As useless as this AI nonsense seems to me, I do argue that it doesn’t violate copyright. For all purposes, looking at examples of something to do it yourself afterwards is not a derivative work. People who made those licenses probably did not foresee that we’d be able to automate that process, or store and copy that knowledge arbitrarily, or sell it, so it’s still a shitty situation…

That article says Ukraine is going to lose the war, which is not an unlikely outcome. I say we should decide whether to call out as propaganda articles like this or those claiming Ukraine will win only once either scenario actually happens.

If the United States uses “market-oriented” mechanisms, it’s supposedly because they are more efficient, right? How come nationalizing companies is now considered cheating? And how is it that the answer isn’t simply doing it too?

All software has bugs. Modern “vanilla” distros aren’t especially buggy though. Install Mint or Ubuntu, if you need a network adapter make sure it supports Linux, then just use it like you would any other system.

Could you be more specific? What bugs have you found? What distros have you tried?

Losing weight and not sleeping face up may help in any case.

If you usually feel tired or sleepy during the day, it could be sleep apnea, which can have long term negative effects on your health. In that case, see a doctor, who will usually perform tests while you sleep and then may prescribe CPAP. If that doesn’t work or you find it too uncomfortable and the apnea is severe, you may be offered surgery.

There are some commercial devices that might help. Nasal strips are an option if you suspect your nasal passages could be compromised (deviated nasal septum). Chin straps and other devices that position your jaw do help in some cases wherein the issue is in your throat, especially when combined with CPAP.

Edit: also, don’t take medical advice from people on the internet ;)

As other commenters point out, not since the extinctionof Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc. But even if it were possible, the hybrid would not be fertile: our chromosome 2 is a fusion of two chromosomes that are separate in other related species, so there’s no way meiotic crossover recombination could possibly work.

somewhere with less ethics

Hysterectomy is the standard procedure, but obviously isn’t performed if the patient doesn’t want it (which in this case is idiotic, but removing organs without consent is never allowed). The reason she flew abroad was not that her doctors would force her to undergo hysterectomy (which would be against medical ethics), but simply that they had less experience in placenta accreta surgery. Many patients that suffer this complication aren’t in such a ridiculous situation, and keeping their womb is an interesting option for them, it is routinely offered in mild cases. Since placenta accreta is very common in China, there are many doctors there who are specialized in it, that’s all.

DNA contains coding and control regions. Changes to the coding regions are rare, most of the evolutionary stuff is happening within those control regions instead. Mutations there are more likely to result in interesting effects by affecting the way genes activate and interact, while the coding regions do the heavy lifting.

Losing some feature could be as simple as a mutation that permanently switches off the control region of a gene, even if the gene itself and the interactions formerly coded around it still work. Over time, those accumulate mutations and degrade, since they are not useful and therefore evolution doesn’t preserve them, but they are still there. For example, we have an inactivated gene that used to make an enzyme that would break down uric acid. So we get gout, but our ancestors didn’t.

Underrated comment.

The atmosphere is just about 10 kg/m^2 in sectional density; the manhole cover was very likely higher than that, wouldn’t that mean the cover’s mass should have come out at the other side, intact or not?

I’m a beta-lactam antibiotic.

Good for many tasks, but rapidly becoming useless.

I mainly use it to get a general direction/names/sources when I want to learn about someting but don’t know where to start. So far it’s the only use case for which I’ve found it reliably useful.

It starts out as a tube and folds into its final shape, but I’m suprised it can be reversed, holy crap…

I fully intend to go on with the project! Right now it’s not good enough to be interesting, but the results so far are too promising to not give it a chance.

Thank you! :)

I managed to get 4 piezo elements to work, limited by the FPGA. This was actually enough for some reasonable horizontal resolution since I used a phase array configuration, so the downside was the electronics had to generate very precisely timed pulses. The fourth prototype had 10 working elements thanks to replacing the MCU-FPGA duo with just a more powerful FPGA and using conductive glue to more reliably connect the elements themselves.

It was configurable to use any even divisor of 120 MHz, but in practice anything over 1 MHz would not even make it out of the acoustic lens due to the low voltage and low quality impedance matching layer. And much lower frequencies are barely useful anyways, so the true working range was narrow.

For the acoustic lens, I used the parametric design software OpenSCAD, with an equation for aberration-free lenses I had found somewhere and saved long before (will find it if you want) and the speed of sound in the different materials.

Well, one thing I’ve noticed in most measures that involve mental things (mood, performance…) is that lots of things seem to be cyclical. For example, mood is often alternating (more so in my case), but productivity and burnout also tend to repeat predictably as long as the routine doesn’t change.

Also, I’m maximally performant in tasks when most stable (good sleep, moderate mood, medication, no drugs…), but maximally productive when in a better mood.

Of course!

I wanted to test whether a cheap piezo buzzer could be used as a crude ultrasound probe. It worked, so I tried to upgrade it into full-blown ultrasound imaging. The third iteration of that did produce an image, using a piezo buzzer cut in sections, a cheap FPGA, a MCU, custom PCB and mostly 3D printed pieces (acoustic lens, etc.). Aside from the expected low resolution, turned out that it wouldn’t image anything beyond about 1 cm.

I did make a fourth iteration of the device, much smaller and theoretically much better. But life happened and I never finished the coding part.

I track lots of things, all the time; my body composition, performance at specific tasks… As for experiments, I’ve done a few:

• Tried to see if I could 3D print small channels and fill them with metal using electroplating (couldn’t).
• I also made a DIY ultrasound imaging device and tested it. Did actually produce some images, but it wouldn’t penetrate very far in tissues.

Definitely true, but it’s really ironic to see RFE complaining about this when RFE is itself a US government-controlled outlet created during the Cold War to influence Eastern European nations.