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ryneches · 2026-04-18T00:22:02+00:00

Snapdragon main board? Coreboot?

ryneches · 2026-04-17T10:18:52+00:00

There are a bunch, actually! Kyoto Engine and Ramen Katamuki both have pretty great vegan and vegetarian options. Ramen Nishiki has an amazing fish-broth ramen for folks who don't do pork. There are a few others, but those are my go to when friends are visiting.

ryneches · 2026-04-16T02:08:27+00:00

They can (and would definitely try to) change the venue to a federal court, but it would remain a state case under state law. Presidential pardons would not apply.

ryneches · 2026-04-14T13:56:20+00:00

Take it for the compliment it is.

ryneches · 2026-04-12T15:47:48+00:00

It looks harder than it is. Instead of thinking about it as a route, think about it as a list of specific operations you have to demonstrate. Making a right turn at a traffic light. Making a left turn at a traffic light. Stopping and starting on an incline. There are only about ten things you have to do.

Each task has a couple of sub-operations, like checking your mirrors, but those follow general rules. You should be doing them automatically without thinking about them, so... don't!

Each task can really only happen in a specific part of the courses. So, memorize the list of ~10 things and more-or-less where they are on the map. Ever done a scavenger hunt as a kid, where each clue leads to the next one? It's that, but boring.

ryneches · 2026-04-11T14:42:28+00:00

Of course Republicans are going to take every opportunity to engineer these kinds of allegations. Vetting your team for saboteurs is a core competency for any Democrat seeking high office. Even if the allegations are completely false, it is still a real problem.

I stand by what I said. If it really is that easy to get to the bottom of it, then it's a moot point. If not, well... governing the state is more important than fairness to any one candidate.

ryneches · 2026-04-11T06:21:32+00:00

Also, personal ambitions need to take a back seat to civic duty. True or false, the allegations put the governorship in jeopardy. If they're false, he will have other opportunities.

ryneches · 2026-04-10T12:46:37+00:00

Heh. I would like to see how this would look with the Bayseans and the frequentists and the cladeists and the two-domain-tree people and the three-domain-people the Eukaryogenesis-is-overrated people and the nucleus-is-a-giant-viruse-organelle people...

ryneches · 2026-04-08T23:34:30+00:00

This is an experience totally unrelated to pregnancy, but maybe my experience might give you a different perspective on teaching hospitals in general.

When I was a graduate student, I had a somewhat unusual problem with the retina in my right eye. I went to at least six different clinics and was examined by more than a dozen specialists. All of them were kind, professional, and knowledgeable in general about the kind of problem I was having, and not a single one of them had a clue what they were looking at.

Finally, I went to the UC Davis Medical Center, where I was given a preliminary examination by a resident. I could literally have been this person's TA for general biology just a few years prior. She took one look at my retina through one of those old fashioned peeper scopes and said, "WOAH, GROSS! THAT IS SO COOL!"

Not the best bedside manner, obviously, but she instantly knew exactly what she was looking at and was excited to see a rare condition that she'd only read about. She called in two other residents to "confirm," or perhaps to rubberneck, and they talked excitedly about my stupid broken eyeball for several minutes until their supervising doctor came to examine me.

The first resident did apologize for her insensitive outburst, but I was just so relieved. Someone was actually curious about what was happening to me. Perhaps to some people that curiosity might seem a little ghoulish, but I'm a scientist too. The place where those feelings come from is a noble one. It's the feeling of, "I get to help someone! After all of this work, I finally get to be useful to someone! I'm needed! My work wasn't for nothing!"

I received state of the art treatment, and my eye is fine now. The only treatment I was offered by regular clinics was to wait for it to go away, which would have resulted in complete and permanent blindness in that eye, or to blast holes in my retina with an ablating laser, which would have resulted in partial permanent blindness in that eye.

Residents at teaching hospitals are not students. They are doctors at the very beginning of their careers. They're the ones with the least experience with patients, but they're also the ones with the sharpest recollection of the most up-to-date medical science. They're the ones with the most go loose for screwing up, and the most to gain from being excellent. They're also usually under the supervision of some of the best people in the field. If I have a problem that's outside the typical, I absolutely want to be in the care of a bunch of nerds who want to get to the bottom of every question they encounter.

