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The web app appears to be deliberately hobbled. It doesn't even give you access to the bookmarks you saved in the mobile app.

They may not have a bottom line, but they certainly put up barriers to accessing specialty care that I never experienced when using the Sutter/Blue Shield combo. Also this wasn't a…

I wish I had your experience with Kaiser. I've hit that conflict of interest multiple times. Most recently, after going through triage and waiting six weeks for an appointment, and…

Yep, my XPS does too. I believe it's called "coil whine" and is caused by surface-mount inductors whose windings aren't fully encased in resin or whatever material they use.

Who is we? YMMV, but any sort of emphasis on critical thinking wasn't my experience in an Arizona school district in the late eighties/early nineties. If such curriculum was availa…

Contracts or momentum? Haven't looked at actual dates, but my guess is that this project was established long before SpaceX was a viable option.

Where I live, we used to have tons of frogs. The city actually built a freeway bypass to prevent too many flat frogs. Didn't work. Anyway, the frogs quickly vanished around the sam…

Does anyone remember Win4Lin? It would run Windows 98 as a process and translate system calls to their Linux equivalent. It was very convient for testing my websites in IE. And I s…

I believe the problem in any society is that the older generation relies on the younger to care and/or subsidize costs of said care for the older as their health declines. That bre…

A little late to this conversation, but I want to point out that it appears dopamine does have functions other than neurological.[1] Of course one might take the view that immune f…

Sorry for the late reply. For me it was Fructose and Sulfites. See my above comment for more details.

Sorry for such a late reply. For me the two biggest culprits are sulfites (increased sleep disturbances) and fructose (reduced deep sleep and more chaotic cycles). What's weird abo…

It allowed me to identify food intolerances that had a significant impact on my sleep.

A bad law tends not to change until there are enough people breaking the law.

Right. Now that I think about it, I've seen some crates that perform interesting codegen tasks at compile time; things like ffi bindings that automatically stay up-to-date. The onl…