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by veb 5y ago
Ha. Reminds me of my grandmother. She's quite old now but the doctors told us she had dementia. One day Mum was telling me about it and I said, "make sure they understand she's deaf, and will just smile and nod if she doesn&#
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by veb 5y ago
I think you'd find that Māori are doing OK. Better than Pacific Islanders. But yes, there's hard-to-reach people in every ethnicity. What I've enjoyed is the orgs who are vaccinating Māori and Pacific Islanders - always tell
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by veb 5y ago
This is kind of already happening with the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. So you get hundreds of games to play, but you actually don't own any of them. I understand you meant it in a different light but I thought I'd give it a mention.
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by veb 5y ago
I'm in NZ, and we have very large (I'd wager true wilderness) forests with native trees and fauna. Even cutting native trees on your property can be pretty bad (people get convicted for this). Unless say, the tree is about to fall
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by veb 5y ago
Thanks for the link to that blog post, really interesting!
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by veb 5y ago
yikes, only 5 cables for NZ. still... better than it used to be I suppose1 superb visualisations though. really cool to see.
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by veb 5y ago
GP can prescribe it if the patient has been diagnosed by a specialist (like the psychiatrist/paediatrician you mentioned). They can't prescribe it if you have not been diagnosed. This is just so the patients can get repeats on the
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by veb 5y ago
That and there's more than cocaine out there on the darkweb.
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by veb 6y ago
Sure feels like it. One would tend to tell HN about their "showing".
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by veb 6y ago
This actually does help. The problem I have is it all returns years later which is why some people have LSD once a year or shrooms once a year or whatever. I'd love to trial this in a clinical situation but it's gonna be a long ti
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by veb 6y ago
Not only that, their apps are pretty good too.
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by veb 6y ago
I've been in hospital recently after suffering a large oil burn to my left arm, and part of my chest. As most of us probably know, wards get very noisy. I only ever used my cochlear implant processor when I'd see the team of docto
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by veb 6y ago
I ignore all calls to my phone, my wife has set my voicemail up to say I'm deaf, to text me instead. I've got a rather expensive system set up to every doorbell, and smoke alarm in the house that also functions as my alarm clock i
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by veb 6y ago
> We say deaf & hard-of-hearing please, not hearing-impaired. Which is different all around the world.
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by veb 6y ago
Best thing anyone can do is to familiarise themselves with what they take, and what the key indications are with mixing medication and what happens when you stop. In NZ we have medsafe ( https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/ ), a govt
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by veb 6y ago
Just a warning, Tramadol reacts very badly in some people. Like myself, just a single pill will cause me to have tonic-clonic seizures leading up to a grand-mal seizure later on in the day. Tramadol also has a bunch of shit in it, I feel li
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by veb 6y ago
tricky one. i've had 1Gbit internet here in nz for a few years now, and heck I'm usually on wireless which sorta caps out about 20MB/s (eventually I'll spring for a new router), but when they installed my connection at m
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by veb 6y ago
I had the same issue with Twilio, they couldn't send anything to my number because of the prefix. After many emails, they finally got it working - then two weeks later it was broken again and I simply gave up.
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by veb 6y ago
1. I write something when I'm in the mood and have done something tech-related I think others would stumble upon. 2. I just made a github page for my domain. Easy. 3. Going back to 1, it's all about my mood. If I've done some
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by veb 6y ago
Even PixelFed, https://pixelfed.org (Federation)
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by veb 7y ago
You might like PixelFed ( https://pixelfed.social/ ) it's a completely open sourced project based on federation.
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by veb 7y ago
This is exactly what I do. I haven't deactivated my Facebook profile, but I have not visited it in six months or so. I can't be bothered, my news feed became too commercial. However I use messenger.com to talk to my real life frie
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by veb 7y ago
Talking about an interesting side-effect about videos in social media in recent times is they've learned to put text (or captions) in their videos for people (because they might have sound off) which made it far easier for deaf people
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by veb 7y ago
Especially because OP said he works for a "... fairly large software company...". I bet they've got a lot of lawyers on the speed dial.
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by veb 7y ago
Yup, this is exactly the right way of going about things. Because when they ask you why it wasn't a good fit, you're able to actually speak up about your experience. Instead of a one sided conversation, you're able to make it
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by veb 7y ago
I don't get it. With Lets Encrypt, it's like one or two lines to get everything set up. I'm guessing people aren't as lucky as I am to be running on newer machines and such. I mean it even edits your nginx files to redir
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by veb 7y ago
How... boring. Such a saturated field I thought. I know "boring" startups are they ones that make money pretty quickly, but seriously, it's an absolute saturated market. Also, I hate time saving apps, or having to record my t
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by veb 7y ago
I'm sure if I took the time to read them all, they'd all be very different as everyone has their own opinions on "things every programmer should know". IMO what every programmer should know is how to do their job :)
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by veb 7y ago
As soon as I learned the discipline for social media, and that's all forms: Facebook, Twitter, IRC, Slack etc and learned how to control myself from visiting every three seconds, I got a lot happier. There's just nothing better fo
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by veb 7y ago
In New Zealand we have debit cards, so they act just like a normal credit card, except it needs to have money in the account for the transaction to work. So you tie it to an account that you put money into, instead of say, your every-day sp

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