We all just got through discussing how much the concept of Daylight Saving sucks. So the Gilded State's response is to...make it permanent.. Yeah, right. Now Newsomstan will be permanently out of sync with surrounding states, rather than just every summer.
This is the state that in earlier proposition drollery passed a toxic chemicals labeling law so draconian that now certain trees have to be labeled: https://www.acsh.org/news/2018...
I'm defending the idea of EHRs, not one particular crappy user interface. If we had judged the whole concept of aviation by the de Havilland Comet, we would still be lining up at the New York City docks to take Cunards across the ocean.
That’s the amount per homeless person that SF already spends on these people. Yet so many of them continue living in the street because that’s what they prefer.
Is the new revenue going toward a mandatory mental health program for homeless? It will be a total waste if it isn’t.
Like I said, we need to develop an EHR standard that everyone can live with. This, like winning WW II, takes work, but there is no viable alternative. And i don’t mean incompatible islands of technology centered in a few major hospital systems, I mean one nationwide, online medical records standard whose use is mandatory and non-negotiable. Make knowing how to use it as basic a part of med school training as gross anatomy.
Last year my mom (age 96) was taken to the ER with acute intestinal distress. As she was being attended to by the ER staff I mentioned that fifteen years ago on a visit to California on a book tour, she had been taken in with similar symptoms in the desert town of Ridgecrest, and that the diagnosis back then had been diverticulitis. “Diverticulitis? Hmmm...”
“So can’t you bring up her records and see it there?” I asked. No, apparently, it’s all on f* paper, in a town in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and they have to “send for it.”
When your consider the massive amount of money we are forking out to you people day after day, this is beyond pathetic. Suck it up and learn some methodology worthy of the twenty-first century.
But now consider SpaceX’s rate of technological progress. I could live to see that object captured and retrieved to star in a future, Earth-orbiting addition to the Smithsonian.
That’s an interface problem. It can be solved. “Filling out forms” is just a first-iteration approach to specifying clean input. As computers get more capable and AI assistants improve, the interface will get better.
The only thing worse than electronic health records is staying with paper forever. Let’s implement an EHR system that everyone can live and then force those highly paid prima donnas to use it.
The cure for “feline word processing” is not to add increasingly tricky new functions to your software that may have unguessable side effects. It’s not letting the damn cat walk on your keyboard.
After the great crypto crash, the world will be left with a lot of usable generating capacity in out-of-the-way areas, such as small dams in rural China. This will bring electric cars, etc., to areas that never contemplated having such big-city amenities.
After a long IT career, I'm doing residential and small business IT for my fellow chrono-Americans. I have come to believe that every IT executive should be required to spend some time doing this early in their careers. If they did, our personal computing experience would be greatly improved.
The most urgent priority has to be better authentication interfaces. Please, at least get rid of the goddamned password field masks. You need a masked field that one time in ten thousand when Aunt Hattie is on vacation and logging in to her email from a busy library. The rest of the time, it just invites error. And when you mistype a password three or more times on so many of today's sites, you get locked out and have to go through a password reset. Having a 'reveal' option is creeping in, but should be an interface standard.
Finding a way to eliminate passwords altogether would be even better. Let's issue little authentication dongles that people would keep in a USB port as an alternative, backed up by something like fingerprint ID on mobile devices. Or should we build password management into operating systems?
Every old person's computer use area is a solid mass of sticky notes, mostly bearing IDs and passwords. Aha, that "error that keeps coming up on my iPhone" is a request for the Apple ID logon. I look through the Alien egg laying room nest of stickies for the Apple ID note. Here it is! But why doesn't that password work? Oops, he had to change it and forgot where he had put the old Apple ID note - and the one before that. This leads to more searches for updates to the logon, with a constant threat of exceeding a retry limit that was designed for hyper-alert young military personnel.
Whoever fixes this one problem will win the Nobel Geriatrics Prize.
There are plenty of competitors. If one of them can come up with something substantially better then they could easily crush everyone else in the smartphone market.
There's a big market space waiting for a secure, less fragmented iteration of Android. Anyone care to occupy it?
Sounds like a great place to post my Falun Gong and Free Tibet videos!
Do they let Americans sign up for this? If so, Republicans who stick to domestic topics the Chinese don't care about can use Tik-Tok as an alternative to the Facebook 1984 they have been ejected from.
