This kind of discovery is really cool to hear about.

But the impatient part of my brain really hates to read stuff like “hoping to start human trials within five years”. Gotta be careful and do it right and all that. But my monkey brain wants that Star Trek medicine now where I go in with literally anything and almost all of it is curable and a lot of it with only some sort of non-evasive tool while I am young enough to benefit from it.

This sort of thing is what keeps me away from Samsung phones.

All I can think to say is “no shit”. The unrestrained lust for as much money as possible does not mix with the long term good of healthcare.

I bet writing that title will be a defining moment in their career when they look back on it in retirement.

Something being “possible“ doesn’t mean it is likely or a certainty.

I’m with you on that. VIM is a good example of a tool that the deepness of the tool makes it aggravating to use for the 90% of simple use cases.

Unless you use VIM enough for the shortcuts to be second nature it is faster to install Nano, make the changes, and remove Nano than it is to use VIM.

A lot of my personal dislike for VIM would be done away with if it just had a helpful common keys cheat sheet (basic cursor navigation, edit mode, exit with and without saving, etc) at the bottom of the editor window like Nano does.

Because a big part of their voting base are busy body Christian evangelicals who think what Facebook tells them the Bible says is how they should vote. And the Republicans, as you pointed out, want to win so they will do whatever makes that large voting block happy.

You should look up Lee Atwater if you haven’t. He was a big player in the 80’s and early 90’s in Republican politics “going negative” with twisted truths to work groups such as them up into a teeming hive to win elections.

Yep. My employer has made several decisions I strongly dislike and disagree with over the last year or so. And would have been looking for the door over it if they did not allow full WFH for those that like that setup better.

Now that I have gotten to experience it I don’t think I will ever willingly go back to a job that requires mandatory weekly in-office time.

Those were actually on different lines when I wrote that. Weird.

• A tape measurer
• A heating pad
• A water resistant fire safe
• Decent surge protectors for your expensive electronics (splurge on UPS’s if you can)

I wonder if I could rig up a bidet that would play Africa by Toto while it washed my backside.

Putting new tasks down to get to them later at work when I see something I had not planned on doing. Just make a ticket and throw it in the backlog. It is amazing how those little 5 minute things can eat into the work you said you were going to be doing now.

Also, "the Scotty principle ". Basically always say something will take longer than it will.

https://tinyhydra.com/the-scotty-principle/

I just enjoy new tech and trying new things in that arena. So new phones before I technically need to is one of the things I spend disposable income on when something in that arena catches my interest.

Does have a nice side effect of constantly reenforcing the use of platform agnostic services and retaining ultimate control of my data if it is something I care about, since it really allows me to just move the sim to a new phone and be up and running in a hour or less with more or less any Apple or Android phone.

And it is more discouraged to kill and eat the users when they get out of line.

The Stephen King movie Silver Bullet. I have always really liked but been freaked out by werewolf movies and something about Everett McGills performance as the priest mixed with the usual stalking of the wolf really spooked me.