You still have to screw a lid on it, how is it any easier than simply screwing on a different lid? Or perhaps you meant “cheaper” instead of “easier”. :-)
Getting new prior auths every year is annoying but not exclusive to Optum, thats been the case with all the specialty pharmacies I've gotten prescriptions from.
For folks who want to feel better: this particular design feature (the unused plug exit) dates back to the 737-900 which has been around since 1997
For folks who want to feel worse: Highly recommend "Flying Blind" (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P98854S) - its a good book about how Boeing's engineering culture went to shit after the MD merger and the shortcuts used to get the Max delivered.
The book couldn’t have been that good if it never got across to you that an airplane hitting production in 1997 was necessarily designed YEARS BEFORE 1997 (and hence the merger).
Boeings problems were long in work before the MD merger. Many commercial aerospace people in Seattle, particularly ones with parents who worked at Boeing, have struggled to come to terms with that, and there are a lot of rose colored glasses around here of what 1995-1997 Boeing looked like.
It's likely this particular issue is from a lack of quality control, and you cannot blame that on 1997 Boeing.
Quality control degradation in my experience and from stories i've heard are exclusively the fault of bean counters and exec pushing for cost cuts (unlike design flaws where the engineers share the blame). I've heard a story about an industrial machine amputating someone because the new joints couldn't handle the pressure (in france, pre 2019, i don't have the specifics). The maintenance guy wanted to replace the joints with high quality one (like the original were), but they were deemed "too expensive" so they bought new joints at half cost, to gain 10€ on the maintenance of the 400k machine. Less than a week later, the machine broke, someone lost an arm or something (don't have specifics), and a new machine had to be shipped and given for free, i don't know who paid the the amputated guy.
There are a few usable libraries now from folks who have reverse engineered it. I've used https://github.com/matin/garth successfully, there should be libraries available in most other popular languages
Besides all his (excellent) tech stuff, I'm really thankful for Jeff being so public about his struggles with Crohn's. I'm fortunate to have a far more moderate case, but in general there isn't a ton of awareness about the disease and its super brave of him to use his platform to talk about his health issues.
Cannot emphasize this enough. There has been a lot of discussion of the decline of the "third place", but I know a lot of folks who aren't really involved in anything outside of home/work, so their friend circles (largely built up from school/early working years) slowly whittle away as people move, while not doing anything to create new ones.
Beyond just neighbors - regardless of what activity/hobby you like, chances are there is some group/community near you. Getting involved and showing up on a regular basis will do wonders for cultivating new friendships IME, and you're likely to have a lot more in common with those folks than a random subset of people that you happen to live next to.
That’s called “an American drives to Canada”. Is $4/litre expensive? Wait, before you answer, those are also Canadian dollars, so don’t forget the exchange rate. Now, how much, using U. S. dollars, to fill up an eight gallon motorcycle tank?
I have my car set to display L/100km, but that's mostly because it's a hybrid and so kW/100km is more logical than the inverse and it makes sense to have them both operating the same way.
My previous car didn't have an economy reading anyway, so my only frame of reference before was calculating pence per mile rather than MPG. L/100km seems logical and I had got used to it in a matter of weeks. Mine is generally around 5-6L/100km on long, mostly petrol journeys, so this is now my new mental benchmark, and it's also trivial to go from this to pence per litre, and not much more to get to the pence per mile that I thought in before. I guess my brain has got good at multiplying by 1.6 as I use km for running and cycling too.
