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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Got Covid for the first time last October and ran a 103 degree fever for days and struggled to feel completely normal for almost two weeks. I was already planning to keep getting the shots prior to catching it but definitely keeping up with them now. I hope to never catch that one again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s still owing money for something I would have never had a say in so call it whatever you want but it meets the definition of debt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Only partly true there I’m afraid. Pennsylvania allows for children to be responsible for medical and long term care bills from their parents under a filial support law:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=23&div=0&chpt=46

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

I get to handle over $1 million in musical instruments every day for my job.

(I’m a church organist and pipe organs are insanely expensive)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never had an isp complain about me using my own router in the US, is this just common in other countries or have I just been lucky?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That is my biggest fear health wise. Losing $7,800 in premiums and out of pocket plus copays for medicine and office visits would be painful to say the least

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

We pay about $300 a month in premiums for healthcare policy provided by the employer. We’re limited to 4.2k out of pocket but nothing at all is covered but the annual physician before that (medications are seperate and always have at least a copay).

Good years it’s fine, but a few years ago I had a skin growth they scraped to test for cancer and got billed $2,000 after insurance’s “negotiated” price that took a nice chunk of savings to cover. I’d gladly switch to any other system than the one we have here in the US…

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The original cnbc report linked in the article posted states their application asked for 113 micrograms per liter of mercury for discharge. Texas considers 2.1 to be toxic to aquatic life and less than that for human life.

They also mention their application didn’t mention the temperature of the water discharge which could also be a problem if we are trying not to boil the wildlife near the pad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

My town has a Kroger (city market) and an Albertsons (Safeway). Only other option is Walmart… the proposed merger would be catastrophic to our ability to afford groceries especially since Kroger is already price gouging to the point I can save $10 per 3ish days worth of food going to Walmart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can look at things like

https://www.newegg.com/tools/custom-pc-builder

To see some ideas of what would work, and I hope you feel free to ask around as you look at things! We all had to learn somehow and once you know what you’re looking for it’s just a small puzzle.

Quick suggestion is to decide on the cpu (I’m partial to amd so I’d pick something ryzen based if you want processing power) first then compatible motherboard, as after those two you should be able to just look at spec sheets and see things like the kind of ram you need case type etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I think this is a fine community, but as a question, is there a reason you aren’t considering building a server? You could fit those requirements into a normal desktop chassis and likely still have some pci slots free for future upgrades.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I don’t know I’d call it fine tuned given his current polling numbers of 4.2%

 

I'm looking to get a lemmy bot figured out for posting sports scores in real-time (or near it) like Reddit had for NHL games. The lemmy api reference states that rust has the api as a loadable library, but I've only ever done C/C++ and python. Anything Coursera style to get a basic overview of how to get started in Rust?

I did also see lemmy-bot but it looks like it doesn't handle post editing at the moment, and not sure i really want to learn how to use npm to be honest.

 

Using sdk 1.5.1 or the most recent version of Micropython!

 

It's fantastic news that they're getting ready to ship a million of the units, maybe we'll actually be able to buy one at MSRP soon?

 

Found an old Conn 650 organ on Craigslist that was a little bit worse for wear on the original (analog) cards about a year back. I built a system to read the keys/buttons/pedals/shutter shoes and feed those into GrandOrgue. This allowed an old system from the 1960s to update into the modern era and play organ samples. You can see a video of the sound before/after here.

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