bjornsteffanson

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Programmer and SVG enthusiast in UTC +10, for now.

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Comment · 4 years ago

I'm 36, and I've had 32 cavities filled in my lifetime. I can't stand the procedure every time, and it's been heartbreaking for me not to be able to pinpoint why I've had so many cavities. I'm vegetarian, and I don't drink soda or alcohol. I brush regularly but should probably floss more. I do drink a lot of coffee and a lot of water. I completely avoid any candy and processed sugar (except for the occasional bit of something sweet in a restaurant dessert once or twice a year). I also eat a lot of acidic fruits and vegetables like tomatoes, lemons, limes, and pineapples.

Most were in my early teens (I had eight filled at once one time) so I was convinced it was the dentist racketeering and my parents wouldn't let me out of getting them filled. I should note my parents have a similar diet and a similar amount of major dental work. The handful of cavities I've had in adulthood have been major blows to my mental health.

Comment · 4 years ago

> Does Apple have any way to verify it’s actually a full delete, and do they do so?

The guidelines do state that it should be a full delete. In my experience, Apple has never checked or asked to verify if a user account was fully deleted on apps I've worked on, which involve PHI. It's been a part of HIPAA compliance for our apps since the beginning (and we do actually fat delete, FWIW). It's a relatively new requirement from Apple's end, though. The deadline was actually extended from January 31st 2022 to now June 30th 2022. Enforcement or stringency on Apple's part could change around then, but I don't see Apple having the resources or willpower to do much of an increase here.

Full guidelines are here: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=i71db0mv

Comment · 4 years ago

Internationally, between currencies? The best offer I've found for transferring $200,000 USD to AUD is 0.4% ($800). At scale, that's not exactly cheap. I'm referencing the original parent comment which suggests it's possible for fractions of a penny, as I would love to find this service:

> There are a ton of alternatives that cost fractions of a penny in transaction fees.

Comment · 4 years ago

What services are the best for transferring large sums of money cheaply, safely, and quickly? In my experience, you can only choose one. I would prefer to chose two: cheaply and safely. I am not as worried about time. Recommendations?

Comment · 4 years ago

Exactly this. Every OSS project is going to have a slightly different arrangement, but many contributions to OSS projects are subject to conflict of interest agreements. I work full-time on a large OSS project that has thousands of community contributors, and also has a few hundred paid full-time contributors as well. Our COI agreement limits what we can accept as gifts and outside payments. I would be open to speaking of course -- in fact, it's our responsibility to the community as core contributors. But taking a paid Zoom call with a commercial entity is very different than speaking at a conference or responding to Github issues (at my company, at least).

I'm genuinely not certain how someone would approach my company to do this, which is also exactly to the author's first point quoted in the parent comment. My guess is likely that someone would pay my company, and my company would compensate me to speak as a normal part of my day-to-day role.

Comment · 4 years ago

Same. You might find Inconsolata interesting, too: https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata

Comment · 5 years ago

Pretty rad. What's the etiquette on the drop-in/surf time? And who built it/paid for it? Is it free?

Asking because I used to live near Bend, Oregon, which had a similar lowhead dam problem that they turned into a whitewater park with three separate channels of rapids. Love it when cities fund these sorts of things.