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Vaccine administration is another area that has seen / is seeing broad deregulation. In many states one needed a medical doctor to “prescribe” a flu shot or other vaccine. Now many states have moved to allow such “prescriptions” to be written by pharmacists and issued right there on the spot in a pharmacy.

Some physician groups fought that tooth and nail… not because there was any real evidence of people dropping dead from mis-prescribed vaccines but because it was a good stream of easy revenue for their office billing insurers for giving the shot. This change was much better for consumers and for public health overall by making vaccines more readily accessible.
Unless you have more recent info (please correct me in that case), that's not quite correct. Last I heard was that Samsung's promise has been 4 years of updates [1].

I recognize Samsung as being well clear of the rest of the pack of Android vendors. Other Android vendors are outright negligent, whereas Samsung seems to generally try to fight their bad incentives and come up with some decency.

Where I think Samsung falls short is execution. Samsung is fundamentally a hardware company and their software has always been mediocre in my view, even to this day. In terms of security updates they promise less than Google, they promise fewer and slower updates than Google (quarterly software updates for some devices / late in the lifecycle still makes older devices an afterthought!), and I trust their promise to execute on their promise less than Google.

Finally, Samsung devices don't have nearly the same support for third party privacy friendly OSes than Pixel devices do - you're stuck with Samsung's (warning: personal opinion) rather tasteless take on what Android should be, and have no real other options.

[1]: https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-takes-galaxy-securit...
How much would you pay for:

*Hearing test

* Hearing aid fitting

* Usage counselling

* Follow up adjustments

* Annual retest of your hearing

* Replacement of lost hearing aids

* Unlimited repair for 3 years
??

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I got out of the Audiology field in 2015.
At that time all the above was included for every hearing aid we sold (Prices varied from $750 / ear - $3600 / ear.

When I was in that field many companies tried "pay as you go" models, instead of bundles.

You know what happened?
People paid the minimum (test, and fit)
the never returned for repairs or re-tunings.

And then complained to everyone that "hearing aids don't work".

Buy a hearing aid today from any major provider in Canada and you get:

Initial test

Initial fitting

Follow up tests

Follow up re tunes

Counselling

repairs - including full replacement in case of loss

Batteries

In-clinic repairs and cleanings.

100% return, and in some cases $0.00 3 month trial period.

There is far more to fixing your hearing issues that just amplifying sound. Sadly, most people wait too long before trying a hearing aid, and give up because they hear too much noise.

Imagine returning your eye glasses because you still see ugly people.

I truly wish hearing aids were far cheaper, and that was a very hard part of my job and one of the reasons why I changed careers.
He "faces" a maximum 20 years, but that number doesn't mean anything; it's just the maximum possible sentence that would apply if every count was sentenced at the highest possible level and served consecutively. The prosecution is asking for something like 6 years.
The hammer analogy seems overdone. The framework , lets say , caters to 60% of your needs (being cautious here). OTOH, If your needs are pretty specific, and you go minimalistic, then you build 60% of your functionality by hand. Yes, code bloat can cause issues, with unused features. I'd rather not spend time building mundane features, and especially in Java.

Now if the language you code in, suffers from a lack of good frameworks, but that's a different issue.

I wouldn't comment too much on Java, due to an intrinsic dislike for the J2EE environment (and all its baggages - maybe baggage that I have mentally). But in Python I've not found a distasteful framework. There's no single framework that can be like a Swiss army knife, though framework fanatics, by definition will sell that vision.
Windows has one advantage: the display server api is private, so there's no app talking directly to window server, but everything goes through gdi32/user32. As a result, they could make some changes that Linux toolkits cannot make; and linking to gtk (or even libx11/libxcb/libwayland-client) is not mandatory in the Linux world, so they cannot fix things behind app backs.

And the windows solution is not reliable either; the only reliable solution was macOS one.
Almost half the comments relate to eye exams & glasses, not hearing aids. There's almost no one defending the present system, and I suspect if you took a poll of the US population, at least 90% would favor deregulating hearing aids. Probably glasses, too.

