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Sounds cool :-) I think we'd forgive you for providing a direct link to this product.


There's a bajillion of them around if you search "neck cooler" or similar. Very simple product sticking a few commodity items together. Some do only have fans though.

When I looked a while ago there wasn't really a clear winner or high quality unit. There is the "Coolify" series that are much more expensive but still somewhat middling reviews overall.


No link, I have the Ranvoo Aice Lite. Couple hundred bucks on Amazon.

That works great for your basement but what's the impact of low humidity on ancient books?


You definitely wouldn't want to go all the way to zero. 30-50% RH is generally the sweet spot for archival purposes.


The library also talks about having a huge mold problem, so it would likely be positive.


Looming human extinction? Bro, all you need to fix this "problem" in the West is more immigrants.


Immigrant countries are experiencing the same trend. Soon countries will be fighting for immigrants.


If there's no culture, development level, and way of life preferences, for different national states and ethnic groups, and humans are just interchangeable units, sure. Just add as many immigrants as you want, problem solved.

Adding, say, to a country an additional 10%-20% of its current population in people from another culture, to be the younger and more fertile group, in an aging domestic population, would absolutely go without issue.

At least, if we also ignore that immigrant origin countries all see fertility drops, many projected to reach sub-fertility rates themselves soon, of course.


I read here (on Hacker News) that the stool test is actually really valuable and cheap enough to pay out of pocket prior to trying to justify an out-of-schedule colonoscopy.


Is it at home ones or ones that you send sample to get sequenced?


Not to mention the prepare for a colonoscopy is not pleasant.


And colonoscopies are invasive procedures that have their own risks. Perforated bowel can turn this "routine" procedure into an emergency.


Gentle reminder for Australian folks here, you can get a bowel screening test kit for free, if you're between 45 - 74 years of age.

https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/national-bowel-cancer-scr...


I would just like to recommend this excellent Radiolab episode about saving lives during heart attacks: https://radiolab.org/podcast/how-to-save-a-life


Sir, this is Hacker News.


Right, but even HN peeps need a vacay


Well, I don't hack wifi networks as part of my day job.

I'm an older dude, and no longer find talking to strangers all that fun.

I like nature and the outdoors, but that can be admired only from a great distance until you make port. Going fishing off a moving cruise ship will end your vacation rather quickly (aside from not being feasible - you're going too fast for anything which is catchable on light tackle).

I love the swimming pools and such, but my wife can't swim.

There's all kinds of gambling and stuff, but I don't gamble.

I spent much of the cruise wishing for better internet... Or that I'd brought more books.

We spent a good amount of time playing FF7 in the evenings on our hotel TV wired up to a PSP.


clearly, we're all free to do whatever for our precious time off, but you just listed a whole lot of things that you don't like to do yet you paid for it anyways. again, we all like different things, but i'd prefer to spend money doing things I enjoy, but you do you


Those wet wipes shouldn't be flushed down the down the toilet, even if they're labeled "flushable", here's a nice PDF infographic from the city of Los Angeles explaining why: https://sanitation.lacity.gov/san/sandocview?docname=cnt0365...


Yeah, if something comes wet in a package, it means it isn't going to dissolve in water, and at the end of the day is like flushing pieces of cloth down the toilet and will cause problems somewhere down the line.

Ass tons of people still do it though,and without legislation to prevent marketing it as fine, it is mostly municipal sewage, and thus everyone overall, that will pay for the additional maintenance caused by the few.


It's a good thing not everyone lives in LA.


This is a rather glib reply that doesn't address the substance of the post you're replying to.


Do they need to post sources for every possible municipality? Los Angeles is actually a very definitive source on them being bad for sanitation systems. LA is a pretty young city, they really don't have any terribly ancient sewage systems. There were apparently still wooden pipes in service in Philly in 2017 [0], probably there still are some in service right now. LA's oldest infrastructure could conceivably be from the 1860s, and realistically their oldest infrastructure would be from the 1910s. If their sanitation district advises against it, why would we expect older cities like NYC or Baltimore to fare better?

[0] https://philly.curbed.com/2017/5/5/15545532/philadelphia-wat...


If you're interested in Everest, I loved Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer - it's absolutely fantastic and available on Audible. Then last week I discovered Everest on Netflix, which isn't great but it's based on the book and they do a good job showing you the route and distances between the camps with CGI.

Anyways, after all that I have zero desire to ever go near Everest or any other risky mountain climb.


The yt channel I mentioned (link below), is half dedicated to speculating ifMallory and Irvine first summiited everest in the 24' expedition and the other half is dedicated to proving that Krakauer is lying in his book. Michael Tracy is some lawyer that really doesn't like Krakauer's account of 1996 and has some interesting points, I recommend you check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/@michaeltracy2356


Local LLMs are almost here, no Internet needed!


Almost?

I've been running a programming LLM locally, with a 200k context length with using system ram.

Its also an abliterated model, so I get none of the moralizing or forced ethics either. I ask, and it answers.

I even have it hooked up to my HomeAssistant, and can trigger complex actions from there.


What model are you using and what kind of hardware are you running it on?


I bought VueScan in 2014 specifically for a Canon scanner, looks like it's still around: https://www.hamrick.com/


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