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  • No immediate single idea.

    I want to say a sleuce/overflow gate or valve of some sort.
    Remote control and actuator in the top (or the control is in the separate cabinet you mention, and the modot is on top), with the vertical shaft down to the gate (or a protective cover around the shaft, cause that vertical pipe is massive if that is actually the shaft).

    It does look like it has welded diagonal bracing between the pipe and the structure (as opposed to the u-bolt clamping that seems the initially intended methods), as if some rotational force has previously caused misalignment.

    Might be some sort of sensor tube, and the “high voltage box” is just an enclosure for the control systems. Doesn’t explain the added welded braces tho.

    Any more pictures?




  • I dunno if you want a reply from a guy.
    I am on meds that have some wild side effects, I know what they are and I can deal with them on small amounts.
    At no point have I dealt with more than 2 of them at once.
    At no point are they any where near anything you have described.
    If they were, I would complain and hopefully change meds or change doctor.

    You need to continue getting help.
    You need to get medical help. Professional help. Not Fediverser.

    Some of these may be “normal” (I dunno, I ain’t a gal), but all together they are not. And they are affecting your life , so SOMETHING is wrong.
    You have enough of a list (as well as enough conviction to argue against the popular comments)… Sounds like you have enough evidence and conviction to find a doctor that can actually help you.
    Keep trying, keep working to get help.

    Hypochondria is still a medical condition, it can still be treated.
    But I don’t believe (not a doctor) it actually transverses physical conditions like back pain and vomiting.
    So maybe it’s both? Mental health is still medical.

    Seriously, don’t give up of actual qualified medical help. Keep trying, keep going until you are happy.
    This is key: keep going until you get the help you need



  • A CNC shop wouldn’t start because someone decides “I want to start a CNC shop”.

    It would start cause some guy has a mill and a lathe for hobby stuff, and does some work for a mate or a local business.
    And then gets more work, and gets work that requires CNC, and gets more work than 1 person can deal with, and then needs more machines and machinists and CAD tech and designers and so on.

    Yeh, a business could get something from PCBway or whatever. But maybe they need it by the end of the day, or maybe they need an opinion on something, or maybe they can’t do the actual technical document production but can provide some measurements and a rough sketch.

    Apply that to anything.
    The UK Army’s L96A1 was made by 3 guys in a shed.

    The Ministry of Defence wanted Accuracy International to submit an entry, but when they won handily, suddenly the three men in Mr Walls’ shed were charged with producing over 1200 rifles and all of a sudden needed to prove they could make that many weapons.

    What they did was rent out a workshop for a day and filled it with all of the guns they had made in the shed up to that point, claimed the rest of the staff were out to lunch and later found out when they went to eat with the requisitions lieutenants that the inspection was purely to ensure the operation was not just three men in a shed.



  • “The view from halfway down” saved me from suicidal ideation, thoughts and intent. It was the first light that got me to realise suicidal ideation is not normal, it’s not a solution. It got me to listen to what friends were saying, and eventually led to me accepting the breakdown that got me professional help before I hurt myself. Not saying it’s the trigger, or the totality: I had a lot of help along the way. But definitely significant in so many dark times.

    The way Bojack Horseman approaches gender, sexuality and mental health is always extremely accepting, able to draw comedy because of it and not against it, and then being so utterly heartbreaking at times.
    Yeh, “sad horse” show. But it has so much depth.
    The constant development of BoJack, of Todd, of Diane causes you (well, it did for me) to reassess previous episodes in new light.
    Truly incredible.







  • The first play part is setting up arbitrary (in this case, player-entered) code execution.
    The 2nd part is entering the arbitrary code to be executed.
    The 3rd part is the arbitrary code being executed.

    From the description:

    This is a Tool-assisted run of Pokémon Yellow, playing around with arbitrary code execution and testing the limits of Gameboy hardware.

    Tool-assisted meaning a program entering the data into the game. A lot of times tool-assisted is in the context of a speed run, a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun).
    A TAS file can be shared and perfected by many people, and reflects the most optimised way to finish a game as fast as possible.
    Sometimes TAS runs include techniques that are “TAS only”, an extreme example being alternating between left & right every frame for 30 seconds. Sometimes these “TAS only” techniques end up being performed by actual speed runners. And some TAS runs are “Human viable” as in “no techniques used that can’t be executed by a speed runner”.

