Tharkun

I agree. Sadly not every manager got that memo.

My brief time at $megacorp taught me to recognize when a meeting turns into unproductive bullshitting, at which point I just walk away and go back to work. YMMV.

Maybe the headline should reflect this gem:

That boon was thanks in part, Microsoft said, to meetings capped at 30 minutes and an increase in remote conferences.

From my past experiences in megacorps, there are so many meetings it sometimes feels like that's all you're doing.

I've gone down this route several times. I've moved Esc, Ctrl and Win (or whatever you call it, Meta?) to the CapsLock position. But for some reason my left pinky just doesn't like that spot. It's a slightly awkward angle, and I use Esc/Ctrl/Win so much that having any of them in that spot tires out my pinky.

One row up or down is fine. But home row far left is hell. Maybe it's simply because my hand grew into it over several decades. Instead, I use CapsLock to lock my screen.

I use Zettlr + git to keep my personal log/lab notes/daily journal. It's just a fancy markdown editor, to it should be trivial to write some shell foo to pull in data from whatever source you like.

The news here is that ubrogepant is a tablet taken as an abortive, while emgality etc are injections taken as a preventative.

Diclofenac is an NSAID painkiller. It comes with all the usual risks and contraindications of any other NSAID.

Migraine abortives like triptans and migraine inhibitors like these CGRP antagonists (erenumab and now ubrogepant) are not painkillers. They attempt to stop the migraine, not just numb the pain. They're both in a league of their own.

Sadly it doesn't seem to work that way. BE/AZERTY keyboards, for instance, have a physical key that US/QWERTY keyboards do not (<>\). The OS will ignore that key unless it's set up to use a layout that includes the key. There is no way to program a QMK keyboard to fix that (unless you change the OS to run the BE layout), because QMK does not map keypresses to characters. It maps keypresses to keycodes, which depend on OS keyboard layouts, specifically US/QWERTY and sometes DVORAK. At least that's how I see it.

There are many, many keyboard layouts out there. Maybe it's time for an input standard that acknowledges this fact, instead of endlessly putting the onus on OS developers and users. Maybe keyboards should output UTF8 instead of messy keycodes.

Drug development is incredibly costly. It's also something of a long term gamble. It can take 10-20 years to develop a new drug. A lot of that time is spent testing safety and waiting for approval. As a drug company, you need to have several new drugs in your pipeline at any given point, or you'll be seriously fucked if one (or more) of your products don't pan out. It's basically a high-risk-high-reward type of gambling situation.

Imagine having thousands of people on payroll, some working on drug design, some designing experiments to test the drugs, some doing the legal paperwork to get drugs approved etc, and suddenly the patent for your best selling drug expires and your latest drug doesn't work. You're pretty much boned.

Thanks for linking to that. I had this done a while back but didn't know what it was called or how it worked. If only all imaging techniques were as fast and pleasant this one. It was over in seconds. Although I suppose the small size of retinas likely play a part in that as well.

Don't have access to the full paper, but it seems like this study was based on asking patients whether they were taking supplements, as opposed to administering placebo/supplements and measuring the outcome. I would imagine that the worse your cancer is, the more likely you are to try things like supplements and whatnot. Did they manage to control for this?

Not lying about what you're selling seems like it ought to the norm without requiring legal intervention?

I like Mattermost. My only gripe with it is that it's a bit of a pain to upgrade. Would be nice if they were to automate the upgrade procedure.

If you're at all into custom keyboard making, and you haven't already, check out the QMK firmware: https://qmk.fm/ It makes it a lot easier to deal with the non-standard layouts that you'll probably want to use.

Thinking that haircuts will defeat facial recognition is cute but wrong. This is a political/legal problem and has to be solved by political means. Haircuts and LEDs just won't cut it. If anything, they will draw more attention to people.

Sure, but the people doing the surveilling are also the people who will fine or arrest you for covering your face. Not sure I understand what you're trying to say?

Considering they're putting a rod up your urethra which will be burning you from within, and another device up your rectum, while you're in the uncomfortable confines of an MRI scanner, I suspect local might not be something most people would be comfortable with.

Are you referring to those infrared headlights? Those don't work. Quite the opposite, they only highlight your face.

Hiding your face is illegal in Belgium at least. This includes masks, helmets etc. I don't know the exact wording, but I would suspect that it's broad enough to include umbrellas and makeup and anything else that effectively makes it impossible to recognize a person.

What is the clinical significance of the plaque being calcified? Is that worse (or better?) than "regular" cholesterol plaque? Or is that just another term for the same thing?

When I was first taught fractions in primary school, the teacher had a bunch of rods of equal length. Each rod was divided into segments of different colours. Each segment could be "fractured" off the rod because they were attached by magnets. I think they went from 1 to 10 or so segments.

This allowed for a great visual (and tactile) illustration of how fractions work. 1/2 + 1/4? No worries, just break off some pieces and add them together. Then you can compare the length to various other configurations, and you can viscerally experience that 3/4 really does equal 6/8.

I don't know whether this is a standard way of teaching fractions, or whether this teacher was particularly motivated or whatever. But it made a lasting impression on me. Thanks, miss Annie.

Might not be a bad standard feature. We used to think seatbelts were stupid...

Addiction is hard. And some people hide it really well. There are many high functioning alcoholics out there, and you can be sure that many of their friends don't know how bad the situation really is.

Letting a visibly drunk person get behind the wheel is obviously a big no no, but there are many shades of grey here. You should not be responsible for other people's failures.

So...how much does it cost to run gTLD these days? Perhaps the time is right to set up a non-profit to run one at actually affordable prices, instead of the current ripoff and the future .org price increases.

That's because there's no need for change. DNS works pretty well. There are various options to secure DNS, so that part of the DoH is also moot.

Browsers should respect the OS instead of trying to circumvent it.

Lastly, DNS is properly decentralized out of the box. I don't get that some people who argue for a decentralized internet also argue for DoH.

Original article in Dutch: https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/fiscus-mag-uw-data-kopier...

The gist of it: Belgian court of appeals rules that tax inspectors are allowed to copy any and all of your data without your consent or court order.

That's something I'm finding almost as hard as mealprepping. There are very few places in my area that offer healthy options, especially for lunch. Junk food is everywhere, in all price ranges, but my healthy options are limited to bland salads or cooking my own.

Errr.....no? Human waste in water is a major cause of disease. Sure, a turd or two won't be a problem. And sure, it'll decompose. But all kinds of pathogens remain. There are billions of people, and as the eponymous book says: everyone poops.

How much are the drugs? Probably not free. And they may have to be taken for the rest of the patient's life. That could add up.

When, if ever, does a normal person need access to a network of powerful embassies all over the world?