You should direct your skepticism at Agence France-Presse, then, since the BBC is just relaying one of their stories.

Cutter wrote on Feb 24, 2024, 15:23:
Fucking scientists. Why not just let people choose to risk it or not? If you're looking at amputation you really don't have a whole lot to lose anyway. So they basically just told some people, 'We might be able to save your limbs from amputation but we're not going to. Haha fuck you!'. Between shit like this and animal torture they routinely perform I honestly believe most of these assholes are clinical psychopaths.

That's just how randomized double-blind trials work. You need a control group to make sure that you can compare "with drug" vs "without drug". I know that for some trials, the medicine in question was so overwhelmingly good with so few side-effects that they basically stopped the trial and gave it to everyone. Maybe that wasn't the case here; if you've got frostbite you may also have other body injuries that need treating, and you don't want drug interactions. Also, it looks like there were only 47 total participants over 12 years, and they had three test groups: iloprost only, iloprost + something else, and just something else. So 32 patients did get the drug, and 15 didn't.

FDA announcement
original New England Journal of Medicine article

Note to anyone actually planning on playing this: don't let the polished cartoony looks fool you. The description is right; it's a ruthless challenge. Although if they say there's now a hint system, that's a plus.

WaltSee wrote on Dec 16, 2023, 09:47:
AI = marketing. It seems the more exaggerated it is, the more people like and/or believe it. Keyword in the article is "could" as in it isn't known if this "discovery" actually amounts to anything at all. It's great fodder for investors, though.

And "AI" covers just about any "big data" algorithm nowadays. It looks like this study used graph networks to identify 2.2 million crystal structures, of which it predicts 380,000 are "stable". So it's like if you asked ChatGPT to generate 2.2 million paragraphs, and then after actually looking at them 15% turned out to be actual valid English. And just identifying a stable crystal doesn't mean it's better than what we already have or can even be synthesized. There's still a huge amount of work to do here.

Definitely interesting news, but who knows if it'll actually result in something useable.

These two items are handy for determining how much power devices are providing/drawing:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5W5NKKN/ - Plugable USB C Power Meter, up to 240W
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RGF29Q/ - P3 International P4460 Kill A Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor

How about they call it "Control Panel" ?

fds wrote on Oct 7, 2023, 17:06:
The too long request header in these cases is most likely the Cookie header. Something managed to set too many / too long cookies for your domain, likely amassed over an extended period of time. Your browser simply attempts to send every single non-expired cookie matching the origin and path you are visiting with every request, all concatenated in a single header line.

That said, it's still technically a server problem because it has to have set those cookies in the first place. The strings Blue posted are from an Apache error message that triggers if any header line exceeds a set limit (default is 8190 bytes): https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#limitrequestfieldsize . I agree that it's probably the cookie header

Looking at my own cookies for this site, I see a "chatbear-session-1" cookie that's 3816 bytes long. The contents are a bunch of hyphen-separated numbers: "0%3A264510-264548-264538-264547-264546-", etc. Those match the IDs of threads I have recently read. I would guess Blue's cookie contains a lot more threads, since he posts all of them. :)

Maybe the code could be changed to trim the oldest entries off that list if it gets too big?

I tried Factorio for 6 hours according to Steam, and it just didn't click for me either. Positioning things was too fiddly (making sure arms reached to the correct side of a conveyor etc), and the screen started looking cluttered with all the prerendered objects overlayed on the 2.5D view. The two factory-ish games I have played and liked recently are Mindustry (excellent) and Shapez (good but short), and both of those have a much cleaner look to them.

Cheapo old me uses a Logitech G203; same size and weight as the Pro, just with an 8K dpi sensor instead of a 25K dpi, and half the price.

I had occasional issues with windows being misplaced after waking from hibernation, too, and Fancy Zones goes a good job of remembering which windows were in which zones. I have the "Keep windows in their zones when the resolution changes" option enabled, so I don't even have to move them back myself. Sometimes it reverts to the default "three panes with two thin gutters" layout, though, and I have to manually switch it back.

