I think this energy density math really depends on whether only the core or the whole surface area is taken into consideration.

A headline without calling it an “Artificial Sun”?!

the more specialized the workforce, the harder it is to overcome staffing limitations. for example, in Italy, there’s a huge physician shortage (at least when I lived in Europe there was). You won’t fix that with simply changing the management culture.

So many assumptions…

1. You assume that there aren’t life or death exceptions/emergencies (see my updated post above).
2. You assume that I only practiced medicine in the USA
3. You assume that US hospitals run like businesses (private insurance companies, most hospitals don’t)
4. You assume doctors, especially subspecialists grow on trees.

Headline reads: “i turned off ALL notifications forever”.

My take: there exist people who can’t do that.

Your take: US bad.

My take: not a US-specific issue.

Your take: please describe your call schedule in detail because your claim is unusual.

Thank you, but no thank you.

I use an IP phone for calls that you can switch off. The paging system is a whole 'nother story.

it’s neither a US- nor a profession-specific issue. it’s an issue of any high-stakes, relatively niche occupation.

That idea of yours would be perfectly fine if it was just you, but it isn’t: it’s you and all other people who think like you

Definitely not an “idea of mine”. That’s the US experience (I’m a doctor here). The US’s most common electronic medical record system developed a secure messenger app that replaced pagers so yeah for outpatient work most of the time-critical messaging goes through your cell. So no, I can’t be on DND 24/7. (I do have very aggressively tweaked work/personal/etc notification settings, but sometimes the urgent messages do need to come through after hours)

if they are doing outpatient work, they don’t. even worse, the paging systems migrated to cell phones.

sauce: am doctor

Headlines like this are annoying AF. You wouldn’t want your doctor keeping their phone on DND 24/7.

Edit: I didn’t expect people to need examples, but here you go, something that happened to me few months ago:

23:21 - my IP phone rings, I’m literally about to go to sleep but I set this specific type of call to come through. I recognize the number and I know it’s an emergency so I pick it up. A patient’s family calling about them being in their local ER and the ER physician is about to pull the plug on my patient. I spend the next hour yelling at the ER physician to do his fucking job, frantically arranging a transfer. Next day afternoon, I’m having a full conversation with my patient in our hospital. If I didn’t fight for this person, and let this go through the regular channels, they would have died.

My comment isn’t primarily about work culture or work/life balance. There are some calls that you take because it’s the right thing. Advice from people who claim they can turn off all notifications just tells me two things, 1) they don’t know how notification scheduling works 2) they aren’t the kind of people that others ever rely on in an emergencies.

One of the interesting energy capture ideas I’ve seen with Solar and wind is based on kinetic potential energy in high-rise buildings. So you build a sort of heavy weight elevator that is elevated during windy and sunny hours and then it slowly gets released and gravity driven friction generating energy.

This coupled with solar windows and it’s a pretty neat idea (not sure how viable though)

Edit: examples: https://spectrum.ieee.org/gravity-energy-storage-elevators-skyscrapers

that was an edgy idea in the book, but stuff like that happens in ecological systems all the time. I read the book around the time of the election, and it read like a manifesto to justify oligarchic takeover as the next phase of human development (see the part how societal rules where assigned to the government and how the internet will take it back)

It’s a distraction. Ignore it and focus on the actual damage he is doing.

They actually put enough energy into this distraction to justify some level of response.

What difference does this make? Some lower level employee will see this, roll his eyes, and then continue on with his day.

you push back every step of the way. that’s how you deal with it. Apple maps reporting getting shut down for this is a sign that someone at a higher level took notice and it will have feedback to even higher leadership. So yes, this is feedback, even if companies do company things, it’s also sending a signal that on the long run their company things might be better off aligning with the users. Is this gonna make any difference on its own? Nope, but a million of things like this may.

yup. at this point the bullshit coming out of trump’s mouth is the least concerning thing in this admin. the heavy lifting is done by the heritage foundation and doge

Didn’t last long…

You guys are awesome!

well…I guess I can use chatGPT to walk me through setting one up?! I can use a double 4090 RTX config instead of heating too. (these are really fucked up times)

OK, what’s the fediverse alternative for ChatGPT?

Well, the problem is, even if I take the single case where this one guy exploded himself with his truck and compare it to the Pinto data, the poisson distribution difference will probably be statistically significant, yet the measure would be absolutely useless from a real-world perspective, because it has nothing to do with the vehicle’s design.

I’d also argue that many of these events might not even be entirely occurring independently from each other (i.e., some of the key assumptions of Poisson are incorrect here) when people do all sorts of stupid shit with these rolling garbage cans like shooting at them, submerging them, etc. in a meme-like fashion for Tiktok views. So 4 events might very well be influenced by non-design-based, non-random human factors, which applied to other vehicles could generate similar results, and if the analysis were serious, they would have individually reviewed how these whopping 4 events happened, accounted for reporting bias towards EV fires (especially Tesla) and compared it to the F150 or the Ford Lightning as an analogous vehicle.

And I know the internet tends to conflate condescension with competence, but seriously, you should understand the above-listed things as a stats teacher.

edits for clarity

edit 2: also, in the times of the prussian army they did not have to account for stuff like people suddenly starting to pull the horses’ tails for social media views.