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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • How do you catch up being out of the loop in politics and wars?

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  • I educate myself.

    Please don't lump me in with yourself in your laziness and apathy. It's complex, yes, but not "too complex".

  • Why is it called "male loneliness epidemic"? Dont women feel lonely too? Wtf?

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  • GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it

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  • Under the bills, some kinds of local telecom projects would be approved automatically if a city or town doesn’t rule within a deadline set by Congress.

    The tl;dr

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  • Local to where I was living at the time.

    Smaller, not one of the big ones that's always getting name dropped in drama

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  • Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?

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  • I like to think there was a specific person in Nebraska the author had in mind. The University there had a tap into the ARPANET back in the day and always had interesting projects going in that one wouldn't typically expect in Nebraska.

  • Why is it called "male loneliness epidemic"? Dont women feel lonely too? Wtf?

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  • Here's an Article on the survey I've been seeing referenced lately that shows among the population surveyed, men and women are reporting similar rates of loneliness.

    As to why it's being called the male loneliness epidemic, well, I have personal opinions on that. Mostly that problems affecting men are far more likely to get sympathy, attention, and funding. How many times are issues affecting primarily women just hand-waved away as less important?

  • What are your thoughts on sewer surveillance?

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  • Have chronic diarrhea so they can't trace a single log back to you.

  • Do you think Trump will fall because of the new Epstein emails?

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  • If he somehow does start getting held accountable for this, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries will twist themselves into pretzels to somehow throw him a lifeline. And it wouldn't even make me assume Schumer or Jeffries are in the Epstein files, I think they're just so cowardly and worthless they'd help Trump without getting anything out of it.

  • Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled

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  • Roku has a Jellyfin app.

    Roku device locked down with parental controls + Jellyfin app connected to your server + a non-admin Jellyfin user account so they can't click all the buttons.

    The Roku aoo isn't great for my use because it's stripped down. Maybe a benefit in your case.

  • Lemmings over 30 who try to stay active, what are you doing to accommodate for your incredibly decrepit bodies to avoid boo-boos?

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  • Ditto, and I switched from high-weight/low-reps to lower-weight/higher reps. Like instead of sets of 3-5, doing sets of 10-20. I recover better and It's safer to do alone in the home gym.

  • Lemmings who still don't want to use AI, why?

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  • Isn't RMLS just one company of many related to AI cyber security? Or does the acronym soup of the tech industry have some other meaning for it.

    And CoT, as in the "prompt engineering" technique? How does that at all counter their position?

    Please converse instead of vomiting letters and negging.

  • Lemmings who still don't want to use AI, why?

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  • I use it once in a blue moon and every time think it wasn't really worth my time.

    For creative pursuits, it defeats the purpose of why I'm doing the activity.

    For factual pursuits at work, I need to 100% back my answer. Like put my signature to it, testify on a witness stand confident. When I make assumptions in my logic, I need to be able to identify and clearly articulate them. And LLMs are only as good as "highly probable" by their nature.

  • What's your least favorite type of question to see asked in these types of communities?

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  • Questions that are more appropriate as websearches. No need to ask here to learn the capital city of Lithuania or the law on jaywalking in OP's home town.

    I usually tag the users most blatantly guilty of that as "LMGTFY" and move on.

    (LMGTFY = let me google that for you, a phrase but also a link generator one could send someone that opens to a recording of their question being typed into google search and then providing them with results)

  • Do you prefer to work alone or in a group?

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  • Mix of both. My job requires a lot of collaboration on some things, and others require deep dives into really dry texts that I prefer to do solo.

    I prefer remote work. I'm on video calls with people all over the world most days so there's no reason to be in any specific location. Home allows for no commute time, privacy, better lunch, so many reasons.

    No AI replacement for tasks so far. The company I work for has an internal client that is supposed to answer queries based on all those dry texts mentioned above. But when I tested I found 16/20 attempts came back with inaccurate information on initial query and I would say roughly one third of those would not be reasonably caught by someone not very familiar with the texts like I am.

    I think there are some opportunities for AI, more along the lines of automating standard workflows, but I have no time to build them because they've already fired 3/4 of my team in advance of "expected efficiencies thanks to AI". I'm also not an IT / Digital Tools person. Nothing about my job is related to building AI tools and they haven't provided us with skills-appropriate tools. So my team is just prioritizing and saying "no" to the bottom half of the list we no longer have capacity to support. I feel increasingly insecure in my job every time we say "no" but I also won't push my team to work an obscene number of hours per week.

  • What have you looked up on Wikipedia recently?

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  • The article on Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish military genius and aid to Washington and the colonialists during the American Revolutionary War. He was in with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson too. Among many other things, he designed the fortifications around West Point.

    He also led the "Kościuszko Uprising" against the Russian occupation of Poland.

    My favorite anecdote from the article is that he was all about human rights. He willed a portion of his estate to freeing enslaved black people, including Thomas Jefferson's slaves specifically. Everyone charged with executing his will balked at that one though, the money ended up going to education for black people instead. Still, what a way to get a final mic drop against a colleague from beyond the grave.

  • When you were a kid/teen, how often do you have conversations with your parents? What is your relationship like now? And do you think there is a correlation?

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  • They talked at me a lot. Back and forth conversation was not really a thing between parents and kids when I was growing up.

    We don't converse much today either but its more because I find their religious and political views repulsive.

  • Do you brush your teeth in the shower or the sink?

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  • Sink. I brush my teeth twice a day. Brushing only when I shower would be revolting.

  • How do you feel about MMA as a sport and the UFC as a company?

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  • I side-eye vocal fans of UFC like I do owners of pit bulls. I see a strong correlation between UFC fans and assholes with warped machismo. Many are delightful, but there's an overrepresentation of not-delightful and potentially dangerous with no regard for other people. My guard is up until I know which a person is.

  • Twinkle twinkle little star

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