OhNoMoreLemmy
@OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
- Comment on NHS-branded baby formula could prevent parents paying too much, watchdog says 1 week ago:
Just calm down and wait. You don’t actually need massive amounts of milk from start, and it takes time for everything to kick in.
- Comment on NHS-branded baby formula could prevent parents paying too much, watchdog says 1 week ago:
The important thing about NHS care is that half the midwives are completely insane, and they all contradict each other. They have basically no medical training and are just meant to get someone qualified if anything goes wrong. Instead they go mad with power and use it to bully first time parents into doing what they say.
Our midwife was insistent that if there wasn’t enough breast milk immediately after birth we had to switch to bottlefed. I don’t think you can figure out the official NHS approach based on anything a midwife says.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 4 weeks ago:
The infographic says crop farming. Ireland is green because of the grass which goes with animal farming.
The chart is lazy nonsense that ignores most of the farming in Ireland.
- Comment on Math Research 5 weeks ago:
Fucking nailed it. My favorite application of them is to brew espresso at exactly the right temperature.
- Comment on US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms 1 month ago:
It’s not really legal in the UK. It’s unenforceable on claims under 5k and for claims over 5k the courts will make a case by case decision if arbitration is appropriate.
herbertsmithfreehills.com/…/click-to-agree-techno…
However, lots of companies still add these bullshit clauses as a way to bully people out of seeing a lawyer.
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 1 month ago:
And all the doom games.
- Comment on California legislature passes controversial “kill switch” AI safety bill 2 months ago:
It just says can be activated. Not “automatically activates”.
Kill switches are overly dramatic silliness. Anything with a power button has a kill switch. It sounds impressive but it’s just theatre.
- Comment on Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years 2 months ago:
Amazon are also dicks about sick leave. I’m sure forcing people to work, and work hard, when they’re ill leads to complications.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
The app phones home to access recipes.
Maybe it works without access to the server, but maybe it just refuses to do anything.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
It’s all pure CEO bullshit though, and none of it is real.
It doesn’t cost money to send a Bluetooth signal from your phone to a sous vide. Maybe the WiFi server costs money but it’s their own fault for adding stupid functionality that phones home.
I’ve got one of these and I’m prepared to bet money that almost all of their server costs come down to every recipe in the app just being a link to a web page with lots of photos. recipes.anovaculinary.com
- Comment on Chat is this real 3 months ago:
The way these big firms work is they make a bunch of almost contradictory arguments and you have to show they’re all false in order to win the law suit.
So it’ll look like:
- I didn’t do it.
- Even if I did do it you can’t prove it was me.
- Even if you can prove it was me I wouldn’t be liable.
- Even if I was liable this has to be settled by arbitration.
So you have to get through arguments 4 and 3 first, to show that it’s worth the court trying to find out what happened. Then they’ll fight you tooth and nail on points 1 and 2 later.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Yeah anything responsible that reports and corrects mistakes made in past reporting get a low score for factual accuracy, when these should be getting the highest scores.
It’s completely backwards.
- Comment on An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. 4 months ago:
Unfortunately, this is bad statistics.
The Teslas in self driving mode tend to be used on main roads, and most accidents per mile happen on the small side streets. People are also much safer where Teslas are driven than the these statistics suggest.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
I mean a TV is as smart as you let it be. If you don’t connect it to the internet it’ll stay dumb.
- Comment on People in England facing food poisoning ‘Russian roulette’ as illnesses soar 8 months ago:
The UK food standards authority says there are more people in hospital because of improved detection.
Jesus fucking Christ, pre Johnson this would be a resigning issue, now it’s just business as usual.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
Honestly, most of what Cambridge analytica did was blackmail, illegal spending, and collusion between campaigns that were legally required to be separate.
Much of the data processing/ml was intended as a smoke screen to distract from the big stuff that was known to work and consequently legislated against. The problem is that they were so incompetent that the distraction technique was also illegal.
Maybe the machine learning also worked, but it’s really not clear.