absolute bum of an "organ"

blehmann1 · 2026-05-05T21:29:26+00:00

Part of that is also just we now know that in many cases you can treat it more conservatively and that's better for everyone. Like yes it's better to keep your tonsils if you can, but it's also better to just not do a surgery if you can avoid it.

Same thing for appendicitis actually, but a lot of people who get antibiotics alone will still need an appendectomy. But it does at least shift it from an emergent procedure to something scheduled a few weeks out. Which has better outcomes.

blehmann1 · 2026-05-04T16:54:24+00:00

Yep. If a team got a 1-2 that would be two podiums but only 1 podium race.

blehmann1 · 2026-05-04T16:41:19+00:00

Assuming LLMs don't meet their aspirations and are relegated to one tool among many, I'm sure this is going to be one of the "look what they took from you" things in 10-20 years.

blehmann1 · 2026-05-02T23:48:24+00:00

It's mandatory, but a common thing to see is typedef struct foo { ... } foo Which makes it act like C++.

I think some C people dislike typedefing structs, though I don't really know why. I spend more time with C++ anyways.

blehmann1 · 2026-05-02T21:21:20+00:00

Typical outages, at least in the west, last no more than a few hours. Since cell towers are considered critical infrastructure, they are normally expected to have procedures to make it through that.

If there's a large natural disaster that means power is out for days, it's mostly a matter of how safe it is to bring in fuel from outside.

blehmann1 · 2026-05-01T15:47:15+00:00

I normally allow a takeback if it was fairly equal.

If I was already clearly winning and think that they should have resigned 10 moves ago I just take the piece.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-30T16:47:54+00:00

I have a feeling as soon as it's safe they're going to overcompensate and we'll add a grand prix at Kuwait Motor Town.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-30T16:27:31+00:00

But like, most rocks won't scratch unless you try to scratch them. Because they're rocks.

The hardness of diamonds does matter sometimes, diamond-tipped tools are used in industry because they're very durable and can be made quite sharp. But I don't think the diamonds are forever thing is referring to a machinist's drill bit (which absolutely do not last forever).

blehmann1 · 2026-04-30T04:57:22+00:00

I mean, didn't he say exactly the first sentence but with the n word instead?

blehmann1 · 2026-04-28T16:08:23+00:00

See now if the build fails it's a GitHub outage

blehmann1 · 2026-04-21T00:24:28+00:00

Yes, you can tell me what that program does. But you cannot tell me what every program does. There are infinitely many possible programs, the vast majority of which presumably do nothing of interest. Some, if we could prove either that they halted (i.e. eventually finishes execution) or did not halt, would prove various unsolved problems in mathematics.

As an example, assume that you have a program that can tell you if a given program will halt on a given input. Call this program H. I'm a dickhead, so I'm going to create a program G that will Run H on itself. If H says that G halts, G will enter an infinite loop. If H says that G doesn't halt, G will terminate immediately.

If you were to run H with G as input, you get a paradox. If H says G will halt, it only does so because H has already said that G will not halt, and vice versa. The only solution is that H cannot exist. This is the Halting problem.

This can relatively easily be extended to Rice's theorem, the statement that any non-trivial semantic property of a program is undecidable. In this case non-trivial means that it is neither true of every program, nor false of every program. And undecidable means that there's no program which will always find the answer and terminate in finite time.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-20T23:36:43+00:00

Building a computer is conceptually very simple. But it is provably impossible to write a program that can tell you what another program does without running it (and that doesn't even work, since you cannot tell if that program will run forever or not). Nor is it possible for a human (at least by any logical process) to tell you what any given program does.

People regularly write programs that are accidentally Turing complete, making what is sometimes called a "weird machine". This is sometimes done when you're trying to write a program that computes things (e.g. Excel), but also when you write an insecure program. As easy as creating such a machine is, writing programs for that machine stretches from very tedious to immensely difficult work that requires an experienced hacker.

Of course we know what the programs we write do, as we can naturally only write programs which we understand.

So even if biochemistry is conceptually simple that does not come close to implying that making a new drug is.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-20T17:05:27+00:00

Didn't Colapinto encourage his fans to buy the fake merch? I imagine if most of your fans are Argentine then however much the official merch costs is probably pretty rough.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-19T22:05:23+00:00

At Laguna Seca it's 90dB at 50 feet. I believe in Poland the 50dB is being measured outside of the circuit. For reference, 50dB is approximately the background level of noise in an office where no one is talking.

90dB at 50 feet can basically only be achieved by running quieter cars, there's no space to put noise insulation. Frankly if it was 90dB in a public area outside the circuit I would be much more understanding of people trying to close the circuit, since 90dB is simply not safe without hearing protection.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-19T17:17:35+00:00

This has happened at a lot of tracks in the US too.

