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throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
So I need to use more profanity at work, then ask for a raise?

(But I concede that effort and productivity are not the same thing.)
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
If you are curious to compare with a foreign single payer system, England's NHS tariff is published at

https://www.england.nhs.uk/pay-syst/national-tariff/national...
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Assuming you are not being disingenuous: there is a trade off with a lot of uncertainty - other things are also implicated in stomach cancer, and at the same time untreated dental disease causes other health problems too.

But I prefer to rely on brushing my own teeth and avoiding certain foods to maintain my own health, rather than have a medication added to my water supply because the guy next door does not take care of his health.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
This study looked solely at impact on dental health. Other studies tell us it is associated with stomach cancer and infertility.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Axis of Awesome took those lemons and made lemonade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I've had longer delays in the UK. My car was damaged by another driver. I sent my dash cam recording to my insurer and then both insurers dithered for months until I threatened to get the government ombudsman involved.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
There have been a few products like this announced recently and they all have intro level examples on the home page. Can yours deal with things like entity-attribute-value model tables?
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
For the listener I don't think much would change. There is already more music released than any one person has time to listen to.

Edit: or maybe I would be disappointed if I liked an 'artist' but it was an ai so live events would be weird.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
You have no information on how I approached using chat gpt, what prompts I used, how close its replies came to being correct/useful or not, but you decided to regale us with an irrelevant car metaphor anyway.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I tried chat gpt for the first time today. I asked it to write me a script to fetch some data from an API. It didn't succeed, and this kind of common task from a well-documented API should (I thought) be a slam dunk.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Thanks for mentioning this. There are a lot of people who are homeless solely for economic reasons and are mostly unnoticed.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Involuntary admission is not automatically inhumane, but you do need to be admitting people to well-run hospitals and have a system in place to protect everyone from malicious admission. Both of those things cost money.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I once hypothetically saved a few dozen colleagues from dying in a fire. All of these people had at least a degree and many were educated to PhD.

The fire alarm sounded and at the bottom of a stairwell the exit door would not release until someone operated the emergency release break-glass panel. But none of these educated people grasped that. Worse still, none of them thought to use a nearby heavy steel trolley as a battering ram. One guy is trying to phone for help, which was pointless as the alarm sound makes conversation impossible.

I'm one of the last down the stairs. I look at the people, the closed door, the steel trolley, and the emergency door release panel. Realising I'm not going to have the fun of trashing the doors, I operate the release panel and we all leave.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Other income comes from inheritance, investments, gifts. None of those should be assumed to be incentives to get the recepient to work.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
A lot of people have to work two jobs just to afford food and shelter. Granted there are also people trying to live a Champaign lifestyle on a lemonade budget, but how do you address the first group?
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Only time I'm more miserable is if I'm told to work on something I know is going to get canned.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Imagine the opportunities for 'insider' trading in the painting and decorating business.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Who report over 10,000 downloads last week. I used this years ago but can't see much use for it now.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
That's fair enough if your job is in front end or whatever and you just need to use a table or view that someone else built for you.

I comment I read somewhere was that SQL goes from basic to advanced with nothing in between. It's a slippery slope of course: you start writing your own query and then you figure a more sophisticated query would be helpful and pretty soon you're having to care about optimisation and indexes.
throwaway8689
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Can you address the 'unprovoked' part? Reading comprehension here involves reading a whole paragraph.