The Official Status Thread
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Threads don't die, they lurk at the bottom of the sea until re-awakened. Like Cthulhu.
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Fair point. Have a .
also flagged, but not for what most would expect.
The quoted post has a much different meaning.
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that's pendantry to you!
My CDO refuses to acknowledge that abomination!
Unless you want to give me a flag! My CDO can be bought off!
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They're not hibernating! They're pining for the fjords…
So we're bringing them back to the fjords?
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Wouldn't it be better to find a way to encourage the body to regenerate the bone naturally?
For much of your bones, yes, but the hip joint has extremely poor blood supply when in situ, so I think we'll be doing replacements there for quite a long time yet. Knee joints may be easier to replace (or rather regenerate by the use of appropriate changes to forces in the joint and perhaps the right drugs too) since there's more osteoblasts and osteoclasts in the area.
Replacing the cartilage is something else.
There will also be a need for doing replacements anyway, so we can handle major trauma in the area, some bone cancers, etc.
(Yes, I have worked with anatomists studying musculoskeletal regeneration. Why?)
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For much of your bones, yes, but the hip joint has extremely poor blood supply when in situ, so I think we'll be doing replacements there for quite a long time yet. Knee joints may be easier to replace (or rather regenerate by the use of appropriate changes to forces in the joint and perhaps the right drugs too) since there's more osteoblasts and osteoclasts in the area.
Replacing the cartilage is something else.
There will also be a need for doing replacements anyway, so we can handle major trauma in the area, some bone cancers, etc.
<small>(Yes, I have worked with anatomists studying musculoskeletal regeneration. Why?)
But if we can find a way to stimulate and control regeneration, then those issues may no longer be a problem. It's hard to predict what the limitations will be for a technology we haven't yet invented.
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But if we can find a way to stimulate and control regeneration, then those issues may no longer be a problem.
Vascularisation will remain a problem for regeneration of some parts of the body unless you outright invoke magic. For cells to be active, they need oxygen and nutrients; it's how our biochemistry works. If there's no blood supply nearby, any activity will be very slow (since everything will have to diffuse quite a long way). It's a particular problem with hips (and maybe shoulders too; we didn't look in as much depth at them).
Slow regeneration of the other limb joints (probably mainly to combat osteoarthritis) is something that might start to reach the clinic in 10–15 years. We think we know the technology roadmap for that, and it doesn't require any outrageous breakthroughs. Just incremental improvements on what we can already do. Knees are probably the first targets, and ankles after that.
Rapid regeneration (e.g., for after major trauma, such as a traffic accident) will likely continue to require a starter scaffold of something like collagen with appropriate seeding of bone cells in it. 3D printing seems to be a viable technique. The hard part will be getting the old bone and new pseudo-bone to integrate without lots of extra problems caused by the join(s); bone has a really complicated nano-structure…
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Status: Putzing around with less technical stuff today. I have been trying to get a thermostat working with my garage heater. I just realized that it is unpossible. The gas valve uses a latching solenoid, so it only works to turn the heater on or off, but not in a way that helps me...
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@Intercourse said:
Status: Putzing around with less technical stuff today. I have been trying to get a thermostat working with my garage heater. I just realized that it is unpossible. The gas valve uses a latching solenoid, so it only works to turn the heater on or off, but not in a way that helps me...
Just what sort of gas control does this infernal thing have to begin with?! I haven't ever heard of a CGC valve that couldn't be controlled by some kind of thermostat, even if it's an old-school mechanical type.
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I haven't ever heard of a CGC valve that couldn't be controlled by some kind of thermostat, even if it's an old-school mechanical type.
Well, now you have. It is a latching solenoid, so you apply voltage one way and the valve opens, switch the leads and it closes. It was originally meant to work with an RF remote to turn it on and off. I thought I could make it work with a cheap bimetal thermostat, but no dice.
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http://www.allpartsinc.com/ProductDesc.aspx?code=118623-01&type=0
There is the exact model that is in it. I would have included it in the last post but Dicsores does not support such native functionality. Edit: Does not support it on Android Chrome.
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@Intercourse - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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@Intercourse said:
http://www.allpartsinc.com/ProductDesc.aspx?code=118623-01&type=0
There is the exact model that is in it. I would have included it in the last post but Dicsores does not support such native functionality.
heh
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Yeah, but you have to paste first, then back up and start typing or whatever. Once something is in the input box, I cannot paste again, unless there is a workaround I am unaware of?
Edit: Issue is on mobile and I am an idiot for not pointing that out.
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I'm not sure I'm aware of that problem?
I can paste if there's text in there already or not. Unless I've misunderstood the issue?
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Really? If I try to paste text in to the box here, and there is already text in there, a long press to get to paste just selects text.
