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> I'm seriously at a point where I'm opposed to talking to my doctor because the information may be digitally recorded and leaked
And then add on that fact that my doctor recently started using some kind of AI voice transcription app that listened to our entire conversation. Except that it hallucinated details I absolutely did not say, which are now in that doctor's records and I'm sure will be taken at face value in the future.
It's maddening.
I'm uneducated on how distillation works at more than a basic level so forgive me if this is a stupid question.
Isn't "distillation" of another provider's model exactly how these models got training date in the first place: Massive amounts of the written word + Prompt -> Answer. Why wouldn't distillation produce similar "reasoning" in the new model? It's just inputs and outputs.
> To tell the truth: I do not even know how to use the pen. I have never needed to do this in my life.
I truly do not understand how one could have T1D for 27 years and still be alive with this attitude. Don't get my wrong, I'm happy she is! And maybe that's just my own limited experience of managing my foster daughter's T1D for the past year talking but... Man, this year has been a rude education in how many ways all of these necessary-for-life pieces of equipment and medications can go wrong and how easy it is to get into a life-threatening situation.
Going more than 30 minutes from home without extras of everything (Dexcom, glucometer, fast-acting, long-acting, glucose tabs, glucagon) is completely unthinkable.
> Find an online community that has self-selected for some kind of criterion
I’ll add onto that: find real-life friends/acquaintances who are both not brain dead and read books. Frequently ask them “what are you reading lately?” Not only does this lead to good conversations and deeper friendships, it results in an endless stream of book leads.
Most of the good books I’ve read for the past several years have been curated for me by two friends who are prolific readers and do all the work for me of finding new books. I occasionally find something they haven’t read, but they certainly do most of the heavy lifting.
"Have done this" implies Slate has delivered even one vehicle. They have not. I hope Slate succeeds, but let's not get caught up in the preorder hype.
I switched from the Roku ecosystem to Nvidia Shield about a year ago because of Roku’s increasingly user hostile ad and tracking decisions and have been pretty happy with it. Android TV gives me enough control with a custom launcher that I can prevent ads.
I would guess that the number of people listening to this media on anything higher quality than the built-in speakers on a 65-inch TV is minuscule. They’re optimizing for sound on an iPad, not a full surround sound setup.
Agreed. After using ChatGPT at all Siri is absolutely frustrating.
Example from a couple days ago:
Me, in the shower so not able to type: "Hey Siri, add 1.5 inch brad nails to my latest shopping list note."
Siri: "Sorry, I can't help with that."
... Really, Siri? You can't do something as simple as add a line to a note in the first-party Apple Notes app?
Backend with a lot of existing code that's still in .Net Framework using tech like WCF and Windows Services.
I could get away with doing dev directly on the Mac if I was _only_ working in .Net Core on our newer applications and if I was willing to use Rider. Neither of which are true.
I'm one of that tiny percentage, but all of my development is done by remoting into a cloud Windows VM.
I tried directly coding on the Mac when I first got it, but quickly gave up on that. (I hate Rider, which seems to put me in minority as far as most .Net devs go.)
I've had the same experience. Played multiple times, once for almost a year. The only thing that kept me playing that long was the good group of people on voice comms. I quit for the last time when I realized that life is too short to waste on a game I wasn't even enjoying (and that, frankly, stressed me out.)
Pure speculation: With so many subs now private, they're hitting a performance wall searching for enough content to fill the front page. If I'm logged in and go to the site root, it throws an error. If logged out, it works. If I go to a specific (not privatized) sub, it works.
I saw a web comic the other day that I think was right on the nose.
Something along the lines of:
"AI will eat all of the developer jobs!!!"
"Nah. AI expects exact, well-reasoned requirements from management? We're safe."
> It's just surprising that audiobook listeners haven't developed a distinct taste apart from book readers.
Sample size of 1, but: my taste in audiobooks does not perfectly overlap with my taste in dead-trees books. My audiobook library skews much more to the fiction end of things, while my dead-trees library contains more nonfiction. I also use audiobooks to re-read books I've already read.
