- sounds like a culture and management problem. CTO should set clear expectations for his staff and discuss with product to ensure there is alignment.
If i was CTO I would not be happy to hear my engineers are spending lots of time re-writing and testing code written by product managers. Big nope.
- so what happens if you are running an agent locally and it helpfully tries to write a script that prints the environment variables, for debugging purposes?
- and you know what, that actually might be reasonable if the iPhone was smart enough to retry a few times - either with exponential backoff or when network connectivity is restored.
instead, it just pretends everything is working great lol.
- I’m not sure if you read the same article as me. Or maybe you’re reading between the lines in an uncharitable way due to a bias. Who knows.
I’ll quote:
> All three women encountered by the Colorado hospital staff were reluctant to take their monitors off, fearing that doing so would trigger an alert to ICE or BI Inc, the staff said, even if removing the device was deemed medically necessary.
YOU think these pregnant women showed an INTENT to break the law (removing their monitors)? I see the opposite. Please quote or explain why you think they tried to “run away and break the law”.
Furthermore, and this is a question since i’m unsure, what laws protect the unborn child and its health during a medical emergency?
- Technically correct.
Do tell though - what prevents ICE from treating humans like humans? Too much to ask?
- i agree with you. If a patient expresses that sentiment to their doctor, they should act accordingly and order the extra screening. At the end of the day it should be a conversation with your provider.
There should definitely be an honest discussion about pros and cons. And not just the physical, but the mental aspect as well.
- I’ve thought about this.
According to this source, “Approximately 72% of all brain tumors are benign”. https://braintumor.org/brain-tumors/about-brain-tumors/brain...
So my wife has gone through all this extra stress to MAYBE catch a cancerous tumor (28%). That’s assuming it grows large enough to impact her before she dies naturally. And I see that the survival rate of some brain tumors, even if found very early, is very poor (5-10% for some tumors, like glioblastoma).
Lots of “what if’s” here. And for what? All i’m arguing is, knowledge is not always actionable, and what’s not actionable can keep you up at night.
The point i’m making is, we should not be trying to pursue a life of 0 risk and perfect decisions. Life is filled with risk (and good and bad luck). That’s just life.
- IMO chatgpt is a much better translator. Especially if you’re using one of their normal models like 5.1. I’ve used it many times with an obscure and difficult slavic language that i’m fluent in for example, and chatgpt nailed it whereas google translate sounded less natural.
The big difference? I could easily prompt the LLM with “i’d like to translate the following into language X. For context this is a reply to their email on topic Y, and Z is a female.”
Doing even a tiny bit of prompting will easily get you better results than google translate. Some languages have words with multiple meanings and the context of the sentence/topic is crucial. So is gender in many languages! You can’t provide any hints like that to google translate, especially if you are starting with an un-gendered language like English.
I do still use google translate though. When my phone is offline, or translating very long text. LLM’s perform poorly with larger context windows.
- in some cases the knowledge itself is a curse. These commenters mostly have no clue what they’re talking about and it shows.
My spouse found out they had a benign brain tumor, an accidental discovery while doing a brain scan for some other reason. She now has to get annual scans done to make sure the size doesn’t change. Guess what? It hasn’t changed in 5 years.
You might say “better safe than sorry!” To that i say - bullshit. It’s caused her lots of unnecessary stress and anxiety. EVERY year she goes back to the testing center and stresses out about if it’s changed in the last year. She sleeps poorly sometimes because of the anxiety, etc. Knowing every microscopic issue within your body is not always a net benefit! Quality of life matters too, not just longevity.
I think it really depends on the type of cancer. Actionable information is the most useful information.
- Computers are not just for business and corporate use. Believe it or not, some people use their computers for fun stuff.
I do feel like we’ve gone too far from utilitarian though. I’d like to see more practical UI design.
- i think you meant everyone builds web apps because they want to target all platforms / hardware, they don’t care about performance (cpu usage, memory usage, etc), and they are easier to “deploy” in many respects.
Pros and cons to each. Not everything needs to be a native app. Some things SHOULD be native apps…i’m looking at you slack and friends.
- I mean, if you’re confident about security best practices, have a moderate amount of networking experience, and are a seasoned web developer, it’s not too scary at all. I realize that’s a lot of prerequisites though.
it’s not a fair comparison with Google because Google has a much bigger target on their back. There are millions of users of Google, so the value of hacking Google is very high. The value of hacking a random Immich instance is extremely low.
- from my understanding of educational outcomes, the BIGGEST factor in a child’s success in school is their home life. At least for K-12. Multiple studies come to this conclusion.
Obviously “home life” encompasses many things like parental involvement, stability of family relationships, socioeconomic status, etc. And it’s not the only factor of course.
So the question is hardly uncalled for IMO. Could have been worded in a less accusatory tone though! The person was pretty rude.
- not even moral decline! I’d personally feel like a fraud every day if I “made it“ by using 5 different _unnecessary_ accommodations. Where is the satisfaction in that?
I’m a slow reader. Do i have a disability? Who cares - i can still read well and did OK at school, that’s all that matters.
People that game the system in this way are basically frauds. They take resources that are intended to benefit people that ARE struggling with basic life skills in some way.
- i remember being woken up at 3am by him vomiting in the middle of the room. In the morning he used my swiffer to clean up his vomit. I told him to keep the swiffer .
On the bright side, i met my spouse and we’ve been together for 10+ years so not all bad lol.
- I hear you. But for a normal consumer who’s afraid of technology? Doubt it.
As a nerd I can easily set up some webcams on my wifi, place them on a firewalled IOT vlan, and securely expose them through the ios home app (with HomeAssistant)…and call it a day.
But your average person has no clue how to do that, or anything similar…nor do they care. Sad but true.
- hyphen + space in microsoft word will often (depends on your settings) produce an em dash. It’s not some crazy hidden feature.
These days word is less popular though, with google docs, pages, and other editors taking pieces of the pie. Maybe that’s where the skepticism comes from.
- useful if:
- you are in a high crime area. footage can be useful to police.
- you have a babysitter or nanny for a young child, and want to deter unethical / wrongful behavior.
- you have a pet that you leave at home for parts of the day, and want to keep an eye on them. to “check in” while on the go.
- you have an elderly family member and don’t live nearby, and want to be able to quickly see if they’ve fallen. for example if they call you daily and suddenly aren’t answering their phone. Good peace of mind.
- pointing a camera at the stovetop can be useful to solve the age old question “did i forget to turn the stove off?”
- pointing a camera out the window to see something fun. For example birds, deer, squirrels, etc.
That’s just what i could think of in 2 minutes. I’m sure there are other use cases.
- Speak for yourself, i enjoy both. :)
It’s a joint decision. If it’s not, then you’re not operating as a team. If you’re not operating as a team…then you have a marriage problem IMO. Simple as that.
The healthy marriage outcome would be talking about it and compromising in some fashion. “my way or the highway”…yikes.