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> - Hospitals have to close because they no longer have any health personnel. All hospitals, not just rural hospitals. And the closures must be permanent.

In Canada admission to medical schools is not changing with the population growth.
Is it the same in California?
I've already made a few browser extensions, and I must say, it's a much bigger pain in the ass these days. Getting signing working, or disabling in browser is a terrible process, that I'm not going to do for a side project.
MS AppGuard is a clone of Bromium, now branded as "SureClick" for Chromium and bundled with HP business laptops/PCs, with a security co-processor ("SureStart") monitoring firmware integrity.
The crime is not the post. The crime is the statement contained in the post. Who told you that online statements were not crimes? They are exactly as much a crime as a statement in a newspaper or on tv.
True, this animation clearly reminds me of [Tenerife airport disaster][1], a childhood nightmare from a documentary. 10s late it could became that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
This was my experience as well and the reason I saw myself forced to use the web store. I think there was a time where it was not required, where side loading was ok, but then they changed it and I saw no other way to do it. IIRC there was an alternative way for enterprise users, but I never understood it.

That was around 5-7 years ago and I haven't checked if there was a new alternative, easier way to do it nowadays. I'm still using my extensions but have no need to modify them. Let's see what Manifest v3 has to tell me about this. I'll probably drop Chrome then.
Easy to preach, harder to practice.

When I was an intern I got to help change the blinking red light on top of a 50 story building. It’s a big deal that was scheduled weeks in advance and probably involved two dozen people, a special lightbulb and a bunch of coordination.

Even among the team working it plenty of “how many X does it take to change a light bulb” jokes were told.

But consider than a pilot depends on certain things being there when things go wrong. If the weather is bad and there’s issues with instruments, seeing that red light is the difference between life and death. There are potentially dozens or hundreds of people on a plane and if I recall correctly up to 4,000 people in the building.

When life is at risk, the standard for engineering must be higher.
Nostalgia yes. And also utility. Icons have to scale both now and back then. Yet back then you had to draw pixel at a time or it looked like mud. Now you can downsample and most will never see anything smaller than 128x128.

Still sucks for users if they only see it rendered at half that size for menu or a reduced size taskbar. Or if it relies on color contrast without consideration for color blindness. Some designers aren't thoughtful enough to check.
I think using financial terminology to describe technology problems is a mistake.

There is no such thing as tech "debt". Or, if there is, it's entirely subjective.

I've seen things described as a "6+ month major rewrite" that another developer could address with careful, incremental enhancements over a matter of weeks.
I don’t think writing to and reading from disk is a significant portion of this loop. You’d want to measure the cost and thus maximum benefit. SSDs are fast. There isn’t much upside here.
I think it's exactly the same.
> They're so heavily intertwined that bucketing them into distinct categories that don't talk to each other would be a massive ship to turn around.

never mind, then. the big thing that moral imperatives have in common with the checks and balances necessary for society to be healthy is that none of these things ever require any effort.
"Cruel" (which body shaming arguably is), while widely considered to be unethical, does not equate to "fraud" or automatically invalidates the research. While the Milgram experiment is considered to be unethical, the results do hold scrutiny and as such has been critical in understanding how humans follow authority and obedience. There are many things that we take for granted that was a result of unethical research.
Tech is magic. It's pretty much the same thing except that religion doesn't ever deliver whereas tech sometimes does.

Religion really needs government to be threatening, while tech can be threatening on its own.
Researchers create smaller, cheaper flow batteries for clean energy
Nepal Airline Crash
At least 68 killed in Nepal's worst air crash in three decades
> (e.g., "given a DOM node, traverse all of its children") you can use a library of transformations ... and write queries and transformations over arbitrary structures in a very compact way.

But in Java you'd do that with reflection. So the question remains, how many such different queries/transformations you actually have (in the source code, where type checking is available, rather than user input) to make the effort-saving worthwhile?
Same, it was by far one of the best performing games on the platform, and whatever stream post-processing magic was happening it looked stunning at 1440p. Likewise with RDR2. The latency was never an issue for me; granted I live near a major city and have a fiber connection.
Can you define "bloated"? RAM consumption? Disk space? All are a cheap commodity these days. I've been using KDE for the past 8 years on and off, and uninterruptedly in the last two years. It's fast, powerful and rich.
https://daverupert.com/robots.txt

Maybe change this? Simply add:

User-agent: * Disallow:

To allow all crawlers to the site.
What are you considering as a treatable condition? We will probably still be able to deliver urgent and emergency care to patients with acute conditions. There won't be a lot of patients bleeding to death in ER waiting rooms because there are no staffed beds available (although you can find isolated incidents where that sort of thing has happened). What we're more likely to see are longer delays and worse service quality for patients with chronic conditions that probably would have eventually killed them anyway. Like a patient with congestive heart failure might expect to live for 5 years with the best possible care, but might only live for 3 years with limited care.

