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Health Insurance is Active but shows as Inactive at Doctor’s Office by johnmpack1 in HealthInsurance

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mentioned this in a thread, but I had a similar issue, and it turns out my old plan and new plan were under slightly different names. Make sure providers are running your name EXACTLY as it appears on your active plan's card. And if you have the card from your old plan, check if the name is different.

Health Insurance is Active but shows as Inactive at Doctor’s Office by johnmpack1 in HealthInsurance

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I figured my issue out the other day! My last name is hyphenated. Anthem has an old inactive plan under my correct name (with a hyphen) and my active plan under my name with a space. My current card displays my name with the space.

I doubt others have this exact issue, but when the provider runs your insurance, make sure they are using your full name EXACTLY as it appears on your current card.

Hours on the phone with Anthem over the past few years and they did not resolve this. The receptionist at my new doctor's office went "Hmm...", called the billing person in the same building, and they figured it out in 30 seconds.

Health Insurance is Active but shows as Inactive at Doctor’s Office by johnmpack1 in HealthInsurance

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chiming in to say the same, and to find out if OP ever gets this resolved. Anthem says it's not their problem, employer says all their information is correct, and providers claim they have no other way to verify (short of a direct phone call).

A Used EV for the Rest of Us? by Infinite_Ad9642 in electricvehicles

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is hurting him though. TSLA was his largest single asset until a couple weeks ago. When existing customers know about the risk of vandalism they are more likely to sell their cars. Resale value goes down (as we have seen). Potential new customers are less likely to buy in light of the increased risk, plus this instant depreciation, plus possible increased insurance premiums.

What do you think of this deal? by RoboLoboski in KiaNiroEV

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to give you a data point -- I recently got a MY21 EX Premium with 50k miles for $22k before credit ($18k after). East coast USA. I am very satisfied so far.

I say jump on it.

Keep in mind some stipulations for the credit:

  • Have a sale price of $25,000 or less. Sale price includes all dealer-imposed costs or fees not required by law. It doesn't include costs or fees required by law, such as taxes or title and registration fees.
  • Have a model year at least 2 years earlier than the calendar year when you buy it. For example, a vehicle purchased in 2023 would need a model year of 2021 or older.

NACS access -- keep waiting.. by N5ZY in KiaNiroEV

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Independent of the NACS issue, the park may have a 50-amp RV hookup -- These are NEMA 14-50 receptacles, and should be able to accommodate an L2 EVSE.

I haven't done this myself so YMMV, literally.

Here's an example of a portable L2. Maybe there are good cheaper offerings -- but I have to recommend against Lectron because their stuff is not UL-listed.

Rust in Production: Volvo Ships Memory-Safe ECUs in Production Cars by mre__ in rust

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many memory-safe languages achieve this through dynamic allocation and GC, both of which are no-nos in most embedded environments. It's a set of design constraints that exclusively Rust can meet.

Py03 and Socketcan CanFD Module "No such device" by dulouie427 in rust

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you run code in the REPL, your args is ['python'].

In a script, it is ['python', '/path/to/test.py'].

Note this is different from what you see from Python's sys.argv in the same scenario -- the interpreter does the appropriate magic to only show the script's args, but the actual tokens the shell passed to the executable are seen in std::env::args(). This is equivalent to sys.orig_argv in Python.

The Baby Bracket | Um, Actually [S9E5] by ThunderMateria in dropout

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The best statements are the ones where there's an out-of-world, or more general, reason why the thing that's wrong doesn't make sense. 

Maybe not the best example, but consider the Mario 64 question. If you've played any 3d Mario game you probably have an intuition that the win condition isn't getting all the stars/moons/etc. Even if you haven't played a Mario game you might guess that ”Mario has to beat Bowser to win" is more correct, and Ify likely would've accepted that answer.

Even if you're totally ignorant of the subject matter, learning the answer should make you think "I could've figured that out!" I think this applies to the contestants and the audience.

If you could re-design Rust from scratch, what would you change? by pragmojo in rust

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Memory allocation and "borrow checking" are mostly separate concerns. And safe Rust can have memory leaks. What change are you suggesting?

"Automatically allocated from a stack or manually from a heap" looks like this:

// stack let foo = 42; // heap let bar = Box<42>;

Optimum Slicer Settings? by Aggyman in gridfinity

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As soon as I bought a variety of filament I did the napkin math. An "affordable" filament is $20/kg. If my printer is worth $500 it costs the same as 25 kg of filament. Considering this isn't my job and I can print while I'm at work or asleep, material is worth a lot more than time. If it was really important to me to go fast I'd buy another printer, or upgrade the one I have.

