MarceliusK

This is exactly why the names work

I always assumed the names were mostly random Swedish words picked for the vibe. The fact that there's a taxonomy behind them makes it much funnier somehow

So it is less "England has a program and the others don't" and more that each NHS is pursuing the same WHO goal independently, with different reporting and timelines

My guess is that devolution makes these programs and statistics look more separate than they really are

The downside of that model is that "be proactive" assumes people know what they should be proactive about

A disease that can stay silent for years, but is also highly curable once detected, seems like exactly the thing you want to screen for more aggressively

There is a pretty striking contrast here with the infected blood scandal. The NHS went from being responsible for one of the worst hepatitis C transmission disasters in the country's history to potentially becoming one of the first health systems to eliminate the disease

The problem is that one essential app being unavailable can outweigh the other 95% of the phone working perfectly

The frustrating part is that security increasingly means proving you are using an approved device and software stack, rather than proving that you are actually the account owner

The distinction still matters legally and administratively

If it lets the US use that identity to query European databases and retrieve associated information, that is a much larger change

It changes the nature of the scheme quite a bit

Fond memories and a slightly terrifying electrical inheritance

The image of him in the home shop with the radio playing and people still bringing him supposedly unfixable things is wonderful

There is something pleasantly backwards about a school teaching people to repair objects that were designed to last, while so much of the rest of the economy is optimized around replacement

If people follow your direction, it is usually because the argument made sense, the trust was already there or you did the unglamorous work of aligning everyone beforehand

In a way management should be treated more like a role change than a one-way promotion

A lot of "rapid adoption" in software is really the result of unusually cheap distribution and feedback loops

I think part of the difference is that in software we can often try the new thing immediately and see whether it helps. In biology, "this is real" and "this is important" are much harder to establish because the system is noisy, the experiments are slow and the implications may not be obvious until other pieces of the puzzle show up

So I'd say diffusion models make the philosophy less mystical but not necessarily solved

What I like about this story is how physical the problem is

Describing that loop from outside is not the same as paying the cost of running it from inside

Science is incredibly good at producing descriptions that are shareable between observers, but subjective experience is not obviously shareable in that same way

The point isn't that a human could literally sample bat experience. It's that if bat experience exists, it is tied to a form of embodiment and perception that we can describe externally but not fully inhabit subjectively

A bat might not have a "personal point of view" in the human sense, but that doesn't mean there is no point of view at all

Soo an outside description of a system, no matter how complete, does not obviously give us the inside of the experience...

But for actual use, especially screens and reading, the tradeoff can be pretty bad

The camera analogy is a really good one

What struck me here is how much "good UI" changes with age

For that use case I'd probably optimize less for "best keyboard" and more for "least annoying thing to pack and set up"