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salex89··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
8g is not an insignificant amount. That's 16 500mg pills. You really need to mess up to take 16 pills and not realise you're doing something wrong. If a patient is not lucid than we have bigger issues.

And from what I see in pharmacies, you would rarely see a "cough syrup" called just like that if it contains paracetamol. It would usually be marketed as a flu-relief all-around symptom relief.

salex89··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
It's probably much more interesting to see what else is happening while everyone is paying attention on communication devices and tending wounded.
salex89··on Which country consumes the most coffee?
This just made me think am I missing something? Brazil is a huge coffee producer and Lebanon as an Arab country must have been exposed to coffee ages ago.

Also, I don't see any questioning of Luxembourg stats. Almost six cups per capita cannot sound right, the country size must have skewed the results.

All in all, casts doubt on the rest of the article.

salex89··on United Airlines tells Boeing to stop building Max 10s and to switch to max 9s
Allegedly (from just random messages across different message boards) Airbus is likely nearing their backlogs to a point in time when they plan an A320 successor. Of course, they can still build the current A320 family but their production capacity for it will be decreasing steadily in the future. So they might not need a hell of a lot more orders.

But they do want more companies in their team when the successor comes.

salex89··on Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
> There is no major development project anymore since A350 is in operation.

Well, not having a complete new aircraft doesn't mean there is no activities. A320neo is leaps and bounds ahead on the market. While Boeing seriously needs a new aircraft in that segment, Airbus can happily modernise the A320 some more. As for new developments, they likely need to integrate the A220 into their lineup, streamline the issues they had with it, and many think that the A320 successor will likely be based on the A220, making the A220 much more important to Airbus than it seems. There are rumours about a A220-500 which will have different engines than the smaller ones. In the meantime, it's known that Boeing doesn't plan to release anything anytime soon until a new generation of much more efficient engines comes in, even though it's an uncertainty when will it be.

Also, it seems that A350-1000 and A330neo sales are somewhat underwhelming, they cannot compete against the 777X or 787. By some reports, the RR engine in the A350-1000 needs too much maintenance in the hot climates of the Middle East, where a lot of wide bodies are sold.

All in all, they have their work cut on multiple fronts.

salex89··on Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
Airbus isn't in an advantage there. They also employ a bunch of suppliers, outside the original companies that formed Airbus. However, they might be in an advantage because that's the way they grown from the start. Different countries, different continents, different languages, final assembly plants, all sorts of aircraft...

I met a guy from EADS once, while it was still called EADS, and I was far too young to understand the complexity of what he was talking about. But from what I understood they really do put a lot into managing their supply chain management (very meta), a team he was in. It was a behemoth of an organisation back then and this is just one guy, but I had a feeling they were very open minded.

salex89··on Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
Of course, I meant Serbia since Galaksija comes from today's Serbia as well as it's creator, a very prominent man today.

What was scary in Serbia? And I agree, Jelen is bottom of the barrel. Only worse than thet would be private store brands, and you might even find better than Jelen among them.

salex89··on Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
But there's AI!
salex89··on Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
Yeah, it was so much under control that Yugoslavia and the USSR were at brink of war. It's more under Russian influence today than then.
salex89··on Lego MRI Scanners donated to hospitals to help children cope with anxiety (2022)
Errr, no? First of all, the kid might freak out from the AI glasses itself, if it could even wear it considering size, weight and other possible health limitations the child might have. They might not ever seen an AI set, they're jittery as it is, and you're introducing another set of variables and strange things they have to figure out.

Also, will they be able to comprehend that the things they are seeing in the AI image is an analogue of what will happen soon? It won't replace the "tactileness" of the machine and process, adults or companions can't guide them through a hologram in any immediate way.

salex89··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
If you have the means and contacts to obtain a Stinger, I'm pretty sure you have means to obtain info on someones whereabaouts. And why wait fore someone to be in the air, just use an IED while on ground.

I wanna be clear, this is just a mental exercise, I do not wish nor want harm to anyone. This is just because Elon's ego is getting the best of him.

salex89··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
How is that exactly a risk for a commercial aircraft unless you fear someone armed with a Stinger missile is out to get you? If they had one, I sincerely doubt they would be using public ADS-B ported to a Twitter account to track you around.

You could sometimes track Global Hawk drones above the Black Sea publicly.

salex89··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
Traveling much of Europe (humble brag) the only places where I have seen some noticeable difference is Britain (of course) Italy and Malta. That being said, any remotely modern building or establishment expecting travelers on Malta or Italy has plugs with at least USB-A or the two prong "European" (with the round prongs, don't know the standard name).
salex89··on The Ethereum merge is done
Can we have our GPUs back now?
salex89··on Germany: 1 Dead, 9 injured after BMW self driving test car veers into traffic
Yeah, but training will cost a multiple thousand dollars and the car would go for a checkup every week.
salex89··on My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)
I think it's fair. Talking with people that actually use Azure from inside Microsoft, they claim that outside clients might even get a better experience then they do, bad as it is.
salex89··on BMW introduces new heated seat subscription in UK
Paying for features to be unlocked is not new, especially in IT, but with a car it just feels wrong somehow. The hardware is there, but not in a sense when you buy a PC without an OS, because that's a multi-purpose machine, you give it context. Heated seats are dedicated hardware, they're there for one purpose only, they're already in your car and you already paid for the expense of making them and continue paying for gas to haul those heavy hunkers around, increasing emissions. Maybe not much per car, but taking into account a bunch of cars, I just see this as reckless.