So why hasn't it happened? Those people who said "regulatory capture" get a gold star. A small group who will suffer a lot manage to defeat a much bigger group who will benefit by a much smaller amount.
I'll try to clarify here. I don't mean a whole file. More just a single expression that other devs would understand. eg. (+ 1 2) or the ternary operator or something.
> vehemently disagree and will fight to allow people to break the rules

The new rules save lives. Crash accidents involving large trucks statistic: https://zarzaurlaw.com/category/blog/trucking-accidents/

'Sure, that will save a few lives but millions will be late.' is a Simpsons quote, not a good argument.
> we assign distinct public IPv4 addresses to each app running on Fly.io.

Why not charge a premium for even one distinct public IPv4 address? Most applications are HTTP(S)-based and could share a reverse proxy with a thousand other apps, right? You could even spin the lack of distinct public IPs as a positive: zero IPv4 footprint.
So do I…oddly, I went and got my hearing tested and my issues are with processing, not hearing. The guy said “I actually can’t prescribe you a hearing aid, even if I wanted to.”

So, there should be some barrier to entry. Just not at $3500 an ear.
It's not going to happen in GTK4 because it would be an API break and GTK4 has already shipped. So that's why it will have to wait for GTK5 or greater.

Edit: For further explanation see here for a longer description of GTK's release strategy. https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-sta...
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> I understand your frustration but from what I have seen, nothing has actually been removed. This is just a feature that was never implemented because nobody signed up to implement it. Wayland could be extended to support it eventually but somebody actually has to put in the work. I think the best bet for somebody working on this would be to get it fully working and stable in KDE first, since Qt apparently has the toolkit support for it, and then maybe it can be adapted to work for GTK.

The issue with that is that first of all, the wayland protocol needs to be modified to add support for this, and the entire freedesktop/gnome community refuses to even consider adding support for anything like this because gnome doesn’t need it/can’t support it.

I’ve talked with vendors of devices using Linux with Wayland, who’ve been trying to get the committee to add support for years.

I’ve talked with KDE devs who’ve been frustrated without limits.

There’s a lot of people who are absolutely burnt out and angered by the constant stonewalling from Gnome, pretending for a decade that no one needs this and so it shouldn’t even exist.
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Yeah, but mac standardization was pushing all of those devices towards USB-C. I'm sure we'll get there eventually anyway, but it's a nice push towards standardization.

It does create more friction in the short term though.

I don't see any reason we shouldn't move towards a single standard for all I/O, whether it's USB-C or otherwise. Maybe there are technical limitations to supporting so many things in one spec, I'm not that deep into the weeds.

Otherwise it's just incredibly wasteful to have all these different connectors, and it's anti-consumer. I mean I used to have a bag with 100 different cord types I'd have to rummage through every once in awhile to find what I needed. That shouldn't have to be a thing.

Fortunately we're down to like 4-5 standards now...
> If you've ever had the "pleasure" of writing React with plain React.createElement() calls (what your JSX ultimately gets transpiled to) then I think you would more likely agree with the notion that React is "just a library".

I'm not sure why someone would unless you're strictly writing static JSX with no components whatsoever as some sort of weird replacement for just writing the equivalent static HTML. The minute you write a `render` or lifecycle method, React is now calling you. Not to mention stuff like Suspense asking you to throw a Promise to render from latest render cache.

I think something like Crank.js[0] is more a view library since it puts all the nuts and bolts into userland.

[0]https://crank.js.org/
For what it's worth, I had this thing in my basket since 10-ish pacific, during all this time, i was stuck at the order checkout 'comfirm purchase' step.

In google fashion, it'd fail in very diverse ways:
1) mostly 'OR_PCVH_01' "unexpected error occured".
2) sometimes a troika of codes with the label "your purchase has expired". This would be ~5% of the time.
3) sometimes no error at all, just a blank page.

