That's crazy talk.

It's common sense. Nobody is trained to drive a car using GPS navigation as their primary instrument for situational awareness. You're supposed to react to the conditions of the route to ensure the vehicle operates in favorable conditions - be it rain, snow or darkness. Military pilots are taught the same thing, because operating a vehicle is about maintaining control at all costs.

> Microsoft is better at publishing operating systems

Is that a joke? Microsoft seems to be in the advertising business. Their OSes are also a means to an end.

It’s against HN guidelines to imply that someone hasn’t read the article.

The only person they implied hasn’t read it is themselves, due to paywall. That’s not against the guidelines.

I think you misread the text of the guidelines.

> The only person they implied hasn’t read it is themselves

That's the joke, yeah

HN guidelines are no joking matter.

Bike shedding of the highest order.

We're gonna need a bigger bike.

Nonsense that a 1080p limit is acceptable for (and accepted by) paying customers.

Depends. I disagree with HDCP in theory on ideological grounds. In practice, my main movie device is below 720p (projector), so it will take another decade before it affects me in any way.

Problem solved!

You conclude the problem is with math. I conclude the problem is with reality.

In physical reality there is no infinity of anything* so Axiom of Choice is irrelevant for it.

* Universe could be itself inifinite but locally everything is finite.

> locally everything is finite.

You don't know that.

>> Universe could be itself infinite but locally everything is finite.

> You don't know that.

I think they were saying that it could be that the Universe is infinite with everything still being locally finite. I do not think they were asserting that everything is locally finite, I think it was included in the "it could be" part.

But certainly you're right that we don't know that.

This conversation is surreal.

Not sure what your point is. It sounds like the instant clinic was functionally no different than doing nothing at all.

You don't see any benefit to having a trained/licensed professional taking vitals and making a diagnosis--even if that diagnosis is basically "you'll get better"? And the inhaler was actually helpful. And if the other option was to spend the day in a NYC ER I'd probably have passed.

I'm not a hypochondriac and maybe in a pre-COVID world I'd just have assumed I was "fine" but having a second opinion seemed warranted given the option.

I've also been in an ER when the diagnosis from an infectious disease specialist (after some really bad lab work and high fever) was basically go home, rest, and drink plenty of fluids when his assessment (of a fairly serious tropical disease) took a month to be confirmed from a lab in Paris.

So we just basically self-diagnose and assume it will all just get better?

A wrong diagnosis may be more harmful than you realize - if they are wrong (and they often are) it can lead to death/permanent disability.

I'm not sure what point you're making.

In one case, it would have been pretty ridiculous for me to have gone to the ER given that I didn't otherwise have COVID or other serious symptoms.

In the other case, in spite of a pretty high fever, I'm quite confident that had I gone into the local rural ER at the time they would have had zero idea about the tropical disease I had and, even after I got home with a fairly persistent mild fever, my very experienced primary care MD just knew that my blood work looked bad and it took an on-call infectious disease specialist to know what was going on.

You're not always going to have an expert specialist available.

Not that it mattered in either case because there wasn't really anything they could do other than let my body do its thing.

“I didn’t know I couldn’t do that.”