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  • I’m a live and let-live type (as well as a former TCH employee), and fully support anyone who wants to detransition for whatever reason.

    Yet there is simply zero need for a dedicated program at the end of the day — this is raw fascist political theater. Any run-of-the-mill pediatric endo and mental health provider are typically sufficient. It’s not that medically complex to go in reverse; you’re just trying to kickstart the HPGA back into gear and let endogenous hormones resume.

    Devil’s advocate: Maybe this new group could treat a few weird cases where a kid was intersex and did have some corrective surgery they want undone? But nope, Texas Children’s already has a dedicated team of world-class urogenital anomaly specialists who are exactly the people you’d want for that.






  • dgdft@lemmy.worldtopics@lemmy.worldJewel Wasps (probably not!)
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    1 month ago

    Given the location, these guys aren’t that particular cockroach-eating species, but they’re probably a similar parasitoid of some flavor (chrysididae).

    E: After digging through some regional entomology references, I’m thinking these are blue mud daubers due to the elongated body and abdomen shape.



  • Not really.

    It’s all about the rate of change: neoliberal globalization has brought down wages across industries, so fewer good jobs are left, and the not-so-good ones barely keep up the same standard of living.

    From a neutral historical perspective, some serious pearl-clutching about jobs is not ill-founded.

    As you say, people in the past facing these circumstances didn’t all commit suicide. Yet some did it explicitly, some did it indirectly with alcohol or other vices, others just lived less fulfilling lives than they otherwise would have. Nonetheless, we are very much encouraging deaths of despair en masse with our current societal outlook.








  • You think there’s a market for something like this?

    Not to be too facetious… but it’s called SMB consulting, homie.

    What anyone in that industry will tell you is that it’s extremely sink or swim, and the hard part is finding reliable clients willing to pay you appropriately.

    If you really wanna go that route, start by registering an LLC and putting together your shared template you wanna build from. Wouldn’t recommend going all-in until you have a few steady clients on your roster, but you can certainly dip your toes in without much headache to see if it’s something you like.





  • dgdft@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.devI just tried vibe coding with Claude
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    2 months ago

    Vibe coding, in the sense of telling the model to make codebase changes, then directly using the output produced, is 100% marketing bullshit that does not scale beyond toy examples.

    Here’s the rub: Claude is extremely useful as an advanced autocomplete, if and only if you’re guiding it architecturally through every task it runs, and you vet + revise the output yourself between iterations. You cannot effectively pilot entirely from chat in a mature codebase, and you must compile robust documentation and instructions for Claude to know how to work with your codebase.

    You also must aggressively manage information in the context window yourself and keep it clean. You mentioned going in circles trying to get the robot to correct itself: huge mistake. Rewind to before the error, and give it better instructions to steer it away from the pitfall it fell into. Same vein, you also need to reset ASAP after pushing into the >100k token mark, because the models start melting into putty soon after (yes, even the “extended” 1M-window ones).

    I’m someone who has massively benefited from using modern LLMs in my work, but I’m also a massive hater at the same time: They’re just a tool, not magic, and have to be used with great care and attention to get reasonable results. You absolutely cannot delegate your thinking to them, because it will bite you, hard and fast.

    For your use case (3D math), what I recommend is decomposing your end goal into a series of pure functions that you’ll string together. Once you have that list, that’s where Claude comes in. Have it stub those functions for you, then have it implement them one at a time, reviewing the output of every one before proceeding.