IrritableOcelot

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago

I mean honestly? If you're not even keeping full cells from the prey, I think we can give it to them. Lil guy, you can photosynthesize. No need to bother them with the asterisks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

That is true, but part of improving our environmental impact will be decreasing that transport of raw materials, localizing chemical industries near the sources of their raw materials.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sure the threat model is different, I'm just saying it's still a single point of failure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Oh interesting. My mistake!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I mean yes, but currently they're all dependent on Windows, so its less of centralizing OSes, and more changing what its centralized on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never had an issue with Flatseal in mint. Out of curiosity, what was your issue?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I understood wikifunctions primarily as a way to operate on wikidata data, I don't know if that's right. And you're right it is publically available, I guess I meant more that few few folks know about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yep! The LD50 is 12.5% in air (higher than I thought, honestly) and yes the issue is that it binds preferentially to hemoglobin.

The main treatment for sub-lethal exposure is just supplying pure oxygen to kick the equilibrium the other way and slowly remove the CO from your system. It won't all come off, but your body recycles red blood cells pretty quickly, so you're back on your feet within a few hours and back to normal within a few days. However, there's no treatment for lethal doses, people have proposed using things like cobalt porphyrins (which bind CO even better than iron hemes) to more quickly sequester the CO from your hemoglobin, but that's not been trialled yet in humans.

I wasnt aware of its use as a neurotransmitter (but I'm absolutely going to look into it now), but its barely soluble in water so there must be more going on there. just like urea, it's a natural waste product, and typically one your body wants to get rid of reasonably quickly.

Edit: from a chemical perspective, NO and CO "look" electronically similar to a NO-binding protein, so I expect most of these effects of CO are actually just it activating pathways natively activated by NO.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If it's a laptop the wireless chipset would be part of the SOC, so I would assume that AMD does some variant of a chipset for that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wikidata is so cool, but not really public-exposed. I imagine it's an incredible research tool though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yikes that's almost as bad.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh interesting! I was reading something recently that said MS had clarified that it was for businesses only, but that must have been an old article.

 

To deal with all this Intel CPU disaster, I've been having to manually check MSI's website for mobo updates. It occurred to me that keeping BIOSes and other drivers that aren't delivered through your OS's update manager of choice is such a pain, and it's common knowledge that a lot of critical BIOS updates just don't get applied to systems because folks don't check for updates unless there's a problem.

Thinking about that, I realized that it would make life a lot easier if you could just have section in your RSS reader for firmware updates, and each mobo manufacturer published BIOS update announcements as an RSS feed. All your updates are in one place, and you're notified promptly! Of course, this would also apply to NVIDIA drivers, so you can get automatic updates on Windows without having to download Geforce NOW bloatware, but of course that's very intentional on NVIDIA's part.

Does anyone know of other easy ways to passively keep track of BIOS updates?

 

OK, y'all. I'm trying to find a book I read many moons ago. I feel like it was by Diana Wynne Jones, but it's not in her bibliography. Massive spoilers incoming, obviously, but I can't remember what the spoilers are for.


The book starts on an island nation in the south of the world, with a rigid code of conduct which one of the main characters is being disciplined for breaking. The main characters leave on a quest to the oppressive and powerful kingdom in the north, and its revealed that one of the other main characters is the crown prince of the evil kingdom in the north, and can use their magic. If I recall correctly, his use of that magic makes dark veins stand out under his skin, and he has to fight against it controlling him. There's some kind of time limit, I think if he uses the magic too much, it'll take him over and he'll become the new ruler.

To gain some advantage over the evil kingdom, they visit an abandoned city, break into some kind of temple, and have an encounter with some kind of deity, which might then take over one of the characters?

Later in the story they make it to the evil palace, and there's a plotline about multiple children of the evil king trying to kill this guy, so they can inherit the throne. I think the evil palace is embedded in a mountain somehow.

Anyone who can set me on the right track, it'd be much appreciated!

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