Fermion

joined 1 year ago
[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My wife got repeated infections and had a lot of pain from the copper iud.

If you go looking for testimonials you'll find numerous people who had bad experiences with it.

Also, they really should offer anesthetic or at least a powerful painkiller for the insertion and removal procedures. Doctors act like it's no big deal, but it's very painful.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

4 pump impeller failures in 5 years. 1 time a mask strap got past the strainer. I'll take the blame on that, but the other 3 were just long hair and bad design/materials choices.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

And the ~~algorithm~~ AI does magic to make our product more awesome than the competitor.

Yeah, the lack of formal definition of what is and is not considered ai definitely muddies the waters when talking about applications and capabilities.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

4 times in the last 5 years.

There's a combination of flaws. The strainer basket doesn't do a very good job keeping debris out of the impeller. There's little separation between the steainer and the impeller. So long hairs that are partially caught in the strainer can still wrap around the impeller.

The pump itself has a terrible impeller design. The impeller is nylon and is press fit onto a 1/8 brass rod that just has a flat ground on it, no knurling or splines. The nylon cracks easily and ends up free spinning.

They use the same pump in loads of washer models. So yes, there's a very large user base, but that's a lot of people with part failures. The pump is garbage and lg should not be using it.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I'm constantly replacing the drain pump in my LG washer. When a replacement part has thousands of reviews on amazon, you know the brand has to know their parts are crap and either doesn't care or wanted it that way. They're on my never buy list now.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Ai is already being incorporated into chip design tools like synopsys. TechTechPotato has an interesting interview with Aart de Geus that is relevant.

Ai is far off from making high level design improvements, but it can greatly reduce the workload on trace and route and other design steps.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 25 points 6 months ago

It definitely has aspects that could be considered magic, but I wouldn't necessarily compare them to the Force.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 8 points 6 months ago

Frozen food is processed way closer to where it's grown as opposed to the produce that might be shipped across hemispheres before you get it. So frozen stuff tends to be more consistent in quality.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 101 points 6 months ago (22 children)

Or a chicken drumstick for somewhat similar bone strength.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They were talking about your use of loose in place of lose.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When considering shorting stocks it's important to remember one of Keynes' better quotes, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I've been to red lobster once and spent a very uncomfortable period of time on the porcelain throne shortly after. The news of bankruptcy does not surprise me.

view more: next ›