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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I find it interesting that the hot stage jettison is after the boostback burn. That implies to me that the purpose of the jettison isn't for weight reduction. I wonder if there are aerodynamic control reasons to jettison the hot stage.

I also wonder if the hot stage ring is expected to sustain enough damage to be a single use part anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Anyone who would list goats as medium fencing needs has never raised goats. They are way harder to keep fenced than cattle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Plus all the helicopter pilots for remote industrial work. Have you seen the logging helicopters? There's helicopters for inspecting and servicing electrical transmission lines. Some power companies use giant dangling saws attached to a helicopter to trim trees along lines.

If you only included passenger aviation, I bet the count would be below average, with most fatalities being from medical conditions while on the job.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

:Beyond Journey's End

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The terrible state of online play ruined everything nintendo for me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

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

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