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Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 69

So, disclaimer, technician HP Printers here.
What I've seen, since i work with more LaserJets than DesignJets, but Mono LaserJets with integrated image drums on toner cartridges do have the image drums wear out. Modern Laser Printers for home use a combination toner, recovery container, image drum and developer unit. Believe it or not, the developer units have some iron mixed in with the developer powder to assist in the electrical charges needed. On large printers, there's a separate unit and we have to replace these, and/or refill the powder for that.
The image drums do in fact get bad on combined mono, but that's mostly because people use paper that ends up damaging it. Think like paper that has adhesive (labels), or foil (in transit stickers) or other things that can actually scrape and damage the image drum.

We've seen on ink printers where jams have been known to damage the ink heads, and I've seen this happen with my canon Pixma printers as well as my EcoTank.

Recovery ink pads on printers are a huge issue, as not many of them will let you easily replace them, let alone find a source (I can't find any for my canon, but I did for my Epson EcoTank).
My Canon has removable ink heads, for all 5 colors at once, but they are really expensive, wear down quick to where they start clogging, and are difficult to get them cleared again.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but a seperate ink head doesn't exactly fix issues, when people don't print a lot, the ink dries out and clogs the heads. So now you have some printers with non-removable heads, that are difficult to fix, and if you have an ink tank, good luck with the mess that comes from replacing the head and pulling the ink lines. You also have to purge the air from the heads and lines when doing that, and not every printer has the ability to do that. I know DesignJets do, but it's a messy process to swap the lines, and it's very lengthy to charge the lines and remove air.

There isn't a really good solution that isn't messy or expensive, unless everyone wants to go back to dot matrix. I've seen, no matter the implementation, there isn't an easy way to design a robust printer in which the heads will never wear out. Even the newspaper using lithography requires regular maintenance. How many of you do required maintenance on your printers? How about how many of you have replaced a fuser on a laser printer that requires tear aparts?

I do with HP made more easily repairable printers, especially for consumers, but in the meantime, there's a ton of ways I've seen people who work these, fuck up and damage the heads and drums from stupid stuff. I've also seen power supplies fry the heads, or damage drums due to plastic parts getting brittle and breaking.

Comment It depends (Score 1) 47

My depression grows worse when anxiety grows worse. I've reduced anxiety by occasionally using a small amount of legal Delta-8. Small amount means:
5mg, overnight, 1x a week.

Immediately the next day, I feel calmer, which means I don't fret about shit, blow things out of proportion, and it helps over-all continuing anxiety by keeping it low.

Depression kicks in when anxiety is high long enough for me to realize I'm not gaining any ground, and I start shutting down rather than deal with it.

I'm on over 12 prescriptions due to auto-immune issues, that made other parts of my body worse. I'm even undergoing infusions for it due to the damage it caused. Anti-depressants (Something I was on since a kid) can interact badly with some of these, and because of injury to my body in past (car accidents, assaults), it's been known to hit the levels in my head causing seratonin syndrome due to how they all interact and the mechanisms they use.
Delta has allowed me to concentrate on my body's immune system issues, without fear of triggering the seratonin issue. But if I over-use Delta, it can make me sick or lethargic.
Now, I haven't experimented with other types of legal or illegal substances, but there does make a case that throwing pharmaceuticals at medically complex people is a *very* bad idea, knowing that many of those can cause deadly interactions, but being able to use alternatives to some of the current offerings can help the more complex cases. Caffeine doesn't affect everyone the same way. for me, no effect, and that means i can chug a pot of coffee (have done before) or 6 shots of espresso, and fall asleep right afterwards, and the only effect it gives me is a racing and palpatating heart. So if caffeine doesn't work, what does?
Well, these more natural methods may be more useful when it comes to people who do have a limit on what pharmaceuticals they can take without interactions, or when the rival placeabo affect (in the case caffeine) does nothing.

You can't claim caffeine can be used as a placebo, as it doesn't work the same way in everyone, and sometimes it doesn't work at all, so you need to make these claims against a sugar pill, and likely since you are comparing against two stimulants, it's not a good argument. do it vs pure nothing, then see how they go. Because a stimulant is a stimulant, and if anxiety causes depression, then a stimulant can make you more productive, and if you define a lot of your life by your output, you will less likely be depressed if you percieve you are not just turning your gears and gaining no grounds, as you will see results better than when there's no stimulant.

I only throw my two cents in, because this study doesn't really show anything, other than stimulants perform the same, and that's about it. It doesn't actually do a blind test between that and nothing. And the issue why we need a non-pharmatceutical study, is because pharmas are no longer trusted the way they were before, and people are on more and every increasing amount of prescriptions that are causing interactions and can lead to some deadly outcomes. Especially as people start getting more medically complex. I'd love to see the study be used on those individuals, who are hitting an ever increasing issue for medical systems that may be running out of ways to treat them safely. Or at least, without having to add another med to counter the side effects of the anti depressant (which has been the case with me as well).

