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Comment Re:What is the problem? (Score 1) 199

>> for better worse, the voters of California approved CAHSR only on the condition that it connect the inland cities. There's a legitimate logic to it. It's just American logic and not French logic.

> Ah, yes. France is pretty special in that everything has to connect to Paris. That is not the general situation.

That wasn't the point being made and makes no sense in context.

Comment Re:My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Comment My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

Comment Yep (Score 1) 186

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

Comment Re:Calling it a lead is very generous (Score 1) 28

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

Submission + - Intel 8080 bottleneck made classic Space Invaders run faster as enemies died (tomshardware.com)

alternative_right writes: One of the most charming bug = feature tales is the story behind the thrilling crescendo of pacing gamers experienced when playing the original Space Invaders arcade machine. This weekend, self-proclaimed C/C++ expert Zuhaitz reminded us that the adrenaline-pumping rising intensity of Taito’s arcade classic was not due to genius-level coding. Rather, it was simply the fact that the underlying Intel 8080 could run the game code faster as aliens were wiped from the screen one by one, by the player dishing out laser missile death.

Submission + - Iceland Just Found Its First Mosquitoes (cnn.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Iceland’s frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This week, scientists announced the discovery of three mosquitoes — marking the country’s first confirmed finding of these insects in the wild. Mosquitoes are found almost everywhere in the world, with the exception of Antarctica and, until very recently, Iceland, due to their extreme cold.

The mosquitoes were discovered by Bjorn Hjaltason in Kioafell, Kjos, in western Iceland about 20 miles north of the capital Reykjavik. “At dusk on October 16, I caught sight of a strange fly,” Hjaltason posted in a Facebook group about insects, according to reports in the Icelandic media. “I immediately suspected what was going on and quickly collected the fly,” he added.

He contacted Matthías Alfreosson, an entomologist at the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, who drove out to Hjaltason’s house the next day. They captured three in total, two females and a male. Alfreðsson identified them as mosquitoes from the Culiseta annulata species. A single mosquito from a different species was discovered many years ago on an airplane at the country’s Keflavik International Airport, Alfreosson told CNN, but this “is the first record of mosquitoes occurring in the natural environment in Iceland.”

Comment Re:Who knew this, and when did they know it? (Score 1) 126

> If there were advances in the state of the art of sky color,

My analogy is sensible and your attempt to extend it, is nonsensical. I don't think you're interested in good faith discussion, but I'll try to make the world a slightly better place with some facts.

There are multiple classes of Antiarrhythmic agents that address different chemical channels, to the same effect. Heart trauma, from surgery scarring to infarctions, and variable base chemistry, requires an array of different channels to reduce heart rate consistently. Multiple channel treatments are often used in tandem or rotated. These are called beta blockers for simplicity. ie These drugs stop the signals from the spine from getting to the heart the same way they normally would.

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Beta blockers are not magic, nor were they invented in the 50s or the 90s. The invention of a treatment does not correlate with the performance of a formal study accepted by modern medicine in some locale. Studies are necessarily narrow and it can take decades for a particular treatment vector to be confirmed or decried, despite the treatment being widely used prior in a more general application. Heart arrhythmias, have a very similar treatment across the world, across time.

> I've lived long enough to watch drugs be introduced, grow popular, and then be declared ineffective and even harmful.

As a heart patient of 50 years (first surgery at age 2), having spent a non-trivial amount of my life in hospital and bedridden at times, I am painfully aware that beta blockers are not one of them. Going from 200 bpm to 80 with an IV/pill is demonstrable and prevents the heart from tearing itself apart. Beta blockers save lives, period. Statistically, you will be treated with beta blockers as well, regardless of your feelings.

If you want to argue about blood thinners, the advances in that chemical realm are varied and a mixed bag. If you want to argue about valve technology, the blood flow dynamics and testing is generations beyond even my second valve replacement over 20 years ago due to automation, material technology, sample data, and evolved standards.

I hope this helps you in your next discussion about the topic.

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