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by parpfish 2y ago
USA, and that’s with good insurance and a primary care provider
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by parpfish 2y ago
Is this in the US? Because i can’t fathom just being able to casually drop in to visit a doctor like this. Any time I need to talk to a doctor, I have phone tag with their understaffed receptionist for a few days, then we set up an appointm
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by parpfish 2y ago
would you know if they were dependent? my assumption was that these office people were secretly using it to automate dull parts of their work without the approval or knowledge of their coworkers
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by parpfish 2y ago
We spent years developing smarter compression tools, but AI has taught us that people actually want inflation tools
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by parpfish 2y ago
I also use inline code generation, but it just seems like a more intelligent version of the code-aware autocomplete my IDE already provides. I love it, but it doesn’t feel like I’m atrophying because I’m still “driving”. It just saves a lot
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by parpfish 2y ago
What does gpt dependence look like for people that have non-programming office jobs where they just email all day? Do they just copy paste emails and office menus into an agent and send responses? Do they actually make any decisions themsel
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by parpfish 2y ago
i agree that the industry wont be killed, but I do have some worries about what the future will look like. - If we keep making AI-assistance tools that make mid- and senior-level ICs more and more efficient, where does that leave entry-leve
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by parpfish 2y ago
Domestic builders aren’t really what come to mind for “gig workers”. This would be for folks who have some app controlling their work- uber drivers, door dashers, etc.
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by parpfish 2y ago
it could be anything that just allows social connection between people that are doing the same job in the same geographic region but are largely invisible to one another. i'd try not to be prescriptive about it, but it could cover anyt
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by parpfish 2y ago
they don't have connections to them because they're still gig workers going through the app. but all they need to do to start those relationships would be to drop off a business card if doordash/ubereats/etc sent them
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by parpfish 2y ago
one unintended side effect i had with myfitnesspal was that i ended up eating more prepackaged/highly-processed foods because i disliked estimating calories in home-cooked stuff so much (especially because i knew it'd be an inaccu
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by parpfish 2y ago
the reason the current format exists and is used is because it's very information dense. i think scientific papers would be better if they were socratic dialogues. but the limitation in publishing a dialogue is that you'd just get
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by parpfish 2y ago
most of the folks getting ubereats delivery are not the target demo for being a PA client. but you don't have to be super wealthy for the economics of it to work out. most tech employees make enough that they could pay 10-15 hrs of low
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by parpfish 2y ago
yeah, i think that the value proposition for a platform like this over just setting up some sort of discord/message board would be based having a central trusted entity that's able to provide user accounts that are verified AND an
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by parpfish 2y ago
i'm surprised that more gig work delivery folks haven't tried to 'go independent' and become a new sort of personal assistant: select a handful of good clients and get them pay a retainer for you to drive around doing th
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by parpfish 2y ago
I’ve often felt like there would be a lot of value for an app that’d simply let gig workers in an area find each other to talk and actually create a “workplace”. But I’m not sure how you’d fund its creation. No VC would want it and there’s
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by parpfish 2y ago
What if the LLMs are teaching us that long form prose/technical writing is just a really bad, unnatural format for communication but natural dialogues are a good format?
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by parpfish 2y ago
I assume he’s also trying to line up a buyer that would be friendly to him
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by parpfish 2y ago
I agree that the TikTok shutdown/sale/whatever-it-is is reasonable. But I also agree with the grandfather post that this standard should be applied to all social media. A company that is under the sway of the CCP is an obvious fir
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by parpfish 2y ago
It could enforce 80 char line width limits by batting stray characters “of the ledge” to watch them fall
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by parpfish 2y ago
yeah, but do ozempic et al only rely on calorie reduction? i find it hard to believe that hormones only affect one thing in isolation. it may be doing something like a) suppressing appetite to reduce caloric intake AND b) shielding agains
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by parpfish 2y ago
Did it? The drugs clearly lead to reduced appetite, therefore reduced calories. But do we know that the drugs aren’t also causing other important metabolic changes?
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by parpfish 2y ago
what a wonderful chain of people-being-weird events: - old time guy wants to name a horse "potato" - kid writes it as "pot-8-o" - somebody else rewrites that as potoooooooo
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by parpfish 2y ago
or doctors with bad bedside manner could move into non-patient-facing roles like research or pathology
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by parpfish 2y ago
citation: i made it up based on my intuition because this is a thought experiment to illustrate a paradox. also "bedside manner" is not just about conveying information. that would be a big part of successful treatment. if you a
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by parpfish 2y ago
in situations like that, i like to think about Berkson's paradox [0]. In the overall population, bedside manner and medical aptitude are likely uncorrelated. But the individuals that fall into the quadrant of bad bedside manner AND low
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by parpfish 2y ago
if you care and you end up in a position where you don't have the ability to act on that feeling, you WILL burnout and get cynical and go into not-caring preservation mode. I used to work at a big tech co that made a popular consumer a
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by parpfish 2y ago
Yes, but if it’s somebody else’s data center it’s on them to figure out how to earthquake proof or whatever. The cloud isnt just renting a computer, it’s renting a computer with a guarantee of uptime that somebody else can be financially li
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by parpfish 2y ago
> they use it consistently to refer to a very specific type of behaviour they see as bad I disagree that their use is consistent and specific. Their usage is constant and is malleable enough to encompass "whatever i don't like
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by parpfish 2y ago
but if you self host, how do you anticipate power outages and natural disasters? you shift it from a problem of software reliability to a problem of physical infrastructure. at some point in the chain somebody has to do that, but i'd p

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