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  • Vyvanse wasn’t a pleasant experience for me. It felt like it crushed all of my dopamine receptors and life got really boring, really quick. (Obviously, this isn’t everyone’s experience, but it was mine.) It took a few weeks for my brain to recover.

    I didn’t try switching because I wanted to (adderall works just fine for me), it’s because the adderall supply was low in my area for a bit and I wanted it find an alternative.



  • remotelovetoFunny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.worldThe Hat Man
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    I completely stopped taking that stuff as a sleeping medicine. I might take it if I happen to develop an allergy or something, but that is about it.

    Also, I believe the risk of dependency needs to be reevaluated for that stuff. For me, I trade one nights sleep for two shitty ones if I take it. So, it’s keep taking it, or just power through a couple more days of not being able to get to sleep after taking it. I personally believe this can lead to longer term sleep issues. (I do not believe there is going to be evidence or studies to back up my claims, but I haven’t really looked.)

    Sure, it could have just been psychological issues for me, but there were issues nonetheless.







  • remotelovetoCalvin and Hobbes@lemmy.world27 October 1988
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    I am a believer in the possibility of panspermia. Much of the stuff we see on earth is the byproduct of past supernovas. Those old stars probably had planets and some of those planets might have hosted early forms of RNA or at a minimum, started to form more complex molecules.

    I am not saying is not that earth was “seeded” intentionally or life as we know it developed on another world. It just makes more sense to me that the history of life is not contained strictly on this planet alone.

    The universe seems much more complex to me than the history of a single planet.






  • These findings suggest LLMs can internalize human-like cognitive biases and decision-making mechanisms beyond simply mimicking training data patterns

    lulzwut? LLMs aren’t internalizing jack shit. If they exhibit a bias, it’s because of how they were trained. A quick theory would be that the interwebs is packed to the brim with stories of “all in” behaviors intermixed with real strategy, fiction or otherwise. I speculate that there are more stories available in forums of people winning doing stupid shit then there are of people losing because of stupid shit.

    They exhibit human bias because they were trained on human data. If I told the LLM to only make strict probability based decisions favoring safety (and it didn’t “forget” context and ignored any kind of “reasoning”), the odds might be in its favor.

    Sorry, I will not read the study because of that one sentence in its summary.


  • MH-60s have 3 engines. 2 for the main rotor and 1 (the APU; aux power unit) to provide air (I can’t remember if it pushes air somehow or is geared to the engine turbines) to start the two main engines and provide initial electrical power. All three run on JP-5, which is jet fuel. (I was stationed in a helicopter squadron for a few years.)

    JP-5 is a kerosene based fuel, and not very special if I remember correctly.

    I don’t know if it was the case here, but water in the fuel is a common issue and it should be tested for on a regular basis.


  • I’ll never drink again, but there are some days still that I wish my mind could be as numb as it was while I was a raging alcoholic. That thought is usually replaced with remembering how shitty I always felt and how I didn’t give a fuck about anything. Life was a blur.

    A mostly clear mind and recovering body is a very good thing. Daily stress is easily managed with regular exercise and chronic anxiety and depression is only a tiny fraction of what it once was. It’s a good life now.

    I believe the lifestyle changes not only lengthened my life, but it also stretched out my perceived time as well.




  • Maybe RPGs, if the distance of the plate was far enough away from the main hull of the tank. The blast from shaped charges in RPGs can dissipate fairly quick once it has gone through one bit of armor, so, it needs to detonate against the actual tank hull itself so the jet of molten copper has a higher chance to give a big hug to one of the shells in storage.

    But an AT missile? Highly unlikely it will be stopped. It’s probably also going to have a shaped charge, but it will be much more powerful than an RPG and could penetrate multiple layers of armor. A top-down trajectory is also more likely where actual tank armor would be the weakest. (There are multiple types of anti tank missiles and some can be set for different attack trajectories.)

    Turtle tanks may or may not still have an active main gun. If they don’t, they shouldn’t be carrying any live shells so crew survival rate should be a touch higher depending on where the missile strike happens.