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I agree. Sadly not every manager got that memo. My brief time at $megacorp taught me to recognize when a meeting turns into unproductive bullshitting, at which point I just walk aw…

Maybe the headline should reflect this gem: > That boon was thanks in part, Microsoft said, to meetings capped at 30 minutes and an increase in remote conferences. From my past exp…

I've gone down this route several times. I've moved Esc, Ctrl and Win (or whatever you call it, Meta?) to the CapsLock position. But for some reason my left pinky just doesn't like…

I use Zettlr + git to keep my personal log/lab notes/daily journal. It's just a fancy markdown editor, to it should be trivial to write some shell foo to pull in data from whatever…

The news here is that ubrogepant is a tablet taken as an abortive, while emgality etc are injections taken as a preventative.

Diclofenac is an NSAID painkiller. It comes with all the usual risks and contraindications of any other NSAID. Migraine abortives like triptans and migraine inhibitors like these C…

Sadly it doesn't seem to work that way. BE/AZERTY keyboards, for instance, have a physical key that US/QWERTY keyboards do not ( \). The OS will ignore that key unless it's set up …

There are many, many keyboard layouts out there. Maybe it's time for an input standard that acknowledges this fact, instead of endlessly putting the onus on OS developers and users…

Drug development is incredibly costly. It's also something of a long term gamble. It can take 10-20 years to develop a new drug. A lot of that time is spent testing safety and wait…

Thanks for linking to that. I had this done a while back but didn't know what it was called or how it worked. If only all imaging techniques were as fast and pleasant this one. It …

Don't have access to the full paper, but it seems like this study was based on asking patients whether they were taking supplements, as opposed to administering placebo/supplements…

Not lying about what you're selling seems like it ought to the norm without requiring legal intervention?

I like Mattermost. My only gripe with it is that it's a bit of a pain to upgrade. Would be nice if they were to automate the upgrade procedure.

If you're at all into custom keyboard making, and you haven't already, check out the QMK firmware: https://qmk.fm/ It makes it a lot easier to deal with the non-standard layouts th…

Thinking that haircuts will defeat facial recognition is cute but wrong. This is a political/legal problem and has to be solved by political means. Haircuts and LEDs just won't cut…

Sure, but the people doing the surveilling are also the people who will fine or arrest you for covering your face. Not sure I understand what you're trying to say?

Considering they're putting a rod up your urethra which will be burning you from within, and another device up your rectum, while you're in the uncomfortable confines of an MRI sca…

Are you referring to those infrared headlights? Those don't work. Quite the opposite, they only highlight your face.

Hiding your face is illegal in Belgium at least. This includes masks, helmets etc. I don't know the exact wording, but I would suspect that it's broad enough to include umbrellas a…

What is the clinical significance of the plaque being calcified? Is that worse (or better?) than "regular" cholesterol plaque? Or is that just another term for the same thing?

When I was first taught fractions in primary school, the teacher had a bunch of rods of equal length. Each rod was divided into segments of different colours. Each segment could be…

Might not be a bad standard feature. We used to think seatbelts were stupid...

Addiction is hard. And some people hide it really well. There are many high functioning alcoholics out there, and you can be sure that many of their friends don't know how bad the …

So...how much does it cost to run gTLD these days? Perhaps the time is right to set up a non-profit to run one at actually affordable prices, instead of the current ripoff and the …

That's because there's no need for change. DNS works pretty well. There are various options to secure DNS, so that part of the DoH is also moot. Browsers should respect the OS inst…