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Based on my personal experience with Kaiser and their home fecal test (FIT test) as a cheaper screening method, I suggest opting out of it and insisting on a colonoscopy.

The problem is that the fecal tests are totally inconclusive. Every positive test must be confirmed by a colonoscopy. And then you get into tricky waters with insurance. My Kaiser gastro doc insisted that my colonoscopy after a positive home FIT test would be billed as diagnostic and not covered at no charge as preventive screening. Which means I would pay over $2k. Despite the USPSTF publishing explicit guidance on this exact scenario still being screening. He was dead wrong, and I wasn't billed, but he and his department did everything they could to discourage me from following up with a colonoscopy.

And at one point he even turned the tables around on me and said this was all a consequence of my having opted for the FIT test instead of a colonoscopy. Which I never did, I was not given a choice. But from his statement I would assume that you can opt in to colonoscopy instead at Kaiser. Then again this could be yet another piece of misinformation on his part.

My doctor in the US did everything he could to tell me that my screening colonoscopy would be charged as diagnostic and I would have to pay over $2,000 for it, despite no history or indications of a problem. So it isn't all a bed of roses.

My family had a party line when I was growing up. The other parties who shared the line weren't very happy when 13-year-old me got his first 300 baud modem.

Author's misguided choice of platform for running a headless server.

My understanding is that in typical Seattle fashion, this is a new legal requirement with zero funding or staffing to implement and enforce it. If you feel you have been wronged, hire an attorney and sue.

The article has quite a bit of "me, me, me, I, I, I" self-promotional content. Which makes sense given it is an advertisement for his book.

I find it jarring to hear that authentication is "largely solved" by passkeys and FIDO, technology that a very very small minority of applications support. Making claims like this combined with the focus on self-promotion is a quick path to being dismissed and ignored.

"real coding" carries a lot of the weight in that comment.

Seems like if you ask 5 different people what "real coding" means you might get 5 different answers.

Not everyone is building the next framework or compiler.

Self-hosted Qwen 3.8 @Q4 on my RTX 3090 can produce beautiful functional CRUD pages and apps all day long. And that is 90% of the "real coding" being done in corporate settings.

The quote in the article about Mazda vs. Maserati captures this. Many might want the Maserati and drool over its specs and capabilities, but balk at the cost and how often are they really going to run it up to full performance limits on their daily commute to their cubicle?

Seems like this could be categorized as yet another reason why software developers are not engineers.

It seems like one of the design goals was separation/independence. It also doesn't need a battery if it is meant to be tightly coupled with the Steam Machine. Which is nice for opening it up to many alternate uses.

Squeezelite-ESP32 is a solution that is sort of aligned with this scenario. No airplay and you would need an amp module to get to 50w.

I am guessing the BMI would track. Unless they make unlikely changes including spending more time away from that couch, these two are looking at health consequences that will probably make them a burden on society by the time they hit middle age.

It did a great job with this prompt. Got it done in about the time it would take me to login and load Fusion. I forgot to include the wire diameter but it made a reasonable assumption and included it in the params for edits

"Make a grommet seal for a hole in an aluminum pipe where a cable goes through. The hole is 0.48 inches in diameter. The wall of the pipe is .25 inches thick. Make the seal split so it can be installed with the cable in place. Make a circular cover lip that is .2 inches across on the outside, and an inner lip to secure it that is smaller. It will be printed in flexible tpu"

Gridfinity is a bit of a tool organization rabbit hole verging on a cult in 3d printing circles.

Apple is a problematic email service provider. They don't even send DMARC reports.

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about statements like these which seem to assume the reader is incredibly uninformed and naive, to the point of condescension.

"sends the information to a central storing place (called a database)" TIL what the word database means?

"Amazon can use your purchases to know more about you using patterns." Is this news to someone? Condescending.

"It might be connected to a network (via Internet or radio frequency)" Radio frequency and Internet are not really directly comparable

Also don't like that the site hijacks the appearance of my mouse pointer, which feels similarly disrespectful of the reader.