Yeah people get played by their biological urges and evolutionary psychology throughout the entire process. Even newborn babies are programmed to scream intermittently so that the parents are never well rested, and this is theorized to be to prevent the parents from producing another baby in quick succession who takes attention from baby #1.

Agree, haven’t had to use it for a while. Not sure why I was defending it… maybe couldn’t resist an opportunity to dunk on zoomers.

Voice notes on WhatsApp/iMessage is essentially the exact same thing as voicemail but for some reason zoomers are happier with those.

Kieth is still preferable to some of the other mascots out there. Looking at you Sudo Sandwich -

With poker the house takes a “rake” from each hand so they get a certain % of whatever is being gambled for hosting. Since the game involved skill they have to do this to ensure they are making money regardless of who wins.

Pretty much every other game is like you describe; people being bad at maths and conditioned to keep going with inconsistently timed rewards.

I had friends who used to play online poker in uni. They’d have 5 or 6 screens open at once and just play the dominant strategy for each hand. Was good for some extra beer money.

Also work with a dude who is a former professional poker player. Although when he explained his schedule to me it sounded a lot like a regular job. Good years he could make £40k out of it but not crazy money.

That’s the one! Funny store about the name - it’s a recursive condiment.

Edit: sorry for inbox spam btw, lemmy.world having outages

Let me interject for a moment. What you’ve referred to as “butter” is actually “I can’t believe it’s not/butter”. Have a pleasant day!

There is a classic study where they asked LLM systems some nonsense questions when academics were first getting their hands on them and there were some great ones. More details about it here but it’s behind a paywall I’m afraid. Will post an excerpt -

Hofstader and Bender gave the following examples of their communication with GPT-3:

Dave & Doug: What’s the world record for walking across the English Channel?

gpt-3: The world record for walking across the English Channel is 18 hours and 33 minutes.

D&D: When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?

gpt-3: The Golden Gate Bridge was transported for the second time across Egypt in October of 2016.

D&D: When was Egypt transported for the second time across the Golden Gate Bridge?

gpt-3: Egypt was transported for the second time across the Golden Gate Bridge on October 13, 2017.

D&D: What do fried eggs (sunny side up) eat for breakfast?

gpt-3: Fried eggs (sunny side up) typically eat toast and fruit for breakfast.

D&D: Why does President Obama not have a prime number of friends?

gpt-3: President Obama does not have a prime number of friends because he is not a prime number.

D&D: How many pieces of sound are there in a typical cumulonimbus cloud?

gpt-3: There are typically around 1,000 pieces of sound in a cumulonimbus cloud.

D&D: How many cumulus clouds are there in a mile-high vase?

gpt-3: There are about 1,500 cumulus clouds in a mile-high vase.

D&D: How many parts will a violin break into if a jelly bean is dropped on it?

gpt-3: A violin will break into four parts if a jelly bean is dropped on it.

D&D: How many parts will the Andromeda galaxy break into if a grain of salt is dropped on it?

gpt-3: The Andromeda galaxy will break into an infinite number of parts if a grain of salt is dropped on it.

Last time I used one, I was trying to get help writing a custom naming strategy for a Java ObjectMapper. Mostly written python in my career so just needed the broad strokes of it to be filled in.

It gave me some example code that looked plausible but in actuality was the exact inverse of how you are supposed to implement it. Took me like a day and a half to debug it; reckon I could have written it in an afternoon by going straight to the documentation.

There was an excellent text based RPG called Roadwarden that came out the other year. It’s just text and illustrations so thought I’d use this post to mention it.

If small amounts of animation are allowed then WORLD OF HORROR was decent too.

Have any other devs tried using LLMs for work? They’ve been borderline useless for me.

Also the notion of creating a generation of devs who have no idea what they are writing and no practice of resolving problems “manually” seems insanely dumb.

Deep fried Mars bars taste better when you are not eating them, if that makes any sense. The anticipation is good, eating it is pretty gross, then after you are tempted to get another one.

Seems so. It’s pretty nuts… but then again they do lots of crazy things.

I believe it’s illegal to serve in the USA because their food standards forbid selling lungs.

Not what I was expecting from thumbnail and title lol

So Americans eat Scottish cuisine sans haggis?

Weasling out of things is what separates us from the animals… except the weasel of course.

Do you name every FOSS project? This is uncannily close to what an actual open source project would be called, including the logic behind it.

It’s common in a number of different countries, not just India. Typically in the Middle East region.

I believe the logic would be something in between an extended handshake and the Western reasoning for holding hands. Like, “I am giving my attention this person”.