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groucho

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    Neuroscience Explains Women's Reaction to Sexual Harassment

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  • Yeah. Also, superficially good looking people can still be sketchy weirdos. Vibe, context, and prior relationship are much more important than looks. Of course, some people can't get their head around this and start blaming literally anything else: their height, their bone structure, a worldwide conspiracy against them. It's crazy.

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    How Does Our Sense of Humor Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis

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  • I became a dad late (around middle age) and was telling dad jokes way before that. My theory is it's less about becoming a father and more about getting older and just wanting to annoy people for my own amusement.

  • The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.

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  • As someone whose employer is strongly pushing them to use AI assistants in coding: no. At best, it's like being tied to a shitty intern that copies code off stack overflow and then blows me up on slack when it magically doesn't work. I still don't understand why everyone is so excited about them. The only tasks they can handle competently are tasks I can easily do on my own (and with a lot less re-typing.)

    Sure, they'll grow over the years, but Altman et al are complaining that they're running out of training data. And even with an unlimited body of training data for future models, we'll still end up with something about as intelligent as a kid that's been locked in a windowless room with books their whole life and can either parrot opinions they've read or make shit up and hope you believe it. I'll think we'll get a series of incompetent products with increasing ability to make wrong shit up on the fly until C-suite moves on to the next shiny bullshit.

    That's not to say we're not capable of creating a generally-intelligent system on par with or exceeding human intelligence, but I really don't think LLMs will allow for that.

    tl;dr: a lot of woo in the tech community that the linux community isn't as on board with

  • It's kind of sweet

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  • This is pretty coherent for an ambien post. I had a friend that used to hang out on groupchat after he took an ambien and at a certain point he'd just start sending random strings of text, but really emphatically.

  • Respect

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  • Authority is a privilege and a responsibility, not a virtue or a right. If you are in a place of authority your life should be harder, not full of fawning sycophants that give you an ego boost.

  • Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

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  • It's been ages, but we'd done rough calculations for the three controls so we roughly knew what we needed. Our teacher was big on manually tuning instead of just using formulas since he thought just running numbers "lacked artfulness."

    So we grabbed a point and started searching around manually. I think we were just tuning the derivative portion at that point, trying to get a fast response without the system without it going chaotic and noisy.

  • Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

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  • The final project in my instrumentation class was to tune a PID controller for a hot/cold mixing valve. I (CS/ENG) was paired up with an engineering student and a lot of it was throwing parameters in, seeing if weird shit happened, and then turning down or up based on the result. I had a programming final and something else I was supposed to be studying for, so I just started doing a binary search with the knobs. We got the thing tuned relatively fast and my partner acted like I was a wizard.

  • The Antinatalism subreddit basically promoting eugenics against autistic people

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  • it is just the principle that people should abstain from reproduction.

    Which is griping about reproduction followed by trying to shame people when they don't take the same principled stand. And a quick visit over to the sub shows a few people taking principled stands for themselves and a whole lot blackpilled edgelord "I hate breeders" horseshit. And sure enough there's a different post on the top page ranting about parents with disabilities having kids. Which sounds like.... what?

    The people that have hard opinions about reproduction are acting like eugenicists in that sub.

  • The Antinatalism subreddit basically promoting eugenics against autistic people

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  • The people that want to restrict reproduction are acting like eugenicists? I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.