"Dear User, I'm sorry, but this PC has now been wiped of all relevant data by the "Stuxnet Eh?" virus. I am really sorry I wiped out all your data. Again... I'm really really sorry, PM Trudeau made me write this, and he is really sorry too!"
And by Canadian law, you forgot to add: "Cher utilisateur, je suis désolé, mais le virus" Stuxnet Eh? "A effacé de ce PC toutes les données pertinentes. , Le PM Trudeau m'a fait écrire ceci et il est vraiment désolé aussi! "
The one country that is trying to go all solar/wind has found that it has to install smart meters: https://www.smart-energy.com/m...
There is no way to get around monitoring individual user loads, as the current US generation of smart meters does, and in the absence of centralized generation there is no way to avoid second-generation smart meters, which involuntarily control major appliances at the single-user level.
Right now, Az is a low emitter BECAUSE of their nuclear power.
Really? What about the Navajo Generating Station?
Ah yes, the Navajo coal plant that is notorious for creating smog in the Grans Canyon. It is sacrosanct because it's on the Navajo reservation, and a primary source of jobs.
The same reservation also has a lot of uranium, and there is still more available outside the res on the Kaibab Plateau. The same forces that are responsible for the foot-dragging on closing Navajo are trying to prevent exploitation of the uranium resource because it's, you know, nuclear and evil.
Water on this planet is not being created or destroyed. it is only being maldistributed.
Vote No on 127 as I did, add more air-cooled nuclear capacity at Palo Verde, and have Los Angeles desalinate its own water supply with the added energy. With LA not sucking water from as far away as Wyoming, there will be plenty left over for inland users.
Think of it as trading Arizona energy for a part of California's allocation of inland water.
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We all just got through discussing how much the concept of Daylight Saving sucks. So the Gilded State's response is to...make it permanent.. Yeah, right. Now Newsomstan will be permanently out of sync with surrounding states, rather than just every summer.
This is the state that in earlier proposition drollery passed a toxic chemicals labeling law so draconian that now certain trees have to be labeled:
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018...
I'm defending the idea of EHRs, not one particular crappy user interface. If we had judged the whole concept of aviation by the de Havilland Comet, we would still be lining up at the New York City docks to take Cunards across the ocean.
That’s the amount per homeless person that SF already spends on these people. Yet so many of them continue living in the street because that’s what they prefer.
Is the new revenue going toward a mandatory mental health program for homeless? It will be a total waste if it isn’t.
Like I said, we need to develop an EHR standard that everyone can live with. This, like winning WW II, takes work, but there is no viable alternative. And i don’t mean incompatible islands of technology centered in a few major hospital systems, I mean one nationwide, online medical records standard whose use is mandatory and non-negotiable. Make knowing how to use it as basic a part of med school training as gross anatomy.
Last year my mom (age 96) was taken to the ER with acute intestinal distress. As she was being attended to by the ER staff I mentioned that fifteen years ago on a visit to California on a book tour, she had been taken in with similar symptoms in the desert town of Ridgecrest, and that the diagnosis back then had been diverticulitis. “Diverticulitis? Hmmm...”
“So can’t you bring up her records and see it there?” I asked. No, apparently, it’s all on f* paper, in a town in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and they have to “send for it.”
When your consider the massive amount of money we are forking out to you people day after day, this is beyond pathetic. Suck it up and learn some methodology worthy of the twenty-first century.
But now consider SpaceX’s rate of technological progress. I could live to see that object captured and retrieved to star in a future, Earth-orbiting addition to the Smithsonian.
How far is SpaceX away from being able to cobble up a flyby probe to at least get a close look at this object?
That’s an interface problem. It can be solved. “Filling out forms” is just a first-iteration approach to specifying clean input. As computers get more capable and AI assistants improve, the interface will get better.
The only thing worse than electronic health records is staying with paper forever. Let’s implement an EHR system that everyone can live and then force those highly paid prima donnas to use it.
The cure for “feline word processing” is not to add increasingly tricky new functions to your software that may have unguessable side effects. It’s not letting the damn cat walk on your keyboard.
After the great crypto crash, the world will be left with a lot of usable generating capacity in out-of-the-way areas, such as small dams in rural China. This will bring electric cars, etc., to areas that never contemplated having such big-city amenities.
