Several times a year I get a phone call at 6:30AM from her asking to quickly drive to her house before her shift starts at 7 to fix her computer, because "something happened" or "I was hacked". Every time, it's been an update which has reset her default apps so email opens in the newish Mail app and not Outlook or Gmail-in-Chrome, or changes the browser to Edge from Chrome. I'm not a systems administrator, so I havent a clue on what the magical incantations of registry paths and values should be which prevent this despite trying.

Obviously if this was a domain managed asset at a company, someone would know how to prevent this. As a "home device", it feels like you're automatically enrolled in the "Global Microsoft domain", and subject to the whims of a product manager making IT decisions.

What are you talking about? Access to public lands has been an ongoing fight for decades with people from the entire political spectrum having opinions about the matter. Whether that be rock climbers trying to access routes, or people who fish trying to access streams, to people like this who are trying to access public hunting land. Assuming that everyone trying to access public lands is some poor pleb is in bad taste. Companies like Patagonia have long supported more liberal access to public lands with millions in donations, as well as organizations like the NRA with their advocacy and financial support.

At least once a year I get an automated phone call from a regional hospital letting me know some minor's test results. Calling the hospital's CS department in order to notify them or somehow get my phone number removed from the account is impossible, because I'm not this person nor their legal guardian and HIPAA regulations prevent me from instigating a change on someone else's medical records or accounts.

    import random
    for i in range(0,50):
        if not i % 15:
            random.seed(1178741599)
        print [i+1, "Fizz", "Buzz", "FizzBuzz"][random.randint(0,3)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz

Several of these utility and helper packages are then pulled into other packages and build tools and marketed as legitimate packages, effectively hiding and masking the "just a demo" labels of the root is-even, is-odd, is-number packages. When people like myself complain about the absurdity of NPM supply chain verification, this is what we're arguing against.

In a medical setting, shields are typically used in conjunction with eye goggles and respirators when performing procedures that have a tendency to cause or be around splashing body fluids. Outside of someone sneezing or spitting on you directly, I can't think of an analogous situation that I come into on even a rare circumstance that a face shield would protect me from.

Secondly disposable medical equipment, when used properly within a healthcare environment, is extremely wasteful. For most consumable items used in a hospital, they are covered in packaging with specific serial numbers and lot numbers that allow reconciliation if it's found that the goods are not sterile or have deficiencies. There is also a provenance or chain-of-command aspect that allows attestation of safety throughout the entire supply chain. While we might be talking about how to sterilize n95 masks, reuse face shields, and asking for donations of PPE from the public right now during a pandemic, the fact remains that in normal circumstances there is massive liabilities that hospitals and clinics would be subjected to if they started sourcing protective equipment from the public that could have been tampered with, may be slightly used and broken, or otherwise could cause harm to the patient and they'd be unable to identify the source of those resources. Everybody stocking a "handful" of PPE isn't a scalable solution to maintain a national supply.

This is one reason why we pay federal taxes.

Can you point me to a study stating that the flu vaccine is 100% safe and effective? Not mostly effective, or mostly safe, but 100% honest-to-god safe for 100% of the population to get?

edit: really? calling my GP an anti vaccine crank? fuck you.

It's not bias. It's a fact. My GP is the one that has specifically told me to avoid the shot because I have a history of complications with it.

If you're capable, I'd love for you to diagnose me with some other mental disorder or logical fallacy, but please look at my medical history before you start dismissing my experiences as idiotic.

Please tell me more about how I've deceived myself.

Just as the MMR vaccine is less about you contracting measles and more about your spreading measles to more vulnerable populations that are unable to get the vaccine, the flu shot is identical in that regard. Sure, it helps you not get sick and/or to lessen the effects, but there is the fact that some portion of the population is unable to get the shot for various health reasons.

Edit: Instead of downvoting please tell me how my experiences are wrong. I'm very much aware of evidence and studies stating that its "impossible" to get the actual flu from the flu shot, yet I am walking proof of contrary evidence. I'm also aware of how batshit emotional people can get with regards to vaccines, and I want to be clear I am absolutely NOT advocating that anyone forgo getting a flu shot every year. When everyone else gets the shot, I'm safer. When I get the shot, my body reacts violently and I will contract the virus.

It's a little harder to ration your bowel movements. It can be done, but it's a lot less beneficial than forced fasting.

I literally have no idea what Microsoft is doing anymore. Sometimes it feels like Linux was 10 years ago when I would accidentally install Konquerer on Gnome and all of a sudden I had two desktop systems installed and my root drive had doubled it's consumed harddrive space. It basically worked, but it was a terrible experience.

Honestly it's starting to feel like a most cost effective long term solution is to build homes with a master AD/DC converter (or several depending on sq/ft) and simply wire 12v outlets and light fixtures. The energy savings of swapping all incandescents or compact florescence bulbs with cheap LEDs with cheaper power converters is starting to scare me knowing just how shoddy and fire prone some of these power converters can be.

https://imgur.com/a/vS2EldV

I'm speculating that the balance is in the reverse favor. Last night I was looking at some file on GitHub which was redirecting to what looked like an S3 bucket subdomain named with a pattern like "github-production-f7e281a2", which I simply presumed to be cache-busting via subdomain instead of appending the hash to the filename. If my assumptions were correct, every time GitHub deploys a new build, you would have to whitelist that subdomain.

Honestly, we should have an independent 3rd party with zero financial investment in either approving or rejecting a quality check of a batch sample. Something Federal, so manufacturers cant "shop states", that administers and regulates drugs and their distribution. Not sure what I would call it. I tend to go with cartoonish things, so Merlin after the bumbling wizard sounds fun, but the bureaucrat in me thinks the acronym "F.D.A." would suffice.

Legally, you're correct. PG&E has been operating counter to those rules for a while.

http://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/press-releases/press...

https://www.kqed.org/news/11737336/judge-pge-paid-out-stock-...