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Comment · 9 hours ago
If you reading every wiki, forum, dev blog/patch note, watching every video, etc before playing, I’d be more surprised if you could NOT play a game.
Comment · 9 hours ago
The AI has trained on the entire factorio wiki along with every tutorial video ever made and who knows what else. I don’t see room for hidden anything in that scenario.
Comment · 5 days ago
Why risk a sure thing? You might have others quit or get rid of someone more important than you thought. The morale hit might affect work quality. Any number of things can go wrong and its simply not worth it when you make $600k in profit per person.
Comment · 5 days ago
States like Florida cap out at $275/week with a maximum of $3,300 (over just 12 weeks). McDonalds pays around $16/hr according to indeed. Unemployment almost might as well not exist.
Comment · 5 days ago
Both of these issues come because our ancestors messed up changing the language.

Centuries ago, "thou" was singular second person and "you" was plural second person.

"Thou" got abandoned and "you" lost its original meaning to replace "thou" as the new singular second person.

"You guys" or "y'all" are simply attempts to re-introduce a needed pronoun.

Comment · 14 days ago
This fits right alongside product asking how much work is it to move any button somewhere else in the UI. It depends which button, where it starts and where it ends, and even which app we're talking about.

Old work is always harder than new work. It varies by how your home is designed. It varies by where your panel is located and where your garage is located. You will pay a premium for the extra time and pain in the butt it causes.

As a great example, my friend asked for assistance with their home's street light not working. Long story short is that they ran a UF (underground feed) line directly under her concrete driveway (the contractor was too cheap to run it in conduit). I megged that line and it had a short. Their light stays off because rerouting through their house then digging up their yard isn't something they want to do (don't want to pay as I don't have that much free time and they don't want the massive headache it would cause). I was able to disconnect/wire off the failed part of the circuit so everything else works for them, so that's a win (and I didn't charge, so that was a win for them too I guess).

Comment · 14 days ago
Last I checked, one of the biggest causes of arc-flash deaths were linemen turning off the lines and someone turned on a generator in response to the power being off and back-feeding the power through the lines because they didn't use a transfer switch.

I got lit up by 277/480 when I worked as an electrician because someone removed a lockout and turned on the breaker.

In any case, not all jobs can have the power turned off.

Comment · 14 days ago
The fact that they think ANY part of psychiatry is replaceable by AI in light of all the issues it has caused leads me to believe this study is actually over-estimating at least some jobs.
Comment · 19 days ago
The paper was updated in August this year.
Comment · 19 days ago
The study was updated in August 2026.
Comment · 20 days ago
How did those mathematician's data probably wind up in OpenAI's training data? They are willing to rip off Disney (one of the most litigious IP companies on the planet). There's no reason they wouldn't be willing to rip off the MS Word files uploaded by MS devs (and even less reason they won't steal your work too).

I really think the AI companies think there's no turning back on the infringement and they have to infringe in a "too big to fail" manner to the point where they can force an exception for AI not caring about the fallout for IP rights.

Comment · 20 days ago
Why not use Darktable?
Comment · 23 days ago
The first 4 years are basicaly worthless. I remember reading that the best doctors got their initial BS in engineering which has nothing to do with medicine. It simply shows they have a higher IQ than average and would have made superior doctors whether they got that engineering degree or not.

That leaves the only real difference (other than degree inflation) as being 3 years of residency, but most of the older generation of doctors effectively did the same thing entering into an existing practice or working in a hospital under an experienced physician.

If you climbed the ladder (like a lot of nurse practitioners do), the ADN+BSN took 5 years with 3-4 more years for the MSN or 4-5 years for the DNP.

Put another way, that nurse practitioner has MORE applicable years of schooling than a doctor who got some random degree with the handful of med prereqs then went to med school, internship, and residency. Lots of nurse practitioners also work in the field all the while they are in school which further increases their actual experience.

The real takeaway is that all these extra years, loans, and interest combined with fewer years to practice medicine translate into more expensive care without improving outcome.

Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 23 days ago
And stop degree inflation. A doctor with 4 years of med school and a year internship from 60 years ago can diagnose your sniffles or refer you to a specialist just as well as a doctor with an unrelated 4-5 year BS degree then 4 years in med school, then a year of internship followed by 3-4 more years of residency.

At the same time, the doctor with just 4-5 years of school and hundreds of thousands less debt can not only treat patients more cheaply, but will have more years of practice too.

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