That will be a bad situation that harms many people, but it won't be a collapse.
A still-relevant classic:
Reflections on trusting trust, Ken Thompson, 1984
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
All of those are so ugly and stripped down compared to Dolphin, though. (Maybe Thunar is more modern these days, at least?) Something like PCManFM is truly reminiscent of Win 9x.
As Keynes said, "Anything we can do, we can afford". We can afford to spend more on health care, we just choose not to because we'd rather spend on something else.
I know loads of people loved Perl, and I'm not suggesting that my perspective is mainstream or even defensible. I'm just saying that I was a young sysadmin in the "bad old days", but that I didn't like Perl. Of course I did use an awful lot of Perl scripts.

That said, I have to revise my original comment. I forgot that I was a big fan of Tcl/Tk/Expect back in the day. So it's not like my taste is better than anyone else's :)
> RIP Twitter

Reports of Twitter's demise are greatly exaggerated by people with "Spaceman Bad" political brainworms.
Okay I have almost zero hardware chops but this sings to me.

Does that mean that the sensor is all solid state and the only moving bit is just a gimbal-like thingy attached to the rubber thumb interface to move a little magnet around? That’s got to be ridiculously simple and long-lasting. Or even trivial to make replaceable without having to replace any of the electronics.
The whole story is weird like that.

Fiorina really wrecked HP. California dodged a bullet when they didn't make her governor.

HP printers were admired when she started, hated when she left.
AFAIK, you can go to medical school, but the problem is what happens afterwards. Each province regulates how many graduates get assigned to hospitals (or allowed to open family doctor practices). If the openings "aren't there", you just wasted your time going to school, or you move somewhere that will accept you.
People are already trying to put cutting edge models onto consumer hardware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32678664

We live in a really exciting age :). Local AI models will also finally give Microsoft reasons again to require hardware for coming Windows versions. Now they have to require obscure security chips and stuff but in the future they might have some local cortana thingy or something that requires a certain amount of computational power.
I guess if you define intelligence the “correct” way the calculators are intelligent. Anyway, what makes you think that you are in a unique position on having experience with chatGPT?
There's no such thing as 'technical debt', just call it crap code (or a 'hack') and face the impacts of having to live with it. Its been my experience that these things get logged to Jira as 'medium' or 'low' and then of course never get looked at again, and if they ever get opened up its likely the code has moved on. This leads to the following idea;

1. code the MVP the customer accepts (customer is happy)
2. go ahead and create all the debt tickets (makes you feel professional)
3. every xmas just delete all non-high tickets older than 12 months.

If the code is shit enough, it will die a natural death (most of today's wiring type code has very short TTL anyways) Similar to "if a tree falls in the forest...", "If a customer doesn't notice...". We do so many 'invisible', 'hard' things in our line of work, it's almost an impossibly thankless road to build quality into our systems.
One of the reasons why I stopped using the dumpster fire that is Windows and moved to ZorinOS. I'm never going back.
> I hear all the time that bad code slows down development, increases bugs, etc. And that can be true in a number of cases. But most of the time it's just complaining. If a developer takes the time to re-factor the code base, it's very likely that whoever takes over from them in a few years will have the same complaints about technical debt and want to re-factor all over again.

You need to measure these things objectively. There are several ways to estimate technical debt, like asking system owners how long their teams would take to bring their code up to a list of standards. The time estimate alone is an excellent tool to measure the scope or remediation cost. But there are also several more aspects to technical debt: transmissibility (how likely it is to spread), remediation competencies (does the team have the skills to remediate it), maintainability (how much does it cost to maintain this case of tech debt over a month or a year), attributed bug count (how many bugs are linked to this instance of debt), and so on.

Refactoring code just because someone has complaints is an indolent and unsurprisingly ineffective way of maintaining it. As you say, opinions about how code should be written are a dime a dozen. The shortcomings of a particular system need to be meaningful and clear before they can be assertively fixed. They can be generalized, like "this code doesn't follow patterns that would optimize it" or "this code has had too many hotfixes and is now causing many bugs", or precise, like "cache misses here impact systems A, B, and C severely". But they still need to be clear and business-oriented. Then tech debt repayments can be very effective. I have seen bugs attributed to a system go down by 90%+ after a short refactor when it was carried out effectively.

Investing into systems that prevent tech debt in the first place can also be effective, but it likewise has to be done in a measured and targeted way. If teams tend to make mistake X, then you can often deploy code analysis or submission tools to identify that mistake and reject such code. Over a project's lifetime, you may write hundreds of such code validation tests, but in teams of 100+ people, they can prevent a tremendous amount of work resulting from tech debt.

