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by dimal 1y ago
This is pretty much what modern medicine does 80% of the time. I think that evidence based medicine, however useful the idea was originally, has become a major vector for this. Here’s how it works: choose a symptom of a disorder you want to
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by dimal 1y ago
Large shareholders are very different than grandma owning a few shares or even a few hundred shares. If criminal risk was priced into the stock, our society would look very different.
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by dimal 1y ago
I've seen some video comparisons between American cars and Toyotas, and Toyota seemed to have figured out how to make cars a lot easier to maintain than the American companies. I saw one case where changing a simple fuse required sever
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by dimal 1y ago
Whenever a VC backed company is acquired, the press release says "nothing will change, except for all these wonderful new things that the parent company will let us now do". A year later, things start to change. Two years later, t
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by dimal 1y ago
Yet? My point is, Starlink is doing this now, but they are continuing to scale up. Other companies are going to follow. Is there a point that this does become something to worry about because the scale has increased?
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by dimal 1y ago
I had the same problem but in reverse. I’d want to play a song on the HomePod but my iPad sitting on the coffee table would start playing it on its tinny little speaker. The solution was to set Siri on the devices to not respond to “Siri”.
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by dimal 1y ago
Interesting. We’re not dealing with actual overcrowding now, but with the constant din of social media and news, society feels overcrowded. You used to be able to live in blissful ignorance of what was happening in other areas, but now yo
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by dimal 1y ago
I lived in Oakland and Berkeley for about eight years and left a few years ago. As someone originally from New York, I’m baffled at this idea that there’s no place left to build in the Bay Area. The East Bay still has large swaths of land w
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by dimal 1y ago
That’s a sad way to see things. Aren’t you paid to solve problems? To create value somehow? And apparently there are people who find these environments energizing. It seems like those people are the ones who make these cruel policies. But 2
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by dimal 1y ago
While everyone deals with some version of these issues, what you’re missing is the scale and quantity of these issues for autistic people. Would you want to work in an office that smelled like rotting garbage, loud distracting music was con
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by dimal 1y ago
I develop A and B by working with people and paying close attention to them. I learn what they’re good at and what they’re not, how they like to communicate, how they like to work, what they don’t like to work on. I do this by paying attent
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by dimal 1y ago
This is the answer. I’m autistic and I don’t want anything for myself that I don’t also want for everyone else. All I want is to be treated like the individual human being that I am. I have specific things I’m good at and other things that
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by dimal 1y ago
They could just ask a designer to do a few bespoke illustrations, then generate synthetic data from that, right? Have an image model generate a set of variations, then convert them to SVG. But looking at these images, Google clearly hasn’
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by dimal 1y ago
It’s pretty clear that’s the end goal — that there is never a Democratic president ever again and we have a Putin-style authoritarian system. They may get there.
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by dimal 1y ago
A lot of things that seemed impossible a few years ago are now old hat. The Democrats wouldn’t be so hamfisted, but never say never. And my point wasn’t that the Democrats would . It’s that the Democrats could and may even be forced to,
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by dimal 1y ago
I still feel like people are missing the deeper problem with DOGE. Yes, they’re dismantling the government, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It’s stupid, reckless and cruel. But most Americans want the government reduced, and s
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by dimal 1y ago
Don’t forget that the AMA has a monopoly on billing codes. Medicare defines the billing value of every procedure as Relative Value Units (RVUs). Then Medicare defers to AMA’s guidance on what these values should be. Insurers default to RVUs
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by dimal 1y ago
Looks very cool, especially passing functions back and forth. But then I wonder, what would I actually use that for? You mention that it’s schemaless as if that’s a good thing. Having a well defined schema is one of the things I like about
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by dimal 1y ago
Great, I love to debate. Does that mean that you have faith in our political institutions then? If so, how do you justify that faith? From my perspective, it’s self evident that our political institutions are hopelessly corrupt, so I can’t
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by dimal 1y ago
> When writing code you have the motto "don't make me think" in mind I disagree with this phrasing. We’re engineering after all. The entire job is thinking. If someone doesn’t want to think, then they shouldn’t be a progra
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by dimal 1y ago
Eh, since the founders were explicitly inspired by the Roman Republic, it’s always been fun to wonder “where are we on the Roman timeline”. But it was about 150 years from when the Gracchi brothers were murdered until Augustus seized power
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by dimal 1y ago
Dangerous? What??? How on earth is that dangerous? Of all the insane rhetoric being spouted nowadays, making a historical comparison is dangerous? Can we all please stop calling ideas “harmful” or “dangerous” and just have plain, open debat
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by dimal 1y ago
> reminiscent of the end of the Roman Empire Are you sure he didn’t mean the end of the Roman Republic, which was the beginning of the Principate? The Western Empire would last about another 400 years. We definitely are tracking the end
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by dimal 1y ago
Autocomplete on iOS is a shit show. It regularly autocompletes non-grammatical text, which is unforgivable in 2025 when we have AI that can write coherent sonnets and code. Dictation is still at the same level it was at 10 years ago - compl
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by dimal 1y ago
I’ve been on Mac for about 30 years. I’m planning my switch to Linux (probably KDE) and GrapheneOS. I can’t keep giving so much money to a company that clearly doesn’t have my interests in mind. So much of the ecosystem doesn’t “just work”
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by dimal 1y ago
I don’t read Nagel as rejecting the idea of reductionism as strongly as you suggest. He’s simply calling out its limitations with regard to subjective experience. Why does it imply that “everything is on the same level”?
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by dimal 1y ago
Well damn, this looks fantastic!
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by dimal 1y ago
You think that running a candidate with dementia, then giving the nomination to the next default person in line was a good strategy? Even with those fuckups, Harris didn’t get completely trounced. If they had put up any reasonable candidate
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by dimal 1y ago
All the Democrats needed to do was get 5% in the middle, not the core MAGA voters. There’s no way they could reach those people. Putting up Biden and then lying about his mental health destroyed their credibility. Even with that, Harris was
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by dimal 1y ago
Personally, I use Obsidian. But I can’t imagine using it with a team. There’s too much friction sorting out what extensions to use, making sure everyone knows how to use said extensions. I don’t see how Obsidian is feasible for teams. If an

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