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The difference is access to testing. Most of the people in the US who "test" positive for an allergen aren't actually allergic to it, but that is often not explained properly.

Simply, allergists have three types of testing: skin test, blood test, actual exposure. If you can eat something without a reaction, it doesn't matter what the skin and blood tests showed (they can be "positive" for other reasons). Skin and blood tests are mostly used to determine severity of an allergy after exposure has already proven to be a problem.

But allergy testing is covered by insurance (and it's VERY profitable), so a ton of allergists will do skin and blood tests on people who don't need it, and now there are independent scam companies doing "allergy" testing by mail for curious people.

Macs only look good at a 110 or 220 pixel density.

34" ultra wide 1440p has a pixel density of about 110 ppi, and that should work just fine. You might need to use a different cable, though. You should look your monitor up on rtings.com and search for notes on Mac compatibility.

I have a MacBook Pro 14 that I use daily with a 34" ultra-wide 1440p gaming monitor, and I've never had a problem. I had a MacBook Pro 13 before the 14 that also worked without issue.

DontBuyDell.com 4 years ago

Based on your comment, I opened up the Lenovo website and tried to look at options/prices. I spent about 15 minutes in earnest just trying to use the selection filters (they keep unchecking themselves and freezing the screen) before the results failed to load then froze the screen. After several minutes, I gave up and came back here.

This is not the first time I've had this experience with Lenovo.

I have never bought a Mac before, but my next computer purchase will be one unless Framework fixes their battery issues first.

Atlanta, Boston, Houston, and Philadelphia all have medical center areas with 3+ hospitals within walking distance of each other.

Houston has the largest medical center in the world with ~10 including Texas Children's Hospital, the largest children's hospital in the world (or at least it was a couple of years ago).

Your goal should be iteration. Pick the simplest way to make this idea work with as few things as possible (preferably one) and make that. Then add another technology to upgrade it, etc. It should be usable after each step and improve each time. If you try to build a new project using that many new languages, tools, and methodologies, you won't finish.

Unifi has a lot of options for this especially if you look at their Early Access store. Home Assistant support is limited right now, but a lot of their devices are still new

There are plenty of people giving advice here on general life stuff and a lot of it seems pretty good, but I don't know how actionable all of it is for you right away.

I met my wife on OkCupid. I think that OkCupid is probably the best online dating site of the major ones (or at least it was when I used it), but it requires some effort. Assuming they haven't changed too much, I think this would help anyone using it:

1. Write a meaningful profile (you can ask r/okcupid for feedback if you think you need it, but I doubt that you do) and include photos showing different scenarios/poses/activities

2. Answer questions and honestly include their importance to you ( https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-most-important-questions-on-... )

3. "Hide" profiles that do not appeal to you. This removes them from your results and also removes you from their results

4. Be honest with yourself about dealbreakers and use them to "Hide" results regardless of any other traits a profile may have. If you know that you want children, don't even respond to (or look at) a profile that says they don't. If you know that you only want to raise kids with a nonsmoker, filter out smokers, etc. In my experience, political affiliation is one metric that can be ignore here. People who are compatible with you will be obvious from other questions that are more important. -ists and -isms are found in all political parties.

5. Prioritize profiles/people (they aren't "people" until you meet them) who have physical traits that you find subjectively attractive. If you prefer redheads, prioritize those profiles. If you prefer short men, prioritize those. If you've been on 120 dates, you should be able to come up with something here.

6. Meet quickly, don't spend days/weeks messaging someone before meeting. First date should only ever be beverages. Second date can be a simple activity, but it needs to still be focused on talking.

Good luck

That study compared car crashes during Covid lockdown (when people drove far, far less) to gunshot deaths for 1-19 year olds. The overwhelming majority of gun violence is the US is gang activity which is populated heavily by 18 & 19 year old adults. If you consider them "children" for one study, yep, you'll get misleading results.

Yep, I also use their cameras as baby monitors. RTSP mode to VLC on an old chromebook as an always-on monitor.

The Protect app works pretty well now assuming you have a controller to connect to, but the time between the Video app shutting down and Protect actually working properly was very frustrating. I would never trust the Protect app to stay connected while I'm asleep, though. It's definitely not stable enough for that.

This is especially confusing because "GPS Navigator Magazine" has the wrong date on the article.

It looks like this happened in December 2001 and the speculation of it being caused by the battery change was released in March 2002. Christian Science Monitor [1] reported on it in December when the cause was unknown. This PDF [2] has some more information on the Washington Post article.

1: http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1207/p2s1-usmi.html

2: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/cgoeker/SysSafe/WiSe%2011-1...

The module system is actually what I was talking about. You don't need to understand every single contributed module to understand how the whole system works. I'd like to see your example of how/where Drupal "falls apart" when adding contributed modules.

If you're writing a module when you don't understand how modules work, you're gonna have a bad time. The Examples for Developers[1] module probably would have helped out. The Field example creates a custom field. The Node example create a custom node type. Or you could have just created the node type using the Field UI (and if you need it in code, export the configuration using Features[2]).

1: https://drupal.org/project/examples

2: https://drupal.org/project/features

As a full-time web developer who works almost exclusively in Drupal, I'm sure that I'm more than a little biased, but I love it. I have a pretty varied background, and a lot of different experience, but Drupal is consistently the tool that I prefer these days for most of my projects.

I often hear that the learning curve for Drupal is high (and it certainly seemed that way to me five years ago when there weren't as many resources), but I can explain the major concepts and architecture of Drupal 7 to almost anyone willing to learn in about 10 minutes.

The biggest problem that I've encountered when working on Drupal sites is actually just bad/lazy developers. These people aren't really "Drupal Developers". They came from Joomla or .Net and jumped into Drupal projects without ever considering that they should find out what makes Drupal different. They won't be contributing anything back to the community, and it's unlikely that they'll develop anything that's reusable from one project to another. There is an abundance of information out there right now (even just on Drupal.org) for someone who wants to learn how to work with Drupal properly, but it seems like a lot of people would rather just complain that it doesn't behave exactly like whatever else it is that they're used to than actually try to learn about it.

For the record, a good place to start would be the Drupal documentation[1]. Drupal Answers[2] is pretty good, too. If you ever want to learn about a specific contributed module, try searching Youtube.

1: https://drupal.org/getting-started/before/overview

2: http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes

They had a plugin site running for a long time, but one of the admins accidentally deleted more than half of the database one day when trying to purge some spam, and the most recent backup was over a year old, so they decided to scrap the whole thing and move to a git-based system.