abruzzi

thanks both of you for the clarity.

My favorite story to tell (favorite in a horrible way) about these kind of issues is this: After an accident ~15 years ago, I had an open wound that wouldn't close because it was infected with MRSA which had lodged itself in the hardware that was screwed to my tibia. I was wearing a wound vac--a device that was attached to the open wound and maintained a constant suction to pull out any bad stuff. It was there to keep the infection from spreading long enough for the bone to heal so they could remove the hardware. I had a weekly doctors appointment at the local hospital check on the condition of the wound and change the dressing on the vac.

I was very careful. The doctor was in network, the hospital was in network, and my copay was, I believe, $30 for each visit, covered under my insurance. One day I showed up for my appointment, they led me to a room where I waited 10 minutes. Then the doctor came in, and it wasn't the guy I had been seeing for the last three months. He told me my doctor had taken ill and he was covering the appointments. He asked me how I was doing, and had the nurse redo the dressing on the wound vac. Then we were done.

A month later I received a bill from this doctor for $1900 because he was out-of-network, and while my insurance covered out of network at 80%, they covered it at 80% of the in-network rate. The doctor billed out of network patients at about twice the negotiated in-network rate (a fairly common occurrence), so the 80% coverage was actually 40% coverage, and I owed the other 60% which came to about $1900 for 5 minutes of work (the nurse who changed the dressing worked for the hospital so her work and materials were covered in network.) And the kicker was that I didn't know a different doctor was going to be attending me until he walked in the door.

If you think that maybe your "max out of pocket" will save you, it won't. If the insurance lists a "out of network max out of pocket" it only covers expenses at a negotiated in network rate. Any amount your out-of-network doctor bills that is over the insurance company's in network rate is effectively unlimited. Despite having a $2500 in network max, ad a $5000 out of network max, and a very good health plan. I left that accident with about $35k in medical debt.

(An interesting side note, when it came time to remove the hardware, I went back to the same hospital/trauma center and doctor who had installed it--though a different hospital from above. A day before the surgery I went to the hospital for the pre-op stuff. At the end of the process, the hospital admin met with me to take my payment. I was expecting a $30 copay or similar, but I found out that while the hospital was in network six months before, they had dropped their contract with my insurance company a month prior and the pre-op was going to cost me $800. So of course I cancelled the surgery, but I was still on the hook for the pre-op work. Today every time I visit a medical professional of any kind, no matter how many times I've visited them before, I ask about in network coverage.)

I had the same response, so i googled it. The home page that came up for the Anki application (https://apps.ankiweb.net) doesn't really explain what it is either (it has a lot of fluff about how its useful and where its useful, but no actual information on what it does and how it does it.) I had to go to the docs link and read a good way into the user manual to get a sense of what it actually does. Still I'm not 100% sure I know what it is and how it works. Ok, its a flash card app. There have been hundreds of those going back to at least the 80s. And before that people were writing on 3x5 cards for a very long time. How is this better or more useful that?

He still has the install disk! Though my repair was to pull the vmdk off his old, broken laptop to get him working again.

My father still updates his website with Frontpage (he had a recent 6 month outage because he inadvertently deleted the Windows XP vmdk on his system, but I recovered that for him recently.) He’s 75, and isn’t interested in converting or learning anything new at this stage.

The funny thing is for years his home-made site was the top google hit if you searched for “hill's criteria” (See Hill's criteria of causation). His site is http://drabruzzi.com/

the problem usually looks more like this: I load a page and start reading. When I'm done reading the text/content in the viewport, I scroll down. On a lazily loaded page, now it needs to download the content in the new viewport position. On a non-lazily loaded page, the time I took to parse the initial content allowed the browser to complete loading the page. So effectively the lazily loaded page is taking the 10 seconds it takes to load the page, and rather than doing it while I'm occupied on other things, it holds on to most of that ten seconds, and spends that time when it interferes with what I'm doing, paying it out--2 second wait here, 2 second wait there.

Obviously this is an implementation detail and well done LL could keep loading everything until its done, but frequently it doesn't try until I scroll down. NonLL pages also aren't perfect, and if a page tries to load everything at once, each thing added slows everything else down. But for some reason I never experience that on non-LL pages (or maybe they're good LL pages and I don't notice.) It could be that browsers do some smart things (the obvious would be something like queueing requests for page content, only allowing 5 or so open requests, and loading images in the order they are referenced in the HTML so stuff at the bottom of the page is loaded last.)

this is what I'm hoping since lazy loading is constantly an issue for me (where I live my internet is frequently less than ideal.) Unfortunately my issues are more apparent with content lazy loading, and less with image lazy loading.

> My highest self-complexity is in my work and main goals. Like composing an orchestra there any many moving parts that need to come together. Hobbies and sports are generally less complex and more simple.

I think that depends a lot on the hobby and the individuals dedication (and ability to devote time) to the hobby. For example, one of my hobbies is I'm working on writing an opera. So that is literally writing for a full orchestra, but with the additional complexity of writing a story and libretto. In truth most of my hobbies can easily get as complex as my job, if I want to take it that far. However, for many people (sometime myself included) the fact that they are hobbies means we are limited in how much depth we have the time to commit.

