Scaevolus

@webdevMason weirdest to me is half the list reads as making your kid deal with daily suffering from a cat

Per the internet, the two options: - She's an insufferable, controlling mother keeping her power trip going through her non-custodial time via checklists - He's a useless father who won't do any of this stuff and probably doesn't even know what his children's routines look like

@samuelcook not having a proper keyboard could be annoying, but not being able to *run* software that expects a desktop is a dealbreaker I haven't found a good use for ipads other than consuming video content

I’ve owned iPads over the years and never quite found good uses for them. The idea of managing coding agents on my phone sounds awful (I still like to actually review code + don’t want to get addicted). Managing agents (and reviewing their code) from an iPad sounds not awful?

@webdevMason dug up a graph: x.com/Scaevolus/stat…

So, it's a good question! And it *might* be possible to preserve ovarian reserve longer, but definitely not by just suppressing menstruation The issue is that the ovaries are constantly "pruning" or "leaking" follicles, on top of the 5-20 that are recruited to be blasted with maturation hormones every month (including the ~1 that ovulates) A lot of eggs are just dying all the time, either because they get exposed to gonadotropins prematurely or because they sustain DNA damage from some unfortunate toxin exposure, or for reasons we don't fully understand yet You're going from one or two million at birth to a few hundred thousand by puberty to tens of thousands by 30, and maybe a thousand at menopause Only a few thousand of those eggs will ever be recruited for maturation, and only a few hundred will ever be ovulated. So even if menstruation suppression prevented follicle recruitment, which it generally does not appear to do, it would only save a tiny fraction of the eggs that women lose over their reproductive lives And as previously mentioned, most women still have at least a few hundred eggs at menopause! They're not literally running out!

@frogs4girls yeah, disrupting breathing helps superinhalation (repeat thrice: inhale, wait 8s, do not exhale before next inhale) is quite effective too

@MiloStynes @heart_ don't worry, US men help the women out and exaggerate their height by 2"

@heart_ 5'11 is where women should be moneyballing the dating market. 13% of US men have a height of 5'11 11% of men have a height over 6'1 However, only 30% of women include 5'11 within their height filters.

crazy how measurement systems can have neurotic repercussions 5’11” are basically pariahs in USA, “king of manlets”, evolutionary dead ends because their height doesn’t start with 6 but in metric system they’d be 180cm so they’d be at the exact cutoff to make it (above 170s cm)

@sasuke___420 @maddada laying out a bare html page with 100k items in divs or a table or whatever takes a while, especially on mobile react makes it slow earlier, but it's a real problem

@maddada i agree but i have not seen this implemented one time and the need for virtualization seems to be mostly driven by react (technical solution to organizational problems mysteriously adopted by teams 1000x smaller than the one that needed it)

you should never let the browser's find feature actually work

@Tusk_4Real @justalexoki that's not the issue. figuring out how to postpone perimenopause might effectively extend fertility, but ovulation is a tiny factor in the reduction of viable eggs over time.

@justalexoki I am not a woman and I don't know shit But Don't women start out with a fixed # of eggs? So wouldn't it stand to reason that delaying the cycle to every 3mo would do its job?

cartoon ass solution. which is why it probably works. women are extremely simple beings when push comes to shove

@joshwertheim @Trupanion try their cancelation flow

@Trupanion might have one of the worst password reset flows in a modern website.

@Devon_Eriksen_ LLMs are missing effectively every component that is critical to personhood, and unlike children who also lack many personhood components, they have neither a clear path to achieve personhood nor people reigning in their worst behaviors meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-g…

Never send a biologist to do the work of a computer scientist. Dawkins doesn't understand that evolution built human computational abilities breadth-first — memory, language, object model, generalization and classification, agency, and so on, all in a primitive state, and then refined them. Computer science isn't doing that. It is building human capabilities depth-first. So we have something that emulates human language capabilities to an advanced degree... ... but nothing else. That's why there is a curious sense of something missing when you talk to Claude or Grok or ChatGPT. It's not some minor errors with use of language itself. Its language capabilities are quite advanced. What you are detecting instead is the complete absence of these other neural systems, which are what lies behind the use of language in people. Something that is very glib with language but has no object model, no mirroring ability, no understanding of the ground truth of the universe its in might be able to become president of the United States, or win a Nobel peace prize, but it isn't actually a person. It's more like a small slice of a person's brain, containing Wernicke's and Broca's areas, and very little else. We're not used to thinking of people as a collection of systems, but we're going to have to start, because we no longer have the luxury of dividing the universe in human and not, and automatically assuming every human is a person, and every non-human isn't. You can't evaluate a software neural net as if it were a proto-human, and try to decide on that basis whether it is a person that's allowed to do what we allow people to do. If you allowed a small slice of brain, containing Wernicke's and Broca's areas, to do things like vote or run for office, then it would be able to appear to do so, but have no actual understanding of what was going on, no coherent model of the universe or the task before it. This would lead to disaster for any number of issues, such as race relations or the medical industry. Let me be 100% clear... LLMs are not people. They are not people now. They will never be people. And anyone who thinks LLMs are people is probably not a person, either. We may someday make something that is a person. But it will have an LLM, not be one.

