I feel like the popularity of the LAMP stack (or WAMP if you were just starting out your interest in software and hadn’t yet moved to Linux) in the 00s and early 10s is to blame here. MySQL ended up being the default choice for people who didn’t know much about databases.
Now that I know more than I did at the age of 14 when I first started learning programming… I’ll be honest, I’m still likely to choose MySQL just because it’s familiar. But at least I know what indices are now, and I try to avoid dependent subqueries :)
To be fair, I feel like I should use Postgresql more, I just haven’t actually ever worked on anything that needed the cool data types it has extensions for.
I have a little experience with the medical billing system for this fantastic country that I’m lucky and unlucky enough not to live in (yes, both lucky and unlucky; different reasons).
It’s messed up. There are band-aids in place to keep costs down for charges billed to medicare and medicaid, but that just makes the whole thing worse because it adds a lot of extra complexity and everyone else likely gets fleeced to make up for the new overhead. The medicare 8 minute rule itself isn’t that complex, but add modifiers for activities performed by different providers (in therapy, this could be a PT and a PTA providing the same service, for different lengths of time, on the same visit)? It goes NUTS.
Single payer healthcare with optional private coverage would solve nearly everything. The cost to the patient first and foremost, but also the cost to the government itself, due to greatly decreased complexity. And private clinics and private insurance don’t have to disappear, they can still provide more high-end services, or shorter wait times, for those who can ACTUALLY AFFORD IT.
Not sure why everyone’s cheering, more competition is never bad and there are already plenty of manufacturers adding subscriptions and such, I doubt Apple would even have been the worst.
At the very least, they probably would’ve had a slick UI in a world of crap infotainment UIs.
However they announced Carplay 2 a few years ago and I’m hoping manufacturers will go ahead with adding that as an option so you could just opt in to Apple UI all over the car and revert back at any time. This is probably the best of both worlds. There are plenty of companies that know quite well how to build a car, they just mostly still all suck at UI.
To clarify, I meant not just the UI itself being pretty, but also reaction speeds. IOS is still smoother than any Android distro I’ve touched and macOS, while sometimes lacking in the UI department, does nearly everything better than Windows. It doesn’t do many things better than my Gentoo install with KDE Plasma, but that’s hardly something for the common user who doesn’t need all the customization and wants a smooth system straight out of the box.
Well, I rebooted to a black screen after login, but ctrl + alt + t works to bring up a new terminal window and alt + space conjures the… whatever it’s called, thingy that can be used to launch programs, calculate things, or search files. So all in all, my computer’s completely usable, I’d just like to get the menus and panels back sometime. Unfortunately, I have literally no free time, which is also why using Gentoo is such a brilliant idea for me.
Jokes involving racial stereotypes can be funny and inoffensive if what you’re making fun of IS the stereotypes, not the race. The writers of Airplane! being Jewish themselves, I reckon they knew exactly what they were doing. At least the bearded plane is clearly an example of making fun of the stereotype, not the people.
As an European I had to convert this and… 10996 square feet is absolutely MASSIVE and I don’t mean just for an apartment in a tower in NYC either. It’s massive for a house in the countryside.
How big are we talking here, really? Or should insulation be considered too?
I have two tanks in my house that are heated by different elements of the (fossil fuel based, unfortunately) heating system - the stove and the furnace, which used to burn coal, but now we’re doing wood and briquettes.
Either one of those can be heated to near boiling temperatures in about an hour, carry about 100-150 liters of hot water, but sadly will cool down over less than 24 hours so if it’s freezing, but not “fuck my balls are going to fall off” freezing, I have to use the electric boiler at great expense. But both of those are bare metal tanks, no insulation at all AFAIK.
PS: House was built by grandparents, I’m too broke to put 10-30 grand on either an air to water or ground to water heat pump right now, but if anyone’s interested, I can tell horror stories about the current heating system and house altogether. Soviet era design choices and modern prices for literally everything make for an uh… interesting combination. When it hit -28C (around -18F), I was up all night fueling the furnace, literally feeling myself burn through money.
The house is divided into 5 semi-floors, but of those, one is basement level, and another is halfway underground. There are 3 above-ground floors. The entire thing is heated mainly using a furnace in the basement that drives hot water into the radiators and also a hot water tank that by default always runs into the toilet sink, but a switch can be made to use it in the other faucets too. Otherwise, the upstairs bathroom has its’ own electric boiler, that can also be used downstairs in the kitchen, and also the sauna, but for it to run into the kitchen, you’d have to switch around some valves again - otherwise the kitchen and sauna use hot water from the stove in the kitchen, which also has a massive tank. The stove tank I believe is the only one that can’t be used in the upstairs bathroom. I’d also like to add that there used to be a separate tank in the sauna that got its’ heat from the sauna furnace and ONLY heated water for a single faucet in the sauna, but NOT the shower in the sauna. That’s been gone a long time, because there was no real need for a faucet there, you can just get water out of the shower which has a faucet attachment anyway.
