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  1. Re:EHRs are terrible on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think a centralized mandated system would be better or worse? From multiple places, I've heard about automated filler on charts. I think this is a recipe for disaster even if it was included with good intentions.
    Is the root of this problem mixing specialties or mixing in administrative and billing?

  2. Re:EHRs are terrible on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Millions of workers have these policies today. I have one, 6k deductible and I pay out of pocket at the insurers discounted rate. Usually I get better rates on drugs from my Sam's club membership.

    Your logic is 20 years to late. Look at how other countries have controlled costs. If we get them under control now, they are still too expensive for most people.

  3. Re:EHRs are terrible on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Public option is the way forward, but I'm not so sure Elon should be in charge. How someone thinks their aesthetic distaste for beeps and the color yellow should take precedence of safety, I'll never understand.

  4. Because windows doesn't have built in ssh, and this sucks.

  5. Re:Less money spent wooing lobbyists on Amazon In 'Advanced Talks' To Open Headquarters In Washington DC Area (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    As a non-American, you probably don't know what white-flight is. It explains alot.

  6. Re:That makes no sense on Are Touchscreens Robbing a Generation of Surgeons of Their Dexterity? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, alot of these "elite" medical students have led lives structured far beyond what many parents would consider normal.

    My daughter has a friend who brought an MCAT study guide to (mandatory) school sleepaway camp. She spends hours on scholastics and reading, but does little else. She does help in her parents restaurant, so there is probably manual dexterity involved for her.

    However, there are plenty of kids whose parents are similarly driving them and working professional careers where there is little exposure to manual dexterity activities.

  7. Re:Fedora did KDE better than Ubuntu on Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Ask me how I know you haven't used OpenSuse lately.

  8. Re:does it come with magnifying glasses? on Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    2nd'ed on the resizable font. Mobile browsers used to reflow, but none of them seem to allow much zooming anymore.

  9. Re:I read too quickly for this on Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I use an epub reader. TTV works well enough for me and I can switch between reading and listening. I'm not a fan of highly produced audiobooks. I just want to hear the words that are written.

  10. Re:Comcast. The good, the bad, and the ugly. on The Average Cable Bill Has Increased More Than 50 Percent Since 2010 (streamingobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    You must be in a one service area. I could switch to at&t symmetrical GB for $100 /month, or 100/100 for $80. I'm sticking with comcast because the gave me a decent deal for $140 and their television (x1) is way better then uverse. I've been real happy with it.

  11. OpenSuse has some Sure merged into it. It's a fine choice for home, but hard to defend as a corporate server.
    Even the long term version requires you to switch repos every 18 months and perform a 'distribution upgrade'. Minor releases don't seem to be fully risk free either.

  12. Well, your first link is setting up an Apple ID, which does not require a payment method. Now try to use that apple ID to install anything free on your Ipad...
    I'll wait...
    (spoiler, you need to put in a payment method).

    Your 2nd link flat out agrees with me, the first guy says, "this is how you do it". Every post after that is, "uh, your wrong, I don't see it", or "I think you can't do it from the website."

    I've been through tons of hoops on this, even talked to a lawyer at the EFF. Apple has a program to allow schools to create an actual child ID, but my school refuses to participate. Even though the ID is not managed by the school and the school district next door appears to participate. I've given up on it because I was becoming that problem parent and I have other concerns.

  13. I can't help the majority, and I don't have any experience with IOS aside from ipads my kids have to use. There are plenty of things I find frustrating in IOS, chiefly the way they tie you into their ecosystem. You can't create child accounts (under 18), without an IOS device with an adult account. Itunes and web interfaces won't suffice. They can only be managed by another IOS device, so every child of mine's Ipad has an account claiming they are over 13. (School says I am the account owner so it should be my age, but I don't want the kids exposed to app behavior targeting adults). Secondly the fact that IOS can't be setup properly without some sort of payment method on file.

    Android sucks too, but I know how to manage it. The settings are mostly there (but quit setting my location to scan wifi and cell towers assholes). I turn stuff off and keep only what I need enabled.

  14. Plus management doesn't say, "well, we're already paying Oracle, let's use their garbage product over here too."

    OEM, I'm pointing at you....

  15. Android is the same, I have auto-update turned off and I review the change logs before updating.

    Google is big ass for putting "updates and bugfixes" in 90% of their change logs.

  16. Yeah, It's pretty crazy. NPR One did this to my phone afew years ago. I installed it and had it on wifi all day, then I jump in my car and as soon as it hit the cellular network it pulled down a couple GB of data killing my plan.

  17. Re:This is my stop. on Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd pay closer to cable prices for netflix, especially if they had all the content. The reason I pay for netflix is no commercials. It's also why I pay for comcast instead of AT&T. Both claim you can't skip commercials at the beginning of their on-demand shows, but comcast let's you, at&t blocks skipping entirely.

  18. Re:Don't think terrorists would want to use this on Scientists Are Getting Seriously Worried About Synthetic Smallpox (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    I was listening to this podcast the other day. It had a section where the host talked about Robert LeFevre (32:00). Many people think of anarchists when they mean autarchist . Anarchists actually believe in helping each other. Autarchrists are every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost.

  19. Re:AI really can't replace everything. on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, they are always building a better idiot. Best you can do is ignore them.

  20. Re: AI really can't replace everything. on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Their loss for buying into the conservative hysteria. I have 5 daughters so I spend alot of time around young women.

  21. Re:AI really can't replace everything. on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    America would have seen a child testify in front of the Senate? OK, she'd be 20+ by now, but nothing else would have changed.

    It's not difficult to avoid accusations of pedophilia. Most Men do it their entire lives.

  22. Re:AI really can't replace everything. on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I love how this Duke Lacrosse case gets trotted out all the time. Like these kids were just pulled off the street and accused of rape. Don't hire strippers and your pretty safe.

  23. Re:AI really can't replace everything. on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I have children, volunteer in classes, teach children sometimes, work with women, etc.. I've never been accused, so there's another anecdote for you.

    I have mostly daughters, so I work with alot of female children. I've walked up to lost children, boys and girls, to help them. I've talked to children alone or just ignored at the playground when I'm there with my children. I've given female coworkers rides to events.

    Maybe your doing something suspect? I'm generally not considered approachable by people. They act nervous when I'm standing alone with them because I am a big, racially ambiguous person. I've been pulled over by cops for driving in a nice neighborhood. I've seen the look of surprise when I show up to pick up my much lighter children.
    I've still never had a problem with women or children when I approach them in a friendly and respectful manor.

  24. Re:Routers? Firmware? on California Bans Default Passwords on Any Internet-Connected Device (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with putting the security responsibility on the user explicitly. It's implicitly doing it, where most users feel safe, that is a problem.

  25. Re:It's time for revolt on California Bans Default Passwords on Any Internet-Connected Device (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, he might just be a run-of-the-mill wildly misinformed conservative. I'm guessing he's referencing this.

    Calling the companies on this list gun manufacturers is a stretch. They are basically resellers or customizers (run by dumbasses).