Georgelemental

Typo or HN character limit?

Array of Structs and Struct of Arrays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS_and_SoA

"Patient Care Technician" is already a thing, it's a level under nurse

You can partially protect yourself from these attacks by disabling 2G on your device. This won't prevent location tracking, but will stop the attacker from intercepting calls or texts.

- Android: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/cellular-s...

- iOS: you must turn on Lockdown Mode https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

You think Israeli companies (or those of any other country, for that matter) can sell spy tech abroad without their government's signoff?

American social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc)

I've always used a pseudonym. I have never felt free to speak my mind on the internet under my own name, the cancel mobs scared me away long before the state did

Yeah, that Russian influence is really pernicious. Did you know that the vast majority of Members of Congress receive financial support from the pro-Russia lobby? And that leaders in both parties regularly tout their "devotion" to "our greatest ally" Russia? The Prime Minister of Russia has made 14 trips to the White House. He recently gave a speech to a joint session of Congress, receiving standing ovation after standing ovation from most of the chamber. We are currently fighting a war on his behalf. Many US states have laws restricting their citizens' right to boycott Russia. And so on…

That wasn't a war, that was a palace coup

No, they haven't implemented mass conscription, and won't because even autocrats can't ignore public opinion

I am very happy with my Triathlon, but I use the 3rd-party Linux software Solaar https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar

No mention of the TI-84 calculator? Used by millions of American schoolchildren, programmable in BASIC, and runs on Z80 (B/W models)/eZ80 (color display models) to this day

Isn't that just a redirect to google.com? Shouldn't be affected

Our healthcare system has its flaws (to put it mildly), but nationalized systems have their own. I know people who don't have primary care because they live in a country with a nationalized healthcare service and their government, in its infinite wisdom, chose not to allocate enough doctors to their town.

The 13k from the article wasn't a 911 call, it was IFT. (Disclosure: I work for a company that competes with AMR)

Boo, hiss. Permanent Standard Time is better in every way https://savestandardtime.com/

In my state, the poor Black inner city schools have the highest per-student spending in the state (and some of the highest in the country), as the state government funds them heavily. Performance remains abysmal

No actually, it's not a "win" if everything is formally illegal, and everyone lives in fear that if they don't keep appeasing the faceless unaccountable bureaucrat, they will be prosecuted tomorrow.

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."

There's a distinction between 911 emergency ambulance service (respond to people calling 911) and interfacility transfer service (transfer stable patients between hospitals and medical facilities).

When you are an ordinary person calling 911, you can't meaningfully shop around in that emergency situation. The competition that exists is between the possible organizations you local government could contract to run the system. The safety regulations and medical standards they set are part of them choosing what they feel is the best "deal" for their population. (In some places, all 911 calls are run by public fire departments; in others, the government contracts with private companies.)

At the IFT level, again it's not generally possible for patients to choose their service, because (as explained in the article) ambulance services inherently need extensive infrastructure with large fixed costs at every location they serve. You're not going to fit 20 ambulances from 20 competing companies in one hospital's ambulance bay, and those 20 competitors aren't going to be able to afford to pay employees to sit around for hours at that hospital on the off chance that maybe today patients will pick them and not the other guy. The costs for the ambulance company are not primarily per-call, most of the expense is to stand ready for a call whether it happens or not. Instead, competition generally happens when the hospital chooses which ambulance service(s) to contract with.

People are going to use Arabic and Hebrew whether you want them to or not

If you are using plain text and don't have access to HTML or CSS markup, you can follow the RTL character with U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK to achieve the same effect. And even if you do have access to those things, using U+200E ensures that operations that strip markup (like copy-paste) don't break your text.

Again, if you are busy dying, you (or, more likely, the bystander who calls EMS on your behalf) do not have time to check how much the bill will be, or who has the best response time to your location at that moment, or the best equipment, or the best training.

I think the current leadership in Tehran is pragmatic enough to want to avoid that. Of course, the longer this drags on, the more likely they are to be replaced by hard-liners

When you are bleeding out on the street, you don't have time to shop around for the best deal

Pre-release code had bugs that were fixed before the release? Why is that a problem? That's the point of having a testing and release process

eat brain tacos

What's wrong with that? Animal brains are a common dish in many countries, including France, Asia, and parts of the United States

If you read what follows, he makes it very clear he intends to do more or less what you suggest

Humans seem to draw this line based on what is truly unethical (fraud is less unethical than torturing a baby)

Depends on the scale of the fraud! If you fraudulently sell unsafe baby formula that kills 10,000 babies, that is far worse than torturing just one

China is more capitalist than the USA these days

This is likely the sign you are thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7010#/media/File:ISO_7010_...