You herd the group of cats that are all my friends, family, and work colleagues and get them to use a standard app that’s not Facebook Messenger

So much this, it hurts. Signal removing SMS support was the biggest setback to getting my friends and family to adopt secure messaging. I had such a huge percentage of people actually switching because they could use just the one app, and then Signal went and fucked it all right to hell! Now I’m back to a handful of contacts on Signal.

I don’t enjoy online texting and find it worthless and a waste of time to me, and as such in person interaction is what I cherish the most;

Yeah, I didn’t miss that bit.

so that’s why I am so hung up on the time ratio question

This is still a non-sequitur for me. How’s this for a ruleset:

• If some night you don’t have energy to go and don’t want to go, then don’t go;
• if you do have energy and you don’t want to, don’t go;
• if you don’t have energy and want to, figure it out at the time 🤷
• If you have energy and want to go, go.

What about alternatives like crashing at his place every once in a while?

Just remember, this isn’t a negotiation - I’m not the one getting you there and back. I’m just trying to give you another way of looking at it in case that makes it easier to figure out.

Aside from this being an entirely personal question that nobody else can answer for you, I think it’s getting to see your friend that justifies the drive, not the amount of time you spend with them. I had a commute like this to see one of my buddies for a while; sometimes we’d spend as little as an hour, sometimes 8. The 4-hour round trip each time isn’t what I remember.

Son of a bitch, that’s a good argument.

I’ve done it. Circumstances sometimes demand, what are you gonna do? 🤷 But also, I always clean up after myself - wipe down around the sink if I splashed, and rinse the toothpaste out of the sink itself. That’s just courtesy, professional and general.

It sounds like the health care sector in the EU generally is worried about the misuse of acetaminophen, like for a “Paracetamol Challenge” on the level of the “Tide Pod Challenge”: https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/what-is-the-paracetamol-challenge-that-has-europe-nervous/

The misuse of any OTC drug is worrying, but this doesn’t translate into a general discouragement, and certainly not because of the “danger” that some people might not take it as directed.

I’ll give you one guess :P

but autism? Nah.

Preaching to the choir haha.

Regarding your point on the efficacy of acetaminophen: agreed wholeheartedly. Like /u/i_has_a_hat said, if you combine it with ibuprofen it’s far more effective. My go-to for bad pain is 500-1000mg acetaminophen and 400mg ibuprofen; I stole the idea from my ex’s neurologist when he prescribed it for dealing with the side effects of her main medication (and he also specifically said it would help with her period cramps too, hers were always bad).

As to the guy taking 5 an hour… That’s an incredible amount of acetaminophen, even “normal strength”. You said you wouldn’t, I think I couldn’t take that many pills. Just the idea has me gagging 🤢 I think it’s fair to call that one an outlier in the data.

I appreciate the sources, but I don’t appreciate the

You… you didn’t try at all, did you?

Because nothing you’ve posted here is news to me. I think you’ll find I said:

If the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting, I’ll concede that’s a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.

So I’ll just quote directly from your very first link, because the rest of them don’t say anything different:

Responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits and 2600 hospitalizations, acetaminophen poisoning causes 500 deaths annually in the United States. Notably, around 50% of these poisonings are unintentional, often resulting from patients misinterpreting dosing instructions or unknowingly consuming multiple acetaminophen-containing products.

And

At therapeutic levels, acetaminophen is generally considered safe. However, instances of acetaminophen toxicity often arise due to patient misconceptions about dosing or a lack of awareness regarding its presence in multiple medications they may be consuming. Intentional ingestion of large doses also contributes to toxicity.

So, in around 50% of cases, the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting. They took other medications containing acetaminophen and didn’t know it, or they took other drugs that amplified the ability of the acetaminophen to cause damage (like alcohol, which is made very clear you’re not supposed to take with acetaminophen).

In the rest, overdoses were intentionally taken, so you can’t really count those in the danger statistics since the goal was to use it dangerously.

To put this in perspective:

When taken at therapeutic doses, acetaminophen has a good safety profile. The therapeutic doses are:

• 10 to 15 mg/kg/dose in children every 4 to 6 hours with a maximum dose of 80 mg/kg/d
• 325 to 1000 mg/dose in adults every 4 to 6 hours, with a maximum daily dose of 4 g/d

Toxicity is likely to develop in adults at:

• >12 g over a 24 hours
• 7.5 to 10 g in a single dose
• Doses >350mg/kg

Toxicity in children occurs following a single dose of 150 mg/kg or 200 mg/kg in otherwise healthy children aged 1 to 6.

Just do the maths on how much acetaminophen you normally take for any given ailment, and you’ll realise just how far beyond those doses the danger really lies (or maybe that you’re one of the people who doesn’t check what they’re taking).

