NABDad
@NABDad@lemmy.world
- Comment on rollin' deep 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was gonna say, are you sure it’s just a sprain?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 week ago:
Nope. Johnson.
No, not that one.
Andrew Johnson.
So many ways it could have been better.
He could have punished the Southern Aristocracy for starting the civil war. He could have ensured that the evil that led us there was exterminated forever.
Failing that, they could have actually removed him via impeachment instead of falling just short. That would have at least established forever that the presidency is not some sacred “unimpeachable” office.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
If the MRI is on fire, LET THE MOTHERFUCKER BURN!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
So, one more item in the “Pro” column for voting against Trump.
Then maybe we can work on fixing the problems here.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
I’ve often thought LLMs could replace all of the C-suites and upper and middle management.
Funny how no companies push that as a possibility.
- Comment on If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it. 5 weeks ago:
Not really related to the post, but I feel like sharing.
Big boss where I work wanted all managers to read a book. He had staff scour the Internet looking for copies of this book so that they could give every manager their own copy.
He said we were going to have meetings with the entire management team to review chapters of the book one at a time.
The gist of the book was: take the time to make sure you hire the right people for the job, retain the good ones, and get rid of the people who don’t work out.
I think we covered two chapters in meetings.
After that, an upcoming hiring freeze was announced, and everyone was told to fill all their open positions within two weeks or the position would be cancelled.
- Comment on If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it. 5 weeks ago:
I refer to this as companies wanting to hire the person who just quit.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
If you find out what happened, let me know, because I think it’s happening to me too.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 weeks ago:
I had a professor in college that said when an AI problem is solved, it is no longer AI.
Computers do all sorts of things today that 30 years ago were the stuff of science fiction. Back then many of those things were considered to be in the realm of AI. Now they’re just tools we use without thinking about them.
I’m sitting here using gesture typing on my phone to enter these words. The computer is analyzing my motions and predicting what words I want to type based on a statistical likelihood of what comes next from the group of possible words that my gesture could be. This would have been the realm of AI once, but now it’s just the keyboard app on my phone.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 5 weeks ago:
Many, many years ago, the hospital where I work had a medical transcription company to transcribe dictated radiology results.
At the time, users would access the server via DEC terminals or a terminal application on their computer.
One radiologist set up a script in the terminal application to sign off all his reports with one click. Another radiologist liked it so the first let the second copy it.
Later, the second radiologist opened a ticket with IT because all his reports were being signed by the first radiologist. Yeah, because he didn’t update the script to change the username and password being used to sign the reports.
That’s an amusing anecdote, but the terror comes from the fact that NEITHER RADIOLOGIST WAS READING THEIR REPORTS. BEFORE SIGNING THEM.
The reason they are supposed to sign the report is to confirm that they reviewed the work of the transcriptionist and verified that the report was correct.
No matter what the tool is, doctors will assume the results are correct and sign off on them without checking.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 weeks ago:
The Trumpublicans in the U.S. have access to independent reporting, yet they choose instead to limit themselves to lies that make them feel like they’re better than everyone else.
- Comment on Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes 5 weeks ago:
We have a 2020 Honda Civic, and the automatic breaking in that is absolutely fantastic. The closest I would say it gets to a false positive is when you’re following a car on the highway that takes an exit. When the car in front starts to slow after taking the exit, the Civic will sometimes slow a bit even though the other car isn’t right in front of us anymore. It’s a simple matter to push the accelerator to override.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 1 month ago:
Having The Doctor at the top is a little strange, because hanging with the doctor could very well mean your death, but it will be worth it.
- Comment on House Centipedes 1 month ago:
I call them eyelashes.
They are welcome in my home as long as they can find sustenance. My only rule is they are not permitted to shower with me.
- Comment on Norms 2 months ago:
How would you?
- Comment on OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet 2 months ago:
I’m ready to weep from this.
Every time any problem comes up, my current manager insists we must use Excel to solve it.
