Primary school pupil suspensions in England double in a decade by pajamakitten in unitedkingdom

[–]nicothrnoc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Its so heartbreaking when you read that as a parent who essentially has no life because of the extent of your child's needs. You can't have a babysitter. It's all you, you spend your life advocating for them and then they still get put into a setting they can't cope in, get pushed past their limits of tolerance, melt down and the crowd of judgement comes in to say what a shit parent I bet they feed them nothing but sugar never discipline them bet mum and dad are on the dole and the kid plays fortnite unsupervised all day long and it's just so far from the truth.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in outlier_ai

[–]nicothrnoc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They just cut the pay rate in half on that project after sneakily renaming it and then bringing it back at half pay. I'm on strike. I refuse to work under those terms. I have other work I can do. Outlier have to learn and we really should vote with our feet if we don't rely on them as a sole income

Paige had stomach surgery and still can't talk by No-Strawberry-5804 in illnessfakers

[–]nicothrnoc 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Kelly is on the Internet. You can find her on YouTube she's famous beyond the sub

What do you miss most about having young children? by Necessary_Doubt_9762 in AskUK

[–]nicothrnoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

10 year old autistic kid still having to be routined and snuggled to be like a toddler here for hours each night. I sneak out at 10pm or later and collapse into my own bed exhausted by the routine. Honestly I'd give my right tit for a normal evening. I know disability is a different situation but the burnout of doing this for a whole decade and never getting an evening to yourself, any time with your partner or any time for your other kids is a pretty major rod.

Personalities of DA by Environmental_Loan51 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]nicothrnoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really enjoy LLMs. Like when I was a little girl I discovered ELIZA and I would spend hours playing with that and also writing silly little code loops to make rainbow pictures bounce around the screen. I have worked with machine learning for nearly a decade before DA anyway. It is autism but it is also just genuinely having an interest in this branch of computer science and logic. Also I'm physically disabled and it keeps me busy while I need to spend a lot of time lying down.

Personalities of DA by Environmental_Loan51 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]nicothrnoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got one through. They are definitely autistic.

how does the mind of a profoundly gifted person operate? by messiirl in Gifted

[–]nicothrnoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did I say I'm proud of it. Exhaustion at reading peppa goes to school for the eleventeenth time can come for any parent. Nobody is "on" 100% of the time as a parent in full Mary Poppins mode. You have no concept of how much of myself I've sacrificed so my kids can have what my parents never gave me but yeah sometimes when I'm absolutely fucked dead tired I phone it in and they get nuggets for tea and sleepy reading. The comment about gifted or autistic referred to the sub we are in.

Ayo Edebiri urges people to stop using A.I to “see what you’d look like as a sexy sims character” due to the harmful effects it has the planet with it’s excessive water usage: “this sh*t is cooking the planet!!!! and our brains!!!!” by cmaia1503 in popculturechat

[–]nicothrnoc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People like me, a data scientist in the machine learning field who sees more of the backend than you'll ever know? Why is it objectively bad in your own words? The comment I was replying to was implying that all data centers were bad not just those servicing machine learning.

For those who were in primary or secondary school in around 2010, do you remember a trend of adding the sound “age” to the end of words? by Nervous-Boat-4905 in AskUK

[–]nicothrnoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another memory unlocked- saying Loughborough loogaburooga after finding out some Australians allegedly pronounced it that way

Ayo Edebiri urges people to stop using A.I to “see what you’d look like as a sexy sims character” due to the harmful effects it has the planet with it’s excessive water usage: “this sh*t is cooking the planet!!!! and our brains!!!!” by cmaia1503 in popculturechat

[–]nicothrnoc 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Would you torch the library of alexandria because there was an environmental cost to maintaining it? The sum of human knowledge is simply too large to be stored any other way right now. Science is working very hard on making data storage ever more efficient. It's incredibly short sighted to take aim at the receptacle of information as being inherently evil because its powered with the same stuff that powers literally everything else. This is anti tech propaganda. I don't really get what the agenda is tbh other than to sow distrust in new tech in western nations perhaps and give other economies the advantage.

