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That's cool. I actually am a surgeon.

Its kind of interesting: the 555 is such _horrible_ timer. It can't do a 50% duty cycle without extra BOM parts, even more parts to make a real PWM out of it, and it has terrible temperature and voltage stability. But somehow it persists.

Don't let MAGA hear you... they'll start banning and burning linux boxes.

If there's one thing surgeons like, it is advice from other surgeons.

such as...?

or an f-word

I just listened to the examples on the front page. I'm blown away.

I watched streaming kill the dreams of 90's bands, when getting a demo CD in the hands of an A&R rep was legit pursuit. This will kill the streamers. I expect to see an AI streaming service in the next 7 years with channels, and another in 15 years that will match my current mood. Honestly, I'm kind of excited about this because sometimes I just want music that serves a purpose and not some kind of emotional/nostalgia trip... but I can also see a future with a much smaller population of people who know how to play instruments and missing the variety of music writers.

Been here for 10 years. :)

I think there should be a higher standard than just posting random links without context. How about a single line of text explaining why it is interesting to them?

A startup from ... the 1800's? Thanks for the context, I guess.

What's the catch? Why post this?

How do these work? You can't stay compressed all the time? Is it intravenal?

4~7 mmHg isn't going to make or break a hypertension diagnoses. 20~30 mmHg definitely.

> Yet, there are tons of people much richer than Musk was (before Tesla and SpaceX) who have achieved nothing of note with their billions.

Bill Gates eradicated polio. Sam Walton re-invented shopping at scale. Jeff Bezos re-invented shipping logistics.

I know you reeeeealy want to defend Musk, but think about your argument before posting it next time.

I'm pretty sure if I knew I could never lose a dime of my billions of fortune I'd be working on teleporters, warp drives, and time machines. People would call me a genius because I could pay for the press. Musk isn't a visionary, he's just a rich nerd throwing money at really cool things other visionaries imagined before he was born (all of his companies were ideas other people already had been working on; 100%), and then failing upwards when it doesn't work out.

What parts of this can be reused? I bet the engine is OK, but seems like the sides of the ... tube ... were pretty roughed up. I guess that's probably the cheapest part of the assembly though.

There's a conspiracy among techies growing like ivy: that UFO == aliens, and that the US gov't is in cahoots, or being attacked by them. It's SO weird to see this spread among self-described critical thinkers. Probably why the change.

I'm staring at a PC-AT mobo from 1988 with an AMD-branded 286 chip that also says Copyright Intel (lol), and the battery has leaked a white film.

I have a 42 year old apple //e that had been in an uninsulated attic in Boston for 30+ years. It booted fine and all the 5 1/4" floppies worked. I know that C64s need the caps replaced and the org external power supplies can catch fire. I'd be really surprised if 1990's pcs failed. There was a period of transition to non-lead solder where many pcbs from that era suffered shorts from whiskering but everything else should be fine. Electromigration tolerances in the 90's cpu families was even more strict than today.

It's on par with Asimo, when not being controlled by a remote human. But you're probably too young to remember what Asimo is.

Guy owns two AI companies and still is a decade behind.

"They give the computer hints about how to handle situations"

That's a cute euphemism for remote operators.

College Alternative is not Punk.

I went to Pixies concerts when I was at BU in the 80's. They were a rich white kid college band.

Punk was a very specific movement.

It's like saying, "Yeah, impressionism is same as Cubism." No. It isn't. Don't rewrite history because it suits your invented personality.

"Until recently, physicians have widely been unaware or dismissive of the symptom. "

Yeah no shit.

I went off Paxil and had brain zaps for over a YEAR. Gone now but I will never go on Paxil again, although it was 15 years ago and I think I've got this licked. :)

(And I tapered the paxil over two months, my doc just kept saying, "That's odd, they'll go away...")

I thought they had remote drivers to take over when shit goes south?

Not punk. Punk is about being bad at your instrument and looking ugly and being the underdog and still creating a community. When Dookie came out, every highschool and college kid was lined up to buy it, it had constant airplay, and was blasting in every classroom and dorm room. That's not punk: that is 100% mainstream pop. Which is Green Day in a nutshell. Commidified dissent x100.