Thank you.

Brian Higgins had an unbelievably good 2023.

Would you care to list them so the conversation can be more complete?

No, the boomers with all their magic environment poisoning synthetic fabrics with antiwrinkle coatings did. The next seven generations will have microplastics in every part of their body, but I haven’t touched an iron in a while.

Sorry, I must have skimmed too quickly and missed that.

Look for an expiration date. Radionucleotide style detectors end up failing with false positives when they reach end of life. You might need to have all the old ones replaced.

And the algorithm AI does magic to make our product more awesome than the competitor.

Yeah, the lack of formal definition of what is and is not considered ai definitely muddies the waters when talking about applications and capabilities.

Ai is already being incorporated into chip design tools like synopsys. TechTechPotato has an interesting interview with Aart de Geus that is relevant.

Ai is far off from making high level design improvements, but it can greatly reduce the workload on trace and route and other design steps.

My sister got a stand up desk and an under desk treadmill. She has issues with blood pooling so frequent movement is a must. She says it also helps her maintain concentration.

How much do you think nurses make?

I’ve been to red lobster once and spent a very uncomfortable period of time on the porcelain throne shortly after. The news of bankruptcy does not surprise me.

Silicone? I suppose even sex toys need proper security these days.

Can you explain what the weekly limit is about? I know very little about scuba.

Bamboo is just a really big grass. Most grasses can handle having their stems bent to extreme angles because they’re hollow. So the bending folds the outer layer rather than ripping it apart entirely.

The 14 °C is a really nice touch. Well done.

Not at all. I’ve shoveled snow once in the last five years and didn’t enjoy it one bit.

I grew up in WI and have had enough of winters for a lifetime.

I had a lot of professors who put most of the grade weight on large projects. It made for a very heavy workload, but projects/ papers give a much better picture of how capable someone is of not only reciting knowledge, but also applying it.

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Did they use the same style and gender of connector for both power and signal?

Even if you’re confident that the only people working a task are competent, they will eventually do something idiotic. Someone will have multiple nights with barely any sleep, or work really long shifts, or have a terrible event in their personal life. Eventually, someone will be trying to do their job while not fit for the task.

The concept of idiot proofing can sound derogatory or elitist at times, but the reality is that any one of us could end up being the idiot given bad enough circumstances.