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by iwaztomack 2y ago
That's cool. I actually am a surgeon.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
Its kind of interesting: the 555 is such _horrible_ timer. It can't do a 50% duty cycle without extra BOM parts, even more parts to make a real PWM out of it, and it has terrible temperature and voltage stability. But somehow it persis
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
Don't let MAGA hear you... they'll start banning and burning linux boxes.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
If there's one thing surgeons like, it is advice from other surgeons.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
such as...?
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
or an f-word
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
I just listened to the examples on the front page. I'm blown away. I watched streaming kill the dreams of 90's bands, when getting a demo CD in the hands of an A&R rep was legit pursuit. This will kill the streamers. I expect
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
Been here for 10 years. :) I think there should be a higher standard than just posting random links without context. How about a single line of text explaining why it is interesting to them?
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
A startup from ... the 1800's? Thanks for the context, I guess.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
What's the catch? Why post this?
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
How do these work? You can't stay compressed all the time? Is it intravenal?
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
4~7 mmHg isn't going to make or break a hypertension diagnoses. 20~30 mmHg definitely.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
> Yet, there are tons of people much richer than Musk was (before Tesla and SpaceX) who have achieved nothing of note with their billions. Bill Gates eradicated polio. Sam Walton re-invented shopping at scale. Jeff Bezos re-invented ship
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
I'm pretty sure if I knew I could never lose a dime of my billions of fortune I'd be working on teleporters, warp drives, and time machines. People would call me a genius because I could pay for the press. Musk isn't a vision
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
What parts of this can be reused? I bet the engine is OK, but seems like the sides of the ... tube ... were pretty roughed up. I guess that's probably the cheapest part of the assembly though.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
There's a conspiracy among techies growing like ivy: that UFO == aliens, and that the US gov't is in cahoots, or being attacked by them. It's SO weird to see this spread among self-described critical thinkers. Probably why th
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
I'm staring at a PC-AT mobo from 1988 with an AMD-branded 286 chip that also says Copyright Intel (lol), and the battery has leaked a white film.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
I have a 42 year old apple //e that had been in an uninsulated attic in Boston for 30+ years. It booted fine and all the 5 1/4" floppies worked. I know that C64s need the caps replaced and the org external power supplies
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
It's on par with Asimo, when not being controlled by a remote human. But you're probably too young to remember what Asimo is.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
Guy owns two AI companies and still is a decade behind.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
"They give the computer hints about how to handle situations" That's a cute euphemism for remote operators.
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
College Alternative is not Punk. I went to Pixies concerts when I was at BU in the 80's. They were a rich white kid college band. Punk was a very specific movement. It's like saying, "Yeah, impressionism is same as Cubism.&qu
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
"Until recently, physicians have widely been unaware or dismissive of the symptom. " Yeah no shit. I went off Paxil and had brain zaps for over a YEAR. Gone now but I will never go on Paxil again, although it was 15 years ago and
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
I thought they had remote drivers to take over when shit goes south?
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by iwaztomack 2y ago
Not punk. Punk is about being bad at your instrument and looking ugly and being the underdog and still creating a community. When Dookie came out, every highschool and college kid was lined up to buy it, it had constant airplay, and was bla