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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023
  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•construction ruleEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I listened to a podcast recently about a book called Abundance, and while I don’t necessarily agree with all of the author’s points, it was accurate in describing the bureaucracy of the United States and why the situation you describe happens.

    The US is a very litigation-happy country, where any given public works project of significance either needs to proceed at a crawl to make sure it is utterly unimpeachable, or spend years fighting lawsuits to begin work. Cost in time results in a cost in capital, budgets balloon, and a lot of projects that are needed for the public good simply become non-starters.

    Emergency powers gets around that to an extent, which is where that scenario from Japan would come into play. And when emergency powers are invoked in the US, you see similar results (another example mentioned by the author of that book), but you can’t let “emergency” be the only standard by which anything actually gets done in a reasonable amount of time.

    In my home state, there has been a long ongoing project for east-west high speed rail which would make it feasible for people to work in Boston while living further away from it. It would theoretically help alleviate ballooning costs of living here around the city and provide more economic opportunity to people in the western part of the state. But everyone accepts that the project will basically never happen, because the Big Dig is still a lingering collective memory for everyone here and no one wants to go through that again. So no matter how much potential good it could do for people, it will likely never happen as long as anyone is negatively affected by it.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•clueless rule
    24·
    5 days ago

    Maybe I’m just feeling unnecessarily vindictive today, but I think it would have been better without the censors. Ad companies deserve to be called out and shamed for what they’ve done to the internet. They’re parasites, and if having this information published would make someone at an ad company feel uncomfortable, good. They should feel that way every day.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Upside down RuleEnglish
    3·
    13 days ago

    I can almost see it that way when looking at single plates like that one in isolation, but when viewed as a whole I just can’t see them all that way.

    Viewing it as convex puts it at a weird, almost floating angle relative to the other plates, which my mind tells me cannot be the case if they’re all supposed to be laying flat on a table. The camera angle being what it is, I’d expect to be seeing more of the illuminated left half than the shaded right half if it was truly upside down and laying flat. Not to mention the shadow basically touching the embossed oval shape on the right, while the left has a bit of a gap between the oval and the start of the bevel of the plate edge, indicates that the light would be coming from the right rather than the left (because shadows can extend), unless the plate is supposed to be oddly asymmetrical or something.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•ruleEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I mean, it can’t have all the information! There’s a lot of information out there that can’t be known because it never ends up online. Like, the internet wouldn’t know I just farted real bad because I never shared that info online for anyone else to read about it.

    Wait shit

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Se**rule**ously, I'm already sick of that word.English
    23·
    3 months ago

    “Cooked” is Gen Z slang, basically means “done.”

    • “This guy’s cooked.” (He’s had too much/he’s out of it/he’s screwed)

    • “I’m cooked, chat.” (I’m out of options/it’s over for me)

    In the context of this meme, which is from the movie Back to the Future, Marty is in the past and using slang that hasn’t entered popular use yet, so Doc thinks he’s talking about cooking food and is confused about what he means.

    Also not to be confused with similar “Let them cook” (they’re onto something, let’s see where this goes).

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•this is not ragebait rule
    3·
    4 months ago

    From what little I know if it, it’s sorta twofold what it does:

    1. It looks through documentation across a patient record to look for patterns a doctor might miss. For example, a patient comes in complaining of persistent headaches/fatigue. A doctor might look at that in isolation and just try to treat the symptoms, but an AI might see some potentially relevant lab results in their histories and recommend more testing to rule out a cancer diagnosis that the doctor might have thought unlikely without awareness of that earlier data.

    2. Doctors have to do a lot of busywork in their record keeping that AIs can help streamline. A lot of routine documentation, attestations, statements, etc. Since so much of it is very template-heavy already, an AI might be able to streamline the process as well as tailor it better to the patient. E.g. the record indicates “assigned male at birth” and an ER doctor defaults to he/him pronouns looking only at the medical birth sex marker, but the patient is also being seen by a gender clinic at which she is receiving gender affirming treatment as a trans woman and brings up that earlier data to correct the documentation and make it more accurate and personalized for the patient.

    In reality, I am sure that practices and hospital systems are just going to use this as an excuse to say “You don’t need to spend as much time on documentation and chart review now so you can see more patients, right?” It’s the cotton gin issue.