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I hope the suffering patients these kind of tech wearables earnestly improve the lives of don’t get impacted too much. Blood Ox probably isn’t the biggest deal, but accurate vitals wearables are extremely valuable in managing & making doctors unable to deny the reality of quite a few conditions they may otherwise be inclined to say you’re exaggerating.

I was personally waiting for some of Withings (Nokia folk IIRC) offerings to get approved by the FDA for quite some time… last I checked they never did and I mostly use apple now.

I’d at first read the plane was without passengers and just being flown somewhere… and I thought, great.

Today I read that it was full of passengers, and the two people supposed to be in the two seats in the row the panel blew out happened to miss their flight.

If that’s true… what an interesting set of statistics coming together.

Amount of people that sleep through flights Amount of panels that blow out of passenger planes Chance to be seated next to said panel

They can definitely be readily found in South-Eastern Ohio grocery stores during season, and more sparingly grocery stores around all of Ohio - typically lesser-greater the distance from SEO.

Probably not going to find them in many chains outside of SEO, more likely in boutique markets.

The PawPaw beer can be pretty good.

Though he did not explicitly state to not forget to bring a towel, he has implied that he does not count on a hotel to supply him with a towel.

>> the reason is that it slowly started to dawn on me that we can't avoid this topic altogether and still remain within the intended spirit of this site.

Pleasantly surprised to see you state/admit this - thanks dang <3

Pentel Graphgear 1000 & a Pentel Hi-Polymer block eraser are goated to the max.

>>they have been pulled from the TikTok vocabulary

“As we mentioned, we estimate that TikTok has about 80 million monthly active users in the United States. 60% are female, 40% are male. 60% are between the ages of 16-24. 26% are between the ages 25-44.”

Turns out when words are used by tens of millions of your younger populace, they’re actually just words for the general vocabulary, not the “TikTok vocabulary”

Mechanical Engineering BSME definitely wouldn’t hurt. Probably the most versatile of engineering paths.

>> by a malfunctioning servo on a very large lathe under construction

I got hit right in the dick by a milling machine axis lever spinning up full throttle.

Only once, never again. Still surprised something terrible didn’t happen - hurt like a bitch. Shop dude says it happens pretty often though because people don’t look down at the caution tape telling you not to stand there.

>>Coffee grounds or that mechanic paste might do pretty well also

“Magic All Natural Industrial Hand Cleaner (with walnut shells)”

Is downright the best thing I’ve ever encountered for cleaning anything on the hands. Anything sticky, greasy, non-newtonian… etc. it scrubs right off. Person who’s worked in grimy machine shops for 30 years introduced me to it. Fast Orange is a complete & utter disgrace comparatively.

Coffee grounds are nice, but walnut grounds are far superior.

One of the more interesting people I’ve met in my life, a now deceased professor from my alma matter, LARPed (for a very long time) as the reincarnation of William Blake (had an entire designated church and everything)

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

Perhaps LARPed isn’t even the best word. There is a lot of debate on whether or not he decided to keep up a bit his entire life or genuinely believed he was Blake’s reincarnation. He was incredibly smart, not outwardly schizophrenic (you could say a schizotypal personality, but I think those labels are mostly bullshit - I digress), and didn’t really have any other reasons people might just think “he’s fucking nuts”

I wonder how many other kooky Blake admirers there are in our world…

Don’t have the time to read the full article, but I’m baffled that Thoracic Outlet Syndrome is not mentioned once.

A significant amount of Dystonia’s in musicians end up being thoracic outlet syndrome (typically the neurogenic subtype, but a lot of violinists seem to be getting the vascular subtype as well from positioning). Often both (dystonia & TOS, not the subtypes mentioned).

Source: My Harvard medical professor/chief of vascular surgery surgeon that’s written books on this.

I was disabled and slated for major surgeries when I backed at under 10,000 total backers. Have a physical card something near 7500. I am still disabled and slated for major surgeries. Never know if I’ll be able to comfortably play the game.

A friend of mine started medschool at the same time and is now nearly fully through medschool. He’s also a backer under 10,000. He doesn’t know if he’s never going to have any time to play, or if he’s going to fully drop out of life (likely) and only be a doctor and play Star Citizen with all of his free time in life. Bit of a neurotic asocial fellow.

Anyways, I have a post history across social medias to show that I’ve never doubted this game would fully come to fruition. Around 2016 or so I concluded I might change my mind if they had nothing meaningful to show after 15 years.

The hate surrounding so many things about this company/game has always been exceptionally amusing to me. There are people in the subreddit/YouTube that have quite literally been complaining on an at-least weekly basis since like. 2014 (I say this as I post shadowbanned on HN) They really devote a significant portion of their lives solely to being extremely butthurt about the company, Chris Roberts, and his wife. The disgruntled ex-employees that come out of the woodwork every now & then are wild too.

They’re still not completely out of the pits yet, but I think people are going to be surprised when this ends up being a completely jawdropping(decade defining?) game. I also think I’ll probably still be disabled, even if I have surgery soon, recovery is very, very long. Life is strange.

>> The drivers tell me they hate them because they report every speed limit violation to their bosses. Sounds great to me!