I was rather afraid to attempt going back to 'store.google.com' to checkout my cart again and find the items sold out, but I courageously overcame my fears and decided to stand up for myself. Consumer me went ahead, created a new tab, clicked the basket and pressed 'checkout'. And after the one or two 'OR_PCVH_01' and some blank page, boom, it went through.

Long story short, i suspect that error message 2 is misleading in what it means. It doesn't mean 'try to click this comfirm purchase' button later, it means try to "checkout your cart again".
Here's more comical discussion of the XPS camera:

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-15-9500-camera-webcam...

"This webcam is disgusting. They won’t admit it when you call. They keep telling you to install drivers and redo every install you have."

"It's the image sensor they went with... Bottom of the barrel $0.52 sensor. I'm skipping this generation of XPS entirely and keeping with my Macbook Pro for a number of reasons.

1. The trackpad is horrible
2. The software had too many bugs (brightness, sound crackles, fans)
3. The keyboard isn't that great
4. The camera quality"

"I have this same problem with a new XPS 15 9500: blurry & grainy camera/webcam. Lots of complaints with those on Zoom, Goggle Meets, etc. with me. Help! Can this be fixed or should I return my 2-month old computer??"

"The stock webcam is by far the worst feature of the XPS. I’m also disappointed with the unreliability of the trackpad."

"Same here, everything that has been said. Camera is <Profanity removed. Dell-Admin>, embarrassing for Dell and for me, should I choose to use it"
This concept exists in the American auto repair sector as core charges. I believe they work pretty well, but once the "core charge" becomes too insignificant then people will ignore it for the convenience. I suspect an organization as large as Apple could subsidize core charges for iPhone and laptop batteries.
> how many of these cases do you miss because the recipients use a not easy traceable proxy entity to collect the payment?

That's the 'million dollar question', and in some cases substantially more than one million. I think the reason a good number of these people get caught is (1) things like the Panama papers and other leaks like that have made it harder to do this, and have also brought the not insubstantial resources of the authorities to review these constructs and (2) most people never expect that during DD such a thing would be checked.

It's typically quite a surprise when we start asking about the activities of companies that the other party believes are well hidden.
They made me sign a waiver then gave me the wrong measurements.
Why bother with the overhead?
Apart Facebook, Facebook does PST...
> Many years ago, probably 20, I went on a task of implementing a web browser. I remember I gave up at rendering tables.

HTML 5 effort has cleaned up a lot of behaviors and specified how browser tags should behave. So it is, possibly, an approachable task now. Still daunting though.
I don't care that much in my own side projects but when working with others and resolving merge conflicts your example is my nightmare. It's so much easier to have brackets denote scope as you don't have to get the indentation right when actually resolving merge conflicts. It's easy to fix it up afterwards by automatic indentation in the editor.

Significant white space is a mistake IMHO :-)
I missed a very critical vision deficiency with my child because I only did cursory vision checks when growing up.

I think this influenced the ability to see characters which greatly impacted reading ability.
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Good, now let's do this for everything
I found it amusing that none of those are in the EU.
On such machines, I wonder what is the sweet point. If you work seriously, you’ll be on your desk, large screen, separate keyword. If you are in the train, you’ll prefer the smaller screen.

The real problem is, it became normal to have “padding: 300px” in webapps.
That’s a problem I already have, because I can never remember what time zone people or places are in. On the other hand, with a single time zone, there is never any ambiguity about what time someone/something is referring to (Eastern or Western? DST or non-DST? Etc)
Getting questions on a test is actually really expensive for a standardized test. It's been a while, but I believe it cost was in the $3-4k range per question for my state's tests. These test questions go through significant amounts of review for various biases and whether they actually measure understanding/mastery of the intended knowledge standard.
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Show HN: A library for reading PST email files, written in Go/Golang
He was using IP that didn't belong to him. He probably did this as a concession.
"There's even speculation that Apple may refresh its antiquated Mac Pro and desktop macs, neither of which have been updated since their release in 2022."

