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by jnovek 3y ago
> if your insurance company isn't going to reimburse you for an app that is classed as a medical device they definitely aren't going to reimburse you for other kinds of apps that are not approved. Insurance companies are loathe
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by jnovek 3y ago
Compliance review? Like HIPAA? Or are you referring to FDA approval? As someone with a chronic medical condition, my experience is that software approved by the FDA are often prohibitively expensive (they are considered medical devices) a
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If I understand the situation correctly, most of the chips in short supply use old fab processes which are not Intel's specialty.
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by jnovek 4y ago
This happened to me, exactly as the article predicts. By the time we started paying ourselves (I was the CTO) a reasonable salary, I was so burned out that I left not long after. I'm surprised that 13 years later this is still a topic
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by jnovek 4y ago
I use leaded solder and have for years but I’d love to replace it with something less toxic. The trouble is that lead-free solders I’ve tried require high temp and flow very differently from leaded solder. Does SAC305 (for example) flow an
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by jnovek 4y ago
That’s a nice sentiment, but it’s not very actionable.
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by jnovek 4y ago
Just lower the amount of means testing for programs like SSDI. I’m not even advocating for getting rid of means testing, just make it less onerous. It’s incredibly difficult to navigate and, ironically, puts a lot of pressure on people w
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by jnovek 4y ago
Unemployment is a completely different beast from all of our other social programs in the US. In a relative sense, it’s brainlessly easy to get on unemployment. Lumping all social programs together and pointing out the one with the biggest
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by jnovek 4y ago
First: I’m sorry about your son’s experience. My impression is that something like a court appearance would be overwhelming for even an autistic individual with lower support needs. This is pretty much where I left off with social security
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by jnovek 4y ago
$20,610 is ~$1717/mo. I’ve been poor. I deal with chronic pain and, for a long while, it rendered me unable to work. First: $1717 is a very low amount of money to live on. I covered my costs in about $1200/mo while I received fro
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by jnovek 4y ago
I would love a new Steam Controller fashioned after the layout on the Deck.
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by jnovek 4y ago
I’m a hobbyist and I’ve tried to pick up kicad but found it absolutely overwhelming. Any tips on how to get started?
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by jnovek 4y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I didn't mean it quite that literally. More like, in the same way that compilers fundamentally changed how we program by adding a layer of (deterministic) abstraction, natural language a
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by jnovek 4y ago
I didn't realize that Google is paying nearly half a million dollars a year for VFX artists these days.
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by jnovek 4y ago
According to academic friends of mine, tools like ZeroGPT still have too much noise in the signal to be viable way to catch cheaters. It seems to be better than these short form pieces or content, but if even if it’s “only” 80% accurate, s
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by jnovek 4y ago
One hypothesis I have is that the future of programming is natural language and the “compiler” is a LLM. This would be no different from the days when C took over for asm.
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by jnovek 4y ago
Do you have evidence to back these claims? Specifically that AI will be replacing software engineers any time soon and that Copilot exists explicitly to gather data towards that purpose.
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by jnovek 4y ago
I had a Visual Pinball cab in my living room for a few years and I would tweak the emulated machines to get close to gameplay on real games that I could play nearby. I could get it pretty close -- certainly enough to learn the ruleset and
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by jnovek 4y ago
I was a regular at Pinballz for 5 or 6 years. I love it and it's one of the number one things I miss from Austin. They maintain a great selection of games and they route a lot of games around town as well. Pins at Pinballz get a lot
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by jnovek 4y ago
Psst seems to be missing a lot of basic functionality at this point. E.g. you can't reorder albums, they are presented in the order they were added to your library. It's promising but I can't see myself using it day-to-day
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by jnovek 4y ago
Oh, I'm with you on this one. Antibiotics and opioids are special categories when it comes to overprescription. On the bright side, I think in recent years American doctors have been much better about waiting until an infection is lik
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by jnovek 4y ago
I understand where you’re coming from because our medical system IS lazy and DOES overprescribe, but the knee-jerky “pills bad” thing is frustrating for those of us who are necessarily on a lot of medications. This cultural phenomenon has r
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by jnovek 4y ago
This is a neat little box, but pre-soldered ones seem to be only available on the used market. There are bare PCBs out there, but I’m not very confident with SMD parts. This is the thing that bums me out with DIY audio: people come up with
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by jnovek 4y ago
I’ve been playing through my ARPG backlog on Steam Deck. Is there a particular game you’re curious about?
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by jnovek 4y ago
I’m in the same boat and contemporary headache research doesn’t have any clues yet (aside from the fact that it’s a real phenomenon and we’re not crazy) although it is an area of active research. I can usually tell by intuition if weather i
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by jnovek 4y ago
Thanks for the heads-up! It's not quite as nice as it was in Dark Sky, but I will give this a try.
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by jnovek 4y ago
This (and every other Dark Sky replacement I've tried) is missing one feature that is crucial to me: hour-by-hour barometric pressure forecast. I get frequent migraines and big changes in the weather trigger them. The easiest way to p
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by jnovek 4y ago
I responded to this in another comment; TL;DR I believe you're looking at the wrong paragraph in the article. The first approval is done by the Pricing Advisor (an employee of RealPage) and a second approval is done by a manager at the
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by jnovek 4y ago
Wrong paragraph, look at the one above it: > Specifically, every morning, RealPage provides participating Lessors with recommended price levels. Lessors typically must communicate to a RealPage “Pricing Advisor” that they have “accept[ed
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by jnovek 4y ago
In the training tools covered in the article it mentioned that it was difficult (as in, you had to contact a support rep) to set a price other than the one recommended by RealPage. By making it difficult to manually set prices, the tendenc

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