Dojan

You’re preaching to the choir. My mother is like this too. She is deep in the conspiracy rabbit hole. Used to work as a nurse, really well travelled too.

It’s bizarre to see her regurgitate q-anon BS when we’re not even in the U.S.

Hahahaha I had forgotten that they use terms like “pure-blood.” Some even go so far as to believe that because they’re unvaccinated their gametes will be in higher demand because they’re “pure.”

The difference might be in primates in captivity learning from humans using tools around them all day every day. Primate see primate do trial and error.

I don’t get it. I highly doubt zookeepers tend to pick medicinal plants from the habitats in lieu of popping a painkiller. Otherwise how would using a shovel teach a monkey to use plants to treat a scratch for example?

C#. Since I’m a .NET developer it’s the stack I’m most familiar with.

Honestly I kind of like the idea of a front end with as little JS as possible.

Yeah, I also feel like it’s fairly recent.

I recently started poking with Vue, For the most part when it comes to webapps I’ve mostly worked with React, Blazor, and a touch of Svelte. The linter is so aggressive. I start defining a method and it instantly goes “IT DOESN’T RETURN ANYTHING!!”

Okay, thanks! I literally just defined the return type!

Visual Studio: PROPERTY DOESN’T EXIST ON TYPE!! NOTHING EXISTS ANYMORE!!! REALITY HAS COLLAPSED!

Me: What? I haven’t even touched that class, let me check.

Visual Studio: Oops, nevermind, héhé 🙃

That’s fair! I’m not trying to downplay the accomplishment at all. In that way even nuclear fission is really cool.

It was just a big dissilusionment moment for me way back when I learned how the electricity is actually generated.

Yeah, I mean it makes sense. My inner child wants there to be some sort of magic that splits the atomic nucleus (or in the case of fusion… well you know) and harnesses the energy through some sort of fancy magical-to-us-commonfolk process.

Kettles are great, but not whimsical or fantastic.

How would they use it to power a reactor? Is it like a regular nuclear reactor where you essentially boil water to power a steam turbine?

I swear a part of my inner child died the day I found out that nuclear reactors are essentially big kettles.

It’s no different from GPT knowing the plot of Aliens or who played the main role in Matilda.

It’s seen enough code to recognise the pattern, it knows an author name goes in there, and Phil Nash is likely a prolific enough author that it just plopped his name in there. It’s not intelligence, just patterns.

I’ve a feeling it’s probably a thing that one will have to remain cognisant of indefinitely. I’m just glad it’s a fucked up relationship with food rather than something like a sugar addiction, because that seems really tough to handle. Best of luck to us both, I’m sure we can do it! 🥳

Yeah as someone who is working on building a healthier relationship with food, this struck me too. It’s absolutely super tempting to lose a lot of weight fast, but I’m firm in my belief that if I want to have results that stick, my attitude towards food needs to change. It’s honestly going really well too.

Right, that makes sense.

No no, they are saying that you’ll lose a bunch of water weight. As far as I know you generally regain that quite easily once you start eating again.

Personally I subscribe to the idea of calories in < calories out. Sustainable weight loss requires good habits and a healthy relationship with food.

5.7 kilo in three days? That sounds pretty bad (as in dangerous).

Gutting it is more like, but yeah I gather they’re doing something like this.

I mostly used it for bring. Back in summer 2023 they nixed the API so I gather a lot of API integrations have stopped working.

Overall the quality of the product has gone down too. It doesn’t recognise me as well as it used to, and it very rarely attempts to give answers, usually you just get a “sorry I don’t understand” instead.

What’s really amusing to me is that HomeKit and Siri has become more reliable than Nest and Google Assistant is. Siri used to be laughable, and while it still doesn’t do as much as GA used to do, it is much smoother and rarely gives me BS answers. The only time I get annoyed with Siri is when it insists I unlock my phone for it to answer.

Google assistant barely even does lights for me anymore. It usually puts on some rubbish podcast instead. Or it cancels all alarms. Absolute garbage.

They’re slowly phasing out Google assistant in an attempt to kill it.

Ah you’re right, Taiwan wouldn’t be independent, because in the case of a Chinese attempt at occupation, the U.S. would swoop in and occupy it themselves “liberate” them.