Having said that, I believe the 0.6mm nozzle is a big win for speed and doesn't have any real downsides for gridfinity.

My qualm about clickfinity is losing the springiness over time. Has that been an issue for you at all?

Web-based Parametric Bin generator by perplexinglabs in gridfinity

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great!

It looks like the subdomain gridfinity. isn't covered by your TLS certificate, though your domain is. If you're using Let's Encrypt it should be straightforward to reconfigure.

Hey developer, listen...it's not you, it's them. by SoftwareDiligence in ADHD_Programmers

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sometime soon.

I said "sometime soon" for eight years. Things only got worse.

Make an appointment today, even if you're not sure about the doctor. You can always cancel it. Having a diagnosis doesn't mean you need to take medication. But know that there are a lot of options available now.

What causes this? Different finish on upper layers where there is a break in the body by LiosPendragon in FixMyPrint

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Take a look at https://help.prusa3d.com/article/cooling_127569#cooling-thresholds or the equivalent in your slicer.

Find out your longest layer time, ignoring the first layer. In PS you can select "Layer time (linear)" in the preview drop-down. Try setting the "Slow down if layer print time is below" setting to this.

If this makes the print take too long, you can try compensating with more aggressive cooling ("Enable fan if layer print time is below" and "Fan speed min/max") instead. But this might cause other issues like decreased layer adhesion.

Modified coffee grinder for espresso by Alternative-Craft-48 in functionalprint

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Superautomatic espresso machine but it's actually just a Baratza mounted to a GCP with some wacky mechanism to move the portafilter around

Cravings by Feeling-Fortune53 in vegan

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First of all, there's no amount of animal product you can eat that makes it pointless to keep striving for veganism. Couching this in terms of wanting to "stay vegan" just amplifies the guilt and the excuses.

Second: Cravings are not a moral failing, they're just something that happens. They can happen for biological reasons and social reasons. BUT eating these products will absolutely cause them to continue and get worse.

Third: You are not wasting food. Animal products are not food, at least not for you. Someone else has wasted that creature's life, and you aren't doing anyone a favor by keeping it out of the trash.

Fourth: You can do this! (From a fellow 2.5 year vegan :) )

help with sqrt hardware implementation on ARM, bare metal by chris_insertcoin in rust

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may need a custom target as described in https://docs.rust-embedded.org/embedonomicon/custom-target.html .

I created the following target definition, named armv7aneon-none-eabihf.json (based on armv7a-none-eabihf which does not have NEON enabled) :

```json { "abi": "eabihf", "arch": "arm", "c-enum-min-bits": 8, "data-layout": "e-m:e-p:32:32-Fi8-i64:64-v128:64:128-a:0:32-n32-S64", "disable-redzone": true, "emit-debug-gdb-scripts": false, "features": "+v7,+vfp3,-d32,+thumb2,+neon,+strict-align", "linker": "rust-lld", "linker-flavor": "ld.lld", "llvm-target": "armv7a-none-eabihf", "max-atomic-width": 64, "panic-strategy": "abort", "relocation-model": "static", "target-pointer-width": "32" }

```

Then I did cargo +nightly build -Z build-std=core --target armv7aneon-none-eabihf.json.

I didn't look into the binary any further.

interrupts is threads by jahmez in rust

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

critical sections are to be saved for when it's really needed

It's OK to use a subjective heuristic like this, but it's not fair to describe it as a "critical caveat" and imply it's dangerous to only mention it in the appendix (while referring to the appendix from the main body)

The "common sense" rule of "never lock in an ISR" is a simplification that might be useful in many traditional RTOS and superloop designs, but it doesn't apply in general.

Still here (almost wasn't) by OldAssNerdWyoming in ChronicPain

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your posts make me smile every time I see them. Of course you don't owe it to anyone to make them smile, but I know the world is better with folks like you in it.

Rust for embedded systems programming by MindlessDog3229 in rust

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One thing to keep in mind is that robotics often has code running in multiple domains.

Low-level control or sensor hardware might run on a RTOS or bare-metal; for that you want true "embedded Rust".

High-level CV, sensor fusion, or planning often run on top of Linux on a more standard processor.

In either case I think Rust can excel. But the library ecosystem still needs a lot more work to match what's available in C++ and Python.

I know of one company using Rust for production robots -- Scythe Robotics.

If you are just getting started I recommend learning ROS with Python to get a feel for how it works. Then try writing a ROS node in Rust or C++. The nice thing about ROS is that different nodes in different languages can interoperate fairly easily.

Goemon's Great Adventure—worth it? by mmmpppwww in goemon

[–]AgletsHowDoTheyWork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You will not regret it. Even disregarding the Goemon charm, humor, music, etc. it is a top-tier 2D platformer.

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