It took a month of calling around before a nurse who worked between departments took pity and leaked her the common billing codes. Once she got a quote, the estimates dropped from thousands out of pocket on her insurance to a few hundred, to an office comping the procedure.

She works in healthcare. I wouldn't have even known where to begin after being told no.

Android 16 also has native limiting under Settings > Battery > Battery Health > Charging Optimization > Limit to 80%

If you're not power limiting in nvidia-smi, start.

There are lots of platforms for ticket sales and venue management. That's how they run high school and college events, local theaters, etc. Ticketmaster is doing something completely different.

And whether you care about them or not, they have access to your kids, your neighbors, your friends, your family, anywhere that social media promotes them, and you can't turn them off.

Our relative isolation was our best defense against destabilizing ideas, but we can't see inside the algorithms, and these people aren't teaching alternative value systems or ethics and civic behavior. They're role models for exploitation, preying on algorithmically selected vulnerable demographics.

And not seeing them doesn't mean you're successfully attenuating their reach, it just means that you're being excluded because you're not their mark. They know who they're looking for, and they know how to recruit. That's what we're up against.

I'm not a gamer, but I hear with how often there are required updates before playing, slower internet is pretty disruptive to quick drop-in multiplayer sessions with friends.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1kUtQuW8QshBWE

Emby still offers lifetime for $119 with a 30 device limit, but I'm not sure what it offers over Jellyfin.

Are there any advantages to Plex outside of being able to easily share and manage library access to many users? It's been a decade since I've used it.

I don't think companies should be on the hook for maintaining moderation, hosting, and development at no cost in perpetuity, but addressing not providing any legal way to access or modify content from a onetime sale forces companies to pick a model so consumers can make informed purchases.

I've often wondered how the gaming industry has gotten away for so long muddying whether they're selling products or services.

Tencent's Hunyuan3D (https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan) is a single/multi view photogrammetry replacement, which image-blaster is based on.

Facebook Research has extended SAM to 3D (https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam-3d-objects), separating as 'Objects' and 'Body'.

The workflows to make meshes watertight for 3D printing are all pretty effective.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/385428-fi...

My grandfather used to love to show off how he could jingle his keys to turn on his TV.

Also, without regulating the ultrasonic frequency space, I imagine this would be prone to interference from other devices already employing ultrasoud, today, like Google Home.

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9509981?hl=en

"Why does Google flush all of my donors' smart toilets whenever I tap my champagne glass before a toast?"

It's long been the dream of more than a few American companies to be the gatekeepers of the web.

Look into pre-Colombian grease trails, which we have much better logistical records for.

Ironically, the justification it gave was that it wasn't its fault because it was just following orders. I hope this hasn't landed me on Google's list of undesirables.

Grok, for better or worse, didn't seem to mind.

That's one long car.

The mechanisms protecting us from non-existence by millions of years of evolution can be eroded by pain. It's not something you realize you even have to lose until you've experienced it firsthand. I certainly never expected it, and it's hard for me to imagine what I'd intended while going through it.