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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I feel this - I'm often on the other end working with data from clinicians in the field for massive studies. The forms that come in can have an infinite number of possibilities just for noting sex. Enough so that our semantic layer needs a human reviewer because we keep finding new ways field clinicians have of noting this. Now imagine that over the whole gamut of identifiers.

tl:dr - Humans are almost always the problem in data harmonization.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Lol. Fuck off.

Signed, A Canadian who has to work all over the US. Sure, if you happen to be really rich, your quality of life might be better there than here. But for the vast majority of people, that is a fucking laughable statement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm more embarrassed for the teachers who seem to have failed them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why even type this out?

Do you just like arguing stupid points for fun even when you know yourself that you are wrong?

Have you never seen an automotive touchscreen before?

Even within one model/brand there are a ton of panes, and layouts. And even when you choose one layout, which apps are open changes the location and size of the buttons. Now add into that multiple brands, models, layout, and years... And your comment gets more worthless at every step.

Beyond that. The screen doesn't use haptic feedback to tell you where your fingers are so that the parts of your brain that evolved to handle that kind of context can use it without your fucking eyes. 'Oh I touched the round thing, I know there are 4 rectangles next to this' is a built-in feedback loop that a touchscreen does not provide at this time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you have problems with object permanence in everyday life? or just in your car?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Thankfully they are alive and doing quite well in our little forest home in Quebec, Canada. Of all the places I used to see them as a kid almost none are still vibrant and busy, but our little corner of forest here has a good population. For now...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your lack of knowledge of the world does not indicate the existence of a god. Cut it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

God isn't real. This is verbal masturbation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Check out amigo the devil - Half his songs are this subject matter. And he is VERY good.

 

So obviously I spent half an hour in a generative ai tool.

 
 

This doozy was shot just two days ago. I never thought I'd have a use for it on lemmy!

 

Location: Canada

Background: When I first started wearing glasses the optometrist would just give me a piece of paper that I could take to any shop to get my lenses made. Then they started refusing that paper and insisting I either leave my frames with them for two weeks, or that I buy new frames.

And now it seems like even asking for the script, or the measurements, is 'against policy'.


I recently went in for an eye exam and some new glasses, and the optician said something I have never been told before.

I had asked if they could give me the prescription for my sunglass lenses since they don't deal with the brand that I prefer, and he said that I would have to schedule another appointment at a shop that deals with that brand, because the prescription was not enough, and I would also need the measurements he took.

I asked if I could have those measurements and he said it was against policy.

Is he lying to try to get me to buy new frames from his shop? Or is there something to what he is saying?

Confession - When he walked away I took a picture of the measuring app he had used which seems to show all the measurements.

Would this be useful to another shop? I'm just trying to buy lenses without spending a fortune on yet another frame.

It all feels like a scam.

 

Bonus:

I'm not sure which I prefer.

 

Bonus pics:

Tomatoes

Baby Bell Peppers

 
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This mullein is now over 6 feet tall. It is my favorite wild plant by far.

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I thought this growth pattern was weird, and on inspection it seems like it pushed up past a tiny root that is now choking it.

I was thinking of going out his morning to cut the root out.

What do the pros think?

 

Is there any way to be be 100% certain?

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