So, the fictional review is set in 2022 or later.

Edit: I should watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button :)
I’m surprised it isn’t all about money this, if you can find a job why shouldn’t you be able to live anywhere? Why shouldn’t it be up to the company to decide that the extra paperwork involved in bringing in a foreign national isn’t worth it?
The pressures required for those ices make them unstable and, thankfully, unable to freeze the ocean.
Which phones did you have trouble with? I am still using my pixel 3. I was going to upgrade just for more storage (the camera updates are nice too).
What a headline, yikes! How about:

Recycled Material Lithium Batteries Just As Good
See? I’ve complained to the Gtk devs since before the release of Gtk3 that this would be an issue, I’ve even made suggestions how to avoid it, and yet despite all that all I’ve got were "it’s unnecessary" for years. And now the issue is baked in, I’m supposed to wait for even more years and spend lots of time to fix the issues other idiots made because they couldn’t listen.
Golden cove core highlights[1] include a 6 wide decoder (up from 4; M1 is 8), reorder buffer of 512 (up from 352 in Ice/Tiger/Rocket lake, or 224 in Skylake; M1 is estimated around 650), and 12 execution units (up from 10 in Ice/Tiger/Rocket lake or 8 in Skylake).

Still not as wide as the M1, but it looks like a huge step in the right direction on paper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Cove
There are so many cost barriers to treatments. It's definitely not for patients at this point.

For instance, I am supposed to redo my sleep apnea test every so often. But it's out of pocket? Why bother, I know mine is due to my genetics (I'm not overweight). So why am I subjected to reproving my need for a prescription?

For eyeglasses, if someone wants to continue the same prescription they can't.

It's like healthcare in the USA is a damn subscription model with yearly fees to keep getting things just prescribed (let alone treatment on top).
they shouldn't be allowed to buy in certain areas to begin with. Especially for the reasons to artificially drive up values
Their claim of "Save up to $294 over two years" seems to be based on monthly rather than annual prices too. If you get to checkout, they list "Pixel Pass services (Google One 200GB)" as $17.97/mo. Annual prices for Google One and Play Pass are both $29.99. Add in YouTube Premium which doesn't have an annual plan for $11.99, and you're looking at $17/mo.

So the real savings are entirely from the phone + warranty where you'll save about $200 on the Pixel 6 Pro, but you're still forced to buy all those Google services you may or may not need.

I'm also on a family plan (with the grandfathered YouTube pricing), so it doesn't seem to be worth it.
What is your experience? I will admit I don't have much insight into WITCH.

I've worked at and interviewed people at FAANGs for the past 5 years and the bar for hiring is the same.
An especially novel aspect of this lawsuit, quoting the press release:

> This approach makes it the first legal case that focuses on the rights of individual consumers as third-party beneficiaries of the GPL.

> “That’s what makes this litigation unique and historic in terms of defending consumer rights,” says Karen M. Sandler, the organization’s executive director.

In the past, GPL enforcement has been a cause of action brought by the copyright holder. This suit is on behalf of users, as beneficiaries of the GPL. If this suit is successful, it'll no longer be necessary to prove sufficient standing as a copyright holder of GPLed code in order to enforce the license; it'll suffice to show that you're a user who wishes to make use of the rights provided under the license.
Have you seen the video, where they were talking about like 20 minutes on how it specifically improves on taking pictures of darker skin tones?
Discovering a new decay pathway would be quite something. Then you would need to figure out why the beta pathway does not match what the Standard Model wants, and also why it does appear now to match what the Standard Model wants.

Nature seems to love tricks like this: Ha, you thought you understood how something is? Wrong, it just pretends to be like that! It is really much more eldritch, and you are damned. (I.e., the maths are too hard for actual people to work.) Good luck figuring out how it is only pretending to be that, too.
> Phone switching feature—again, I'm surprised this is new for them. Being able to do it from iPhone, too, is a nice touch though.

