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https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen-pro/ai-300-series/amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-pro-370.html

Looks like the Ryzen Pro line supports it… but the Ryzen line does not.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/ai-300-series/amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370.html

Simply using AI isn’t an issue… Allowing it to take over in a way that accelerates the removal of the knowledge from our pools of knowledge is a problem. Allowing companies to use AI as a direct replacement of actual medical professionals will remove knowledge from society. We already know that we can’t use AI to fuel more AI learning… the models implode. In order to continue learning more from medicine, we need to keep pushing for human learning and understanding.

Funny that you agree with me and apparently see useful discussion to have here… but downvote me even though the comment certainly added to the discussion.

Oh, and next time don’t put words into someone’s mouth, very much a bad faith action that harms meaningful discussion. I never said we should ban it or never use it. A better answer would be to legislate that doctors must still oversee, or must be the approving authority. That AI can never have a final say in someone’s care and that research must never be sourced from AI sources. All I said, is that if we continue what we’re doing and rely on AI in any meaningful capacity, we will run into problems. Especially in the context of the comment I responded to which opined upon corporation controlled AI.

FFS… they can’t even run a vending machine. https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

Oh… and actually I would consider the 85% that it gets to be pretty poor considering that the AI was likely trained on the full breadth of NEJM information. Doctors don’t have that ability to retain and train on 100% of all knowledge of the NEJM, so mistaking things makes sense for them. It doesn’t make sense for something that was trained on NEJM data to screw up on an NEJM case.

My stance is the same for all AI. I’ll use it to generate basic code for me. I’ll never run that without review. Or to jumpstart research into a topic… and validate the information presented with outside direct sources.

TL;DR: Tool is good… Source is bad.

And the risk is that if we rely on AI in any meaningful capacity, it will eventually erode away the expertise who would be knowledgeable enough to detect the problems that the future AI may create/ignore. This assumes even best case where AI isn’t being specifically tampered with.

802.11a was 5ghz, 802.11b was 2.4ghz. Both developed at the same time.

802.11g was 2.4ghz and extended b since 2.4 took off faster than 5ghz in the market.

Since g, n onwards has been used across both bands.

Since 802.11ax we now have 6ghz.

We’re already significantly short on judges. Requiring judges in triplicate would have some crazy side effects. Court cases currently take too long to resolve due to the shortage. The entire system would grind to a literal standstill.

Citizenship is already required to vote in state […] elections.

This is incorrect. The law you think you’re referencing by this is only applicable to Federal positions. Several states explicitly allow non-citizen voting in local elections. Many have no laws on the books at all addressing it. Only 15 states explicitly prohibit non-citizen voting for local positions.

https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_permitting_noncitizens_to_vote_in_the_United_States

This fact alone should mandate that the federal level maintains their own registrations. The State and Federal levels have different applicable voter rolls because the state doesn’t have the same requirements as the federal elections.

Edit: Wrong word.

I had no idea the numbers were that high.

They’re definitely not. First hand experience tells me that when a soldier enlists during in processing they start the process for naturalization. I saw several recruits that came in with me go through the paperwork with a drill instructor. If this 38% is “real” then it must be “all time”. But modern military for sure it is not.

Yeah, while I understand and agree with the sentiment… If you have 300 people and on average somebody gets sick once a year for 2 days… You’re going to have to hit some lotto style stats that they all don’t lineup together to get a clear day of 100% attendance. Now realize that normal is 2-4 times a year… not just once. It’s hard to corral that many people and get them all in on the same day available without some sort of conflict, sick days alone. Forget all the other stuff, birthdays, births, funerals, etc…

The USA is also significantly bigger than every single one of those “comparable” countries. Actually bigger (population, size, really just about any size metric possible) than all of them combined. It’s a bit disingenuous to clump all of the USA together. Which fuels and proves my point about outsiders not understanding the USA.

The range in “comparable” countries is also about 4 years… Why do you think that is? I mean the countries are basically right next to each other like states are here… yet for some reason despite sharing a border Switzerland and Germany have a 4.1 year difference in male life expectancy.

I’m willing to bet money that different parts of the US, possibly even on a state by state or even region by region location would have wildly varying life expectancy than is being insinuated with a single monolithic number for “the USA”… Just like the EU countries listed here…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy

Turns out that is wildly true… The top 30 states all compete with the numbers given and fall within the ranges between Germany and Switzerland given in the charts in your link.

Edit:

If you drill down to counties… which is at the very bottom of the wiki article. You can see even more disparity. And the only reason I bring this up is that some counties in the USA are bigger than entire as countries in the EU. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-counties-in-the-united-states-by-total-area.html

There is issues with getting infrastructure EVERYWHERE when the country is just so damn big and sparse.

Edit2: I should clarify that I don’t doubt that the EU overall is better off… Mostly because being fat is a huge problem in the USA that is much less prevalent than the EU overall. But just clumping shit willy nilly is exactly what I was referencing… Mississippi vs California is a world of difference.

