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I always rip them out only to find the stub left over is often worse. One of life's great annoyances.

Interesting comment re: TV. I'm in my 40s and have never regularly watched TV but never thought about why. Your description is good. It's just an overwhelming assault on the senses for very little in return

I just tested a turbo yeast sugar wash I have and it's sitting at exactly 21%

Can we please have a class action somehow? I have oculus gear I would not have purchased had they not promised to tie into a Facebook account that now sits on my shelf unusable (by me)

Edit - even though I could sell the rift, what about the -$1000 I spent on software I can no longer access

Could coordinated governments shut it down? By making it criminal to own could they send the price to close enough to zero it is no longer useful?

I'm a typical hacker News person. Been suffering from long covid for over a year. Tried horse paste and I got relief. When I stopped taking it the long covid symptoms returned. So taking it regularly now and it helps. I'm a few weeks in though so take this with a large pile of salt.

Oh and the active ingredient is identical to the human pills. The other ingredients are all safe and common.

The arguments about getting the dosage wrong are valid. For most anyone here doing a simple calculation and being confident enough in it to bet your life on it is generally fine, but I can see people in the general population messing up simple arithmetic.

Disclaimer: if you take medicine based on a hacker News post you're a moron.

It's astonishing how similar all cars are becoming, outside of the superficial stuff. For a reason. Convergence on the optimal solution.

The negative replies to this are largely valid, but ignore the fact that we can have multiple strategies at the same time.

I for one would love to be able to take my battery out, swap it, have a few so some are always on solar charge. Be able to take one onto the boat. Use a new one for higher performance special occasion driving, and an old one for bumper to bumper slow commute which I can wrong every last mile out of. Have a few which default to home backup and can support the grid.

The highly optimised around the battery argument is very good. But it doesn't mean that we can't also have a company focusing on interchangeable batteries with a third party market.

Let the buyer decide. Neither solution will get 100% of the market, or zero. Why write one off right now with confidence when both could have a healthy market for the hugely diverse users (ie not just SV nerds)

The fed enforcing interop wouldn't be black and white. Just like Mercedes are allowed to sell super low MPG AMG Sports cars because they also sell lots of small city cars. The fed could encourage things in this direction without being black and white and mandating 100% of batteries be replaceable.

I think the downvotes of the parent comment here aren't what downvotes should be for. He or she brings up a very interesting point

Cannabinoids

Software support is so crucial. I can't stress that enough. There is a huge amount of work to prepare the kernel and overlays for a new board and many manufacturers do the bare minimum.

My experience with vendors who do this well are Asus tinkerboard, NVIDIA Jetson (well... I'm being kind there) and from what I've heard the pine products. Basically go to armbian and look for the boards with the most mature support.

I've been working with dozens of these things for the last 4 years and the amount of issues due to poor kernel support saddens me. So much wasted time, they can be amongst the most expensive computers you can buy.

Bullshit.

A large portion of the population have been vegetarian for a long time. How is something alive and well and growing be unrealistic

This is measuring how much of the RF energy is absorbed. Which on It's own isn't a risk. It says nothing of interaction with DNA etc.

Omg you get to enjoy HHGTTG fresh for the first time! Lucky you.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, Douglass Adams

I sat an exam in high school where we had to hand write code for... Either a Mandelbrot set generator or some prime search thing, can't remember.

But it was a simple algorithm and it didn't specify a language so I wrote it in 386 assembler. I think that to this day is the only program I wrote by hand, and I know it compiled and ran correctly as they made me type it and execute it (only for fun they knew I knew what I was doing)

Can you comment on why is there always a drive towards lower voltage? And how this impacts design. A nieve take would have thought higher voltage would equate to less loss to heat. But then with a higher voltage I guess those transients become relatively bigger?

Wow interesting I've never heard it put like that. What a good framework for thinking about this

To all the detractors here. I lived on a boat for many years which was 12v only and didn't have the mod cons. You adapt pretty quick then hardly think about it.

So everyone saying how it's fantasy to expect peoples behaviour to change, just remember if you haven't tried it you are likely highly over estimating how much effort it is, and not aware of many of the unexpected advantages.

I think you've had too many beersies

It is a US thing. Sugar and salt in things most of the rest of the world couldn't imagine having sugar and salt added

One of the best posts ever here on HN on a difficult topic.

Lots of personal experience here (family). The suicidal 'mode' needs to be interrupted before death. Usually it lasts only an hour or two.

Helping one interrupt that mode is a learned skill that is very effective, and relatively easy to do.

This isn't universal of course, just my experience. If anyone reading this suspects someone is suicidal and they don't answer the phone at a time you know they are at risk, go see them asap. You might save a life.

Also anyone compitent enough to do that likely has better options available than stealing phones

It seems like they are trying to protect the arduino pro brand. That makes sense.

Trademark is designed for that. Everything else can be open source. Clones won't be able to say they are arduino pro.

The OS can keep a record over time of the maximum frequency each CPU core has ever hit.

This will take into account machine to machine variance, and even environmental factors effecting maximum speed.

I feel like my whole life got simpler with less headaches when I discovered ZT. I adore it. Maybe there are other things out there which do the same thing but ZT is the single 'it just works' thing that has made my life easier the most.

Not associated with them in any way other than being a user.

Put your own oxygen mask on first

There are some smug looking dudes at Lockheed right now

I used my IR temp probe to get the ground temp in Sonora Mexico when I lived there and it was just under 70C. In the height of summer. That was when I learned ground temps can be higher than air

Responding with 'you don't know that' to a comment with no specific assertions, followed by 'its highly likely...' is a good example of 'irony'. We need more of those on US centric forums as a public education service. Thanks.

One of my greatest disappointments in life is that programmers don't give a shit about the actual experience of using a particular language and it's ecosystem, and instead go full sheep mode and follow the crowd for whatever reasons they think are valid.

I don't hate python but it's existence is the main brake slowing ruby down.

I enjoy programming in Ruby. As the years roll by and I get more grey hairs the enjoyment I get from other languages descends to just toiling away and wasting one's life.

Thank fuck for Ruby

Preemptive thermal shutdown at this temp doesn't mean the units aren't designed to handle much higher. It means at this stage in the beta program they aren't ready to push the envelope with customer deployed hardware.

I always back off from the maximum limits for the gear I design then after years in the field and proven reliability you can remotely update it and push things a bit. And that's in production. This is beta