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mylastattempt commented on Mid-pregnancy pollution exposure linked to postpartum depression   bps.org.uk/research-diges... · Posted by u/wjb3
HPsquared · 5 months ago
Yes.. I'd expect places that are poor and miserable would also tend to have more pollution.
mylastattempt · 5 months ago
And surely the other way around as well, if not more so. Places with more pollution will generally be in poorer areas, where life happiness/satisfaction are already lower, most likely worsened by negative effects of pollution. Indirectly or otherwise.
mylastattempt commented on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs   twitter.com/skdh/status/1... · Posted by u/ksec
GolDDranks · 5 months ago
I guess that Sabine's beef with LLM's that they are hyped as a legit "human level assistant" -kind of thing by the business people, which they clearly aren't yet. Maybe I've just managed to... manage my expectations?
mylastattempt · 5 months ago
That's on her then for fully believing what marketing and business execs are 'telling her' about LLMs. Does she get upset when she buys a coke around Christmas and her life doesn't become all warm and fuzzy with friendliness and cheer all around?

Seems like she's given a drill with a flathead, and just complains for months on end that it often fails (she didnt charge the drill) or gives her useless results (she uses philipheads). How about figuring out what works and what doesn't, and adjusting your use of the tool accordingly? If she is a painter, don't blame the drill for messing up her painting.

mylastattempt commented on Stem cell therapy trial reverses "irreversible" damage to cornea   newatlas.com/biology/stem... · Posted by u/01-_-
cced · 6 months ago
How do we know if something is truly irreversible?
mylastattempt · 6 months ago
Irreversible might not be the thing to wonder about. Can it be changed to a more desired state or result? That has a much more definitive answer: pretty much always 'yes'.
mylastattempt commented on Cowboys and Drones: two modes of operation for small business   emeaentrepreneurs.com/ant... · Posted by u/sixhobbits
PeterStuer · 6 months ago
Using the artcles nomenclature, in my experience (only primarily knowledge worker businesses) ever company grows from 'cowboys' into layers of 'drone management' where actual production is still relying on 'cowboys' to get the actual work done and keep the company running despite the 'processes'.

This by the way is why most big ERP, BPM,RPA projects fail. Once the pretence is codified it turns out the emperor never had any clothes.

mylastattempt · 6 months ago
Is that a reference to something (emporer..clothes)?
mylastattempt commented on The Generative AI Con   wheresyoured.at/longcon/... · Posted by u/nimbleplum40
danroblew · 6 months ago
Trillions of dollars, dude. They need to make trillions of dollars to satisfy their investors.
mylastattempt · 6 months ago
If you are correcting my use of millions to trillions: I was refering to the author himself, who writes like this giant AI bubble is pushing him forward to the edge of the cliff as people keep believing in it, and he is desperately trying to get the bubble to shrink or he'll fall off and die. Methaphorically.

But why does he act or feel that way? Let the trillions be lost, it's just how hypes, bubbles and the stock market in general work.

mylastattempt commented on My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation   cosive.com/blog/my-washin... · Posted by u/tashicorp
emilfihlman · 6 months ago
This was just painful to read.

>For my washing machine, they were unknown unknowns - I didn’t even expect there’d be a hole to drill, new hoses to buy, a cold water tap cap to remove, and a spigot PVC wall to drill out.

No, most of this was something that could have easily been known if checked after the first trip to the store but before going there again, or at minimum before the third trip. It was just so painful to read how there was absolutely zero planning and checking before execution.

While you can also do many checks and plans in software development and deployment (like calculating if the thing you want to calculate given your resources is even remotely possible, back of the envelope calculations, you know), there's still many more things that are much harder to know about and check in advance, and there's not usually a huge cost (going to the store) associated with problem solving each time.

mylastattempt · 6 months ago
Agreed on this being a painful read. Starting with this being a 10 minute job. Based on what? Assumptions are the.. etc. You assumed everthing was plug&play ready. Who told you that?

Anyway, after the second trip, before going on a third, he still didn't think to actually check the complete 'requirements' for his trip to the hardware store. You buy a part for your drill, but don't check if it will fit your drill? Why not bring the drill and then take a picture of the job site, if you are going to ask the people at the store for help anyway.