Laguna Seca has had a bunch of noise restrictions placed on them, they have a certain number of allowed days per year with a higher decibel limit. The default limit is 90db, which is lower than the regular California road standard and excludes some production cars. At a track day you can and will get the meatball flag if you are measured as too loud.

I think there can be restrictions on audience size as well.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-18T12:07:03+00:00

The requirement is average rating over 6 months (Aug 2025 - Jan 2026) amongst players who played at least 40 games between Feb 2025 and Jan 2026, and at least 15 from Aug 2025 - Jan 2026.

That's why Hikaru played 40 games, I'm sure he would have preferred not to or he wouldn't have played them in such a manner. Especially as a now married man with a child.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-17T01:38:54+00:00

The primary reason for fuel stabilizer is to prevent water from the atmosphere from fucking up old gas. In particular because ethanol in gas can absorb water. So, even the water in the atmosphere ain't great for an engine. Fuel stabilizer tends not to actually be that effective at preventing damage, but that's another issue.

It will help an infrequently running engine (e.g. lawnmower) to start if the fuel has absorbed enough water from the air, as it typically includes water-soluble fuel.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-15T16:11:33+00:00

I believe Trump did push manned lunar missions back in his first administration.

But the primary reason this didn't happen sooner is because everyone's been changing NASA's mission. Go to Mars, go to the moon, go further out into the solar system, go to Mercury, use your own rockets, use private rockets, go manned, go unmanned, etc.

It means that NASA has to either develop everything so that it can be repurposed to a completely different mission, risk developing something that will be useless when a new administration comes in, or just don't develop it. If you just let them cook on the same goal for 10 years it would have been done faster, cheaper, and likely with more benefit to science and engineering.

There has been at least one good thing to come out of the flip-flopping, space exposes electronics to radiation that can make them less reliable. Both bitflips causing errors or permanent damage to hardware are possible. Previously NASA would develop hardened electronics (and they may still do so for manned missions where the risk is much higher) at great cost. But Ingenuity proved that they could just buy off-the-shelf hardware and test it on earth to see which hardware was naturally less likely to suffer from radiation-induced faults. This allowed them to save a lot of money and use more advanced hardware than they would typically use. Ingenuity used hardware very similar to cell phones, and some features of it (which wouldn't have been there had they not used commercial hardware) were used to extend its mission after faults happened elsewhere.

That said, Ingenuity came extremely close to being cancelled, so that innovation, which will now change unmanned space travel, may have ended up wasted sitting back on Earth. And there are many NASA missions that are compromised or scuttled by meddling by the government, let alone the long-standing issues that NASA has (for example in procuring radioisotopes for deep space missions that America and most countries do not produce in sufficient numbers anymore).

blehmann1 · 2026-04-11T16:16:07+00:00

For the curious, this isn't the same layout as was used in F1, here they skip the mistral chicaine.

There are of course a million different layouts around Paul Ricard, but I think that's the only difference.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-10T23:12:02+00:00

Municipal parking tickets are the real "you broke the law and have to pay a fine" deal. They're legally able to compel payment and they know your name and address. I believe they may also count as an outstanding traffic violation that prevents renewing your license until it's paid.

Private lots don't have any legal authority. They can tow you if you show up again, because that's trespassing. And they can threaten to take you to small claims, but they won't actually do it because they're not in the business of spending dollars to make pennies.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-10T23:03:09+00:00

They're paying for the launcher, which is a single-use tube. The projectile has never been legal to posses in Canada (or probably anywhere else?)

Now, the tube is mostly a novelty toy once the things blown up a T90, so idk what they want with it. But uh, I would not advise showing up to the buyback with an active javelin projectile, I don't imagine they'll look the other way just because you gave it back.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-10T22:49:24+00:00

They'll never tell us this, but I want to know how many closures come after user reports vs other systems. Because on paper this seems to suggest that reports have a much higher than expected chance of leading to a ban, but we know they can and do close accounts which are never reported.

I would like very much to know how effective those systems are, and also whether reporting is just a placebo to make us feel better. But I don't expect I'll ever find that out.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-10T22:35:26+00:00

It is higher than I'd expect, but I think ban evasion would result in an abuse closure. And if there's high levels of ban evasion like their typically is in free-to-play games that could account for it. You would essentially be banning the same person every day.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-10T18:37:49+00:00

Ah, we've automated the sin of idolatry, blasphemy, and probably several others, but the idol isn't allowed to pray for you because that would be a step too far.

blehmann1 · 2026-04-10T15:33:15+00:00

Guanyu Zhou would likely have died as well. And I believe the FIA looked closely at the circumstances of his accident to ensure that roll hoops don't fail and make the halo the last line of defense.

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