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by spiffytech 1y ago
Insurance companies hold tremendous leverage over care providers, up to and including the power to effectively put them out of business on a whim. Care providers don't like picking fights with insurance companies.
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Also many Amish people engage in rules lawyering to access forbidden technology without violating the letter of the rules. And even abiding with the spirit of the rules, they use more technology than outsiders realize.
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Very soft. Elevation is nearly sea-level.
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> I generally find the numbers printed on pasta boxes for cooking time far too high: I'll set the timer for a minute below their low-end "al dente" time Interesting! I generally add three minutes to the recommended cooki
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Could you give an example of reframing a problem from totally ordered complete data to a sampled tournament? I can imagine cases amenable to sampling, but since sampled data is smaller I'm not sure why I wouldn't just sort it.
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patio11 has said something similar: the tax authorities were inclined to read "donation" as "owner's personal spending", and expected accounting and taxes to be handled accordingly. https://news.ycombinat
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I've been using Lawnchair 14 for a while now and it works well. I'm looking forward to some of the features in v15, but no complaints.
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That's fair. FWIW my city lists the mean commute time as 23.6 minutes, p90 26.6. Travel in my area is dominated by freeway arteries, so 15-ish miles each way is a fair estimate for the mean. https://raleighnc.gov/planni
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by spiffytech 1y ago
The magnitude of person-to-person variation makes it tough to get signal out of averages. I read a blogger say a 40-mile trip is exceptionally log for him, so why worry about EV range? Meanwhile we put 160 miles on our EV yesterday doing or
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by spiffytech 1y ago
To offer another option for a graphical FOSS budgeting app, I switched to https://actualbudget.org a few months back and it's great. It's like YNAB, but with less magic. Plus sophisticated features like a rules engine
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It's just a numbers game. Remember that last year[1] a crypto scammer convinced a bank CEO to embezzle $47mm, leading to the bank failing and two years in prison for the CEO. There's always someone out there who can be tricked, ev
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by spiffytech 1y ago
This is great! I sometimes have projects that could use SQLite, but they're just big enough to need a persistent job queue. Great to have an option for that. I also like that there's a dashboard. That's really important whe
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Cookies are more appropriate for whole-site or whole-session data. There's no natural segregation of "this cookie belongs to this instance of this form". You could figure that out, but the additional moving parts cut down on
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Unrelated: datastar doesn't use a two-way connection for interaction <-> updates. It uses two unconnected one-way channels: a long-lived long-lived SSE for updates, and new HTTP requests for interaction. I didn't see guidanc
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by spiffytech 1y ago
I always loved the idea of the Dotsies glyph system for coffeeshop mode. It's a font that converts the English alphabet into a compact dot notation. Never got around to becoming fluent in it, but I'd like to someday. https:/
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How did you find out? I recently bought a no-name battery pack and have no idea if it's at risk.
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> Burn it and start again Good news! The builtin Temporal API is on its way. It's widely regarded as a solid API, learning from some of the best time APIs in other languages. In terms of parsing, it looks like Temporal only accepts
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by spiffytech 1y ago
The author also started taking Lumina only 3 months ago, while supposedly it takes 1–2 years to colonize the mouth. Isn't that a very aggressive timeline for severe side effects?
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As a Bun user I don't really get segfaults anymore.
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I've had a good experience with https://kilocode.ai It integrates with VS Code, which suits my workflow better. And buying credits through them (at cost) means I can use any model I want without juggling top-ups across seve
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by spiffytech 1y ago
I want to make my own music streaming app. Fix all the UI problems, improve discovery, remember all the musical phases I went through. Unfortunately, you can't just sign up for API access to millions of songs. And the streaming apps ei
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by spiffytech 1y ago
I picked Kopia when I needed something that worked on Windows and came with a GUI. I was setting up PCs for unsophisticated users who needed to be able to do their own restores. Most OSS choices are only appropriate for technical users, and
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A breath coach told me that breathing on a timer stresses some people out instead of calming them down. E.g., people who have experienced trauma. Submitting their bodily functions to an outside force's control can be very stressful. He
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Many people find "cold turkey" to be an effective way to discontinue bad habits or addictive behaviors. It's brutal, but carrying it out is simple and binary. You can't do that with food. Your only choice is to develop m
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If you're looking for a replacement, I've been using https://reviewmeta.com for years.
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I finally let go of motorcycling when I got my MX-5 convertible. 90% of the fun, none of the hassle or worry.
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I previously enjoyed 2600 Magazine, which I see is still running. Good hacker content.
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If nothing else, hot dogs are popular in finger food settings where utensils (especially knives) may not be available.
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There's a third way things might go: on the way to "superpower for everyone", we go through an extended phase where AI is only a superpower in skilled hands. The job market bifurcates around this. People who make strong use o
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I've been using Obtainium to install Android apps from Github releases and automatically update them. It's worked great. Syncthing's .apk release files can be found here: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syn

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