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by toast0 2mo ago
IIRC, mostly used to help with type 2 diabetes... But effects on that cohort may not generalize to the general population.
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by toast0 2mo ago
> I don't see how these proprietary, point-in-time hardware/software systems can possibly be maintainable long term. In 20 years there will only be 50yo ECUs available to replace my current ones. There are a handful of aftermar
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by toast0 2mo ago
> I really enjoyed Intel's foray into networking in the late 90s. Their Ethernet hubs and switches were economical and reliable. It really made no sense for them to be in that market, and they ultimately ditched it, but I liked the
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by toast0 2mo ago
> If I have 32 pods running on a 32 core machine, each with 1cpu requested, what stops one of those pods using an unfair share? I don't use all this fancy stuff, but wouldn't you set that up as each of the 32 pods is limited to
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by toast0 2mo ago
Yeah, I said they're spendy... But if you're filling trucks with tapes, the cost of the drive(s) will amortize pretty well.
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by toast0 2mo ago
Plenty of modern tapes. LTO-10 came out last year with 30TB tapes and 40TB tapes came out Jan 2026. IBM has a propetary tape system with 50TB in a slightly larger format, that came out in 2023. The drives are spendy, but $/TB on media
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by toast0 2mo ago
> I consider the old web to be when PNGs were sliced with Fireworks and laid out in tables. PNGs? We had (mostly static) GIFs and we liked them.
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by toast0 2mo ago
My well is pretty far from the house. Would have to trench a lot of large electrical cabling to get it connected to the generator. Too much hassle and expense for now. I've been seeing aliexpress battery + hybrid charger deals that cou
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by toast0 2mo ago
> As someone living on well water in an area with semi-frequent power outages in winter After a few of these outages and typically two to three nines of utility power availability, I got a portable generator for my well (we have an autom
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by toast0 2mo ago
> I wouldn't bother writing the article myself neither besides giving the instructions and auditing the output. The article would be better with just the instructions and audited output. All the LLM added bloat is tiring and distrac
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by toast0 2mo ago
At the McD's nearest me, they will start when I'm at the nearest stop light; if I get stuck on a long red, timing is pretty good. At other locations, starting in the parking lot is still a little faster than if I had ordered in th
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by toast0 2mo ago
Grid had too much production and needed somewhere to put it, so they paid the GP to put the energy into GP's car. On an electric grid, Supply and Demand must meet. When demand is low, you either reduce supply or increase demand and som
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by toast0 2mo ago
ORD to MKE is a (mostly) silly flight if that's your whole trip. ORD to MKE is reasonable as part of a X -> ORD -> MKE one stop; at least when I was using MKE, I'd always need a stop (Midwest was too expensive for me) and OR
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by toast0 2mo ago
> When I was young it was common for a McDonalds to have 10+ employees working the lunch rush, one for every station and a few floaters cleaning the dining room. Someone took your order right away, and you got your meal in a minute or tw
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by toast0 2mo ago
Like, ivies and whatever are great. But overscheduling and overstessing to get into one isn't. Many states have a guaranteed acceptance path to a state school and/or a path where you do two years at community college and can trans
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by toast0 2mo ago
> Steve Job’s “reality distortion field” was coined after the ability to get people to achieve the impossible and deliver better products; I was under the impression it was about Steve convincing the faithful that Apple invented the cate
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by toast0 2mo ago
e911 gets the location. Presumably one of the dispatchers working the calls will mark it as a motor vehicle accident.
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by toast0 2mo ago
The commonwealth is also a collection of countries ruled by the crown; but it's not a country whereas the UK is a country.
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by toast0 2mo ago
With the right calling convention, tail calls could conform to the convention. A tail call certainly can't use a CALL instruction, because it would set the wrong return address. But that doesn't mean it's not a call; architec
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by toast0 2mo ago
> C is not like that, and calling into an external module necessarily grows the stack. This is because of the calling convention, yes? (and to some extent, if you want an accurate stack trace, but I find it acceptable that TCO also inc
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by toast0 2mo ago
> My impression is that every tail call can written as a loop much more naturally. Which is more natural? (please just assume my wonky pseudo code syntax makes sense) printall(List) -> foreach item in List { print
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by toast0 2mo ago
> But the compiler controls both the caller and callee. Why? In functional languages, it's common for an exported function from one compilation context to tail call into an exported function from another.
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by toast0 2mo ago
system management mode does a lot of stuff, some of which is time critical. If your system is overheating and one of the cores is stuck off in the weeds, it's probably better to get on with the thermal response rather than waiting fo
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by toast0 2mo ago
They definitely were in (some) cars in the 90s. Probably in the late 80s too. I did IT work for my school district in the 90s and I remember our vans had them. Realtime (digital) MPG displays were showing up around the same time. My parents
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by toast0 2mo ago
Have you not seen these things? It's a weighted magnetic sphere floating inside a clear plastic outer sphere. Anywhere you can stick the suction cup to, the compass reading will be roughly horizontal. Here's an example https:&#x2
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by toast0 2mo ago
Suction cup compasses are ~ $10 on amazon if it bothers you. Won't be in the mirror though.
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by toast0 2mo ago
You know, water is basically made up of rocket fuel. And they put it in our kids' schools.
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by toast0 2mo ago
I have a cousin who is a DO (in the US). It seems like it's basically an out to get effectively an MD with a slightly lower bar for admission. Once you're in the program, it's basically the same as an MD program, and then you
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by toast0 2mo ago
Single pair ethernet exists, but it's hard to find products with it. Would be nice if there were more media converters available.
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by toast0 2mo ago
You can run 100mbps with only two pair, if you have something on at least one end which you can tell to only negotiate to 100.

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