Notes

Wow, today I was learning about the timeline of Microsoft adding Linux support on Windows, reading this article1, on my phone, but I got distracted. I was trying to long-press one of the links in the article, but this news website, bless their hearts, is click harvesting, so was preventing my long-click trying to take a peak at a link prior to clicking it–since don’t click on shift is just 101 against phishing....

Whaaatt??? 🤯 I discovered today, thanks to a conversation with ChatGPT , Apple MacOS’s Continuity Camera , for batch scanning of documents. Had wasted so much time trying to use the Dropbox app for scanning, because I had always been trying to rename and scan at the same time. And finding the right folder and typing in the iphone keyboard, all those things are painfully slow. Dropbox has still not added the simplest of conveniences into their UI of , being able to search for some folder or file, go to it, and then from there be able to go to the parent folder....

surprise billing p39, (and chapter 6 too), reading a note about a 2015 study that found, 30% of plans on federal marketplqce, wow, without any emergency physician coverage?! so all those would be out of network. cost sharing p40, cost sharing like HDHP, intended to reduce cost by getting people to shop around more. RAND, findings, less money spent but not by shopping around but by getting less care ....

The chaos of hiring is perpetually on most peoples minds these days, at least in my sampling of the conversations I engage in. One topic that comes up a lot is job post ghosting. No need to mention AI. Oops just did 😅. 👻 job post ghosting: an applicant does not hear back from an entity behind an application they submitted, for an extended period of time. The entity where an application is submitted may as well be a coin in a fountain or a letter in an ocean bottle or some other kind of void....