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isk517 commented on New protein therapy shows promise as antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning   medschool.umaryland.edu/n... · Posted by u/breve
pfdietz · 12 days ago
This looks like a therapy you can only get once in your life, after which it has acted like a vaccine and your immune system would react to it.
isk517 · 12 days ago
If getting carbon monoxide poisoning once isn't enough to make you invest in a few detectors then I don't know what will
isk517 commented on Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?   washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
bogdan · a month ago
> it's also probably the most popular endurance sport

I believe long distance running takes that spot

isk517 · a month ago
Depends on what is meant by popular. In terms of participation then running, in terms of non-participatory viewers then cycling is probably more popular
isk517 commented on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?   economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/edward
dehrmann · a month ago
> With fewer visitors, Stack Overflow is seeing fewer questions posted on its message boards

When you operate a community that's hostile to questions that have already been answered, are poorly researched, or are homework, don't be surprised when people start taking those questions elsewhere, and don't be surprised when they start asking their good questions elsewhere, too.

isk517 · a month ago
I'm diving back into Linux server setup and management after being away for about 2 decades. The number of times the the top 3-5 search results are Stack Overflow questions with someone who is having the exact same issue I'm having and the top answer is 'this has been answered elseware, try searching' was almost enough to make me say, screw this I'm going back to Windows.
isk517 commented on Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3   tomshardware.com/video-ga... · Posted by u/freedomben
weinzierl · a month ago
"Nintendo can spot the duplicated cart."

I think they cannot spot the duplicated cart specifically, they just see the same "cart" (or key) used twice or multiple times at the same time and block it and possibly all devices involved.

Not defending Nintendo, but I believe it is technically impossible for them to distinguish between the pirate and the victim.

isk517 · a month ago
Yeah, if they were able to directly identified a duplicated cart then the easiest solution would be to update the console software to just not play duplicated carts. There shotgun approach is just biting them in the ass since the market has apparently already been flooded with duplicate carts and all they are doing is antagonizing people who believe they bought in good faith a legitimate game
isk517 commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education   moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint
dontTREATonme · a month ago
I recently joined a very old company, with many lifers, I continuously run into this mentality. “I can’t explain it now, but I’m sure there was a good reason for it, so we’re gonna continue doing it this way”
isk517 · a month ago
The real issue is that most business just don't document anything to do with their processes. Chance are that there are a hand full of things that there are a good reason for doing and they do need to be done that way. Except the people that identified that original problem and came up with original solution have all left the company so now there is nobody around that has put in the effort (or been given the time to investigate) to figure out why things are done the way they are, and the last time one of the things that had been done forever was suddenly stopped it caused untold amount of chaos so now the directive is to just keep doing everything we've always done.
isk517 commented on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies   newyorker.com/culture/cri... · Posted by u/frogulis
isk517 · a month ago
Half sarcasm and half serious. Obviously there were a lot of things to do back then, but also this was a time before everyone was carrying around a device that let you contact everyone else and access information about what is going on around you. Movies were a very heavily advertised things to do, the movie theater provided both a place as well as a time to meet your friends, and watching a movie at home meant gambling that the rental place would even have what you were looking for and provided a experience that was a very noticeable step down from going to the theater.
isk517 · a month ago
Also, depending on where you lived, going to the movie may well have been one of the only things to do.
isk517 commented on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies   newyorker.com/culture/cri... · Posted by u/frogulis
ks2048 · a month ago
> because it was 1997 so what else are you going to do?

I can't tell if this is sarcasm.

isk517 · a month ago
Half sarcasm and half serious. Obviously there were a lot of things to do back then, but also this was a time before everyone was carrying around a device that let you contact everyone else and access information about what is going on around you. Movies were a very heavily advertised things to do, the movie theater provided both a place as well as a time to meet your friends, and watching a movie at home meant gambling that the rental place would even have what you were looking for and provided a experience that was a very noticeable step down from going to the theater.
isk517 commented on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies   newyorker.com/culture/cri... · Posted by u/frogulis
somenameforme · a month ago
Fun fact: movie sales, in terms of tickets sold, peaked in 2002. [1] All the 'box office records' since then are the result of charging way more to a continually plummeting audience size.

And this is highly relevant for things like this. People often argue that if movies were so bad then people would stop watching them, unaware that people actually have stopped watching them!

Even for individual movies. For all the men-in-spandex movies, the best selling movie (by tickets sold) in modern times is Titanic, 27 years ago.

[1] - https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

isk517 · a month ago
A major contributor to Titanic being the best selling movie by tickets sold is the amount of people that went to watch it multiple times, and going to see a movie multiple times in 1997, while not common, was not unusual because it was 1997 so what else are you going to do?
isk517 commented on LLMs should not replace therapists   arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412... · Posted by u/layer8
wintermute22 · 2 months ago
"The real question is can they do a better job than no therapist. That's the option people face."

This is the right question.

The answer is most definitely no, LLMs are not set up to deal with the nuances of the human psyche. We're in real danger of LLM accidentally reinforcing dangerous lines of thinking. It's a matter of time till we get a "ChatGPT made me do it" headline.

Too many AI hype folks out there thinking that humans don't need humans, we are social creatures, even as introverts. Interacting with an LLM is like talking to an evil mirror.

isk517 · 2 months ago
Already seeing tons of news stories about 'ChatGPT' inducing psychosis. The one that sticks in my mind was the 35-year old in Florida that was gunned down by policy after his AI girlfriend claimed to be being killed by OpenAI.
isk517 commented on Military leaders aghast as Zuck crashes classified Oval Office meeting   independent.co.uk/news/wo... · Posted by u/CharlesW
isk517 · 2 months ago
Please explain the ways the military leaders fucked up the wars. I'm only 40 so I may not have lived through as many wars as you but the actual 'war' parts of the wars that have involved the US seem to have gone off without a hitch. It was winning the peace that proved difficult and that is a responsibility that falls on the politicians.

u/isk517

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