The feature itself is very old. I think they are implying that in previous versions it did not transfer all your "essentials" and now it does - it isn't really clear to me what exactly they improved, though. And the iPhone bit may be new.
Again, it is not a matter of new API! New API solves exactly nothing. It won't solve the libXaw/Motif/GTK2/GTK3/whatever apps. They still have to run correctly.

Your new API won't be adopted by everyone overnight, that's why it is a dead end.
Another good read on this topic is "Saving the Daylight" aka "Sieze the Daylight" by David Prerau http://www.savingthedaylight.com/ which describes at length the confusion and arguments in the USA when some organizations had different summer and winter timetables and others did not.
I was reading the material and went "I might actually get this phone", bit came to the same conclusion you did.

Both me and my wife are looking for new phones. Both of us (despite looking for very different things in our tech stuff) went "oh. Damn".
The first I recall seeing the STEAM acronym was John Maeda's efforts to popularize it in the early 2010s e.g. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss1/34/

His focus at the MIT Media Lab was teaching artists and designers to program, and my understanding is that he continued that as the president of RISD, so it definitely was not intended as an acronym to convince art/design folks they didn't need to learn STEM.

I also never personally interpreted the attempted inclusion of Art as implying a lack of creativity in the other domains any more than the inclusion of Math implied a lack of mathematical aptitude in the other domains.
It probably falls back to JIT, just like if you started doing self-modifying code. This isn't a common case, it's more for code golf and malware.
$699 Macbook is not happening. The $1000-$1500 range is filled by the Macbook Air and the 13" Macbook Pro (which really doesn't deserve the Pro tag).
A sense of place and belonging is critical to life satisfaction. If we can't settle down and build a life in a community, then that is not a slight obstacle to happiness, its a major detriment to the health of the population.

I'm of the opinion that we are more animal than we remember, and the human animal thrives in a participatory community. I reject that casualness of your point.
I recall as a young child, first learning about the Pythagorean theorem, and the moment I realized that cutting across a parking lot is almost always a 'short cut'. It was like I had discovered a secret of the universe.

Quite different experience as an adult navigating a dense urban core and realizing that I could probably get to the Starbucks 4 blocks up and 3 blocks over faster than I could get to another one that was a straight shot, even without shortcuts, just because of the damn crosswalks.
iOS has volume limits in the control panel, partially helps.
This visualization makes me sad, seeing how close we came to containment and post-pandemic normalization of life in April/May of 2021, before the anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and anti-lockdown groups defenestrated all our efforts just as the Delta variant was appearing. And YOW what happened in Missouri around March 9th of 2021? Was that just a reporting artifact or was there some super-spreader event? Edit: change in reporting: https://missouriindependent.com/2021/03/08/missouri-adds-812...
There is a meme on my current job.

We support multiple timezones. PST and PDT.
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It's possible that the brief headache is due to confusion between vergence and focus. I.e., your brain is going "my eyes are converging a point 30cm away, so why am I focusing as though it's infinitely far off?!"

If this is the case, adding base-out prism to the lenses could (in theory) solve problem.

https://www.eophtha.com/posts/fun-with-prisms-in-ophthalmolo...
I agree that most people (myself included) only need an M1 MBA. Problem is, that machine has two ports, one of which is for charging. Even the M1 MBP only comes with this limitation.

You shouldn't have to upgrade past the base Pro machine — and shell out an extra $800 — to get more than one spare port (and 'fancy' stuff like HDMI and SD).
More people and fewer of them are in the labor force than in living memory. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

I should also note this isn't the 1960s when women were stay at home moms keeping the participation rate down. No, now it's just the nasty kind of unemployment where people are barely scraping by because single income with kids isn't middle class anymore.
There's an anecdote that Vonnegut was talking to a scientist at a party and explained the idea for Ice-9. The scientist went pale and sat in a corner for a couple of hours staring into space in deep thought, after which he stood up with a smile and said "No, it's impossible".