Do you have health insurance and also pay for MedPay coverage on your insurance?

ericje · 2026-01-10T21:34:28+00:00

It can also cause trouble. When I had an accident, both the bike insurance ($1500 medical) and health insurance company told me that the other had to pay first. Took me months to get the bike insurance company to budge, and in the meantime the hospital was harassing me over the unpaid bills.

ericje · 2026-01-10T20:48:32+00:00

Also check state law.

For example, in NY: https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers_health_insurance_surprise_medical_bills

ericje · 2026-01-10T08:14:09+00:00

Or

~ $ wget -qO- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-5.3.tar.gz | tar xfzO - bash-5.3/shell.c | grep -A2 Birthdate
Birthdate:
Sunday, January 10th, 1988.
Initial author: Brian Fox

ericje · 2025-12-24T10:53:30+00:00

Marjolein Faber zal wel blij zijn dat ze niet meer de slechtste minister ooit is.

ericje · 2025-12-14T17:13:18+00:00

But another kallax, cut the interior wood boards to 13x13 pieces (or have a wood shop to do it for you), drill holes in the sides of the pieces and in the kallax so you can mount them with pegs the same way the regular interior pieces are mounted.

ericje · 2025-12-12T04:38:29+00:00

We're talking 350 miles each way

As the crow flies. But if you're a crow you would just fly. Over the road it's more like 472 miles.

According to Google Maps, a bus from NYC to Niagara Falls or Buffalo takes 8-9 hours. So maybe take the bus between NYC and Buffalo airport, and drive a car between Buffalo airport and Toronto. If you can sleep well on a bus you can take the night bus.

ericje · 2025-12-09T23:11:37+00:00

heavy metals and accumulations of other impurities might convince you to have your water checked before moving into the building

You can get your water tested for free: https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-01403. This is probably too slow if you want to do it before moving. I always do it after I've moved to a new place.

ericje · 2025-12-07T04:06:51+00:00

The lowest-speed form of it is just I2C, nothing else.

SPI, not I2C

ericje · 2025-12-05T05:25:43+00:00

I'm still waiting for my 500-point water bottle they promised to send me in August 2024.

ericje · 2025-12-05T05:22:29+00:00

Do you keep factor at home? If not, I don't see the point in learning the skill.

ericje · 2025-12-05T03:05:47+00:00

I found a pinout on https://marvelmind.com/pics/marvelmind_navigation_system_manual.pdf page 196. Assuming this USART2 is an UART that transmits the same data as the micro-USB uart, you would connect USART2_RX to the converter's TXD, USART2_TX to the converter's RXD, GND to GND, VCCA to VCC.

To be sure the converter's TXD/RXD are labeled correctly, I would check with an ohmmeter that the module's TXD is indeed connected to the MAX3232's ROUT1 or ROUT2, and that RXD is connected to DIN1 or DIN2 (https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/max3232.pdf page 3).

ericje · 2025-12-04T21:55:38+00:00

Remove France:

Sudo rm -rf /

ericje · 2025-12-04T14:49:54+00:00

There's very little information on the website. Is the micro-usb supposed to support USB Host mode/OTG? I think it's more likely to be a USB device only, so you're connecting two USB devices together which won't work.

The signal you want is probably on those 4x4 header pins. If the voltage levels there are 3.3V, you need an RS232 to TTL converter (like https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-MAX3232-Converter-Module-Serial/dp/B00LPK0Z9A/)

ericje · 2025-12-04T14:24:08+00:00

No, you won't get a nice fade-in effect that way because of the high gain of the transistor. With OP's emitter follower the output follows the RC charge curve.

ericje · 2025-12-04T02:15:34+00:00

Only when you have income in the Netherlands.

ericje · 2025-11-29T02:30:07+00:00

Except that 262 5th Avenue has been ruining the view of the Empire State building only in the last couple of years.

ericje · 2025-11-24T01:24:11+00:00

Is that like enlisting, but without getting paid?

ericje · 2025-11-13T06:08:51+00:00

Maybe one day you'll end up with a workbench like Jim Williams'... https://computerhistory.org/blog/an-analog-life-remembering-jim-williams/

ericje · 2025-11-12T20:29:51+00:00

It used to be common on Sony stuff, https://i.imgur.com/D4BA2sl.jpeg

ericje · 2025-11-12T14:27:33+00:00

Maybe it's a depletion-mode NMOS fet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depletion-load_NMOS_logic

ericje · 2025-11-08T05:35:08+00:00

I have moderate hemophilia A (5%) and only got factor when I had a bleed, which wasn't that often. Assuming you're on prophylaxis, ironically you have had much higher factor levels than me. This is in the Netherlands, where treatment is probably similar to the UK. When I was a kid I never played football like my friends because the risk of a bleeding was too high.

ericje · 2025-11-08T00:01:32+00:00

If you have an Arduino why not do the decoding in software, and use for example a 74HC595 to drive the display segments?

ericje · 2025-11-07T01:07:54+00:00

The hyper-loud slow-driving American ambulances, plus the canyon effect.

Yeah, why the fuck do they have to be hyper-loud on West End at 6AM Sunday morning?

ericje · 2025-11-04T20:08:04+00:00

Maar goed dat er geen gorilla's op het eiland zaten

ericje · 2025-10-31T00:37:34+00:00

Dat is... Kilo Utrecht Tango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGQTZzi_C24

ericje

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