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emeril··on AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17
I've had my laptops battery swell more than any phone
emeril··on New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden
and those indian made antibiotics sometimes are little different in effectiveness than candy

I dread it when any generic medication I get is made in india or china since the fda doesn't meaningfully regulate/test their stuff

emeril··on New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden
-as a democratic american - why bother?

-roughly half of the us populace supports the current authoritarian regime and the other half's senators and representatives are largely useless and aren't even doing what they can except for say wearing an adult diaper while giving a 25 hour speech

-I fully plan on eventually moving to canada (or elsewhere) when the time comes - much easier to move than any other option

emeril··on Jeffrey Goldberg on being added to the group chat by Trump Administration
ah - i usually view using https://hckrnews.com/

it seems for whatever reason the above viewer omits it

emeril··on Jeffrey Goldberg on being added to the group chat by Trump Administration
why was this link not easily accessible in the first place?
emeril··on Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's?
most of those with crohn's would likely have developed it at some point - 99% of those with food poisoning won't develop crohn's
emeril··on George Foreman has died
I used to only use one side of the grille and usually not close it for most things where I cared about retaining the moisture
emeril··on New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet
I generally try to have staff time stamp their files with date/time and mark them read only - I suppose that's easier than git though not as good...
emeril··on New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet
as someone who works in the enterprise world as an accountant with some programming experience...

excel is flexible and easy for reporting/analysis for data of varying sizes from small to not ginormous whereas doing anything in an ERP requires an, often, low paid SWE with a thick accent in a different time zone at, comparatively, high cost and big delay

i.e., I can often solve problems in excel in an afternoon that would take months to solve with one of these SWE's

emeril··on 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
I had that too - it was the last gaming card I ever had, then I became an adult who didn't like games for better or worse
emeril··on How Flash games shaped the video game industry (2020)
The urinal choice game was formative for me.
emeril··on Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office
My personal favorite tidbit about a company which gave surveys years ago was that they claimed they were anonymous but when I was late to submit mine one year, the CFO called me and asked me to do my survey since it was late...
emeril··on Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts
the US is def not the best in many categories - though I suspect certain pockets of the US (overrepresented on HN) are like SV re: tech/quality of life and academia

many people I know - mostly [science/math/etc. denying] republicans think the US is the best at everything including healthcare (!!!) despite reams of data conclusively proving otherwise

my fingers are crossed that DOGE/Dump does something stupid enough to irritate the populace (and by extension a handful of senators/representatives to grow a mini-spine) enough to stop this destruction

emeril··on 20 years working on the same software product
yeah - I'm sure Everything by voidtools is precisely that
emeril··on Dear Mr. Vice President, Please Take Off Your Apple Watch
I love the comment on the article "Lol. Lmao. You think a watch is going to be the biggest insider threat? What about the unelected foreign national rifling through every server closest in the DC metro area?"
emeril··on Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admin Panel
i have such a subaru - the nav is a joke - the whole UX for their GUI is bad but the car seems mostly okay

recently got a mazda - seems generally better though I think most car interfaces are crap

emeril··on 417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make
too bad it's not optimized to view without loading the entire thing to memory...
emeril··on General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years
I had a similar experience with a Mazda lease

I never installed the app and I was asked to by the leasing guy though he wasn't pushy about it - for whatever reason, the lease/sales guys are incented to have it installed though, allegedly, mazda corporate says they don't incent them - I don't trust it

also, allegedly, since I didn't install it, mazda says my TPU is disabled which is fine by me - remote start is less important than saying many thousands of dollars on bogus insurance hikes

emeril··on UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)
where's your evidence of this massive sympathy?

I bet even his own family isn't too sad about this - most C-Levels I've worked with are grade A psychopaths whose family doesn't care for them besides money

this guy is probably moderately responsible for a significant amount of needless suffering and death

emeril··on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing
Us republicans here don't like them facts and prefer alternative facts

we like to think we are just da best at everything

after all, I sometimes read about people coming to the US for care so it must be better?

emeril··on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing
I suppose though if one of my children grows up to be a CEO of a place like UHC, I'd consider myself to have failed as a parent and would disown them
emeril··on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing
maybe so but it's definitely cathartic and that counts for something
emeril··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
All valid points though each of those examples seemingly only has a fraction of the viewers of the netflix events, right?
emeril··on Notepad++ is 21 years old
omg dude - you must transition to directory opus instead of file explorer

the wildcard search alone is worth the entry price

been using it for like 10+ years

emeril··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
nice site though some of those are def heavy on the ink/toner with the black backgrounds!!! :)
emeril··on The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
> It's not that easy to fix.

Medicare for everyone seems like an "easy" fix but we have too many red state neanderthals in the US who oppose policies that clearly benefit them claiming "personal responsibility" though they oddly still think schools, police, fire departments, etc. are just fine...

emeril··on Is the world really running out of sand?
great new yorker piece on this

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...

emeril··on Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)
I've been using outlook 2010 for 15 years (+ and old license of "lookeen")

it seems to be the least bad version I've encountered for an exchange client that seems compatible with modern exchange

if I had super modern exchange and had to use the latest desktop client, I'd probably just use the webclient at this point as it's probably better

ultimately, I'd take gmail over any incarnation of MS mail apps these days (including outlook 2010)

emeril··on Working in the office 5 days/week to build company culture is a myth: PwC report
yeah, at least PwC + Deloitte are more legitimate than say KPMG or E&Y IMO

this is judging by all the time I spend reading their "handbooks" professionally

emeril··on Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System
omg, I'm an actual old fart accountant... "quickbooks" is good enough for small businesses (though I 100% appreciate the problems it has) if you need something robust with more controls, you either just use netsuite/etc. or something more specialized for your industry

and FFS, only go the route of custom code as a last resort, you are better off slightly changing your business process to match whatever workflow/etc. is in the OTS ERP instead of having some cheap crappy dev (only crappy since most who do ERP programming are often not well paid) shoehorn your (likely ill conceived) process or report into the existing ERP...

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