The paper claims that the photochemistry of the particles is important to the process; allows them to generate free oxygen at the target site when illuminated without the downsides of just shoving hydrogen peroxide into your sinuses and oxidizing things indiscriminately.

I'm unclear on why small magnetic particles are being called 'robots' now; by that logic you could claim that laser printers use nanorobot swarms to produce text; or that paint is actually an aqueous suspension of visual-band signaling nanites; but it sounds like the surface chemistry of the particles is an important part of the process.

If you were using iron you might be able to get similar effects by inductive heating once you delivered them to the target area; you absolutely could destroy cells in the immediate proximity that way; but it would come down to what option is easier to tightly control and, ideally, more discriminating between bacteria and local human cells. I assume that the actually-qualified people chose photochemistry and free oxygen over inductive heating for good reasons; but I don't know how they compare.

It's not that weird. Much of what Steam sells won't run as expected without some amount of 32 bit support(you are much less likely to find that the main game is 32 bit for anything that got a cross platform release with an 8th gen console, since all but the switch had more than 4GB of RAM; but absolutely no promises on every config launcher or random middleware component); and the steam client itself has, thankfully, remained comparatively lightweight. Probably not as light as it could be; but on the speedier end of programs that are basically web browsers with some background extras.

Not being 64 bit is more of an issue in cases where your one program is the only reason an entire 32 bit support environment is being loaded up; but that's very unlikely to be the case on a windows gaming system and fairly unlikely to be the case on a linux gaming one; and is no longer a terribly relevant consideration on MacOS now that Apple just executed all the 32 bit stuff. Maybe more people than I think are running Steam on TV-connected PCs purely as a remote play client?

It's not desperately elegant; and if they were holding off because they viewed it as an actually hard problem you' be a bit worried about either the state of the codebase or the people working on it; but it's hard to make a strong case for a 64 bit steam client being a particularly urgent priority; given the software that you normally use steam to install and run.

To be fair, if you can code in Java, you can code in TypeScript or JavaScript. I mean, the object declaration syntax is an abomination, but other than that, there's nothing super complex about moving from one object-oriented programming language to another, though you may get non-idiomatic stuff. (As they say, "A good Java programmer can write Java in any programming language.")

That's sad.

It's probably worth noting that anyone with experience in industry probably doesn't have a portfolio site, so if you expect that, you'll be limiting yourself to new grads. If you like weird code related to PTZ cameras, I have a couple of coding-related personal projects on the side, but I can't show you anything else that I've worked on since I started in the industry other than some developer documentation (which many other people have worked on over the years since I last touched it). I doubt I'm alone in that.

At some point, folks do coding interviews because seeing how people approach writing code is the only way to know if they can write code. And it has to be done in person, or else you'll be finding out how good some AI is at writing code instead more often than not. And that's expensive, which is why people who don't live physically in the area you're hiring are challenging.

And this is why I suspect you're missing a lot of good people. As many people as have gotten laid off, most of whom were working successfully at other companies, they can't mostly be useless. Maybe they will take a little bit longer to come up to speed on whatever framework you're using, or whatever language you're using, but rejecting them out of hand for that is a bit like not hiring a construction worker because they've only worked with DeWalt tools and you use Makita.

Yeah, the obvious fakes are obvious. I don't know who they think they're going to fool, other than AI-based résumé scanners, and if someone lies on their résumé and gets caught, they'll still get fired even if they were working at the company competently, so they're really not doing themselves any favors by pulling stunts like that.

As for me, my résumé also includes my music background. It is surprising how often that gets noticed and has even ended up being part of interview questions at times. It may not get you past the bot scanners, but you never know.

It's only a single lane of PCIe, so the ~32 gigabit total throughput is probably not realistically enough for 6 links at 5 gigabits each, but then again the Pi's CPU probably can't handle the traffic from six saturated USB 3 links, either. :-D

I think that a majority of welding in the manufacturing world is already done robotically these days. Given modern AI advances, it stands to reason that this will become more widespread in construction and other areas sooner, rather than later. I would be surprised if you could make a 50-year career of it at this point. I'd give it twenty years before the work starts drying up.