In short, it is a mistake to dismiss the tech debt problem when one has not put in the effort to tame it or has gone about taming it in a lazy, wishy-washy way. If the team has particular code quality standards illuminating tech debt and allowing the coders to target it clearly, it can be remediated effectively.
First paragraph of TFA says Windows Server supports BGP. But hey, I guess you don’t let facts get in the way of some anti-Windows snarky shitposting.
Worth noting that the bill is purely a statement of support for the idea and does not change any Wyoming laws.

It’s a stupid piece of theatre, but, hey, it’s what Republicans do best these days.
Basically gpu/compute costs being so expensive.
Probably just the chat cost itself. also a whole boat load of Development costs will eventually be passed on to consumers, for a cheaper alternative try https://text-generator.io
It also analyses images which OpenAI doesn't do
In the US the real cap is on residency programs which are handled physicians. So there has been a slight increase in medical schools but not as much of an increase in residency programs which leaves some unfortunate graduates unmatched.
I’d love to see a follow up in 5 years to see if they can actually pull it off. It’s hard to imagine such places could ever be profitable.
X11 APIs have no security and they don't work in Wayland. Either one of those reasons is enough to avoid using them.

Aside from that, it's the slowest and worst possible option in X11 because it copies the pixels into the socket. To handle large images you want to at least use MIT-SHM. XGetImage should only be used as a fallback. Or better, just don't use X11 APIs at all.
Wait, pots are still used in game controllers? I would've thought they'd all have given way to 3D Hall sensors by now.
> "code quality" is subjective

There are objective parameters like: tests coverage, how many bugs you have (or were fixed) on from the static analysis, presence of periodic or constant fuzzing, portability.
> a way to set my own preferences across all the different servers by specifying it in one location

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10976
Thing is, that level of invective just makes me think he's got politically motivated brainworms. In terms of performance and features, Twitter is better than it's ever been.
Well, in Ubuntu and Fedora all DEs are equal but GNOME is more equal than the rest. I just wish they switched to KDE because it is so much better.
In my opinion it's not a marketing failure. The combination of paying full price for games that require the service combined with Google's reputation for killing services left it pretty stillborn.

I think Google may have realised this which is why they're carefully managing the shutdown. It was too late for Stadia, but they don't want consumers feeling the next service is risky too by showing an intent to make it right when the shutdown happens
It’s not a street light.

You aren’t going to have poles or hanging lights on a runway.

It is embedded lights.

That have to work without fail in extreme temps, all weathers, with planes rolling over them all day.

They have to have certain visibility at different angles, they have to fail gracefully.

These things are rarely ‘that’s just…’
DELTA1943: "Alright, and uh, woof!"

ATC: "Delta 1943, are you able to taxi or do you need a couple of minutes to run checks?"

DELTA1943: "Yeah, we can get off the runway" but they're all going to need a change of underwear!!

And I thought the Brits were known for understatement!
Its not that surprising. Wozniak was very open and he loved sharing. It was on his insistence that the Apple II had so many extension slots and an easy and cheap way develop cards. Jobs argued against that and wanted only 2 cards.

While the Apple II was making lots of money for Apple and Woz and his team improved over time, eventually with the Apple II GS, they wanted to have backward compatibility, cheap price. Woz basically believed that there was no reason to break backward compatibility.

During that time Jobs ruined the Apple III, then failed with the LISA, then failed with the Macintosh and then was fired.

Sadly Woz had an accident and overall simply didn't want to lead Apple and have an push open engineering driven mindset for the company. He had been pushed to the side for a while despite his team basically leading the cash-cow. So he left.

So without either of them Apple basically just went along with trying to compete with the Mac against the PC and got owned.

Then Jobs came back and obviously did much better the second time around, but he went hard core on the closes mindset, and there was no Woz to push against that.
Conversations with great founders and inventors in life sciences
You honestly believe gay and trans people are so powerful and wealthy that the democrats are forced to appease them, even though they're literally losing votes to do it?
Perhaps the institution of hospitals is outdated. With concierge medicine, a doctor can make house calls with a nurse and solve most medical issues. The ideal should be like Star Trek (hyperbolic, I know). A tricorder should be able to scan me and care should be in the form of a hypo spray.

Hospitals are a single point of failure as an institution and we should be moving away from centralized medical care in the 21st century. As an aside, I’ve noticed a lot of people are in hospital waiting rooms whereas they could be served with a doctor making a house call. Just my 2c
But derefr's explanation is the other way around. Google built the servers for the cloud/ai department and crated Stadia to reuse them. To me it seems that it couldn't have been profitable even if we say Stadia got the servers for free.
Tech debt is simply another debt that a company or org needs to deal with. It's far cooler for a tech company to worry about their funky no vowels thing than say the rent.