Wait, I realize where the confusion lies. I am on mobile...and you guys obviously had no way to know that and I did not say. The issue is on Android Chrome.
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Trying on mobile.
http://www.allpartsinc.com/ProductDesc.aspx?code=118623-01&type=0
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It does screw with it so it doesn't work as it does normally, but it is possible to paste.
Long press with text highlights the end of the line for reasons but does make this pop up:
Icon on the far right is paste.
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Well, yes I'm interested in South Park. Just not that one.
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Icon on the far right is paste.
You learn something new every day. Some days what you learn is elementary and you should have already known it. Today is one of those days for me.
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Every day's a school day.
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Status: apparently my internet connection isn't stable enough to upload a 250kbps video of Dwarf Fortress in real time for more than a minute and a half at a time.
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Current status: impressed. I'm listening to the Boston Bruins hockey game via an app on my phone, so it's a Boston station. During a commercial break, I get an ad for SoCal Honda dealers (where I currently am). Impressive that they do that on the fly.
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Status: I just laid down in bed with a glass of Belvenie 14-year. Enjoying the end of year time off.
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Status: Just finished a game of Planetary Annihilation. Me and a friend vs 2 AIs, and the game quickly became a contest on which side can launch enough nukes at once to overwhelm the other side's nuke defenses.
We won, barely, by doing nuclear carpet-bombing.
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i'm guessing you didn't want that planet for colonizing.....?
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Can this gas valve tolerate continuous current, or will it fail/burn out/... if you do that? If and only if it can take continuous current, you could use a fairly standard small-signal DPDT (or 4PDT if you can't get DPDT) relay to convert an on-off signal into a bipolar one. Unfortunately, it looks like the gas valve requires 6VDC for some odd reason, and non-PCB-mount small signal relays that run on that voltage are rather hard to get. That, a mechanical 'stat, and a 6VDC wall-wart should do the trick...
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I doubt it will handle continuous current. Before I would go through that trouble, I would just replace the gas valve with one suited for the purpose and get a suitable power supply to power it. The guy who picks up all of our e-scrap also parts out HVAC equipment, so I am sure I could come up with any parts I need for cheap or free.
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Status: browsing [and posting to] the status thread using Dolphin Browser to see what'll happen...
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Status: Gunshow, my favorite webcomic is over. :(
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Status: Having to get out the vendor documentation for their crappy programming language. This rarely ends in me finding out the information I actually need.
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Status: It's 0 degrees outside, I don't have any cetane booster in my fuel, apparently my current fuel is crap, and my truck wouldn't start. Got the block heater plugged in but it'll take an hour or two, and nobody at work is answering the phones for me to tell them I'll be a couple hours late this morning.
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Status: It's 0 degrees outside, I don't have any cetane booster in my fuel, apparently my current fuel is crap, and my truck wouldn't start. Got the block heater plugged in but it'll take an hour or two, and nobody at work is answering the phones for me to tell them I'll be a couple hours late this morning.
Status: wearing long underwear for the first time in my life because it's that cold out. And I still was feeling the part of an icicle in the few minutes I spent waiting for the (city) bus to show up.
Also, have you considered the possibility that you might be the first one into work, despite having to spend two hours heating your truck's engine up?
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Laughing because my son just showed me a screenshot of his Kindle - scanned on the inkjet and printed out.
He even trimmed it to size.
Or maybe I should be crying - my son, might grow up to be.... a user.
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Threads don't actually die here,
One Post. (Well, technically, they can be reanimated, but by and large...)
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One Post. (Well, technically, they can be reanimated, but by and large...)
nah.... they're just sleeping really deeply.
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i'm guessing you didn't want that planet for colonizing.....?
You can colonize a planet after nuclear carpet-bombing. But in our case it ended the game because we hit their Commander.
Supposedly there is a way to de-orbit moons and crash them into planets for ultimate glorious mass destruction but I haven't seen it yet.
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Wondering why I was just assigned a project when my last day is Friday.
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Wondering why I was just assigned a project when my last day is Friday.
you've got 4 days to finish it then!
or someone didn't get the memo yet. :-)
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ondering why I was just assigned a project when my last day is Friday.
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you've got 4 days to finish it then!
or someone didn't get the memo yet. :-)
It's a short project, so plenty of time. Also, I don't know about you, but I'm not working on Thursday.
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Also, I don't know about you, but I'm not working on Thursday.
today is my friday.
technically we have a half day tomorrow, but.... well i expect 90% of the office to be "WFH".
@Intercourse said:
Hanzo'd by @accalia.
nice! i don't often got to hanzo, usually i'm hanzo'd
EDIT: offfice only has one i
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It's a short project, so plenty of time.
Shouldn't the more important thing before you leave being explaining all the crap you maintain in more detail to someone so there isn't just the spare of you left (or if it's like my place so someone knows about it)?