Damn, that's rough. Sorry man.

Why didn't they do a biopsy before going in to remove your pancreas? Pancreatic cancer is nasty, so I understand not taking a chance, but seems like they should have been able to do a biopsy during the procedure and adjust plans according to that.

Hopefully you are at least on an insulin pump instead of MDI. I did 4 shots a day for ~10 years because I didn't want the pump getting in the way of playing with my young children. It was a big upgrade in quality of life switching to the pump. Then, of course, getting a CGMS made a huge improvement in managing my blood sugar levels. Such a long way from where this stuff was a few decades ago...

Except that is all wrong. There are no current fixes for T2 diabetes, although for some people they can manage it via diet and exercise. Others require pills to deal with insulin resistance. Fewer yet require insulin shots. YMMV

For T1 diabetes, you aren't "born with it". Having a genetic predisposition for it is not the same as having it. While you may get T1 as a baby or child, it can happen quite a bit later. In my case, I wasn't diagnosed until I was 25 years old.

There is absolutely a sudden shift in your lifestyle when the beta cells on your pancreas decide to go on a permanent vacation!

I found that EEs were either fantastic developers that were particularly good at debugging or they were horrible hacks of the worst sort.

The really good ones tended to be that way not just because they were smart + super detail oriented, but more from the fact that they enjoyed programming and did it on their own for the joy of it. That put them way above CS grads that never did anything other than class assignments and went into it just for the money.

The horrible hacks were mostly writing crappy firmware to get their hardware to work. Twiddling register values until they found a combination that happened to work on the board they were testing on instead of designing to timing specs, etc.

Not everyone fit into those two buckets of course, but it sure was a fairly common pattern.

^ This. So many companies get hung up on only hiring from Stanford, Berkley, MIT, etc. Plenty of talented developers outside of the those select few universities.

While it's true that you can't be compelled to produce a password in the USA, that's not why. It's Fifth Amendment that provides that protection: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, "

Smaller kW number, sure, but it's large enough that I don't think "small fry" applies. See news articles from the recent snowpocalypse in Texas where people powered their homes for days with the built-in generator on their new Fords.

As a work truck, it needs enough juice (amps) to run power whatever on-site tools are being used. As long as there is gas in the tank, you are good. Having 1.21 gigawatts doesn't improve the day-to-day utility...

Not even remotely true for (pre-COVID) business travelers. I didn't particularly care how much a cab or Uber cost. It's all about the convenience, reliability and service.

If you ignore the condition of the cars, cabs are perfectly fine going from the hotel to where you need/want to go. The problem is getting back. Maybe you'll be able to wave a cab down. Maybe the cab will bother to show up if you call and order one directly. It's a total crapshoot...

Uber/Lyft eliminates all those pain points utterly. Not only that, they fix a huge security problem around payments. No worries about whether the driver is going to steal your CC number or whether they are going to charge you more than they should. This one is huge!/p

Anecdotes for the win! /s

I live in Texas and have fiber to my house. Everyone in my neighborhood has fiber to their house. Actual real gigabit service (1000Mbps up/down) available if you want it. I'd still have it if AT&T's gateways weren't so crappy.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, the whole notion of having to artificially generate external noise is more than a little ridiculous.

That certainly doesn't match my experience when I test drove one a few weeks ago. The 2021 e-tron was remarkably quiet even compared to a Tesla, with all the quality level finish and surfaces you'd expect in an Audi.