Fermion

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[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you.

Brian Higgins had an unbelievably good 2023.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Would you care to list them so the conversation can be more complete?

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

A relay switch could work. You would put the car 12V and ground across the coil connections, the 12V on the NO connection, the panel on the NC connection, and the power pack on the C connection. Make sure you get a 12VDC relay.

Are you going to have the panel installed permanently on your car?

Definitely don't connect a 24V source directly to your cars 12V system. There's a good chance of frying something important. A fuse would not protect from overvoltage so don't rely on those to protect components.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if it supported driving 3+ displays for use as a workstation docking station. If it was on the order of $150-$300 it would be price competitive with thunderbolt docking stations.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My wife got repeated infections and had a lot of pain from the copper iud.

If you go looking for testimonials you'll find numerous people who had bad experiences with it.

Also, they really should offer anesthetic or at least a powerful painkiller for the insertion and removal procedures. Doctors act like it's no big deal, but it's very painful.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

4 pump impeller failures in 5 years. 1 time a mask strap got past the strainer. I'll take the blame on that, but the other 3 were just long hair and bad design/materials choices.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

And the ~~algorithm~~ AI does magic to make our product more awesome than the competitor.

Yeah, the lack of formal definition of what is and is not considered ai definitely muddies the waters when talking about applications and capabilities.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

4 times in the last 5 years.

There's a combination of flaws. The strainer basket doesn't do a very good job keeping debris out of the impeller. There's little separation between the steainer and the impeller. So long hairs that are partially caught in the strainer can still wrap around the impeller.

The pump itself has a terrible impeller design. The impeller is nylon and is press fit onto a 1/8 brass rod that just has a flat ground on it, no knurling or splines. The nylon cracks easily and ends up free spinning.

They use the same pump in loads of washer models. So yes, there's a very large user base, but that's a lot of people with part failures. The pump is garbage and lg should not be using it.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

I'm constantly replacing the drain pump in my LG washer. When a replacement part has thousands of reviews on amazon, you know the brand has to know their parts are crap and either doesn't care or wanted it that way. They're on my never buy list now.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Ai is already being incorporated into chip design tools like synopsys. TechTechPotato has an interesting interview with Aart de Geus that is relevant.

Ai is far off from making high level design improvements, but it can greatly reduce the workload on trace and route and other design steps.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you see any stems with missing leaves? The main difference I see is the netting on the metal pot. So maybe there's some grazing pressure?

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There's so many people paranoid about the remote possibility of dirty bombs. Meanwhile, Norfolk Southern is actually spilling tankers full of toxic chemicals that get set on fire by being incredibly negligent.

If terrorists did want to poison an area, there's plenty of insanely toxic and commercially available compounds to choose from. The fixation on nuclear fuel is an indicator of someone who is just repeating a ghost story and doesn't actually know/care what the biggest sources of danger are.

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