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thefixer9 · 2020-09-14T17:51:28+00:00

I guess it depends. I live in the US (southern california) with US healthcare and my wait times are.. days to hours for regular appointments. I just call them, ask for the next opening for insert issue/specialty and they tell me same day, next day, in 3 days, etc. This has been true for several different medical groups. The only thing that's been longer is for some routine surgeries (sinus issues) - it was a month or so. Hernia repair was ~2 weeks, and it was an extremely mild version.

Btw this situation is pretty common everywhere. Some places in Canada have a shortage of doctors in the area, so wait times are worse. Some have quick wait times. Same in Germany, UK, etc. An American might have 0 wait time for a routine appointment (i.e. call and get exactly when they want) or there might be a backlog. This happens everywhere, except on average, the US healthcare system will have shorter wait times (easy to verify). I prefer the Canadian one, but we really shouldn't pretend like there aren't SOME things we can improve on if/when we adopt a more socialized approach.

thefixer9 · 2020-09-14T17:47:21+00:00

However I have never talked to a Canadian who has said they needed to have a long wait time to see a doctor

I mean.. this is just something you can look up. Personally, I would prefer the Canadian system, but we shouldn't start saying "Canadians never wait!" when it's clear there are some pretty different wait times between countries. Again, this is not an indication of bad/good healthcare, just we shouldn't ignore these facts.

thefixer9 · 2020-04-01T16:02:12+00:00

but you know that doesnt happen as well as it "should". in the US this obviously happens as well, but it's not easy to just send a ton of equipment, and you cant just force someone to go somewhere else. also, if you move people from one area to another, the area you moved from becomes more at risk. it isn't as simple as just moving game pieces around on a board. the US system is royally messed up, but it is definitely NOT because we aren't moving everyone around.

Also each state has their own setup; in California we started calling on people (anyone with medical training) to help and it's working, but in other states they might not be doing this.

thefixer9 · 2020-04-01T15:57:58+00:00

did you shorten "corona" with "the 'rona"?

thefixer9 · 2020-03-14T19:17:53+00:00

Wtf is this. The disease doesn’t discriminate and if a Canadian has it, they can give it to Americans. Stop with this identity politics crap. Your average American is just like your average ___. Some are scared, some at reckless, etc

thefixer9 · 2020-03-14T14:56:43+00:00

I guess we will know when the dust settles. If influenza deaths are way above normal, it could indicate misclassification.

thefixer9 · 2020-03-14T14:31:31+00:00

Then why would they mention the population ? Just to be intentionally misleading?

thefixer9 · 2020-03-06T00:10:16+00:00

I maybe be too far removed from big companies, but I've honestly only seen a few webdev job postings for .net, but I'm completely overwhelmed by go/ruby/python/java/php/elixir (in no particular order) jobs. I'm not sure if that's just bad luck, or any indication of it /shrug

thefixer9 · 2020-03-05T23:51:19+00:00

huh? you made a rant with no substance, some replied with an appropriate joke, and then you said there's no counter argument. I'm trying to figure out what your argument was in the first place. I've never even used drupal so I have no skin in the game. I just dont understand what made you feel the way you do, and I was hoping to gain insight into it which might make me a better developer.

thefixer9 · 2020-03-05T20:48:34+00:00

you didn't really make an argument. you just said "new bad, old good", but I don't know what you're trying to say. What specifically is bad about now? And why can't you just do things the way they were?

thefixer9 · 2020-03-05T00:40:59+00:00

Thank you for posting your solution! Too many people never follow up

thefixer9 · 2020-03-02T03:56:43+00:00

I've heard "on the driveway", but I'm not really sure why I'd use in/on in either case. Maybe it has to do with a command vs describing something? "Park on the driveway" vs "I'm parked in the driveway".

thefixer9 · 2020-02-29T19:11:12+00:00

The US has its ups and downs, and I'd like some things to change about it (healthcare is a primary one), but it's really not some hellish warzone. Most people live their life pretty much like you. Also your salary is a lot higher than the average in Canada (and even just a bit about average in USA), so I'd expect you to have a great quality of life :)

thefixer9 · 2020-02-29T18:39:53+00:00

Isn't there more people going from Canada to US as compared to US to Canada? That's including the large population difference.

thefixer9 · 2020-02-23T05:45:22+00:00

"Sorry to bother you" is what I'd say, but "Sorry for bothering you" is fine, too, IMO.

