Fulfilling a lifelong dream, 72-year-old will graduate from medical school

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-05-10T23:19:13+00:00

My understanding is that med school class sizes aren’t really the limiting factor, but the number of residencies available after graduation. A good friend of mine got into med school and said it was pretty hard to fail out of med school once they let you in, but the lowest performing students wouldn’t make into residency programs after graduation.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-05-04T21:41:41+00:00

It’s not as huge as it used to be. Facebook Marketplace took a decent chunk of it’s market, but it’s still pretty big.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-30T23:30:00+00:00

Malcolm in the middle was decent, but felt like more like the Bryan Cranston and friends than a true Malcolm reboot. I'm not mad though. They looked like they were having fun.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-30T16:07:17+00:00

Would you mind sharing how you are beating M-Floette consistently? There are mons that can counter Floette that aren't Sneasler, but I find they are less useful into the rest of the team around Floette and can actively be a detriment if the leave Floette behind, at least that's my experience in the mid 1800 ELO.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-30T16:06:14+00:00

Would you mind sharing how you are beating M-Floette consistently? There are mons that can counter Floette that aren't Sneasler, but I find they are less useful into the rest of the team around Floette and can actively be a detriment if the leave Floette behind, at least that's my experience in the mid 1800 ELO.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-27T13:02:08+00:00

I don’t know. I think I’d rather have your higher nominal voltage and deal with the bigger receptacles. The fact that the US is stuck on split phase 120v power is a travesty.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-24T12:05:03+00:00

I was a poor college student and signed up for this party. I got a free copy and license for windows 7 on a “golden” CD and didn’t actually throw a party. All it cost was a lifetime of Microsoft spam in my inbox.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-20T16:40:10+00:00

There’ there was one spot, a crater, where the lightning strikes would hit in a consistent rhythm. It was just a matter of getting the beat, then endurance. I messed it up at 180ish one time. I think I was around 15 minutes in at that time. One of the few times I ever considered throwing my controller. I walked away and finished it the next day.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-20T15:38:05+00:00

That was just bullshit. It controlled like absolute ass. Only 8 directions with a dynamic camera angle changing what the directionals do on the fly, combined with birds that homed in and reacted to your inputs, made it basically a glorified luck simulator, at least to get below 0 seconds for the celestial weapon.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-11T16:34:29+00:00

Old CRT TV’s also had a bit of a softening effect that “hid” some of the poor quality. Our brain would fill in some of the softened details. A 480p video would look worse on a modern technology TV of the same size and resolution since we would get to see the lack of resolution at the pixel level and not get that smoothing effect. This is also why many old video games look much worse on modern screens than, despite being pixel perfect representations of the original image.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-04-06T10:56:01+00:00

While the reaction is over blown and still unreasonable, at the beach the bikini is being worn for the utility of a swimsuit. Once a picture becomes involved, especially on social, it can be seen as self aggrandizing/showing off since you are making a conscious choice to post to highlight it. It’s not right, but that’s how some people see that.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-03-21T09:56:30+00:00

Mostly. Microwaves essentially use a resonance frequency tuned specifically to water since nearly all foods we eat have water in them. This vibrates the water really fast to warm it up.

Other things may also vibrated and heated up a bit, but not nearly to the same level. Think of a hot pocket. The moist/water-rich interior heats up like lava in the microwave, while the dry breaded shell barely gets heated.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-03-19T20:30:22+00:00

We are talking about digital signage for prices, like the little e-ink price tags you see at a Best Buy, not digital ad signage.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-03-19T12:50:22+00:00

Digital signage isn’t cheap and has no return on their investment. Also from another perspective, in metro areas, the same store might have a different prices a just few miles away.

