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by mcshicks 6y ago
Yeah I agree the name is misleading and it doesn't cover all situations. My specific situation both times was ER rooms with out of network doctors, but I agree that there can be many other situations where the law is not that helpful.
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by mcshicks 6y ago
California has such a law already. I went to an ER at the beginning of the year for a minor fracture and had a "contract physician". I was pleasantly surprised when the bill was exactly my er visit copay. I had an equally unple
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by mcshicks 6y ago
I found these videos from eevblog extremely helpful when I setup my home lab after working as an EE for many years but never really learning to solder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Sb21qbpEQ
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by mcshicks 6y ago
I was wondering the same thing. But I also wonder if having good guesses makes the x-ray crystallography and other experiments to verify a given protein easier/cheaper/quicker? I don't know enough about the actual technique
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by mcshicks 6y ago
I have a friend who a few months wanted to automate/remote control a water pump at his cabin and monitor his solar system and batteries. He has internet connectivity there but otherwise is off the grid. So I thought okay, raspberry p
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by mcshicks 6y ago
Yeah we had a tandy 102 that was my dad's and that was the first thing I thought when I looked at it. It was a fun little computer my son used to write basic programs on it.
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by mcshicks 6y ago
I had been thinking about this issue from before the US elections, had found a web article about this bill and wrote my local congressman right after he won his reelection. I think have the government issue digital IDs would be a big step
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by mcshicks 6y ago
Was he there? I watched for a few minutes and it just seemed like it was Guliani bringing poll watchers to say how they felt their rights to observe was infringed.
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by mcshicks 6y ago
That's actually the "reasonably" part. The BT keyboard mapping is not completely perfect for a few corner cases (I think alt-space was one?). Hackers keyboard is OK for small tasks. You might try a small USB keyboard and U
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by mcshicks 6y ago
I use it for emacs, mostly org mode on my phone. It works reasonably well with a small bluetooth keyboard.
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by mcshicks 6y ago
That's awesome!
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by mcshicks 6y ago
If you like this you might like the python code club stuff over at raspberrypi.org. Before covid I (volunteer) taught raspberry pi and arduino classes at our local library. For python on raspberry pi, I did a class based on turtle graphic
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Push for Digital ID Tech Spurred by Pandemic(news.bloomberglaw.com)
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by mcshicks 6y ago
Stuck at home with more time on my hands I've been rereading a lot of old sf. I just finished the last of John Twelve Hawk's 4th realm trilogy which has a modern technological Panopticon society as it's central theme. While
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by mcshicks 6y ago
My wife works at our local science museum. It's very tough for them, even in good times a lot of museums scramble for funding. They were able to reopen for a few days and then shut down again. They did PPE loans so all of the employ
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by mcshicks 6y ago
The guy asked me no questions and just said make a service request. I figured they already knew there was nothing to do and just trying to close the chat as quickly as possible.
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by mcshicks 6y ago
I thought about that, but when I looked it seemed like you needed to use the menu to do it, and since it resets about every 5 seconds I don't think it's feasible to actually use the menu. I could get the one I had to open/cl
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by mcshicks 6y ago
Ha! This happened to mine yesterday, spent an hour doing all the resets, googling, did a quick worthless chat with samsung support. I ended up just going to Target and buying a Sony Blu Ray Player. I told my wife maybe somebody might post
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by mcshicks 6y ago
I've been an org mode user since 2012. When I started using it, I was learning emacs at the same time, really didn't know anything about lisp. But I had used a lot of other organizational systems going back to palm pilot days, I
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by mcshicks 6y ago
While it's not quick I am wondering if the uncensored data would be available under freedom of information type laws.
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by mcshicks 6y ago
If you like those kinds of things, check out the tinkering studio page from the San Francisco Exploratorium. My wife works at a similar space in our local science museum (shut down now) and a lot of them are trying to see what they can do
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by mcshicks 7y ago
It's kind of far down in the page so I missed it the first time I scanned it. "We are working around the clock to finalise our protocol reference documents and reference implementation, to open source what we have built, so that o
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I started using zotero after reading about it in the nytimes, I guess it's about 11 years ago. I'm pretty sure it's this article, because its the same date as the first book I added. https://opinionator.blogs.nyt
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I use a dedicated olympus voice recorder. I have an activity that means I have a recurring need to make voice notes on my drive back from it. The voice recorder is great because it's easy to operate by touch as opposed to a touch sc
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I have used emacs on linux before and it's fine. However I don't know how well it works with non standard arduinos like atttiny. I can't remember the exact write-up I used but I just googled emacs arduino.
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I raised my kids without cable or broadcast tv, and they had limited access to computer games. However I did have a tv, later a digital projector and we would watch vhs tapes and dvds. They had a tandy 102 they could play with as much as
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by mcshicks 7y ago
For those in the US, also groundhog day and superbowl sunday (american football championship).
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I sort of agree, except with this exception. I use to go to Career fairs, but not for full time hires, but for paid internships. I worked at a big company, and I had complete control over who I hired as an intern. I was able to find many
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I'm a Zen student and we offer 1 week retreats for around $50 a day for non members. However we have very limited space, we prioritize members or past participants so we are not in general able to offer it to people we don't know
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by mcshicks 7y ago
"and Jeffrey Epstein, who recently endowed The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University which is involved in researching applications of mathematics and computer science to biology."

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