    Some TAS systems can interface with an actual console, pretending to be a controller (called “TAS Bot” I believe). Generally, they run the game in an emulator or interface with an emulator.

    So, this video is about a TAS (well, the tool-assisted part, not necessarily the speedrun part) setting up arbitrary code execution (ACE) that then executes a bunch of user-entered code, which is what happens in the rest of the video


  • Yeh, for 99% of casual internet users… they just aren’t going to care about that.
    They don’t want their email/Facebook/back account pwnd.
    Like, at all.

    It’s like saying that 0.01% of traffic fatalities are because an airbag forces your head into the roof of the car. So you should wear a helmet when driving.

    You aren’t wrong.
    Internet is a massive part of our daily lives. We should be able to fully trust the things we use to interact with it.
    But convenience is going to win




  • Yeh, same. Which is why I said ideally there would be 100% overlap with shifts. Always 2 doctors, offset by half a shift.
    Like, that is the fix. Peer review of decisions, easy conference/council/whatever-the-word-is, context can be handed over better (outgoings doc/nurse briefs incoming doc/nurse while remaining doc/nurse listens & supplements)

    But I have also been on gigs (I work in events) where there is a rig crew, a show crew and a derig crew.
    When everything is meticulously planned out and everything goes according to plan with all the communications in advance, it works. It does. (As a tech, I’d rather set up the kit I’m using). If I know it has been set up according to pre-communicated spec then I can work it. If it deviates and I have been in the loop, I can work with it. But if it turn up and it doesn’t make immediate sense then it is many times harder. If I am rigging kit without a clear concrete plan, then I am guessing what the tech wants.
    And I also know 2 lampies can’t co-light a gig unless they take turns.
    Someone has to be incharge, someone has to take responsibility.

    But I don’t think (and from what I have read, and I’m sure I have been somewhat misinformed) that applies directly to healthcare. Meticulous plans don’t exist. Every patient is different. Something minor reported and expected to go away on the last visit of the leaving doc that is then reported as slightly-more on the new docs visit… That could be significant. And a few extra hours on a shift could save a life, because of that easily dismissed/forgotten context/knowledge during a handover.

    2 doctors at all times is the fix. Or, actually, a voice-to-text and an LLM… Likely a decent usage of an LLM.
    It doesn’t need to know who/what the patient is. It doesn’t need to know co-morbidities, existing conditions, medications, treatmens etc. Just that the doctor is interacting with patient A, and here is a summary.
    Patent A is the same patient that a nurse interacts with.
    Helps with hangovers and context.
    Patient A is still in the hospital? Patient A still has a transcribed record that can be quickly summarised by a local (or onsite) LLM.
    Using onsite LLMs is no different than using a database. And it doesn’t have to be massive. 30m before a shift change, there can be a “notes after this time will not be summarised during handover so previous context can be summarised”. So doctors only have to remember the last 30m during a handover, and the rest of the context (even transcripts) are provided to prompt their memory for a better handover. It’s an information tool for doctors, not a crutch.
    And now I sound like an AI shill.

    Sorry for the wall of text. I’ve been drinking. I hate the “just use LLMs bro”, but think they have genuine utility when applied safely and locally.
    And I want doctors and nurses and janitors/cleaners/sterilisers/techs of hospitals to be treated like the fucking heros they are.


  • We aren’t. But it’s generally better for patient care. It’s the same nurse/doctor seeing through more of the care of a patient with less handovers.
    Handovers are where minor details or context can be forgotten, dropped or misunderstood - especially after a really tough shift.
    Patients also get to see the same faces more often, which makes them feel like they are being taken care of - as opposed to a part being made in a machine.

    But it’s wrong. It would be better to have 8 hour shifts with 2-4 hour overlaps between shifts. So it’s not a handover, it’s an actual rounds, it’s actually servicing patients and so on.
    But that is likely very intrusive for patients, and 4-8 hours of the shift is with someone else (who you might not like or agree with) and communicating (which can be tiring).

    So yeh, it’s not great. Understaffing doesn’t help, especially since these are people that genuinely care about their work. It’s pure exploitation, because it is cheaper and hospital administration can justify it and get away with it (or whatever is higher that hospital admin in the case of free healthcare).

    In some cases, it’s budget and exploitation. And it’s bullshit.
    But there is a genuine argument that a doctor who is fully informed and tired is better than a doctor who is fresh and oblivious.