KingPrad

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by KingPrad 6y ago
I've handled 2 calls (and missed a few others). 1. Woman asking what color a sweater was, to confirm its color. Was maybe a 30 second call. 2. Teenager with a box of paint supplies wondering if the box has an expiration date, since the
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by KingPrad 6y ago
In the US, asbestos litigation has a special system where lots of companies are named in each suit, then they compete to eliminate themselves as the main contributors to the person's ailments. For example, if a person did a brake job i
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by KingPrad 6y ago
Lucerna Health | Senior Python engineers | ONSITE | Salt Lake City, UT | https://lucernahealth.com Help us build and scale our healthcare data pipeline and build analytical tooling. We provide software that helps healthcare orga
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by KingPrad 7y ago
Yes. Napa and other brake manufacturers are called into lots of mesothelioma trials. Brake pad exposure is usually smaller contributors to such cases. That is, the victim often had much worse exposure other places, but they still look at ho
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by KingPrad 7y ago
A podcast, think it was Stuff to Blow Your Mind, did a podcast on the Guinea Worm and talked about this at length. The worm is wildly infectious. Every incident requires immediate deployment of teams of people to control it or it explodes w
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by KingPrad 7y ago
Stuff to Blow Your Mind - nice depth of dive into many topics with some humor, not taking itself too seriously. And the hosts have pleasant voices.
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by KingPrad 7y ago
Indeed! This was mentioned in David Brin's book "Earth". It discussed tracking mosquitoes with vision or radar or something and using lasers to zap them. The interesting bit was only zapping dangerous types of mosquitoes, bas
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by KingPrad 7y ago
This type of "low tech" idea seems like the kind of thing Google, Yelp, and all the other big companies should be doing a better job with. I have celiac and presumably Google has figured that out by now (or could, if they spent so
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by KingPrad 7y ago
Geez, they identified the company I work for as well. It's unsettling.
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by KingPrad 8y ago
Same here - my insurance stayed exactly the same going from a 2010 Nissan Altima to a new Tesla Model 3.
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by KingPrad 8y ago
I'm American and have mixed feelings on this. National Parks can definitely be massive operations during the summer months so I understand charging a fee. But it also removes this public good from the poor and I think that's wrong
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by KingPrad 8y ago
My first encounter with a "just 10 more years" projection was while writing a paper on zinc in middle school. My reference book about mining and metallurgy discussed declining reserves and that the world would be entirely out of
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by KingPrad 8y ago
I also think our hands could do more in keyboard position. Lift off slightly and gestures could be recognized by a camera, even things like 2-finger scrolling could be done by lifting the fingers slightly and doing it. Same with pinch-zoom
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by KingPrad 8y ago
From Chrome (and maybe Firefox) you can export an extension to a local folder and view the source. Also, many are on github that you can check out and play with. Find one that does something very simple and tinker, first just changing some
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by KingPrad 9y ago
The tricks discussed in CERT classes (which are well worth taking - very interesting material) is to go to back of store because few people think to. Same with concerts and other events - people instinctively run to the entrance in which th
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by KingPrad 9y ago
Have you read "The Rosie Project"? It explored some similar ideas as a fun novel.
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by KingPrad 9y ago
That's a good point about long past experience shading future interactions, but I don't feel it exempts from harsh judgment. The ability to consider individuals separately from some of their membership groups is a core skill of be
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by KingPrad 9y ago
Most clinical documentation in EHRs is template based with lots of boilerplate into which key words and phrases are dropped. And some template sections are free text, enabling highly customizable final documentation.
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by KingPrad 9y ago
I disagree that version control is inappropriate. I worked for a company whose primary product was tracking government legislation through a database built on Subversion. (acted as a DB but used Subversion for a variety of reasons. I know i
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by KingPrad 9y ago
Possibly "Axiomatic", a short story collection. It has incredible material.
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by KingPrad 9y ago
I went to high school with a fellow like Shkreli and with same story: rising fortunes, financial lying, fraud, conviction. Same traits as above, though unlike Shkreli this guy was extremely personable and likable. He was just a congenital l
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by KingPrad 9y ago
weird! The lockered one at our complex is really slick. A room with an ipad and camera is bizarre.
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by KingPrad 9y ago
It's true, TVs don't have the same experience the painting. However, they enable a lot of other abilities that let you experience art in a very different way. With a 4K screen (even the super-cheap one I bought 3 years ago) and su
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by KingPrad 9y ago
That's essentially the idea of what we were building. Ran out of time due to moving and job change, but I had that working great on Chromecast. Chromecast at least then was awfully clunky though. For some demos I used cheap Android-pow
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by KingPrad 9y ago
Art software startups are a tough proposition. Google invests heavily in art and offers it on Chromecast as a screensaver. Amazon does the same on Fire Stick. Neither is customizable nor allows any interaction and discovery, but it's j
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by KingPrad 9y ago
Thank you for the reference. I look forward to reading this.