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sys64739··on AI Is Making Developers Dumb
It ruined my friend's startup. Junior dev "wrote" WAY too much code with no ability to support it after the fact. Glitches in production would result in the kid disappearing for weeks at a time because he had no idea how anything actually worked under the hood. Friend was _so_ confident of his codebase before shit hit the fan - the junior dev misrepresented the state of the world, b/c he simply didn't know what he didn't know.
sys64739··on Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection
What dashboard software is that?
sys64739··on Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk
That sounds great. I love Rust.
sys64739··on Boy, 14, fell in love with 'Game of Thrones' chatbot then killed himself
Read the article, the kid's spiral coincided with him hooking up with eDanerys. The chatbot kept agitating the kid to commit suicide, too
sys64739··on Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event
Nikola (Trevor Milton) was busted for fraud for insinuating that trucks rolling down slopes were working models.
sys64739··on We Are in Need of Renaissance People
VDH's career skyrocketed once he became a regular among the RW media, especially when lots of handwringing about Western values under siege is required.
sys64739··on Elon Musk wants to dominate robotaxis–first he needs to catch up to Waymo
Tesla is stuck in Level 2 limbo. That doesn't work on a Robotaxi with no steering wheel.
sys64739··on The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
I'm using a Dolphin Neurostim VNS to recover from COVID-induced anxiety. I'm getting better over time, especially my sleep, so maybe it's working? I had really bad depression for a while too, and that's mostly cleared up. It's not cheap but it's an FDA approved therapy for a number of conditions.

It sends microcurrent (literally - millionths of an amp) through the two halves of the vagus nerve via the left tragus to the left wrist, and from the right concha to the belly. Each half takes about fifteen minutes.

When I started using it I had some weird moments where my heart would skip a beat, but I ramped up the treatment durations over a couple weeks and now the treatments are uneventful.

Supposedly it's much safer than TENS units which deal with currents that can overload your nervous system.

BTW, look into Silexan lavender oil too ("Calm Aid"). Supposedly better therapeutic outcomes than prescription antidepressants and anxiolytics, especially at 160mg doses.