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blaise

@blaise@hachyderm.io

Open Source Apothecary, Internet Elder
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ and back again.

#ADHD #autism #bass player #boricua #ComplexityWranglers #coop #fountainpens #HamRadio #mycology #Sanskrit #neurodivergence #yoga

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raven, to random
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So here's something I don't understand about medical insurance:

My insurer has outsourced approving claims to a third-party. Isn't approving claims like, a core function of an insurance company?

This is a pretty good sign of a company that has fallen into late-stage capitalism, where they've decided their true function is to make money for the shareholders.

I miss the days when big companies took pride in their work and not just their profits.

blaise,
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Oh, @raven , my sweet summer child,
I wish I knew less about this business...
Approving claims is on the expense side of the ledger. They see automation as a cost , so they out source it.

This is a domain that is ripe for disruption. If anyone from #snowflakedb is listening, I would be delighted to contribute to the disruption.

sue, to random
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Listen, there have been a lot of times over the years where my refusal to take shit in a workplace environment has harmed me, sometimes with severe financial consequences lolol, but I don't think anyone looks back at their working life and says "I wish I'd taken more shit"

blaise,
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@sue
Thank you!
In fact, I can confirm wishing that I had taken less shit.
I will admit that the financial impact hurt my kids and that was regrettable.

rbreich, to random
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A new DoT rule will require airlines to disclose more fees upfront.

The rule will save passengers $500M a year by making it easier to comparison shop and avoid hidden fees.

Major airlines are up in arms and have sued.

Their power to rip us off is being challenged. About time.

blaise,
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@rbreich
Thank you Pete Buttigiege!

glyph, to random
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Software development is occurring.

(I could really use some help with the alt text on this one, I am not sure I know where to begin. )

blaise,
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@glyph

(I took a slightly different take)

Alt text:

A dark mode screen shot of an ide with a layout window, a preview window and a source code window. Several translucent circles of various sizes and colors intersect, serving no obvious functional purpose other than to evoke the ourobouros.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Google search is absolute garbage now. And we watched it happen in real time.

blaise,
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@Sobieck @cam
If you like old man shouting at the clouds energy, you must love my rant about the flaw in accounting that records investment in efficiency as an expense....

rbreich, to random
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The Biden Admin's rule limiting credit card late fees was set to begin tomorrow.

But a Trump-appointed judge blocked it at the request of the Chamber of Commerce β€” costing U.S. families an estimated $27 million a day.

MAGA and corporate interests want to keep ripping you off.

blaise,
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@rbreich
This is the sort of thing that I wish @MeidasTouch would amplify and maybe get the mainstream to respond.

freakonometrics, to random French
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"The ABC of mobility" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272#s0030 (Data for nearly 800 cities across 61 countries is used to model car use and its relationship with city size and income)

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blaise,
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@freakonometrics
There are some new (to me) #dataviz examples here.

polotek, to random
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I don't think I'll ever understand the kind of person who says "you MUST fight with me about technology minutia. And if you choose not to, I will block you forever." Like it's such a weird combination of principles.

blaise,
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@kethinov @polotek
There should be no shame in recognizing that there are two kinds of developers:
those who like to write code
those who like to build things

The writers are happy to reimplement the same project with subtle changes over and over again. It doesn't really matter to them what the code does.

The builders prefer to solve problems, improve quality and increase layers of abstraction. (think of @simon )

Codeberg, to stackoverflow
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Anyone considering how to break the already? Any alternative work in progress?

blaise,
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@Codeberg
#Discourse is really sweet to host and it has a vast plugin community.
https://www.discourse.org/plugins

And themes to control what fields to expose
https://meta.discourse.org/c/theme/61

Fwiw, some of the discourse devs were in the original stack overflow team.

howtophil, to random
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Basically, any forum that destroys itself by using Discourse instead of phpBB is dead as far as being a proper forum goes. Bulletin Boards DO NOT need to be more like other social media shit. They NEED to be their own thing.

blaise,
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@howtophil
I'm generally a fan of discourse for forums, precisely because they are more structured than social media.
Then again, I'm not familiar with PHPbbs.

I do tend to replace the default theme for something more like reddit.

dan, to random
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For this one brief, glorious moment I have all of my calendars syncing correctly to the devices they're supposed to sync to.

I do not expect this to last more than a day.

blaise,
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@dan
Just be perfectly still, don't change timezones.

ctietze, to random
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πŸ‘‰ Zettelkasten (Not) Needed? https://christiantietze.de/posts/2024/05/zettelkasten-not-needed/

blaise,
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@ctietze
What keeps me from starting...

In no particular order.

  • Anxiety that I will do it wrong and have to start over.
    Then getting lost in video tutorials looking for one with concrete, opinionated cards. Morganeua on you tube has good, concrete examples.