My boring little IT company in the UK owns its premises - roughly an acre in a town in Somerset with a 19m long edge red brick two floor building. The property costed us about £240,000 - the mortgage is cheaper than the rent we paid on part of a converted stables really out in the Styx.

Now with a mortgage there is the fine print. In the UK it is normal for a bank to require a "debenture". Your Loan to Value is below a percentage then the bank can intervene at any point and take over, which is what at least one bank in the UK did to try and shore up their finances when it all went south in 2007ish.

There is another thing called an "Overage Clause". That's where the vendor wants to make a hold over future profits. So we bought our place from the NHS and they sought an overage in perpetuity (for ever) on any profits we might make on selling the place. We negotiated on 10 years. That expires this year. With it, we would have to hand over 50% of any profits from sale.

Running a company is not rocket science but it can be tricky. My little firm will never be a unicorn or even a mare with a cornet on its nose. I don't care.
Related post from a very harsh doctor who really has lost hope in American healthcare. In the comments he mentions essentially collapse as the only way out he sees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34347962
A lot of areas are made up of those things. Theology, for example. What sets science apart is testable hypotheses.
JDK 8 is now a minority, and if we count only projects that are still undergoing significant development it's a significantly smaller minority. The main reason some projects are still stuck on 8 is because they use old libraries that have made breaking changes, and don't have resources to adapt their use, let alone take on new ones.
It wasn't chasing the design. The major change was upgrade to Qt4 and they rewrote almost the entire thing from scratch. Long term I think it was for the best.
Run your own instance.
Imagine you have a voice recording. You are looking at it a long squiggly line with no uniformity.

Zoom way in. If you go far enough it’ll just look like a curved line.

That curved line can be estimated down into a sin wave, or more accurately, a few sin waves that combine to make almost the same wave you have.

FFT is a way to take a complex wave and reduce it down to the sin wave components that would all combine to make it up.

To practically apply this, your voice recording is very high resolution and has a lot of bits at a high sample rate. If you instead used sin waves to represent the data, it could be almost as good sounding while being a lot less data to store.

… Watch a video. It’s something many people need to see to get.
Rejected takeoffs and clear air turbulence are why I never do infant-in-arms.
Not with their current implementation, it's literally just making API calls to OpenAI GPT models. They can improve their prompts, but it'll never be better than what OpenAI offers as a first party.
I used some nvidia thing that was out years before Stadia and it was amazing. Yes, I’d prefer crisper graphics and lower latency, but it was ridiculous for demoing games or doing casual LAN parties and such.

A lot of “supplemental” use cases for this technology.
In the works: https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/eg-drafts/...
Totally mind boggling to describe the company that owned/owns the intellectual property assets of both Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation as an "office-supply manufacturer"
Concierge medicine is expensive and likely doesn't scale. Centralized medicine helps for a few conditions where you can't fit an MRI, CT-scan, and various medicines into a van you bring to house calls. In some situations, you need access to all of those in order to save one's life.
Strongly disagree. I write a lot of go code, and poor quality code introduces a lot of tech debt because it's un-testable. So, if you want to write basic unit tests, you can't do so easily without refactor large chunks of the code base.

So, if you've already shipped a feature and need to make some kind of change, you can't do so with any confidence. Implementing unit tests to validate you're not breaking existing functionality is impossible, so you need to refactor, which introduces extra risk.
That's more or less how I think of it. Each bind/flatMap introduces a new value into scope and can consume data in the form of the result of a further bind/flatMap or final return.

It's essentially a mini interpreter for tiny functionally pure segments of a program.

One tricky part of the interpretation is understanding the most familiar monadic data types in this paradigm. For example, the list monad representing discrete nondeterminism.

Writing about this so tersely is probably only going to confuse anyone who isn't already 90% of the way to understanding....
One can truly see that KDE 4 was the right move long term.
My discussions were decades before MBS.

The US tended to downplay the issues in SA-we need them—so unless someone digs into the history and region it was a bit of a don’t ask and don’t tell.

MBS behavior has made even someone as politically naive as me see what SA really is (and isn’t).
> (Or, if there aren't any fine-grained permissions suited to doing your task — then propose some! The browser vendors would love to get real feedback on the kinds of fine-grained hypothetical privileges that extensions authors would actually find useful. Otherwise they're stuck reading the source code of a small sample of extensions, and extrapolating general patterns of privilege-use from there.)

I'm curious, where are people supposed to do this? Is there actually a space / mechanism for this? Or is this a thing they would "like" to exist that there's not really an avenue for?
No More Excuses: Lazy Load Your Images (2020)