After a long IT career, I'm doing residential and small business IT for my fellow chrono-Americans. I have come to believe that every IT executive should be required to spend some time doing this early in their careers. If they did, our personal computing experience would be greatly improved.
The most urgent priority has to be better authentication interfaces. Please, at least get rid of the goddamned password field masks. You need a masked field that one time in ten thousand when Aunt Hattie is on vacation and logging in to her email from a busy library. The rest of the time, it just invites error. And when you mistype a password three or more times on so many of today's sites, you get locked out and have to go through a password reset. Having a 'reveal' option is creeping in, but should be an interface standard.
Finding a way to eliminate passwords altogether would be even better. Let's issue little authentication dongles that people would keep in a USB port as an alternative, backed up by something like fingerprint ID on mobile devices. Or should we build password management into operating systems?
Every old person's computer use area is a solid mass of sticky notes, mostly bearing IDs and passwords. Aha, that "error that keeps coming up on my iPhone" is a request for the Apple ID logon. I look through the Alien egg laying room nest of stickies for the Apple ID note. Here it is! But why doesn't that password work? Oops, he had to change it and forgot where he had put the old Apple ID note - and the one before that. This leads to more searches for updates to the logon, with a constant threat of exceeding a retry limit that was designed for hyper-alert young military personnel.
Whoever fixes this one problem will win the Nobel Geriatrics Prize.
If any physicists are around, I have some thought experiments for you.
If I took the time to read this, I wouldn't know where I was now, would I?
It's not just the fact that fuel economy is atrocious when it comes to flying.
Not per passenger it isn't.
What could possibly go wrong?
All it really needs is a sticker saying "Do not look at laser with remaining eye"
"Dave's eye's not here, man!"
Bongs, power lasers, California!
There are plenty of competitors. If one of them can come up with something substantially better then they could easily crush everyone else in the smartphone market.
There's a big market space waiting for a secure, less fragmented iteration of Android. Anyone care to occupy it?
Look at yesterday's article on the subject of lies, damn lies and statistics.
Sounds like a great place to post my Falun Gong and Free Tibet videos!
Do they let Americans sign up for this? If so, Republicans who stick to domestic topics the Chinese don't care about can use Tik-Tok as an alternative to the Facebook 1984 they have been ejected from.
"Dear User, I'm sorry, but this PC has now been wiped of all relevant data by the "Stuxnet Eh?" virus. I am really sorry I wiped out all your data. Again... I'm really really sorry, PM Trudeau made me write this, and he is really sorry too!"
And by Canadian law, you forgot to add:
"Cher utilisateur, je suis désolé, mais le virus" Stuxnet Eh? "A effacé de ce PC toutes les données pertinentes. , Le PM Trudeau m'a fait écrire ceci et il est vraiment désolé aussi! "
The one country that is trying to go all solar/wind has found that it has to install smart meters:
https://www.smart-energy.com/m...
There is no way to get around monitoring individual user loads, as the current US generation of smart meters does, and in the absence of centralized generation there is no way to avoid second-generation smart meters, which involuntarily control major appliances at the single-user level.
About half of the LA water supply comes from the Colorado River:
https://viterbi.usc.edu/water/
Another APS employee posts on slashdot.
Logical fallacy: Argumentum ad monsantium.
Really? What about the Navajo Generating Station?
Ah yes, the Navajo coal plant that is notorious for creating smog in the Grans Canyon. It is sacrosanct because it's on the Navajo reservation, and a primary source of jobs.
The same reservation also has a lot of uranium, and there is still more available outside the res on the Kaibab Plateau. The same forces that are responsible for the foot-dragging on closing Navajo are trying to prevent exploitation of the uranium resource because it's, you know, nuclear and evil.
Clouds and humidity in Arizona?
During summer monsoon, mid-July to mid-September.
Water on this planet is not being created or destroyed. it is only being maldistributed.
Vote No on 127 as I did, add more air-cooled nuclear capacity at Palo Verde, and have Los Angeles desalinate its own water supply with the added energy. With LA not sucking water from as far away as Wyoming, there will be plenty left over for inland users.
Think of it as trading Arizona energy for a part of California's allocation of inland water.