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I was not saying anything against ADHD meds. They are very important if you require them as I do.

It is really important to understand your body and yourself. Sleep apnea is not a joke and people miss the signs.

Major personality changes are a huge red flag.

At some point I went nearly insane. Turns out that ADHD medication can mask sleep apnea. You need the medication but when you cannot sleep properly you go from meditation that is good for your to acting like a meth addict when your actual sleep is 2 hour a night for 2 years. At the worse point of crazy the doctors figured if out and also asked how I was not insane?!? Honestly I was at the point of CT with contrast looking for brain tumors looking for why! All good now. Health focused. Figured out sleep issue and made huge life style changes. CPAP pressures level down to minimum now after much work, with goal to be off of it. I cannot stress how important it is to have a stable measured baseline on all available measurements you can take about your body. BP, sleep cycle, heart rate, etc. things like the Apple Watch are miracles off technology we all need to embrace. Modern medical science used correctly is a game changer. Data is king and understanding it and questioning the doctors to the point of understanding matters. A good doctor will answer your questions in detail and work with you. If yours does not, find a better doctor.

I am in tech. I have had Walmart as a customer. Their use of technology is amazingly complex and challenging. They are on the bleeding edge on a number of things. Just because they do not look like Amazon publicly, does not mean they are not privately.

Thanks for the clarification.

No, Apple cannot unlock the machine and that is the point. No government can compel Apple to decrypt anything. If you trade in an old device with Apple they provide detailed instructions more then once on unlocking and wiping before shipping. If you do not follow them, you do not get your trade in credit.

That is simple. Just keep your control key and map caps lock to control also. That way you are never out of control.

I tried to play this on the Atari 50th on PS5 but the controls were very difficult as it was made for trackballs. I hope this remake takes into account that as it looks promising. Tempest on PS5 is also awful for the same reason.

So I had a C128D (replacement for C64, which was replacement for VIC20). I had also used a few CP/M machines at this point. I know why they put the Z80 in the 128 but I always felt it was just a stupid thing that the PM/Marketing team should have been told, NO. It would have reduced cost, shipping date, etc. This is a prime example where marketing made the decision without having a real compelling business case for doing so. They could have said 100% C64 compatible with and * that said, sorry no CP/M cartridge support and it would have been just fine.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried it and it did not work, but it was worth a try!

Cheers!

IIRC you can change what that button does. Its in the settings menu someplace.

Everyone has said stuff like this but there has been zero proof of TVs connecting to wifi like this on their own. If you have that proof please share it.

I have a 5 year old samsung 4k with a samsung sound bar. ARC does not work reliably. It did but just stops working. I have to power cycle the TV. Change HDMI cables etc. All the normal I am an engineer, made check list, swapped parts in controlled manor stuff. Even tried another soundbar that works fine on another set. Googling tells me other have this issue and samsung does not care as it is to old (it is likely sw issue). TV is going to be replaced with much more expensive Sony as they still seem to take pride in their product quality. Oh as to the ads, never hook TV up to internet. I use an AppleTV and it just works.

I want ARC/CEC to work as I want a single remote. You loose that when using optical.

Having owned both MB and Porsche I can say I would pay for having an Apple driven, configurable dial set. That being said, the trend to replace buttons that you can feel and learn and access without thinking (looking at you Tesla) I hope there is some sanity to the design. Screens for what they are good at, buttons for normal everyday stuff!

All of this is voodoo. I just moved and the airline that services the main airport is not one I normally fly with. Okay, good airline, lets apply for their credit card to get miles, status, etc. Fill out the application online. Expect answer quickly. No. 5 days later turned down. We will send you a letter explaining why. Still waiting. I am CEO of a startup and have a FICO of 832 out of 850. IE perfect credit. Card is backed by BOA. Voodoo.

I am very much in favor of making the laws simple for payment providers as it is the best way for everyone to grow and succeed. That being said the laws for financial institutions need to require someone to talk to, a time limit on response time and an escalation process to resolve issues. We shoot ourselves in the foot here by not mandating clear, clean procedures for dealing with issues.

Is "no shit?" a reasonable comment here?

My wife's new car, to many screens. My old car, buttons I can touch from memory without looking. The worst part about her car, you can customize the screen in front of the driver but not really. 3 items on the screen - circular thing, status thing, circular thing. There are a total of ~12 versions of the stuff in the circular thing. The information in circular things would work just fine on either side. However for some reason they spilt it 6+6. You want item from right circle to be on left side, nope! There is no reason why. It is a flat display (ie, on flat screen, not 3 screens) and it is just software. No reason for this. It is a display.

For everything that is normal, like AC, etc. please just stick to buttons!

Hardcore history for the win.

Happy I am over 40 :)

A "boomer" is slag for a nuclear missile submarine. Hypersonic missiles do not change the logic behind MAD which is "you can launch a first strike, but we can still respond with enough damage that it makes doing so untenable."

