Thank you.

Brian Higgins had an unbelievably good 2023.

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

Maybe lemmy is too popular for the hipsters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We should stop putting anything about MTG in the limelight.

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.

Maybe they finally learned from the fiasco of the rural broadband subsidies.

That would be great if we could get most governments to pass the same rule. If adversarial governments aren’t restricted by the same rules then it tips the power balance in a way that favors foreign warhawks.

Or a chicken drumstick for somewhat similar bone strength.

Pnuenonia followed by mrsa.

This one doesn’t seem as suspicious as “suicide” in between depositions.

Aromatic with a gooey center

I’ll agree on not using antibacterial soap all the time. There’s plenty of soaps that aren’t antibacterial but still help remove contaminants. People should definitely at least wash their hands with hot water. It’s one thing to harbor trace amounts of bacteria, but no one should be spreading urine or fecal matter to every surface they touch.

The state of charge graph makes it look like 22min of charging for around 1min flight time. (Pretty rough estimates since the chart doesn’t have grid lines.)

So the title is rather misleading as technically any tiny array of cells strapped to a quadcopter could eventually charge it enough for a flight.

The development is cool though. Those are very light weight cells, but can we please chill with the clickbait.

The threat of lawsuit is usually enough to get an employment offer rescinded. It’s rare for a company to want to take on a legal defense just to hire someone new. Even though they weren’t actually legally binding, non-competes still limited options for a lot of people.

Overall I agree with you that this isn’t as big of a deal as people make it sound, but it’s easy underestimate their influence if only looking at the result of cases that go to trial. In many situations, the damage is done well before a case can go to trial.

They were talking about your use of loose in place of lose.