Most Europeans have a poor understanding of what the USA looks like as well… Turns out that most people have no idea what most of the rest of the world looks like! This could even mean inside of their own country! The USA is quite large and very much varied.

Okay? And that is equally bad. What’s the point? We should be striving for less IMO.

Now realize those things are internet connected… and that video was definitely uploaded.

I rather not need mass surveillance to buy a fucking snickers.

Eh… “Fuck” is just a filler word for most New York Natives in general.

and former army member himself.

Marine Corp

These checkpoints are illegal in all of the US.

No they’re not.

https://rdslaw.com/are-police-checkpoints-legal-what-about-my-miranda-rights/

A checkpoint is legal if it is for a valid, specified purpose such as checking compliance with motor vehicle laws, checking for possession of a valid license and registration, or checking the driver’s sobriety.

As long as they check ALL vehicles (not targeting) for licenses as an example… They can carry out additional actions as they find them. So in your little town they can setup a checkpoint, check that everyone has a valid drivers license… And if they find an “illegal” or believe that you may be transporting “illegals” that can evolve into a terry stop, especially in stop and identify states.

Now, I think there are a few states that are more strict on the matter… but certainly not illegal in “all” of the US.

Additional sources:
https://legal-info.lawyers.com/criminal/traffic-violations/law-enforcement-checkpoints-and-roadblocks-are-they-legal.html

when the doors should always be manual in the first place

Eh… I like the way Ford (I think? I could be misremembering) is doing it. Pull on the handle a little bit to do electronic. Yank it all the way to override and do it manually. One handle… And in the case of “emergency” your instinct is literally what is expected… Yank the shit out of the handle… door will open.

The m50 is a full face mask…

Plus your original claim was that razor bumps would negatively impact the fit, not short length beards. You’re moving the goalposts.

No it wasn’t… but you go ahead and keep lying to yourself. You can scroll up and read it for yourself.

And to preempt an argument… “there’s no study that says beards/razor bumps interfere with gas masks”… There are. Most of them say minimal beards/hair is fine (less than 1/16th of an inch) to get a mask seal, where 1/8 can already lead to issues. But it’s understudied. The risk of getting it wrong is people’s lives.

Note that the quoted section is not “me” saying it, but a response to that general topic/discussion.

But we’ve already discussed this ad nauseam, so you can stop following me around now.

Yeah it wasn’t an OSHA study that I was referencing…

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29283316

With military articles like https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-beards-break-gas-mask-seal/ stating

The 2018 study showed that facial hair negatively influences the fit factor for half-face negative-pressure respirators as the hair gets longer and more dense. However, beard-wearers can still “achieve adequate fit factor scores even with substantial facial hair in the face seal area,” the study authors wrote. In fact, 98% of the study participants who had an eighth-inch of beard passed the fit test. Those results are encouraging because the respirators used in the study are pretty close to the M-50 gas masks used in the military today in terms of material and fit, Ritchie said.

So 2 out of 100 people using masks that are relatively similar to the military M50 would be at risk at 1/8th inch beard. Which is not a whole lot of hair… Like 3-4 days of growth (for me). 1/16 or less seemed to be 100% rates… But the big caveat here is that the fit-test doesn’t adequately capture the rigor and activity that one might do in the military… So it seems logical that much more leakage will happen at every level.

But OSHA, ANSI, every branch of the DoD, and every study (though minimal) agrees with the fact that beard hair in of itself is a no go.

Example navy document… https://www.med.navy.mil/Portals/62/Documents/NMFA/NMCPHC/root/Industrial Hygiene/RESPIRATOR-SPECIAL-PROBLEMS.pdf?ver=Ng19UESJUtWmwvoHSABW-w%3D%3D There’s a fun graph on table 2.

Eh one person being crazy isn’t personal… I get there’s crazies out there.

It’s all good… Just wild that someone can in one breath claim there’s reading comprehension issues then in the next sentence quote the regulation that proves them wrong thinking they’re right…

It’s scary that people like them are touching chemicals (according to them). Literally just now…

OSHA doesn’t care as long as it does not impede function of the seal.

Then quotes “respirators shall not be worn when facial hair comes between the sealing surface of the facepiece and the face” and completely misses the fact that ANY amount of hair would come between the sealing surface and the face… This is the inside of the mask, the red is the areas that touch/seal against your face… The entire chin/cheek area would be touching hair.

I’m actually just disappointed in myself that it took me so long to realize that the discussion just wasn’t going to go anywhere…

It’s funny because Canada ALSO looked into the same stuff… and apparently came to the same conclusion that something else has to be used to get a sufficient seal. But Noooo! I must be wrong!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bpNKS-W0xDQ

Their answer was to just add an entire fucking hood to create a snug fit around the neck… Not sure I’m a fan of that… But even in this video some of those beards are pretty short.