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For example, many kinds of biopsy can result in serious infection or other surgical complications.

This doesn't seem to account for the outcome that someone receives testing and treatment for a problem found by the MRI, and is injured in the process, despite the fact that non-tr…

I've been thinking about formal verification a lot, recently. I've dabbled in it before, but it was clear that it was only used by a small research community, and the effort requir…

These companies aren't coming in, buying property at market rates, and developing it with existing infrastructure under current zoning laws. They usually want tax breaks, major inf…

I can tell you, based on local examples, that politicians are setting up deals to bring in data centers without trying to build community support first. Not only that, they are oft…

I would love to pay and manage parking from my phone if the apps actually worked intuitively, but they rarely do. It was easier when all I had to do was have a roll of quarters in …

C-level does not seem uniformly convinced, and they have a lot of reasons to tell that story, even if it isn't really true.

I don't see an uptick. Demand has been steady for the past two years after falling from the post-pandemic frenzy. That fits with my personal experience of the tech industry over th…

I think the pandemic broke the feeling most Americans had that we were all in the same boat and we could work together to solve our problems. Liberals stopped seeing Trump's electi…

Even though I am personally agnostic, I do structure my life around the traditionally meaningful things you're talking about, and I do see the cultural mood a kind of spiritual cri…

This is mostly true, but things were almost universally worse in the mid-to-late 1970s. There was a similar feeling of anomie, stagflation, and a sense that the country was on the …

Engineers, I am so sorry. They are still going to be your bosses.

Just because the wider society encourages it, your family doesn't have to lean into individualism, and many don't. We got by when I was a kid with a lot of help from friends and fa…

This calculator says that the median household in my county is not making a living wage, which is ridiculous on its face.

You're telling me this car insurance drives itself?

I was so lonely in this opinion for so long, and it is great to see it becoming mainstream. GHA is terrible.

The vast majority of engineers aren't refusing to use AI until it can do 100% of their job. They are just sick of being told it already can, when their direct experience contradict…

These posts are never, never made by someone who is responsible for shipping production code in a large, heavily used application. It's always someone at a director+ level who stop…