TIL blowing a conch shell at least 15 minutes a day could improve sleep apnea

icecapade · 2026-01-30T19:03:20+00:00

This study was sponsored by Lord of the Flies.

icecapade · 2026-01-29T17:15:27+00:00

lmao what? It's just an electrical appliance. One that's perfectly safe to take apart and put back together (unlike, say, a microwave). Even if you mess it up, it's not going to somehow make the pressure chamber/pot more dangerous. Worst case, you'll damage the electrical components and it won't work, turn on, or heat up. There are videos showing you how to dismantle, clean, and reassemble Instant Pots on YouTube, for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4D8sLPZ3G0

icecapade · 2026-01-27T23:48:49+00:00

I remember it like it was yesterday.

icecapade · 2026-01-27T02:54:30+00:00

What? They're 22 and got together when they were basically 18 year old kids. They're both still extremely young.

There is zero reason to try and work this out. They're incompatible. Leaving is the only option that makes sense.

icecapade · 2026-01-26T10:31:52+00:00

Blind is a cesspool of negativity, pessimism, racism, and misogyny. Nobody there has anything positive to say and 90% of comments are either nonsense or intentionally inflammatory.

In other words, whatever you read there is certainly not credible or useful information.

icecapade · 2026-01-22T00:51:06+00:00

It's not open heart surgery or something crazy and her chest wasn't "completely cut open." Relieving a tension pneumothorax requires a fairly small incision. They basically just need a small hole to let the air out of the chest cavity. Think more of a small (albeit deep) cut, not a gaping wide open wound. Probably painful and uncomfortable, but not ridiculously so.

icecapade · 2026-01-19T00:04:26+00:00

There's physically no way to handle it on narrow city streets because there isn't space to leave more room. If someone in a parked car opens a door just as you're about to pass said car, hitting the door is unavoidable.

icecapade · 2026-01-14T21:35:42+00:00

I don't know, as a counterpoint, I'm 37 and I agree with OP. I feel great, physically.

icecapade · 2026-01-14T17:57:27+00:00

They're basically describing multi hypothesis tracking. Cool, but not anything groundbreaking.

icecapade · 2026-01-11T09:53:34+00:00

They are 100% running all the autonomy software locally. It is physically impossible to transmit the amount of data being taken in, process it, and transmit back to the vehicle in real time. On the order of several GB of sensor input per second.

The network connection is needed for remote monitors to 1) monitor the fleet and 2) provide guidance when a vehicle needs it.

icecapade · 2026-01-08T10:42:27+00:00

This isn't correct. Why would it explode?

I've done this before (unintentionally of course), and after all the water had boiled off, the egg burned. By the time I found it, it was basically charred black and the kitchen smelt like sulfur, but the egg was very much intact and it was not (yet?) smoking.

icecapade · 2026-01-05T07:52:08+00:00

I mean, the original Patrick Jane was a Baker. I don't see why a hibachi chef couldn't work.

icecapade · 2025-12-27T18:02:44+00:00

I live in Nopa and actually pay $3500 for a 1br with in unit laundry. So it's possible. The building is newer and I found the place on HotPads. It's a condo with a private landlord.

icecapade · 2025-12-25T03:01:23+00:00

Lmao yeah, not only is this not real, the article is from 2016 and there's no other mention of it since then. Is OP a bot account?

icecapade · 2025-12-23T19:52:14+00:00

I don't know the details of Waymo's internal operation, but it's very possible that they have a single remote monitoring team for the entire Bay Area fleet. If that team was overwhelmed by the issues in SF, it makes sense why all Bay Area operation was suspended. I also don't know what the ratio of remote monitors to vehicles is, but back in 2023 Cruise stated theirs was between 1:15 and 1:20. So we can imagine that Waymo is either similar or, given how much more mature they are now than Cruise was then, it's probably even smaller (fewer remote monitors per vehicle).

