The doc had to write a prescription, but it could be I could use that at an on-line CPAP supplier (a friend does that). But it’s covered by Medicare B which I’m paying extra for, so I might as well take advantage of it.
Fortunately just this afternoon I got an email saying that the supplies have been shipped. I had to ask the doctor’s office for a second prescription to be sent out. We shall see!
Low battery in a security system sensor, for example on a window?
ETA: see what happens when I finally get to threads after a week away from internet service?
Thanks – I found it!
I took the battery out and once I’ve got some time (and feel good enough), I’ll go replace it.
Google seems to have ditched phrases and operators. So if I search for:
(“chronic illness” OR “fibromyalgia” OR “chronic fatigue”) (“tendinosis” OR "tendonitis) -“disability benefits”
I get a bunch of results about disability benefits or disability allowance and even one helpfully noting missing: -"disability …
Gigablast isn’t working either.
Bing isn’t working either.
And yet some simple operator examples still work, so maybe this is less that they’re deprecated, and more that search engines increasingly ignore what you type anyway? Not that that’s an improvement. On the off chance it’s any help, though, I wanted to mention that your query at least seems to work a little better using -(“disability benefits”).
It’s amazing to me how these tools, standing at the very center of how people access the web and find the information we need, are almost undocumented save what looks like 3rd party guessing.
Which never allowed anything but the most basic searches, and no longer works. “Advanced” my ass.
I didn’t write it. I just found the documentation for it.
it’s ant season again
Apparetly this is documented too.
I was referred to a Google Docs page covering the decision.
I now have an awful brain-splitting migraine from trying to read that page. I don’t know if it actually included any relevant info, or is just a way to punish people who report bugs.
With that warning in mind…
If you want to get (A B) OR (C D) you’ll have to do 2 separate searches and combine the results yourself, which is probably what you really want to do. Why doesn’t Google support this? Because we’ve found that most people get it wrong.
So because some people don’t understand basic logic, it’s better to invisibly break it for everyone? What kind of logic is that? 
Reverting Windows 10’s mouse behaviour to 98 win32 behaviour has resulted in an epic three minute boot process. I only wanted the mouse behaviour, not the whole darned 1999 experience.
Ayyy lmao
If you want to get (A B) OR (C D) you’ll have to do 2 separate searches and combine the results yourself, which is probably what you really want to do. Why doesn’t Google support this? Because we’ve found that most people get it wrong.
And Google harasses people with painful and buggy captchas when we run interative variations on a search. Seriously, advertising that we can’t do things one way, we should do them another way, and Google doesn’t support either does not help.
When my work computer (running windows) decides it needs to update and then decides it can’t, so it undoes them all and gives you a page saying it’s undoing the updates for about 30 minutes…
Fucking finally got a restarting message! WTF!
Nope… never mind, it’s back to saying that it’s undoing the changes…
Ah, Windows Vista. Saved from being the worst version of Windows only by the fact that Windows Me existed.
And Windows Bob. Can’t forget that one.
Can we at least try?
when the pollen is so bad, it ends up in small drifts on your driveway.
I was scheduled and planned to do a deployment tonight but this time I’d be doing completely different stuff than I’d ever done before (server maintenance), working closely with someone else who would be doing the code deployment. Was so psyched for it. Turned out neither one of us had permissions to do what we needed to do.
The good thing was that the guy who was supposed to be able to relax and take it easy for a change while we did the stuff screenshared and talked through all that he was doing (including things that I wouldn’t have thought to ask about) so we’re more prepared for next time.
But I still feel bad - we failed at that venture despite having multiple meetings to prepare and documentation and checklists. Oh well, can’t win 'em all.
Next time we have no net (vacation for the guy who knows this stuff inside out) so I have to get it right. Hopefully we’ll have the permissions by then. 