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For the first time in my life, I have hit my deductible AND reached my out-of-pocket maximum. I now have three months of actual free healthcare, which is unheard of in the US. What should I get done?
  • For those not in the US: it may be covered, but normally it's a separate insurance plan and not covered by your regular health insurance.

    It also varies what type of "dental" care. Some mouth/gum surgeries may be covered by the health plan. I think most dental plans cover checkups. All this varies wildly with your employer and insurance election, though.

  • How do you unhear accents?
  • As someone with a slight accent: good. I want you to hear what I'm saying, not my accent.

    Regardless, active listening is the way to go. Learn what to listen for and maybe try to actively place the accent once you recognize the markers.

    Just please listen to the words first.

  • how do I accept that a doctor earns more than double what I do?
  • Check with your employer if they will help with your continued education somehow. My employer, for example, will reimburse some tuition costs if you get a degree while working there.

    As a nurse you can continue up to and including a PhD. Or you can go to medical school and become an MD. There are many options. Try to find a few that sound interesting and learn more about them.

    If you feel you have unused potential, maybe making a change in your career is just what you need. Even if you just look into what it would take, it could put things in perspective for you.

  • If you had to access an unfamiliar flash drive (or other data storage), what safety precautions would you take?
  • I don't. I don't work for a library, but judging from my local library branch, they don't have the funding to retain competent IT staff. This isn't about what they could or should do. It's about not being an asshole to people that are already barely hanging on with what they have.

  • Are there any uses for an old iPad 4th generation for programming?
  • You don't say what type of programming you do, or if you're just learning or developing professionally, but maybe something fully online would work? For example repl.it, stackblitz, or Visual Studio Code for the Web.

    I second the suggestion for getting a Bluetooth keyboard for the iPad.

  • Should one say "too many refried beans", or "too much refried beans"?
  • Since refried beans is not countable, I vote for "too much".

    Example:

    • I'm gassy because I had too much refried beans
    • I am gassy because I had too many burritos

    Or like someone else suggested, make the noun singular and call them "refried bean paste". This will probably raise more eyebrows than much/many confusion, though.

  • Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?
  • I don't mind them when used appropriately, but remember that us old people may struggle to make out which emoji we're looking at when the text is small.

    To my eyes it also looks out of place in professional writing, so I would find it hard to take you seriously if you use emojis in such a context.

    TL;DR: in a casual context, go nuts, but avoid for important communication where clarity and professionalism matters.

  • How to quit VIM?
  • I don't know if this will work for you, and I'm not sure if you're only looking for TUI editors, but Obsidian has vi key bindings and a lot of plugins.

    Disclaimer: I have not tried the vi key bindings in Obsidian.

    Another one I use is vscode. It has a ton of markdown plugins and vi key bindings. It also has a nice preview window.

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    GitHub is down
  • Git is a distributed VCS just like fossil. GitHub never has been an integral part of it; it's just the most popular hosting option. This is like saying you're glad you're using Firefox because everyone complaining that Twitter is down is using Chrome.

    Even if you do just GitHub for hosting you can, on account of it being distributed, still work and commit code.

    What is more disruptive is that so much code is hosted on GitHub that even if you're not yourself hosting anything there, you risk almost all your dependencies being unavailable to your build pipelines. If you didn't have a cache set up, you're gonna have a bad time.

    Too much of their process it's tied in with GitHub. That's what people are complaining about.

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