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When travelling I suffer from strong anxiety related to the fear of bed bugs or other critters and the idea I could bring them accidentally to my home. I guess it differs from phobia, because I don't fear the animals themself, it is more anxiety of an uncontrollable situation at home.
I know that gold standard for phobia like things is CBT, but I read that CBT does not work very well for autists. Did you face similar anxiety and found a solution?
@Dr_Obvious@actuallyautistic i've been through intensive therapy for ocd, which is typified by this sort of thought/behavior pattern: i'm afraid that X will happen if i do/don't do Y. the exposure and response therapy (ERP) for ocd is classified as a type of CBT, but it is not the same as cognitive restructuring (the one with all the worksheets and toxic positivity). it is about un-making the association between the anxiety X and the unwanted behavior Y, hence why it's a behavioral therapy. but i don't think any therapy with that goal could be otherwise.
autistic people definitely can do ERP. i'm an example of such 😄 as always, the practitioner should be flexible and adapt the techniques and goals of therapy to the individual. i have recovered enormously through good therapy, and at times along the way, i have been very hurt by bad therapy. unfortunately i could not tell based on the modality which would be which.
needless sandobxing (by default flatpaks can access your filesystem but not mounted folders, how is that secure and not jist inconvenient?)
yet another application manager not even well integrated into operating systems (linux mint doesn’t update flatpaks by default)
applications are usually not updated very often, not sure if that’s a systemic problem or just laziness
application X that is 50MB stabdalone requires 2GB to install and takes 3GB of space because it requires the entirety of gnome libraries. Application Y also requires 3GB because they use KDE or another version of gnome
Squadron 42 is the single player campaign of Star Citizen, that is supposed to launch as a separate game. It's basically a small portion of Star Citizen, but with a story and ending. I'm still not confident; waited too long for that.
I still remember being in college and hearing people in the lab next to me excitedly proclaim that they were able to pay $100 for a rare ship that has X Y Z features including handling, top speed, and fashionable interiors.
They weren’t able to use the ship yet, but oh man was it a great investment for when they’d one day be able to ride them.
So fucking bizarre. But, if you have people out there thinking like my then peers, you’re guaranteed to have a long term stream of income based on loose promises alone.
Question about #citations in #academic work: Where does one put the author in citations, in which THE WORK is included in the sentence, as in (a) vs (b) below?
(a) "... which you can find in Chomsky (1981)"
(b) "... which you can find in (Chomsky, 1981)"
@linguistics Alright I see everyone’s preferences are different from mine, but this is VERY weird when there are several authors! “We follow the approach in x, y & z (2022)” What is really needed is a reference to a work, not a person.
Btw, the “linguistic” arguments are moot, since entities written in parentheses can definitely be complements of prepositions, see “an example is found in (3)”. @minimalparts@dingemansemark
So you have a vertical line with an infinite slope. There are no changes in x as you traverse the line, only changes in y. Or said differently, the line is described entirely by a single x-value which corresponds to every possible y-value.
If you think of it in terms of a function, it’s extremely problematic because you no longer have a mapping of a single y-value to each x-value. This violates the requirements of a function. It’s not possible to define the slope value when rise/run is something/zero, therefore we describe the function value as “undefined”.
But even though we can’t calculate a slope or address it with a function, it’s pretty easy to visualize and understand a vertical line. So that’s what dividing by zero represents in concrete terms.
GNU C. Also works with Clang. Avoids evaluating the arguments multiple times. The optimizer will convert the branch into a conditional move, if it doesn’t I’d replace the ternary with the “bit hacker 2” version.
Guess only work with integers, specially for the floor function that is going to give you an integer at the end everytime.
Not my idea, learned it somewhere while doing college in an statistics class. The idea is that the exponential function grow really fast, so small difference on variables become extreme difference on the exponential, then the log function reverse the exponential, but because it grew more for the biggest variable it reverts to the max variable making the other variables the decimal part (this is why you need the floor function). I think is cool because works for any number of variables, unlike mathematician 2 who only work for 2 variables (maybe it can be generalized for more variables but I don’t think can be done).
For a min fuction it can be use ceiling(-ln(e^-x + e^-y))
to be fair it does seem to work for any two numbers where one is >1. As lim x,y–> inf ln(e^x+e^y) <= lim x,y --> inf ln(2 e^(max(x,y))) = max(x,y) + ln(2).
I think is cool because works for any number of variables
using the same proof as before we can see that: lim,x_i -->inf ln(sum_{i/in I} e^(x_i)) <= ln(|I|) +max{x_i | i /in I}.
So it would only work for at most [base of your log, so e<3 for ln] variables.
here’s another mathematical approach (that has the added benefit of only working when x and y are both positive).
let f denote the linear functional on ℝ^2^ defined by f(1,0) = x and f(0,1) = y (and extend by linearity). then the operator norm || f || is equal to max(x,y).
The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?
Wait, what?
Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.
We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...
The goal: hosting services like #nextcloud, #syncthing, #mastodon!? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.
