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I've seen exactly one of these in person while in San Diego for a month or so. I never did see a fueling station for it though.

Wait you don't mean the same Howard Lutnick who was sold a mansion for the sum of ten dollars by none other than Jeffrey Epstein himself? I'm shocked.

This is what my family told me. They may not have been his exact words but he believed it had a very strong possibility to go into complete remission. This was after they had gone through other therapies like HIPEC, where they told me it'd buy them a few years (they got 8). The problem is CRC will often metastasize into areas current treatments can't really get at and that tends to be where the cancer comes back. Apparently this procedure got right in there.

What's the preferred mirror?

I just said it in another post today, but I had a family member recently die from colorectal cancer when they were on a list for a new treatment at Yale, which was canceled because of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill. The doctor who was to perform it literally said "I want you to think of this procedure in terms of a cure" when they were stage 4 for like 7 years at that point.

BBB slashed funding for cutting edge medical research which would not only save, or at least prolong lives, but also generate revenue for this country -- when we export our IP, or when people come here for some of the most advanced medical procedures. To say nothing of immigration policies which actively repel some of the best and brightest and may be leading us to an actual population decline.

Sure we weren't perfect by an stretch before, but it feels like we're getting drowned in a toilet at the moment.

> If they succeed, it’s purely with their own talent.

I wouldn't go that far, Chinese espionage is a very real thing, with industry secrets being some of the top targets.

I'm a little removed from the situation, (not my nuclear family) but I believe the statute is up. It's too difficult to litigate in, say, the first two years of your stage 4 diagnosis before the law won't allow a suit.

Obligatory mirror:

https://archive.ph/rIPvX

Lie about family history, but even colonoscopies are not perfect; I just had somebody in my family die of CRC because...

- They had symptoms and wanted a screening, but their PCP repeatedly denied them a referral for like a year because they were "too young".

- They lied about family history after symptoms got worse and got their referral.

- They got the colonoscopy which came back clean, and then symptoms continued to get worse.

- Finally their doctor gave them a referral for an MRI.

Results were stage 4 CRC. The doctor performing the colonoscopy missed the tumor, which was tucked into the sigmoid (the bend in your colon), where he didn't properly inflate because he wasn't taking it very seriously. It had a thumb-tip sized protrusion inside the colon but had gotten huge on the opposite side of the colon wall. They fought it for 8 years after the diagnosis and over 100 rounds of chemo (!!!), were about to get a new procedure at Yale, in which the doctor told them to think of it in terms of "this really may be a complete cure", but it was canceled because of the Big Beautiful Bill.

If you have symptoms (even if you don't), don't let some fuckass Nurse Practitioner tell you no. They don't know shit and they let their egos get in the way when they have to deal with moderately informed patients advocating for themselves. This was preventable and tge medicap system failed them because both the PCP and the doctor performing the colonoscopy were not paying attention to what they were being presented with and saw only their own expectations.

Also...apparently doctors wanted to lower the screening age to like 35, but insurance companies fought it, so it's at 45.

If this app gets popular you know somebody is going to be heading to the woods with their smartphone and a 5 gallon bucket full of bacon grease to lure in a griz.

Don't forget Network.

Personally, I just change the diff engine to use difftastic, which can handle diff's on a syntactic level. Works great.

You could also just change git's diff settings to highlight word-based changes if you don't want to use external tools. I believe you can even use regex to redefine a word to match sentences.

Yeah it's really impressed me on occasion, but often in the same prompt output it just does something totally nonsensical. For my garage/shop, it generated an SVG of the proposed floor plan, taking care to place the sink away from moisture sensitive material and certain work stations close to each other for work flow, etc. it even routed plumbing and electrical...But it also arranged the work stations cramped together at the two narrow ends of the structure (such that they'd be impractical to actually work at) and ignored all the free wall space along the long axis so that literally most of the space was unused. It was also concerned about things that were non issues like contamination between certain stations, and had trouble when I explicitly told it something about station placement and it just couldn't seem to internalize it and kept putting it in the wrong place.

All this being said, what I was throwing at it was really not what it was optimized for, and it still delivered some really good ideas.

I don't know about AGI but I got bored and ran my plans for a new garage by Opus 4.6 and it was giving me some really surprising responses that have changed my plans a little. At the same time, it was also making some nonsense suggestions that no person would realistically make. When I prompted it for something in another chat which required genuine creativity, it fell flat on its face.