I can sure as hell guarantee they didn't charge them the same amount as regular seats with the hope of you buying their subscription. The software effort is likely next to none, if any.

What makes it even funnier is that the one-time payment for a steering wheel is 200 pounds, which is roughly what you would pay for it as additional equipment, if not less. Why funking around with the customer?

salex89··on [dead]
I probably don't fully understand the background of this, but who is this noise generator protecting and from what?
salex89··on First flight of the Airbus A321XLR with up to 4700 NM range
This is a frequent argument I see, but I don't see much substance in it. I've flown with both narrow and wide body, and the most critical dimension is leg room and shoulder width. And I did not find any particular wide body advantage with the sardine-packed 777 comparing to a regular A320, or especially A321, which I have flown in many times. Comparing to a 737, maybe some, but the 737 is an age old design, it is known for not being too spacious. It's not a A321 contender.
salex89··on New cars make me want to Saab (2020)
On the upside, Dacias are typically larger then other vehicles in the same price range. While you would you be able to buy a small city car from another manufacturer, you could actually buy a Dacia useful for the whole family. Yes, it will be underpowered and noisy, but it will be reliable, cheap to maintain and above all, safe. They get poor safety rating because of the way cars are tested today, but I argue that even a new "less safe" Dacia is safer then a 10 year old "safe" car.
salex89··on BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
Or, maybe just add back the Kensington Security Slot and attach the laptop to yourself/desk with a strong wire and not have your laptop yanked in the first place.

I understand the first part of my idea is dead in the water, we hardly get additional ports, let alone a slot hardly anyone will use. But I would like to see a way to retrofit a KSS on a laptop.

salex89··on An engineer fighting Texas’s ban on Israel boycotts
Not sure what are you referring by "Orthodox Church in Soviet (Russia)". The state's stance towards it was a mish-mash of violent and liberal times. But church and, more importantly, practicing religion was oppressed at almost all times. I'm from another, smaller, communist country and the attitude towards religion changed hyper-locally. My mom and dad are from different parts of the country, yet almost neighbouring, but my mom's family could practice religion freely, while my dad's were being jailed for it.
salex89··on Euro Modules
I'm also not sure, and interested. Sometimes modules fit together, sometimes not. However, there are nicer examples of this concept. My personal favorite, with an online switch configurator: https://www.tem-si.com/

I love this setups because you can easily retrofit a switch with a motion sensor, not needing to drill new holes or add cables.

salex89··on Localstack – Local AWS Emulator
Ever looked into Nutanix (https://www.nutanix.com/)?
salex89··on Python 3.11
Wouldn't say it better myself. Everything you gain with fast coding you lose on tackling performance issues, GIL, dependency management... Things harder to solve once you're committed to production.
salex89··on Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn
Which is the second?
salex89··on Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn
What you just described is the biggest damage done by the '99 bombing. I dare to say larger than any material damage. That's the thing that pushed Serbs on the other side of the "west/east dichotomy" and any kind of marketing campaign will hardly paint Western countries as friends or allies. That's valuable ammunition put into hands of local populists. Not that some European leaders mind them ruling Serbia. Would you believe that there is a considerable number of people not willing to get vaccinated by Pfizer or Astra Zeneca Covid vaccines because "those people first bombed us, they're trying to poison us now"?
salex89··on Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn
If you're creative enough, you can always pull out an indicator, even artificial, to show progress. For example GDP increase during a period in absolute values. That doesn't make any sense without considering size/population of Serbia and Croatia and what's that in relative terms. Or the average salary in Serbia and Bulgaria. Yes, they're comparable, but key items are cheaper in Bulgaria, as well as taxes. The average salary in Sofia is also much higher then in Belgrade, and the lowest pension is higher than in Serbia. You get the picture, you can always dig up a metric and declare a glorious victory of our people led by our fearless leader.

Not to mention the government has some genuinely skilled professionals, beside sheer lunatics like Vulin, the minister of interior. By professionals I mean manipulators like the minister of finance. He's a skilled manipulator, even tied to Panama Papers, domestic violence, illegal demolition and a boat load of concealed wealth. If I had the need to produce some good quality smoke and mirrors, he would be the first guy I would call.

salex89··on Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn
Pretty much. I didn't copy and paste the quote, but those are the words used.

You and I understand what you just wrote about GDP in relation to Hong Kong and London, but a vast majority of the population is severely limited in the way they consume information. Internet is widespread, but it is severely underutilized for any useful purpose, and the Serbian web scene is also flooded with pro-government portals. Also, a great deal of population (I can't say how much, but just empirically) has little exposure to any kind of western lifestyle, the only foreign countries they might visited would be Bulgaria or Greece on holidays. It's easy to convince people that life is good in Serbia. Especially because the government doesn't use Hong Kong or Austria to compare, but Croatia or Albania.

salex89··on Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn
It's degrading on a daily basis, literally.
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