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In Tucson, Xerocraft, a nonprofit makerspace, has lathe and Bridgeport knee mill [0] and is run less formally. Also, Tucson is cheap and somewhat funky. You might like it.

[0] https://xerocraft.org/pages/metalshop

Edit: Sorry, someone has gutted the web site, removing most of the information. The space itself has existed for quite a few years and I have been a volunteer member of staff since 2013. The tools are real. Despite the appearance probably given by this new website, the makerspace is not vaporware.

My experience was the same. I ended up standing on a balance board at my stand-up desk. This strengthened my core and helped me to be more alert without actively distracting me.

And yes, this should be a supplement and not a substitute for outdoor activity, normal cardio and strength training, stretching, etc.

I guess you just solved my problem. This is a topic I'm just beginning to look into. Thank you.

But now I'm wondering why are panels made this way? I mean internally they're wired in series or at least substantially so. and I've read that shading a small portion of one panel will drastically reduce the output of that one panel. Is it possible to create a panel (e.g. nominally 12 volt system) with bypass diodes inside it? If so then why wouldn't they have been doing this all along?

That is always the most important question, isn't it?

I am looking at RV applications, thinking series would be ideal to reduce wiring cost, but just learned that a small patch on one panel of shade lowers current in the whole series, when wired that way. If there's some way they could be wired as a tree, with the high amperage portion of the circuit fairly short, that seems more efficient. But then I guess I have just reinvented the power grid... I'm talking about residential scale, though, or smaller.

Just last week I was thinking we need solar cells wired up in a tree structure with batteries integrated into the tree so that we don't need to combine series and parallel or have the drawbacks of either. Is anybody doing that? I presume they would need to be connected with fluids, electrolyte in channels instead of with wires. Or have I just reinvented the tree?

I've actually received a version of whole blood UV treatment about 10 years ago. For whatever reason I ended up feeling euphoric, memorably so, one of the best days of my life. It may have something to do with the fact that I was given oxygen after I started to faint after I saw the blood being withdrawn.

I collected a lot of papers about this modality and related ones. I can share them if anyone would like. I will not be able to comment on them and I am not a medical professional. Perhaps this was simply the placebo that appealed to me.

But the reason I sought out this treatment is that it is practiced by a doctor who was recommended to me by an MD PhD neurologist at Mayo Clinic. That doctor now does more with ozone gas than he does with ultraviolet blood irradiation. he considers it to be part of a class of "oxidative therapies" including very high doses of vitamin C.

Apart from the fact that compilers are really good and generally will choose the best option for you, it seems like it boils down to what processor is used. On Android aren't ARM processors the most common?

If you'd like a curated collection of many papers on horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes, it comprises much of the evidence presented at https://www.panspermia.org/archindex.htm . Having followed this collection since 2010, I have gotten the sense that horizontal gene transfer to/from eukaryotes is not only common but an important mechanism of evolution.

Do you like https://www.panspermia.org ? I read their "what's new" often and like it a lot.

US relies on farm workers from Mexico and is not letting as many in, partly due to suspension of visa operations.

In and near NYC are Robins, the US pioneer of IV ozone therapy ( https://www.ozonedoctor.net/ ) and presumably many doctors Robins has trained.

Of course nothing is known yet to be effective against SARS-CoV-2, but, see paper on IV ozone by Robins and Robert Rowen, MD: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=78032311573342346...

I got turned onto the alternative doctors, who got me back to work, after conventional medicine failed me for years. Turns out regulatory capture isn't in the public interest after all. Who knew?

Anyway, if there is any upside of being in NYC right now, it may be access to broader variety of treatment options.

Bleach and peroxide, among other disinfectants, do kill the virus. One could clean the outside of the box before opening it.

Not sure why parent is subtracting the transit time: Who delivered the package? Were they infected? Exactly.

Ron Hunninghake, MD, suggests these vitamins and minerals: https://riordanclinic.org/2020/03/covid-19/

Robert Cathcart, MD, prescribed vitamin C, orally to bowel tolerance, for all viral illnesses, including common cold, which is a coronavirus: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n14.shtml

Robert Rowen, MD, suggests IV ozone for coronavirus and explains why: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=78032311573342346...

A prolific teacher of IV ozone is in NYC, has trained many nearby, and may share a list of doctors he's trained: https://www.ozonedoctor.net/

Dr. Rowen is interviewed by Dave Asprey here: https://blog.daveasprey.com/robert-rowen-352/

An MD-PhD neurologist at Mayo Clinic recommended Rowen to me, said she'd sent patients to him.