To be fair, they probably essentially have to speed to meet their quotas, else they have very serious & real consequences.

If Amazon didn’t try to completely milk drivers for all they’re worth, I’d feel better about the detection/auto reporting. Yes it sucks they’re speeding thru residential areas, but they’re essentially pushed to it.

>> that he was able to separate conjoined twins in a then-unprecedented procedure...

Didn’t the twins like. Die?

This is always brought up. Ben Carson separating twins. But like. They died. Multiple sets of conjoined people he operated on died I think.

Why do people always bring this up without mentioning that the twins died

To the best of my knowledge Ben Carson is and always has been a giant self aggrandizing douche who definitely has and had equals in his field

The Las Vegas Sphere was powered down during the recent DEFCON conference.

Nothing was officially stated, but it was rumored they didn’t want to risk anything like this happening.

>>and also fuck your wife.

Most well-adjusted hackernews commentary

>> I probably could've just taken a job at a bank or some big tech co in Amsterdam and afforded the same or even nicer a year or two later.

Yes, but now you know how to fully renovate a previously-deemed-uninhabitable house.

Many, especially people that make large $ in tech may disagree, but I find this to be extremely valuable knowledge & experience. Tangent, but I experience second hand humiliation & embarrassment when I see an adult paying hundreds into thousands of dollars for something that can be fixed in well under an hour with basic tools.

>> World first replication was done by Iris Alexandra using her own accelerated process and there is no way Varda Space could have beaten her.

World first public replication

As much respect for her as I have & as much I’ve enjoyed watching this pan out, a U.S. DoE affiliated lab or other nation states’ equivalent likely did something in the same timeframe.

People working in those labs are unfathomably smart & talented.

Sigh.

Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end.

Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.

You’re glossing over the fact that the dogs are trained to respond to the officers commands, and the officers can make a trained K-9 alert on any car.

Essentially parallel construction. Know their perp from other means, make dog alert on it, continue to abuse your power.

Perhaps infrasound, described in Vic Tandy’s A Ghost in the Machine

Here’s a brief of it: https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/higgshalloween-2021/haunt...

The full story is a PDF that is the first google result of “Vic Tandy’s Ghost in the Machine”

e.g. failing mechanical equipment

Things I have bought well and once:

Vitamix 5300 - going strong after 13 years of near daily usage, 4 family blenders from department stores failed/poor quality blending before this

Zojirushi Rice Cooker - also close to 13 years, usage of a few times a week

Breville Burr Grinder - decade or a bit older, frequently used

Sonicare Toothbrush - $150ish or so model, probably 8 years of near twice daily usage. Presume I’ll have to change the battery sooner or later, but fine aside from that.

Being from poverty, I don’t think anybody in my family prior to me had ever spent nearly this much money on singular appliances. Having made the money spent on them on my own in my early teens, I consider it money very well spent - they’ve been with me in the Midwest, to the East Coast, and the West Coast (and through more than a few TSA baggage scans with people maybe wondering why is a young male flying with this kitchen equipment)

>> Once or twice a week my wife or I will go through their text messages with them and ask questions about anything that seems off.

Holy crap.

Maybe you’re aware, but things like this are commonly cited reasons by young adults as to why they’ve never again spoken to their parents after they were able to escape them, sometimes even voluntarily becoming homeless to get away.

CPAP should be next.

Could you take the time to explain to me how labor movements have made meaningful progress throughout all of history?

Where I’m from, when the big city law-man came to foreclose/auction on poor widows homes, the entire town showed up with guns & stared until nobody bid over $1 on the home.

Do you view these people with disdain for doing so?

How do you feel about Peter Thiels “let’s put suicide collars on the security guards” schpiel? Is murder okay when the rich or right people say it is?

>> when the gene pool is only left with high fecundity actors. The real resource wars will start then.

I’ve become a bit convinced that we’re essentially going to see Incestuous Kings II except this time with feudal tech lords.

Quite a depressing future if that ends up being it. Working class probably needs to get around to killing some bad actors sooner or later.

Being kind & understanding is great except for people who are charlatans, sycophants, and manipulative sociopaths (I’m sure there’s a few others.

If you do not believe Altman falls under any of these categories, I’m happy to hear why so.

>> Then fix the outdated laws so people can enjoy those human connections without all the risky loss/gain baggage.

In a country that celebrates sociopathy, manipulation of others, & psychopathy to such a high degree, I think the laws are perfectly fine as they protect exceptionally vulnerable people.

What sort of resources do you actually think there are for a spouse that is able to escape after having been isolated and abused for years, that oftentimes becomes responsible for not only their own well-being, but also childrens? The answer is practically nothing aside from maybe your very basic necessities to sustain life.

I also think you’re really missing a major point but that’s a tangent I’m not going to go on.

[edit]: Revised “What sort of resources do you actually think there are for a spouse that’s been isolated and abused for years” to “What sort of resources do you actually think there are for a spouse that is able to escape after having been isolated and abused for years”

Caring about potential loss of material objects over deep human connection sounds like an absolutely miserable way to live your one short life in this universe!