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Buddahriffic

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  • UK experts condemn paracetamol ‘fearmongering’ expected from Trump officials

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  • Personal anecdote, but I discovered that a feeling I had associated with being sick when I was younger was actually from the Tylenol my parents handed out like it was candy when any of us did get sick (exaggerating a bit, it was basically one of the go to "solutions" when sickness came up). I realized this when I took a percocet for fun, since people do that for some reason, and then just felt sick after. Like a head sickness, a brain fog.

    No idea if there's any link between that and autism (could just be a personal sensitivity, which is what I've treated it as ever since), but the argument from the article that it might cause stigma because it could be considered "their own fault" is a very weak one, weak enough that it makes me wonder if there really is a link. It's not "Tylenol and autism aren't linked", it's "claims that Tylenol and autism are linked might make people feel bad about taking Tylenol!"

    Though tbf, the response could be coming from the same source as the initial claims, intending to increase credibility via the exact thing I said in the last paragraph.

  • Can you be sued for defaming virtual K-pop stars? South Korea court says yes

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  • Nintendo is Japanese.

  • Explain that

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  • Here's GPT 5-mini:

    What is going on with the following text, I can't understand it!

    <pasted the comment above>

    Output:This text uses archaic letter forms (þ = thorn, representing "th") and some nonstandard spellings; read with modern equivalents and cleaned punctuation:

    "Yeah, the mechanics are entirely different. The spider is providing structural support, is extruding filament not under tension, then provides tension while attaching the filament so the result is under tension when connected. Then the support structure (El Spidré) moves to the next extrusion point. It's not simply squirting a web into place; there’s a lot of manipulation of the extruded material and connection points going on all at once."

    Summary of the meaning, briefly:

    • The spider first creates a filament without stretching it.
    • While attaching that filament it applies tension so the final strand is taut.
    • The support structure (nicknamed "El Spidré") shifts to the next spot to repeat the process.
    • The process involves active handling and tensioning, not just passively releasing silk.

    A 1:1 text replacement is something LLMs are very good at handling and a waste of time and effort to target with an attack.

  • Explain that

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  • Considering LLMs handle translation, synonyms, and homonyms pretty well, I don't think replacing a letter combination with a different symbol is going to cause much confusion. I bet chatGPT right now will understand that text perfectly fine and will present it with or without the dumb symbols when asked.

  • This is the only Windows thing left on my computer

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  • Yeah maybe. Could be trying to make it clear it's not uploading to a cloud or something lol.

    Or maybe it means "put it down" (as in record, not discard).

  • This is the only Windows thing left on my computer

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  • I've noticed libreoffice has changed their save symbol. It's a grey rectangle (taller than it is wide) with a darker grey arrow pointing down.

  • Masterplan

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  • Maybe later, once we're finished with all our duties, like putting down the illegal Tattooine slave uprising and various other revolts that threaten the status quo.

    Actually, on second thought, a mother is a personal connection. Can't have the Jedi making human connections because if they end up dying without heirs, the Jedi order usually gets most or all of their shit. We'll just ignore the whole genetic component of force sensitivity (and also fail to discover that Anakin's strength is because his father was literally the dark side of the force).

  • Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

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  • TPM is more about securing data from PC owners rather than for them. Since it's there anyways, it is used to support bitlocker, but the reason they are pushing it so much is because it might (depending on whether it actually is secure) be able to allow content providers to allow users to view their content without needing to give them access to copy or edit it.

    And there isn't any guarantee that the uses that do benefit the user's security don't have some backdoor for approved crackers to get in. Like doesn't the MS account store a copy of the recovery key for bitlocker? Which is nice for when the user needs it, but also comes in handy if MS wants to grant access to anyone else.

  • Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune

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  • Yeah, for me, the current political situation means I wouldn't go there even if everything was free.

    And the current Vegas pricing means I wouldn't go there even if it was safe.

