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You may be interested in Ongka's Big Maca (1974)[0]. It is a documentary that shows how the Big Man system and gift based economy work in PNG by following a specific Big Man's (Ongka) effort to put together a huge gift to increase his social status. It's a classic intro to anthropology film.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ongka%27s_Big_Moka

If you have a sudden increase in floaters or start seeing flashes of light, this is a medical emergency.

If you’re unlucky, it’s a retinal detachment and you need medical attention to keep your vision.

If you’re very lucky, it was only flashes and you’ve had a specific type of migraine.

If you’re lucky, it’s posterior vitreous detachment which usually heals on its own.

There is a setting that turns off many of the notifications that irritate people.

Settings -> System -> Notifications. Scroll to the bottom, expand Additional settings. Uncheck "Suggest ways to get the most out of Windows and finish setting up this device" and "Get tips and suggestions when using Windows".

I get more prompts from macOS about Apple products than I get from Windows about Microsoft products after unchecking those two settings.

If you have a router you control, many routers allow you to take away internet access from a device while keeping it on your local network. Some (all?) Asus routers can do this from their UI.

This won’t help with devices that require 24x7 internet access, but it’s great for things you want to access the local network but don’t trust not to send info to a third party. (TVs, music amps with built in streaming, home surveillance systems [1], etc.)

Also handy for briefly turning on Internet access for software updates or one time activation.

[1] while making a surveillance system available online safely and with software you control isn’t hard, it’s not trivial. Turning Internet access off for your cameras without a plan will mean you can’t monitor your home or get alerts when away from your local network.

The limit (in the US?) is 100 Wh. If this is the right battery, the specs page says it's 90 Wh.

https://www.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-nexode-power-bank-250...

It's similar-ish. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell and https://www.powermag.com/fuel-cells-vs-batteries-whats-the-d..., tho the latter may be biased.

DNS query type AXFR allows for subdomain querying. There are security restrictions around who can do it on what DNS servers. Given the number of places online one can run a subdomain query, I suspect it's mostly a matter of paying the right fees to the right DNS provider.

> There's still no good window manager for macOS. Rectangle is as close as it gets, but it's not good IMO because it only works on non full size windows. (the solution is just get ninja-like with three finger swipe, and endure using the mouse/trackpad more than you'd prefer)

I don’t know your requirements for good, but I like Mizage’s Divvy. Works on Mac and Windows and can configure gTile similarly on Linux.

Both of those officers appear to be located in the UK. It is common to pay people located in a different place than the company HQ using a local entity. Whether this is mandatory or merely advantageous for tax or bureaucratic reasons depends on the situation.

Rounding is generally done only for cash transactions (“cash rounding”). For all other payment types, the unrounded price is used.

I wrote code for this a long time ago when cash was still a major form of payment in a country that got rid of sub 0.05 coins. There were various rules to try to ensure neither the seller or buyer always benefited.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_rounding

Totally agree it could get us there faster. My issue is more with the things general purpose LLMs train on. Maybe train a custom one on known good sources specific to a language?

I continue to use traditional methods. Why? Because I, the person learning a new language, cannot validate the information the LLM presents to me. For me, the risk of learning bad ways (inefficient, not language appropriate, or insecure) of using the new language outweigh any benefit to using an LLM to learn.

I view it like learning a foreign language from a friend who is also not a native speaker and not a trained instructor. Maybe they'll be great and it will be fine. But I don't have any way of knowing.

They're not being dumped. Putting them on YT lets WB make passive money while maintaining control of their rights with little effort on their part. If WB makes a better deal down the road, they can hide or delete the movies from YT.

This also makes some of the movies more valuable by revealing hidden demand. WB will see their YT stats for their films and see where future investments or licensing deals may pay off. A streaming company is disincentivized to tell the movie owner how the film is doing.

> and reduce your cooling costs as much as possible with outside air when temperatures are cool

To add to this: University of Texas' supercomputers have used a variation of this for a while. I don't recall which cluster was the first, but they chilled and stored water at night when electricity was cheaper, then circulated the water during the day. This substantially cut cooling costs and increased cooling efficiency.