Now, insulation. The house has a total of 5 big windows and 10 small ones. The big ones are now double or triple glazed (they weren’t all done at the same time, so 2 are double glazed), the small ones have two single pane window panels, which does technically create an air gap, but all the windows leak hair like crazy. The walls themselves are actually well insulated I believe. But the roof has been insulated using sawdust. Naturally, mice have carried it all away, there’s none left. But also the upper half of the roof leaks water, so I can’t add new insulation to that half until the roof’s fixed. Also it’s lined with asbestos-cement panels, so those are going to be fun to remove. Luckily the lower half was repaired years ago.
The kicker? The house being as big as it is, the furnace is absolutely massive and burns through wood like there’s no tomorrow. It’s meant to be used with long-burning coal, which was cheap in the soviet times. Now it’s expensive and hard to find, so the heating benefits don’t really outweigh all the drawbacks anymore.
Ah and if it gets really cold, there are two additional fireplaces I could make a fire in. You know, in addition to the furnace, stove and sauna.
Do I want a ground-source heat pump with under-floor heating? Hell yeah. Is it feasible? Not even close. The yard isn’t big enough to fit a horizontal collector big enough for the house and I’m not sure I could have deep enough holes drilled for vertical ones. And even if I got the heat pump, it’d have to heat the existing radiators, because I’d simply lose my sanity installing under-floor heating here.
I know a guy who does gambling for a living. He needs new people to sign up for the online casinos every time though. Just uses up all the starting bonuses and then cashes out.
Not something I’d recommend to anyone who merely THINKS they’re a talented gambler though.
I’m happy those exist (after all, not everyone can get a proper heat pump installed, maybe because landlord is an asshole, maybe because other people in your apartment building say they don’t want the noise, maybe you live in a historic part of town), but holy hell are they useless compared to a real heat pump.
If you CAN get a real one installed, but your current finances only allow for the portable one - I’d recommend considering waiting for the real deal if you’re able to save up for it. I spent ~300 euros on a portable one, it was OK for cooling a tiny room, never used for heating because the damn thing made too much noise to be worth it in a big house with a working central heating system. I then spent nearly 3000 euros (including installation) on a relatively powerful heat pump. It’s probably cut my winter heating costs in half (at the cost of driving up the electric bill a bit of course).
The kicker? The noisy portable one isn’t JUST gutless, it also uses more power.
And don’t even get me started on sealing it properly with european style windows (you know, the kind that tilt on two axes rather than lifting up).
I know this is a ttrpg community rather than a video game community, but I’d like to chime in and say this is something I really liked about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
You start off illiterate, but there’s a quest to learn to read and afterwards, reading more books and such will improve your reading skills. Starting off, anything you read is literal gibberish, but then it becomes semi-coherent text with typos, and as you progress, it just gets clearer.
I could see this being something you could also incorporate in a ttrpg to add an extra challenge to your players.
In my country, conscientious objectors can instead opt to work for charity for the duration of their service I believe. Much better solution than throwing service dodgers in jail. This also proves you’re not doing it just to avoid service.
For an example I know someone who couldn’t serve in the military for health reasons, but instead worked for the food bank for 8 months. The pay is shit, but for some people it’s an option. And if you have a young child, you’re exempt from service for a while anyway, it’s only mandatory if you don’t have significant provable responsibilities to other people. And I believe even then it’s not mandatory in all cases.
My LEDs will automatically cut out the part of the high beam that your car is in, while still illuminating to your sides. You’ll actually have better visibility to look out for animals coming from the side of the road. You’re welcome!
Now those people who put LEDs in their halogen housings, or worse, lift a truck without re-aiming the headlights? Sometimes I think road rage is valid.
It’s an expression used to mean someone is so broke, they figuratively don’t even have clothes to put on, I believe - which this footballer isn’t, but compared to his real wealth, his official wealth is pennies.
Come to the dark side! We have GDPR and we’ll get browser choice in iOS soon (because as much as I hate having my software freedom being taken away, iOS is the superior experience if you don’t have time to tweak everything. This is coming from someone who’s had a custom ROM on every single one of their Android phones).
You also can’t be fired without cause in I believe most EU countries, definitely not in mine (Estonia).
Software engineer (luckily not in games) here. Definitely feeling it in terms of looking for a new job. Everyone’s only looking for senior engineers and they’re SUPER picky because there are so many unemployed engineers applying, even in my country where there are a lot fewer layoffs.
Mostly the other kids, but I know for a lot of people it was the teachers (or parents and their attitude/expectations) too.
There’s been exactly one school shooting in my country and I happened to know people at that school at the time. They said the teacher that got shot was literally picking on the one kid with a strict military father knowing he’d get punished any time he got bad grades.
Proprietary language to commonly used language - Got something on my CV that other future employers would appreciate more. Also was a chill job anyway. But I got bored.
Then I hopped jobs to another completely different commonly used language (not just different in syntax, but one that required a completely different way of thinking about things). I learned a lot, but project itself was way too stressful, so I quit at the end of my probationary period. Not a good outlook on my CV, but overall I can, without lying, say I pick up on new languages and frameworks very quickly and if I get a take-home assignment in a language I’ve never touched, I can still complete it in a reasonable time frame. So there’s some good out of it.
Both times also came with a significant salary increase so that’s also nice.
I’m withholding details about the languages because I might be too easy to identify given I’ve also mentioned my homeland in previous comments.
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