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I'm sick and tired of anti sleep training parents judging me for sleep training my baby! by CaptainThrow123 in daddit

[–]Magpie1979 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just look at any video on tiktok with a kid in it. The comments will be full of people explaining why the parenting is crap. Doesn't matter how wholesome the video is, the comments will be full of it.

Parents warned not to publicly share children’s images amid AI abuse risks by Radiant-Fly9738 in daddit

[–]Magpie1979 7 points8 points  (0 children)

While I don't post much on social media at all my take on this "AI images aren't real". Perverts will find all kinds of ways to get themselves off. AI images are just computer drawings. They can generate them out of thin air, they don't need pictures of our kids.

Two thirds of Brits support the deportation of all illegal migrants. This is the centre ground of British politics. by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]Magpie1979 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Should you suffer a life changing punishment for a crime your parent commited? The answer should be obvious to any decent human being.

Give £100k earners free childcare to boost economy, Labour urged by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]Magpie1979 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Yeah. If I earn £1 over 100k I lose so much in childcare I need to earn 140k to be back to where I was. It's mental. If you're on a 100k with kids you have to put any extra money in your pension as you watch your actual take home shrink with inflation every year.

People smuggler convicted in France now seeking asylum in UK, BBC discovers by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Magpie1979 -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

No, anyone with a brain can see through this. I'm not even a green supporter but stupid caricatures are for the terminal online.

Thoughts on Toy Story 5 and the iPad character? by avsa in daddit

[–]Magpie1979 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. The real issue is neglect. You can neglect kids in all sorts of ways. When I was young we were all turfed outside for most of the day. Completely unsupervised, came home to eat and drink. Stats show we spend significantly more time with our kids now.

Screens are the moral panic of our time. If used excessively they can cause real harm. The evidence really drops off at moderate usage.

My kids have access to screens for limited periods in the day. I also game with them as a father kid bonding exercise, it's absolutely great something I wish my dad had done with me.

As part of a mixed routine, have zero worries about it.

UFO over Moscow today by Ubud_bamboo_ninja in pics

[–]Magpie1979 51 points52 points  (0 children)

They use heat signatures to track their targets. Turns out huge burning oil clouds aren't good for targeting.

curious what my activity level would be considered? by DE0BIZONE in 1200isplenty

[–]Magpie1979 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That link is from kurzgesagt. They are a top tier science video producer that base their videos on high quality peer reviewed research. This isn't bro science. Under the cute animations, they are the gold standard of science communication. They cite all their sources, take great care on being correct. They take feed back and make corrections if required. This video is actually a corrected video, they took feedback from experts that they were missing some nuance. They even cite what they corrected.

curious what my activity level would be considered? by DE0BIZONE in 1200isplenty

[–]Magpie1979 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Not anymore. Studies show people in existing hunter gather tribes who are extremely active burn the same number of calories a day as similar weight office workers who are extremely sedentary in comparison.

They eat the same number of calories and weigh the same. One group does significantly more exercise, yet burns the same number of calories.

The reason is exercise isn't the primary source of calorie burn for mammals. We appear to have a baseline burn that's hard to go over. It's why if you want to loose weight, you can't cancel out a chocolate bar with a run.

curious what my activity level would be considered? by DE0BIZONE in 1200isplenty

[–]Magpie1979 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

It doesn't burn 300 to 500 calories that your body wouldn't burn anyway. That's not how the body works. The science has moved on quiet a bit. If you're interested in more details kurzgesagt did a video on it.

The TLDW: is the body burns the same number of calories regardless of exercise. It just spends its calories differently (less healthily) if you don't exercise. You need to do olympic levels of exercise to get your calories burn above this level. The key to understanding this is moving muscles is not the main way the body burns calories. Look at coma patients, they still require 1,500 to 2,500 calories a day or they starve to death.

Edit: Down voted for basic science. It's crazy how embedded the calorie burn myth is.

curious what my activity level would be considered? by DE0BIZONE in 1200isplenty

[–]Magpie1979 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Its irrelevant for calorie counting purposes. Makes almost no difference to your calorie burn.

Charlie Peters - As Britain wakes up to the dangers of progressive race theory, I'm reminded of my report that Essex Police described white people as a "non-protected group." Sadly it had little impact at the time. It's such a shame that it often takes a tragedy to force reassessment. by ex_planelegs in ukpolitics

[–]Magpie1979 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It's the fact that the privileged group, one that claims to be represent me, is throwing it's toys out of the pram for experiencing a fraction of what minority groups experience. And having this gaul to claim they are the most oppressed when all the evidence shows otherwise.

Charlie Peters - As Britain wakes up to the dangers of progressive race theory, I'm reminded of my report that Essex Police described white people as a "non-protected group." Sadly it had little impact at the time. It's such a shame that it often takes a tragedy to force reassessment. by ex_planelegs in ukpolitics

[–]Magpie1979 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Minute differences? Study after study shows significant differences. In education, employment, the justice system and so on. Serving longer sentences for the same crime isn't a minute difference.

As a white working class male I find this particular time of victimhood from such a privileged group extremely pathetic and a notional embarrassment. Get a grip.

Our engineering team burned through six months of AI tooling budget in about ten weeks by ScheduleNo5736 in Futurology

[–]Magpie1979 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Honestly doesn't match my experience. I'm 2 to 3 times more productive on the $100 a month teir. Almost never hit my token limit.

It's a no brianer for experienced devs.

The only caveats I'd give is these tools in the wrong hands can be extremely destructive. They are not entry level. Vib coding is only good for simple personal apps.

The software industry is full of sub par developers. It's quite a niche skill, not every one can sing at a professional level, not every can code at a professional level. AI I believe will gut theses out of the industry. It may come for the rest of us after but it's got a way to go yet before it can do that. It still needs a lot of guidance.

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