metaphor

You have the right to a degree in XYZ...

No, you don't.

Except that three saturated-fat-laden strips of bacon for breakfast prevents the need for lunch

Said no overweight American ever.

It's a distinct signal of pure ignorance that you conflate the highest levels of publicly elected executive leadership with "government employees".

Data is on pragmatic lockout after 3 months, not 12.

For years, enterprises have been conditioned to lean into OneDrive and forget about it. Indeed, that dark pattern is a festering disease across consumer Windows.

This is classic Microsoft long rug pull.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

During undergrad years, IFC fraternity pledges had to memorize the Greek alphabet for obvious reasons. This is how the capital letters were taught amongst bros.

  A BRA
  EZ HO
  I KAM
  NEON
  PETY
  OXY O

This is what we had to build in the 60s...

> drift less than 1.5×10−5 °/h

Wow...just wow. Not a GNC engineer, but that drift spec strikes me as exceptionally good today, let alone the 60s.

EDIT:

Even modern laser ring gyros do not even share a dinner table with the precision and accuracy of the above singular component of the Peacekeeper ICBMs, and that was a long time ago.

No kidding; full transparency, that was my basis of comparison.

That's all motherhood and apple pie, but I'm sorry: the reality that we live in and incentives at play are such that if a capability can be exploited, then it will be exploited to the detriment of the consumer. Full stop.

In my mind, the prose of the sequels were so unlike Clarke when I read them as a teen that it created a long stint of aversion towards spending time on anything with co-authors. I owe Rendezvous a lot though; had I not discovered that book as a kid, there's little chance I'd be reading recreationally today.

The median US hospital is also a nonprofit; indeed, more than half are. I fail to see how focusing on this opaque median measure tells us anything meaningful.

Care to speculate on the trends I pointed out? I simply don't see how compensation for doctors is the problem.

Ahh, grokked. Thanks for helping me better empathize with such a nuanced situation.

Appreciate the perspective.

A not small number of the rural docs are foreign born and trained and they essentially work this crappy jobs until they have permanent residency and then they move to more desirable markets.

Not sure that I follow how "rural" necessarily begets "crappy" though. Is the working quality of life somehow that much worse, or is it the relative social isolation and/or lack of recreational options while off duty, or is it really just a case of urbanite out of their accustomed habitat?

Hmm...sniff test sampling:

- HCA[1]: FY25 profit margin = 9.0%

- UHS[2]: FY25 profit margin = 8.6%

- THC[3]: FY25 profit margin = 6.6%

Yeah, a bit of disaggregation is likely needed here, but in these companies, labor expense as a percentage of revenue is on a declining YoY trend while revenue continues to grow.

What's the prevailing ballpark ratio of doctors to all other hospital staff again? And what details are buried in that ever so opaque and increasing "other operating expenses" line item?

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/0001193125260...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/352915/0001193125260...

[3] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/00000703182600...

There were 147 unfilled slots for pediatricians, 805 for family medicine, and 357 for internal medicine. They don't have the applicants; it's not the slots.

You lost me...from your cite[1]:

  | Specialty         | Positions | Applicants | Matches | App/Pos | Deficit |
  |-------------------|-----------|------------|---------|---------|---------|
  | Pediatrics        |     3,135 |      3,998 |   2,988 |    128% |    4.7% |
  | Family Medicine   |     5,357 |      7,337 |   4,552 |    137% |   15.0% |
  | Internal Medicine |    10,941 |     17,131 |  10,584 |    157% |    3.3% |

Aren't a lot of these shortages scattered around rural areas where young doctors really don't want to move to? I understand from a buddy who is currently in med school that there are all sorts of incentive carrots being deployed to attract doctors to these underserved communities.

[1] https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Main_Match_R...

The dirty little not-so-secret is that we pay doctors too much in the US.

Doubt.

That's partly because we have a doctor shortage here (medical schools collude to limit the number of new doctors created each year).

Now explain this trend[1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1T22Y

I assumed it was a wink to the Nov 1972 Playboy model[1] whose centerfold face became a de facto baseline test image for DSP algorithms without consent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Who said anything about beating GPS or other functionally equivalent GNSS?

What makes you think cell tower triangulation is the only data point being exploited to minimize position error?

I don't think he ever got the first half of the advance...cherry-picking from the TFA:

They offered a $5000 advance with the first half paid out when they approve of the first third of the book and the second half when they accept the final manuscript for publication.

I continued to get further behind on delivering my revised draft of the first 1/3.

Around this time, there was a possibility of me changing jobs. Oh, and my wedding was coming up. That was the final nail in the coffin.

There were too many things going on and I didn't enjoy working on the book anymore, so what is the point? I made up my mind to ask to freeze the project.

They agreed.

...and hopefully had a 10 or so satellites in view.

I believe you'll need 12 GPS sats in view to gain incremental accuracy improvement over 8.

accuracy is a mix of both granularity and divergence

I respectfully disagree.

In context, "granularity" is nothing more than a resolution constraint on reported timestamps. Its inclusion adjacent to the specified "divergence from UTC" is a function of market manipulation surveillance objectives as discussed in preamble item (2), and really doesn't have anything to do with accuracy proper.

I've noticed a lot in the SFF genre, including my current fiction read: Joe Abercrombie's latest release The Devils[1].

You'll see something like the following on the bottom of book details:

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3CB76TV

Which is funny reading how TFA tries to feign ignorance:

When we shipped Actions in 2018, we had no idea how popular it would become.

To be sure, the relevant statutory regulation[1] didn't always read the way how it does.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...

So, note for me: If I want NTP redundancy and I'm using NIST's servers, pick one NTP server from each of NTP's three sites.

System robustness hazard that won't tolerate just querying time.nist.gov at 4-sec or greater intervals?

From the cow's mouth[1]:

> The global address time.nist.gov is resolved to all of the server addresses below in a round-robin sequence to equalize the load across all of the servers.

[1] https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi

I am astonished that NIST does not have multiple clocks over multiple distributed sites with robust ability to detect and bypass individual failures.

They may not operate redundant clocks at a single site, but ITS redundancy posture[1] doesn't look bad at all:

> Servers at the Boulder and WWV/Ft. Collins campuses are independent and unaffected.

[1] https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi

Naw, slip shifting is a thing.

Hold up...5-speed manual transmission in a '78 Datsun?

Are you seriously trying to compare raw commodity inputs traded on the futures market to finished semiconductor products that are expected to become deprecated, uncompetitive and/or EOL'd in a few years?

Apologies for not tracking; the monitor in question is spec'd with HDMI 2.1 and TB4 I/O.