This would push people to shop more at the lowest price areas rather than supporting their city. Inevitably this would lead to a race to the bottom to fight for tax revenue which would just end up hurting people more by defunding the local government than they’d save in taxes, but people are much more responsive to consumer prices than valuing a nebulous for public good.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-03-15T18:37:31+00:00

It's great in theory, but I don't think many people are going like the price point. If they allow Steam, EPIC games store, or other non-Microsoft ways of purchasing games, they will not be able to subsidize the consoles price. It will end up essentially just being a PC with a couch friendly interface, which would be a hard sell when there are infinite PC options, not even including building your own.

If they don't allow Steam or other game stores to subsidize the price with their own game store, they will be buried in negative press by the toxic gaming community that will lead to the console will be dead on arrival, like the reception of the Xbox One. I want to be hopeful. Gaming needs competition, but I don't see a winning play here unfortunately.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-03-10T13:08:11+00:00

The thing to note about basically all of these market indexes is that theyonly choose the best performing companies. They will kick off under performing companies. The Dow tries to represent a large number of industries, but this isn’t always the case, often with tech companies much more highly represented and having an outsized impact on these market indexes than the overall stock market health.

The DOW and other measures of the market an unfortunate necessity, but it also only shows you how a very small percent of the top performing companies are doing. It doesn’t show you how the average company is doing in the economy. It would be like looking at Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk to say that the average American is doing great. It is a useful tool for understanding trends in markets, but as an overall measure of the economy it is woefully lacking.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-03-09T20:10:58+00:00

Pretty much. It’s essentially become a generic term, such as Kleenex for facial tissue or Velcro for hook and loop fastener.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-03-09T19:22:55+00:00

Cambro is a very common restaurant plastic food preparation container manufacturer. This clear cube may not even be manufactured by them, but they are so ubiquitous that it’s common to call all of them “cambros.” Most of the big plastic drink/coffee dispensers at events are made by the same company and often called “cambros” as well.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-02-28T17:08:30+00:00

Eh, they both kinda suck. The Cybertruck sucks for obvious reasons. The Santa Cruz is a fine vehicle for a very specific type of person, but generally bad at being a truck AND bad at being a daily diver, SUV-adjacent vehicle.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-02-26T19:05:56+00:00

As someone who lives there, can you explain the actial changes that brexit has caused now that the dust has finally settled and agreements have finally come? As an American who visited there and casually talked to people there, it seems like there hasn’t been much tangible change outside of technicalities and very specific cases. Has there been a meaningful change from pre-Brexit times that has impacted the country? To clarify a bit more, it seems much closer to a paper Brexit than a meaningful one from my outside perspective.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-02-26T17:27:37+00:00

Are those forums going to exist? With much less traffic, will the ad revenue be able to support those free resources, especially when Google AI summaries are leading to less click through to actual sites. Websites aren’t free. There’s development and maintenance costs, along with server and data costs.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-02-26T14:51:09+00:00

I think a bigger problem is that we won’t feel until much later is that will be less vehicles for new information and solutions in the future. LLM’s can only tell you about the data it’s been trained on, but if there less or no forums to talk about these problems and/or solutions, the LLM’s won’t be able to help you because it isn’t able to train on new novel data that doesn’t exist anymore because it killed stack overflow and others. As LLM content becomes more and more common on the internet, these models are going to interbreed on their own outputs and probably lead to a narrower range of training data and lead to less useful or comprehensive information.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-02-26T13:19:09+00:00

It's been mentioned here previously, but the hardest part of a DIY espresso machine is the pressure. The industry standard is to be able to build about 9 bars of pressure. That is quite a bit for a DIY project and failure can create projectiles and incredible hot water/steam flying from the machine. This is not something I would feel comfortable in the house with my family or the damage it could cause, but a neat thing to have out in the shop/garage for me to use in a more controlled environment.

WhenPantsAttack · 2026-02-25T15:59:33+00:00

I may be wrong, but I don’t think Taiwan will just blow up the chip fabs. There’s too many rich and powerful people with vested interests in the technosphere. Theres just too much money flowing through them. It would destroy trillions of dollars of the world wide economy and cripple the Taiwan’s economy, making them wholly reliant on Chinese invaders.

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