arethuza

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Comment · 1 day ago

I don't know about the rest of the UK but here in Scotland the NHS recommends that pretty much everyone should think about taking a Vitamin D supplement from October to March and possibly year round for those people in risk groups:

https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/food-and-nutrition...

Comment · 2 days ago

No bill for anything - accommodation, food, ambulance transfers, treatment, medicines...

Comment · 2 days ago

In fact if you do get private treatment in the UK they make it clear that if things go badly wrong they will take you to an NHS hospital.

Comment · 4 days ago

"A one-shotted POC"

As long as someone doesn't go - "Why do we need requirements, you've built the system already!"....

Comment · 5 days ago

Well, I'm old fashioned about these things...

Comment · 5 days ago

I have a Nikon P1000 while it doesn't have the best image quality does make up for it in having a truly remarkable zoom: 24-3000mm. Just the thing for taking pictures of birds and then working out what they actually are at my leisure.

Comment · 5 days ago

It's a lot clearer than a lot of reporting dashboards that I know for a fact were created by people!

Comment · 5 days ago

I suspect we'll find out that "programming is good for your brain" as well...

NB I'm 61 and recently started developing something almost entirely for the mental workout if provides

Edit: I also wanted to use HTMX so I could become CEO one day

Comment · 8 days ago

And thinking about the height of mountains in meters even though the reason for walking up them is because they reach a certain height in feet.

Comment · 8 days ago

I would read Ellsberg's book - a part of it can be read here:

https://apjjf.org/daniel-ellsberg/3222/article

"I remember what I thought when I held the single sheet with the graph on it. I thought, this piece of paper should not exist. It should never have existed. Not in America. Not anywhere, ever. It depicted evil beyond any human project that had ever existed. There should be nothing on Earth, nothing real, that it referred to."

Comment · 8 days ago

Driving distances in miles, walking distances in kilometers!

Comment · 8 days ago

Cooked bones are definitely a risk for dogs - I always check meat I give our dog from a roast chicken to make sure it doesn't contain any bones.

Comment · 8 days ago

I think if an LLM had read any discussions on how best to remove burrs from pet coats then it might eventually get to Velcro - I believe the inventor of Velcro got the idea from burrs?

Comment · 15 days ago

Do you have to write a function first before it is referenced in PostScript? (I did a lot of PostScript programming in NeWS once - but it was ~35 years ago...)