dodobirdlord (u/dodobirdlord)

dodobirdlord commented on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional cbs12.com/news/local/flor... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

HDThoreaun · 5 days ago

I believe the issue is that moving violations often give you points on your license. If it was just a fine I think they could put it on the car, but because the of the potential loss of a license they need to actually have evidence of a person committing the violation.

dodobirdlord · 5 days ago

I suppose they could also put the points on the car and impound it after it accrues enough points to have a drivers license suspended. Hard to drive if you don’t have a car.

dodobirdlord commented on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-v... · Posted by u/thatha7777

BeetleB · a month ago

> SHOULD is a requirement.

I once had a job where reading standards documents was my bread and butter.

SHOULD is not a requirement. It is a recommendation. For requirements they use SHALL.

My team was writing code that was safety related. Bad bugs could mean lives lost. We happily ignored a lot of SHOULDs and were open about it. We did it not because we had a good reason, but because it was convenient. We never justified it. Before our code could be released, everything was audited by a 3rd party auditor.

It's totally fine to ignore SHOULD.

dodobirdlord · a month ago

Assuming we’re talking about RFC 2119, it’s important not to collapse the distinction between SHOULD and MAY, which is there for a reason. MAY elements are legitimately optional, SHOULD elements are there for a reason and are disregarded at one’s own risk.

> SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

To validly disregard a SHOULD, you need to (a) fully understand the implications, and (b) accept them.

Any time someone disregards a SHOULD and then complains about the result, they are necessarily in the wrong. Either they didn’t fully understand the implications, or they don’t actually accept them.

dodobirdlord commented on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-v... · Posted by u/thatha7777

lukan · a month ago

Yes, but this might be googles fault for not respecting/missinterpretating the spec.

dodobirdlord · a month ago

Google probably did parse these messages as well-formed before inspecting them and deciding to drop them based on the lack of this field. The RFC imposes no mandatory obligation to deliver messages just because they are well-formed.

dodobirdlord commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP

glimshe · a month ago

I've been hearing about massive Amazon layoffs for a few years now. How come the company still exists? Are these layoffs followed by hiring at cheaper regions or different parts of the company? From my perspective as an occasional Amazon customer, things are pretty much unchanged.

dodobirdlord · a month ago

Amazon’s hiring bar has historically been very low, with a philosophy that if it doesn’t work out you can always just fire the person later. A similar philosophy exists for staffing up teams for speculative projects. If it doesn’t work out you can just axe the whole division after a couple of years. Periodic large layoffs are a natural consequence of operating like this.

dodobirdlord commented on Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable aethermug.com/posts/linea... · Posted by u/mrcgnc

crazygringo · 4 months ago

> and you will find that there are more English words than the other language. It is now clear that there exist English words that don't correspond to a single word in the other language.

You're forgetting about synonyms. The common adage that English has the largest vocabulary stems from the fact that it often has multiple words for the same thing. Sofa, couch. Autumn, fall. Etc etc. Other languages generally don't do this. I've never heard anyone suggest that English has words for more concepts.

dodobirdlord · 4 months ago

There are relatively few cases of true synonyms in English (or any language). There are subtle differences in meaning, register, etc that are recognized by native speakers.

dodobirdlord commented on FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear

khannn · 4 months ago

Did you see how the FFMPEG project patched a bug for a 1995 console? That's not a good use for the limited amount of volunteers on the project. It actively makes it less secure by taking away from more pertinent bugs.

dodobirdlord · 4 months ago

The codec can be triggered to run automatically by adversarial input. The irrelevance of the format is itself irrelevant when ffmpeg has it on by default.

dodobirdlord commented on Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

bilbo0s · 6 months ago

Uh, because the original post implied that over regulation was the cause of substandard metrics in PE owned hospitals. It even went so far as to state, "..I'm not surprised by this finding.." after outlining a case for why over regulation was a problem.

Which "finding", presumably, being that PE owned hospitals have substandard metrics.

My question is natural given the context of a discussion that's literally titled:

"Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

It's literally the entire subject of the discussion. Why would anyone think it's irrelevant?

dodobirdlord · 6 months ago

I think you misread the original post. It is about overregulation fostering the spread of PE operated hospitals. Not about overregulation causing PE operated hospitals to have worse outcomes.

dodobirdlord commented on Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

bilbo0s · 6 months ago

As someone already pointed out, PE owned hospitals are in states with, and in states without, CON requirements. Certainly on the face of that fact it would appear the existence, or nonexistence, of CON requirements has no effect on PE hospitals charging more and having far inferior outcomes.

Do you have a hypothesis as to why CON requirements are driving inferior outcomes and increased cost metrics at PE owned hospitals? (A hypothesis that accounts for the fact that PE owned hospitals underperform even in the absence of CON requirements.)

Serious question. I'm trying to get my head around this.

dodobirdlord · 6 months ago

How does this relate to the original post? The original post posits that overregulation contributes to the dysfunction of the US healthcare system. The next response calls for specifics. The comment you responded to provides a specific regulation that may be contributing.

You respond questioning how that could explain why PE operated hospitals have worse outcomes. I agree, this doesn’t seem to have an explanatory power for why PE operated hospitals have worse outcomes, but how does that relate?

dodobirdlord commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

wnevets · 7 months ago

> because doctors fear losing their license like so many did during the pain pill debacle.

Which is understandable after the monumental pain and damage oxy caused to families everywhere.

dodobirdlord · 7 months ago

Only if you myopically assume all drugs have equal abuse potential, addiction potential, and negative consequences of abuse. The US federal drug schedule is a clown show.

dodobirdlord commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

arcfour · 7 months ago

And this has nothing to do with insurance, but does have to do with government bureaucracy negatively impacting people getting treatment for an illness.

dodobirdlord · 7 months ago

Health insurance prior authorization policy, approved medication lists, and network pharmacy policies complicate maintaining continuous access during the DEA-imposed artificial shortage by complicating transferring prescriptions to pharmacies that have supply available and transferring prescriptions to substantially-equivalent drugs sold by different manufacturers.