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We went to the Dunbrody Famine ship exhibit in New Ross, Ireland a few years back. It was a neat exhibit, first they seat you in a dark small room and show a movie detailing the situation, then the wall opens up and the ship is nicely framed in the view, sitting outside in the River Barrow.

They then take you out to tour the ship.

Alexa+ 1 year ago

I enjoy coming up with questions deemed so politically incorrect that alexa responds with a BONK noise.

OpenAI O3-Mini 1 year ago

Maybe we should take both answers, paste them into a new chat and ask for a summary amalgamation of them

I switched away from full solid copper floods due to this. (Even with nice soldering equipment.) I still use full size floods but they are more like basket-weave patterns, probably 50% copper. I rotate the pattern on my second inner plane.

Four layer boards are so cheap now, it's all I choose. I usually do two internal ground planes and route my power on one side unbroken. I haven't made an interrupted return path since watching Rick Hartley videos.

I love perl. I work with it every day still, 25 years later. I recently rewrote a cellular provisioning API in it to be fully object oriented.

I do not write it to win an obfuscation contest. I like it to be read as easily as possible. It is a joy to watch the core objects of the system work together so cleanly.

I bet the Earth chuckles at our attempts to label either of these the largest living things. I guess as Guinness Book entries go, these will do until something surpasses them. I've got to think that there is a more massive fungus in the Amazon for example.

How expensive are they to make these days?

A good question, I can't answer. But I can tell you, when my daughter had her liver transplant, they gave her an insane amount of medications for weeks. They only gave her one shot of a monoclonal antibody "Basiliximab". The syringe with it was escorted by two guards from the pharmacy.

The first six weeks are pretty intense. The recovery is amazing as how fast liver labs drop and how fast the jaundice yellow clears. I would probably say six weeks is a fair figure until you are a whole new person!

She takes immunosuppressants every day still. We do not practice any additional caution. We've all had Covid more than once, and she gets every cold and other virus and fights them off no problem. She got EBV with her liver, and when that flares up they will reduce her suppressants at times.

Speaking for liver transplants, they are a many hour traumatic affair. My daughter lost and received more than her entire blood volume during hers. Initial recovery is extremely immunosuppressed and some of the drugs we had to handle with masks and gloves, and had 4x a day medication schedules. So you couldn't burn through pig livers I believe getting them swapped frequently. My daughter received her liver at age 8 months by the way and is now 19 yrs old.

I spent a weekend with Rust, a Raspi4, and our buddy GPT about six months ago. In that weekend I was able to get the Raspi controlling a OLED display via SPI with an SSD1306 controller. I thought it was a fairly clean port from C++, and GPT was well educated on how to use the RASPI SPI and I2C busses from Rust.

I don't think I would be able to approach it on an ESP32 or AVR xMega or some other real microcontroller.