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by djrogers 5y ago
> why do people need to test all the time these days? We don't! I've had to use a bunch of these lately, as you are supposed to test twice if you have symptoms and test negative the first time (yeah - read the instructions!),
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by djrogers 5y ago
> If you are sick, you have Covid In the past 2 months, at least 3 non-covid illnesses have torn through my family (flu and cold, all verified as non-COVID with multiple tests, both antigen and PCR). If we start treating every case of th
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by djrogers 5y ago
How do you plan on knowing you have COVID if you're hoarding (and this not using) the tests? The majority of cases are asymptomatic...
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by djrogers 5y ago
Varies by provider, but it's a new mandatory coverage item. My provider has a top of page callout on their homage about it...
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by djrogers 5y ago
In the US you also get 8 tests per person per month covered by insurance. It's not ideal, since you have to buy them and fill out a reimbursement form, but it's not like this is the only way we can get tests.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> An at home test is better than nothing. Is it? If there's a significant false negative rate, that will mislead people who may otherwise isolate/quarantine based on symptoms. If I feel kinda sick but test negative and need mi
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Open source developers, who work for free, are discovering they have power(techcrunch.com)
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by djrogers 5y ago
A one time grant of 4 tests for a family of 5 is better than a kick in the shins, but it's not really going to make much of a dent in the frequency that my family can test. Also there was a lot of talk about getting these out for lower
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by djrogers 5y ago
A month ago you could pick up as many as you wanted at almost any drug store, but now they're sold out everywhere, and disappear off the shelves as fast as they appear. It's the new toilet paper...
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by djrogers 5y ago
> helps us get a handle on asymptomatic cases This won't help us get a handle on asymptomatic cases - to do that, we'd have to be able to test everyone on a frequent and consistent basis. This program doesn't even cover on
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by djrogers 5y ago
Title is misleading at best.
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by djrogers 5y ago
First person pronouns aren't gendered, so even if this were a they/them using person, the darren.rogers@cybereason.com' doesn't make sense. What it did do was distract form the blog post, to the point that I stopped rea
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by djrogers 5y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
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by djrogers 5y ago
> I just buy more amazon rechargables and while it feels expensive its still a fraction of what buying non-rechargables cost over time. Putting rechargeable batteries in a toy that will likely not need a replacement for a year or more de
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by djrogers 5y ago
That works well until you have kids running around... You going to put rechargeable cells in that Elena of Avalor wand your 4 year old chases the dog with? And her talking unicorn? How about all the light sabers? In my experience, most o
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by djrogers 5y ago
> every time an iPhone user has to send a text to an Android user, they degrade the security and privacy of their own users. RCS wouldnt change that one bit.
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by djrogers 5y ago
Pretty sure you're talking about something that's not iCloud Private Relay, because if that's not the case it sounds like you're just making stuff up. First of all, Private Relay doesn't affect your grocery store&#x
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by djrogers 5y ago
I’m not a T-Mobile customer, but I am a network architect and have done some work and research on blocking and enabling iCloud private relay. It appears what’s happening here is the T-Mobile is blocking it and people have content filtering
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by djrogers 5y ago
If you drive 300Km per year , you probably shouldn't own a car.
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Moxie Marlinspike has stepped down as CEO of Signal(theverge.com)
4 points by djrogers 5y ago|0 comments
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by djrogers 5y ago
> Yes, granted, Apple could always extract (and to some extent probably is) your history directly via OS hooks, but the "Private" relay gives them a completely opaque off-device way to centrally track what everyone is visiting
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by djrogers 5y ago
> But even having more than one cup of decaf brings on the shakes and skipped beats. The caffeine microdosing adds up, I guess. You may have a problem other than a caffeine addiction. Cutting out caffeine may be the easiest/cheapest
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by djrogers 5y ago
If you look at the history of vaccinations against other diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, polio, smallpox, etc. you won't see untying like what we're seeing now - those were all able to be largely or completely eradicated. W
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by djrogers 5y ago
> The ichthyosaur is approximately 180 million years old and, with a skeleton measuring around 10 metres in length and a skull weighing approximately one tonne For the who didn't want to wade down to the 8th paragraph to find out
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by djrogers 5y ago
We tried that last year, and in 2020, and kids didn’t learn anything.
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by djrogers 5y ago
Given that guidance has said that close exposure for 10-15 minutes is required for transmission, yes - it does seem a little overboard.
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by djrogers 5y ago
What’s with the Java vulnerability warning that takes up 1/3 of my phone screen? I know about the log4j vulnerability, and this still made me think this was a pwned website trying to serve up malware…
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by djrogers 5y ago
Adding $0.10/KM (side note, why are we doing math with USD and metric distances?) isn't raising the price 'a little' - it's over a 5% increase in trucking costs. Do you think most trucking operations have much more
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by djrogers 5y ago
We've been here before isn't the same thing as 'this is fine'. The earth has had several extinction-level events in it's history - it wouldn't be 'fine' to have one again.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> Emphasis on little, I think. You must be fun at parties. > I shoot for an exact number of liters Checks out.

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