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They prey on nostalgia, but the rugged aspect also speaks to me.

Casio watches, Nokia cellphones (formerly, now Huawei or Xiaomi), Thinkpad latops and Panasonic Toughbooks - if you have one, you are likely to have one of the others.

Looks like people are getting defined by their lifestyle. (I guess Rolex and Apple would be on the other end of the spectrum)

excess stiction - so you means the keys requires a lot of strength to be activated.

Could it be the plastic getting older and less soft?

Is anyone using a 2004 era CTB100 at home?

I love the extra buttons and that it comes with a speaker for voice chat.

I'm considering using one for programming, with the extra buttons remapped.

I care more about freedom than performance here. Not feature complete is fine as long as it works for what I do, and that I can tweak it to do more.

Eventually, something that is not licensed from a western company (or which can't be protected by IP law) but that is fast enough for most uses will also become a $0.10 afterthought.

The mips24k is remarkable in that you can comfortably run a linux kernel with a lot of userland utilities and even text mode software -- just what we used to run on Linux computers many years ago!

Medical information is likely to be ICD codes for the active diagnosis, and antecedents (history) for this patient.

This is worse than full text medical information because everything is already coded, so you can make some simple algorithms to find crunchy details with a very high specificity.

After they received training when they learn that this step is important and not just a formality, and why it is done, I found that people do observe procedures, especially when they have to sign the checklist they filled themselves.

Human beings observe procedures when they understand it's part of the job and they are held accountable.

In spreadsheets (excel) and notebooks (ipython/rstudio), having the data bundled with the code is a feature. It provides reproducibility.

> a destroyed formula can go undetected for a while...

That is a problem in methodology, not with the tools. There are many solutions that do not require abandoning spreadsheets.

For the destroyed formula example, you need tests. Simple example to do that with a checklist: if you are doing a SUM(), require that the employee ticks a box saying "all the number were highlighted when clicking on the SUM formula".

For the out-of-sync version, you need a central repository and another box "I retrieved the latest version from the xx repository, and this version was: ... "

Then require that to be printed and signed (accountability), and you'll see mistake disappear.

One of my eyes has myopia. The other one is fine.

Did I play out too much as a pirate with an eyepatch?

Joke aside, the disease has many causes, and there is some genetic predisposition. It is too easy to blame it on the modern environment.

There is absolutely no technical reason why it should be the case if done properly.

With SIM cards or other hardware devices, your private key is never leaked (if "done properly")

With cryptos like BTC, you can generate many keys from one source of entropy, and treat them as disposable.

I don't see why medical records couldn't be encrypted with a disposable key, given by a hardware device which stores the seed, and only linked to the matching public key.

Name + ICD diagnosis, what a wonderful leak for blackmailers wordwide! (/s)

Seriously, these two pieces of data that are innocent alone, when taken separately (HIV, chlamydia, cancer...) should NEVER have been linked together, ESPECIALLY when given to a third party, EVEN MORE stored together.

I pray it will result in many lawsuits with hefty punitive damages, and that as a consequence private data will be considered a liability to be deleted as early as possible (just like corporate email in many companies)

The beautiful thing with democracy is that these housing solutions that provided an actual solution to homelessness where banned, are still illegal, and thus won't be "brought back" even if they make perfect sense, were preferred by the people who used them, are a free market solution, and much cheaper than the alternatives.

See San Francisco as an example of what happens when more money is poured in the "modern" solutions - very little reduction of the problem, if any.

> the MT7621 based board you cite has two MIPS 24k CPUs, straight out of 2005

Yes, I'm having a lot offun with a 14 year old CPU, so I want to see a modern one, if possible with free software GPU support like for the Mali

> without that silicon external to the CPU, any kind of crypto would slowly chug along

Which is exactly why I want to see MIPS64 that can do all that without hardware acceleration - and much more with it.

Then please stand by your username and explain me, with rational discussion, why you think I'm wrong, and how Russia is so much better.

And FYI it's not a mockery - I'm watching TV and eating, for real. It wasn't a metaphor, but I guess you didn't give me the benefit of doubt.