I think that makes sense given (a) the number of medicare patients needing blood thinner meds and (b) the relative cost of blood thinner meds given their utilization levels. Since insulin is already covered by another part of the law, heart disease meds make sense for medicare patients I think.
By now, it’s well known that Pokémon Go sucks. My biggest problem with it is just how shallow it is. It’s like a minimum viable product with a vaguely addicting gameplay loop....
Honestly, a minimum viable product is entirely what Pokemon Go was designed to be. It exists to extract behavioral surplus from users and convert it into valuable action by inviting users to go to certain places in a community through placement of Pokestops and Gyms. Basically a tool to drive foot traffic, which Niantic can (and does) sell to businesses that want to drive that foot traffic. It worked brilliantly for years and still is a somewhat effective method of driving advertising and sales for real world businesses.
And I absolutely loved it. It is honestly one of my new favorite books. I am going to tag basically this whole post as spoilers because the thing that truly makes this book amazing does not start until almost 100 pages in....
What specifically didn't you like about The Martian? Hail Mary is weirder and in some ways, a more exciting story, but Weir's writing style is the same in both books and there is some similarity in the plots.
Heat radiation in a vacuum is also an important aspect of space travel. If heat could not radiate in a vacuum, we would not be able to dump excess heat from space craft and, at some point, the combination of electric devices operating within the pressure vessel and human heat output would eventually roast the people inside. We need heat to radiate outwards, and, from my understanding, it’s actually a somewhat difficult problem to solve in a vacuum. We take air and evaporative cooling for granted sometimes when on Earth and in space, where air cooling isn’t going to happen, you have to practice other methods of heat transfer.
So 2025 is the year I finally move my desktop to Linux and run windows in a VM I guess. I still have a few apps that just do not play nicely in Wine that would make transitioning fully more difficult, but I've been full Linux on my laptop for years. Maybe I can finally make the jump on PC.
Mine is the Affinity suite of image manip software. I don't use it often, but I do use it often enough that I maintain a Windows box to be able to do so. That and I play a few games occasionally (at this point pretty rarely) that just work better/at all under Windows rather than Linux. Like 90% of what I do with my computers is great under Linux, but those last few elements make me not want to dump Windows entirely.
Thanks for this! I looked into it, but backed off when the only recipie for deployment appeared to be accessible only on some random Telegram channel. I'll have to look into this again and see if I can figure out how to make it work.
I'm up to 20 read and I'm currently working on 21, 22, and 23. I know it's a bid odd to read three books simultaneously (especially for a slow reader), but I've got my books in different contexts. One is my bed time book, Book 5 of Mistborn, which I'm slowly warming up to after devouring books 1-3. My living room book is House of Leaves, which just takes time to get through and can't easily be binged. My commuting book is The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, which is excellent but also bums me out (the perfect going into work book).
Right now my favorite for the year is probably Age of Surveillance Capitalism. It's not exactly revealing new ideas but more it's expanding upon those ideas into terrifying new depths. Excellent book and well worth a read.
I'm excited to finish the Mistborn series this year and I'll hit my goal of 25 books easily. I've already got books 24, 25, and 26 planned out. I'd love to hit 40 books this year but I'm not sure that will happen. I've not read that many books in one year since before middle school.
Least favorite reads? I picked up a Ray Kurzweil book about the singularity and put it down at 10 pages. It just felt so self congratulatory that I couldn't really get into it. Plus the argument felt supported by extreme cherry picking.
I also enjoyed but was a bit disappointed in NK Jemisin's sequel to The City We Became, titled The World We Make. It felt like a book that didn't need to be written and didn't really add to the characters or the world of the story. It was entertaining and evocative as all of Jemisin's works are, but it didn't leave as strong an impression as City which was disappointing.
Another notch in the portfolio of "public companies" being made worse due to shareholder supremacy. Public companies aren't even really public anymore given the advent of a million tools to limit the role the public has in governance.
I wonder if it would be possible to develop a federated model for sales. You'd like still need a platform like shopify between the consumer and the manufacturer, but the point of Etsy wasn't just the commerce side, it was also the discoverability and searching side. I wonder if a federated approach to searching for products utilizing independent websites or marketplaces, but with a unified search and sales platform would even make sense as a means to offer a decentralized marketplace. On some level that'd be just a digital swap meet/flea market, but with less oversight and commerce protection of a centralized platform like Etsy or Ebay.
