I signed it but I don’t really get what’s the goal here other than rectifying a minor semantic issue
mostly inactive, lemmy.ca is now too tainted with trolls from big instances we’re not willing to defederate
I signed it but I don’t really get what’s the goal here other than rectifying a minor semantic issue
Yep. It’s cognitive dissonance. Presumed innocence & welfare for me, discipline and punishment & rugged individualism for thee.
I never understand why people don’t want criminals reformed, just locked up.
It is pretty easy to understand. People are interested in their personal safety above all else, way more than they care about inefficient use of public resources and human tragedies brought by a carceral system. Many favor systems that error to the side of unjustly punishing over a system that accepts the inherent trade-offs of pursuing common good.
In other words, to some folks, criminals aren’t people so we shouldn’t worry about what’s good for them - all worry is dedicated to making the lives of white flighters as stress-free as possible. TLDR: snowflake conservatives.
A nurse would quite literally crosscheck 50 blood markers in a matter of seconds
Yes, but also a nurse has bazillion other things to do. That’s probably why, as the CBC journalist reports, “the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon”. So even though it costs a second to do, it’s done was done once a day. Now it’s done continuously because it’s an alert system instead of something the nurse has keep an eye on.
In this specific case, the fever + high WBC would be more than enough for a nurse to know that something was up. It makes me think that adding AI just adds another step.
Sure, there’s another computation step. But that’s cheap. Nurse time is the bottleneck. From the POV of a nursing team, before, there was a step (check blood pressure at noon), now there are no steps. They replaced a process of checking some numbers with an automated metric-based alarm. This is textbook operations process optimization, great for everyone involved.
I think this is exactly the case for automation to be useful without negatively impacting the professional. It’s not a matter of nurses having the knowledge or expertise, but a tool that takes away the toil of monitoring - which is boring, easily skipped or performed badly by a tired brain, and is trivially interpretable. If a thingamabob beeps louder and makes the nurse pay attention to the blood cell count, the human is still in the loop of decision making.
that just because the UCP received 54-ish% of the popular vote in the last provincial general election, it doesn’t follow that 54% of the population of Alberta is anti-trans.
It does mean that 54% is willing to promote UCP even though UCP as an institution is supportive of anti-trans politics. So while not everyone in those 54% might be anti-trans themselves, they are consciously supporting anti-trans politicians, and are effectively helping the anti-trans ideology.
Welp, at least it’s a non-profit and the amount of people under care is increasing.
I’d say this kind of thing is in the best 1% of UCP moments, considering everything else. It’s a low bar but still.
This is fucked up. Hoping for a fast recovery and for charges for these delinquents.
Montreal is a lovely city, but it isn’t for everyone’s tastes.
The main thing that concerns me about a fully cashless society is that the means of buying and selling stuff shifts fully into the hands of the for profit, private company payment processors.
Not necessarily true. The federal government can and should roll out their own instant payment mechanism under the supervision of the central bank or federal reserve. For reference: the FedNow initiative in the US, FPS in Hong Kong, and PIX in Brazil.
Interac is an aberration and it should be killed by a real public service.
The Star reached out to dozens of people who left Toronto
Toronto, they said, has become unlivable.
Wow, incredible investigative journalism there. In other news, The Star reached out to dozens of people who left [CITY]. “[CITY], they said, has become unlivable.” Very informative 👍
But also kudos to Ravi Kahlon for actually listening to good ideas, he’s a gem in this provincial government
Fuck yeah Uytae Lee for president
People definitely downvote on things they don’t agree with.
This is different from downvoting because someone expressed their perspective.
getting down voted for expressing your perspective.
How do you know this is the case? Maybe there are other reasons to downvote?
That’s great news, thanks for sharing!
So pie charts are the newest trend for dietary guides? I won’t miss the bullshit of the food pyramid but kinda surprised that it’s gone
Edit: I wasn’t expecting pyramid fans out there lol really don’t understand the downvotes
Could be just a lens flare though
I doubt it. But I hope you’re right.