They said England is no more, but that red X is also deleting Wales and Northern Ireland.

Medical devices are required to comply with 21 CFR 820 in the United States, which establishes quality management standards. This includes minimum standards for the software development lifecycle, including software verification and validation testing.

In the EU, broadly equivalent standards include ISO 13485 and IEC 62304.

If an OEM wants to do a software update, they at minimum need to perform and document a change impact analysis, verification testing, and regression testing. Bigger changes can involve a new FDA submission process.

If you go around hacking new software features into your medical device, you are almost certainly not doing all of that stuff. That doesn’t mean that your software changes are low quality–maybe, maybe not. But it would be completely unfair to hold your device to the standard that the FDA holds them to–that medical devices in the United States are safe and effective treatments for diseases.

This may be okay if you want to hack your own CPAP (usually a class II device) and never sell it to someone else. But I think we all need to acknowledge that there are some serious risks here.

If wasn’t full garbage collection in the spec. It was some infrastructure support in the spec that would make it easier to write garbage collectors in C++.

Man, I remember reading about all this home automation stuff in Compute’s Gazette for the Commodore 64. It’s been around forever and a day.

And Roe v. Wade increased access to abortion about the same time, together with the leaded gas.

Another aspect to this is that Android is Linux, but it is not GNU / Linux. This is true both in the literal sense of not using GNU coreutils or glibc, and also in the broader sense.

What I mean by the “broader” sense:

• no X or Wayland
• GTK or Qt support is something an application has to bring with them.
• filesystem is substantially reorganized
• users and system permissions setup substantially differently

To the application programmer Android / Linux looks like a completely different ball game.

I thought they catch fire and burn down slowly.

Correct. Both the recent pager and radio attacks, and the 1996 cell phone attack, were performed by planting military explosives inside the devices in advance.

There is no magical way to hack the electronics to make a lithium battery straight up explode.

Also, Israel already assassinated someone by exploding their cell phone way back in 1996.

When I started on Debian, there was only apt-get. (And dpkg if you manually pulled .debs from somewhere).

Then a little while later, there was aptitude, which was nice.

apt the command didn’t show up until 2014.

Technically I think that’s still “put us first on the search bar” money. You’re giving the real under-the-table explanation.

This is missing a “just right” image for reference, and so everyone can criticize the author’s cookie preferences.

Uranium doesn’t usually glow in the dark? If you can see a blue glow, you need to get the heck out of there, or submerge it in a lot of water.

Cheese Kurds would be a little cannibalistic.

Fracking has granted the United States independence from OPEC, and turned the US into the largest exporter of oil. This, the US now has the pricing power on the world oil market. This has huge geopolitical implications.

Back in the 2000s it was completely different. All of the geopolitical wonks were pushing renewable energy as a means of OPEC independence. And now that independence has been granted, but we still have the oil.

Meanwhile, as others have stated on this thread, the immediate problems from fracking have been mostly fixed, including the earthquakes. Long term, I don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen with all of that dirty wastewater going back into the ground.

So on balance, there’s a good reason for the leadership in both parties to be on board with fracking: oil still rules the world, and fracking lets the United States rule the oil markets.

Not enough mushrooming in that case.

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … = -1/12

I went to labcorp for a while when I needed monthly blood draws for my doctor.

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Side effects include all of your contacts calling you freakin nerd.

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No. I would like to go back to beans, please.

But the floppy diskette and the “hard disks” did in fact have circular discs inside that spin around.

I suspect that the word diskette was created as an analog to tape “cassette”.