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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldFriends who have babies
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    21 hours ago

    At work, I was recently on one of the coffee-fetching breaks. Well, I actually fetched my trusty herbal tea. Then we met another guy at the coffee machine and they all started talking about how much coffee they drank. Eventually, they came to the conclusion that they were all addicted, because they had kids. And I just stood there with my trusty herbal tea, like yep, I don’t have kids.



  • It’s the usual ridiculous premise of “AI is better, if you remove all the aspects that are actually involved in doing the thing”.
    A real therapist looks at emotions, at your dynamic when you talk about your conflicts. They throw in suggestions to gauge your reaction. And they can get to know you and push you towards a positive outcome over many sessions. In particular, they also serve as a form of mediation. Having a person that holds you accountable for disrespectful behavior and for ridiculous expectations can do a lot for bringing a couple back on track. A chatbot just does not do these things.

    But on top of that, even the methodology seems to be flawed. A person liking a response is not an indication of it being good. Sometimes, a therapist needs to tell you that you’re being an ass.

    Like, yeah, the research itself has some amount of merit. A chatbot therapist might be better than having no therapist at all (so long as it doesn’t encourage self-harm). But the headline and the premise of the article is so far removed from any truth that it doesn’t belong in a science community.


  • The SSN is likely to appear in multiple tables, because they will reference a central table that ties it all together. This central table will likely only contain the SSN, the birth date (from what others have been saying), as well as potentially first and last name. In this table, the entries have to be unique.
    But then you might have another table, like a table listing all the physical exams, which has the SSN to be able to link it to the person’s name, but ultimately just adds more information to this one person. It does not duplicate the SSN in a way that would be bad.





  • Very interesting, thanks. I kind of got stuck on Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, which used to have a food clock until a few versions ago, now it’s just no respawns. They also scale XP amounts up for higher levels, so when there are more low-level enemies around than needed, they won’t give you a ton of extra XP.

    I’ve played around with Angband and ToME a few years ago, and I tried to like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead multiple times, but yeah, I feel like that’s probably the reason then why they never clicked for me quite like DCSS. I am absolutely the worst for optimizing the fun out of games, if given the opportunity.





  • First option for small codebases. Second option when you know your codebase will grow large enough to break things apart into multiple packages.

    The thing is, you typically need dependencies for de-/serialization. You only want those dependencies in the parts of the codebase that actually do the de-/serializing. And your model will likely be included in pretty much everything in your codebase, so the de-/serializing code should not be in there.
    Well, unless your programming language of choice supports feature flags with which the de-/serializing code + dependencies can be excluded from compilation, then you can think about putting it into the model package behind a feature flag.


  • I hope that fixes the single-sign-on nonsense at $DAYJOB. Every morning, it shows me the SSO login page, then I have to quickly press the back button 4 times to get back to the original page, from which it will redirect me back to that login page (but I’m guessing now with a refreshed token) and then I can login. Hopefully, it only requires navigating back one time now.


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe Perfect Wave
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    16 days ago

    Is this how it works for you guys? Like, do you have to wait for a thought like that to occur?

    I can just make such a thought happen instantly. I do have a tendency to become obsessed, because well, whenever I need a dopamine hit, I just do a think of a given cute person, which is addictive. And yeah, now I’m wondering, if that’s why I have that tendency…