Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Про медицину и политику

Сколько живу, столько людям удивляюсь. Вот я в твиттере опубликовал ссылку на впечатления гоблиновского “камрада” по поводу американской медицины.

Я вообще собирался больше Гоблина по многим причинам не читать, но как-то не удержался и зашёл. Ничего серьёзного делать не хочется, нога побаливает, вот и читаю ерунду всякую.

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Console Linux Troubles

I got so sick of the constant troubles while setting up a Linux server from the console that I decided to write them all down. You can read them and decide whether I'm complaining for nothing or not. I have Debian, this might not apply to other distros.

1. If you paste from putty into the midnight commander editor, it automatically tries to add extra spaces at the beginning of the line (so-called autoindent) and the formatting goes to hell. This can be disabled, but I had a really hard time finding how to invoke the mc editor options.

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Blew all the polymers - Situation – 3, part 2, Surgery costs and home recovery

The next day at 7 AM the doctor ran in, looked at my leg, bent it at 45 degrees, gave 4 instructions in 30 seconds, and ran away so fast that I barely had time to ask anything.

I should mention here that Dr. Guzenko is generally always very busy, doing over 800 surgeries a year! and because of that, he moves around very quickly, and fills out paperwork even quicker. He answers questions, of course, but you absolutely have to prepare them in advance and memorize the answers well, don't ask him to repeat them, you won't have the time.

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