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FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How far are you away from your "spawn point" (place of birth)? Do you currently consider that city/town to be "home"?English3·11 days agoAbout 26 miles from the hospital I was born in, or 35 miles from my family’s home at the time. I haven’t gone far, but each move has a been a little bit further.
Who knows, by the time I die maybe I’ll live outside the local metro area!
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•AI slows down some experienced software developers, study findsEnglish16·18 days agoI’ve used cursor quite a bit recently in large part because it’s an organization wide push at my employer, so I’ve taken the opportunity to experiment.
My best analogy is that it’s like micro managing a hyper productive junior developer that somehow already “knows” how to do stuff in most languages and frameworks, but also completely lacks common sense, a concept of good practices, or a big picture view of what’s being accomplished. Which means a ton of course correction. I even had it spit out code attempting to hardcode credentials.
I can accomplish some things “faster” with it, but mostly in comparison to my professional reality: I rarely have the contiguous chunks of time I’d need to dedicate to properly ingest and do something entirely new to me. I save a significant amount of the onboarding, but lose a bunch of time navigating to a reasonable solution. Critically that navigation is more “interrupt” tolerant, and I get a lot of interrupts.
That said, this year’s crop of interns at work seem to be thin wrappers on top of LLMs and I worry about the future of critical thinking for society at large.
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•At your current rate of spending, for how long could you survive without income?English5·22 days agoMany years technically, but I doubt the stability of… well, everything, too much to say that with much conviction.
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•USAID cuts may lead to more than 14 million deaths globally, including 4.5 million children under 5 by 2030, researchers sayEnglish12·26 days agoEven better, we’re taking that money, and taking money from people on Medicaid in the US and then funneling all of it to the ultra rich via tax cuts!
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Republicans are racing to make Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic PartyEnglish81·1 month ago“And he wants to give you affordable health care! Public transit! Tax the rich! Can you believe this socialist? Wait, where are you going? Come back!”
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump, Hegseth slam news coverage of US intel report on Iran attack, say B-2 pilots upsetEnglish1721·1 month agoThose B2 pilots could hardly bomb straight on their next run. Happy now, people?
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatmentsEnglish191·1 month agoTheir analysis also revealed that these nonclinical variations in text, which mimic how people really communicate, are more likely to change a model’s treatment recommendations for female patients, resulting in a higher percentage of women who were erroneously advised not to seek medical care, according to human doctors.
This is not an argument for LLMs (which people are deferring to an alarming rate) but I’d call out that this seems to be a bias in humans giving medical care as well.
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some "toy programs" you've created?English11·1 month agoI built a script that runs on a raspberry pi with an nfc reader and speakers. It’s setup with nfc cards to play music for my kids. they don’t use it as much as they used to but it’s still going strong after four years!
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Too many non-working holidays in AmericaEnglish108·1 month agoI doubt he cares about holidays at all, but he very much cares about removing a holiday that is specifically relevant to not white people.
I was taking with a family member yesterday and said I’d be shocked if Juneteenth is still a holiday next year.
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1%English10·1 month agoAgreed. I’m not advocating for it, but subtle surgery with a reasonably skilled practitioner often flies under the radar if you didn’t know the person. The most common things like nose jobs and face lifts are almost routine at this point.
It’s not for me, but there is a confirmation bias around plastic surgery where bad results are highly visible and good results are almost invisible.
I do, but not much these days. I’ve got kids and a career with meh work life balance. Sleep, exercise, and hobbies all compete for the remainder.
On a good weekend I can get a couple of hours in though.
Everything is a victory when you live in your own reality.