Picket lines that actually block other people from crossing instead of trying to persuade them not to? Yes. Use of threats, physically blocking, or just general impediment? Yes.

Not only does it violate state law (e.g. obstruction of free movement, interference with a business open to the public, false imprisonment, and assault are all offenses here in California depending on the facts), but it also violates NLRA rules.

(e.g. a recent labor case found repeated 1 to 4 minute "inadvertent" blockages unlawful -- https://www.laborrelationslawinsider.com/2018/02/the-nlrb-si...)

The Moscone Act that recognizes picketing federally also makes clear that this is not OK.

> It is not the intent of this section to permit conduct that is unlawful including breach of the peace, disorderly conduct, the unlawful blocking of access or egress to premises where a labor dispute exists, or other similar unlawful activity.

I mean, I could block a wheelchair user by standing in a cut-out, too. Is that OK?

Building optically precise platforms with bearings and sliding surfaces is annoying and difficult. But it turns out you can do pretty dang well with applying force to bendy metal or plastic.

> You may need to push for comprehensive genetic testing. Some doctors were weird about this and didn’t order it promptly, even after telling me they would. My surgeon, who told me he’d get it done, eventually referred me out to an oncologist. This caused a multi-month delay to getting genetic results, since the first results were done on the surgery tumor, not the biopsy tumor.

The quote further upthread lost the last bit, which is pretty clearly talking about tumor sequencing.

> Strictly speaking, BRCA is a genetic test for cancer (even if it's only a "risk factor"), and it's done on the regular genome, not on the cancer.

Yes... that's why I clarified that I believed we/the article were talking about tumor testing and not BRCA (which is mentioned in the second link I gave).

In this context, though, we're talking about measuring the actual cancer (including the tumor's mutations) to determine what therapies it is likely to be responsive to.

e.g. this: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/biomarke... not this: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/geneti...

3x 3 hours sounds -exhausting-.

So that's why CIs are interesting and p-values are less so.

We can get a p<0.0001 finding of an otherwise terrible, annoying change that saves 1%.

I think spending 9-18 seconds per line of code is a good baseline for review. There are diffs where you mostly moved a lot that can go quicker. There are also diffs where I spend 20 minutes thinking about 5 lines of code.

We're already a net exporter of oil; if we pushed a bigger fraction of cars and other transport uses to electrification we'd be a massive net exporter.

That wouldn't completely insulate us from global energy markets but it'd do a lot.

I'm not sure how you build that sense as well if you're starting out today, though.

For historic reasons (e.g. 32 bit address spaces, plus the need to reserve the space for multiple pci peripherals) it has been a narrow, movable aperture.

Resizable BAR lets the size of the aperture be chosen (which is usually chosen to allow all of VRAM to fit in and be directly accessible).

Hyperscaler PUE (which includes cooling, power conversion, etc) is typically 1.10-1.15, so multiply 1.5% by 1.1.

The person you replied to already mentioned cooling and multiplied by 1.67 to cover ancillary uses.

Sure, being able to do math and detailed analysis are important. But having a good guess on step 1 is important, too, to narrow the search of huge design spaces.

I think we've all experienced different kinds of engineers. The one you trust to do a month-long trade study with deep mathematical reasoning is usually not the one you trust to just know a plausible path forward. And we need both.

* 1x Prusa XL Gen 1 with 5 toolheads * 1x Prusa Mk4IS * 1x Bambu Labs X1C with multi-material * 2x Voron 0.2 * 1x Sovol Zero

My experience: the typical higher-end printer runs out of the box and runs hundreds of hours (or more) between maintenance beyond wiping the plate down, occasionally greasing the rails, and blowing little plastic bits out of the enclosure. Every year I end up doing a few hour significant maintenance job on about one of the six printers.

But then there's lemons. That Sovol Zero is terrible and has been down more than it's been up, because of something in the extruder assembly. It also came with a defective camera and needed it replaced. I need to decide whether to rebuild all that with many hours of labor or just get rid of it.

At the same time, our production of lower value, commodity-ish things has indeed shrunk rather than grown with population of demand. That manufacturing expertise is more concentrated more on higher value (aerospace, information technology, etc) things and less on fasteners, bulk materials, or extrusions.

We are not vertically integrated in the way that China is.

Or there's this 87% number, but it's based on "no longer a legal way to buy it," not that it's not archived/preserved: https://gamehistory.org/87percent/