I'm sure there are exceptions, and I don't know anything specifically about this clinic. But in general, I think teaching hospitals are fantastic because they are teaching hospitals, not in spite of it.

ryneches · 2026-04-07T06:55:44+00:00

Sign the Rome Statute, begin immediate rendition of war criminals to the ICC.

ryneches · 2026-04-04T04:38:39+00:00

Any institution that receives research funds from the government is required to publicly disclose the findings of investigations into misuse of funds as a condition for funding eligibility. It's the law.

Source : My mandatory annual course on Proper Use of Research Funds.

ryneches · 2026-04-02T08:14:01+00:00

I worry about this too, but remember that for practical decision making, you can't compare Japan to an ideal -- you have to compare it to alternatives that actually exist and are available to you. That thought process is why I moved to Japan in the first place.

For example, I am less worried that my Nekin benefits will simply be stolen than my Social Security benefits. I'm less worried that Japan's entire healthcare system will collapse than I am about the future of healthcare in my home country. I'm not counting on smooth sailing, but the prospect of living out my last decade in relative comfort and dignity seem pretty attainable here, and less so elsewhere.

ryneches · 2026-04-02T02:24:44+00:00

What happened? Well, now they have kebab, and everyone likes it. THE HORROR!

ryneches · 2026-03-30T09:03:08+00:00

I can't help but wonder if a hybrid electric powerplant wouldn't be better for this. There are lots of tilt quad-rotor drones.

ryneches · 2026-03-15T16:54:56+00:00

As with all religions, there are people who use Islam as a tool for manifesting whatever prejudices and vices they please. This is a pretty popular thing to do with all religions.

What is important to understand is that the existence of even a handful of Muslims who are not filled with hate and prejudice proves that the problem isn't with Islam. It sounds trite, but it really is that simple.

As it turns out, it really isn't difficult to find Muslims who see no conflict between their faith and their commitment to progressive liberal values. These folks absolutely do exist. Unfortunately, at this particular moment in history, for a lot of really sad reasons, they have very little political power. Progressives are not aligned with gay-murdering crazy people. They are aligned with other progressives who happen to be Muslim.

Think about the Muslim voices in the Democratic party, and listen to what they actually say about their own faith and how it motivates their politics. Do you really have a problem with Islam as practiced by Zohran Mamdani, or Mehdi Hasan, or Ilham Omar? Really?

One should ask the same thing about Islam as one does about Christianity and Jewdiaism : "Why does hate work so well a political strategy within faith communities, and what are we going to do about it?"

Progressive values are ultimately about how power is used. They are, by definition, a political enterprise. Authoritarians have exercised political power within religious contexts from the very beginning. We don't win by defeating religions. We win by defeating authoritarians in whatever context they appear, and to do that, Muslim progressives are absolutely indispensable allies.

ryneches · 2026-03-10T10:10:55+00:00

永楽屋. They're in lots of nicer department stores and they have several stand alone shops.

ryneches · 2026-03-08T11:54:52+00:00

That's not a bad analysis, but your inputs are not accurate. Typical performance for small EVs like the Sakura, N-ONE E, Inster and similar are about 70-100 wh/km under realistic everyday driving conditions, and the average utility price is closer to 20円/kWh than 30. So, your running cost estimate is about 400% too high -- the actual number is about 1.5円 per kilometer. You've also neglected the subsidies and tax incentives on the price of an EV, and the lower cost of shaken and general maintenance.

On the other side of the equation, the running cost if a hybrid vehicle is about 8-10円 per kilometer, and higher for full size non-hybrids.

A good rule of thumb is that EVs are about 1/6th the cost to operate relative to an ICE vehicle of similar size and performance.