- Comment on How can you make sure the ashes you get after a loved one dies is actually theirs? 2 months ago:
Cremation doesn’t burn everything to ash. Pieces of bone are left intact and must be mechanically pulverized to make the remains a powder.
When my dad’s dog was cremated many years ago, the remains they gave us were partially ash, but the larger pieces hadn’t been pulverized. It still had many intact pieces of bone. We could see evidence of some injuries and degenerative disease the dog had experienced in his hip and spine.
I’m not sure how many people would be down for rooting through their pet’s remains for proof that it is the right animal.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 months ago:
You know, strand a wacky crew on a Mars base with some goofy passengers… I’d probably watch it.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAA 3 months ago:
The “screaming” is their version of flirting. They’ve been buried a long time, and they don’t have much time to get their groove on.
- Comment on Suddenly it all makes sense. 3 months ago:
When you suck your fat gut in so hard your rib cage pops out.
- Comment on So it begins... 3 months ago:
This is what comes from not having anyone in your life who can tell you you’re an idiot.
- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 3 months ago:
Someone has already centipedized humans. This is the next step.
- Comment on This post 3 months ago:
We survived a very rough period about a quarter century ago that taught leadership the value of fiscal responsibility. It was quite literally an existential crisis. The lessons carried us through multiple economic downturns in the intervening years including the pandemic.
Regarding the challenging cases that are deemed too unprofitable by other institutions, our solution is to improve both the quality and the efficiency of their treatment so that we are able to cover expenses without compromising care.
I’m quite proud of the work we do. In a world filled with corporations led by over paid sociopaths, I believe that our (non-profit) organization is doing the right thing for the right reasons.
- Comment on This post 3 months ago:
I work at a hospital. I have heard that another hospital in our city will transfer patients to our hospital because, we are “better at treating their particular condition”, that condition being “poor”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Tricked” implies that he cares if it’s true or not.
He’s not being tricked any more than Rupert Murdock is tricked by the stories his company promotes.
- Comment on why not 3 months ago:
Story time.
When my wife and I were dating and in high school, she decided to cook a meal for her parents. She found a recipe for some kind of baked penne.
My wife’s family weren’t terribly familiar with making Italian food. They are Pennsylvania Dutch, and her mother wasn’t all that interested in cooking. The only garlic my wife ever saw growing up was garlic powder. This was her first time cooking with real garlic. Her mother never bothered because it was too much work.
My wife (well, girlfriend at the time) called me up to tell me she understood why her mother never used real garlic. She said the recipe called for one clove, and “it took forever to peel all those little things”.
I had to explain to her that each of those little things were the cloves. What she added to the recipe wasn’t one clove of garlic. It was the entire bulb.
There must have been vampires just dropping out of the sky over their house that night.
The smartest thing my dad did in his life was marry my mom. Luckily for me, my wife found inspiration in my mother’s cooking. The whole reason she wanted to make the recipe she made was because she wanted to learn to cook like my mom. Over the years she learned my mom’s recipes (lots of ethnic food: Italian, Slavic, Greek, Jewish, etc.).
She is still a big fan of garlic, although she doesn’t typically include an entire bulb in the recipe.
- Comment on PSA: Libraries 3 months ago:
Our library let’s you borrow free passes to different museums and attractions in the area.
- Comment on Our US friends see the Olympic Medal table differently 3 months ago:
As an American, it’s not surprising.
We have to fudge the medals score just like we fudge the healthcare score and the education score and the poverty score and the equality score and the freedom score. I just don’t understand why medals are on that list.
We still have the biggest billionaires, right?
- Comment on Real Facebook ad that doubles as a god-tier shitpost 4 months ago:
Good thing I’m not a conservative so I don’t have to shave with that piece of crap.
DE for me!
- Comment on And why your brother is your father and the father of your child😂 4 months ago:
You have to separate boy guinea pigs at 4 weeks of age to keep them from impregnating their mom and sisters.