I try to explain to non-PHP devs how they live in a world of darkness and ignorance.
PHP documentation is a major factor in it's long-term record.
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PHP documentation is a major factor in it's long-term record.
Part of the blame here lies with the governance of those institutions to continue paying claims to this provider.
No matter what else the hospital leadership did, if they had had those dollars pulled, this problem would have been corrected much sooner.
My company, Megiddo Hyperloop, just chose West Virginia too!
We used to make up our own names.
A group of accountants: a drab.
All the sentences are grammatical, but they didn't say anything
sudo apt-get purge python* && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get install python*
Which I did without paying attention to what I was doing and it turns out that this is one of the worst things you could do ever on a Debian-based distro.
Damn you, abu-ahmed al-khatiri.
He responded that in all seriousness, that demand in my state had outstripped capacity by 2 to 3 times because of increased delivery demands, largely due to COVID.
I have no idea if DeJoy is making mistakes, but capacity shortages in delivery are not as simple as "DeJoy is a jerk trying to kill the USPS". A lot of it has to do with a sharp increase in shipping over the last few months.
Fuck it, FreeCAD!
I recently broke my own code at an interview and was rewarded with complete nonsense. Never again.
Mine is cheap, low-deductible, and covers catastrophic events. For working numbers, its $415 per month, $2500 deductible and per person/year maximum out of pocket, $5000 for the family. I pay a bit more to get a larger provider network. I had a plan a couple years ago that was < $200/month, $1500/$3000 maximum OOP, but we had to drive across town for an in-network provider.
These kinds of plans were common (and cheaper) prior to the ACA. The biggest change is that the post-ACA plans have smaller provider networks, where before, they were similar to employer-provided benefits.
The biggest "downside" is it is absolutely, no exceptions, cash payments until you hit the yearly deductible. Even then, the negotiated rates for procedures are sometimes cheaper with insurance, sometimes not. So, I had to get a head MRI late last year. Doc wrote a script for a local hospital that would take my insurance, which was a $3K procedure. I called up a local imaging company, it was $615 cash. A little bit of price shopping saved me $1800 ($2500 OOP - $615 or so).
US citizens forgot that a lot of private insurance was really quite good compared to post-ACA plans, and as long as you get "illegal" insurance, it still can be.
For instance, years ago, I had a business account of mine attached because an employee with signatory privileges had a garnishment against him.
The judge ruled that since the lender that seized the money already had it, and I couldn't prove that the money wasn't absolutely, definitely not the property of the signatory (who was not an owner), we could split the money.
I mean, if you define an executive order seizing money as a "market failure", sure.
Or conversely, FDR didn't know what he was doing and Gresham's law always applies.
I bet good money that the decrease in rental prices after a eviction-pocalypse would be significantly more than a stimulus check.
If an HOA mandates single-family dwellings and large set-backs, then it should be directly responsible for road maintenance, sanitation, fire, etc. If you want all those long roads, you have to pay for them.
The way it works now is that a developer drops in an HOA with a restrictive covenant, then turns the mess over to the nearest city to maintain a bunch of excessive infrastructure.
If an HOA can't be maintained (bankruptcy) then the covenant should be automatically dissolved and the easements lifted.
We've been railing against zoning regulations for decades.
Here's an article from Mises.org (about as free-market as you can find) from 2010 railing against it:
I actually sell computer vision software - specifically designed to help reduce subjective evaluation of aesthetic material performance. Most computer vision is real prosaic. It's not scifi. You read a bunch of papers about horrible things done to marmot eyeballs in the 60s, build a discrete model because neural networks are notoriously hard to support in real-world applications where you have to explain yourself to a chemist, and move on. Her work is justifiably marginal.
Gebru undermines her own cause by being a shitty ambassador. While asking for deep empathy in a radically marginal area of inter-sectional study, she seems to lack any of her own. I'm sure berating an adult for a technical assertion - one that is prima facie true - is an excellent tactic that has worked to change minds and open up insightful public discourse.
Gebru's commentary smacks of narcissism. Want a little air time and some notoriety? Call a famous person a bigot and see what happens. She has little to risk and much to gain.