So, to conclude: acetaminophen is indeed dangerous if you don’t pay attention to what you’re taking or how much. Other examples of things that are dangerous if you don’t use them right: cars, ovens, lawnmowers, cotton buds, the internet… the full list is quite long, actually, but I’m sure you get the idea.

Source please? I haven’t been able to find anything credible about whatever danger it is you’re referencing - unless the danger is overdosing because the person didn’t know they were taking acetaminophen in different forms? If the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting, I’ll concede that’s a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.

Just block and move on, I think 🤷 If they ban you, so what? I doubt any single instance forms a huge percentage of your experience here, and that goes double for some knob’s shite little personal instance. Put another way, that kind of moderation is never going to grow a large community; maybe they want it that way, but it does mean they’ll stay irrelevant to the majority of users. And the reasonable ones that person bans will make their own instance; the instance with the most reasonable moderation will end up with the most users.

At least, this is how I’ve been using it. Just firehose the lot at first and filter down the noise over time. My block list is long, communities and users. Hell, I’ll block a whole community if I see the admin or a mod being a dick. I feel this has only improved my experience.

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It can do that for school level stuff because that material is present in it’s input dataset in a redundant manner. For anything niche or domain-specific, it will hallucinate or fail.

I typically don’t have an issue getting a grasp on fundamentals, so most of the things I want to ask it about might be beyond school-level. My main way of learning is to ask questions to make sure I understand the material - which means more potential hallucination points, and maybe worse impact because I’ll think I get it, but I’ve just been confidently lied to that I understood.

For example, I’ve wondered for a while if patches of space with less gravitational curvature “age” faster than patches that are more heavily distorted by gravity wells, and what the implications of that might be. Makes sense, we know that gravity slows down subjective time. But I can’t get a productive answer out of an LLM because I can’t trust it, and it’s not worth bothering my physicist friends about.

Ah-ha, now there’s an interesting use case. I’ve had occasion in the past to work on PCB design - to be clear I didn’t do the design myself, I have no idea wtf I’m doing there, but I’m capable of reading spec sheets and soldering - and when I had to sub in components, I managed to find what I needed by filtering down for specs on DigiKey using their search. I think an LLM could have saved me a bit of time there if I could’ve just fed it the BOM and asked for alternatives, and over the course of all the subs I had to do for the particular project I’m thinking of (it was during Chinese New Year so it was tough getting answers from suppliers) that would have added up.

“I only ask questions to LLMs if I already know the answer”

Not a developer here. I’ve been thinking about this because I hoped LLMs would be able to help me learn things at first, like a patient tutor I can ask all my stupid questions and it’ll never get annoyed with me. Since it can’t do that though, because it lies all the time, I don’t think I have a use case for it at all… About all it can do for me is rewrite or summarise English, and it doesn’t even do a particularly good job of that most of the time so I end up saving time by doing that work myself anyway. I suppose it’s pretty good at translating, but I haven’t tried it for that as I don’t have a lot of call to speak foreign languages.

Just here to echo the sentiment that you’re still pretty young, so if you decide that’s what you want then absolutely go for it. But also I’d like to ask: I know you said the relationship cooled off, but how do you actually feel about her? Would you lose her entirely in the divorce, and would that make you sad/does that really matter (maybe not)? Just trying to get a better picture of your feelings for her and if that’s shifted.

It’s pretty telling that she’s okay with you having “a woman on the side”, that’s a pretty big change if it wasn’t okay before, and I wonder why that changed. Did you get any clarification on how exactly her “outlook on life has changed”?

Framework are standouts in customer service and warranty; I recommend them because their ethos is repairability and re-use. They design their products for maximum interoperability of parts - so for example of you got one of the original laptops, you could upgrade the internals to new framework parts and buy (or build, or 3d-print) an enclosure for the original parts that still work, and turn it into a file server or whatever. You won’t run into this situation you have now, where you can’t get a part a few years later because the company themselves can’t get one. And, it’s all open source, so you can build and modify as you like… and equally if not more importantly, so can everyone else. Robust ecosystems are nice to have!

If it’s a Razer, it was probably pretty expensive. Is a Framework (https://frame.work/) in the budget? If so, he’ll have a great work machine capable of gaming, and upgradeable too.

Another option is a lower-spec laptop supplemented with a GeForce Now subscription for demanding games. If you have a decent internet connection, the service actually works really well - far better than earlier services which tried to sell gaming on the cloud. You can try it for a day for $4 (or $8, for the top-tier hardware) to see how you go with it on your home connection.

Uh-huh. So it “would have burned to the ground” with fewer than a dozen LEO injuries in the LA protests, even by the most conservative estimates (source)? What does that make January 6th then, with over 140 LEO injuries (source)?

Keep these numbers handy.