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NamTaf
·ieri·discuss
The point is that list isn't first-in-first-out. Public waiting lists are constantly reviewed by domain medical expert committees in the public system to triage priority patients.

If you're truly urgent, you will get bumped up. If you're not urgent, you can get bumped down as others go above you.

Unfortunately, individual QoL and urgency can sometimes be disconnected, which is why pensioners getting hip replacements can get bumped down despite having loss of mobility due to heaps of pain.

Cumulatively for lots of non-urgent activities (diagnosis tests etc) that drag can add up.

Much like any commons, is no perfect system, funnily enough.
NamTaf
·ieri·discuss
"Just don't be poor!"

I feel like you have missed the entire point of the article.
NamTaf
·7 giorni fa·discuss
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NamTaf
·18 giorni fa·discuss
It did fail safe though?

Interference led to the network stopping, not trains just racing towards each other due to bogus line authorities. That is, by definition, fail-safe
NamTaf
·18 giorni fa·discuss
> I wonder if one day using a smart phone while driving will have the same stigma as a DUI (and similar punishment).

Thankfully, it is beginning to, in some places outside the US.

> You can be fined $1,251 and have 4 demerit points recorded against your traffic history for using a mobile phone illegally while driving. [1]

> 0.05 and over, but under 0.10

Disqualification: 1 to 9 months

Fine: $2,336
[2]

[1]: https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/mobile-p...

[2]: https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/drink-dr...
NamTaf
·mese scorso·discuss
My first "gaming" PC was a secondhand thing with a RIVA TNT2 M64. It had cooked memory from presumably prior abuse, in such a way that if I ran Counter-Strike with 3d accel on, some of the wall textures were transparent.

But it also relatively frequently crashed so I rarely tried using it for the better graphics, and at that young age never appreciated the cheating aspect of it.
NamTaf
·mese scorso·discuss
> The hardware picture has been clear for months. The iPhone Ultra, the apparent name for this new form factor iPhone, is a book-style foldable, reportedly featuring a 7.7- to 7.8-inch inner display and a 5.3- to 5.5-inch cover screen, unfolding to a 4:3 ratio closer to an iPad mini than a widescreen display.

Excellent. Now that you have a supply chain for small screens again, please use that same cover screen to make an updated mini phone! I've sat in patient silence waiting for this exact moment!
NamTaf
·mese scorso·discuss
You know, I've had this exact bug for some time on a Fire Stick 4K Max Gen 1 (similarly anaemic). I figured it was storage or RAM pressure causing the problem as I could see both were close to the limit, but didn't realise it was OS swap/cache eviction removing critical files as it only happened to Kodi.

I assumed Kodi just didn't really clean up after itself fully and after a bunch of heavy uses some cruft built up, taking up some threshold amount of storage, and then Kodi couldn't extract some temp data on start-up. I also assumed Kodi was adversely affected due to having a biigger asset pool than the other apps I have on my device.

Token-wise, could you give an idea of the rough cost of this?
NamTaf
·mese scorso·discuss
I fucking hate AI
NamTaf
·mese scorso·discuss
ITT we discover that project managers actually serve a purpose and not all of them are the stereotypical useless roles Dilbert riffed on.
NamTaf
·mese scorso·discuss
Most of the world handles international flights separately without needing to do that unless it is an international-domestic connection.

However I agree that in purely domestic airports I don't see how you'd prevent general public from accessing bags. Except India, wherein you need a booked flight to even enter the airport.
NamTaf
·mese scorso·discuss
As a non-tech engineer (mechanical, trains) it's fascinating seeing what is essentially the "not real engineers" SWE crew finally pay the piper because they've invoked what is in essence a non-compliant, cost-focused subcontractor and now need all of the same engineering rigours they never previously understood.
NamTaf
·mese scorso·discuss
Never mind stumbling into proper engineering principles like having documented, testable requirements specifications.
NamTaf
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Here you go: https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/table-1-industry-rates-national....

