Not a comment re: AI in Chrome. I did click into the video to hopefully get an understanding of the features,. but sadly did not. Sorta got an idea, but the jump cuts, super-quick overviews, trying to identify everyone speaking, etc. E.g. ...something about tabs... ...used to take 20 minutes, now seconds... ...working with OTHER Google products (WTH)... Hey Google, make a simpler, more accessible video that is "just the facts mam". Dozens of jump cuts in a few minutes is disconcerting, and may prove dangerous to some.
Oh.My.Gosh. "Ich". Have had a home aquarium guy forever. Got a few Ich infestations (always after introducing new, store-bought fish). Although not the same strain (tropical usually is Ichthyophthirius Multifiliis). Sounds pretty much like the same infection progression. Me, and every other tropical aquarium enthusiast, HATES Ich. Now doubly so given a favorable opinion of wild salmon.
What happens when you get Ich in an aquarium: While tendrils start to show up then lengthen on your fish. You try a few treatments, but by the time you see it it cannot be stopped easily. When your fish are covered by pretty long white "shite" strands, they start to die. Worse than any horror film you might have seen. Man do I hate Ich.
I've been fortunate enough to never encounter it with my fish, but it's all over forums and subreddits related to aquaria. Fish get it constantly. If you aren't checking them daily it seems fairly easy to get an infestation that's beyond treatment. I can't imagine. I actually care for my fish quite a bit, and would hate to see them wiped out like that. Each tank I have is a sort of sanctuary, a little ecosystem to steward.
Hey this is off topic, but I filled an outdoor fountain at a rental place with fish, plants— not nearly a self-sustaining ecosystem yet but that’s the eventual goal. All good. However, I’ve grown to realize the responsibility of my little pond project and realize I can’t leave them here with nobody to take care of them if I ever had to move.
What are good options for if I wanted to try to give them away before that event?
There’s about 20-25 at the moment. It’s a mix of common, petco-style goldfish-tier freshwater fish. They would require the taker to have a tank too, so I’m kinda doubting much demand even on something like FB marketplace for free.
Good question! You might check local facebook fish/pond groups rather than marketplace. There are many out there, and us fish nerds tend to be glad to take in some fish who need a new home. Some people have enormous ponds that can handle that kind of biomass without much trouble.
Another avenue could be talking to local fish stores. They will take them as a donation and sell them for you, or in some cases even buy them from you. Since they're common goldfish it's more likely they'd take them as a donation. But yeah, many pet stores are cool with taking on fish you can't home properly anymore.
If you had a few months to move, I'm pretty sure you could find takers before you moved. I sell aquarium plants as a side business and I actually hear from people starting ponds quite frequently (they're hoping they can grow tropical plants), so it's not uncommon. I suspect these kinds of people would love to take at least some of your fish.
Isn’t it funny how these short forms happen? Some friends of mine refer to lactose intolerance as “lactose”; it’s common parlance in the US to have “ejected/arrested for trespassing” be called “trespassing” (“I’m going to trespass you”).
And this disease “the fish destroyer” is now called by the beginning of the word for fish!
I wonder if there is a list of these things somewhere.
Just got my bill for a recent 20 minute doctor visit (with one of the best HC insurance coverages in my state: $1,600 cost, $1,400 adjustment, $200 out-of-pocket given my $3,000 OOP limit was not reacehd). Absurd. The USA will likely never get to an efficient govt. single pay system (unlike every other industrialized company). Given this, the option I hope for is that the FedGov passes a law that requires all Master Charge prices to be based on "Acitivty Based Accounting". ABC would provide insights for greater operational efficiency, and the 1600>1400>200 magic hand-waving would disappear. There would be a great loss of employees for health insurance portfolio analysts, but most of them could move into cost accounting roles for hospitals. Please GOP/DEM consider this.
Lost a pet dog that ate a mouse killed when my sister set out a warfarin bait. It was gruesome. Please, please think very carefully when using poisons. Secondary affects are very common, and can be tragic.
There was a guy in the sauna a few years ago bragging about how he had killed a ton of rats in his yards using poison. He said "the hawks love it they are feasting!". 0 ability to connect the full consequences of adding a bunch of poison to an ecosystem.
And warn neighbors at least if putting out poisons for anything. It only takes 5 minutes to give them a heads up about the situation, what to look for (mouse carcass) and what signs if their pet happens to eat the animal and receives some of the poison itself. Though many modern poisons are less toxic to animals that eat the poisoned animal, it can still harm them.
Not when the neighbours themselves are hell-bent on killing off animals because they're just sick humans. Happened to me in London when a neighbour laced bait meat contaminated with rat poison for a bunch of strays that frequented our streets.
