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cheese_van
·25 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Went to a new doctor. As part of the check-in process, I was asked to "sign" a little digital pad, so, as I was told, they could properly use my insurance. I asked to see the hard copy of what I was signing and they couldn't find one. Then, for some reason, they were unable to print one. I gave up and scribbled my sig with my finger and then was seen by a doctor. It's maddening.
cheese_van
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
One one hand, it's political news, which I abhor on HN. On the other hand, international travel out of SF provides underlying support for the tech industry and without it, would cause deep headaches. On balance then, yeah, I don't mind this on HN.
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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yeah, we got sucked into the hopefulness, the promise and the excitement of a new technology. It was a great feeling and primarily one of optimism. I remember being blown away by the promise of HyperCard when I first read about it.

That promise and excitement didn't last long but it kept me employed. And the optimism certainly went south.
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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I certainly don't condone the experience I had in junior high school, although it seemed to work for our specific environment.

As a child I went to a well funded Catholic school in Chicago. Fighting was discouraged by priests who would put the two kids in a boxing ring - we were made to use gloves (but I don't remember helmets). Both kids would have a priest in their corner, but really for their own amusement. Then they would ring the bell and the two combatants would have at it.

What those who don't box don't know is that unless you are trained, boxing exhausts you almost immediately and the gloves very quickly become so heavy you can hardly lift them to punch. At the end of the first round, the priests would ask us if we wanted to continue, we would exhaustedly decline.

My only introduction to the ring ended with my opponent becoming a best friend, and most bouts ended the same.

Again, I'm not condoning this practice, and I'm not nostalgic about the period, but it seemed to have positive effects in a milieu that seems no longer to exist (I'm 73).
cheese_van
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I can recommend A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. Heartily recommend in fact.

And if you're like me, always looking for a series to fill the time, I can recomend the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell. It's nothing dramatic, just human interactions, which I found refreshing.
cheese_van
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It didn't grab me at first but your comment makes me think I should give it another go, thanks. I remember that initially I had a world of trouble with Conrad's Heart of Darkness but I hit it again and was amply rewarded, so Ill give Blindsight another try, thanks.
cheese_van
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It seems that low quality human customer support, or rather, no support at all, has been normal for some time. I don't enjoy talking to an AI, but if they are constructed to be efficiently helpful, I welcome it, grudgingly.
cheese_van
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
In my personal experience, a divorce, money (child support), if I couldn't change it, I'd ignore it. But to ignore my own adversity, I had to intensely focus on something else, typically a new interest or hobby. I dove into medieval history, and now have a suberb library on on the topic - the reading and the collecting books both informed me and kept my mind off the troubles I couldn't avoid. And I dove into baseball which to be honest, broke my heart but baseball despair is an infinitly more palatable despair than love loss.
cheese_van
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
What aspect of technology or science is reflected in this report regarding a crime? Does this type of reporting belong on HN?
cheese_van
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
<protect our first-party products from abuse like scraping>

Abuse from scraping has long been a serious problem for many, good job!
cheese_van
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It might have been 2002, can't remember, when they upgraded the e-QIP software for the security check form.

I was doing my mandatory update coincidental with the roll-out and when I got to the question, "mother a US citizen" I had to check the "no" box and the immediate pop-up was "date of first contact?" which actually got me thinking along existential lines for a moment.
cheese_van
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
My offhand impression is that when I was in Germany, consumers were oddly suspicious of the Internet in general and very suspicious of social media in particular. That suspicion was somewhat translated into a lackadaisical attitude about service quality. Perhaps that attitude is finally changing because DT simply won't care unless there is a sufficiently large enough vocal public to force the issue.
cheese_van
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I read von Daniken as a very young kid and loved it. But I read it, and enjoyed it very much, as a science fiction genre. I never bought it, but I admired the effort. And so I thank him for stimulating a child's imagination. Well done Mr. V!
cheese_van
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Many thanks for this entry. Knowing the reason for the shutdown hang is very valuable. It prevents me futzing my brains out and doing damage whilst trying to repair it.

I did experience something odd however. At some point during tweaking various settings, both in the new OS (linux) and BIOS, I was unable to F2 access the BIOS during start. I thought to find the CMOS battery to reset the BIOS but I COULD NOT FIND THE DAMNED THING. So before sending it back to ASUS, I removed the PCIe drive since it had personal info on it.

But booting AFTER removing the PCIe drive gave me access to the BIOS. I thought BIOS boot was independent of hard drive presence?

Anyway, after booting the BIOS I rescued my new machine and only had two screws left over after taking the darn thing apart!

trivia: first boot into linux resulted in "no hd found". Turns out this ASUS BIOS won't detect the linux hd unless you set VMD to disabled which enables AHCI. Thanks for the obfuscation ASUS!
cheese_van
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It's less dangerous but man oh man did my life improve when I quit. I now wake up refreshed, my cognition seems sharper and my sleep now generates dreams again, which I suspect is cognitively healthier. I would very much like to see improved education about the various downsides of using this less dangerous drug, as I'm sure lives would be improved by less usage and moderate recreational use instead of habitual overindulgence which was my error.
cheese_van
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Back when my daughter was small, I was waiting in a line to get to the ticket window at the ballpark. A woman walked up to us, said my daughter was lovely, and gave us 2 tickets to the premium section of the park (the fancy bathroom section as my daughter called it). We saw Manny Ramirez hit his 500th! What a nice gesture. Whenever we went back, and when I was making a bit more money, I always bought one or two tickets after that to give away. Being unexpectedly nice in an unexpected way not only put a bit of joy in my life, it prompted me to do the same. That reminds me. I need to do something unexpected for a stranger. Thanks for the reminder!
cheese_van
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This is why so many teams fight back against the audit findings:

"The information systems office did not enforce logical access to the system in accordance with role-based access policies."

Invariably, you want your best people to have full access to all systems.
cheese_van
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Sir, I don't care who you are, you must open a ticket.