Comment Formulaic (Score 1) 68

This is because most music, like movies written these days, is formulaic. It's easy to reproduce something when they have proven that almost all music these days sounds a-like.

Sadly, since the beatles have come and gone, the one things successful bands discovered, is that there is a formula to songs, and all it takes to keep hitting the charts, is to not deviate.

Sadly, this means, there's no vast creativity in music, because in order to get played, you are required to be under a certain length, as well as stick to the formula, and now that Tik-Tok has entered the stage, I predict in the future, music will get even shorter and more formulaic to match attention spans.

This is why almost all movies (such as marvel) is derivative, never is conclusive story line, lacking creativity, and pure utter drivel, it's because hollywood destroyed the industry by refusing the fund anything unless it hits exactly to a formula they use commonly. The one time it backfired, is the time when Lincoln came out, as it didn't conform to it, and it was basically the public being tired. Now they've tweaked it, and we are back to this inane crap devoid of anything unique.

Music is highly susceptible to this, and with so many stations owned by only a handful of capitalistic-centered companies (like iHeart Radio), plan on seeing more drivel and crap come out that sounds alike, which would be the only way an A.I. Song would be able to chart, as they allowed it, since more royalty free music means less they pay out, while people have no choice except listen, since 85% of stations in the area are owned by the same company, and they sell ads without having to pay artists.

This has been heading this way for quite a while...

Comment Re:Heat dissipation? Yields? (Score 2) 79

I wonder if the peltier effect / Peltier Cooling would be the solution to this, obviously in a very thin form. You could use the outside edges of the chip substrate to move the heat too, however coolers would require re-design, but that's a possible way to limit the heat between the layers by adding Peltier type cooling in the sandwich.

Comment Re:I don't want a humanoid, I want my laundry done (Score 2) 92

My wife will wash, but won't hang. That's the only part of the job I end up having to do. She just leaves it in a basket on the floor. Granted, she has a lot of health problems herself, but I have back issues myself. Plus I work a job that is physically demanding (I fix large printers for a *Very* hated company here that likes to brick printers left and right over ink, but I work in commercial and couldn't care less if I saw "After market" unless it is the root cause), so I come home and hurt by the end of the day.

Something that could hang the clothes, plus mow the grass would be huge, especially since I have a lot of pain after work and want to just recover on the weekend.

A lot of personal living and daily life gets interrupted when you get old, and god help you if you have a physical mobility issues when young. You are screwed without a competent caregiver. This is the area where humanoid robots could make quality of living better.

Even better is services for them, where a company uses these for people trying to live independantly, and they can assist in that. Basically, a person drops them off in a van for a few hours, picks them up and recharges them, but it would ease the burden and lack of staffing in this area, and be cheaper to run long term than staffing for medical service company, plus likely provide a bunch of money for the company through public medicare/medicaid insurance. I saw in my state, even applied behavioural analasys services has skyrocketed in costs 2000% causing a review due to the amount of money being used for autism/etc .. assistance. this means a lot of money is getting thrown about, and this service could use:
1. Better staffing and care
2. Cheaper running services overall
3. More efficiency
4. The ability to use less money so it doesn't sit on the end of getting cut off
5. longer stability so it doesn't keep dipping below the needed quality of care.

So even with a wife, this would be heavily useful, even if I had to rent one.

Comment Re:FireWire iPod? (Score 1) 64

5 or 10GB. Not Megabyte, GIGABYTE's.
And only for a generation. It also had a mechanical scroll wheel (as opposed to the touch-based which didn't turn) and could easily be used as an external boot device.

iPods still have their active fanbase. I have an old 80GB Video that the internal 1.8" LIF hard drive died. I replaced it with an SD Card with adapter that converts it to CF-Flash. and I replaced the front, as well as the battery. It can last a long time on a charge, and use it in the car because the 128GB is damn convenient and carries my ENTIRE 90GB music collection, which has some *very large* audio tracks on it. It's awesome, and an ok-ish clunky flash drive if needed. Too bad it uses the 30-pin connector, but it works with most of those older speaker systems you see at goodwill. In my case, my Bose sounddock I picked up with remote for $10 is awesome to use with it, and it can control it from the remote as well. But it's not as large as my phone, and has a lot of storage for cheap, so it's why I keep it around. Especially when I bike. And since it has an audio out put that can do TRS with mic input, it works with most headsets, doesn't require powered headsets or pairing, and doesn't constantly interrupt my music on my phone with all the texts, etc... that keep coming in while I drive during work time. So it's convenient and keeps the distractions down.

Comment Re:So its only ... (Score 1) 48

They could ask:
What happened to your first girlfriend:
Mine's in jail now

or:
What caused your last divorce:
Infidelity (Not mine).

That may be harder to look up, depending on how those answers changed.
Maybe:
What sex does your favorite pet have:
Male/Female, Neutered, Other

Or:
What car did you take your driver's test in.

