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tapland··on Bus Bunching
That’s usually how they’re scheduled though, and it’s printed that way to make the timetable shorter and much easier to read.
tapland··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
If you never do, you’d hopefully be aware that it’s exceptional.
tapland··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
You could argue for only allowing communication through selected carriers, or connections to selected brand computers, and connecting to selected manufacturer Wi-Fi hotspots too
tapland··on Our interfaces have lost their senses
It mostly seems to be slop
tapland··on Ereader Easy Swedish
My SO has lived in Sweden for a few years, gone through the provided Swedish classes to be eligible for university studies, but really feels the need to consume more swedish text.

The easier-to-read books in the libraries are all too simple, and they don't want to learn by regularly reading a lot of news (which is probably the easiest way to be trickle fed new and niche words), but this seems really nice.

This looks promising for their situation. I'll plop LoTR, Antimemetics Division or something in there later and see how it turns out!

tapland··on Novo Nordisk slashes Wegovy price for patients lacking insurance benefits
Current price in Sweden should be about $300-320/mo? Looked this up last week. Starting dosage is lower. You you can find the prices, even on prescription only meds with fixed pricing, on the state-owned pharmacy's website (monopoly until 2009).

https://www.apoteket.se/sok/?q=Wegovy

Let me know if it's geoblocked.

10.14 SEK = 1 USD after the USD losing a bit this week so unusually handy conversion :D

Coincidentally ~$300/year is the cap for subsidized (prescribed) medications.

tapland··on Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED
In Sweden the municipality finances 40-50% of public transport, and owns recorded CCTV and gathered traffic data (from ticket scans etc). But operations are by private companies (regular procurement stuff).

It works somewhat ok

tapland··on Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
The hardest to safely drive, with most risk to others safety, in the most densely populated areas of Sweden and Finland.

The well maintained highways would be much safer. Not even considering the autopilot.

tapland··on The trap of "I am not an extrovert"
Absolutely. Just wanted to point out that having difficulty being in a social and potentialy rowdy and loud environment for hours can still remain after the "seek psych/medical help" advice that was thrown out!
tapland··on How concurrency works: A visual guide
Yes <- No
tapland··on The trap of "I am not an extrovert"
So if the person has, let’s say, autism, and will not be able to endure this for longer than a few hours before becoming completely overwhelmed.

What do you want these people to do, since they aren’t allowed to respond how they might do? When and where are they welcome in society?

tapland··on How concurrecy works: A visual guide
Is text written an in an image field more visual than other text?
tapland··on Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
On iOS it’s still safari backend though?
tapland··on Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981
Yeah, there was a lot of debates when they started relying on cell networks for alarms systems (mostly for the elderly) as a way to not have to maintain the copper.
tapland··on Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981
And Europe. Finalizing the shutdowns of 2G and 3G networks in Sweden during 2025.
tapland··on Autism's Four Core Subtypes
I see this but usually only when someone who has never saught a diagnosis or have any shared experiences keeps referring to their supposed autism in a community with a lot of autistic people who will backlash.

Never seen a discussion go bad _about_ it.

tapland··on Autism's Four Core Subtypes
If we can find specific subtypes it would be extremely helpful. You can’t expect everything to be presented only with a complete solution.
tapland··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. Now Boss makes 10 dollars, on HN that’s fine.
tapland··on Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
Happens to me every time, it’s very relaxing. I get them both-yearly and get a p. good rest.

For shorter flights (1-2 hours) I usually fall asleep shortly after takeoff and wake up at landing. The a 320 neo I took recently actually felt too quiet to be relaxing.

tapland··on The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)
Yup, but while making the window smaller to write this I noticed I can make it a small window, about the size of my phone, to get text that is reasonable.

The site, giving UI advice, is written assuming your display is always ~7" ?

tapland··on A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow
Well, when was the last time someone saw something like that advertised on billboards? Can’t remember ever seeing anything like it on a billboard outside SF which is a very weird special case
tapland··on You'll regret using natural keys
> You do not keep individual private lists of people changing genders.

On this note: Some organization in Sweden actually does store changes like suggested in the top comment. Both the tax agency and police were interested in knowing who did, and who had access, since it's the cause of recent mass doxxing events.

tapland··on You'll regret using natural keys
They're still still an immigrant. The numbers are for residents (at some point in time) and citizenship isn't reflected by it.
tapland··on You'll regret using natural keys
It's not really fine. I work on a Healthcare system in the nordics.

Who you billed, who visited what doctor, who your primary care provider is, all the people a doctors office has as patients, refers to the SSN.

You don't want to lose that connection or to have to update everything for any change.

You store a unique identifier for the person in the system, and you can then pull the actual personal identification number when needed.

You do not keep individual private lists of people changing genders.

tapland··on You'll regret using natural keys
It does, but if you already have a Personnummer or get a residence permit right away so that you are eligible for one you don't get the temporary Samordningsnummer.
tapland··on AI Photo Geolocation
I got similar results, and that would be ok if it didn't sound so confident with the guess.
tapland··on Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for 1-year-old baby
\o/

Deal with this all the time working with an old system written in COBOL. Current system was patched with a db column for century.

The problem that really flies under the radar though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

tapland··on Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
You only push after you've established your guy as the likely successor. If this was coordinated it was not the first move.
tapland··on EVGA power supply kills 22TB of customer storage then denies responsibility
It's somehow still not standardized on the psu-side of the cable.
tapland··on Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm
The translation isn't even necessarily damning. A lot of countries require publishing in the local language, and then you want it in english too.
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