Quite the take. We do one of the units in our apartment building as an AirBnB. It makes a bit more per month than just renting would.
It is cleaned and inspected very thoroughly between guests. We wouldn't do it if we couldn't offer great service.
Certainly would never want to show up at check-in/check-out though, and it'd probably freak me out if someone did that at one we stayed at. It's not a hotel and it doesn't need to be treated as one.
Luckily Urgent Care was able to go from ultrasound to CT scan in 1 day. The long wait time has come from the insurance honestly.
Had to go to a different hospital because the original one I went to has to get an approval from United before getting it done (other hospital 2 blocks away doesn't have that same requirement??)
I got referred to a dedicated cancer center and then guess what, I have to call United and ask them to approve it - but I can't get an appointment to do that for 2 weeks.
Ended up doing all the legwork on my own and was able to get a consultation done within a week. Now I'm having to do biopsies, PET scan, ect. Depending on the result I might be able to get it removed next week!
But the pain has become so severe I can't eat, sleep, even lay down without extreme discomfort. I can't imagine waiting around on the insurance to walk me through it.
Funny enough, United sent us a letter in the mail asking if I really wanted to get that original CT scan! Like no, I'd rather not know I have a 7" tumor in my abdomen. Simply a joke of an industry
I had a knee injury. Called my local orthopedic clinic (seven doctors). The lady who answered the phone told me I’d need to schedule an appointment . . . to schedule the appointment. I was three weeks out from the call at which I would schedule the appointment that would likely be months after that. American medicine is totally broken.
It still sees active development, they keep adding new engines regularly. One of the engine I'm excited about is Macromedia Director [1] which they added initial support for in 2.5.0. That's a big endeavour though so will take time until they add everything needed for full compatibilities with a lot of games.
They've also just added support for some of the Dynamix games like Willy Beamish and Heart of China[2] which I absolutely loved as a kid (despite their rather rough edges)
since when does entry level IT “call the shots” on reviewing code that gets deployed to prod?
Sure a junior programmer or devops may do something dumb. That’s not the problem - at all. The problem is pretending they are a professional. They are not. They are juniors that need mentorship and should be _expected_ to mess up frequently.
To use a different analogy. If I bring my car to the mechanic, i’m OK with the new guy working on my car, assuming that the senior mechanic, you know, double checks their work. Is that not a reasonable assumption?
I understood it to be the reverse - they advertise on LinkedIn, and the trackers determine whether the users convert once they click through. Not great, but at least not as ill intentioned
Not sure I understand this, but "I" (coveredca) pay linkedin to place my ads, for which "I" have to use their libraries? That then scrape "my" clients/customer data to linkedin? for them to make more money selling that data?
Does this also mean that those pious popups about "Do not sell my information" are essentially vacuous?
> "No Western government (or whatever you meant by government system) treats anyone like that, and such behaviour should absolutely surprise everyone."
Ha,this could have been written by me as well. Aphantasia is so weird to try to describe to people.
I've never been great about taking photos, but my wife always remembers. Recently spent some time consolidating all of the to Immich and being able to see the "memories" every day is incredible.
When I explain it to people, I always ask them to close their eyes and picture an apple on a table. I then ask them what color the apple is. Everyone I’ve ever done this with (except a sibling) answers a color.
I then say, “to me, there is no color, no apple, no table, no outline; nothing.” Always a leads to fun discussion :)
> you’re supposed to be able to make an image of an apple appear in your brain by thinking about it?
This is very similar to how I reacted when I started reading “When the Mind’s Eye is Blind” [0] one day.
Up to that point (I think I was 31 at the time) I had always believed that when people talked about “visualizing” something, it was just a figure of speech. I didn’t realize people meant it literally.
30+ years of situations suddenly clicked and it was like a bomb of realization went off in my brain.
I suppose this is why the mind palace of memory is difficult for me to utilize.
I have read that eskimos lost in the snow and ice have been able to have day hallucinations visually as well auditory. They see and hear birds which do not exist.
A YouTuber simulated it with thick white paper taped to his head with white noise playing head phones after 15-30min, iirc.
Another avenue to look into aside from hallucinogens as referenced in the link could be deep meditation.
My inability to do the mind palace thing is one of those things that suddenly made sense to me.
I've gone deep down a meditation rabbit hole since learning about all of this. No visual imagery yet, but I do see what I would have to describe as a non-specific shimmering/morphing "wave" that comes and goes. Nothing that I could describe as an image of something, but visual phenomena nonetheless.