I got turned onto the alternative doctors, who got me back to work, after conventional medicine failed me for years. Turns out regulatory capture isn't in the public interest after all. Who knew?

See also the doctors interviewed in https://thatvitaminmovie.com/

Most urban counties are blue. Cannot blame Dems for infectious disease based on density of cases.

British Medical Journal? Impact factor 27.604 in 2018. But in scientific publishing the intended audience is not lay people. You really have to know how to read the articles to determine what they mean. I liked their series of articles called "How to Read a Paper."[0] But keep in mind [1].

0. https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications...

1. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

In a book /Against Therapy/, Jeffrey Masson, Freud scholar, explains how Freud deluded himself into disbelieving accounts that he originally had believed. The thought of them being true simply became unbearable to him.

Freud used to talk about wish-fulfillment fantasies. Apparently he fell to his own wish-fulfillment fantasy. He wished to live in a world in which child sexual abuse was not a thing.

http://twin.sci-hub.se/6607/74f935079576886e116256e5869ec69b... Albeit primitive by today's standards, it impressed me at the time.

I think that you and some of the others might be interested in my story, if it doesn't make you too uncomfortable. It's not a neat and tidy moral fable that illustrates how you can succeed if you do the right things and vice versa.

I'm currently homeless. I chose this about 7.5 months ago, even though for part of this time I was employed full-time at $18/hour. I wanted to help my ex-wife with her rent after I moved out, and to put the rest of my money toward dental work, health care, health food, and relocation. I graduated with Research Honors with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from a top university in my field in 1995. As an embedded software engineer at a fast-growing wireless telecom company, 1995-2000, I earned extra stock options for my performance, such that in 2000, when I resigned, the current valuation of just the options I forfeited was around $500,000. But now, now I am homeless. And I am finding the stress of it is dragging me down, such that it may become a vicious cycle if it isn't already.

A story like this tends to make people uncomfortable; especially, people seem to scramble to tell themselves that they and their loved ones cannot possibly share such a downward trajectory. I must have done some really stupid things in order to deserve this, right?

In a nutshell, I think that I did make some less than wise choices, but possibly not any of the ones that you are imagining. I did not develop a drinking problem, gambling problem, or any of the other moral faults that most people imagine. I also did not have a bad work ethic. In fact, one reason I resigned was that due to the huge incongruity between my work ethic and others judgments of me as they tried to figure out what I had stopped accomplishing much. Frankly, it hurt my feelings, and I was tired of being insulted, although I understood where they were coming from: Unless a medical professional labelled me as sick, a smart guy who has ceased to perform well must be lazy, right?

I could make a case that my work ethic was too good: I refused to be paid more than I thought I was worth, and I also decided at some point to focus on doing whatever work the market was under-valuing. This could have been good for humanity had I succeeded (it was a mooonshot I was attempting) but it was bad for me personally.

What happened to me? I would say that gradually and in stages (starting with a dad with poor anger management and moving 12 times by age 12, across states and internationally), I developed some kind of trauma syndrome, in the direction of PTSD if not that per se. If you have read about trauma, you may know that the effects can come on cumulatively and gradually. A few head injuries along the way may have helped, though all of them happened before I entered university.

This is also a story about the failure of health care. When the actual care didn't fail, the marketing of it did, such that it took me forever to identify trauma as the central problem. Before that I thought it might be "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," but this didn't quite fit; my fatigue wasn't constant but more mental and triggered by challenging mental tasks; eventually I learned that CFS and Fibromyalgia are highly correlated with trauma and can be caused by it.

I am working on writing something about this, telling the whole story, or as much of it as can helpful to readers. I also seek worthwhile venues in which to publish it. The tension I sense is between finding sufficiently thoughtful readers and finding readers who won't be so sensitive to my horror story that they put on their protective blinders. I need readers who are willing to read honestly.

By the way, in case anyone knows, I would LOVE to track down the origins of this idea. A dozen years later, when I first thought to ask Dr. Harper, he did not remember the source, probably one of his TA's circa Fall 1992.

To make an artificial player for a simulated world we'd built was part of an assignment in Dr. Robert Harper's 15-212 class when I took it at CMU. On each tick of time, each of them would randomly do one of the things it could do. To see these characters randomly pick up change, put it into vending machines, and get out guns, ammo, and more of themselves, and then collectively gun me down, was a thrilling illustration of an AI control problem. I felt like a god being killed by his creations. Mindchildren?