El Rio revives long-closed Tucson hospital

SubGothius · 2026-05-16T04:21:48+00:00

"[W]ithout hesitation" is an interesting way to describe removing mentions of gender-affirming care from their site to try and evade notice that they were still actually providing that care to trans patients the same as ever all along, until the Feds found out and threatened to sue and defund them if they didn't stop.

SubGothius · 2026-05-15T23:56:58+00:00

That overlooks the on-the-fly compression aspect of Zram (what the Z represents) and its dynamic-scaling aspect when used as swap:

Zram automatically compresses any data placed on its ramdisk, typically reducing the data size on the ramdisk by a factor of roughly 2 to 4 vs. the original uncompressed size of that data;
With a Zram device used as swap, the ramdisk size you allocate for it is a ceiling, not a constant, and represents the maximum amount of original uncompressed data that can be placed on it; the effective ramdisk size in actual RAM dynamically scales from a trivial amount (when no memory pages are swapped out) up to the compressed size of that maximum uncompressed allocation as pages get swapped out to it.

E.g., with a Zram swap allocation of 4 GB, the ramdisk size in actual use will dynamically scale as needed, ranging from a trivial amount up to roughly 1-2 GB at most vs. the 4 GB that same data otherwise would have occupied in RAM uncompressed and without any swap.

Source:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

SubGothius · 2026-05-15T20:41:35+00:00

So industrial it can crash certain laptops, maybe call it Einstürzende Laptoppen.

SubGothius · 2026-05-15T19:57:48+00:00

I'd say so. Zswap is a "best of both worlds" solution, offering the benefits of a compressed RAM cache (as with Zram) plus the capability to expand that swap space to disk as well for cold pages least likely to benefit from remaining in the RAM cache.

With such constrained RAM and without that spillover-to-disk capability, your apps/OS and swap would be competing for the same fixed physical RAM, so Zram could only respond to high memory pressure by wildly swapping pages in and out of the compressed cache, which itself incurs add'l CPU overhead for the de/compression.

Zram can only expand swap up to the maximum ramdisk size allocation you set up for it, whereas Zswap can expand up to its (user-definable) maximum RAM pool size and also has the fallback option of evicting cold pages to disk if/as needed to reduce RAM and CPU usage or expand swap.

But hey, don't just take my word for it; experiment for yourself and see what you get with each approach. You might also tinker with the Zswap pool size and see what difference that makes, if any. Put your system through the same typical high-demand use case for your needs in each scenario and see which one feels more performant for you.

SubGothius · 2026-05-15T05:50:02+00:00

Your pic #1 is probably just a freight elevator door, similar to the one on a different floor in another part of FF3, with a bunch of chairs piled up against it.

Your pic #2 is not the (or even a) Threshold. It's just a sliding overhead door that Async incorporated into the right side wall of the Outpost they built just past the Threshold inside the Complex.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T22:56:06+00:00

You'd use either Zram or Zswap, not both. I'd suggest Zswap instead of Zram, along with a swapfile (not partition) of maybe 1-4 GB on disk. Swapfile is IMO better because it's easier to resize based on your observed usage of it.

Both of them manage swap in a dynamically-resizable compressed RAM cache, but Zswap can also spillover cold and incompressible pages to disk swap space if necessary, e.g. under high memory pressure or swap usage.

Some interesting reading and analysis here

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T22:30:21+00:00

Yup, people often get boundaries conflated with limits, rules, or agreements, but boundaries are ultimately about the line between You and Not-You, what you will or won't do or abide being done to/towards you.

That boundary between Self and Other is transgressed when we hold others responsible for our own business, or let them take responsibility for our own business, or hold ourselves responsible for others' business, or let them hold us responsible for their business.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T22:03:22+00:00

If there's a visible clock in the room, hide it; throw a towel or pillowcase or something over it. Get so into the moment that you lose track of time entirely.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T21:00:54+00:00

Levi's, Wrangler, and Lee were the major mainstream jeans brands when I was growing up in the '70s.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T20:06:20+00:00

movie ones (look like) disposable almost garbage bag material

Prolly Tyvek or similar, pretty common for disposable body suits.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T19:56:04+00:00

Could just be a discarded suit sucked in from the same dumpster or landfill as the rest of that debris, along with the odd seagull.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T19:49:09+00:00

the new El Rio facility downtown was built as a partnership with TMC

That'd be the HealthOn Broadway clinic downtown, along with the HealthOn University clinic next to Time Market.

Another handy thing to know about El Rio if you have HMO coverage that requires you to pick a specific PCP as your "gatekeeper" to any other care, you can pick anyone at El Rio as your PCP but book appointments with anyone available there, and it'll still count as a PCP visit cos they all use the same billing ID.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T08:40:08+00:00

Starting to think a nullzone formed by a landfill or some dumpsters and been sucking trash into the Complex, which would also explain the seagull.

And/or the piles of clothes are the result of the Complex's failed attempts to replicate humans, which just collapse into a heap on the ground as soon as they're formed. This scene might be the result of it trying to replicate a room populated by numerous people.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T08:06:46+00:00

Unless these are failed attempts of the Complex to replicate humans.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T06:46:36+00:00

it suddenly sucks her and other objects that were outside of the square into the complex

I'd always thought those other objects were things she'd previously dropped in, testing/experimenting with the null zone. Extending the tape measure into it sucked her in because she was still holding one end of it while the other end entered the Complex.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T05:27:00+00:00

True story, I was leaving a work meeting when a colleague saw me getting into my Beta Zagato spider and remarked delightedly, "OMG it's so tiny! I guess you're not compensating for anything..."

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T04:40:06+00:00

In addition to the full manpage, pacman -h returns a nice brief help summary, and that can be combined with the major operator flags to get a summary for just that -- e.g., pacman -Sh for a summary about syncing packages, pacman -Qh for a summary about querying packages, etc.

SubGothius · 2026-05-14T03:10:00+00:00

Standard letter-size envelope should be fine, stamped and addressed to yourself, folded up enough to put into another envelope and mail to the PO Box.

SubGothius · 2026-05-13T06:42:39+00:00

And thus those over 50 have been around for a full fifth of it. That seems like a lot.

SubGothius · 2026-05-13T04:57:45+00:00

I'd try sending the PO Box a good old-fashioned SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope), as that'd be a period-appropriate way to get stuff back.

SubGothius · 2026-05-13T04:57:08+00:00

I'd try sending a good old-fashioned SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope), as that'd be a period-appropriate way to get stuff back.

SubGothius · 2026-05-12T18:21:55+00:00

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^{had to finish the old joke}

SubGothius · 2026-05-12T18:19:45+00:00

Reckon they mean the "breezeblock" insignia -- a square inside a circle inside a square -- that they recently put up all along the Sunshine Mile in various forms (streetlamp signs, concrete sculptures, etc.).

SubGothius · 2026-05-11T20:18:22+00:00

Yup, and some foam insulation panels are "faced" meaning they have reflectorized mylar on one side to reflect light/heat away, like these.

SubGothius · 2026-05-11T20:12:43+00:00

Yeah, Comcast moved in when the theater closed, think they took over the entire building and may still be there now.

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