It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. #Android can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.
In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."
PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.
I hadn’t considered the RISC angle. Does RISC consistently use less power than CISC at given operations levels (MFLOPS, for example), or is there another/better way to make a power-consumption vs operations/performance comparison?
I realize this is kind of esoteric for my use-cases, but it would be useful for making projections to see if spending X dollars on Y number of Pi’s recoups the investment over a given period, just in power consumption.
E.G. If I can reduce my power consumption by 70% by switching to 3 Rpis, then I can recoup their cost in 2-3 years. Since my server needs replacing anyway, this seems like a no-brainer.
@actuallyautistic
Autistic members, how do you do the difference between a question you can answer yes or no and an order disguised in a question?
If you ask me "do you want to do X?" or "do you think you can do X?" I always understand it as if I have the equal possibility to answer yes or no. But I often have trouble at work with colleagues or superiors finding disrespectful I answered no. Bc their question is a polite form of "do X!". But to me a question is a question, not an order 🤔
I found myself last week, writing back an explicit "Are you asking me to do X?" and thinking of this group. 😄
It may be that the person asking the question hasn't yet decided whether to ask you to do X, and your opinion about how hard it would be will influence the decision.
Sometimes a clarifying question like "Is this more urgent than Y and Z?" can resolve the ambiguity.
I ‘upvote’ more or less all posts I interact with (sometimes I forget to vote). I feel like we should bring back open dialogues and heavily dissuade people from simply disregarding someone’s entire belief system or ideals based on 200 characters of text (an example)....
Remember that for a capitalist, free market and lack of government intervention means:
Lower taxes (for the capitalists)
Less regulation (for the capitalists)
No government handouts (except for capitalists)
Etc.
They absolutely do say what they’re going to when they suggest improvements. Just remember - they only apply to the capitalist class. They’re not talking about you. Everything they say lines up when you remember, if they say “I’m going to improve X”, just add “for billionaires” at the end. If they say “I’m going to stop Y programs”, just add “but only for the poor”.
It all makes sense viewed as the class warfare that it is.
Powered by AI models trained on troves of text pulled from the internet, chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard responded to the researchers’ questions with a range of misconceptions and falsehoods about Black patients, sometimes including fabricated, race-based equations, according to the study published Friday in the...
I didn’t have to read any of it. Thinking this can’t be used effectively in a proper way is silliness. I guess you’re just a big anti AI person and that’s fine. I understand the limitations of the tech, especially in its earliest stages when it’s the most unreliable. But this tech is here and it’s not going anywhere. It’s going to continue to be refined and evolve and find new ways to be implemented.
Just casting all of these unavoidable truths aside and simply saying it’s no good and can’t be used in x or y way is just a form of denial. you’re free to do that if it suits you but it just doesn’t change the facts.
It's a tough truth to face up to, but not every Autstic/neurodivergent person is a good person. Many of us find out the hard way that there are members of our own community who will do harm to us collectively and individually.
It's important that we acknowledge the truth that we can always do better as a community. We don't have to be perfect. We just have to do a little better each day.
I get the feeling it's all a scattershot of traits with groups of people that clump together statistically and the clumps overlap significantly. The problem is, for 100+ years psych decided that traits NT's usually don't have together means someone is X, another set of traits mean someone is Y and so on, with the labels designated as pathologies because the individuals they were studying didn't conform to norms. During the historical period that psych was becoming what it is today, enforcement of norms was paramount. During that same period, the theory was pushed and happily accepted that all deviances from the norm are learned behaviors that can be unlearned - Skinner, Blank Slate theory, etc.. Psych sold the promise to "help" people unlearn their differences and agree to conform. The Cold War magnified the pressure for social conformity. It ended, the Internet came about, and ND's could compare notes.
Off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot charged with attempted murder after trying to stop engines mid-flight (www.nbcnews.com)
in your opinion, what is the biggest downside of Flatpaks?
Space sim Squadron 42 is "feature-complete" and gunning for Starfield's lunch with massive new video (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Squadron 42 is the single player campaign of Star Citizen, that is supposed to launch as a separate game. It's basically a small portion of Star Citizen, but with a story and ending. I'm still not confident; waited too long for that.
Can someone explain 1/0 in non-axiomatic terms or does it exist solely within the confines of the abstract realm?
Find yourself (lemmy.ml)
Do you think the Internet and websites with 'voting' systems encourage hivemind thinking and discourage any debate or discourse? Solutions?
I ‘upvote’ more or less all posts I interact with (sometimes I forget to vote). I feel like we should bring back open dialogues and heavily dissuade people from simply disregarding someone’s entire belief system or ideals based on 200 characters of text (an example)....
the right reacting to a leftist meme (lemmy.ml)
Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism (apnews.com)
Powered by AI models trained on troves of text pulled from the internet, chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard responded to the researchers’ questions with a range of misconceptions and falsehoods about Black patients, sometimes including fabricated, race-based equations, according to the study published Friday in the...
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