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guidedlight··on Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient
Soon after the procedure a donor organ became available, so they no longer have the artificial heart.
guidedlight··on Why Discover is no American Express
As an Australian, I’ve never seen Discover cards.

American Express has been largely replaced in Australia by Visa signature and Mastercard platinum cards that are more difficult for merchants to deny.

guidedlight··on Doctor-prescribed videogame for ADHD
Just saying there are heaps of free apps that monitor and manage insulin dosing without FDA approval.

I don't see why you need FDA approval for a video game, or even make medical claims about a video game.

guidedlight··on Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
We’re talking about kernel drivers here.

I think they warrant some extra attention by Microsoft.

guidedlight··on Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
> The crash was caused by a configuration update pushed by crowdstrike, not a new driver.

Microsoft didn’t do enough due diligence on the behaviour of CrowdStrike updates. It shouldn’t allow out-of-band updates.

Third-parties should not be signing code that allows third-parties to reach into corporate services and push files.

Microsoft InTune is the mechanism that all configuration updates should use.

It appears to me that Microsoft makes it harder for third-parties to update an Xbox game, than the configuration of a kernel driver.

guidedlight··on Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage
Microsoft are signing kernel drivers for over-the-air updates pushed by vendors.

Whilst telling their corporate customers that using Microsoft InTune will allow them to be in full control of their configuration management.

guidedlight··on Sun is starting next solar cycle–despite being halfway through its current one
The title is clickbait. This quote halfway down the article says it all;

> "We're likely seeing the first traces of Cycle 26, which won't officially start until about 2030."

guidedlight··on [dead]
> Southwest Airlines was unaffected inasmuch as it still uses Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

I think this article needs work.

guidedlight··on Crowdstrike Falcon sensor issue crashes Windows hosts worldwide
However our internal support ticket says that Crowdstrike have provided a fix which is already being rolled out. I don't have any details.
guidedlight··on Australia out of natural gas, pays gas companies to export its reserves
Yep. This is the current direction. As I said, investment uncertainty due to the alternative nuclear proposal, issues with transmission lines, and environment issues for wind projects are the main barriers.
guidedlight··on Australia out of natural gas, pays gas companies to export its reserves
The challenge is that Australia is big, really big. The population is sparse and mainly lives in a few coastal areas.

The parts of Australia that have gas and are exporting it (the west and north), are quite distant from the parts of Australia that are running out of gas and need it locally (the east and south).

In this scenario, it's easier and cheaper to use existing export terminals to send ships to those other parts of the country that need the gas. Unfortunately the optics of doing this is bad.

guidedlight··on Australia out of natural gas, pays gas companies to export its reserves
It will particularly in Victoria, which has highest number of residential gas connections (90%).

However, the primary dispatchable electricity generation comes from gas fired power plants. To say, Australia has a dependance on gas is an understatement.

Unfortunately, there has been considerable in-action and lack of investment mainly due to the main political parties having competing energy policies. The conservatives previously had a "gas led" generation plan, but due to the gas crisis they have switched to a nuclear-led proposal (Australia has no nuclear power plants, and no expertise in them). The current government is pushing renewables and storage, however progress has been slow due to land owners being unwilling to allow new transmission lines and environmental concerns about offshore wind infrastructure.

Meanwhile about half of Australia's energy comes aging coal power plants, whose live has been extended, all of which are due for phased retirement in the near future.

guidedlight··on Julian Assange Leaves Court 'Free Man,' Ending 14-Year Drama
He is literally walking off a plane in Canberra, Australia right now.
guidedlight··on Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked
Imagine telling the homeowner to recover damage from their insurance company.

How is the insurance company liable for a faulty product?

The insurance company should recover their costs from Tesla.

guidedlight··on Congress passes bill to jumpstart new nuclear power tech
This looks like nothing more than a government bailout for NuScale to save it from collapse.
guidedlight··on Retro Pocket 386 Win 95 laptop sub $200, comes with 386SX40 processor, 8 MB RAM
The lack of a Sound Blaster (only OPL3 is offered) makes this far less appealing.
guidedlight··on Recycling plastic is a dangerous waste of time
It seems recycling via pyrolysis is an obvious answer.
guidedlight··on Ask HN: Best way to remove CO2 in a bedroom?
It’s typical for bedrooms to have a ACH (Air Changes per Hour) rate of between 0.35 and 1

So the CO2 is removed regularly.

guidedlight··on Doom for SNES full source code released by former Sculptured Software employee
This was an incredible port, and certainly an engineering masterpiece given the target hardware.

The level geometry of this version was more complex than the PlayStation port, and it even had online multiplayer support.

One interesting difference though is that enemy sprites only face the player.

guidedlight··on TSV – Alternative to CSV
Tab always made more sense as a column delimiter, but CSV is much better standard.

However through simplicity, TSV outshines when used for high volume data processing.

guidedlight··on Ask HN: How would you chunk a large Excel file?
This looks great. Well done.
guidedlight··on Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Science Data
Voyager 1 is on borrowed time.

It’s expected that over the next decade it won’t have enough power for a single scientific instrument, and by 2036 it will be out of range of the deep space network.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/

guidedlight··on The number's up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111
000 is used in Australia 111 is used in New Zealand
guidedlight··on PHP Doesn't Suck Anymore
I agree. However those ‘crazy things’ you can do with PHP very easily cause security defects.

Mixing server side and front end code is bad news. I think following many PHP-MySql tutorials will result in SQL injection vulnerabilities. Not good.

guidedlight··on Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades
Thorium-229 has two energy states. A ground state, and an excited isometric state.

The laser is used to transition the nucleus from the ground state to the excited isometric state.

guidedlight··on Atlassian co-CEO stepping down after 23 years
The biggest technology employers in Australia are banks and Atlassian.
guidedlight··on Argentina celebrates first quarterly budget surplus in 16 years
The government would need to borrow enough USD for the exchange. So it would need to convince lenders, not an easy task.

The entire process would also need to be secret, to preserve the value of the peso as much as possible.

guidedlight··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
> I use only three apps when driving: Google Maps for navigation, Spotify for music, and Castro for podcasts. The number of cars on sale today with these three apps available is zero.

My car (a Volvo) has two of these three apps built-in.

I stopped reading the rest of the article.

guidedlight··on 50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2
There’s a fun movie about this particular antenna, starring Sam Neill (from another famous historic movie, Jurassic Park).

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

Worth a watch.

guidedlight··on How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)
WinAMP looked like nothing else on the very utilitarian Windows OS, and I think that was a big part of the appeal.

To me the design seemed like a copy of the earlier MOD players that were popular on the Amiga platform.

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