braxy29
@braxy29@lemmy.world
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 1 month ago:
there was a story here recently about a lot of scamming happening on truth social. so yeah.
- Comment on An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. 5 months ago:
i could say a lot in response to your comment about the benefits and shortcomings of algorithms (or put another way, screening tools or assessments), but i’m tired.
i will just point out this, for anyone reading.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2573025/
i am exceedingly troubled that something which is commonly regarded as indicating very high risk when working with victims of domestic violence was ignored in the cited case (disclaimer - i haven’t read the article). if the algorithm fails to consider history of strangulation, it’s garbage. if the user of the algorithm did not include that information (and it was disclosed to them), or keyed it incorrectly, they made an egregious error or omission.
i suppose, without getting into it, i would add - 35 questions (ie established statistical risk factors) is a good amount. large categories are fine. no screening tool is totally accurate, because we can’t predict the future or have total and complete understanding of complex situations. tools are only useful to people trained to use them and with accurate data and inputs. screening tools and algorithms must find a balance between accurate capture and avoiding false positives.
- Comment on YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age. 5 months ago:
more than you’d think, i’m guessing.
anyway, what’s it to you? if someone has an abortion and never chooses to have a child, why does that matter to anyone else?
- Comment on YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age. 5 months ago:
i hope you will forgive me for asking something so personal (and i understand if you choose to ignore it), but - if you want a hysterectomy now and have been advised of the impacts, why is she unwilling at present?
- Comment on Eat it 5 months ago:
hot air balloons isn’t something i had given much thought to before. thank you for your responses here!
- Comment on Eat it 5 months ago:
what does a crew do exactly? for that matter, what does the work of a pilot look like? i have been reading your comments, and i can see that planning is certainly a part of it.
- Comment on Tacos. 7 months ago:
unfortunately, this is often true in big cities as well.
things are a lot better in that regard than they used to be. dv is no longer by default regarded as a “private matter,” laws and resources have improved.
on the flip side, dv can be hard to prove, especially to a busy cop or judge. and policing is also not a profession adverse to abusers.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 7 months ago:
i thought you were serious. and then i thought you weren’t. honestly, now i’m not sure, but i’m impressed either way.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 7 months ago:
what the heck… you’re really super into amazon, huh?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 7 months ago:
i mean, a great many people don’t appreciate being told they are murderers. it provokes defensiveness rather than an openness to pro-vegan arguments.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 8 months ago:
the bad news is that, despite growing up with pc’s and having had some level of troubleshooting skill as a result, i have forgotten most of it in the last 10 years as computing/tech has become pushy and handholdy. i suspect this is not uncommon.
- Comment on Progress! 8 months ago:
i’m not sure how this could really work. good therapy requires the person of the therapist, and i think it additionally takes place within the context of a client’s living. are there therapists willing to give up subjective years over and over and over? how does the client try new things, gain understanding without the feedback of their life between sessions? also - therapists seek information and process their work with clients between sessions.
on top of all this, i’m not yet convinced this would be psychologically healthy for either.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 8 months ago:
this was me about six hours ago! thanks, brain.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 8 months ago:
i like the idea of AI as a tool artists can use, but that’s not a capitalist’s viewpoint, unfortunately. they will try to replace people.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 8 months ago:
i think you’re missing the point, which i took as this - what arts and humanities folks do is valuable (as evidenced by efforts to recreate it) despite common narratives to the contrary.
- Comment on Please contribute your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! 8 months ago:
based on memory, so a little vague, but examples - access to various merchants in Bravely Default required you to have passed others. i remember this because i was sick with flu and spent a couple days with my 3ds and my daughter’s running/“passing” each other repeatedly so i could unlock everything.
to the best of my memory, some turn-based rpg’s (Persona? SMT? Etrian Odyssey?) would allow you to access customized personas/demons/teams? others had made available. like maybe someone had a really great high level persona (basically a pokemon) with a really great selection of skills on it and you could use it instead of trying to build the same thing yourself, before you might have normally had access to it.
so the latter type thing was cool and fun, but i didn’t get many of those. the first example is a situation where the game doesn’t really fully work without spotpass.
- Comment on Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet 9 months ago:
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 10 months ago:
but… if you really like your shampoo, why not buy $35 worth at once?
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
WHY DID YOU REMIND ME 😢
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 11 months ago:
can’t speak for the bigots, but as a non-bigot who buys it for my kids a couple times a year -
there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. i say this as someone who doesn’t shop at amazon or wally world, but it’s really difficult to avoid every single brand/company with an asshole owner/ceo. additionally, my impression is they are one of the better employers in the area for people who just need a job and lack skills/ability to do something else.
- Comment on Crunchy. Delectable. 11 months ago:
mmm, forbidden snacks! (some of the rocks at the gift shop definitely look like candy)
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 11 months ago:
wow, wtf. what a scam.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 11 months ago:
this is one reason why i have never had prime. not that i order much from amazon anyway (very rarely, in fact).
i think people think amazon is a lot more indispensable than it actually is.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 1 year ago:
i will give you that one. 😮💨
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 1 year ago:
what? i can’t speak specifically to crunchyroll (not willing to pay for it), but i watch a lot of movies in languages other than english with english subtitles on roku.
if roku is insisting on this (?), they aren’t insisting on it for other services like hbo.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 1 year ago:
the ads on roku do not impact my experience, they go away as soon as i open anything.
- Comment on Pavlov's conditioning 1 year ago:
i suppose it’s that his intent was to train (essentially to control) something apart from himself, but he likely trained himself in the process (created something within himself that he did not control, at least for as long as the response was conditioned).
- Comment on Does anyone feel like an actual adult? 1 year ago:
i mean, i’m no fan of capitalism, but when i take my car to the guy who has been servicing it for 10 years, i don’t mind that he’s itemized the work to ensure that he and the guys who work for him are paid fairly for their expertise and time.
we do, unfortunately, exist in a system that requires money at present.
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 1 year ago:
maybe it’s not a lie if you have grown and changed into a new version of yourself.
- Comment on Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage until Mexican government stepped in - YouTube 1 year ago:
agreed. big fan of his work on right-to-repair, but find his libertarian pov tiresome.