End of life care is perhaps the scariest thing we can face...aside from the alternative, I suppose.
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End of life care is perhaps the scariest thing we can face...aside from the alternative, I suppose.
The death rate is still one per person.
The experimental build of VBForums is coming along, mobile first (offline), so I have to resize my browser's window to see how it would look on phones. There is no sign-in form at the top-right of the forum, just text-links for signing-in or joining. Clicking them, the sign-in/register form pops-up in the middle of the forum, while blurring everything behind it. For quicker signing-in, right-clicking the mouse in the middle of the forum will display a sign-in button above the browser's context menu. Signed in, profiles can be created, and loaded images will automatically crop and resized for avatars. Navigation uses a tab control in the middle of the forum's pages (actually one simulating many), instead of on top like it is here. The first two tabs will be named the same. Signed in, more tabs will appear next to them "Messages", "My Activities", etc... LIke here, sub-forums displayed shows the number of threads it hosts, but not the number of posts yet, or last post. Clicking the sub-forums, threads are listed by creation date, and bumped up to the top of the threads list if a new comment is posted to a thread. The thread shows who started it, replies, and account name of latest reply, which also includes the date and time. Comments in threads shows avatars of created accounts, join date, and date and time of posted comment. Below all that, is the "Quick Reply" composer.
Everything done in this forum (multiple accounts, threads, posts) is saved to my browser's storage, which is all deleted when I close my browser. I'm crazy like that! :wave:
What's the end game with this?
How are you fetching the data? I've tried something like this before, but kept running into CORS issues because I was trying to hit the endpoints from a different domain.
Just want to see, and show off, what VBForums could look like with a few tweaks and new features. :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I'm not fetching anything from external endpoints at all. All the data, accounts, threads, posts, and images, is stored locally in my browser's local storage.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
It's completely offline.
Everything you do is being recorded.
That's a worthy goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
Most of it is dross.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonker Gudd
Been gloomy around hear for the past few weeks. Sun has only shown through for one day but this lifted my spirits. I'm not old I'm "gerontologically advantaged" or "chronologically gifted". :)
It has been warm today. I spent the day getting things done while awaiting the delivery of a cord of wood...or a chord of wood, which would be wood of some note.
The wood was delivered just as rain started falling. From the looks of the radar and the forecast, it will keep on falling into the night. Guess the wood can wait until tomorrow to get stacked.
The winds have been good, though, as it keeps us from having an inversion. Whenever we have an inversion, I stop heating with wood so that I'm not contributing to the problem. As long as the storms keep rolling through and the winds keep blowing, no inversions will happen.
I'm dreaming of a soggy Christmas.
Looks like that dream will come true.
Well, I updated VBLessons to include a chapter on simple IO operations.
I definitely want to add a chapter in there on Exceptions, I can't believe I haven't done that already.
Our area is looking more like Portland, Oregon than Idaho.
Rainy?
Just assuming it's rainy because Oregon is in the Pacific Northwest and all I know about the Pacific Northwest is that is where Big Foot lives and that it rains a bunch.
How elderly has the membership actually become here by now? It must still be trending toward the lower end, because I don't see much cane-waving here over the impending cuts in payroll tax pension systems. Yet long term care seems to be on the radar, so I'm not sure where we're at.
I wasn't aware of the impending cuts in payroll tax pension systems, so I looked them up. That's wild, in that new hires will have a surcharge added unless they agree to work "at-will".
I actually assumed most jobs were at-will and didn't realize that federal jobs were exempt. I guess with my preexisting cynical view on the government, it doesn't really surprise me that's the case.
We should be getting snow in Idaho. Average high temperatures mid-December through January are below freezing. Instead we are getting rain and 45-60 degree temperatures, mostly thanks to the Pineapple Express weather pattern.
That reminds me, I had someone remark that (because it was chilly for Halloween) this year is the first year it's felt cold on Halloween and that when we were growing up it was much colder.
I didn't argue with him, but I was fairly certain that wasn't the case.
So, like a typical nerd I gathered the data and plotted it out.
Here's the data in case you wanted to see it:
Year Min Mean Max 1985 60.1 66 75.9 1986 48.9 62.4 77 1987 46 62.6 78.1 1988 63 68.6 73 1989 62.1 68.7 75 1990 52 68.7 80.1 1991 69.1 74.3 80.1 1992 61.9 72.8 81 1993 36 41.9 50 1994 56.8 68.9 79 1995 59.9 70.6 79 1996 69.8 76.9 84.2 1997 64.4 72.4 78.8 1998 60.8 72.4 80.6 1999 62.6 69.1 73.4 2000 59 73.2 84.2 2001 55.4 69.8 78.8 2002 55.4 66.5 71.6 2003 60.8 75.3 84.2 2004 69.8 77.2 82.4 2005 73.4 74.4 75.2 2006 63.5 70.6 81.9 2007 61.7 68.4 79.3 2008 51.6 61.1 73.4 2009 63.7 66.6 69.3 2010 59.4 66.8 77.4 2011 51.6 60.1 71.6 2012 50.4 60.4 77.2 2013 71.8 75.7 81.1 2014 54.1 62.9 74.8 2015 68.5 75.9 83.3 2016 62.8 72.7 84.2 2017 54.7 63.6 74.3 2018 69.1 74.7 82.4 2019 49.6 62.4 77 2020 53.6 60.3 73.4 2021 54.5 63.1 74.7 2022 56.1 65.1 76.1 2023 49.3 55 61.7 2024 74.3 76.9 80.8 2025 45 53.69 70
Basically, outside of 1993 when it was stupid cold, it's more or less stayed constant.
