ProfessorScience

Oh man, she only lasted half a mooch.

False alarms are certainly not good, but I have to imagine that delaying an alarm by even a few minutes to double check has got to be a tough call.

I used to work at Epic as a software developer. The experience with MyChart isn't particularly surprising. I generally think that Epic is pretty genuinely well-intentioned, as companies go, but they're not particularly incentivized to put more than the bare minimum of effort in this process, since the number of patients who want to opt out is very low, and it's in Epic's interest for patients to be signed up (not, I think, for nefarious reasons like selling data; Care Everywhere data is covered by HIPAA and misuse would be a serious legal liability for Epic. But having more patients lets them tout their exchange numbers, etc).

Some of this can also probably be said about the hospital itself. They probably slapped together a process needed to meet legal requirements, but don't put much effort into it beyond that. It wouldn't surprise me if they simply didn't have the resources to spare for it.

The letters in Japanese that are usually spelled with an R in roman letters represent a phoneme that English doesn't have; it's in between r, l, and d. VAs whose native language does not include this phoneme may find it difficult to make that sound because of lack of practice, and because they consciously or unconsciously approximate it with the nearest phonemes that they're used to.

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again

Regina Spektor - On the Radio

A caravan of trans immigrants! Many caravans! They'll eat your... car keys! BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!

Brady's message really resonates with me.

Most phones don't have rockets connected to them.

Sounds like you're pretty on board with perfect being the enemy of good.

The article isn't saying that the original investigation was partisan. It's reporting that now Troy Jackson and other Dems are calling her out for it.

As a relative beginner, I think it's funny that you say "they could’ve just said 蕎麦屋 rather than そば屋", since I can actually read the latter, but not the former. And my guess is that's why they write in kana; to be easier for people who don't know all their kanji.

Yeah, but at my grocery store there tend to be folks with disabilities doing the bagging, and I wouldn't want anyone to take it the wrong way if I told them not to do their job. Even if that's not a problem it still feels awkward having someone just standing there.