If you use SystemD timers you can both adjust the accuracy and randomize the time.

The random sleep trick works everywhere, though.

It was 1992. I attended a small technical college in Norway. We would telnet to an irc server in NYC to chat. After that: email, ftp, gopher, Usenet, irc, and eventually the www and setting up the college’s first web server.

I’m just gonna leave this here.

I’m not your pal, guy

They must be: Dracula 1931 and Frankenstein 1931

I feel like “I wanna do it” as her last line would have been a little funnier.

That’s fair. I think they’re are definitely systems where micro services are the best choice, but also that they are way over used or implemented too early. Too often it seems service boundaries follow the organization and not the domain model, because they only exist so multiple teams don’t have to talk to each other as often. I guess I’m saying there are more incorrect ways of doing micro services than correct ways.

The worst I’ve seen though have been a single developer over engineering a system because they thought it was cool, but we replaced it with a simple batch script.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think if you’re not sure if you need microservices, then you don’t need microservices. I’ve had to clean up too many overengineered systems to be convinced otherwise.

As someone who builds said forms: that is why we put “patient declined to answer” as an option along with “not applicable”, “unknown” and other ways to get past the questions without having to put in a fake answer. “The computer won’t let me keep going without you answering the question” is a weak-ass excuse.

That sounds exhausting. I’m sorry that you’re met with so much ignorance and disrespect. I would probably complain to the patient ombudsman if this is a recurring issue.

I think there’s been some spotlight on the sad state of women’s healthcare in the news, but I’ve not seen much about trans care. I hope that improves, but I’m not optimistic under the current administration.

Sure, if you’re a trans man, perhaps in the middle of your transitioning where maybe there is a chance you could still get pregnant. Not sure if that’s possible. I’m a developer not a doctor. I don’t see why that would be any different, though. I don’t make the rules, either.

Funny you should mention it because I’ve said the same thing during the design of an app we were building where they needed exactly this information. Since they only had one field for “sex” and it was male/female only, I argued maybe they should leave the pregnancy question enabled if they picked male.

Oh yeah, and I definitively think the doctor in the comic is being rude and dismissive. I could see the question being used as a proxy for “are you possibly pregnant”, though.

Also, almost all the intake questionnaires you get at the doctor’s office are templates that they have to complete per policy. I just treat them like when they ask me if I have a loyalty card at the store.

Yes, they can’t take your word for it. I was just implying that if you already told them you are pregnant then they can save a step since the safe choice is to not do the test.

Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor

While there is definitely an issue of women receiving worse treatment, the providers have good reasons to ask; namely there are a lot of tests where they have to know if you could be pregnant before they can run them, even an X-ray. If you just tell them you’re pregnant up front, then they can save you a blood draw for an HCG test. Otherwise, they probably will, to make sure.

Edit: This blew up, so I wanted to clarify something. This is clearly a very common and frustrating experience for many women who may feel bullied into giving up private information. I don’t want anyone to think that they must answer all the doctor’s questions. You have a right to refuse to answer questions and to refuse care. Read the rest of the thread and stay informed of your rights.

Thanks for the heads up. I knew he was a devout Catholic, but I never had the experience that he was pushing any agenda–as in he tends to just stick to technical content. I don’t mind watching people with different opinions than mine, but “cure the gay” is very problematic. I would be sad, since I really like his content. I will have to read up some more on this.

Along similar lines: another channel I have been watching is Smarter Every Day, where the host, Destin, is fairly open about his faith. That may put some people off, but overall I have found his content overall interesting and I don’t feel like he’s preaching to me, but others may be more sensitive to that. He’s currently pushing his own grill scrubber product pretty hard, which I find off-putting, but I see what he’s trying to do. I’m giving him a chance to get back to more interesting engineering stuff.

To address the others: yes, I know there are some potentially controversial entries, like Veritasium and Kurzgesagt. I have Veritasium “on probation” due to the change, but so far the new hosts have done a pretty decent job. Kurzgesagt is one I kind of leave for a long time and then come back every so often, because they have something interesting and their content is presented well. Totally understand if people choose to give them a skip.

In no particular order:

• The Rest Is Science (podcast)
• Technology Connections/Connextras
• Jeff Geerling / Level 2 Jeff – Edit: see replies below
• Techmoan
• Gamers Nexus / GNCA
• LGR
• Switch and Click
• The Linux Experiment
• Tasting History with Max Miller
• Ben Eater (breadboard computers)
• Stuff Made Here (engineering)
• Up and Atom (science)
• Simon d’Entremont (photography)
• Words Unravelled and Rob’s Words (English language)
• Kurzgesagt – Edit: see replies below
• Veritasium – Edit: see replies below
• Tom Scott (the returned)
• Asianometry (tech history)
• Clabretro (retro networking and server hardware)

Edit: A few bonus channels that may be of interest but didn’t all fit the criteria for me:

• Action Retro - doing silly stuff with old computers - more recent discovery for me
• Dr Geoff Lindsey - Linguistics - I only watch occasionally - can be a bit heavy on the linguistic science for an amateur like me.
• Lftkryo - Linus Åkesson - an absolute wizard coding on the C64
• RetroBytes - computer history. Most of his content is mainly him just talking, so I can just listen while I’m doing something else
• Tech Tangents - more of a recently discovered channel for me. Vintage hardware. Underrated channel.
• Serial Port and Parallel port - vintage computers and networking. Brings back memories from my days working for an ISP.
• Honorary mention to Veronica Explains. She keeps things pretty basic so I don’t get a lot out of her videos, but I like her stance on open source and not selling out. She posts everything on Peertube as well.

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