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by RachelF 5y ago
Patients will normally get multiple scripts per year. A typical script might only provide one month's worth of medication, perhaps with 3 to 6 "repeats" before needing a new script.
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by RachelF 5y ago
I miss CodePlex, there was much useful source code there, and most of what I'm looking for now has not been migrated anywhere. Sad.
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by RachelF 5y ago
> I have had to explain to people tons of times that the random word in the UI somewhere in an application is actually a button they can press to invoke an action. Exactly this. I often help others use computers and phones. In the old da
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People Are Quitting Full-Time Jobs for Contract Work–and Making Six Figures(wsj.com)
3 points by RachelF 5y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 5y ago
Microsoft will be copying this for Windows 12 ;-)
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by RachelF 5y ago
The interesting thing here is how little difference DRAM access speed makes. AMD is probably getting 70GB/s while the M1's on chiplet DRAM is 3 to 6x the speed.
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by RachelF 5y ago
...that and the lack of any real competition Nothing focusses the mind like a real competitor.
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by RachelF 5y ago
The AMD parts are already running close to max. You can squeeze a few percent more out of them, overclocking like in the old days is out of the question.
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by RachelF 5y ago
MS is pushing it's cloud version of Office heavily. I doubt there will be a desktop version by then, and if there is it will not have all the features of the Cloud 365 version. Azure and AWS already can bill by the second.
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FreeDOS puts out first new version in six years(theregister.com)
2 points by RachelF 5y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 5y ago
Aaron Swartz also has good insights not in this article: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
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by RachelF 5y ago
And avoid their SSD's too with the the 980 Pro, Samsung has just changed the components but kept the same model number. Samsung have removed the Elpis controller from the 980 PRO SSD and replaced it with an unknown one, and also remove
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by RachelF 5y ago
Another reason to avoid Samsung: New Samsung phones are almost impossible to root.
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by RachelF 5y ago
The desktop Google Drive client actually stores the the file and sync info into a SQLite file.
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by RachelF 5y ago
Thanks for fixing that link.
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by RachelF 5y ago
And watch out with the 980 Pro, Samsung has just changed the components. Samsung have removed the Elpis controller from the 980 PRO and replaced it with an unknown one, and also removed any speed reference from the spec sheet. Take a look h
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by RachelF 5y ago
Indeed, people have got used to running their stuff on other people's machines.
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Malware gang plants incriminating evidence on PCs, gets victims arrested(theregister.com)
18 points by RachelF 5y ago|2 comments
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by RachelF 5y ago
There's always https://www.android-x86.org/ You can run a full-featured Android on any VM on a PC or Mac.
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by RachelF 5y ago
Scientific American has been in decline since their 2003 hit pieces against environmentalist Bjorn Lomberg. All ad-hominem attacks, no science or logic. Sadly this has infected other publications: Last week The Economist did not do an offic
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After 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers(theregister.com)
80 points by RachelF 5y ago|9 comments
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by RachelF 5y ago
Yes, unfortunately most of them didn't make it. There was also talk of replacing most of the file system with a database, something which they played with for years and then discarded.
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by RachelF 5y ago
You can use something like Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com which supports encryption/decryption on the fly to Google Drive
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by RachelF 5y ago
Total Commander Ultima Prime is even better: https://www.tcup.pl/index.php/en/
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by RachelF 5y ago
If you looked at the code for the old XP Notepad, it was the Windows standard text entry control resized to full screen.
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America Is Running on Fumes(theatlantic.com)
5 points by RachelF 5y ago|2 comments
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by RachelF 5y ago
Pity most phone manufacturers have got rid of the headphone jack in their recent models.
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by RachelF 5y ago
I guess when the pilot falls out they will be called "The Jetisoned One" ;-)
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by RachelF 5y ago
Another trick is to post the job on Linkedin - for one minute. I've seen a few job ads that are active from 11:59-12:00
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US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief(ndtv.com)
3 points by RachelF 5y ago|0 comments

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