While most analog clocks' minute hands sweep from minute to minute, jumping minute clocks have the issue the article brings up.

Depending on when / where you went to school, you may have had analog jumping minute clocks. The ones we had at one school would "give away" when the minute would change because the minute hand would move slightly counterclockwise before changing to the next minute.[0]

Per reddit, some Swiss Railway clocks had jumping minutes, but I have not seen one in person. [1]

Another school I attended had sweep second and minute hands, but would hold the clock at 59 seconds until it matched the master clock. Depending on the particular clock and how well it was maintained, these could be 5 - 10 seconds off. Seems like nothing as an adult, but as a kid wanting to go home, it seemed like an eternity, especially on the last day of class for the semester.

[0] This video shows how clocks worked at my school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpU_lG_TPP4

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/clocks/comments/10714a1/hard_time_f...

It says both. The 1 in 3 refers to those under 23.

> One in three U.S. adults has been arrested by age 23.

The has a criminal record refers to the population as a whole.

> [...] between 70 million and 100 million—or as many as one in three Americans—have some type of criminal record

Linked PDF: https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2022/08/Americ...

This is a naming coincidence and has nothing to do with the Matrix protocol (which also happens to be used by the French government).

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/04/eurocop_crack_matrix/

The CDC does not "recommend" vaccinations over 45, mostly due to previous exposure. I suspect one can find doctors willing to do the vaccination for those over 45, though one may need to convince them.

Whether this is useful depends. HPV 16 and 18 are the "high risk" strains most associated with cancer. Depending on your sexual history, getting vaccinated at 45+ may be useful. Unfortunately, there's no reliable test for HPV 16 and 18 for those who have already had it.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.htm...

I skateboard "regular" but snowboard "goofy". Not that I'm amazing at either, but that's just what felt natural to me for each.

I was diagnosed and successfully treated for HPV+ oropharyngeal cancer in 2023. My treatment results were almost perfect, from a clinical perspective. I had transoral robotic surgery to remove the tumors in my mouth / throat, neck dissection to remove cancerous and non-cancerous lymph nodes, and radiation to treat the area after cancer was found to have escaped the lymph nodes.

If I were 10-ish years younger, I wouldn't have gotten cancer. I was likely exposed to HPV in my early to mid 20s, where it hid in my tonsils for decades.

In the US, almost anyone under 45 can get vaccinated. Please do. As another comment points out, they protect against multiple strains. It's unlikely you've been exposed to all of them.

While HPV+ head and neck cancers are more easily and more successfully treated than HPV- ones, I do not recommend getting cancer.

From the outside, I look like a normal person of late middle age. The two incision scars I have look like neck folds -- literally no one, including medical personnel outside of the cancer world, notices them.

From the inside, tho:

* Can no longer taste sugar, salt, chocolate, and a host of other, smaller things. Most other things have less taste and pretty much nothing has a flavor after a few bites. For some, this eventually stops -- I'm unlucky. (Radiation destruction of taste buds)

* Significantly decreased saliva to the throat. Cannot eat without some liquid. The saliva that forms is thicker and sometimes causes problems swallowing. Some get this to the mouth and to a larger extreme -- I'm lucky. (Radiation)

* Dental trauma, including teeth extraction / root canal / deep fillings, may cause spontaneous bone tissue death in the jaw. (Radiation)

* Permanent sensation of partial numbness centered around my left ear and cheek. Touching that area produces a pins and needles sensation. (Neck dissection)

* No feeling in a stripe about 1.5" (4cm) wide where the neck dissection scars are. (Neck dissection)

* Changes in speech quality. These are not clinically significant but changed my voice from one people enjoyed listening to (asked to do voice over work, complemented, etc) to just another voice. (Surgery)

* Tinnitus increased significantly and hearing has worsened. I was not given chemo, the normal cause of hearing loss. (Unsure cause)

There's more, but those are some of the highlights. Get vaccinated, get your kids vaccinated, etc.

