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Gah the word "infarction" drives me crazy since it's so close to "infraction"

Yeah, I had an anterior tibialis from a cadaver grafted onto my biceps tendon ("grafted" in this case really means stitched onto the remnants of mine with metal thread and then bolted into my radius bone). Recovery was long and brutal, but five years later I don't have any issues.

Hell, get a clipboard and a vest that says INSPECTOR on the back of it and go to a construction site and people will actively avoid you.

Whenever I see reports about these skimmers, I always wonder how in the hell someone managed to install that thing into the pump without anyone seeing them do it. Every gas station that I've ever been to has had a direct line of sight from the cashier to the pumps, presumably in case of fire so they can hit the shutoff as quickly as possible.

Maybe a non-24 hour station and passersby just assumed it was maintenance? But do they not have security cameras?

"Biomedical engineer? He's gonna figure us out. Quick, cancel his interview!"

> Few years ago I did not join Theranos after looking at their board.

Based on your track record, I fully expect an update to come out where it turns out this Khosla guy's 89 acre property doesn't actually exist, it was actually 8.9 acres magnified with an extremely elaborate mechanism of smoke and mirrors.

From the article, it doesn't sound like it's coming out of the drains. It sounds like chemicals are being released when they fill pipe sections with steam which then dissipates into the surrounding air.

The fumes exposure is probably just due to the person's proximity to the job site, not from a plumbing connection.

Talk about a perfect storm. Earthquake, fire, then when you thought it was finally over...the largest tsunami in history. That probably helped with the fire, at least.

Go slowly getting back into things. I know you know that, but it's worth reiterating. Not because I'm worried you'll hurt yourself, if you've competed you know your body well enough to not to do that, but because I know how frustrating it can be coming back.

I tore one of my left biceps tendons training for an MMA fight about five years ago. When the doctors told me "six month recovery" I didn't understand that they meant six months to start working out like the average person again. That led me to have a lot of frustration during my recovery because I felt like it wasn't happening fast enough. It was closer to 18 months until I was able to perform at the level I did before.

Did you get a graft or just a repair?

I see what you're getting at, but it should be mentioned that the words were "vulgar" language that had nothing to do with anything political. Anyone who wanted to keep up even the most minimal appearance of professionalism and be taken seriously, even today, likely wouldn't use one of the "seven dirty words" (shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits).

And no KGB type entity would whisk you away in the night for saying any of them. It's even vague whether or not the FCC ever even enforced it at all. Hell, it's kinda vague on whether or not it was even a rule before George Carlin's comedy bit. The Supreme Court later even ruled it as...too vague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

I recall years and years ago, probably sometime in the 1990s, reading about an emergency heart surgery being performed on a young girl. I can't recall the specifics, but what I distinctly remember is the nurses getting bags and bags of ice cubes and burying every part of the girl save for her head and the front of her chest with it. If I recall correctly, they wanted to lower her heart rate as much as possible without actually stopping it.

I'm willing to bet that cattle ranchers and dairy farmers deal with more bullshit per capita than any other profession.

Do you spend the other 23 hours in an 8x5 room with cement walls and nothing but a bed and a toilet?

I thought it was a whiskey

Case in point: McLaren uses a special Compaq laptop from 1992 to service old F1's. Why? Well, the car was made in 1992, and so was the ECU.

https://jalopnik.com/this-ancient-laptop-is-the-only-key-to-...

> AI sees humans as thread

We shall all be woven into the fabric of the new artificial reality.

I don't think that's what they were talking about. I think they were referring to the fact that diamonds can be created synthetically in a lab now.

They said "manufactured" not "mined"

Yeah, probably would be best to take the De Beers approach and bury 99% of it in storage.

I hope I can live long enough to see the effects of asteroid mining on the world and the economy.

Palladium today is $1704.73 per ounce, but the price of palladium comes from the fact that it's extremely rare on Earth. But what if someone comes back from an asteroid with an amount of palladium that suddenly triples the worldwide supply? What will the effects be on the price point? I'm sure the costs of getting it back planetside will be factored in and slow down any inflation, but I am still curious.

And what kind of things could we create, given a vastly increased supply of rare elements?

Everyone giving this guy so much shit like they've never accidentally tortured someone to death and cut them up into little pieces. SMH.

Yeah, no thanks. I've been to Seattle and to the bay area and I wasn't a fan of either. I have an entire life built here and have zero desire to ever move, and even less to work for a FAANG.

There's much more to my life than being a programmer, that's just what I do for work. My life does not revolve around it.

I do have a software job in the USA. However, with the exploding prices of everything in Austin, it's getting harder and harder to hang onto any cash. I get consistent raises year over year but don't feel that I have any more money.

I've already been saving for 5. And by "FU" money I was considering an amount that would allow me to say "fuck you" to a boss and survive until I found a new job without worrying too much. Like, $100,000 or less. Probably closer to $70k, after ten years of saving.

Yeah, I'm with you on that. My original comment was really tongue in cheek, and I agree with most of what you said in your original post. I'm the same way, I refuse to put work email or slack on my phone and once I clock out for the day I am done. I work from 7-4 M-F and do almost zero thinking about work outside those hours. I've been at my company for five years now and I keep getting promoted so my email habits are obviously irrelevant to my employment status.

If I were to get fired for "not responding fast enough" or something like that, then I wouldn't want to work at that place anyway. I'm a programmer and I get paid to program, so that's what I do. It's worked out pretty well so far :)

I do work in software, and I do save my money. However, unless I'm suddenly given a massive raise it's going to take 5 or more years until I have what I consider "FU money" saved up. I wouldn't really consider saving up money over years and years as "just getting it"

> Just get a big ball o' FU money and let the good times roll.

I wish someone had told me it was that easy sooner!

I wonder if he was named after Le Bon Chevalier?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Terrail,_seigneur_de_Ba...

I think we're just going in circles now. The scale was a result of what it was meant to do. The extra hardware on top and extra fuel all add to the scale of it. It was a massive rocket because it needed to do a massive job.

Anyway, I think we've gone off track from the original point, which was that full size launch vehicles taking off slow isn't because of gimbals vs. fins, it's because they're big and heavy.

We can be pedantic and say it's specifically because of a low T-W ratio, but the T-W is low because the weight is high and it's not practical to build a massive rocket engine to increase it.

And you don't think that has anything to do with the scale of it? The size of the rocket necessitating a lower T-W ratio due to the impracticality of making a rocket engine large enough to increase it?

And yeah, sheer weight definitely has something to do with the thrust to weight ratio. It's half the equation.

I think you raise a good point about scale. I don't think full sized rockets lifting off has as much to do with gimbals vs. fins as it does with sheer weight. The Saturn V had fins on it and it lifted off slow, and I'm willing to bet that it had a lot to do with the fact that a Saturn V on the launch pad weighed somewhere around 6.2 million pounds.

Scale it down a ways to something like a RIM-116 and you can see the scale come into play. This thing goes from launch to almost disappearing over the horizon in under three seconds and then hits the target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVk9VnUkvaU

Granted, that RIM-116 does have fins. So let's take the fins away and scale up to something like a Polaris SLBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlXty69-Y8

Still unbelievably fast, same with the Tridents. These get popped up out of the water before they fire their main engines. It's basically free standing in the air when it fires the main and it still shoots off super fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KejRbD5s0