NABDad
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- Comment on What exactly are they teaching in our schools? 2 days ago:
Obedience and conformity.
Same as always.
- Comment on Almost done 3 days ago:
I think I’m down to 2 hours and 12 years, 9 months.
Assuming it’s still possible to retire by then.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 6 days ago:
I’ve never worked for a for-profit company since I graduated college. There is variation in non-profit employers, but there are some that are great places to work.
I got a job at a university after graduation (different university than where I got my degree), and I worked there in different departments until I took a job in the university hospital. I’ve worked here for more than 25 years.
The pay tends to be a bit lower than what you’d get at a for-profit company, but not as bad as some would lead you to believe. I’ve been able to buy a home, raise a family, and live fairly comfortably.
The benefits are very good. There’s a strong focus on education and growth, and work-life balance isn’t just a lie they tell people in the interview.
- Comment on fireflies 1 week ago:
I’m doing my part. Haven’t raked leaves in at least 20 years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sometimes an actual medical condition makes the difference.
At a yearly physical, my doctor noted, “no one could gain that much weight that fast without something wrong”. That’s how I got tested for and diagnosed with a thyroid disorder. It’s also the explanation for why I could never lose weight. I thought the reason I could hardly move was because I was just getting older.
For years I had been unable to lose weight by dieting. After getting my thyroid levels corrected with medication, I became more active. I started casually intermittent fasting, and I lost 30 pounds.
There’s also been research that shows your gut bacteria has a lot to do with whether you gain weight or not.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 week ago:
Well, the grifters don’t. The multitude of morons they’re scamming do.
- Comment on Whats the green shape in between the three circles ? 2 weeks ago:
It’s called a circular triangle.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. It’s fascism. There’s no doubt. However, the points I mentioned are, I believe, the ones most relevant to the question of the post.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 2 weeks ago:
Check #5, #7, and, of course, #12:
- Comment on UK citizens say it is more important to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with US, survey shows 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Please for the love of all that is good in the world, don’t side with the US.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Your parents wiped your ass. There’s no reason to be embarrassed about anything.
Just say it quick, like ripping off a bandaid:
“I need to see a doctor about a hemorrhoid that won’t go away.”
It’s not even in the top 1000 worst things kids have to tell parents. If you can’t tell them about a hemorrhoid, how are you ever gonna be able to tell them about the gay prostitute you accidentally knocked unconscious, thought you killed, and then tied up in the basement after they woke up while you were trying to bury them?
If a hemorrhoid is the most embarrassing story you’ve got, you have no reason to be embarrassed.
- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 2 weeks ago:
Knowledge as well.
- Comment on Be honest. Your first thought was would this be an advantage or disadvantage during masturbation 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that was my first thought too.
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 4 weeks ago:
Your friend might be a Nazi.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, when the poem was written we were getting our asses kicked and survival was not assured.
If you look at the events of the moment, the significant part is the “not getting killed” part.
If things had gone differently, we could all be speaking English today!
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 months ago:
Alternatives:
Shaking a raised fist
Double middle fingers
Fingers pointing up, thumb touching nose
Right fist thrusting under left hand
- Comment on Why is Trump orange? 2 months ago:
without it he’d look a hell of a lot worse.
I disagree. He’s old. He’d look old. That’s not worse, it’s just human.
I’ve been to a number of funerals. No one ever looks good. Everyone ends up looking inhuman.
My paternal grandparents were both cremated. Grandfather died first, then my grandmother died a few years later.
They weren’t going to have any kind of service, so there was no need for makeup. However, my parents, siblings and I gathered at the funeral home to say goodbye. The funeral home put the body on a gurney covered by a sheet.
They looked better than any other corpse I’ve seen. They looked dead, but not inhuman.
Trump should fire the mortuary make-up artist he’s been using and just try to be human.
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 2 months ago:
Among the other options mentioned there is also orthokeratology: using a hard lens to reshape the eye to improve vision. It’s a non-surgical alternative to LASIK.
There are also treatment options for some binocular vision problems. Exercises that can strengthen the muscles of the eye to correct alignment issues.
- Comment on rollin' deep 3 months 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? 3 months 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 months ago:
If the MRI is on fire, LET THE MOTHERFUCKER BURN!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months 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’ 4 months 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. 4 months 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. 4 months 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’ 4 months 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’ 4 months 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 4 months 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. 4 months 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 4 months 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.