The US pretty much knows the location of the Russian missiles subs most of the the time. It would be a bit crazy to gamble on being sure the one you launch from was the one that was missed. Also most of the Russian boomer fleet is in dock most of the time.

US boomers have enough firepower to wipe out everyone in Russia without the need for other weapons. That is the point. There is no 70%, it is 99.999%. At the end of the cold war a Soviet naval admiral said they had managed to track a US boomer twice for a few minutes.

The MAD balance is still there for the most part. The most part being it is unclear what % of Russian nukes still work given the shit show of maintenance and graft shown in the convention forces used in the Ukraine.

US has 14 Ohio class subs, ~90 warheads each. This is in addition to 400 MM3 ICBMs. Unlike the Russians the US knows their weapons system will work.

A well set trip in my case as helped me personally where nothing else did. It had the same effect on friends that suffered from the same issue.

Also I will share that I have a sibling that suffers from depression. At one point we said okay we are going to try this in a controlled setting with friends. 6 months of happiness. This should be a regulated and available treatment.

I have a friend that is a therapist in CA that has been part of a Ketamine trial. The feedback was it can be remarkably successful. One of the "features" of this type of therapy is it something that happens as needed vs the daily pills that are standard now that can have serious issues.

It has a remarkable effect on people with PTSD.

Filco Majestouch Convertible 2 TKL Mechanical Keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches (Japanese layout) on my everyday system and a real IBM Model M (date code is 1984) on another system.

Used to have the multi monitor setup but switched to a single LG (apple) 27" 5K. Could not be happier. Right size that does not require me to move my head and crisp text. I agree 100% that PPI is king here.

I have a whole house of this stuff. We are talking 100s of plugs, lights, sensors, etc. I picked them because they have been around forever - like 30+ years (started with the X10 stuff) so I hoped they where a safe bet. One day everything stopped working, the remote control part via the application and automation that depended on their Hub being online. I had the hub. Ugh. Okay I had the USB serial adapter also sitting around. Installed Homebridge with the "Homebridge Platform Insteonlocal" plugin on an old PINE64 board. Used it to delete the links to the old hub and connect everything to the USB serial modem (the "modem" keeps the DB of the things it can talk to). Everything works great again and I can even use Apple HomeKit. I received an email today from Ken saying they are going to do the right thing but they need to move to a subscription model for like ~$40 per year. I am fine with that in the sense they should have done that a long time ago to sort their $$$ issues. At this point I am going to stick with the local solution - remember the HomeKit stuff gives me remote access - that the hub+app gave. The HW itself it really decent and always has been. It would be great if it became available again. I am worried about something failing at this point as the eBay pricing is crazy town right now. The 8 button remote that was $30 is going $200+. The remote links to their wireless protocol and pairs locally with all the devices. You do not need anything online for it to work. To be clear - they have powerline protocol and wireless protocol that allows devices to be paired (or more then a pair) with each other locally and locally programed. It is really cool stuff given it is 20+ years old and just works.

What is old is new again. IBM mainframes had a concept called a "channel controller". Everything connected to the mainframe basically was a computer itself that offloaded the main system. Every DASD (disk), communication link was its own system.

Random - the Commodore 1541 drive (all of their drives really) had their own 65xx CPU and some RAM (2K IIRC for the 1541). There was copy/backup software where you could hook up 2 devices, load the program and then disconnect the drives from the computer. You could put the master in the first drive, blank disk in the second and every time you swapped the backup it would make a new copy.

Shipping unit was a VM to a customer. Tossing more CPU & RAM at the VM would hit general issues of how VMware allocates CPU to a guest. Within the VM we had containers for each sub-unit of the tool. For some part of the system we made the deployment model more than one VM, distributing more containers to the other VMs. However for a key part of the design there was an in-memory DB and we just it the scale limits of the number of elements that could be handled that way without a rethink of how and what we stored.

For everyone that will say "well why..."

1. real products need a generally available shipping unit (SKU) when your customers are enterprise / telco types.

2. for item 1, what is the lowest common thing this type of customer would take - a VM they can run on their existing virtualization setups. the reality of K8s, containers in this type of customers at that point was near zero.

3. there was thoughts about a SKU of a HW appliance, ie, beefy server and just toss CPU/RAM in it and ship that. shipping some stupid HW appliance that we controlled would just be a distraction and a waste of money also requiring 2 shipping artifacts, 2 test setups, etc. not to mention the need to sort for support for HW failure (you can contract with Dell for example to have them label their Kit as your appliance).

It is a careful balance. At my last startup we knew we had scale technical debt in our SW. Not something we could fix by tossing HW at the issue. It was all great until we landed that major customer that blew past our supported scale. 6 months of engineering work and a complete stop of feature process. A more careful consideration of the tradeoffs when making them would have saved a huge headache, but no one wanted to look at the issue preferring to ignore it.

I have four C64's, 3 still work. They are 40 years old. Not to bad.