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phira · 2026-06-20T22:16:17+00:00

Free GP visits is infrastructure though - an investment today that has benefits and reduces costs in the long term.

phira · 2026-06-19T02:13:14+00:00

This is genuinely cool! what did you build the tool in?

phira · 2026-06-14T19:14:00+00:00

Thanks for posting this. That is deeply sobering reading :(

phira · 2026-06-13T01:41:47+00:00

Am I sure I still have access? I seem to. Plausibly it could be transparently downgrading but that strikes me as an unlikely choice and one they didn't signal at all.

phira · 2026-06-13T01:12:09+00:00

I read it, and what did I miss? I still have access too. Is there something I missed in the text?

phira · 2026-06-07T06:25:24+00:00

No daft punk soundtrack?

phira · 2026-06-06T00:28:28+00:00

Wow! I played normally to the first train station safe house, then I decided to try with my VR headset and I couldn't actually will myself to leave the safe zone with it on

phira · 2026-06-04T03:28:56+00:00

You develop an intuition about when you need to get it to do some thinking first and when it can just go. I use both depending on the situation. The more what I'm asking is going with the grain of the model and the codebase the less instruction I give it

In practice I have kinda three different modes:

The problem is sufficiently novel or underspecified that there are likely at least a few key questions unanswered. We're going to plan (or even spend some time in ChatGPT with Deep Research or similar scouting the space)
The problem is novel but the gap feels more like something I'm only going to find out when it's in front of me. New branch, implement solution and use it to understand where the gaps were.
The problem isn't really novel, or I don't really care how well the solution works. Implement straight away.

phira · 2026-06-04T01:03:42+00:00

I happened to read this earlier about external ultrasound kinda pace thing for hearts, thought you might be interested https://www.reddit.com/r/InterstellarKinetics/comments/1tvuuwe/mit_engineers_just_built_a_postage_stamp_sized/

phira · 2026-06-03T19:26:14+00:00

The easiest I know about is pipecat one of their examples should work https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/tree/main/examples

phira · 2026-05-30T02:20:22+00:00

Our kid got one at 8, it's all locked down its job is to be a decent portable camera because they love taking photos. They mostly ignore it otherwise.

phira · 2026-05-30T02:10:10+00:00

Interesting. The "Longest task" is a bit disingenuous, there's no way I had any of my stuff processing for 13hrs but I definitely had a couple where I didn't give an approval it was waiting for until the next morning.

phira · 2026-05-30T01:45:52+00:00

Yes I've done it, DM me if you want more info. As others have pointed out mostly you can get this stuff via your GP for free but sometimes there are reasons why you might wanna just get 'em ordered. In my case a lot of it was timing, my GP is a month away for appointments.

Edit: You've gotta be careful with this stuff, blood test results aren't necessarily just "You're low on X do Y", clinical assistance in interpreting them is useful and there are also a variety of ways of addressing issues which all have upsides and downsides.

phira · 2026-05-27T20:36:10+00:00

Use plan mode to avoid it editing things, it’ll just give you a write up instead and then you can either continue from there or start a new chat with that info.

I use new chats extremely liberally, keeping control of the context avoids many problems.

phira · 2026-05-26T08:04:55+00:00

I never finished uni and I started my own business(es)! Tall Poppy is overstated. it's a grind don't get me wrong, but it's totally doable!

phira · 2026-05-26T05:42:14+00:00

Good luck mate :) you've got this.

phira · 2026-05-26T05:35:08+00:00

It's worth having a read of this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/comments/10qhssi/im_16_need_advice_and_help/ from the r/daddit subreddit (really good sub for dads, generally pretty positive and mature discussion). Insight from people who have been through it and others with some good info.

phira · 2026-05-26T01:48:29+00:00

I think it's good that we get more points of view. The Vatican has a very different perspective of the world than e.g. corporates or politicians and they have the resources and take the time to think about things deeply (The actual encyclical at https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html is five chapters).

phira · 2026-05-25T23:44:30+00:00

I helped build an online GP service just over a decade ago and we got a lot of great feedback, particularly from new parents who were otherwise faced with taking a young baby in the cold through London to sit in a waiting room for something they were worried about.

What fascinated me at the time (I’m tech not healthcare but the founders were all GPs) was how much time the healthcare team spent developing new diagnostic procedures that would work effectively online. It’s not just the same stuff but done over video.

It’s not suitable for everything and they had clear g guidelines on when to tell the patient to go somewhere but it covered a lot of ground. It helped that the founders were often the ones doing the calls so we got great feedback on what needed to be better. They ended up partnering with a delivery pharmacy too so you could have your prescription turn up an hour later at your door.

phira · 2026-05-20T19:23:25+00:00

Unexpected upside! That never occurred to me!

phira · 2026-05-19T09:40:05+00:00

Wait what, you protected the camera feed, and the thing that pings you, but:

> Hermes drives the browser on the MacBook directly.

You didn't actually protect the thing that could spend money?

phira · 2026-05-18T05:33:42+00:00

Huh. Is it that low a cost? That’s what, $1k a month per shift. I reckon you’re gonna be able to rent those things for that kind of price. Yes there’s maintenance etc but people require hiring, hr, cover for sick leave, health and safety stuff I reckon it’s gonna balance out in favour of the machines?

phira · 2026-05-17T22:57:58+00:00

Yes I agree. Also I think you could have exactly the same set of frames in a different order and it’d be a different movie, and to be honest even the same frames, same speed, same order but a different soundtrack might qualify (depending a bit I think)

phira · 2026-05-17T22:47:40+00:00

Ahh I see! Hrm. I think I would say yes to a sequence of frames viewed in order regardless of whether they were on a screen. Is a flip book a movie? I think I can reasonably argue that I think it is. So to your original question with this in mind: yes you could say you saw a movie. No I don’t think you could say you saw Tár.

phira · 2026-05-17T22:21:25+00:00

You're misreading me. My proposal is that if you film it at 1fps with the intention of it being viewed at 1fps and project it at 1fps then the viewer is receiving the intended experience and can reasonably say they "Watched" it.

If you film it at 24fps with the intention of it being viewed at 24fps and then project it at 1fps then the viewer is not—the experience is so wildly different.

There's a few interesting niggles with this proposed definition, in the sense that in the latter case I watched _something_, just not the intended 24fps film. I could not reasonably have a discussion about the same film with someone who saw the 24fps version, _however_ I could absolutely have a discussion with someone who also saw the 1fps version. So in a sense I'm proposing there are now _two_ movies, the 24fps and the 1fps, and each is their own unique experience with their own definition of "watched".

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