technobabbler

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by technobabbler 5y ago
I guess for context, I just don't get the brouhaha. I am fairly active and tremendously enjoy several sports, even though I'm no good at them despite years of training and effort. A large part of it may be genetics. These are just
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Reddit's business model only works because there are people willing to spend their time posting content for free. If they start charging for accounts, even a few cents, they're going to lose a lot of new users. The psychology alon
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by technobabbler 5y ago
It's almost like the browser was made by an advertising company.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Isn't there always going to be someone better due to genetics? As a cis man, I know that even if I trained 24/7 with the world's best trainers, I'd never be as good a runner as some Kenyan dude or as good a basketball pl
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by technobabbler 5y ago
This was a great read and much more detailed than this article. Thank you for sharing!
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Imagine being a pilot who also has to be a flight attendant for twenty passengers with different diets and allergies, five of whom are unreasonable to the extreme and two of whom are prone to violent outbursts, working 60 hour weeks on unpr
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Was mostly talking about nurses and other hospital staff, not the doctors. Sorry for being unclear.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Yeah, exactly. How did it get this bad? It can't just be this one nurse ignoring warnings. Reminds me of UAC on Windows, but with deadly consequences.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
The article said that after this incident the manufacturers modified the search to match at least 4 letters, not just 2. And matching the 2 required a special override mode to begin with, but apparently that was a common thing to do. I don&
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Yep. According to the article she accepted the blame and acknowledged her mistake. But there were also a bunch of systematic factors contributing to the error. The UX stuff was actually buried very deep in the article, I just thought it was
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by technobabbler 5y ago
In the US, our campaign finance is heavily corrupt. There is no public finance system so candidates beg for money anywhere they can. Our 2020 elections spent nearly 15 billion dollars between our president and our congress. Some of that mon
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Nurse faces prison for a deadly error. Her colleagues worry: Could I be next?(npr.org)
25 points by technobabbler 5y ago|54 comments
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by technobabbler 5y ago
This was a tragic case of how an overworked nurse accidentally killed a patient by administering the wrong medication with a similar name. The HN angle is that part of the error resulted from user experience design choices in the hospital&#
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by technobabbler 5y ago
...so, wait, DisplayPort is really more like DisplayProtocol, but there's also a physical port called DisplayPort? :(
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by technobabbler 5y ago
I don't think Apple really wants you to buy their monitor for use on a PC. It's just a support headache, between the cables and graphics cards and refresh rates and gamma and such. Everything on the product page suggests it was on
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by technobabbler 5y ago
It doesn't. It's just ironic. They end up in my spam box thanks to Gmail not thanks to the law.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Mm, seems like the costs of that would way outweigh the benefits... An email system with the speed of the USPS, the ease of use of the DMV, the security of the social security system, and the billing of the IRS. It already sounds like a dig
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by technobabbler 5y ago
It was really beautiful but the pacing was horrible for modern attention spams. I loved the movie, but only because I read way too many of the books and played all the games and watched every Dune before it. My partner had no idea what was
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by technobabbler 5y ago
A lot of theaters have awful mixes that make dialog harder to hear. Think there was an article about that recently.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Not you personally, sorry. It's just a saying. "Can anyone blame them" would've been a better choice of phrasing.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Yeah but you don't ever really see Google or Amazon or Facebook or Netflix or Spotify on here, except employees commenting unofficially. Cloudflare is on here quite frequently and meaningfully. I'd rather companies communicate, ev
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by technobabbler 5y ago
I don't think the law really had much to do with it, vs reputation based blacklists and SPF and such that the email industry created to combat spam. I'm not saying this because I'm anti government, I just don't remember
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Can you blame them? Social appeal has significant mating and survival consequences. I think the whole lonely geek thing has gotten better in the last decade, but it used to be really bad. Like the Lone Gunmen in the X-Files (really dating m
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Just make a custom filter and move on. The BBB is a scam and the government doesn't care and report spam is a black hole. There's not enough humanpower to manually vet these things and do anything about them. Far easier to spam th
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by technobabbler 5y ago
I can't be the only one who's noticed that most of these companies are above the law...? When was the last time someone even got a slap on the wrist? Some class action lawsuit that gave a coupon for 10% off your next purchase? Spa
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by technobabbler 5y ago
They're on here quite a bit and regularly contribute.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Well, they're better at it than anyone else so far. Especially compared to the captured US regulators that don't do anything at all. Can spam indeed.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
And: - even if I learned it, nobody in my social circle would care
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Self-flagellation isn't boring. If you can do it on a unicycle, even better!
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by technobabbler 5y ago
I think it's just an acknowledgment and acceptance that the system is thoroughly fucked, and there's no public will to overthrow it or clean it up, so seeking incremental gains where possible is better than nothing. If you do noth

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