We’re going with a bit of both: time limits and exclusion, and an explanation why.

It looks like an offline tool that reviews existing medical records to find indicators of addiction:

Overall, the AI screener was as effective as provider-only assessments in leading to addiction specialist consultations. However, those who received AI screening were 47% less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after initial discharge.

The team calculated that each readmission avoided saved about $6,800 in health care costs during the study period. The findings suggest that investment in AI could help to increase access to addiction treatment, improve efficiencies, and save costs.

That’d track

Google cut nearly a thousand other employees in its Pixel, Nest, Fitbit and Voice Assistant units in January this year, while it cut “only a few teams” in its Cloud Computing division in February. The largest round of cuts came in early 2023 when Google’s parent firm Alphabet announced it would cut 12 000 jobs, or six percent of its global workforce.

Ouch

They aren’t gonna leave until it’s untenable here.

Postcrime will be there?

Precrime will be here!

and “enters” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

My machine is not a workhorse. I got it second hand. It has around 8gb of RAM, and an 80gb HDD I found in a laptop.

But it’s enough to work as a testbed, so it’s fine with me.

I’ve finally powered on a 15 year old machine to run a bot I’ve been writing. The thing is slow as dirt and stuck behind a flakey power line network, but it’s working. I got to write my first systemd service definition, which is kind of cool.

They have fallen from grace. They have forgotten the warmth of lockmart’s love.

It happens every few days for me. I’m in Canada, fwiw. I don’t notice it being worse than usual.

however the lights are still very expensive and they make cheap rockets designed to home in directly on radar and blow it up

why do you hate momma MIC and daddy pentagon and our economy and good paying working class jobs

All existing health data and features, however, will remain free.

Perfect!

I had an elderly relative say something similar to me in the early 90s. We aren’t special. People have felt this way forever.

I’m not optimistic about the future, but I don’t think things will necessarily be that bad. Looking at child mortality rates alone, you could say that we’re leaving in a golden age. There’s a lot that’s wrong, but there’s a lot that’s okay too.

there’s always next time

gimme some of that sweet sweet protoculture, baby

I’ve worked with three incredible developers who I’d consider 10x: people who can reliably build a solution quickly, or debug problems that go deep into the OS. One would fit your description, one is a mom who shuttles her kid to after school stuff, and the other is a really nice music nerd.

Like the post states, some people are in the right place at the right time: they have the right background and temperament to do really well at their job. They don’t need to be shitty people.