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction: 1.2

Coal mining: 3.1

Heavy and civil engineering construction: 1.8

Animal slaughtering and processing: 3.2

Wood product manufacturing (inc. sawmills): 4.2

Foundries: 5.1

Aerospace product and parts manufacturing: 1.6

Rail transportation: 3.4

Judging solely by the aforementioned linked data, at 4.8, Brownsville should be shut down by management to do a safety intervention. McGregor and Hawthorne should be under the limelight, too. Redmond and CC seem good.
NamTaf
·2 mesi fa·discuss
This is trivially easy to check if you actually wanted to. Hell, I'll bring the receipts on your behalf.

These numbers are all total injury frequency rates per 100 employees or 200k hours (equivalent measures, assuming 50x 40-hour weeks)

Assuming the TC article that cites 4.27 at Starbase is accurate, it's well in excess of anything I'm used to seeing. Have a flick through here for industry-wide equivalents: https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/table-1-industry-rates-national....

Alternatively, here's some of the big players in various engineering, construction, mining, etc. heavy industries, taken directly from their websites/sustainability reports:

ExxonMobil: 0.1-0.2 https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/publications/metrics-and-da...

Chevron: 0.24 (p23) https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/media/publications/corporat...

Glencore: 2.14 (p15) https://www.glencore.com/.rest/api/v1/documents/static/9b103...

Jiangxi Copper: 1.5 (p132, NB: per million hours so /5) https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2025/0327/...

Fluor: 0.31 (p10) https://a.fluor.com/f/1014770/x/1d656014e2/2024-sustainabili...

Jacobs: 0.17 (p61) https://s205.q4cdn.com/384284279/files/doc_downloads/2024/ES...

Union Pacific: 0.9 (p8) https://www.up.com/content/dam/upcom/strategy-sustainability...

PG&E: 1.87 (p45) https://www.pgecorp.com/assets/pgecorp/csr/csr_2025/assets/p...

Baowu: 1.8 (p19, listed per 1000 employees so *10) https://res.baowugroup.com/attach/2025/09/18/4751f22bbb33484...

Parsons: 0.16 (p29) https://www.parsons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FY24-CARE...

Vale: 1.58 (p66) https://www.vale.com/documents/44618/430705/2025_Annual+Repo...
NamTaf
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I work in mining and mining-adjacent. Safety is taken seriously and process is rigorous. lock-out-tag-out, etc. is all huge in it.

These metrics are reported on both internally and externally and make up major components of incentive payments. I'm completely used to management having 70+% of the incentive being tied to company performance, which is in turn strongly influenced by safety performance metrics.

I'm used to targets well under sub-1.0 TRIR at class 1 operators. Something like 4 would pause the project.
NamTaf
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Where are you getting construction as double that? This BLS site states that total recordable injuries is 2.2 per 100 employees. https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/table-1-industry-rates-national....

Remember, this is reportable injuries. not LTIs, not fatalities.

As an aside, as someone who works on major engineering construction projects, 4.27 per 100 people is huge. I'm used to sub-1.0, and something like 4.x would be stop-the-project-safety-intervention significant.
NamTaf
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Your initial baseline was arbitrary. If the game had been 10% slower on Windows, would you have never enjoyed it? If not, how could switching with a 10% penalty be a deal-breaking downside?

Just do it. Swap and let go of objectivity. Let your subjective experience guide you.

For me, the subjective joy of not having to fuck around with Microsoft's bullshit was worth multiples of having to mess around with technical crap to get a game working (spoiler: I nearly never have to do that because I play single player games, Dota and CS). I couldn't give less of a damn if my FPS in some random title is 10% slower than it would be in Windows. So long as it's playable, I benefit in spades from the trade-off.
NamTaf
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Surprisingly. A lot of eg: aircon ducting, placement of stuff in the bonnet, dash configuration, wiring looms, is all -handed. Certainly doable but it’s a significant burden in both design effort and handling of parts/supply chain/inventory which may or may not justify it.

I briefly worked on doing LHD-to-RHD car conversions and the devil was definitely in the detail.
NamTaf
·3 mesi fa·discuss
From TFA:

“TV ads from betting agencies will be capped at three per hour, between 6am and 8:30pm, and banned completely from any live sports broadcasts during those hours”

I read that as even after 8:30pm, they’re still banned during live sports broadcasts. So none of this half-time odds update or whatever.