What color did you paint your shack's bedroom in
  Or:
What was the first video game you beat

Or:
How many seconds was the longest belch you've ripped off:

Or:

How many friends did you have in highschool.

Almost none of these are easily verifiable, and technically are harder to source online. Plus some do change, so it means it may make info out of date.

Ideally, you want recovery questions which:
Require updating of 2 that do change
Require 4 that don't.

at least 3 that don't change, one that does that requires updating, and thirdly, a very specific one, to recover, should include some legal ID that has an expiration on upload of no more than 12 hours, with some kind of encryption with script that wipes it, and requires a password that changes to access (Key unlock) with no ability to do a snipping of any kind, that or live verification (Biometric) against a picture of your face with some barometric device. many phones have cameras, and can be compared. either that, or use that alongside the others with some human-based verification of just the picture (live mode in app or browser) for 3 sides of your face (Not to be kept) vs. a registered picture.
This should all be used with financial or some such protected data. Not the average website. and it would be good enough to allow security on those sites, followed by MFA for regular login.

Comment Re: The death row inmates are a victim of the sta (Score 1) 77

From what I understand, itâ(TM)s cheaper to lock them up and throw away the key compared to death row as there are automated appeal systems that keep bringing up before the courts on death row. So it costs more for death penalty due to the constant appeal process included in the sentences that are automatically triggered on behalf of the convicted. So the admin costs is higher than throwing away the key where they just forget they existed.

Comment Re:This was addressed (Score 1) 244

"In comparison, the US has epidemics of obesity, childhood diabetes, and autism."

"These three are the elephants in the room, ..."

these days"three epidemics" are not "epidemics" and have nothing to do with the anti vaxxers.

Thanks for stating that my autism is an epidemic to be compared with many selfishly and stupidly caused issues of over-indulgence. Not to mention, something to be cured. This isn't an epidemic. It's like that car effect where after you see a particular (maybe unique) car, catches your attention, you notice many more once you are aware of them, and find out they are out and about and more common than you think. First, the rise in autism is being blurred by high and low functioning being mixed together, and second, the criteria to diagnose and label has changed, which has included way more in the discovery ability, and more in smashing many different types together, that there used to be "Autism" and "Asperger's Syndrome" now smashed together and labeled outright as "Autism."

Instantly that almost more than double the amount of people under it, and from my perspective, by declaring it a disease, you act very genocidal in nature as it's many times a trait to be removed from society. I'm thinking this is more of a genetic alteration that has been an evolutionary change unfolding in front of our eyes, and some evolutionary changes have caused certain sections of species and development to die out, or to thrive. It's possible it's one of the next evolutionary changes in humanity going on, and sometimes the genetics don't match up. Like how humans evolved from previous genus of Piltdown Man, Java Man, Homopithecus, or Homoerectus. It's likely, as our physical structure has mostly stopped evolving, the next thing is in intellectualism.

And frankly, it's insulting to call what makes me "Me" a disease and something that has to be eradicated. Why not the other way around? I'm pretty sure my IQ is likely larger than a lot of voting citizens, yet somehow, stupidity is rewarded, nay exalted and looked on as a point of pride. But this isn't a disease, when a "Disease" usually has more adverse affects than anything positive to benefit from. My higher IQ isn't a downside, it let's me see the bullshit in this debate, and even more, bullshit in trying to eradicate what is essentially, how i see is a more evolutionary trait unfolding in real time. Pretty sure cavemen must've looked down on their smarter brethren, when the smarter brethren could plan for food issues like winter and stock up, rather than risk dying in elements to hunt when gatherers/farmers had the foresight to gather more than needed, in advance, and find a way to store it to avoid risking elements and death during periods of uncertainty and low yield food.

STOP calling me a problem to be dealt with! You chuckle heads don't realize have the time it's you idiots, that are stubborn as hell, refuse to admit being just that, stupid. Don't drag me down to your level with mud flinging. Next person to tell me I need to be cured is getting their job replaced with a small shell script...

Comment Re:Try and try again. (Score 2) 26

I honestly never even know about this fact. Took me looking up thinking what POGO was, thinking it was an acronym. For those that don't know (or never heard of it), it's vibrations going through the structure of a rocket, back and forth like the bouncing of a pogo stick, which can cause instability in combustable components like fuel, and the longitudinal vibrations bounce up and down. similar to shaking a can of soda real hard back and forth, shake-weight style until it explodes. I imagine a lot of components would need dampeners in the mounts, as this could shear bolts and whatnot from the G-Forces of vibrations amplified by super high frequencies in shifts. I'm guessing not just the rumble of the parts of the rocket, but the aerodynamics and wind physics going across the body of the rocket causing pockets of turbulance would be the likely cause of this affect, but never even thought that. Almost like reflections in signal or RADAR bounces. But until this, I didn't even think about this problem on rockets. Kinda cool to learn that this existed. Granted, I'm not an engineer, but I imagine this would also be applicable in failures of things like chassis on cars from potholes/etc.. including car part failures from road noise.

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