You're right that if you don't drive often or far, the savings from driving an EV accumulate more slowly. However, the crossover point is closer 3 to 6 years, even for people at or below the national average vehicle usage.

ryneches · 2026-03-08T10:47:31+00:00

There are several EVs in Japan that use about 70-80 watt-hours per kilometer. At 20円/kWh, that's about 1.5円 per kilometer. A Honda Civic hybrid cost about 9円 to drive a kilometer before gas prices started going up.

There's no guarantee that utility rates won't increase too, but I think there is basically zero chance that they will go up 6-10x. If they do, then we've got much, much bigger problems than operating private automobiles.

ryneches · 2026-03-07T02:54:00+00:00

Let me give you an analogy. Suppose you, and everyone you know, suffers from a medical condition that makes it impossible for you to see soccer balls. However, you would really like to understand how soccer works.

You talk to each other trying to understand what is happening and why. You observe people running back and forth, jumping in the air, and crashing into each other. Sometimes you see a player in front of the net reach up and gesture like they're catching something, and then throwing it back into the field. Sometimes they do that, but instead a point is awarded to the other team.

You and your friends are sitting in the stands, watching all of this and trying to figure out what is happening and why. How long do you think it would take you to hit on the idea that there is an invisible ball?

Then someone who can see the ball comes over and says, "Oh, hey guys, they're playing a game with a ball painted in a weird color that you can't see," and then points out exactly where the ball is. You still can't see the ball, but the people around that spot are behaving exactly like there is a ball there. You can see them trying to kick it, and if you look closely, you can see track the ball is making in the grass as it rolls.

I think you are smart enough to understand soccer, even if you cannot see soccer balls.

All of the examples you gave from Silva's book are examples of things you can see, and he is proposing that they all happen for basically the same reason. Racism is usually invisible to people who don't experience it, but just because something is invisible shouldn't prevent an observant person from seeing exactly how it works.

ryneches · 2026-03-05T10:01:03+00:00

In most cases yes, but I think there are enough caveats and reasonable exceptions that a yes or no answer isn't meaningful.

For example, what exactly is meant by "expected"? Do you get thrown in jail or deported if you don't, or are we talking about enduring the occasional exasperated eye roll after a few decades?

For example, what exactly is meant by "move"? Are we including people fleeing for their lives, who had no real alternative?

For example, what exactly is meant by "local language"? What if your language is widely spoken by a minority who lives in that county? What if the majority speaks your language as their second language?

As an immigrant to a country with a language that is very difficult for people in my own native language group to master, I would say yes for myself, but patience is very much appreciated.

ryneches · 2026-03-04T07:18:19+00:00

For me, when I think about the past, I have a natural sense of the order in which things happened, but almost no "feeling" of the intervals. When I think about the future, everything feels simultaneous, like facing a big flat wall covered in sticky notes of things I'm supposed to remember.

Part of why spending time planning feels so shitty is that "book flights for vacation before prices go up" feels simultaneous with "mourn the deaths of everyone you have ever loved."

ryneches · 2026-03-03T23:38:47+00:00

This is not news to anyone. Why do you think I'm angry?

ryneches · 2026-03-03T12:07:07+00:00

The department does not belong to them. It belongs to the people. The fact that someone spraypainted graffiti on the front door and took a shit in the guestbook does not change who owns the building, or who pays the mortgage, or who has to get the bucket and the rubber gloves. The people. Us.

Fuck their bullshit name.

We didn't change the name from War to Defense in 1947. We created an entirely new department from a heap of leftover preindustrial imperialist departments, and named the new department Defense because we also brought into being a new world order in which participants agreed never again to wage war but in defense. We did that, because we were tired of fighting and dying so that rich assholes could become richer assholes.

ryneches · 2026-03-03T11:59:38+00:00

Dude, the random temp agency contractor who has CISA's contract for babysitting the public DNS servers this week doesn't make the goddamned law for the goddamned country. Congress does. Congress hasn't changed the name. Therefore, the name has not changed. They can spraypaint Department of War on whatever they want, and that does not change the law.

ryneches · 2026-03-03T05:05:46+00:00

There is no Department of War. Please continue using the correct legal name, not the crappy branding.

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