    Though even if it was free and safe, it would still require some thought.

  • BMW

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  • Frankly, they shouldn't be driving at all if they need something like that to drive safely day to day. The bar for being allowed to drive is way too low IMO (and I thought this before seeing you say that and realizing you might be right about that).

    My thought after hearing about a lane assist that will fight you if you don't signal is when I leave my lane without signaling, it means I really need to be out of that lane and not fighting some safety system that works on the assumption that unusual things don't happen. Even during usual situations, it just sounds like a feature that encourages paying less attention.

    Makes me glad to have a car where the most it does to "help" is traction control. Hell, even the ABS seems to be tuned for pavement rather than snow/ice and I had to learn to not trust it to help stop in those conditions and instead pump the breaks.

  • Feral children are everywhere

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  • There's a lot of space between "just let them carry on with whatever" and "beat them like I expected to be". Not to mention, "getting my ass beat by my parents" might not mean literally getting beat, but can be a metaphor for any kind of discipline (though I can see how it can fall into the uncanny valley since there were and are parents that would literally beat asses).

  • Feral children are everywhere

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  • Yeah, part of it is to teach that they won't get their way by annoying you into giving in. Helps in my case that I can be a stubborn fuck, too. It means I have to choose my battles because I don't want to back myself into a situation where I make a choice, realize it's not the best one, but feel like I have to stand my ground to combat whining. Luckily we're past the point of tantrums and she's old enough that I can explain my reasoning in cases where I say one thing at first but then later change my mind.

    But there's two other parts imo. One is teaching them the right way to express what they want (as well as when stating what they want might be rude or out of line, like if it's in response to getting a gift that isn't their top choice). And the other is being open and honest about the why. I only use "because I said so" or some equivalent to deal with the endless chain of "why?"s (though I've found deflecting it back at her is also effective, like "why do you think it is?").

  • Feral children are everywhere

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  • I can't understand how such an obviously stupid approach to rasing kids even got off the ground to the point of general awareness. Any intelligent adult should be able to see how learning to take a "no" is an essential part of growing up. Same with dealing with negative emotions in general, which I understand the whole "never say no" thing is trying to avoid.

    My daughter was taught how to take a no at a young age. It was a bit rough the first few times, but she quickly learned to take them in stride.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • But even that case doesn't work because someone could use a different account (or no account at all) to do the stalking.

  • Jandalf

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  • "It's a comic where JRR Tolkien says "Gandalf" is actually pronounced "Jandalf", a reference to the dumb side of the gif/jif debate. Also someone in the comments posted a denim-clad Gandalf since denim versions of things are often called that thing but with a "J" at the start of the name."

  • Unfortunate

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  • Add to the confusion by changing your briefly turning off your camera, changing your shirt, then camera back on.

  • also dead internet is probably true, oh well

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  • I think even bullshitting isn't a good term for it because to me it implies intent.

    It's just a text predictor that can predict text well enough to be conversational and trick people interacting with it enough to pass the Turing test (which IMO was never really a good test of intelligence, though maybe shines a spotlight on how poorly "intelligence" is defined in that context, because despite not being a good test, it might still be one of the best I've heard of).

    All of its "knowledge" is in the form of probabilities that various words go together, given what words preceded them. It has no sense of true, false, or paradox.

  • Magic

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  • I wouldn't really say it's the outside going all the way through us because there's doors along the way. That would be like saying if you have a front door and a back door, your house is outside.

  • “These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don't draw pictures,” Trump, just 3 weeks ago

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  • You jumped in to a thread about trump and epstein's preference for young girls with your own preference for small breasts and to talk about sex you've had. No one asked and no one gives a shit about that here, plus it's weird af to use a thread about pedophiles as a springboard for talking about your own sexual preferences.

    If you want to talk about your preferences, I suggest something like chaturbate or a sex-focused community or thread (where the topic isn't about potential or likely pedophiles).