Sorry to hear that. I'd say that risk very small absolute risk is worth it then, given both the quality of life and the other health problems that lack of sleep would bring.
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Then we have the increase in incidence. The incidence rate is already small in those age groups, so even doubling it is a tiny number.
I'm going to stop taking it (I take something between 1/10 and 1/5 of my prescribed dose anyhow) and think about if the benefit to me is worth the added risk.
Now I'm not so sure I want to take it. My saving grace is that I'm on the younger end and haven't taken it that long.
After reading the paper and looking into dosing I learned that I'm taking a tiny fraction of the normal dose. Wow. Learn something every day.
https://www.them.us/story/lilly-wachowski-work-in-progress-s...
I have to say that the one regarding the rule of thirds was... wrong. Thats always been a rule to break, and square isn't even close to a new format. Shooting 120 film in 6x6 is, and was, common. Its what the Apollo Astronauts took with them. Its also my favorite format.
Now I have a more capable rack, but it's all just running stuff I use. I don't experiment on it at all, and I don't use it to gain any new skills.
So I do call it a homelab, but its not quite what people understand that to be.
Seems he just doesn't have anything to update on some of the pages.
Looks like the last update was in January 2014 though.
That gives us ~21MP for 35mm and 12MP for 50mm. The 35mm crop is almost a match for the sensor size of the Kodak, and the 50mm is smaller.
Then we have to deal with the inescapable processing that the iPhone does, even in "RAW" mode (which, while better than JPEG, is not anywhere near RAW). We are stuck with JPEG but no major processing on the Kodak, so no imagined detail.
We can compare lenses as well, but to do that properly I would need to do a like for like comparison. I may actually do that between the iPhone, Kodak, and Panasonic.
All in, your simplistic approximation just highlights how much you've bought into the marketing instead of understanding how cameras work.
Fond memories, I carried that camera all over the world for 6 years.
But a Kodak Pixpro FZ55 or FZ45. Brand new for $130 or less, beats even the best smartphones, and are Japan's top selling cameras for a reason.
The Panasonic 20/1.7 is an amazing little lens but its autofocus is absolutely horrible. I used to carry it and an E-M5 (the first one) and the shots were great but AF was near useless.
The iPhone can't even hope to touch the cheap Kodak, much less the actual mirrorless.
I shoot a Panasonic G9 II and thats a completely different level.
And thank you for YOUR data point that helped my son have the option to not do those extra months.
There is a lot I want to say as a fellow parent in that situation, but it's hard to articulate.
I hope it's easier for you to kove forward (mentally) than it has been for us.
I don't know how to quantify the impact it had on him from a personality perspective, as he is severely autistic and barely speaks. He was in treatment from age 3 to 6.
For the rest of his family (parents and sibling) it had a massive impact. I already had anxiety issues (TBI while in the military flipped that switch), now I have something my doc describes as health related PTSD.
I don't want to go deep into it today (Fathers Day here), but he's alive and well now. We rang the bell just over two years ago.
He is enrolled in a study through the Children's Oncology Group mentioned here, and underwent an experimental modification specifically for male patients.
Specifically, the current state of treatment protocols (when he started) was that males received an extra ~6 months of treatment as there was thought that the testes could serve as a repository for the cancer. The data says that is likely not true, and that the tradeoff for the longer chemo is worse than any risk present.
We were fortunate that he hit every single "best case", from him being diagnosed very early, to all of the best possible results from his blood tests at every point.
Many of my comments talking about my experience are buried, but there is plenty that I've said here on HN.
I emailed tcook@apple.com and the Executive Relations team reached out to me. I was able to provide everything they asked for and they handled getting my account unlocked. They told me to go ahead and reorder the Studio the same way I did, as I had a window where their automated system wouldn't be involved for my account. I did so and am now REALLY hoping that my account doesnt get locked again!
Kind of wish I was a sentient intergalactic probe some days though.
I dealt with things ranging from exactly what the parent said (see my sibling comment to yours), to having to do a medical call away for someone non-responsive being brought across the quarterdeck at 2357 (in 2015; that individual had to get their stomach pumped and an AED administered twice on the way to the hospital in Okinawa). I dealt with any number of drunk at work issues as both a Chief and as a Security Manager (surprise, that's one that will get your clearance impacted). The number of DUI's I dealt with was far down, but the amount of alcohol driven domestic violence that came across my desk was... well that was the main reason I didn't take the civilian position I was offered (as the Security Manager at my final command).
Yeah, this sounds 100% true. I could have typed this, and at one point I was one of those bringing a bottle underway (though I was never drunk on watch; it was due to our ports having no alcohol). Honestly given how alcoholic half the crew was if there wasn't alcohol onboard (just to stop the withdrawals) the boat probably would have had to cancel the underway.
I can say that by the time I retired (2023) it was nothing like that. The ERB's in the 2011 timeframe wiped out an absolute TON of manpower but it did have the desired effect of destroying that culture almost immediately. Anyone with even a hint of alcohol issues in their record was sent packing with no recourse.
Prior to those ERB's the running joke was you had to have a DUI to be promoted to Chief. After that a DUI was not technically disqualifying, but was in reality a career ending event. Overnight things went to a culture of being afraid of doing anything that could get you caught out by a future ERB if you escaped that one.
It also caused the manpower issues we see now though, resulting in the manning shortfalls that are most critical in 7th Fleet. That fleet sees the worst shortfalls because it is the one that requires people to live overseas (Japan and Guam), which can be a hard sell. On top of that the deployment cycle has a far higher optempo; generally I spent 60-70% of a given tour on deployments. The rest of the Navy sees between 35% and 40% (outside of SOCOM commands). There's an ongoing impression that you have 7th Fleet Sailor's, then the rest of the Navy, as the Sailor's who like 7th Fleet don't want to go elsewhere and the rest of the Navy has no desire to join them.
Note: I was a 7th Fleet Sailor for most of my career; that stint in Pearl Harbor was the only Sea Duty I did outside of there.
I redid the thermal paste on my cards and haven't had any issues since.
Apple has unilaterally disabled my account and told me to create a new one. They will let me know in 5-10 business days if they will refund the balance in my account.
There is a slight chance that the refund process will resolve the account issue as it is being elevated to an engineering team in the fraud department.