HPV- head and neck cancers in the US are dropping as people quit smoking. HPV+ are on the rise for now, but will drop as the generations with vaccinations get older.

I'm traveling today, but will look at this later today if anyone has a question to ask.

This article is correct and sould be unflagged. With the release of 18.1, custom audio setup (to create an audiogram-based profile) is only available for “supported Apple and Beats headphones”.

Not specific to Alpine: Cummins has a 2022 article addressing their view[0] of internal combustion hydrogen vs fuel cell. Short version: fuel cell + battery works well for peaky loads. Hydrogen internal combustion works better for heavy, consistent loads.

[0] https://www.cummins.com/news/2022/01/27/hydrogen-internal-co...

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> 8.5-foot-long (2.6 meters)

8.5’ is 102”. There aren’t any current, mainstream cars sold in the US that are shorter than 150”. A Messerschmitt KR200 was 111”, a Toyota iQ 118”. Original Minis were 120”+. The width wasn’t listed in the article that I could see.

This is about the same length as a Honda Gold Wing.

Are you using Brother's Linux printer driver for your device? If not, I'd start there.

https://support.brother.com/g/b/midlink_productcategory.aspx...

For those in a city / apartment / burn ban / etc, there are publicly accessible kilns in most major (and some minor) cities. Look for places that offer pottery lessons. Depending on the kiln, you can rent a specific fraction of it for a firing or pay by the piece. Local pottery supply stores will know what kilns are available as well.

If you’re near a university with an archeology or anthropology program, they may offer a partial semester “primitive” pottery course. These are a blast and teach interesting techniques for building and decorating pottery objects.

If you have access to a park with bonfire pits, you can do your low firings there. The primitive pottery class I took ended with a combined cookout and firing at a public park a few weeks after the end of the class. The prof rented a shelter with a bonfire pit.

Pottery is a lot of fun. I made a variety of small pieces before I got to fire anything. You don’t need a wheel or any specialized equipment, just some basic clay and patience. Depending on where you live, you can dig your own.

Check out the Great Pottery Throwdown to see mostly modern methods of making pottery in a fun, friendly reality show format. (Think Bake Off.)

[1] Edited to add "friendly" and Bake Off reference.

“There were 930,000 UK chargers at the end of June, according to ChargeUK, a lobby group, but the majority of these have been installed in homes and business premises, with only about 65,000 public chargers available.”

The article does not break down the 65K public chargers or the added chargers by charging speed.

No. The depositor has a relationship with Mercury. Mercury has relationships (directly or indirectly) with FDIC insured banks.

Even if one could prove a direct link between the depositor and the FDIC insured bank (making the insurance relevant), the depositor has given Mercury the right to move money in and out of the FDIC insured accounts.

Even if one could prove the money was illegally taken, FDIC insurance is for bank failure. Not for theft.

The cabel.com article linked to in many comments has the copy that explains it. [1]

One of the DAK signatures was buying other company's production line "mistakes", "fixing" them, and selling the result.

In this case, the original Thunder Lizard was another firm's speaker[2]. The mistake was that it assembled with the wrong (inferior) tweeter. DAK bought the mistakes, the correct tweeter, and sold them.

The Plus, iirc, was a follow up to this speaker.

[1] https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadge...

[2] Some model of BSR DR1550 series speaker, if web searches are correct.

Edited to add BSR info.

For basic stuff (I'm the only one changing files, I'm not expecting to change a file on my laptop and have it on my desktop seconds later, I'm only mirroring files between Apple devices), iCloud has worked fine for me for a very long time.

For those reading this looking for alternatives: nextcloud-aio docker image on a NAS or small server works well for syncing files across machines. It's overkill, so I turn off most of the features, but I find the clients reliable across OSes (mobile and otherwise).

I do not put Nextcloud on the internet -- my use case does not require changes away from home to be live synced to others before returning. By the time I've walked in the door and put stuff away, changes + photos are synced.