To me the greatest magic in the film world is placing (in darkness) a nondescript grey sheet into a tank, flushing a few chemicals through the tank, and pulling out a full color transparent positive image (E6 slide processing). Technically I understand how most of it happens, but seeing a positive in a large size like large format sheets or medium format rolls is an amazing experience. Even if I don't have a slide projector to shot them, a loupe on a light table is enough.

(While I shoot negative much more often, it doesn't have the same visceral impact as positives.)

in fact, you can get black and white film (Adox CMS 20 II) that will out-resolve just about any lens you can get (800 lp/mm) unfortunately, its really hard to shoot and develop.

fast color film isn't my cup of tea, but I have shot Delta 3200 (in 120 format, 6x7 and 6x4.5) at exposures closer to 6400, and have gotten some great images. (developed in 24c Xtol.)

its a fascinating doc. I don't know if I believe that it is how Vermeer but it is still interesting to watch. One should add that Tim Jennison is the founder of NewTek (Video Toaster, Lightwave 3D, etc.)

I'd add that while the Author is correct--bokeh is a property of images, not lenses--its not materially different that how most photographers understand the term. While a lot of photographers may say things like "that lens has great bokeh", they don't think that bokeh is some quality in the lens. They are just shortening an idea lke "this lens produces images with great bokeh." It is a lazy way of rephrasing it, but I have never met a photographer that thinks bokeh is not referring to the image.

The first thing I thought when I saw those photos was — large format Kodachrome. Those clearly have the color pallet of Kodachrome and many of those old WWII era propaganda color photos were shot on 4x5.

Agreed. I loved Piston, with the caveat that his book is about the "Common Practice Period". It will teach you the standard approach to harmony used in the 18th and 19th century. But its a grounding that helps to make all the post 19th century developments in harmony make sense.

New Mexico is similar. Incorporated Towns and Cities as well as Counties can issue beer and wine licenses, a generally issue them frequently and cheaply, but hard liquor is only issues by the state there are limits, and they are transferrable, so the license itself can easily sell for a million depending on the license. Recent sales prices in NM: https://bit.ly/2YyzzWf (PDF)

I'm curious why, at some point in the transition from land-line caller ID to cellular caller ID, did it cease to provide the name and only provide the number? The only time I get a name associated with an incoming call is when the number provided matches a number in my address book.

On the other hand, Apple does spam me with an ad for Apple Music every couple of weeks. It happens when I launch the music app on my phone.

I reread Cat's Cradle every couple of years. You can read the entire book in a 3-4 hour sitting. It is funny and sad, it loves humans and hates them. It is one of my favorite books of all time.

The unusual thing though is my first exposure to "lock-out/tag-out" was as a minimum wage employee at WalMart ~30 years ago. Among other things, they had a large cardboard bailer that compress all the empty cardboard boxes into a bale about 4ft x 3ft x 3ft. It would hold it there while you threaded baling wire through and tied it off. Then it would release and dump it onto your waiting pallet jack, so you could cart it off. We had to lo/to whenever it required service.

Reminds me a bit of Andy Goldsworthy's "Storm King Wall" (one of his few permanent art works.) Not that he was doing it to save stones, or protect fruit trees. That shape is just a common part of his art:

https://stormking.org/artist/andy-goldsworthy/

Reminds me of the ode to a shipping label:

http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg

What these things all reinforce is that a lot of programmers take text encoding as a given, and don’t realize all the potential places for errors to sneak in.

Some pensions (mine at least) have periodic cost of living adjustments (COLAs) that hypothetically takes care of that.

The premise of the article seems odd to me. Am I just unusual in the fact that my interests and curiosity are very closely aligned?

technically it is spelled "scat"

You are correct, but they force the same purchase type on all consumer, rather than let people decide.

As I understand it birds are not sensitive to capsaicin, and unlike mammals who will eat the entire fruit, seeds and all, passing it through their digestive tract, birds are careless eaters and will drop half their food while eating, effectively spreading seeds.

I'm assuming that you are querying tags to find the images? I did notice a image that shows up under "Kodak Gold 200", but when you visit the flickr page it is clearly "Kodak Colorplus 200" (yes apparently they are different film stocks.) Unfortunately there is limited consistency in tagging film stocks.

nice clean presentation. Where are you sourcing your images from? Also, based on the samples I looked at, it would be nice to have larger images.

Perhaps the difference is you told the group of workers “I want trees A and B trimmed in this way”, but you probably weren’t saying “Tom, I want you to trim tree A, Dick, I want you to trim tree B, and Harry, I want you on the ground passing tools up to Tom and Dick as needed.”

Your example sounds exactly like a statement of work in a contract. My example reaches past that into the company to manage their use of labor.

This doesn’t necessarily apply directly to Uber because they may argue that they are contracting a single ride, and the driver/contractor is fulfilling that small contract in any way they see fit.