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JimtheCoder··on More Than 40% of Japanese Women May Never Have Children
"They need to use the bathroom and eat."

You put food in a bowl and leave it on the floor. They eat it when they are hungry. It's quite simple...

Bathroom? If you feed them at the same time every day, the usually go to the bathroom at the same time every day. You build habits. They go out before you go to work, and then when you come home, they go out and relieve themselves.

There are also grass pads for smaller dogs that can be left inside the home.

These are not difficult problems.

"They make noise and destroy things"

If yours does, you have a sh*tty dog that probably isn't being taken care of correctly.

Most cared for dogs just sit around, sleep, and wait for their owners to get home.

JimtheCoder··on More Than 40% of Japanese Women May Never Have Children
"You can't really leave dogs at home unattended either."

Yes. Yes you can...

JimtheCoder··on More Than 40% of Japanese Women May Never Have Children
"...and some say than China."

Well, that old one child policy from back in the day may have had lasting consequences?

JimtheCoder··on More Than 40% of Japanese Women May Never Have Children
The fact that Japan has not always been seen as the most immigration friendly/multicultural country greatly exacerbates their demographic issues.

Somehow, I don't see how this can be turned around...

JimtheCoder··on What Is Happening with ChatGPT?
Well, considering the model just had a stroke, maybe we can let that slide...
JimtheCoder··on Can't take it anymore. Guilt, imposter syndrome, depression, and anxiety
A permanent solution to a temporary problem is never the answer.

Maybe reach out to your parents and ask for some help? They will not be upset as you think they will be.

When you are depressed and anxious, you are not thinking rationally. All of this incompetent piece of shit stuff is just your negative emotions...it's not reality.

JimtheCoder··on Doctors on TikTok
It's always the plastic surgeons doing stuff like this...

Proctologists...not so much.

JimtheCoder··on With three hours of free time each day, how do you spend it?
Have you considered developing a new Javascript frontend framework?

Just don't sit somewhere and start to ruminate about life. Don't ask me why I know this. It doesn't end well...

JimtheCoder··on Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler
"Now there are hundreds (thousands?) of large enterprises that slurp up ambitious individuals and put them in charge of important things."

I'm not sure I agree with that...

They slurp up ambitious people, put them in charge of something, work hard to convince them it's important, layer endless amounts of bureaucracy on top and around them, and pay them just enough to make sure they don't leave - I think this may be more accurate...

JimtheCoder··on Google and Universal negotiate over music AI deepfakes
Something I don't understand...

How can someone own the sound of a voice?

We know there are people who can do really good impersonations of famous people's voices...as long as they are not claiming to be the person they are impersonating, I don't understand how this would be enforced...

Does every voice on the planet have a unique, detectable signature?

JimtheCoder··on Efficacy of infant simulator programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy
I think that's a little unfair...

Teenage boys want to do "the thing" with girls that has an unfortunate side effect of potential pregnancy.

We can't act like this isn't natural...we can just make sure they have the tools to be safe and make sure accidents don't happen...

JimtheCoder··on Ask HN: Was the introduction of computers deemed as transformative as AI is now?
"Today, I don't think the general public expects much from AI. Generally the public does not look forward."

To be fair, I am not sure the general public even understands how much they already interact with AI...

JimtheCoder··on Russia 'deploys 1,500 rusting mothballed tanks from Siberian dump'
This seems like a pretty standard play out of the "War of Attrition" playbook.

I personally wouldn't read too much into this...they have been sending old tanks into combat from the beginning of the conflict, if I am not mistaken...

JimtheCoder··on The Hidden Harms of CPR
"Why has it become a default treatment?"

What is the alternative for someone just standing by watching someone die?

Regardless of the outcome, I would feel a lot better about myself knowing I did something rather than nothing when someone was in medical distress.

JimtheCoder··on Ask HN: Starting a software business while employed full-time
What are you employed as?

If it's as a software dev or in something similar to the geospatial industry, make sure your employment agreement/contract allows for you to build your own products on the side...

That is a good first step...

JimtheCoder··on 8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free
No love for Sci-Hub?
JimtheCoder··on YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off
I already use a Chrome extension that blocks videos on the homepage, the recommended/similar videos sidebar, the comments, and thumbnails...

Improves my experience at least 400%...

JimtheCoder··on Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company
"It's incredibly hard to have a conversation on a complex legal document if you do not read the legal document."

On HN, not only is it easy, it's standard operating procedure...

/s, but not really...

JimtheCoder··on Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company
"I was recently listening to a podcast recapping a television show set in the early 2000s, where a current college aged student basically said "I wish I had the experience of being a teenager in that time period - it seemed much simpler as you weren't aware of every bad thing that was happening around the world"

I'm sad that kids these days did not get to experience things like the Sopranos, otherwise known as the best TV series ever.

One hour. Once per week. No binge watching.

JimtheCoder··on Italy approves 40% windfall tax on banks for 2023 as profits soar
Those have low capital requirements, but their moat is the network effect....

I can buy a script to build a Facebook clone from an Indian Dev for like $50.

JimtheCoder··on Traffic safety “nudges” can cause number of crashes to increase (2022)
The answer is obvious - Rainbow color scheme.

Everything is cured and everyone is happy.

JimtheCoder··on Salesforce Can’t Use 230, May Be Liable for Customer Backpage's Sex Trafficking
"I wonder if her finger is on the scale."

I think she's too busy leading the AI Taskforce...

JimtheCoder··on Bad behavior at ‘Barbenheimer’ reflects a worrying trend
"At a “Barbie” showing at an AMC theater in Washington on Sunday, a man wearing a pink tank top and body glitter loudly identified with the Kens onscreen. Throughout the film — and despite multiple shushes — he would cheer, sing or stand up and pump his fist from his front-section seat whenever the Kens rallied against the Barbies."

Watching this was probably more entertaining than the Barbie movie itself...

But, people probably paid $50 to be there...

JimtheCoder··on Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
But what about a BSer that is working in conjunction with ChatGPT? That is BS^2, and that is hard to beat...
JimtheCoder··on Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work
This may be true, but a song named "Stupid" probably wouldn't have been as popular...
JimtheCoder··on An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it
"Well hey, they did their time and paid their debt to society right? Should they continue being unemployable for life, forced to return to a life of crime? Give those guys a second chance to earn an honest living and show the world they aren't defined by their past."

While this is true, it may be a good idea to employ them in jobs where it isn't tempting/super easy to get away with theft?

Roofers, plumbers, and the like have a lot harder time stealing things than airplane baggage handlers...

JimtheCoder··on We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels
Measurement errors of course...\s
JimtheCoder··on Canada's Telus to shed 6K workers as profits plunge 61%
I guess this is what happens when a member of the Oligopoly called Canadian telecommunications tries to actually...compete with others?
JimtheCoder··on We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels
Well, since I'm still quite young, I can look forward to getting all of my internal plumbing replaced for my 65th birthday...
JimtheCoder··on Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein
Well, you can't let a cheap espresso machine touch your $25 bag of single-origin coffee beans...
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