This is an interesting story because:

• The AI transcription was perfectly accurate, even with medical jargon
• Not having to take his own notes allowed him to spend more time with his patients, and to listen to them more closely
• He felt less stressed and less burned out as a result
• It wasn’t de-skilling him, at least not in the way we traditionally think of it

It’s basically a best case scenario for LLMs and it still made things worse. Taking notes felt like a tedious thing that kept him from doing his job. But, he discovered that taking notes was part of his job, and if he didn’t do it he couldn’t properly care for the patients.

Maybe once he realizes why it is that it was failing him, he’ll be able to adjust his process so that he can take advantage of the machine learning system. It might be as simple as looking over the results immediately after the consultation and scribbling things in the margins so he doesn’t forget the key takeaways. Or, maybe the old note-taking process is simply the best one and the LLM can’t offer anything to actually help.

Yeah, you get to skip the hard part of learning and jump right to the part where it starts to get fun.

IMO, the main thing I’d want from D&D IRL is to know my health as a number, to frequently have that number at the absolute max, and any time there was something that reduced the number from the max I could either get a good night’s sleep and it would go away, or someone could say some magic words and any negative health conditions would go away.

If your characters are always getting 8 hours of sleep in your D&D campaigns, you might be D&Ding wrong.

When you’re a level 1 D&D player and you want to sneak past the goblin guard, the GM asks you to roll stealth, you roll, hold your breath, get 12 add your +3 and 15 is enough to sneak by. When you’re level 20 you’re sneaking past ancient dragons with ease.

In a sense you’re actively developing your “stealth skill” the entire time you’re playing the game by using it repeatedly in encounter after encounter.

I think the difference is that it’s a game and the GM is trying to make it fun and appropriately challenging. Even at the low levels, you’re going on exciting adventures. In real life, your guitar playing skills might start with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It’s an appropriate level of challenge, but it doesn’t feel all that exciting when you succeed because you realize just how simple it is, and what a gulf in quality there is between you and a competent guitar player. Often you only start to feel competent after years of practice.

Imagine how bad a game D&D would be if skill checks were realistic for the first 5 levels. So, instead of swinging a sword at a goblin, you’d have to first swing a stick at a wooden training dummy, and 1 every 20 swings you’d fail so miserably at it that you’d injure yourself.

Right to repair laws would help things so much. If you didn’t like the firmware that came with the car, you could install alternative firmware. If the dealer sold a car that was known to have some terrible components, there would be a business opportunity for a car modder who would buy factory vehicles from the dealer and replace the most trouble-prone parts, then re-sell the car with a slight mark-up.

It used to be that when it came to high performance cars, there were groups like Alpine, AMG, Abarth, Shelby, Saleen, etc. They were often race teams, or associated with race teams. Sometimes they would buy stock cars and modify them for racing, or at least modify them for high performance. But, most of those have now been brought into the company most associated with them. Mercedes owns AMG, Alpine is part of Renault, etc. I would bet one reason that this is not as common anymore is that cars are heavily computerized, and the computers can use DRM to restrict anybody but the original manufacturer from modifying them.

That’s the difficult thing about reviewing the durability of things. If you want to talk about whether something will last for years and years, you have to wait years to publish the review. By the time the review is out, they might no longer sell the model that was being reviewed. In some cases, the company might have been sold to a private equity investor who is just milking the brand’s goodwill before the value tanks.

How much is that going to cost you? I know long term it will probably save you money, but I would bet that the cost is triple the stuff you buy in a big box store.

There are probably times when the way restaurants do things isn’t appropriate for home cooking. For example, I read about commercial woks vs woks for home use. Woks used in restaurants tend to be thin and lightweight. They’re meant to be used with immensely powerful wok burners used in restaurants, and are light partially because a chef using a wok for hours and hours wants something as light as possible. If you’re a home cook, a heavier wok with a flatter bottom might work better because your stove probably can’t get as hot as a commercial wok burner. The flatter bottom means it heats better on the kinds of stove used at home, and is more steady when set down. The thickness helps it retain heat when it’s removed from the stove or when ingredients are added. A home chef doesn’t have to keep lifting the thing hour after hour, so the extra weight is ok.

A commercial fridge and commercial freezer sound great though. They seem to be built more and more delicately these days.

computer networking hardware which will eventually be outdated and no longer get security updates

I don’t think that means that the correct approach is for the manufacturer to build in obsolescence. Sometimes the security threats don’t matter to some users, so they should be allowed to accept the risk and keep using the item. Or, there could be a rule in place that if the company no longer wants to maintain something, it is required to release the source to maintain it.

The mother’s work.

There’s no comma there. They use it as punctuation at the end of a sentence:

e.g.: “I heard your mother died I’m sorry lol”

Wait, now they’re plural?

That depends on the wording.

Interesting that you use the word “chord”, because guitarists and piano players have been remembering chords forever based on the position of their hands, not based on some letters and numbers. Your version isn’t more easily memorized, it’s just different.

Which is something you have to memorize. Do you honestly think that that is somehow easier to memorize than say “Ctrl-Shift-5”?

Ooh, I like before and benign because at first there doesn’t seem to be anything tricky going on there.

Rather than memorizing ctrl+shift+alt-style keybinds, you decompose stuff into chainable actions.

By memorizing something else that’s equally or more obscure.

Too bad all the (common) silent b words are words with b in the middle, not at the beginning. Bdellium would work, but that’s something I think 99.9% of the planet has never heard of. If that were allowed, I bet you could find extremely rare names for every other letter.

• E: Ewe
• H: Hugh
• U: Uyghur
• Y: Yew

X: how bout either “Xenophobia” or even better, the 14th letter of the greek alphabet, as it’s written in English: Xi.