You aren't the only one. Ive been on Fedora for a few years because I liked what Gnome was doing, I liked the updated Kernel, and I was annoyed by canonical. Now I'm not really sure where to go, as both Pop and Mint do not, in their current forms, work well with my hardware.
Only allow scripts or commands or tools that allow downloading or displaying or managing sexy pics of John Oliver. I.E. "This CLI will automatically download John Oliver pics from r/pics and covert them to ascii art."
Yeah people do not trust this YSK. Your medical debt more than likely can and will be sent to collections. You may have certain FDCA or general consumer protection rights associated with that collection, including potential HIPAA violations, but that isn't going to stop your debt being sent to collections.
This doesn't get into the fact that many hospitals do not have to sell their medical debt to hire a collections agent to recover the debt for them. "Sent to collections" does not necessarily mean the debt is sold and you can still be pursued by debt collectors acting on behalf of the original creditor.
Do not trust random, and very wrong, Internet posters.
I just remember playing megaman 1 on NES over and over mostly to listen to the music after you beat the first bosses, i loved the music of that game so much!
I played a little MMO called Face of Mankind. It was hot garbage but I loved it. I played in a faction called the Law Enforcement Division (LED), the Solar System's police force. As part of that group, I joined Internal Affairs and helped run investigations into other LED members. I loved the process of applying rules to cases and investigating situations, applying fines or punishments as needed. The game really didn't empower much player agency in this regard, but we made it work. And it was an absolute blast.
Two memories stick out that made the game become mythical in my mind. First, was the Tequila Yuen Incident, in which a player changed from the "army" faction to the LED and was accused of murdering another player. As IAD, we had to investigate. During the investigation we determined that the army had faked the evidence to support their claim of murder by dressing another player to look like Yuen and faking a screenshot to imply Yuen admitted to the murder. After that, we uncovered an entire hidden organization within the army and led to a cop/army war.
Second, after a falling out with the LED leadership, I joined the underground "Brotherhood of Shadows" faction. As part of an anti-system government movement, the BoS joined forces with a number of other factions to form a counter government called the Nation of Shadows. As part of that government, we needed to draft establishing documents and I spent a few weeks working with others to draft a NoS constitution and binding agreements for military force commitments and representative government.
I cannot stress enough how little the developers gave us to support any of this nonsense. And yet, it happened regardless.
I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all...
This might sound silly, but I've been looking for a way out for a while. A lot of what reddit has done has been gross, but it has also been mentally salvageable for the good bits. I think the API issue is what finally allowed me to get over the mental hurdle of wanting to stay on reddit.
Indefensible (lemmy.world)
Biden administration names 10 prescription drugs for first-ever Medicare price negotiations (abcnews.go.com)
What Pokémon Go could've been.
By now, it’s well known that Pokémon Go sucks. My biggest problem with it is just how shallow it is. It’s like a minimum viable product with a vaguely addicting gameplay loop....
Just read Project Hail Mary
And I absolutely loved it. It is honestly one of my new favorite books. I am going to tag basically this whole post as spoilers because the thing that truly makes this book amazing does not start until almost 100 pages in....
If incandescent lightbulbs have a vacuum inside, why do they get so hot on the outside?
Shouldn’t the vacuum insulate the glass from the heat of the burning filament?
The Release Date and Key Features of Windows 12 Unveiled (ux-news.com)
I…didn’t think windows 12 was actually a thing but here we are?
We're halfway through the year. How many books have you read so far and are you on track for your goal? Favorite books so far? Least favorite?
Think of this thread as a mid year review:...
Short Video. Why is Etsy so bad now? (www.tiktok.com)
Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ?
I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).
Favourite game music?
Ok continuing on from my last thread, he's a different question....
I was wondering when they'd get round to the smaller subreddits
YSK: Medical Debt cannot be sent to collections
Collections agencies need to provide you with an itemized list of what you owe and to who....
Whats your must-have FOSS app?
I love the Infinity Reddit app (but gonna miss it).
What is your best gaming memory growing up?
I just remember playing megaman 1 on NES over and over mostly to listen to the music after you beat the first bosses, i loved the music of that game so much!
what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back
I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all...