If these other languages were better in a holistic sense, businesses would switch.
I would argue against the "technically superior" position on three merits:
1. Finance, 2. Median productivity 3. Long-term product stability
Network effects mean that familiar languages will dominate. PHP, C#, and Javascript are familiar.
PHP has had staying power because it is extremely well-documented (with examples) for the novice, prioritizes backwards compatibility, and is reasonably if not very productive for most developers. The documentation section of PHP.net is probably the most important language "feature" of PHP - it trumps almost any language design feature you think is important.
It reads easily. It's easy to implement. It interacts natively with JSON in a completely fluid way. The database handling routines are rock solid and fast. The core language team spends a lot time improving the safety and performance of existing code. There's a good debug story.
It's its own templating language - no need to bolt on a hand-rolled templating mechanism. Just PHP all the way down. It prioritizes language features (reflection) that make writing libraries and frameworks easier. It promotes building reusable tools. Important features are pulled directly into the runtime, based on popularity in the ecosystem. The kitchen sink is included and it's portable.
Basically, it's a language that has been developed by people who actually have to build and maintain projects over a long period of time. A useful language is more than it's design.
The failure of engineering was clearly with the test authors - they should have been validating their inputs.
Just go check glassdoor.
Major IT companies bail on healthcare because margins suck and it's enormously regulated.
I give you, for instance, DICOM, Hl7, Meaningful Use, Infobutton, or any of the other half-useless dead-letter, best of the 80s-era mainframe technologies that are required to meet healthcare regulatory burden.
The best thing that's come out lately if FHIR, which is 9 years old and still doesn't qualify an EHR for meaningful use. Instead, it's all pipe-delimited TCP/MLLP and WTF.
This is just a shakedown.
The same way Microsoft was deemed a "monopoly" and what? Unbundled explorer? Is anyone seriously worried about their monopoly now? There's always a new kid on the block.
The DOJ is too slow to be effective at targeting tech monopolies. They should just quit before they look like a bunch of johnny-come-lately blowhards.
How do you think those "free" articles are paid for? They're paid for with cookies.
This is the same wall that separates me from content on paywall sites - it's just that you don't get out your credit card. Instead, you whip out your cookie jar.
There is no universal "right" to view content. If the content is behind a cookie wall, you have two choices - either accept cookies or fuck off.
The price of an education (regardless of cost structures, public funding, or whatever) is going to dominated by demand, since supply is relatively fixed. It takes years or decades to increase the supply of qualified instruction following typical university models.
In this case Federal dollars guarantee a massive surplus of demand, while Federal accreditation limits supply (rightly or wrongly).
"Public" schools are paid by students, just like private, as a fee-for-service product. For most educations at most universities, this service is largely indistinguishable. Some of the University income comes from tax offsets, but the product they provide is the same service and on the same market as private universities - fee-based educational services.
The price is therefor entirely determined by the amount of supply (relatively fixed) and the amount of demand for fee-based education. Demand has risen dramatically since WW2 due to a bevvy of Federal programs designed to underwrite and promote post-secondary education.
No amount of legal wrangling or tax-offsetting will defeat that. In fact, by increasing tax-offsets for public universities, the apparent price of the service supplied by public universities drops (relative to the market price), which is a signal to buyers that they should buy MORE of that service. This signal would naturally increase demand until the price of a public education on the market matches the price of the same education at private institutions.
The actual oddity is not that public education pricing keeps rising to private institutional pricing, but that it is not already at the same price.
Prices drive expense-side efficiency. An operation (such as a University) will not be mechanically driven to keep costs significantly lower than income - most are non-profit. There is no reason to "increase margin". Most Universities are already teaching at capacity. Since the price is set by the market, there is no reason to keep prices significantly below the market rate. Instead, the costs associated with an education simply rise to meet whatever revenue can be generated from a fixed pool of buyers. These buyers have virtually no spending limit, since their purchasing is de facto underwritten by enormous Federal programs. The result year-over-year dramatic price increases.
For extra credit, this is largely the same process that drives healthcare pricing in the US. A relatively fixed supply of a specialized service and a price-insensitive buyer pool largely underwritten by massive Federal programs.