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flumph, 17 days ago

Both female and male patients had a lower patient mortality when treated by female physicians; however, the benefit of receiving care from female physicians was larger for female patients than for male patients.

Of note, the study was conducted on 800k senior citizens.

The findings may not be generalizable to younger populations.

flumph, 24 days ago

It’s a video game show that uses the rules of the video game world.

flumph, 25 days ago

I use it when I’m traveling and am on insecure WiFi.

However, it doesn’t let you pick your egress location,.so if you’re trying to get to PornHub in Texas, it won’t help.

flumph, 26 days ago

Too many industries are shitting on entry level employees now… They’re easy targets for layoffs and easy targets for AI, apparently. Now they’re already complaining about the lack of quality talent.

The Great Resignation is effectively over. We’re now in the Great Talent Stagnation, where employers’ biggest concern is the lack of qualified applicants

If you don’t invest in the next set of entry-level employees, you won’t have the next set of qualified employees.

flumph, 26 days ago

It’s faulty, short-sighted logic though. If every company trained juniors, only for them to jump ship in two years, there’d be a pool of trained juniors to hire from. Yes you wouldn’t get your investment out of that particular person, but you’d be hiring someone else’s investment.

Beyond that, there’s work that is better suited to more junior employees because it’s literally a waste of the senior employees’ skills.

flumph, 26 days ago

No one said anything is beneath senior employees.

It’s a lost opportunity when you, a staff engineer, spend your time doing something that a junior engineer could do – instead of doing a task a junior engineer can’t do.

flumph, 26 days ago

Again, you’re putting words in my mouth. I’m done engaging with you as I don’t think you’re conversing in good faith.

flumph, 28 days ago

AI and LLM have earned a bad reputation in creative circles because of the push to eliminate creative jobs. Companies that want to build tools for creative communities should know this and not lean on AI-hype marketing.

That being said, in my opinion, Storywise looks fishy as heck. It’s probably a few tech bros using Azure’s DIY GPT. They pinky promise not to use your manuscripts in training data, but there’s no contact info on their website, including in the ToS. So when they inevitably break their promise or have a data breach, how do you sue them?

flumph, 1 month ago

The release notes mention why they request each one.

flumph, 1 month ago

Am I missing it, or is there no way to organize the Drawer, either by folder or tab?

flumph, 1 month ago

So we’re going to ban TikTok so China can’t manipulate us, but continue to allow corporations to do the same.

flumph, 1 month ago

Checkout infosec.exchange instead of blocking Threads, the admin made a second instance for people who wanted Threads blocked. Like 40 people migrated, lol

flumph, 1 month ago

What is missing is that the podcast originally claimed it was entirely written and generated by AI. They only changed the story when they were sued.

flumph, 1 month ago

Yeah. The arbitration section of the agreement specifically says it only applies to US residents.

flumph, 1 month ago

And I don’t think any of their nude photos are appropriate for academic papers (unrelated to nudity research) either?

flumph, 1 month ago

“I don’t think it’s nice to federate with a company that has been cited in multiple independent reports of massacres/genocides,”

And I don’t think it’s nice to take the choice away from users. I can block threads all on my own – I don’t need a nanny who doesn’t even cite their sources.

flumph, 1 month ago

I love when people conflate rights and ethics. I agree with you that no one has a right to be listed on Fedi Garden. And I still think it’s not nice to pressure admins into taking choice away from users.

flumph, 1 month ago

1. “Run around” = Respond to a thread that appeared in my subscriptions.
2. “Must lick Meta’s boots” = Let users decide for themselves to block Meta.

Your hyperbole makes it obvious you have no place in a reasonable debate about this topic.

flumph, 1 month ago

Your entire comment reads as a refute of OPs criticism and an excuse for Meta’s actions. If you were agreeing with OPs criticism, you would typically use phrases like “only five years”.

flumph, 1 month ago

The purpose is to learn how to publish code that cannot be used for forking as open source.

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I have to obligate the folks to choose whether they want to pay me or help me code.

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…it was not beneficial to me.

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…new to gaining good visibility through open source,