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mkwt

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  • You've been asleep for a very long time

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  • Really I worked a project once that just had post-its stuck to the wall. It worked as well as Jira does.

  • Donald Trump Cancels Second Mainstream Interview in Days

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  • "Executive Time", also known as watching Fox News while eating fast food and lobbing tweet bombs.

  • Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein

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  • And we all know Lemmy likes wizards.

  • Man with loaded gun arrested at checkpoint near Donald Trump's weekend rally in Southern California

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  • It's totally a thing in California. You're supposed to transport your firearms in the unloaded state, unless you have a concealed carry license.

  • Damn, Starfleet. That's just racist.

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  • S2E17, "Samaritan's Snare". Wesley said it on screen, so it's canon.

    There's a decent write-up on the stack exchange.

  • Damn, Starfleet. That's just racist.

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  • There are two TOS episodes that directly referenced the "United Earth Space Probe Agency" as the operational command for the Enterprise.

    Basically, the United Federation of Planets did not exist when the show started, and its basic structure wasn't settled on until well into TNG. There's a second season TNG where the Klingons are federation members.

  • Damn, Starfleet. That's just racist.

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  • It kinda makes sense that if there's any paper, it's the super top secret order book.

  • TIL the crowdsourced US-Mexico border wall added over $20 million in taxable land improvement to a private farm, increasing the tax burden by 75 times

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  • What they're saying is this:

    1. That land used to have nothin much on it, so it was cheap land, and the property taxes were low.
    2. 30 million was spent on building the private wall. I don't think this money came from the land owner. (This is the crowd funded Trump Wall, right?)
    3. With the fancy new wall on it, the property is now appraised at around 20 million (or maybe whatever it was plus 20 million). Whether it's 75 times or 100 times what it was before is not super important. The point is it went from not much to quite a bit.
    4. Property taxes went up in accordance with the new valuation.
    5. Property owner is probably not wealthy enough to pay the taxes, so big picture he can't continue to own the property.

  • Voters in the US don’t directly elect the president. Sometimes that can undermine the popular will

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  • I think nowadays you can upgrade that "sometimes" to "usually." It works out to about a 2.5% handicap to the Republicans.

  • This is why you don't get promoted, Harry. You install recursive functions without specifying exit conditions.

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  • Don't worry, the computer is equipped with Turing compensators that let it figure out whether Kim's program will halt or not.

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  • Polaris goes in and out of North Star status on the 26,000 year precession cycle. So for the duration of humanity (let's say 100,000 years), there have been decent chunks of time where it's not in use.

  • Update: Nothing illegal here. Virginia reused envelopes from last year.

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  • When I did absentee voting, the voter signature and voter id information were on a perforated slip attached to the outside of the envelope.

    That way, the process is something like:

    1. Look at the slip. Verify voter signature, eligibility to vote, and mark as having voted in the voter rolls.
    2. Detach perforated slip from sealed envelope. Sealed envelope now contains no identifying information. (This envelope was mailed inside an outer mailing envelope.)
    3. Entire sealed envelope and contents thereof goes into big bin of accepted ballots.
    4. Later, election workers open the sealed envelopes from the bin and run the actual ballot papers through the scantron machine.

  • One month to Election Day. Here’s what to watch

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  • The October Surprise comes in October. You can't really predict it, or it wouldn't be a surprise.

  • Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete

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  • Here's my guess. I don't know anything about this particular device, but I have worked with medical devices.

    A powered exo-skeleton sounds like it might be a class II medical device. Being a medical device, the OEM was required to produce a safety risk analysis per ISO 14971 in the EU and 21 CFR 820 in the US. I don't know what all was listed, but probably one of the safety risks was thermal runaway from the (assumed) lithium ion batteries.

    Lithium ion battery packs have a well known problem with occasionally overheating and catching fire. This famously delayed the launch of the 787 Dreamliner. This is also why you can't put your phone or laptop battery into your checked luggage.

    In the original risk analysis, there will be a number of mitigation steps identified for each hazard. For the lithium thermal runway, these probably include a mix of temperature monitoring, overheat shutdown, and passive design features in the battery pack itself to try to keep the impacts of over temperature and fire away from the patient.

    So how does the price get to 100k? It could be some kind of unique design features that are now out of production and the original tooling is not available. The 100k cost is probably something like to redesign the production tooling, particularly if you have to remake injection molds.

    You can't just use any off the shelf battery pack, because that would invalidate the risk analysis. You'd need to redo the risk analysis, repeat at least some amount of validation testing, and possibly resubmit an application to the FDA.

    TLDR: you can get some MEs and EEs together to solve this problem, but once they're on the case, you can blow through 100k real fast.

  • WRONG DECLENSION

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  • the sacred chickens do not approve.

  • It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans

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  • That's because humans are a giant ball of horrible spaghetti code nonsense.

  • Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton

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  • Medical devices are required to comply with 21 CFR 820 in the United States, which establishes quality management standards. This includes minimum standards for the software development lifecycle, including software verification and validation testing.

    In the EU, broadly equivalent standards include ISO 13485 and IEC 62304.

    If an OEM wants to do a software update, they at minimum need to perform and document a change impact analysis, verification testing, and regression testing. Bigger changes can involve a new FDA submission process.

    If you go around hacking new software features into your medical device, you are almost certainly not doing all of that stuff. That doesn't mean that your software changes are low quality--maybe, maybe not. But it would be completely unfair to hold your device to the standard that the FDA holds them to--that medical devices in the United States are safe and effective treatments for diseases.

    This may be okay if you want to hack your own CPAP (usually a class II device) and never sell it to someone else. But I think we all need to acknowledge that there are some serious risks here.

  • Saw we were doing retro memes this fine Wednesday. Here's my addition.

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  • There's a technique called "heel-toe" shifting which involves using different parts of the right foot to operate the brake and throttle at the same time, while the left foot works the clutch.

  • C++ try not to add footguns challenge (impossible)

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  • If wasn't full garbage collection in the spec. It was some infrastructure support in the spec that would make it easier to write garbage collectors in C++.