I’m pretty sure at this point I know more about AWS and AWS internals than my account solution architect and I’ve never worked for AWS.
Readit NewsTrisell commented on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout theregister.com/2025/10/2... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111
I’ll never forget loading the game 20-50 times in an attempt to get the bug that made the license code work. Endlessly loading. Checking the code on the paper wheel. Fail. Do it again. Kids these days will never know that pain.
Right to repair is such an issue in the farming space right now, Big Bud re-entered the markets with a fully repairable tractor. Rumors are that pre-orders are significant.
https://agupdate.com/farmandranchguide/news/state-and-region...
Trisell commented on The cartel that controls the US meat industry statecraft.beehiiv.com/p/... · Posted by u/armanhq
Reading from the linked website, it looks like the PRIME act is a way to avoid federal regulation in favor of potentially looser state regulation. Now I have no dog in this fight, but why couldn't we say, push for the house ag committee to get some people from the FDA to explain why these slaughterhouse regs are so onerous? Is passing a bill the best way to get something done?
I would say that anybody who is interested in the system should listen to this. All of the people in this panel, called by both Republicans and Democrats, call out the need for serious reforms of the FDA inspection system. And how the FDA system specifically allows large meat corporations to cut the little guy out of cutting meat. If you think that the current system limits 'bad meat' from entering the system. You need to understand that the FDA is fully captured by the corporations that it's supposed to be governing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9xcOkwgdi0&pp=ygURcHJpbWUgY...
Trisell commented on The cartel that controls the US meat industry statecraft.beehiiv.com/p/... · Posted by u/armanhq
Moving to the country has really opened up my eyes for food production, especially meat.
There are so many small farmers here that are basically shut out from the economy because of impossible USDA guidelines. And we're honestly supposed to believe that mega meat processing plants are somehow better for us? It's delusional.
Call your representative and ask them to support the PRIME act.
100% this. As a small time farmer. I cannot butcher my own animals and sell them to anybody directly. I have to sell them "on the hoof" in a minimum size of a quarter of an animal and then have a custom butcher process the animal. I can't sell any of my meat directly to a person after it's butchered, or to a restaurant. I can only sell in those cases if I go to an FDA certified meat processor, which is 400 miles one way from my property. So essentially I'm limited to selling meat to either friends and family or shipping my animals 400 miles and paying $2 a pound in processing costs.
So no the Prime act isn't a way for corporations to go around the rules, it's so small guys like myself can sell meat to people without having to truck it 800 miles.
Trisell commented on The cartel that controls the US meat industry statecraft.beehiiv.com/p/... · Posted by u/armanhq
Amazing that they completely ignore the regulatory capture of FDA meat inspection. It is the largest barrier to disrupting the "big 4" for anybody to enter the market. Given the cost and complexity of running an FDA approved meat cutting facility, it makes it nearly impossible for small farms to enter the market and provide an alternative to the big 4.
Instead small farms such as myself are forced to do stupid things like sell the meat to somebody 'on the hoof' and then have it custom cut by a butcher, because getting the meat processed and cut at a FDA inspected facility, if you can get into one, adds $1-3 a pound. This also means I can only sell you a quarter beef or larger. Which most consumers don't have the money or the freezer space to do.
Trisell commented on Two students built an A-bomb (2003) theguardian.com/world/200... · Posted by u/the-mitr
I don't buy it.
The crucial detail to buy the story is that Jim Frank told Dobson and Selden the truth:
They were pulled aside by a senior researcher, Jim Frank. "Jim said, 'I bet you guys want to know how it turned out,'" Dobson recalls. "We said yes. And he told us that if it had been constructed, it would have made a pretty impressive bang." How impressive, they wanted to know. "On the same order of magnitude as Hiroshima," Frank replied.
There are now a number of options: 1. Frank disclosed classified information, 2. Frank told them some bullshit, following some instructions, 3. Frank didn't tell them anything, and Dobson and Seldon were instructed what to say if anyone asks them, 4. the whole episode is come corrupted memory: maybe Frank gave them a nice pat on the back and decades later Dobson remembered a much more impressive congratulations, just like hunters remember they shot a bigger game than they did.
From all these options I find the first one the most unlikely. By far.
Building a bomb isn’t a secret. Tom Clancy wrote a very technically detailed description of the tooling and process and building of a nuclear weapon in 1991 in The Sum of All Fears.
Trisell commented on Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead hartmannreport.com/p/stop... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
I can speak about an apparently non-scam Medicare Advantage plan that my wife and I are on.
It is effectively a PPO (similar to the Kaiser plan someone else mentioned), so we have access to exactly the same physicians that we had already where we were paying for private insurance. Our annual premiums went from about $85k a year (on the private insurance) to around $10k out of pocket.
We are fairly healthy, though my wife is going to have some major joint surgery. What was interesting is that it was our PRIVATE insurance that stalled and stalled over approving the surgery. When she switched to the MA plan, it was approved immediately. (That stalling finally motivated my wife to make the switch out of the private insurance.)
The downside of our MA plan is that we are not going to be able to move out of the area easily. But you always have that issue regardless -- finding a whole new set of doctors and dentists when you move...
I do get these phone calls asking to schedule a "wellness" check that the article writer mentions. Oddly enough, my wife didn't get any (so far.)
That call is because Health Plans are rated by CMS on if you get certain types of services, or skip them. By skipping those checkups you are reducing your health insurance plans STARS rating, which means they lose significant monies from the government. Each .1 of a start equals around 1 million US in government funding to a health plan doing MA.
Trisell commented on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved energy.gov/articles/doe-n... · Posted by u/novateg
Their total power draw from the grid was 300 megajoules and they got back about 3 megajoules, so don't start celebrating yet.
Source: New York Times.
If it takes 300 one time in the future to start a long term reaction that’s a price I think we would all pay. The fact that we proved the idea now makes this just an engineering problem.