The same is true for plumbing and electrical work, but less so, because there's so much more of that, and so much of it is bespoke, making repairs a bit more challenging. Even still, you'll have robots doing a lot of the work by the time you retire, just maybe not all of it.

How is there "no real viable way we could afford that in the US" when other countries can afford it? Very clearly it's affordable given the number of countries currently using such systems.

Don't many of these socialized medicine countries also have tax rates for most people WELL north of 50%?

That's gonna be a key sticking point in the US, no one here will tolerate their taxes going up that much for the Feds....and don't forget that would be in addition to state and local taxes.

I'm quite happy with my insurance coverage and medical coverage I have....I recently had surgery, and it was done in a timely manner, and even my ER return for a PE that was a post surgical problem..was caught and treated. It didn't cost me that much outta pocket....and I was happy to have had the treatment and life saving care.

Granted, anecdotal story by one....but still, I've not experienced the nightmares others seem to be pushing as the common US narrative .....

That's not really true. Most EVs have sealed packs, and should survive flooding without catching fire, though the safety fuses will self destruct to prevent extreme discharge, which means the packs will have to be opened up to repair them afterwards.

And most EVs use LiFePO4 cells, which tend to be pretty robust against thermal runaway.

So if these batteries exhibited thermal runaway, it likely means A. they're older cell chemistry for cost reasons, and B. the cells had dendrites or other manufacturing defects, again pointing towards low-quality parts. Either that or C. they didn't provide adequate protection for the battery underneath and it got punctured during transport somehow. Any way you cut it, assuming an EV actually started the fire as the summary seems to imply, it points to a design problem or a quality control problem, not an accident, IMO.

Also, as others have mentioned, there is approximately no elemental lithium in lithium ion batteries. They do burn, but lithium salts don't react violently when you get them wet. LiFePO4 just dissolves in water. A little bit of the outside turns into Li3PO4, and you end up with some extra iron, but otherwise, nothing happens.

Obesity is probably going to become rare in the next 10 years, now we have really effective medication for it. The biggest step change will be when the patents expire and generic versions become available for a small fraction of the price they want today.

The many potential side effects scare me off of the GLP-1 meds.....I mean, spontaneous irreversible blindness comes to mind.

I'd rather be fat that risk that.

Will several hundred dollar wrist watches be bought for everyone? My wife has a galaxy watch and it only took four years for the battery to wear out and hold less than a day of charge Not only is the battery replacement part $150 on its own, but there is no one within hours of me that can replace it. --

You might look into the Apple Watch series....my; first one I think version 2 worked for quite a long time...my currentl Apple Watch Ultra 2 is now about 2+ years old, going strong with multi-days on a charge....and it is easy to get a battery swap if you need at an Apple Store whether you have one near you or ship it to them.

I've been MORE than happy with their electronic watch offerings....and customer service.

Single payer healthcare.

The problem is....there's no real viable way we could afford that in the US.

i mean currently we cannot afford the single payer systems we DO currently have : Medicare, Medicaid and the VA system.....

How would you propose to fund such a system as you propose? We'd have to have basic tax rates on everyone well over 50% I'd estimate...likely higher and I don't think that would fly well here in the US.

What are your suggestions?

Hell, every new car on the market has TPMS now

What is TPMS? New term for me...

I just said wifi 6 because that's what all the stuff on their website was. That's what struck me as weirdly unambitious for someone who is pushing a wiring standard capable of substantially more.

I don't write marketing copy; but if I were emphasizing the superiority of fiber I would have bulked out the list of models with at least a few blatantly 10Gb or higher options; rather than a bunch of random undemanding APs.

Yeah, but what about this 5g transmitters in the vaccine? Sure, your cancer is cured, but then you're under mind control of China and may even have an unquenchable desire for sex selective surgery so you can go into women's washrooms...

He's just a plain nut job. I doubt even he has any kind of meaningful political affiliation. He's just deranged.

Higher than you think. Vehicles drive through water all the time, and if water can get into the battery because of ocean spray, it can get in when you go through a big puddle, too. And then a few hours later, the water seeps into the right spot.... There's a reason most car manufacturers make their batteries entirely waterproof. For cars sold in the U.S., I think they're actually required to be IP66 or better.