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pugworthyon Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge

> All the holes in the cheese line up...

I absolutely heard that in Hoover's voice.

Is there an equivalent to YouTube's Pilot Debrief or other similar channels but for ships?

https://www.youtube.com/@pilot-debrief

pugworthyon Unexpected things that are people

Oh yes all kinds of ethical issues as well.

pugworthyon Unexpected things that are people

It would be interesting if the "no cure, no pay" principle from right of salvage could be applied to medical treatment.

Something like this...

> The "no cure, no pay" principle is a fundamental concept in medical law where a doctor (the party assisting a human in health danger) is only entitled to a reward if the healing operation is successful in saving the person or part of person (life, limb, sight, hearing, etc.). If the operation fails, the doctor receives no payment, regardless of the effort or expense incurred.

pugworthyon Acronymy (Can we define every word as an acronym?)

Then you get handed words like stenohaline...

pugworthyon Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

I think Valve wouldn't exist as they do now except for modding. Counter-Strike's popularity must have driven a lot of purchases early on, which allowed Valve the freedom to do things at their own pace rather than under pressure from publishers.

pugworthyon The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem

Hearing Aid wearer here. Welcome to the occasional whine because something doesn't quite sit right.

pugworthyon The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem

Does it matter which side of the plane you are on or how close to the wing (engines) you are? I could imagine an audio difference between left and right if you were sitting at a window near an engine.

pugworthyon Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]

I recall seeing similar glassware illustrations in catalogs from the 70's?

pugworthyon HP SitePrint

HP gets a lot of crap for home printer quality and ink DRM, but does still have some neat products like this.

The industrial printers for example, especially the PageWide Web Press line are impressive. The T1100 is a huge beast.

Then there are the life science products that can do precision dispensing of fluids for life sciences and drug discovery. Some of them also do individual single live cell dispensing.

pugworthyon Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network

Irrespective, it's interesting to see a different reference to small tubular structures from some time ago.

pugworthyon Show HN: MARS – Personal AI robot for builders (< $2k)

Runs fine for me. Perhaps a bit more investigation on your end before putting fault on the site and authors?

pugworthyon Yelping with Cormac

A writing experiment by E.D.W. Lynch wherein the author imagines Yelp reviews in the style of Cormac McCarthy

pugworthyon Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)

My dad was a HAM (W7AAI) and as a kid I found the frequencies for walkie talkies on his receiver in the shack. After Christmas I would tune in and hear local kids doing the "I can hear you, can you hear me?" thing with the new presents.

pugworthyon DINOv3

So, a group of AI models that can look at images and understand them, working well for many different tasks without needing extra training?

pugworthyon New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients

To be clear, here is the rest of what the article title should be...

> ...for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment

pugworthyon Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

My Wyze cameras love to report "pets" - which have been deer, foxes, raccoons, opossums, and yes occasionally a cat or dog.

pugworthyon Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

What I was told in the ER is that troponin basically only shows up when there's been heart muscle damage so is a pretty clear sign. It doesn't show up immediately though - typically a rise within a few hours of the heart attack.

RE: EKGs. There are clear signs in the more detailed 12 lead EKG that can show irregularities in the electrical patterns and specifically help pinpoint the location of the active problem.

pugworthyon Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

63, no history of heart disease, all my numbers in the "normal" range, fit, don't smoke, not overweight, good diet, etc. I was building a greenhouse in the back yard and went from feeling kind of "shitty" to classic left chest and back of arm pain.

It's amazing how fast you get into the ER when you come in like that. I got an angiogram within 45 minutes and also had 2 stents in the LAD with 90-95% blockage.

pugworthyon Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

Did you mean Troponin? Troponin shows up in the blood when there's been damage to heart muscle.

pugworthyon Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction

Rules for things like environmental studies, zoning, and planning exist for very good reasons.

pugworthyon Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients

If this is a joke it's in extremely bad taste

pugworthyon Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats

My boy Henry will always choose my right side, tucking under my arm and his head on my chest. Which is him in a "leftward" position then.

He'll work out some kind of arrangement if I'm laying on my left side and he can't lay on his left, but if I'm lying on my back it's always to the right.

It makes you wonder about cat-person compatibility based on the person's preference for how to lie down and the cat's preference.

pugworthyon Ambient Garden

It would be interesting to have some kind of wildlife moving about that generated sounds. Like dot drawn butterflies or birds that emitted sounds and created some new kinds of sound and pattern variation.

pugworthyon Ambient Garden

VR would be amazing I think. To fly through the space slowly, drifting along.

pugworthyon Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

> If someone at Valve had taken 10 second to …

Looking up some quick stats, Steam has 132 million monthly active users and 69 million people use Steam on a daily basis. Not all those games are using VAC, but just looking at CS2, it routinely has over a million players playing it.

Nobody is going to “take 10 second to review” anything with those numbers.

pugworthyon Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

As an early admin of the Steam forums it was always fun when people came on to say they’ve been false VAC banned. There was sometimes the grand denial of any cheating, then the “well my little brother did install something but I didn’t use it”, followed by silence as they gave up.

pugworthyon Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career

I used to have this AM headphone radio that I’d listen to from Oregon. Late at night these remote California stations would start to come in and I’d pick up things that my coastal small town living did not imagine existed. Like the good Doctor.

Well that and listening to my brother’s Firesign Theater albums.

edit

Ah. Archer twin speaker AM radio headphones. Impulse buy off eBay just now.

pugworthyon Terpstra Keyboard

Amusing things to do...

  * Type things and listen to the various tones.  I'd go for a little app that just let me do this day to day.  I'd probably find it annoying pretty quickly but it would be interesting turned down low.

  * Use your browser's zoom to go way out.  It has no problems offering you notes way beyond the ability of you to hear it let alone your computer from playing it.

pugworthyon Denmark tests unmanned robotic sailboat fleet

I've often eyed the Saildrone craft (which they are using) when heading out to the Alameda ferry dock area. Pretty cool looking devices.

https://www.saildrone.com/