Copilot still tells me I've commit a content policy violation of I ask it to generate an image "in Tim Burton's style". Tim Burton has been openly critical of generative AI.
I was not given local anaesthetic or sedatives. I think they would have offered me sedatives, but the whole deal would have taken 3 or 4 times as long. They might have wanted my pain response to tell them they had missed.
The pain was only during the jolts; when the treatment was over, I put back on my shoes and socks, and walked home (under a mile).
I can take pain; but I'll fkin scream and swear if I need to scream and swear. Basically, if I can stand the pain and not pass out, then I'd rather not be numb while some sawbones is hacking away at me.
I would be extremely surprised if pain was part of it, and think it best to try it without pain on the first go at the very least because "fuck unnecessary pain"
yeah, the three times or so I've had a wart I've used the wart remover (some kind of weak acid) to remove a layer at a time over a few days and it worked well. Whenever the new layer was "sensitive" that would be it for the day and no plucking at it. Eventually you get to the "dead capillaries" that are usually present at the bottom of the wart, and after a couple more layers that would be it. It didn't take weeks though, it was a few days of attentions. I think next time I might do a few layers and then put the duct tape on it, and put a bandaid over that to hide the duct tape :)
> BTW I think I heard about some motherboard which had two AGP slots, but the second one was AGP only physically/electrically, running over a standard PCI bus. But maybe my brain is just making things...
I've not personally ever seen a board with dual AGP slots, but there were a number of AGP and PCI-e supporting oddballs during the transition period. I recall one of the more terrible ones doing something like basically just allowing an AGP card to hang off the PCI bus. There were some AGP/PCIe chipsets that were quite good during this time as well, but many of them seemed to be crappy hacks with performance limitations or compatibility problems.
Also interesting were the graphics cards that used Nvidia's AGP -> PCIe adapter chip which allowed them to keep selling older hardware on newer platforms.
It's not a real two slots, because you can use only one, of course.
AlphaServer ES47 and ES80 model has support for 4 and 8 AGP slots respectevly but that's cheating, they are server scalable systems. Maxed out GS1280 can support 16 AGP slots per partition.
Unsurprisingly (in the context of the thread) some guy from Russia actually did AGP to PCI converter and it worked just fine (considering you can only use 3.3V cards on it):
I can understand his feelings somewhat since it seems electric cars spearheaded this malicious idiocy but rest assured it is already here for ICEs and getting worse. Rejecting electric vehicles might feel like the only way to signal distaste for this behavior if he needs a newer car.
I believe he's talking more about external 2.5" drives. Their low power usage means they can be run off a port with no need for an annoying wallwart. SSDs are definitely encroaching into this space but 2.5" HDD still have a cost advantage.
Shouldn't a USB-C port have enough power delivery for a 5.25" drive? Or do the external drive enclosure manufacturers not want to step up the 5v to 12v?
Assuming you mean 3.5" instead of 5.25" (as you wrote), no. Probably not.
USB-C is able to provide up to 3A of 5V, eg up to 15W. But that's not universal, and many devices are not capable of supplying that maximum.
Even if it were universal: 15W is a little bit less than what a fairly-normal 3.5" drive needs to get spinning, so there's not enough power available (no matter how it is sliced and diced with voltage conversion).
"But that's just existing drives! Certainly, they can produce a drive that spins up slow enough that it fits within USB-C's power constraints!"
And certainly, that can be done. But there's still more mass to accelerate in a 3.5" drive than in a 2.5" drive, and that acceleration will always require more power (Joules). This matters for portable devices (which often run on battery).
Even once spinning: All else being the same, it takes less power to keep a smaller platter spinning than it does for a larger platter. It also takes less power to accelerate a smaller head actuator than it does a larger head actuator.
"But what about USB-PD? My phone charges with dozens of Watts. Why can't a hard drive use this, too? What if we cast aside power efficiency and yeet this thing together?"
It absolutely can be done. Anyone is free to create USB-PD computer accessories. Some people may even be able to use them. But since USB-PD availability is anything but universal on host ports, and is even less-universally understood, that limits compatibility from "works everywhere" to "works sometimes" and the support costs (and negative reviews) will be through the roof -- unless it is very selectively marketed to niche players who know exactly what they're doing.
It doesn't even seem like it would be particularly challenging to create for someone with the right skillset. And yet, there appear to be zero consumer products which operate this way.
Generally it runs aground with things like the ADA because you can't just "accidentally" find out the person has a covered condition, you're just never allowed to ask or require it be told. Exceptions for something like an airline pilot on matters related to the job like sight notwithstanding. This is why you always see things like "can lift up to 40 lbs" type requirements instead.
Not recently but I recall an intersection where I used to let my car roll back down the hill a bit in neutral if no one was behind me to quickly trigger the light. I didn't understand the mechanism at the time, just that I could reliably get the trigger doing this.
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