Although, there were a few years where the low for the day was close to the high.
That's an exceptional oversight!Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I think we're averaging pretty elderly, though if you mean the lower end of what would be considered elderly...that may well be the case. At one point (you may remember) there was a poll where the average age was fairly young. That might have been twenty years back, and some of those folks are still around.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
I'm not elderly, but I can certainly see it in many of our more active members here.
Elderly isn't the right word. More like many of our members tend to fall between "approaching retirement" and "been retired for a few years", obviously with outliers on both ends, but that's my overall impression.
Do you have a link for this (not a video, please)? I took a look, and found things, but I don't know if I was looking at what you were talking about. What I was seeing didn't impress me for a couple of reasons. The first is that it is not the last minute, yet, so I'm not surprised that nobody is really squawking, yet. Also, what I was seeing didn't fit well with DDay's reply, so I think I was looking at the wrong thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
Though it looks like they WERE kind of right, since this year was quite a bit colder than the average. I mean the mean was meaner.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I can't seem to find any information on what your talking about. Can you suggest a link or search criteria?Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Thanks dday.
That doesn't feel legal but then again I don't know how their civil service protections were reached to begin with. Are they negotiated or are they completely controlled by congress?
Here in CA we have a real problem civil service retirement costs. They pay a generous amount and there's a segment of the workers (like firemen/police) that have learned the trick of getting to the years of service needed to retire, go to the DR and say you have a back problem and then retire for medical caused by the job and receive full pensions. So there receiving their pensions for the next 40yrs.
Well I was referring to the US Social Security system myself, I was just trying to be more inclusive in my phrasing.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/
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The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund will be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until 2033, unchanged from last year’s report. At that time, the fund’s reserves will become depleted and continuing program income will be sufficient to pay 77 percent of total scheduled benefits.
That's the story I was finding. Do we EVER deal with a crisis before the last minute anymore? That one is solvable. Whether or not we solve it...that remains to be seen.
I took about a two week break from my AI, but got back into it two days ago. Coding and upgrading it's roadmap at the same time.
Upgrading it's roadmap with improvements to it's engine.
I believe I have close to a perfect roadmap now for a decent AI, so I can now just concentrate on just coding (until I get stuck again like two weeks ago).
Well, we have plenty of indecent AI, so a decent one would be a nice change.
How many server farms will you be buying?
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
And not a bad day, either, while you're at it.
Well, CA is still here. We didn't get washed away. Actually got lucky on Christmas, the sun came out when I left to go to my daughters.
Pretty quiet around here. I guess most people are enjoying a four day holiday.
Mais, I’m on my way to the LSU bowl game and stopped at the Buc-ee’s in Baytown and it is $1.18 a gallon for gas here.
I’m on my phone and VBForums won’t let me upload it, but I took a picture.
It's dropped up here, too, though not that low.
I still have a full tank from the week before Thanksgiving, though. I just don't use much gas anymore.
LSU lost. Naturally a missed FG by Damion Ramos, the one consistent piece of the team this year, would be the deciding factor.
I’m just glad this season is over.
I’m back at my parents house, not exactly where I grew up, but basically so, for maybe 3 minutes. I take a walk to smoke my cigar and someone tried selling me pills. I am forever grateful that I left this place.
Was he consistent in making field goals or missing them? I think it was the former, but technically, based on what you wrote, it could be either one.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I think mid-market teams, like Boise State, are going to decline significantly over the next few years. With the advent of paying players, deep pocketed teams are going to hoover up the best talent, leaving just the scraps for the rest. What's your incentive to play for free when somebody else will give you five or six figures?
This winter has been a disaster, thus far. Now it's getting cold (or at least colder), but it's also become dry. The vegetation is still showing on the ski hill at 6000'. Almost every basin is far above normal for precipitation, with several being up around 150% of normal, yet none are at even 50% of normal snowpack. We need the snow in winter to provide water through the long, dry, summer. It's not looking good.
I spoke too soon. That last storm really helped out. It was warm in the southern part of the state, but colder up north. Several basins greatly improved their snowpack. Some are now even above average. I had been looking back around Christmas, which was only a few days back, but one cold storm can really turn things around.
That's an issue with a long state. Different parts see different things. We had warm and rainy, further north it was cold, so it was snowy.
Still looking pretty meagre on the ski hill, though. Tough skiing when the vegetation is sticking through the snow.
Winter use to be insane in Bayern back in the 90s thru the early 2000s, but now it mostly snows after the new, and even then it's not much.
It snowed a little the past couple of days, but it's all gone now.