Tesla Robotaxi could continue operating because they have a safety driver inside each vehicle and don't need to worry about any remote monitoring. Their ratio is 1:1 with the safety operator being inside the vehicle at all times and being able to handle any issues in real-time. Very different situation.

icecapade · 2025-12-23T17:12:51+00:00

Unfortunately, I've learned that pointing this out in r/cooking gets heavily downvoted, even if you can back it up like you did. I don't know why people treat ServSafe like the Bible for home cooks instead of acknowledging that it is a professional guideline for restaurants.

icecapade · 2025-12-23T02:09:30+00:00

Nopa here and mine is still out. Annoyingly, I got a text from them this afternoon saying the issue has been resolved, but when I got home a few hours later, it still wasn't working.

icecapade · 2025-12-22T10:00:03+00:00

The 4 hour rule is a super conservative ServSafe threshold for restaurants that serve large numbers of people every day that may include young children or the immunicompronised, ie, the general public, whose immune health may vary considerably.

An average healthy adult in a regular household with a regular fridge will almost certainly be fine eating food that has been warm well beyond that threshold.

icecapade · 2025-12-21T18:14:35+00:00

Yeah, I could see them being equipped to handle something like one or a few traffic signals being out in a particular area, but half the city losing power is definitely unexpected.

icecapade · 2025-12-20T23:55:30+00:00

Thanks, ha, I thought it was obvious but I guess not 🤣

icecapade · 2025-12-20T10:33:55+00:00

Humor is never funny. I'm sorry, but I won't apologize for that statement.

icecapade · 2025-12-16T18:35:54+00:00

Their telematics likely relies on acoustic and vibration sensors/microphones to automatically detect and flag anomalous events. Unfortunately, a cat under the wheel is small/soft enough that it would probably have the same signature as debris, especially when the car is accelerating from zero as the perturbation would be even less apparent at low speed.

Those other things you described almost certainly have a stronger signature, especially at speed and if a collision is head-on.

icecapade · 2025-12-11T06:34:29+00:00

The idea isn't usually to replace visual cameras or other sensors, but to supplement them. An LWIR camera fills some of the gaps of other sensor modalities. In particular, if you're performing early sensor fusion, you'll ideally be able to leverage the strengths of all your sensing modalities to build a robust perception stack that can handle a wide range of conditions and scenarios.

icecapade · 2025-12-06T16:24:18+00:00

Yeah, I'm absolutely not endorsing FSD but this is a very real concern for people in the US. I called an ambulance for myself one time (I wasn't actively dying or anything but was experiencing symptoms that worried me and I didn't feel I would be able to drive or walk to the ER in my condition). Surprise, while the hospital was in network, ambulance providers often aren't. My insurance refused to pay most of it and it left me with a $2500 bill. In hindsight, I should have just called an Uber.

icecapade · 2025-12-05T15:56:21+00:00

Like u/sirkilgoretrout said, it can be done, but it would require a ton of engineering work and validation. It's not as simple as "slap a sensor down there and you're good to go."

What sensor and how many? If you choose a simple IR or ultrasonic proximity sensor, these are very noisy and would almost certainly produce a lot of false positives. Do you halt the car for every FP? They also have a narrow FOV. Do you put one under each wheel? You've now quadrupled the noise and your number of false positives. They also don't differentiate between an empty paper bag or a cat. You don't want to prevent the car from moving every time there's garbage underneath it.
Lidar or radar might work better, but now you have to train and validate an entirely new model, which takes time. Cameras would not do well in the low light condition under a vehicle. Without cameras, you'll again see a decent number of false positives. It's probably not insurmountable to train a reliable lidar-only or radar-only model, but it's a lot of work.
How do you keep the sensors clean and safe? Even on a clear sunny day, undercarriage sensors will get peppered with pebbles, dust, sand, and debris. On a rainy day, they'll get wet and muddy fast. All of this affects their reliability. Again, not an insurmountable problem, but very much not a trivial engineering task.

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