Are you responding to my comment? Because I can't figure out what the hell yours has to do with mine unless you completely lack common sense.
Yes, everyone knows you don't tell sick people that enjoy poisoning animals where the poison is. But don't be a dick, do tell your normal neighbors (the vast majority unless you're extremely unlucky) so their pets aren't harmed or can receive prompt treatment.
Mandatory if you have water troughs/tanks for animals such as goats or horses. Also a very good idea to encourage swallow nesting. Many an evening I watch a dozen or so swallows on our property dipping and diving in a sort or aerial mosquito feeding dance. Swallows are very cool btw. HTH, RF.
While swallows are definitely cool birbs, I would be very surprised if they had any noticeable effect on mosquito populations. There is even one study proposing that swallows attract more mosquitos!
Well, these are barn swallows. They eat up to 1,000 insects per day, and up to 100 mosquitos per day (link below). We have at least a dozen, so perhaps 1,200 mozzie per evening (I hope). I think barn swallows are the most populous bird species. Again they are pretty cool. We also have lots of bats, but they are harder to track. HTH, RF.
I can no longer find a link to this... But I do remember an article about the uniquely machined stainless steel screws that Apple used to assemble Macbooks. They were infact unique. Very "square threads". IMHO that was SteveJ (and perhaps Woz). They cared less about share price, and were focused on everything that could add unique value -- including the special screws. Now SHV trumps everything, and we have "...fiduciary responsibilty..." (FR) to cover all decisions no matter how anti-consumer. Sadly the FR decisions today are mostly due to the brand value built during the IDGAS era when high-quality screws were important.
I have a friend nearing mid-60s. Retired military so now covered by Medicare, then Tri-Care. Having prostate issues. PSA went from 12 to 19. Desperate to get a PET scan to determine his is benign BPH, or cancer. Cannot get his scan approved since both insurances will not approve a PET as an early diagnostic tool (scan is about $7500). Cannot imagine what will happen if everyone getting a cancer DNA signal of this type tries to get clarification via additional tests. USA health care really does not work that way. HTH, RF
A PSA of 12 is pretty far past the threshold for an MRI (don’t know about a PET scan) and an MRI would be pretty determinative about whether or not a biopsy is warranted. A biopsy would be pretty good at identifying cancer.
Sounds like either there are complicating factors or an absence of standard protocol adherence.
US health insurance is a mess, but that doesn’t sound like the entire story. I suspect urologists see a fair amount of friction for routine procedures related to prostrate health.
He had the MRI. Not conclusive. The PSA jump (alredy very high) is biggest concern. PET would -- according to him -- be most conclusive. Yet he cannot get it approved, so lives in a cruel medical purgatory.
He had a biopsy a while ago. It was negative (and very painful he said). He has been working closely with his urologist who has recommended the PET. Given the PSA jump he is really worried, and cannot get what I presume is his urologist's next recommendation. He has taken all the right steps, just to be denied re: PET. (To be honest I do not know if PET is that effective, but he says it would be definitive.) He was told, though, that should he get cancer the PET would be approved to enhance the diagnosis. My heart goes out to him. RF.
Very old coder here. Wrote COBOL to help Atari add features to a inventory processing system to account for the fact that "inventory" intially was items received at the loading dock, fork-lifted to the shipping dock and shipped. So "inventory" needed to be booked immediately as sales. Now I dabble mostly with Python and JS/HTML. My memory of the Atari gig was that the most critical part was the CICS code. There was just one guy who knew enough to setup the CICS. If he got hit buy a bus... Well after about a year, the bus would not have mattered. Atari buried millions on unsold carts, and I went from working in a beautiful office complex next to Great America Park, to a windowless basement closet somewhere near Mountain View now making changess because the "forklift inventory" version was no longer needed. I know this is a bit off topic, but "COBOL" was the into I needed.
Ah. The birth era of creative accounting. I remember companies shipped empty CD and booked it as revenue for the quarter. The actual software when ready was delivered as a “patch”.
I was working on CICS in the early 2000s. An insane amount of live COBOL code still moving things around (and algol and Fortran). We occasionally found bugs in code written in the 70s.
I have a good many subs or monthly plans. Only one sends me an email notifying me that I will be soon be billed and the amount billed. All the others never provide any notification whatsoever. Can PA also consider a bill that requires notification of billing via email?? I'd bet this rule combined with easy-to-cancel would be of great, great, benefit to the good citizens of PA.
While visiting New Zealand in the 90's I had my first encounter with no pennies. Everything was rounded up/down. Was an initial shock that came to make tons of cents (intended). Glad the US is doing this.