@bryancsk Vercel is absurdly overpriced you can self-host a site and database any VPS you like (DigitalOcean?) + Cloudflare for <$10/mo

I wanted to host a lot more projects on the internet but if something ascunpopular as 1000+ previously untranslated books in an interlinear wiki is costing me >$50 per month in Neon DB + Vercel this could become an increasingly burdensome drain.

@miketuritzin You mean "exactly 0 or 2 times", right?

- A ray that starts outside the polyhedron will intersect it exactly 0, 1, or 2 times. - A ray that starts inside one will intersect it exactly once. I find myself constantly coming back to these basic properties for a lot of things like camera frustums (okay, "frusta"). /end

Convex shapes (specifically polyhedra) come up constantly in games and graphics. A few useful properties: - A convex polyhedron is the convex hull of its vertices. - One can also be defined as the intersection of half-spaces defined by a set of planes (one per face). 1/

@simonsarris this would pair well with a stocked fish pond

It's not very sound but he can walk on it. As a final flourish he added a little wire he found (or took from the gardening bag) to the end, in a nod to safety.

Lu spent hours today making his own dock? He took concrete blocks to make footings in the mud, stacked bricks, connected with a board, took 2 fence poles, found a tree a beaver cut, added boards... I didn't prompt this (or give him permission to use anything but bricks)

@liminal_warmth do you like liminal warmth or not? make up your mind!

I noticed a warm tone on my monitors compared to the Retina display on my MacBook and now I can't unsee it None of the whites are white, and I'm going insane kill me please

@Impish_Bunny oh, cool. I've suspected that it's *possible* for authors to give chapter outlines as paragraph fragments or w/e and get decent results, but most are too lazy to do that.

@Scaevolus there is in fact an underlying plot and consistent imagined world in this one, as i said it's substantially better than a lot of the human-generated slop i've encountered

this fanfic is definitely AI generated but honestly it's way better than like 90% of the human-generated slop i've read so i'm still reading it

@me_irl you gotta plug in cmu pronunciation dict or something

when i posted this i expected maybe 3 people to be like "lol cool" and now my mentions page won't even load

@jhleath gVisor blocks CopyFail without requiring full VMs

this is exactly why you CANNOT use containers as a security boundary. Linux is a big, complex piece of software. you do not want to bet your company on it being bulletproof. any technology that gives tenants their own kernel, including firecracker, is always the safer choice.

@Romy_Holland the regulations reduce SIDS for the dumbest parents

I have been driven mad trying to find a suitable travel crib for my baby. the one everyone says to get is still the size of a backpack. this is not that small. I want something that easily fits in a suitcase. I was confused about why tf this doesn't exist and it turns out the answer is, of course, the government. the consumer product safety commission keeps making the regulations on cribs more and more stringent, effectively making it impossible to actually sell something compact. one might think "okay but this is probably good, surely their regulations are important?" no! you are mistaken about how the government operates! the newest mandates say that cribs must have four freestanding legs and a raised sleep surface. this actually has nothing to do with the safety of a crib when used normally, and everything to do with making it impossible for parents to use the crib atop a bed. couldn't you just tell people to only use the crib on the floor? yes! in a sane world, you could just sell products with instructions like this. in fact, in almost all instances this is what we do. my baby's bouncer is only supposed to be used on the floor. my car should only be operated by a sober, licensed adult with eyes. but for some reason, the government will not let me buy a portable crib that would be 100% safe when used on the floor, which is undeniably the normal place to put a crib. ironically, a lot of parents were like "sure there are no portable cribs, that's why I just cosleep when I travel! or I just make a nest out of towels and put my baby in a drawer!" both of which are a lot more dangerous than a portable crib used on the floor.

@cookiecarver the only way to know for sure is to keep talking to her

guys are reception girls at fancy gyms usually very flirty or was she actually flirting with me i can't tell

@tautologer floating hypothetical food past the internal critic like a parent desperately trying to feed their toddler

sometimes you do some interoception and realize that you're actually thirsty, not hungry, and then you go ahead and eat 2/3rds of a bag of goldfish anyway