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My father developed a bad rash approximately a year ago that won't go away. He also developed his first ever bloodclot. The rash could be from the eliquis, but his Dr thinks its from chemo. His lung cancer is successfully in remission for now, but the stage 4 COPD doesn't care. Anyhow, I learned recently that a rash is one of the more common side effects.

Good luck with your treatment.

> Maybe a good time to start a company selling to the government

if only I knew what the government wanted to buy. Besides weaponry that is.

I'm in a similar sphere with XML and ontological representation. I've inherited maintenance of an ontology (of sorts) that has been used in social sciences since the 1940s. Can I ask what domain you are in? How do you like to represent your ontologies? SKOS?

I remember the XML is everywhere phase. The community that hasn't retired or passed on has largely come off of that. You can return JSON natively from XSLT 3.0 now. I've been on both sides of the love/hate fence with XML, but these days when I have the need to work with it I leave the projects really satisfied.

XML is pretty awesome. As a 12 year old in 1998 I remember being enthralled with it and my young mind imagined a lot of possibilities. But alas, I had no real use for it until xhtml, but even then...As the years passed I learned to drive and get the heck off my computer for a few years.

It wasn't until about a decade later when I finally got to use XML "for real". At my academic publishing job. One of my first real projects was having a set of academics analyze documents in a web application I built. Prior to that they were analyzing them by hand, were converted to SGML somewhere in Korea, and we would use omnimark to move them to XML and eventually a library application.

The XML community, the one's who haven't retired or passed on, have been more welcoming of the competition too. They went from XML is everywhere, to being able to return JSON from an XSLT. I am in a small shop, and so I wear many hats. But I am always satisfied when I get to work with XML, or craft an xsl/xq script that does exactly what I need. Additionally, the community as a whole is very helpful, and a bit more grey. Meaning, they are less likely to fall for trends and bullshit.

A bit disjointed, but ,in short, XML is awesome. Now only if they would move Balisage back to Montreal. I'm no fan of DC or virtual conferences.

Huge digression, but why are the headers indented?

quick take, wouldn't it potentially compound the blogspam? Probably one of the largest providers of RSS these days are WordPress installs.

> Used to be best out there for considering travel three months from now. --

While not directly comparable I love weatherspark for planning travel [0]. I first used it to help plan honeymoon travel.

[0] https://weatherspark.com/

What I find truly troubling is the loss of message boards elsewhere online. The bigger ones I was apart of years ago are gone, or with a much reduced and aging user base. Often the time sink that these homes were have been replaced by social media. Instagram, tiktok, and obviously reddit. It causes me to feel a sense of loss.

On the plus side Reddit search has improved the last five years or so.

> Ctrl + x + Ctrl + e : launch editor defined by $EDITOR to input your command. Useful for multi-line commands. --

Great, I was just trying to remember that key combination the other day. Just got back to work after being for awhile for a child bonding leave.

My Daughter was born on the winter solstice this year. We had a broken sink in our hospital room and someone came by to fix it. He had a trainee with him. Who was mentioning that he was scheduled to work New Years Eve and then again the next day on New years day. A 3rd shift followed by an immediate 1st shift. He was casually talking to the guy training him and mentioned that had to be a mistake. The guy in charge said something like "what did I tell you. They don't care about you". I sure felt angry for both of them at that moment.

Have you ever done a DIY project around the house? There is a lot of trash out there, and the dislike to like ratio is a great way to quickly parse out the crap without 1) reading bottom barrel youtube comments or 2) watching 22 minutes of nonsense at 1.75x speed.

I'd be curious as well. It appears they have at least 11, including in San Diego. With 10 more planned as of 2019[0]

[0]: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-water-scarcity-increases-d...

in Connecticut beginning 1 OCT 2021 business will require no smoking in public spaces. I know it specifically targets e-cigarette use indoors. But believe it also means no smokers outside the front of the office, or outside of the bar.

I take a similair approach. Write down the important points and who stated them. Often times I will simply lead with the Bob: and not write "according to"

Linkedin suggested the Dr who delivered our son. In fairness we both work for the sample employer, live in the same city, and coincidentally share the same last name.

