Historic home, I will only put panels on the back of the house because of the appearance, but would love the benefit of front panels for the afternoon sun.
I really was excited about the powerroof when it was announced, Tesla wasn’t awful then, but lately I have wondered and just assumed it was an abandoned idea by now.
Yeah but you know why the tax breaks are actually given, just like we all do.
There’s a pendulum swinging towards the middle. Under diagnosis, and then ultra trendy diagnosis, huge self-diagnosis, general personality trend to align with. Now it’s going to swing back, likely towards biomarkers, as the DSM VI is trying to focus on. Can we see this on a scan? If so it exists. And then the DSM XII will be like “fuck that.” Mental health has always wobbled between extremes and somehow found the truth in the middle.
The animal welfare committee has concluded the most humane way to coke up the fish is for the researchers to also do a few bumps so they feel like it’s a party.
I had some “floating shelves” without visible support. The shelf is important, and the screw is important… but the little keyhole that holds the shelf upright is actually the most important part. If it’s made of cheap sheet metal, it’ll deform under the slightest weight, causing your picture and nicknacks to come crashing down onto your face while you sleep.
Thanks Ikea!
“Supreme Court to rule for industry, against individuals” there NYT I fixed your headline
Wanna know a secret… God didn’t even write that part. God’s version has him at a kmart in Toledo, Iowa buying the entire universe on a Saturday in 1997, at which point he installed it, but it did take several days because it was football season, but it was less than a week no matter what anyone else says.
So, therapists are starting to use this because it simplifies notetaking, which is actually a big behind-the-scenes thing. Therapists have to maintain sometimes multiple sets of notes on each patient: one for insurance/billing, one for their records, one that can be viewed by you on-demand, one for judges or other individuals involved in a person’s treatments. When it comes to billing notes, it’s a formulaic thing they’re doing to justify your treatment, they basically extract a few quotes to keep your insurance company paying for whatever it is they think they’re paying for. Insurance doesn’t just write check a check every week saying “hope you talked about fun stuff.” Treatment plans have to be done and progress accounted for. Even if those treatment plans are just to satisfy a beancounter reading the reports.
And it it turns out this is actually all a great use for AI, summarizing and filing - it doesn’t need to be creating, just distilling. And as such a therapist can see more patients, or have more time with their families (being a therapist is cognitively stressful, you can’t just zone out or scroll on Tiktok when you get bored).
At the same time, every therapist I know (I’m married to one, have a kid with another, and a lot my friends are therapists - plus my own) is experimenting and won’t feel the least bit upset if you say “no.” They are trying to get a feel for what patients are OK with.
I let my therapist use it. We’re doing a very specific modality and I’m not the least bit worried about that being recorded.
But if I were detailing my own childhood rape or something, I might not feel the same way, IDK.
Just communicate with them honestly.
This stuff used to bother me but then I observed nature and its cruel rules for long enough, and I realized that suffering is one of the few constants in life, one of the guarantees. Wasps that paralyze spiders for months so they can be eaten alive by their offspring, bird species where most chicks are left to stave to death, etc… yeah nature is just as cruel as humans can be, but at a much larger scale in perpetuity, and we’re a lot more efficient at turning that suffering into greater good that lessens the suffering of others in perpetuity. So, while I don’t condone or even like to think about baby monkey experiments, I will not bat an eye at lab mice being given Parkinson’s so we can observe and seek answers and cures.
Hell that’s most of the houses in my neighborhood and I’m in downtown Little Rock Arkansas. $500k home is not what it once was. If a house should be 3 to 5 times your salary, then a family of two incomes making $50k each are at home there. Not exactly Rothschilds.
Peace of death you say
In before everyone trashes IQ for being racist and pointless.
And I’m not saying it isn’t ethnocentric and a bit arbitrary. But walk around a Mensa meeting and you’ll see things in common.
Mostly that everyone is really socially inept if not outright problematic.
But 90% liberal, yeah.
Let’s let capitalism intervene until they’re all in a call center in India
I do a powerwalk with my dog once a day, 1/2 hour at least.
I didn’t really realize it was doing me good until I went on a hike with a friend.
1/4 way up the mountain, he was throwing up beside the trail, had to turn back.
My heart rate never went above 100, I was barely sweating.
Good habits build a good body.
Eyes his french press suspiciously
I thought there were multiple confirmations on that
Nothing about the % of Americans who think trans people should be able to play HS sports on their new gender.
Because that’s like 45%.
Or who think trans youth should have access to gender affirming care, which is similarly low.
And those are the issues that the GOP is hammering, because they know it.
We have to get the spotlight off these issues we got ahead of public perception and there is a cost for that - a whole generation of trans people denied rights (I am less interested in sports than I am gender affirming care, which is hugely important for trans youth).
You can see trans folks realizing this… like 1/2 of the plaintiffs for the sports case that made it to SCOTUS thought the suit should be dropped before it got that far, because they realized it was going to go the wrong way.
It’s time to be more strategic until/if the GOP gets out of power, so we stop kneecapping ourselves.
Expect a tidal wave of “I can’t believe the Democrats did this to me” as that unfolds.
Our last real election is in our rear-view mirror. People keep talking about the next president, the next Dem, I don’t think it’s a reality. We saw what he did the first time around - instigating a mob to storm the capitol. I don’t think this time he’ll be conceding, and I doubt he’ll let himself get into a position where conceding is even on the table. It’ll just a patchwork mess of states with fucked up elections, and it’ll be too much to reset in a couple of months before inauguration.
Seems like the on-prem/cloud pendulum will start swinging here too, businesses won’t need vast AI datacenters for the models that power the applications they build with it. As cloud AI gets less economical, and they raise prices, on-prem servers will start to look attractive and enterprise manufacturers will be building them for deployment in-house. And then cloud LLM prices will plummet, and then people will start going that way because it’s cheaper… rinse repeat