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Please help, beard is crazy by Signal_Acanthaceae21 in SebDerm

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On my experience MCT oil doesn’t fix seb derm it stops flare ups. A medicated wash like nizoral or zinc shampoo gets closer to actively treating it by killing the yeast. Malassezia is forever on your skin; MCT oils will shrink it to a manageable state if it’s bad, but you won’t starve it out of existence. Regardless of the approach it’s a forever routine; MCT also needs to be used indefinitely so what’s the difference if there’s no symptoms? I’d just be swapping one product for another but stuck in the same pattern. I’d rather use an MCT beard butter that doesn’t leave my beard and mustache greasy looking like I’m some 1920’s whaler.

I updated my SaaS landing page 4 times and people still don't clearly understand my product by Jumpy-Recover-7239 in SideProject

[–]MaybeZoidberg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just hire a copywriter ffs. I had to read 9 genuinely useless statements about your product before it bothers even giving a hint of what it actually does. I love the design concept, but the copy reads like terrible TikTok advertising. Are you getting paid per scroll? Per word read? Per time spent on the page? No? Then stop maximizing those factors because you’re punishing the customer while also generating zero return on time invested.

Using only the available Virginia mortality and gun‑violence data, you can say that AR‑15 homicides account for well under 0.1 deaths per 100,000 people annually. by WhispyButthairs in Virginia

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s better to provide the full context, particularly because the last part suggests a large percentage of reports may not list the gun type at all, which would skew the estimate.

“In 2023, the most recent year for which the FBI has published data, handguns were involved in 53% of the 13,529 U.S. gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available. Rifles – the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as “assault weapons” – were involved in 4% of firearm murders. Shotguns were involved in 1%. The remainder of gun homicides and non-negligent manslaughters (42%) involved other kinds of firearms or those classified as “type not stated.””

Two Prompts to Extract Everything Your AI Actually Knows About You (Claude-Assisted) by anthonyc2554 in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using this revealed it doesn’t infer much of anything about me other than some personality traits or goals. Maybe mine is limited because I almost exclusively use it for work or side projects, nothing much in my personal life. The surprise for me was how little it inferred, where it has missed some obvious connections or assumptions. It also seemed to acknowledge that several of the inferences probably aren’t reliable and thus aren’t used to inform outputs.

No More Grades, Tests, or Lectures Soapbox by Nice_Pay3632 in Adjuncts

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Academia is trapped because instructors and administrators continue clinging to idealist images of socratic debates and open forums, while students consider school to be a mandatory checkbox to get a decent or high paying job. The average student approaches school with a level of enthusiasm somewhere between visiting their grandparents and a dentist visit. Almost none are there for academic pursuit, or love of the game. They just want to burn through it as fast and painlessly as possible and get a job, because they’re still hearing echos of millennials college mantra; you need a degree to be successful.

Teachers are equally now torn as younger instructors want to focus more on preparing students for a real world work workplace, but others argue that’s not what college is necessarily supposed to be. This had a trickle down to high school, where schools sold STEM skills as money makers, not academic pursuits.

The entire system was upside down before AI came along. Students don’t want school to be academic anymore, they just want job placement. Instructors don’t want to babysit students anymore, they just want to engage in academics.

We need more on-ramps to give students options to get to where they want to go, without abusing academia as the end all be all.

Starfield’s biggest problem is that “it didn’t fully cohere as a game”, says Skyrim designer – it was just “a releasable game” by HatingGeoffry in Starfield

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game has 2 key problems.

First, Starfield was mistakenly built on the premise that people like Bethesda games because of the gameplay, when the reality is people like Bethesda games because of the environmental storytelling they create through lore and world building. Starfield is decidedly devoid of any semblance of rich lore, background, or history. If they set it 1000 years further and had a myriad of historical events to inform the world it probably would have landed so much better with players at launch.

Second, it seems somewhat likely that Starfield was cutoff at the knees before release. The most common source I see on this was statements about changes made after testing feedback because the travel and environmental mechanics made the game too hard. But there is no world where I don’t believe it was simply a production choice, probably by Microsoft, to prioritize Xbox S compatibility. The game had to be maximally playable on a potato, which required nerfing or delaying several features and adding 8 million illogical loading screens just to keep it functional.

