You’d need to explore the topic in further detail, as I’m sure the answer is there.

It may be dose dependent, but it may also be that a “splash” of milk might not impair absorption by much, but would anyone use just a splash of milk?

It’s one study of many showing this effect. I believe they suggest that the protein in milk is the culprit. The same effect applies to tea… Adding dairy to tea reduces its health benefits.

Tech companies only care about making money. If people continue to buy their half-effort products, then they’ll keep making it.

On the other hand, open-source (hardware or software) is designed for maximum longevity.

Unfortunately, the wrong people have unlimited resources when it comes to making our tech products.

Considering that coffee is probably the highest source of antioxidants in a person’s diet, there will be some health benefits. Just dont add dairy milk to it, or it will blunt absorption. Soy milk is fine.

But if you’re an overweight, overworked, stress filled couch potato who doesn’t exercise and eats poorly, then you’re health is screwed regardless of how much coffee you drink 😂

Keep going. Every failed attempt makes him look like poor leadership material. Not that his words and actions make him out to be good or anything, but still. 😂

A generative AI ouroboros accumulates error until its output is useless.

We’re already seeing this, but I don’t think that will stop people from using AI (with some human oversight). Countless articles are being generated each day using AI, just so that someone can publish a garbage website that gets a lot of views, and reap those sweet advertising dollars. The quality of the content on the internet is eroding, and i don’t think we’ll be able to put the genie back in the bottle.

I’m seeing more and more legitimate websites no longer using stock images, but AI generated images for their photo content. It’s just too easy, so why wouldn’t they, right?

Even when making something new the AI has to be “trained” on existing material. They can’t make something from nothing… yet.

And that’s the important part: “yet”.

AI is fairly new, so it only has human-created datasets to work off. But at some point, it’ll either generate original content on its own, or rely on content already created by other AI.

The quality and originality of this content will probably be stale, but enough of it will be generated to make money and keep people interested, that I don’t think it’ll matter. The enshitification of the arts is rapidly upon us.

The thing is, we still have recognizable human voices, so there continues to be a market for that talent. But how long will that last? Once AI generated voices become good enough to create new, recognizable voices, it’s game over.

AI music isn’t inventing sick rifts or using new instruments together. Humans do. We’ll continue to make the better music

For now, perhaps. It really is only a matter of time before the “algorithm” in these AI music generation tools know what people like to hear, and creates music that hooks them. It doesn’t have to be a sick riff, just an earworm that keeps people hooked.

There still may be a market for live musical performances, and I’d still want to see humans on stage. But commercial music? It’s too easy for a movie or game producer to enter the prompt: “Errie, slow music with a focus on string instruments.” and be done with it.

Sure, some human input will still be required to program a new sound or to tweak the created content, but that won’t take the same talent or skill as our current artists.

The only way around this that I can see is to have “Human Verified Content” certification on music, movies, video games, websites, etc., and for people who want to support that content. If enough people simply get used to AI generated art/entertainment, then there’s no path forward for these professions.

To be quite honest, their days are numbered. AI voice generation will make these jobs completely obsolete in the next few years.

Don’t believe me? Just listen to AI generated music using the voice of famous singers. Voice acting by humans doesn’t really have a future, sadly.

Mosquitos have entered the chat.

But really, pollinating insects have been extremely rare this past year. It’s alarming, and nobody seems to care.

It was about blackface, which you know very well. No-one has ever been offended by “whiteface”, because of what fucking happened in history.

Not all white people share the same history, man. If you think that any white person is the same as every white person, then you’re being a real racist.

Nazis brutalized my family, so fuck you for thinking I would ever be ok with som “white lives matter” cunts. You are an asshole.

My dude, I hate racists.

I also have a sense of humour, so stuff like comedy and costumes aren’t places where I tend to judge people. If I did, I’d think that most black and brown comedians were racist, and that most white ones were pedophiles or rapists. But I don’t.

My comment was in response to the question about people using <insert colour> face during that time, and it seemed to be more common than some of us can remember.

I don’t know anything about the guy in question, and it seems silly to judge him based on a basketball player costume he wore on Halloween almost 20 years go. We should use some common sense here.

Well, just a few years earlier than this guy’s black face, a movie called White Chicks came out… two black dudes playing white face in an entire Hollywood movie (coincidently, filmed in B.C).

I don’t ever recall outrage over it, though.

That said, I guess we’re lucky that our politicians are only playing black face during costume parties, rather than wearing white hoods during regular business hours! LOL

I was under the impression software engineering, despite the layoffs, was still a pretty liquid market.

I went to pick up an order at Walmart not too long ago (months), and the guy who brought it out was chatting me up. Apparently, he’s a software engineer, but could only find work at Walmart.

These are grim times.

I’m of the opinion that if a roof can’t support a few extra hundred pounds, the entire house is compromised.

Wet snow can add thousands of pounds of weight to a roof, so a solar panel (which can actually deflect a lot of heavy snow), really should be no problem at all.

That said, it’s incredibly disappointing that home insurance companies are causing difficulties for people who want to adopt greener tech.

Funny thing is, CAA (the company mentioned in the article) will insure e-bikes without any issues (a fire risk in any home), but state that the risks of these solar panels would be problematic? I think they’re just picking and choosing what they want to cover, without any evidence supporting their position.

It starts at 2011, so nowhere near compete. Probably 20% complete.

With this be a Pay Per View comedy special? 😂

Yes, but I’m sure there’s some tax benefit to calling it a food bank. #RecordProfits

How about the fact that more people can get dental care? Or that daycare is affordable for more families?

Don’t let an algorithm undermine actual good things that have been happening.

Sounds like they take micro breaks, which is not only healthy, but can help with productivity.

Is anyone complaining about this?