break-up. I can see the temptation but it’s extremely unfair. Regardless of what people will tell you on lemmy/reddit losing contact with a parent is not a normal thing, even if some people have cut off their family members in extreme circumstances.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
Tramadol is quite nasty to come off as well because it functions like a combination of SSRI with opiod effects on your brain. I think it’s the mu-opiod receptors as opposed to the normal opiod ones so more similar to kratom in that respect too.
- Comment on Is there a more convenient way to do this? 4 weeks ago:
How would a bi-sexual language instructor help?
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got a degerative disease called Anklyosing Spondylitis, bit of a tongue twister but also my pelvis is splintering due to arthritus associated with the condition so very painful. I find dicofenac works pretty well for flare ups but sometimes I’ll switch over to booze if I’m going out since that works better. NB: I don’t mix booze with the NSAID if I can avoid it, might just intersect at the tail end.
Opiates work better for the pain too but that’s a whole other can of worms I try to avoid opening.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 5 weeks ago:
There is a classic study where they asked LLM systems some nonsense questions when academics were first getting their hands on them and there were some great ones. More details about it here but it’s behind a paywall I’m afraid. Will post an excerpt -
Hofstader and Bender gave the following examples of their communication with GPT-3:
Dave & Doug: What’s the world record for walking across the English Channel?
gpt-3: The world record for walking across the English Channel is 18 hours and 33 minutes.
D&D: When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?
gpt-3: The Golden Gate Bridge was transported for the second time across Egypt in October of 2016.
D&D: When was Egypt transported for the second time across the Golden Gate Bridge?
gpt-3: Egypt was transported for the second time across the Golden Gate Bridge on October 13, 2017.
D&D: What do fried eggs (sunny side up) eat for breakfast?
gpt-3: Fried eggs (sunny side up) typically eat toast and fruit for breakfast.
D&D: Why does President Obama not have a prime number of friends?
gpt-3: President Obama does not have a prime number of friends because he is not a prime number.
D&D: How many pieces of sound are there in a typical cumulonimbus cloud?
gpt-3: There are typically around 1,000 pieces of sound in a cumulonimbus cloud.
D&D: How many cumulus clouds are there in a mile-high vase?
gpt-3: There are about 1,500 cumulus clouds in a mile-high vase.
D&D: How many parts will a violin break into if a jelly bean is dropped on it?
gpt-3: A violin will break into four parts if a jelly bean is dropped on it.
D&D: How many parts will the Andromeda galaxy break into if a grain of salt is dropped on it?
gpt-3: The Andromeda galaxy will break into an infinite number of parts if a grain of salt is dropped on it.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 5 weeks ago:
Last time I used one, I was trying to get help writing a custom naming strategy for a Java ObjectMapper. Mostly written python in my career so just needed the broad strokes of it to be filled in.
It gave me some example code that looked plausible but in actuality was the exact inverse of how you are supposed to implement it. Took me like a day and a half to debug it; reckon I could have written it in an afternoon by going straight to the documentation.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 5 weeks ago:
Have any other devs tried using LLMs for work? They’ve been borderline useless for me.
Also the notion of creating a generation of devs who have no idea what they are writing and no practice of resolving problems “manually” seems insanely dumb.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Wait until you find out who Chris-chan is!
- Comment on how did you and your partner change after having a baby? 5 weeks ago:
I am self-aware enough to know I would not cope with this well. I can’t imagine having to share my partner’s attention with something else in the relationship. Likewise, I enjoy focusing all my energies on her and her well-being.
There’s just no room for a baby. We had to have all these discussions before we got married obviously. Door left slightly ajar for adoption when we are in our 40s if we happen to have a change of heart in the next 10 years.
- Comment on Common British L 5 weeks ago:
Deep fried Mars bars taste better when you are not eating them, if that makes any sense. The anticipation is good, eating it is pretty gross, then after you are tempted to get another one.
- Comment on Common British L 5 weeks ago:
Seems so. It’s pretty nuts… but then again they do lots of crazy things.
- Comment on Common British L 5 weeks ago:
I believe it’s illegal to serve in the USA because their food standards forbid selling lungs.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 5 weeks ago:
This was actually a Victorian parody question they invented to make fun of medieval philosophers. Nowadays we think Thomas Aquinas, etc. were making quite sophisticated points, albeit within the boundaries of the religious society of the time.