It's like downloading a compiler, write lot's of code in Python and then being annoyed it's a C++ compiler or whatever. Same for the "not actually extendable hose". Maybe call the wife, or just buy the hose and return it if you don't need it on another trip to the hardware store later that day or week when you pass there. Just painful, no planning or thinking.

The only thing I can imagine just being domain knowledge, is that the spigot needed a hole to be drilled eventhough it has an inlet which I would also assume was open.

mylastattempt commented on The Generative AI Con   wheresyoured.at/longcon/... · Posted by u/nimbleplum40
mylastattempt · 6 months ago
On LLM/ML itself: it seems a lot of cynical people start with some unreasonable idea that "AI" should be able to do what it will perhaps be able to in 10 or 100 years, and are subsequently upset that it is not capable of that yet. It may get there, it may not. But that's on you for starting with a wrong assumption.

Is the AI "business" or "market" overvalued for it's current capabilities? Yeah, I do believe so. Welcome to the financial world, which is completely separated from reality. It's like that in all sectors where something new and exciting is happening, not just IT or AI. People poor money in hoping to be early enough to make a profit. Nothing more, nothing less. The rest is marketing. Some Sam Altman guy promoting the hell out of his own product? That is literally his job, regardless of wether or not he believes it all.

But articles like these are so bizarre to me. The author acts like he has millions at stake and his money manager just won't listen and pull all investments out of AI. Hurry up, the bubble is about to burst, I will lose all my money!

Except that... they don't. They are just "old man yelling at cloud". If you believe AI is the next Metaverse or WeWork, then it will just die off by itself once the bubble pops. Why are you having so many conversations about it, where you seem to be desperately trying to convince people of the bubble/con that is AI. To the point that you're so sick of it, that you write down your arguments so you can point the blinded there instead of having those tiresome arguments.

Genuinely baffled. Spend your energy on something productive rather than destructive, perhaps?

mylastattempt commented on I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts   blog.rongarret.info/2025/... · Posted by u/lisper
a1j9o94 · 7 months ago
I was part of a group that did something like this. We used a crypto token system where if you joined the group you got X number of tokens and you could use that to get other people in the network to help with various tasks.

Then the network would take a small percentage of equity in the companies of all the members.

mylastattempt · 7 months ago
You left out the most interesting part: why _were_ you a part of it. Did it not work out, why not, or did you leave because of reasons not related to the (un)succes of this system?
mylastattempt commented on I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts   blog.rongarret.info/2025/... · Posted by u/lisper
dowager_dan99 · 7 months ago
I'm very grateful to have the luxury of not having to play the game (very much). It puts me at odds with the majority of the world. Maybe if I was a success on the scale of our modern day oligarchs my circles would be filled with similar people, but being a salary employee who doesn't work primarily for the pay cheque and could quit for higher morals or values (without risking their family's welfare) is a weird situation. I feel like I'm often on the edge of the bubble and must be missing something.
mylastattempt · 7 months ago
You may be missing the feeling of being a human being with atonomy over the course of your life. Missing in the sence of absence, definately not in a sense of sadness or regret - be happy to not have to worry about the most existential things in life and being dependent on the whims of a boss / company / ecomomy for them. tl;dr I'm happy for you to not be in the rat race, it's completely not glorious (to be in it).
mylastattempt commented on How I Got Here   pthorpe92.dev/intro/my-st... · Posted by u/jrhey
mylastattempt · 7 months ago
>> I have spent the past few months teaching/mentoring another resident in a different facility in Maine who I was put in contact with. I had heard he matched my level of discipline by putting in 14 hour days learning every single day. That has been the most rewarding thing I’ve done, because he put in a tremendous amount of work and we are now hiring him this week and I am fortunate enough to see and have directly contributed to the same life altering changes that have happened to me over the past few years.

Getting out of the lifestyle of a dealing addict is, in fact, one of the toughest things to persevere trough. And in my opinion, pretty much impossible without outside help. Glad to read this guy got that help by being transferred to the Maine prison system and everything that happened from that point onward.

This was discussed last year, see the link by wonger_ just below.

u/mylastattempt

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