On the upside I think reddit's search team has done a good job. It is not the joke it once was at least.

Nice, I graduated highschool in 2004 and wish I had teachers that were clued into that. Bought Zeldman's book on web standards in 02-03 ish. And basically was allowed an independent study to work on my "websites" as the teachers had no idea. I recall a strange argument where they insisted on HTML tags being uppercase.

It was the summer I graduated high school. I have fond memories of Brood X. Life is much different 17 years on. It’s also a marker I was awaiting the last couple years. Come to find out that my move a couple hours away means I’m no longer in the brood x region. My wife has no such memories. Apparently there were no cicada broods where she grew up.

Similar span for those in the UK I was hearing. There strategy, from what I understand, was mainly get the 1st dose in most of the population and move onto the second dose. I believe those in high risk groups may have been prioritized, but I'm not sure. (just what I am remembering from a side conversation on a zoom call with a colleague in the UK)

Thank you! I am going to edit my original comment, but I was completely wrong. I see the conversation that I thought was deleted. My mistake.

Edit: I was wrong. Please disregard this comment. Someone links the comment below. And the sub thread that I remember being removed appears to still be present.

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I commented the other week about enjoying my LG oled smart tv. Someone mentioned what about the evesdropping. (Which I’m aware of) and it started a small thread of people discussing that. These replies were removed about 24-48 hours later. I found it odd the comments about smart TVs evesdropping were removed. So I’m commenting to bookmark this, and see if this discussion is also removed.

> Having to point at things with the "magic remote"

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Yeah accidentally switching that one caused some grief the first week as I fumbled for the "right" button to dismiss it. But Having to use it is not my experience. Does the previous generation insist you use it?

We generally use the same 3 or 4 apps. Embarrassingly it took us a couple months to figure out we could program the keypad and hardpress the button to launch custom apps. Not its merely telling the other to "turn on 2" etc.

> . I guess I'm the only one who still sometimes watches linear TV but the on-screen program guide is basically unusable; it takes literally a full minute to load 2 hours'

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That is a fair complaint. I've not really had that experience, but I don't watch much linear tv. But I doubt you are not the only one to watch tv this way.

We chose this TV after our Roku TV broke after 2 years. Surprisingly enough Amazon gave us a full refund for the broken TV. Even gave us an extra $30 to purchase a TV box.

This is very true. I've been losing this battle with my wife in other areas of our life and have just, generally, given in I suppose. She still thinks I'm a nut and its only a coincidence that the arcane thing we were just discussing is now showing up as an advertisement somewhere.

yes the biggest complaint I have is the no DTS support. A lot of my plex library has DTS audio. I've generally been able to avoid it now, but it took me by surprise the first time my file had no audio.

We used to love our roku. Still do, and we have owned various versions for nearly as long as you. Even went with a roku tv at one point.

I bought an LG OLED CX this past November. I was planning to hook a roku up to it. My experience with smart tvs in the past has been hugely underwhelming to downright unusable. But I've been more than happy with just using the apps on the LG tv. Your mileage may vary, but I have a good picture quality and I'm pretty happy with the remote. It allows me to program the keypad to hard-press them to launch an app of my choice. Additionally, they have their own channel offerings similar to Pluto.

I have heard great things about the Shield as well. That is probably the closest you can find to without building your own HTPC.

Git push, so it’s a post-receive hook? I do the same with my deployments. I also like to set up make files because most newcomers to the project can grok a makefile. Without having to learn a new build tool.

>Poor guy messed up the timeline so much that even his stock market knowledge was useless!

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Without the time available to go down the Englebart rabbit hole can you distill the story down some and share?

Naive aside, but why would I want to use ElasticSearch or OpenSearch over Solr? Are ES and Solr not both based on Lucene?

Can you share some of these non profits? I work at one who used to publish a journal for decades, but Sage has handled it in more recent memory. We make our salaries through grants and a library product. But I am not aware of others doing similar work. Partially out of ignorance.