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.net/React dev in US healthcare. I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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@alliterateant.bsky.social · last wk.

Do the people who make keyboards use them? Is there a large portion of typers who open the windows calculator so often that it should warrant it's own key?

@alliterateant.bsky.social · last wk.

There's a handful of reasons this isn't as straightforward as it seems. But they definitely DO use these tools for complex cases. For non-complex things: There are like 100,000 ICD diagnoses. A lot of them share common symptoms. So you're not going to get a lot of mileage out of things like

em@foremphasis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Its wild that when you go to the doctor they don't really do machine assisted diagnosis of any kind? Forget ai they don't even do a database search of your symptoms? I'm not the "use bayesian inference for everything" type but surely it would be useful for determining likely diagnoses?

Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · 2w ago

The vast majority of people I have met in this industry are in the liberal to leftist spectrum. It's a handful of VCs & billionaire executives (and even a lot of the less controversial tech billionaires are pretty lib) that set the perception :/

A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Still kinda annoyed about the "techlash" as a person who works in tech and who observes that tech is way more left leaning & reliable Dem voters than many of the industries the left has declared it's ok to idolize.

@alliterateant.bsky.social · 2w ago

I totally get not wanting to come to Bluesky because it's not exactly nice to the tech you're interested in. But saying you'd rather be on Twitter is like saying you're cool hanging out in a child pornography factory as long as someone doesn't make fun of you.

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦@mackuba.eu · 2w ago

FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out here and not on Elon's far-right playground 😐

Mike Masnick @masnick.com: Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule. I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X." I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie). I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI. I'm not telling anyone what to do or what tech to use or what to like or not like. I'm just relaying that the reputation this place now has is one that a large segment of the population who are NOT fascists, saying they don't feel comfortable here because a main area of their interest is... ... considered worthy of being mocked and attacked. And even as I've explained that I've been able to have positive conversations about productive AI usage here with many of you, the reputation of the community here as insisting their own lived experience can't possibly be real has driven them away. And the thing that tipped me over the edge to posting this here is that three of the people who told me things along these lines are all working on very real solutions to some of the problems of AI
@alliterateant.bsky.social · 3w ago

lol Whats wild is that for years Democrats haven been trying to defend against the false claim that Dems want "open borders" and here he goes handing that shit on a silver platter for them

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

WELKER: Do democratic socialists belong in the Dem Party? JEFFRIES: What I can say is I do not support defunding the police, I do not support open borders, I do not support abolishing the Senate. We're focused on actually solving the problems hard-working American taxpayer want us to solve ...

@alliterateant.bsky.social · 3w ago

me: "Is a way to get Visual Studio Copilot's NES to stop trying to edit List<string> items = [] into List<string> items = new()?" reddit: "Yes, stop using [] syntax for collection initializers because it's not clean" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@alliterateant.bsky.social · 4w ago

I had a similar epiphany a few years ago building this EMR. In the slice of healthcare I work in, we deal with a concept called "visit frequencies". Which is simply the amount of times you'll see a patient within a specific time span.

Core idea: one row per unit, bounded by design Instead of one row per item with a quantity column, we use one row per sellable unit. An item with 10 units has 10 rows. Reserving three units means selecting and moving three rows in a single transaction. By keeping reservations and the inventory ledger in the same database, we get ACID across reserve and claim—fixing classes of bugs that were possible with Redis (e.g. payment succeeds but inventory isn't claimed, or the reverse).
@alliterateant.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's 2026. There is absolutely no excuse for why your blog post can't include the date and time it was written. I have no idea what the rationale behind it would be, and it feels like every blogging engine on the planet defaults to including it.

@alliterateant.bsky.social · 4w ago

Yea, but depending on how old you were, "unrestricted internet access" could mean very different things. Mine was unrestricted too, but that was in the late 90s and early aughts. Its night and day different with regard to how easy it is to access not so cool stuff.

aegisiondure@1v.lc · 4w ago

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

@alliterateant.bsky.social · last mo.

Once I fed a bunch of my social media posts into Claude and asked for a broad critique and it said "You're aggression often muddles your point". Insane insight that probably appears pretty obvious in aggregate I was unable to see myself.

Kate Sills@katelynsills.com · last mo.

lmao holy crap. I had Claude do my weekly meal plan from my grocery store receipt, and from the receipt alone plus knowing I'm taking the LSAT on Thursday, it concluded I bought the beer to celebrate afterwards. 😂

The week's food plan is written into recipes/this-week.md (top section) and grocery.md now records the Aug 1 run. The shape: Sunday is the one real-cooking night (curry — you've got both green and red paste, limes, cilantro, rice packets), then the dinners get progressively lazier as the week gets heavier — frozen chicken parm after Monday's PT, microwave-tier salsa-verde chicken or pork noodles on the double-header Tuesday, salmon + rice + broccoli for the calm Wednesday, and Thursday is treat-yourself (the lone Sierra Nevada Cosmic in the fridge looks suspiciously like it was purchased as a post-LSAT beer).
@alliterateant.bsky.social · last mo.

I hate this sort of sentiment. As if there couldn't possibly be any reason at all a company or business who you know nothing about could make a tech decision you don't agree with. It's so incredibly small-minded it's nuts.

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@alliterateant.bsky.social · last mo.

What's funny is that when someone explained to me what Common Core math was I immediately recognized it as the way I did math in my head. Which led me to believe that most people who have a problem with it had a problem with math in general.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last mo.

Other dads: I don’t get this Common Core crap, it’s not how I learned math. Me: I used to tutor and I find it analogous to how I sometimes had to find different ways to explain the same problem to different kids, to give them all avenues to understanding. Other dads: *move to a different room*