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Syncthing to sync the grocery list to your phone whenever it is on the home WiFi. Any changes will be updated when you next get back home. I use this with obsidian and it's a game …

If you're interested in chatting about this sort of stuff, let me know. I'm a UK doctor working in the field, always looking to optimise processes while keeping quality. Email is i…

Interesting... Do you have a source copy for this? I'm always interested to play music as the artist intended and Stevie Wonder is one of my favourites :)

A solution to this is having user-chosen programmes with an allotted study budget. This is the model in UK post-grad medical education. I know around London there are a couple of s…

Agreed. You're putting an overworked, underpaid public servant in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario. They complied with a far reaching request and got told their r…

I'm a doctor of four years now and I completely empathise with you. The one thing I have learnt doing the job is not to fully trust anything but to check it yourself. That's how yo…

Out of interest, what was your parenting style like? Was it just a matter of clear expectations and consistent rewards and punishments? Did you have a source for all this or did yo…

Yes, through the "Import" feature. Excel will in that case allow you to choose what "type" each column in the CSV has (and will not parse text if given the "text" type). The proble…

We don't adhere to the EWTD. I think a UK doctor's hours are probably easier than a US doctor's but we all break the EWTD (except for some specialties like psychiatry). For example…

To answer your question about the difference between "clinical grade" and "consumer grade" hardware, consider [1] - where FitBit-measured heartrates differed from actual heartrates…

A lot of it is essentially hacking around the fact that medicine & hospitals weren't designed for computers. For example: we used to (still do) keep large files of old notes for pa…

I completely agree with this sentiment. Unfortunately there's no motivating factor for the companies that produce these things to continually update products that are "in the wild"…

Yes. Being in a queue means you have to constantly keep an ear out for being transferred to an actual human being. Which can be quite hard when the hold music is regularly interrup…

Amen. As a doctor I have to deal with a lot of crappy computer interfaces. Data entry in hospitals (at least the sort that gets the hospitals money) ends up being done by non-medic…

Completely. While playing a complex classical piano piece I used to perform jumps with my hands "blind" - without looking at the keys. The trick (apart from lots and lots of practi…

What, like the pharmaceutical industry? I would argue that much good knowledge is created that way but it, too, has its issues. See much of Ben Goldacre's work. http://www.badscien…

Would you mind explaining the double-blind review in CS conferences? I'm a doctor by trade so am well acquainted with the way peer-review works but I've never heard of conferences …

Out of interest, which headphones did you go with? I've been looking at wireless headphones but I've always been put off by not knowing their battery life. Aside from the manufactu…

A great parable for how we try to make technology more human-friendly with unintended consequences. I went on a road trip recently and I've been thinking about how advances in car …

What I found interesting while reading this article was the parallel to what a doctor does when diagnosing problems. In medicine, it's commonly known that the interview with the pa…

Shivering is a common side-effect of general anaesthetic. I've not seen enough post-op recovery to know exactly how common, but it's high on the list of side-effects we have to tel…

I think it's a testament to modern medicine that we can do these sorts of things. Glad to hear you got through the recovery alright. With the operation I saw, they packed the patie…