folkhack

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by folkhack 5y ago
Pascal was a big part of my learning to program (Turbo Pascal). Current day opinion on Pascal is that it's a dead language without much of an ecosystem. It's just the harsh truth. Lua ended up as a "DSL" in a ton of plac
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by folkhack 5y ago
Popular VPS hosts like Digital Ocean, Linode, etc are all going to smack you down if you do anything remotely fishy on their networks. They have to have a pretty good idea of what's happening with their VPS systems, and I've seen
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by folkhack 5y ago
1. All you have to do is look at the chargemaster flat files that have been coming out. There are literally two different columns for insured and non-insured procedure cost and for every hospital I've obtained a chargemaster flatfile f
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by folkhack 5y ago
I'm in the Jim Camp school of thought where, in negotiation, there is no "win-win" situation. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcamp/2013/03/11/revisiting-w... The reason I am firmly in
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by folkhack 5y ago
> The last time you bought milk did you lose or did the grocery store? There's way more people involved in that supply chain then me and the store. This is an over simplification. Outside of the obvious answer of "the cows&quot
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by folkhack 5y ago
> Like at a previous job I had at a 250 employee company where premiums went up $150/m one year because the previous year had two families had a kid get (very different kinds of) cancer out of the blue. It's bad enough that I&#
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by folkhack 5y ago
> Bundled payments give providers the freedom and financial incentive to find innovative ways to efficiently deliver high quality care Until someone financially incentivizes a higher quality of care I don't expect to receive it, esp
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by folkhack 5y ago
I know that any anti-capitalism comments get immediately downvoted here but yeah... The privatization of healthcare is a conflict of interest which is a product of our hyper-capitalistic society. You can't make a profit center out of h
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by folkhack 5y ago
Yeah I read that too - just cherry picking here: > All adults have tests and follow-up visits to prevent and treat everything from iron deficiency to H.I.V. It’s all free. If people don’t show up for their appointments, she makes sure th
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by folkhack 5y ago
There's police around hospitals constantly and if they get a whiff that you have a fake ID they're going to be talking to law enforcement sooner or later. Also this isn't going down to your corner liquor store and flashing yo
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by folkhack 5y ago
Good faith - not trying to be a bastard... I've heard rumblings of this too but every time I've interacted with healthcare it's still the same coded system that you see in regards to the chargemasters etc... even as recent as
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by folkhack 5y ago
And this can really cause issues for people who are insured because if an insurance company decides not to cover something (very very common, even in-network) then the inflated price is what you end up getting billed for. That is until yo
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by folkhack 5y ago
The other big conflict here is that I'm not an expert and I'm not about to turn down services if recommended to me by an expert in a field which I have no experience. I get the whole "do your research", but often it&#x27
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by folkhack 5y ago
> You cannot always look at a service in isolation But in the American system it's setup that you must. This is the whole "coding" thing that you hear people refer to which is taking a procedure and breaking it into indivi
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by folkhack 5y ago
> Rainbow (USA series) flip-flops I will never buy another pair of flip-flops. So comfortable and the durability is so good I'm only on my second pair after 15 years of very consistent use. I literally run the treads out. Breaking
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by folkhack 5y ago
You're putting words in my mouth with stuff like: > No, heh, no it is not, at least not in the context we're discussing. Capitalism didn't start in the last 20 years. I did not make the claim that Capitalism started in the
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by folkhack 5y ago
I mean I've read this comment about 3-4 times now and I get that you start with "No" in regards to my original comment... but I was super weirded out on the overall direction. I'm talking about median wages and you immed
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by folkhack 5y ago
I see the "we got more things and they got more expensive" point brought up constantly and it still doesn't change my opinion (same as above commenter): > Fifty years ago that average person would have been able to support
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by folkhack 5y ago
> Is the average business owner any better off? Obviously anecdotal, but not really IMO. I've bounced back and forth between being in business for myself and working for the man. Between healthcare, saving for retirement, etc. thing
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by folkhack 5y ago
It's so difficult to find trustworthy independent publishers in the Windows world and Nirsoft nails it. Tools that are designed to empower users with zero strings attached - seriously helpful stuff.
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by folkhack 5y ago
T440p checking in - picked mine up for $80 with a dead screen and got it up to snuff for < $50 due to a good find on ebay for a new panel. I also consider the cost of a SSD as part of the base cost for my Thinkpad fleet - so easily +$20-
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by folkhack 5y ago
T430 Ivy Bridge (i7-3840QM) checking in - still kills it as a daily development system.
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by folkhack 5y ago
> One question we have to ask ourselves is what came first—the mental illness or the game development Just watched the "Bob vs. Nintendo" documentary where they quote some weird autobiography he posted to his site where he admi
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by folkhack 5y ago
Sure - you're stating common known facts. > If by free you mean mandatory accounts, activity trackers, 50% screen ads, background crypto miners, 8gb ram for reading the news and email, abysmal performance for what is essentially dis
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by folkhack 5y ago
> Not to mention, Web Crypto API is the literal opposite of roll your own crypto. and is SOO much better than someone implementing cryptographic operations on JS I'm glad someone is pointing this out as I felt like the author didn&#
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by folkhack 5y ago
I'm not saying one solution is bad over the other (ie: feature-rich browsers vs. "native" ones). I'm saying you made a bad-faith argument misrepresenting what I was saying when I said "information/capability&
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by folkhack 5y ago
> If by free you mean mandatory accounts, activity trackers, 50% screen ads, background crypto miners, 8gb ram for reading the news and email, abysmal performance for what is essentially displaying text, media and information, literally
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by folkhack 5y ago
> I will not be advising him of that because I share his opinion that the web is fast becoming an application delivery system and not a document reading system with some media additions; in fact many here reading this will say "duh!
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by folkhack 5y ago
I love this. Most crypto price interfaces are super complex and this is a nice simple take on it! Please keep in-mind that my critiques/feature requests are because I actually really like this =) Piggy-backing... Contrast as a whole ne
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by folkhack 5y ago
"And I'm going to post links to merged/released Chromium issues that have been in 'Fixed (Closed)' status for 2 years to make my security-conscious case against X while I'm at it!" (referring to controller

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