I have a setup where my PC is connected to a TV in another room, and that might be contributing to my problem. I'm guessing sometimes Windows sees the TV before the monitor wakes up from sleep, and puts all the windows there. Then the monitor wakes up, Windows realizes it put everything on the wrong screen and moves them, but forgets to put them in the right places.

Well, yeah, Eros did end up filled with zombies, but their zombiness isn't really important to the plot, and as far as I can recall, nothing like that happens during the rest of the series (either books or TV).

If you don't have too many messages/folders, hooking up both accounts in Thunderbird and copying them that way works fine. For larger jobs, imapsync works great, and if you run it from a cron job or scheduled task, it'll run quickly, syncing only new emails, until you officially switch MX records to the new system.

Yeah, those bags are probably the best option. Phone and laptop batteries are only getting bigger, and you're not going to be able to ban them on planes. Non-flammable batteries would be great but if only that one startup is working on them, there must be some reason they aren't being used yet.

The article feels a little thrown-together, though. It's hyping the panic of passenger flights where a carryone battery catches fire, but the stats and quotes seem to be talking about cargo shipments.

It says "CBS News reviewed the last five years of data in NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System, which includes 879 anonymous reports of in-flight hazmat incidents on passenger planes. The data shows that neither pilots nor the airlines were told the hazardous materials were even on board their planes in 62% of those cases, even though notification is required by law. " But the https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/lithium-batteries page mentioned at the end of the article doesn't say anything about mandatory notification.

Just after that, a pilot is quoted saying "I'm concerned. [If I were the pilot on one of those flights] I'd be enraged. How dare you not follow the procedures and let me know what's on the airplane?" . That quote has to have been taken from a conversation talking about cargo flights. He can't possibly think that on a 200-person passenger flight, nobody brought a phone.

jdreyer wrote on May 9, 2023, 16:18:
Building a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Would Be Easy if We Used Jupiter for Raw Materials

I was thinking about this the other day. To hide a star, you wouldn't have to build the entire sphere, just a band around the middle to keep the rest of the galaxy from seeing it. No one is going to be looking at it from the top or bottom.

Sneaky :)

ZeroPike1 wrote on Feb 15, 2023, 11:55:
I find it impressive that AI chat can just go full on counter pointing everything.

Its like some troll that doesn't know when to shut up, nor take in any information that's fed to it and learn from it.

Just think of the all the internet forums that was used for training data and it's not as surprising :)

1badmf wrote on Jan 20, 2023, 17:55:
the marines that fooled that robot with the box were 100% metal gear fans. there is no alternate universe version of that event where that's not true XD

The guy that dressed up as a tree obviously had read MacBeth! I'm not sure where the two somersaulters got their idea from, though...

Kabby-ned? Kab-ned? Ka-bind? Ka-bend? Why did they pick this word instead of just calling it a Kids Account?

WaltSee wrote on Nov 20, 2022, 14:51:
...Mice! The last of the story maintains it works on "depressed mice." What?...;)

There's a twitter account dedicated to pointing out news articles that do this. One of the few things twitter is good for:
https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice

I'm wondering if the total Stadia subscriber count is so low that all these refends and free games don't amount to any real dollar cost for Google or Ubisoft : )

Bent wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 13:41:

Listening to relaxing music can improve cognitive performance, study suggests

I'm not sure what exactly they're classifying as "relaxing", though. One of the categories is "piano". I can certainly think of a number of piano pieces that were made to be anything but relaxing.

The paper doesn't list the pieces of music used in the study, but does have a 15-minute sample of the thee styles in a google drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15HkqrUIAkzy-ZyKfCVeg4Yc7dNunO93K . The jazz is slow and mostly piano, and the piano piece sounds sort of jazzy to me :)