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by mandevil 2y ago
The Canadian's had their own counter plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1 It would have been a gigantic failure. The plan was to try and mobilize quickly, seize Buffalo, Detroit and Seattle, an
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by mandevil 2y ago
If a "Japanese agricultural official" is not claiming that Japan produces the best-tasting rice in the world, he is failing at his job! His job is to promote Japanese agriculture, at home and abroad. As you say, there are differen
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by mandevil 2y ago
If only we lived in a world where this was true. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
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I interviewed with a company that built a Electronic Medical Records system optimized for cancer treatment, licensed it for cheap, then took the data and paid for medical professionals to spend time normalizing the free-text notes data from
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The theory of police since Sir Robert Peel created the Met has been that the links between the police and the community they serve are the most important thing. It is the connection between the force and the people that provides them with t
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Talking to an informant or source. Having that recorded might make them vulnerable to retaliation or more reluctant to talk to the police because of the fear of retaliation.
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What country other than the UK is going to want their national security and prestige earth observing satellites to be launched from the UK? Especially one that is okay with doing it from the UK but not the US, which has rather more experien
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The Norwegians have had a sounding rocket launch site at Andoya at 69N for decades- perfect for studying the sun- and are talking about trying to turn it into a sun-sync earth observing micro-satellite launch point. I honestly don't kn
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by mandevil 2y ago
This might have been true back in the 1970s, but at least as far as current development goes, is not. The only new (non-Russian) European design built in the past 15 years is the EPR at 1600 MW. The only new American design built in the pas
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by mandevil 2y ago
I try and re-read Fred Brooks' _Mythical Man Month_ every year or two. That is a short series of essays that I seem to always find a "new" idea from. My most recent re-read the line that stuck with me was "plan to throw
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by mandevil 2y ago
That's the number of hours it took to do all of the paperwork necessary for the acquisition, times the hourly rates charged to the government (as a general rule for USG cost-plus contracts, 1.5x the developer salary to cover benefits,
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by mandevil 2y ago
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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My wife (1) says that is largely true too here in the US, that independent pharmacies are getting hammered on reimbursement rates and dropping like flies. But the NYTimes article says that the total number of pharmacies has stayed relativel
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by mandevil 2y ago
Pharmacies have strict requirements for drug storage and the like (source: wife is a pharmacist). It is possible that being adapted for a big pharmacy makes a space unsuitable for other uses? As the article points out, the big box pharmacie
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by mandevil 2y ago
Under these circumstances, it is appropriate to ask who is the customer. Then presume that the company is trying its best to make the customer happy. Apple has clearly defined that the customer for the "default search engine selection
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by mandevil 2y ago
According to sworn testimony, Apple got over 20 billion dollars from Google in 2022. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/google-s-...
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The Ruhrstall X-4 [1] had five and a half kilometers of wire 80 years ago, along with a 20kg warhead and an acoustic proximity fuse. 1: Never deployed operationally Luftwaffe wunderwaffen, first tested in August 1944, wire-guided air-to-air
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by mandevil 2y ago
Euripedes fragments or Eumenides fragments!
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Ideally you have several vents perpendicular to the orbital path and open them at the same time, so the vectors cancel out. That's the happy case. If, because we are in the sad case, we can't get that, it's still better to ha
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by mandevil 2y ago
The US plan for new warheads- the Reliable Replacement Warhead- was killed by Obama in 2009. (There are minor improvements like the Mod 12 version of the B61 is under production, which is really a remaking of the Mod 4 version, stuff like t
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by mandevil 2y ago
And make sure that even in the most unhappy cases, you vent your tanks! Vent vent vent vent! Tank explosions are where the really nasty debris numbers come from.
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I don't know what Pyxis runs on, my wife is the pharmacist and she doesn't recognize UI package differences with the same practiced eye that I do. And she didn't mention problems with the Pyxis. Just problems with some of the
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by mandevil 2y ago
So how does a doctor issue a discharge order via e-prescription to the patients pharmacy for them to pick up when they leave? How do you update the badge readers on the drug vaults when an employee leaves and you need to deactivate their ba
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by mandevil 2y ago
Siemens or GE or whomever built the MRI machine aren't really experts in operating systems, so they just use one that everyone knows how to work, MS Windiows. It's unfortunate that to do things necessary for modern medicine they n
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by mandevil 2y ago
A hospital my wife worked at over a decade ago didn't use EMR's, it was all on paper. Each patient had a binder. Per stay. And for many of them it rolled into another binder. (This was neuro-ICU so generally lengthy patient stays
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by mandevil 2y ago
By "decentralized" I think you mean "doesn't auto-update with new definitions"? I have worked at places which controlled the roll-out of new security updates (and windows updates) for this very reason. If you invest
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Have you ever tried to airgap a gigantic wifi network across several buildings? Has to be wifi because the carts the nurses use roll around. Has to be networked so you can have EMR's that keep track of what your patients have gotten an
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by mandevil 2y ago
My wife is a hospital pharmacist. (1) When she gets a new prescription in, she needs to see the patients charts on the electronic medical records, and then if she approves the medication a drawer in the Pyxis cabinet (2) will open up when a
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Crowdstrike is on every machine in the hospital because hospitals and medical centers became a big target for ransomware a few years ago. This forced medical centers to get insured against loss of business and getting their data back. The i
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In theory, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (who controls interest rates) is supposed to be insulated from political pressures: one explanation for the root of the "stagflation" malaise in the US economy during the 1970's

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