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The Pentagon Wants to Root Out Shoddy Drugs. The FDA Is in Its Way(bloomberg.com)
3 points by teuobk 3y ago|1 comments
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by teuobk 3y ago
I was one of the Kickstarter backers of this, with my purchase/commitment happening on October 19, 2013. Gabe (the guy making the oscilloscope watch) sent updates every few days for the first month or so, then roughly monthly into 2014
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by teuobk 3y ago
Except breast cancer screening, at least via mammography, doesn't save lives. See, for example: https://thennt.com/nnt/screening-mammography-for-reducing-de...
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by teuobk 4y ago
The key to knowing when to when to quit is being financially able to quit in the first place. A lot of people get stuck and are unable to afford to quit.
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by teuobk 4y ago
Yup, here's the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464494
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by teuobk 4y ago
Thing is, now they've shown a willingness to make this change, so from here on out people will be worried about them trying it again at some point. The only way they have a hope of putting this genie back in the bottle is to provide a
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by teuobk 4y ago
Ain't this the truth. If COGS for the electronic gizmo is over about 10% of retail price, and you're making boutique-scale runs (<10k units) of whatever it is, good luck with that. I strongly suspect that, to a rounding error,
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by teuobk 5y ago
Interesting. A few questions that come to mind: 1. What is the dew point of the compressed air? Many applications using compressed air require very dry air so as to avoid corrosion issues (e.g., air tools) as well as problems related to hea
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by teuobk 6y ago
I've heard something similar for the past two years, except mine is at 78 Hz, and only in my left ear. As with you, I hear it only when it is extremely quiet. When the room ambient noise is above about 35 dBA, I never hear it. Also, o
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by teuobk 6y ago
The further in time I am removed from my university years, the more convinced I become that the social interaction was the true root of the experience's value. To quote Stephen Leacock's 1920 take on university life: "The rea
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Truck Border Crossing Times Map of Europe(covid-19.sixfold.com)
1 points by teuobk 7y ago|0 comments
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by teuobk 7y ago
The energy density of this betavoltaic battery is only about half that of an LiMnO2 primary-cell battery, about 370 mWh/cc versus 650 mWh/cc. Examples of LiMnO2 batteries are the extremely common CR2032 or CR2450 coin cells. Self-
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by teuobk 7y ago
Free alternative: use one of several tools that implement Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme to split your master password into chunks. You can create a bunch of chunks and require that at least a certain subset of them be used to recover
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by teuobk 7y ago
Yeah, seems like SoftBank isn't doing this just to save face. They're doing it to prevent the whole party from coming to an end, right quick.
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by teuobk 7y ago
This is positively shiver-inducing.
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by teuobk 7y ago
Microcenter is a great counterexample. The one here in Denver is always full of customers, and it's stuffed with all manner of computer parts, hobby electronics, and so on. It's how I too remember Fry's being back in the day.
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by teuobk 8y ago
Embedded is definitely a place where this sort of Goldilocks environment can be found. I suspect it's because embedded -- and I mean really low-level stuff, not "We run embedded Linux!" level -- requires a lot of EE knowledge
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by teuobk 8y ago
The joke as shown in the movie Primer: https://youtu.be/fN-VAdAnoZ4?t=25
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An exclusive first taste of lab-made whiskey(wsj.com)
2 points by teuobk 8y ago|0 comments
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by teuobk 8y ago
Intense IR can damage the eye; more specifically, it can lead to cataracts. Prior to learning to arc weld, I always thought the primary danger of looking at the arc without protection was UV exposure. However, it turns out that IR exposure
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How I had a bygone 72-pin connector remade just to play Duck Hunt(keacher.com)
5 points by teuobk 8y ago|1 comments
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by teuobk 8y ago
Nintendo also sued Galoob over the Game Genie, which Galoob had licensed (purchased?) from Codemasters. Nintendo lost, and then they lost again on appeal. The issue was whether the Game Genie created derivative works. https://en.
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How long can you run a car without an alternator?(keacher.com)
4 points by teuobk 8y ago|2 comments
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by teuobk 9y ago
I'm not sure about a general source, but there's a real estate agency in Summit County, Colorado that puts out similarly detailed reports for that area: https://www.breckenridgeassociates.com/statistics.php Their
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by teuobk 9y ago
Cash purchases are already pretty common for gun sales. All gun retailers accept cash, obviously, and many of the smaller ones offer discounts for purchasing with cash (usually framed as an extra 3% or so fee for purchasing with a credit ca
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by teuobk 9y ago
Indeed. Story time! Last Monday evening, I had an accident with an angle grinder in my garage. The cutoff disc went through my leather glove and bit deep into the middle finger of my left hand. After deciding against gluing the cut back tog
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by teuobk 9y ago
Another idea that has worked well for me: get a dog. It can get lonely working alone at home; dogs keep you company. It can be easy to stay in the house all day; dogs are a good reason to talk walks outside. It can be easy to let the workda
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by teuobk 9y ago
Regarding grand jury indictments, it's very, very rare for a grand jury to refuse to indict somebody, so that isn't necessarily a good measure of the quality of the case against the accused. Of roughly 162,000 federal cases brough
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by teuobk 9y ago
Turns out that you can pop a normal (non-rechargeable) CR2032 in the K750 to replace the rechargeable ML2032 that's already in there. Pretty decent chance of a CR2032 being at the hotel front desk or at the corner store. However, if yo
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by teuobk 9y ago
Am I the only one who never liked those clicky, long-throw mechanical keyboards? I much prefer the very short throws of laptop-style keyboards, particularly the Logitech K750. That's not to say I like mushy keys. I just don't like

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