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RecycledEle··on America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back
I understand his economic arguments.

Let me make a national security argument: China will move against Taiwan. Chinese ambitions do not stop there. They want Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and many more nations as their new territories.

We saw international trade cut off in WW1 and again in WW2. It will happen again, and soon.

We are better off with an incremental step-down in trade from tariffs than a sudden cut-off. That is what Donald Trump's tariffs are doing.

RecycledEle··on High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections
The cure for most drug-resistant fungal infections is simple:

There are 3 common anti-fungals: clotrimazole, miconazole, and tolnaftate.

For external fungal infections (e.g. toe fungus,) the area can be kept dry if you use powdered anti-fungals.

For internal fungal infections (e.g., vaginal infections) is is not possible to keep the area dry, so don't try to keep it dry.

The cure is to rotate among the 3 common anti-fungals and keep the area dry if possible.

The first problem is that, most people in the USA do not know that powdered clotrimazole is available by prescription.

The second problem is that this course of treatment is illegal in the USA. US law prohibits doctors from advising patients to take OTC meds (powdered miconazole and tolnaftate) with prescription meds (powdered clotrimazole.) Doctors literally spend years advising their patients on methods they know will not cure their infections, because it is illegal in the USA to explain what will cure it.

RecycledEle··on Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent
I'd like to see clearly explained Linux boot code that does not invoke a prayer to Satan.
RecycledEle··on Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
This is what portable computers should have been.
RecycledEle··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
I understand the "and 10% on everyone else" part of the tariffs.

Do you think the media is too dumb to understand that, or are they just playing games when they point out a 10% tariff in someone who does not export to the US?

RecycledEle··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
If Framework had used a ComExpress type 6 module in their laptops they would have had an upgradable processor.

I wish someone would build a new laptop abound a ComExpress module and all the freely-open parts from a Framework laptop.

RecycledEle··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
My coworkers understand and envy my Lenovo e570, they just wish Apple or Dell sold one like I have new at a reasonable price.

I can not fault them. I wish GM still sold the S10 pickup.

RecycledEle··on ToS;DR
The twin purposes of ToS are (1) to provide jobs for lawyers and (2) to screw the customers.

If the ToS were understandable, neither of those would be accomplished.

RecycledEle··on The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]
You decide to rot as AI does the work, or you decide to learn from the AI.

The same is true of managers. I have had managers who yelled at me to do things they did not understand. They rotted on the inside. Other managers learned every trick I brought to the company. They grew.

RecycledEle··on Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else
I use NameCheap for domain registration, web hosting, and email.

Unless I pay extra for Premium DNS, my DKIM is set wrong because their Web Hosting DNS does not oet me set it correctly.

RecycledEle··on Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons from China Let Anyone Turn Toys into Weapons of War
> What's the defence against a swarm of drones apart from jamming them?

It's the same as the defense against a large air raid, except the targets are a little different:

+ Size of targets + Speed of targets + Altitude of targets

RecycledEle··on Designing Electronics That Work
The web site says the digital copy us free, then links to another web site that says it is no longer free.

Scam?

RecycledEle··on Ask HN: Should there be new RPN calculators to replace the TI-84?
Even 7th and 8th grades use TI Nspire CX calculators in my area.

As rightbyte said, RPN is an HP thing, so if you want an RPN calculator, ask for an HP. Most test administrators can help you.

RecycledEle··on DigiKey's Tariff Resources
> Let’s assume tariffs are used as a means to bring manufacturing to the US. By that definition the administration has no idea what level of tariffs will make this happen. Setting up manufacturing in the US for any item is not cheap - we don’t have the know how, labor to do it to begin with. On top of that the cost of manufacturing is many fold compared to china, India, Bangladesh or Taiwan. So 25% or 10% is still not in anyway going to force manufacture to come back.

I don't think there will be many startups reinventing products from scratch and building factories in the US.

I think multi-nationals will move a small factory to the US to avoid tarrifs.

That makes the US more resilient when some idiot leads us into another war.

25% is plenty to give a US location a comparative advanatage.

RecycledEle··on The lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry
If there is insufficient supply of antivenom, is it wise to reduce the supply further with regulation?
RecycledEle··on Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO
They are cheating you.
RecycledEle··on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
> Doesn't anyone have integrity? Isn't there anyone who believes that your own possessions shouldn't be made to conspire against you?

Welcome to the Western Business World. You must be new here.

If you let Fed.Gov pwn your customers, they help you get your product to market.

If (like me) you refuse to help Fed.Gov own your customers, the they shut you down, as they did to me.

Good luck fighting the government.

RecycledEle··on Starship Flight 7
I think this was the first test of StarShip v2. I'd be surprised if everything worked after they redesigned the whole StarShip. That would be like refactoring Microsoft Windows by hand-typing new code and expecting it to run without errors on the first try.
RecycledEle··on 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem
IIRC, it was Carl Bruggeman's IPSA Thesis that showed us how to laser out bad cores.
RecycledEle··on 4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
When people can make money off Internet credit, the con-artists take over and get more fake credit than the real creators earn. Then the con-artists drive away the real creators.

This has happened on many other sites, and now I suspect it's happening on Git Hub.

RecycledEle··on 2025 Banished Words List
Is this a list of some college dean's pet peeves?
RecycledEle··on For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house
That makes the way the Navajo Code Talkers described things make a lot more sense.
RecycledEle··on Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it
> Nobody has a right to an audience.

If you are an American citizen, the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution mentions your God-given right to any audience that wants to listen to you.

RecycledEle··on Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it
Maybe the US Congress can amend the DMCA so that every company must publically list an email contact that must respond correctly to requests that take the form of forwarded DMCA notices and communications about IP issues. The company would have to reply with a confirmation or denial of the communication.

Companies could easily do this by including a tracking number for each communication, along with a copy of the communication then checking that tracking number on requests for confirmation.

RecycledEle··on Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
Why not build a user interface that keeps us at peak health by demanding physical activity?
RecycledEle··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
Just wait. Some startup will confess, just like many of the balloons were hobbyists, students, and clubs.
RecycledEle··on An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
As much as I hate cheating, I wonder if these apps will lead to invisible and ubiquitous AI helping us navigate life.

As a teacher, it is my job to make sure my students control that AI instead if being controlled by the AI.

RecycledEle··on Why is printer ink so expensive?
Maybe Amazon would benefit from open-sourcing the designs for consumables for their products?
RecycledEle··on Why is printer ink so expensive?
Could IEEE or another group put together standards for generic print heads and ink?i'd love to buy a generic printer.
RecycledEle··on World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image
I'm tempted to use this with some sci-fi and fantasy book covers.
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