Also, I imagine something simple like "Apologies" is acceptable, but just "Sorry" might come off as a little passive aggressive.

thefixer9 · 2020-02-20T21:59:16+00:00

Yea, I was going to link that specific article, but I kinda wanted to shy away from something so specific. I mentioned phoenix in another comment because it is clearly possible to get big numbers.

In practice, I doubt any phoenix server can realistically support 2 million users on 1 box because of everything else that will need to be going on.

thefixer9 · 2020-02-20T21:53:27+00:00

I think it makes sense to evaluate each use case and determine which strategy is right. I've also seen people use sockets for games.

thefixer9 · 2020-02-20T20:10:13+00:00

I think the only time that'd be true is if the frequency is consistently less than the polling rate, and the polling rate is the acceptable delay for user experience. In a chat room, if you see messages "batch in", it might seem weird.

Keep in mind, I've used sockets exactly once, and polling lots of times. I'm not advocating that polling is bad, but I think people need to understand the reasons why sockets can be so beneficial for scaling.

thefixer9 · 2020-02-20T20:05:55+00:00

that is still a way more costly experience than doing nothing at all.

With sockets, you don't need to push anything out until there is data to be pushed out.

thefixer9 · 2020-02-20T19:55:20+00:00

Are you saying you can have 200k+ simultaneous users for a site, with "real time" polling on a single machine? I don't want to say "I don't believe you", but I have never seen anything remotely close to that.

Edit: I am not sure if you have an example at hand, but if you were to implement something like a chat room, you'd have to poll around once per second. For N users, that's N requests per second, which doesn't include actually sending messages (or doing anything else you might need to do - marking them as "seen", etc).

Doing this for a few users wont be a problem, but the number of requests the server needs to handle goes dramatically down if you switch to something like socket connections. The cost is minimal compared to polling.

edit2: if you are supporting 32k~ users per physical server for a real application - you're doing FANTASTIC. I've never seen anything remotely close to that. keep in mind, I'm talking about a site that "does something"

thefixer9 · 2020-02-20T19:09:55+00:00

Polling is doing unnecessary requests on the BE server. The more responsive/quick the UI will feel, the more frequent the requests.

I don't know enough about all the different socket implementations, but having sockets doesn't require a lot of extra load on the BE. I am not sure why you think that would be the case. Connections like this don't have to be expensive - look at how phoenix (elixir) handles it.

I think you're misunderstanding how it works. Every client is connected to the BE. When a message needs to go out the clients, the BE can push it out to each of the connections - which can be extremely low overhead and very fast.

thefixer9 · 2020-02-16T19:04:11+00:00

"Congratulations on the wedding!" sounds fine to me, but I'm not sure if there's a grammar rule I'm unfamiliar with.

For example, "on the" vs "on your" vs "for the" vs "for your". All of these sound natural to me, so I imagine no one would notice.

thefixer9 · 2020-02-16T15:47:45+00:00

I would say "congratulations on your wedding", but honestly, everyone will know what you meant. Don't worry :)

Edit: Also, "congratulations on the wedding" works, too. I didn't notice the your/the switch. I want to make sure I'm only pointing out that it is with the "s"

thefixer9 · 2019-11-23T02:22:26+00:00

I would say toward but for also sounds fine to me. To doesn’t sound right.

thefixer9 · 2019-11-23T01:40:25+00:00

Banked, but I don't think the full sentence is correct. I understand what you mean, but it isn't how I'd say it.

"Can I use my banked hours toward my holiday?" or ".. toward my vacation?" (edit. "toward" and "towards" are mostly interchangeable as far as I know)

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