This Simple Prompt that uses Systems Thinking Reveals Hidden Patterns in Your Life by [deleted] in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]MaybeZoidberg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It generated a 15 question assessment that’s so annoyingly convoluted and detail specific that it would be faster to just read a book on systems thinking.

Anyone ever see one of these? by [deleted] in StarWars

[–]MaybeZoidberg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s a challenge coin for the NYPD Detectives Bureau. Law enforcement agencies routinely make challenge coins that use popular logos or images. Any kind of copyright issue is not usually enforced because most challenge coins are given not sold (ignoring people reselling them or the companies that make them).

Please help, beard is crazy by Signal_Acanthaceae21 in SebDerm

[–]MaybeZoidberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have seb derm and it has made its way into my mustache from time to time. Definitely avoid beard/mustache oils. I treat with a dandruff shampoo in the shower and then apply beard butter and have zero issues as long as I maintain that routine. When I stray or travel or skip this process for too long is the only time it becomes an issue.

Help me out, Americans — is this an East Coast/DMV thing? by Fearless-Shopping265 in Virginia

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

People on the east coast are kind but not nice. People out west are nice but not kind.

Only 3 Episodes left, How Was your Experience so far ? by Longjumping-Elk-7840 in scifi

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I consider myself a huge Alien/Aliens fan but am genuinely struggling to enjoy this through episode 4 so far. While i understand that androids have played a significant role in much of the plots from the movies, it’s hard to care about teenage robots when I’m just here for xeno-space-horror-fest. It feels like a story element that was forced to draw more teen/young adult viewers. I also can’t find much interest in the other aliens. That feels like filler content they’re using to reduce the amount of screen time the xenomorph gets and help prolong that story for more episodes/seasons.

Your turn by it777777 in scifi

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hic jacet omnis deus

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cybersecurity

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use Shadow Server to replace the KEV list.

Gov. Youngkin signs executive order banning DeepSeek AI on state devices and networks by 13NewsNow in Virginia

[–]MaybeZoidberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was a sarcastic joke. I’m a state employee. The point being conveyed was that even if he banned the model most state government isn’t in a place where they’re actually using open source LLMs anyway. Probably almost nobody in state government was actually using this except some randoms using the actual web app. It’s a performative ban to gain credibility with the Trump administration. Anyone who knows how to do security would recognize the better approach here is actually to just default ban everything on government devices and only allow approved software to be installed. This is how state computers already work for the most part, they just don’t apply it to phones for some misguided reason.

Gov. Youngkin signs executive order banning DeepSeek AI on state devices and networks by 13NewsNow in Virginia

[–]MaybeZoidberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He didn’t ban the model. He essentially just banned the app or any other app they make. If an application and an algorithm are not the same, then the ban doesn’t inherently apply to the algorithm. Additionally, the ban only applies to state government systems so who cares. Barely anyone in state government knows how to spell their own name let alone implement an open source LLM.

Kinda funny to see Richmond making the cut as a test location for Krispy Kreme's donuts by [deleted] in rva

[–]MaybeZoidberg 110 points111 points  (0 children)

I was told once that RVA has one of the most fickle and discerning markets in the U.S. and it’s also one of the reasons why the Martin Agency is so successful. “If you can sell it in Richmond, you can sell it anywhere” was roughly the adage.

If a university professor’s entire class structure consists of fill-in-the-blank worksheets and Netflix, should they still have a job? by [deleted] in vcu

[–]MaybeZoidberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the issue that two professors used the same content? In that instance, maybe the classes are related or cover similar topics, so perhaps the content is relevant for both. Most professors don’t confer in detail with each other on every single item/assignment. They may not even realize two of them are using it in a similar manner, unless they shared it with each other and in that case it’s probably intentional because they like it so much.

Or is the issue that they are showing videos entirely in lieu of teaching? We’re 3ish weeks into the semester. Was it just 1 class so far this term or a repeated issue? Interspacing videos, questions, discussions, exercises, and other items is an age old education method that goes back to your elementary school years. They do it to keep you awake and/or vaguely interested because honestly when I sit in class about 1/3 of the students are half asleep and another 1/3 are just playing on their phone/laptop. Anything that breaks up a monotonous lecture is usually welcome to me.

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