  • Impatience that it's faster to just have project cards.

Both of those are common among people with ADHD (who may benefit most from the system)

pustam_egr, to random
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Mathematicians throw shade like no others

blaise,
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@pustam_egr
I don't know what Alt text should be here, but I think it deserves some.

dlakelan, to statistics
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Here's the logical structure of what you will be taught in terms of #statistics as a masters student in pretty much any #science field.

If MY DATA is a sample from two random number generators of PARTICULAR TYPE, and MY TEST has a small p value then MY FAVORITE EXPLANATION FOR THE DIFFERENCES IS TRUE.

This is, quite simply, a logical fallacy. The first thing wrong is that your data IS NOT a sample from a random number generator of that particular type. So we can ignore the rest logically.

blaise,
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@rythur @kalfatermann @dlakelan

This is a subject I desperately want to know more about.
May I drop in?

I have noticed these anti patterns in venture-funded Internet startups since 1997 and I lacked the math knowledge to be able to describe them more formally.

I do have some observations about the relationship of the money flow the level of rigor. As
@sennoma
suggests, it's about funding but also how accounting treats investments as expenses.

Under the influence of blame management,
🧡

blaise,
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the level of rigor is related to the distance between the author and the first accountability event.

Accounting doesn't have a way to depreciate investments in maintenance or efficiency, it treats them as overhead (expense).
So there's an unexamined relationship between the level of rigor and the consequences of failure.

If quality is "too expensive" it's easy to cut. If failure can be delegated, it's easier to take risks.
(Boeing, etc al)
🧡
@rythur @kalfatermann @dlakelan @sennoma

blaise,
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I aspire to introduce the notion of confidence intervals intervals in my work (when I'm not thinking of giving up altogether)

But most of my statistics I learned from Hubbard's "How to measure anything"

@rythur @kalfatermann @dlakelan @sennoma

blaise,
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Good example, and it is timely.
In fact, the cost for the recovery will show up as an expense on someone else's balance sheet.
So the only financial incentive is to save money on insurance premiums.

The example that brought me to this discovery was trying to answer the question
"How much can we spend to test the service before we release to the customer?"

The answer was "we can't spend more than our overhead budget for any single project."

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@dlakelan @rythur @kalfatermann @sennoma

blaise,
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I call this pattern "hire 9 women to have a baby in a month."

Investors keep doing this because every now and then they get a baby. Usually, they don't.
Accounting has no way to record that one of the women is 8 months pregnant.

@dlakelan @rythur @kalfatermann @sennoma

blaise, to Victoria
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I'm thinking about visiting in with my 19yr old son. We would take a ferry from the Seattle area.

I would love suggestions or warnings for activities, lodging, etc

blaise, to sourdough
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Finally, a #sourdough loaf I feel proud of.
Or should I say, proud of the inside. My starter was not sufficiently active before and now I feel like I concentrate on the shaping.

blaise, to random
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Water #kefir grains settle to the bottom of the jar.
I stir them every few days. Is that a bad idea?
#WaterKefir

blaise, to random
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With so many new people on this server since I joined, it's time for an #introduction.

This is my personal account, where I share special interests (mostly related to justice, knowledge and communication).

https://archive.is/XmP8c and
https://youtu.be/j6F_zawRL_0
have perspectives on technology, consciousness and work.

HMU if you know about a tech #coop for Internet infrastructure.

TambiΓ©n me interesa promover proyectos de cΓ³digo libre a comunidades hispanoparlantes.

jezlyn, to fountainpens
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Hello, fountain pen peoples: any recommendations on how to clean out a moldy fountain pen? Perhaps I’m not searching well enough, but I haven’t found a definitive answer or instructions. I saw a few mentions about using a bleach solution to clean, but no measurements on bleach to water ratio. Supposedly this bleach solution could be used to clean fountain pen parts like the cap also, but I’m not sure if it’s really okay. #FountainPens #cleaning #mold #yuck

blaise,
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@jezlyn
Flushing the pen or cap is meant to accomplish two objectives

  • Keep the cleaning solution away from the outside of the pen.
  • use kinetic energy to dislodge precipitates and mould from the insides.
blaise, to random
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There's so much beauty, terror, wisdom and wonder in this 30 minute lecture
https://youtu.be/Ts0aetinnvw
about #volcanos
...
it will break my heart when YouTube eventually succumbs to #enshittification

blaise, to USpolitics
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If I could create a content warning that said something like:
#uspolitics spirituality psychology ethics NSFW

Then this dialogue between Michael Cohen and Tony Schwartz would get it :
https://youtu.be/1Rjr_QgSnXI

Much of what they say is unsurprising, but it's so interesting to hear them dig into the psychological and spiritual void that creates the space for so much of what is wrong with the US society, politics and law today.

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