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- I’m a PM and I’ve been able to do a lot of very interesting near production ready bits of coding recently with an LLM. I say near production ready because I specifically only build functional data processing stuff that I intentionally build with clean I/O requirements to hand to the real engineers on the team to slot in. They still have to fix some things to meet our standards, but I’m basically a “researcher” level coder. Which makes sense — I do have an undergrad and MS in CS, and did a lot of mathy algo stuff. For the last 15+ years I could never use anything in my brain to help the team solve things I was best suited to solve. I am now, and that’s nice.
The one key point is that I am keenly aware of what I can and cannot do. With these new superpowers, I often catch myself doing too much, and I end up doing a lot more rewrites than a real engineer would. But I can see Dunning Kruger playing out everywhere when people say they can vibe code an entire product.
- Well technically AWS has never failed in wartime.
- Goblet? Or is this something new? Deep goblets are great for opening the ankles and hips/SI area in ways that have helped my back. Some combination of improving mobility in other reasons prevents my back from overcompensating I guess
- Yes. For very high risk patients, payers do want this. I’ve even heard of some paying pharmacies $100/fill if done on time for select people.
The problem is, prediabetic and folks who may have crossed 7.0 A1C once, and just overweight folks with docs who are willing to play fast and loose are demanding it. Skipping metformin and other first line treatment options that are way cheaper. For those folks, complications might be the next guys problem.
- I was going to disagree but then realized I now shell out at least $100 when two families and their kids show up for 3-4 pizzas with toppings and chips and dip and some juices.
And god forbid I try and provide fresh fruit and beverages on that budget…
- Wait til you get a load of Tamil/Malayalam transliterations’ use of “zh”. It was proposed by some German linguist to represent a really retroflex “r” and now makes outsiders pronounce kozhikode as “cozy-code” instead a closer “korikode”
- Counterpoints: the detractors of this purported loop would likely neither fund the vast amounts of research they’d demand be done nor believe the results if they conflicted with their anecdata. I have yet to see a good faith argument against evidence based method that provides an effective and realistic alternative. Because that would take evidence.
- 4:3 only makes sense to you because you know which is length and width a priori. I for example, always have to recheck that. So if it was written as 1.33 or 4/3 it makes the same difference to me, and is similar in that way to dB
- Satya had been at the company for quite a while himself. Perhaps not as long as others, but he was a well known veteran within the company
- Locu. Acquired by GoDaddy. Morphed into a Yext competitor called GetFound.
- It started as Jomax Technologies, I believe.
- Historically in the US, Indian and Arab people were classified as “Caucasian”. In fact, it was marked on my relatives first speeding ticket in 1972.
- There are more brown people than Indians… Usually these initiatives push for underrepresented brown people, ie Hispanic/Latino Americans.
Most diversity programs actively harm Indians as over represented, as they fall under the broad “Asian” category (see Harvard).
But I guess Indians are easy pickings these days.
- This is the #1 reason for ad blocking in Eastern Europe and Asia (eg dolphin browser). It’s also why the current “solutions” big tech is providing viz. privacy and non-annoying ads doesn’t move the needle there.
- Also, they program stuff like high rep clean and jerks and snatches along with high intensity cardio and gymnastic movements. Never a great idea to train high power, highly technical movements with fatiguing exercises and time pressure, let alone with poor form. I did a few classes in SF coming from a background in Olympic lifting and strength sports and I really found maintaining form and safety was quite hard.
- I believe it’s because a doctor doesn’t prescribe cigarettes to you. So the only liability is your own.
It’s a weak line of reasoning to _allow_ cigarettes, but I’m not convinced it’s so bad to _disallow_ novel therapeutic uses that are understudied.
- Yes but then you’d have to carry that for domestic travel.
- States like MA legally only accept MA IDs and federal govt IDs for age verification. That’s why a lot of bars and packies will turn people away or ask for additional proof like CC’s. You’re more likely to be held liable for misconduct if the license you accepted is out of state.
- Yeah, and the bill will come back adjusted to
The cat and mouse between payer and system will never die given how it's set up. There's a disincentive to bill less than maximally, and therefore to not deny and adjust as much as possible. Somewhere in the middle patients get squished with the burden of copays and uncovered expenses that the hospital is now legally obligated to try and collect on or forfeit that portion for all future claims (and still have a copay on that new adjustment)- X-Ray: $15 - Radiologist Consultation: $125 - Harrison.AI interpretation: $20
Edit: Gemini 2.0 was good enough for VLM cleanup, and now 2.5 or above with structured output make reconstruction even easier.