I dunno, mixed bag. Value is positive if you can sort the wheat from the chaff for the use cases I've ran by it. I expect the main place it'll shine for the near and medium term is going over huge data sets or big projects and flagging things for review by humans.

Depends on who you ask, it's sometimes used to refer to as late as the 1400's.

I had an account at the time! He gave the govt the key, handwritten on paper, to stall for time so he could delete everything. I wish every admin had that sort of integrity.

He had a followup project, magma (https://github.com/lavabit/magma), that was supposed to be a secure email alternative. It's a shame it never took off.

> But no one has been able to greatly reduce the complexity of these expressions, providing much simpler forms.

Slightly OT, but wasn't this supposed to be largely solved with amplituhedrons?

Archive.org probably already has it anyway.

Yeah but these companies are operating hand in glove with govt such that there's no discernible difference between the current system and government just doing it themselves. Ban it outright.

The European Dark Ages was also a narrative largely invented by the Renaissance, which was trying to distinguish itself from what came before. Material wellbeing did improve overall, but that was because a huge portion of the population was killed off from the plague, freeing up tons of resources.

Yeah I was talking about Google Vision or similar. Though USPS has been doing handwriting recognition since the 80's. I don't it got very good until the late 90's though.

Writing things by hand leads to better retention, but if you can't remember it...yeah you'll have a fun time finding it again if you have a nontrivial amount of notes and haven't spent a significant amount of time indexing them.

I guess you could OCR them. Best of both worlds.

They also wouldn't have tried using a holstered weapon as pretense for a public execution which the president doubled down on, until he didn't. They wouldn't be treading on state's rights so openly either. We might be seeing parties flipping, in very short order.

If the Dems pick up on some of the issues the Republicans are neglecting, while maintaining principles* about healthcare access and reproductive rights I expect they'd be the dominant political force in America for some time...if they just had somebody who could man the helm.

* Hah. What principles?

Interesting idea, but I haven't found a compelling reason that phi is inherently superior, aesthetically speaking. Seems more like a marketing spiel.

That said, it still looks good.

I agree with you in principle to an extent, but many would argue that standardized cookie-cutter education produced what gains we had and education policies which tried to accommodate diversity of thought are responsible for the declines due to lack of rigor and any real standards. "Reading by vibes" [1] directly led to declines in literacy, and there are attempts in math to accommodate different styles of thinking which may be undermining rigor there as well.

I suspect teachers are caught in a catch-22 of only being able to teach what's on the curriculum and nothing else, so they have no room for flexibility to engage students, while also being under pressure to produce high grades; but when the curriculum is garbage and the students aren't interested...grading standards tend to be what's compromised. The schools and parents are happy their kid has A's, teachers get to keep their jobs, and students may graduate highschool without having ever read a book cover to cover. [2]

1: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-...

2: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-eli...

It took me a second to realize this wasn't sarcasm.

The temperature difference should in principle increase thermodynamic efficiency. You get loss of MPG from other factors though mentioned in the link, like increased friction of moving parts, idling to warm up (0MPG), defrosters/seat heaters, lower tire pressure, denser air to drive through, winter fuel mixes which may not have as much energy, etc.

Yeah so I had family diagnosed with GBM and they went the denial route real hard. They got scammed out of mid six-digits by fraudsters offering some bogus cure, they didn't do anything on their bucket list, they spent the entire time telling themselves they were going to get better and didn't appreciate their last years at all, they didn't do things they had meant to do before they died because they were stuck with this idea that they could beat it. That sort of attitude can happen to family as well. Don't avoid reality by telling yourself you can fix it, because you'll miss what's important. In all overwhelming likelihood, you are not what oncology needed to cure GBM, and spending time and energy trying to cure it would be better spent with your loved one. This is it. This is what you have left with them. Get real.

[1] impresses me every time I see the link come up. I wish they'd do a Wankel.

It's going to be a headache if America and Europe can't share code and we see the balkanization of Linux and FOSS in general. Developers, many who work for free, will potentially have a whole lot of hoops to jump through to submit (or accept) code, and there's the potential for them to commit serious crimes without even realizing it.

Yes it's great for sovereignty, but I really hope it doesn't get to that point.