I enjoy the performance aspect of the audiobooks in its own right. The narrator makes or breaks my experience of the book, to such an extent that I have returned Audible books that _I have already read in dead-trees form and knew I liked_ because the narration was bad. I also suspect some of my favorite audiobooks would have ended up in the "donate/throw out" pile if I'd read them first on paper.
I've been thinking of doing this exact thing, although with a smaller 10x12 single-level shed, just because I want to learn timber framing. Would you do it again? Any specific book recommendations?
At one point you were talking about the possibility of updating Start Small Stay Small. Just curious if that's still on the table?
I just wanted to thank you for this. This is the most succinct and easy-to-understand-for-non-investors explanation of the concept I've seen and now I think I finally understand it.
Not advocating for this point of view, but I think the thinking goes that even if <insert industry of choice here> wasn't any less concentrated in 2017 vs. now, the pandemic provided a lot of opportunity for price increase that might have otherwise caused regulatory scrutiny.
At least half of people are involved in the housing market, not just immediate buyers. Because you’d better believe if residential property prices skyrocket, so will rental rates.
They benefit by preventing easy access to an export of the user’s data that could then be importied into a competitor’s software, thereby (presumably) locking in a non-trivial number of their own user base who don’t want to deal with the hassle of re-entering all of their financial data in a new product.
Preface: This is an honest question, not an attempt to start a "which language is better" war.
I'm proficient in C#. I haven't yet encountered any problems I can't solve with C# and the .Net open source ecosystem. (Perhaps that says more about the banality of the problems I'm solving than about .Net, but there you are.)
What would Rust give me the tools to do that I can't already accomplish with C# / .Net Core?
Our church has taken as many precautions as we can while still remaining open for in-person services.
* Offering live streaming.
* Reducing capacity for services to one-quarter capacity and having our ushers enforce 6-foot (4 seats) separation between family groups.
* Constant "wear a mask, please" signs and reminders.
* Reducing childcare room capacity to 6 children and 2 adults per room.
* Opening every window and door possible.
* Keeping the ventilation system running to circulate air.
Our city fire marshal recently threatened us with fines for keeping the interior doors open to improve ventilation.
Chattanooga and EPB (our aforementioned fast internet) are both pretty awesome. I see a definite uptick in people from out of state moving here over the past 6 months, which is stretching the area's housing supply. We also had a tornado come through in April and damage or destroy several hundred homes. So if you do end up moving here, just beware the housing market is a little hectic at the moment.
This is part of the larger issue of the police - in Minneapolis and a lot of other places - actively resisting efforts by the public to document police actions and provide any level of accountability through those recordings. That is a freedom that needs to be defended.
Sometimes it's not about the game, it's about the people you're playing with and the conversation you have over the game.
I started using OBS when our church moved our services to live streaming due to the pandemic. Our mostly non-technical volunteer media team has had zero issues using it to stream to Facebook or a self-hosted Restreamer instance. Easy to use, straightforward interface. I'm sure we'll keep using it for streaming even after the pandemic is over.
There's another Voyager episode in which Tuvok is temporarily blinded and he tells the computer to turn on the tactile interface so he can work on a computer console. So even 25 years ago before everyone had a touchscreen in their pockets, it was obvious that touch screens wouldn't be great for all situations.
> Because they will forget lots of important details, and things that are glaringly obvious to you won't even show up on their radar.
Something related that I wish I had learned much earlier: Just because that person forgets the details doesn't mean they don't care or that they're just stupid. Expecting someone several levels removed from day-to-day development to remember the exact structure of that table or how exactly we do dependency injection makes me the unreasonable one.
I don't think it ever fell out of use, it just isn't written.
I'm from the US south, I use both "them" and "'em" in everyday speech depending on context, but I never write "'em", even where I would use it in speech. This is partially because "'em" in written form ends up conveying a slightly different tone or meaning than I might intend. "Them" is just a word; "'em" has more nuance and is more easily misunderstood.