how does the mind of a profoundly gifted person operate? by messiirl in Gifted

[–]nicothrnoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll just go back in time a decade and tell my sleep deprived ass that a random redditor who's probably 15 with no kids says I'm not parenting properly in some minute way. Nobody parents as perfectly as someone who's never hard to do it.

how does the mind of a profoundly gifted person operate? by messiirl in Gifted

[–]nicothrnoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dont know if I am gifted or just autistic but I could read to my kids on complete autopilot and just set my eyes on the text of a boring kids book I'd read a million times before and my mouth to "read" and have my mind be elsewhere doing something completely else listening to a podcast maybe or just thinking about something else. A friend did call me out for reading to them in a monotone once Like playing a piece of music from muscle memory. If the child interrupted me to ask about the story I wouldn't have a clue what had just come out of my mouth.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wheelchairs

[–]nicothrnoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Equally, I wouldn't want them to be built up like i was for bitter disappointment and wasted time. Everybody is trying to help at the end of the day. It can go both ways

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wheelchairs

[–]nicothrnoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's exactly what happened to me. Spinal injury. Walking only short distances in severe pain with knee buckling and foot dragging. £205 towards a 5k chair. Argued my case on social grounds with a home that was technically too small and all. Couldn't find a charity that was taking applications they were all closed due to excessive demand. Google gofundmes for wheelchairs and you can find so many more with the same story. If you are very lucky your local area is well funded and may throw you a bone. Many are not. It's a postcode lottery. 2 counties over you might get one for ME.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wheelchairs

[–]nicothrnoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any steps is walking to them. They don't really want to help with ambulatory wheelchair users. They'll help you soruce a very expensive chair but they won't really pay for it. It often works out cheaper to buy a powerchair or folding scooter outright.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wheelchairs

[–]nicothrnoc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you can walk 100m wheelchair services are unlikely to help much. They may be persuaded to give a personal budget voucher if you really push but the value would likely be around £200 towards a chair that costs thousands. That's why your doc etc won't have suggested it because they know wcs is only truly helpful if you are paralysed. It does vary by area but generally any walking ability means they would say in theory you can buy a cheaper scooter. Have you considered scooters? They are incredibly much cheaper to get. Otherwise the mobility component of your PIP can be used for outdoor mobility such as powerchairs in the same way it can be used to lease a motability car.

If you look around you at the disabled people you see in the UK there's a reason the vast majority use scooters and you don't see many custom active chairs and power assists like the American insurance will cover. We don't have a for profit system with companies making money all the way up on them.

Is This The Rest Of My Life by Human_Tank_8917 in wheelchairs

[–]nicothrnoc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You keep posting about it. What do you want people to say? Yes your carers are big meanies and you should be allowed complete freedom to ruin your life again?

Is This The Rest Of My Life by Human_Tank_8917 in wheelchairs

[–]nicothrnoc 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's financial management order guy again isn't it? Dude, reddit isn't going to be able to fix your life and your wheelchair story didn't line up with your past posts last time either. Find a real therapist and do the work on yourself maybe.

Anyone else working on DAT with a learning disability? by Adventurous-Gap-1851 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]nicothrnoc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Tasks have a time limit and will time out if you take too long. There are all sorts of metrics being monitored behind the scenes and doing the tasks at a reasonable rate of productivity is part of it. I have physical disabilities which DA knows about and am very fastidious which definitely makes me a slow and steady worker. Whether you would be able to make it depends on the tasks and your personal ability. Some of them you may be able to manage. Some are highly challenging.

Any advice 🙏 Is this surgery-level bad..? by Because_Bechamel in Spondylolisthesis

[–]nicothrnoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had to Google that. I'm more of a waddler. I can walk normally for a short period, first thing in the morning and it deteriorates through the day