Yep I was in the same boat for years, runny nose or coughing and feeling sick mostly after eating out. Just powered through it thinking it was this or me just having a week stomach. Eventually figured out that reflux meds like Gaviscon helped and then had a gastroscopy and was diagnosed with Laryngopharyngeal reflux… Took years to put 2 and 2 together because I never got ‘heart burn’. Hopefully not as serious for you!

A runny nose can also be caused by reflux, particularly if it happens after food that is not spicy such as fatty foods or big meals. It’s often overlooked because it’s not the typical heartburn symptom.

Hardly surprising that the sales have been soft since launch considering the shocking user reviews. The game is pretty good, but when it barely runs on most users machines people are going to either keep waiting for it to improve or write it off forever. All the die-hard fans who are even interested in the endgame content already have the game.

I use a tin container from some cookies at work and as soon as the lid is placed on I know that the device immediately loses Bluetooth and wifi connectivity. Pretty easy solution, a lot more compact and safe than a microwave!

Image categorisation AI, or convolutional neural networks, have been in use since well before LLMs and other generative AI. Some medical imaging machines use this technology to highlight features such as specific organs in a scan. CNNs could likely be trained to be extremely proficient and reading X-rays, CT, MRI scans, but these are generally the less operator dependant types of scan, though they can get complicated. An ultrasound for example is highly dependent on the skill of the operator and in certain circumstances things can be made to look worse or better than they are.

I don’t know why the technology hasn’t become more widespread in the domain. Probably because radiologists are paid really well and have a vested interest in preventing it… they’re not going to want to tag the images for their replacement. It’s probably also because medical data is hard to get permission for, to ethically train such a model you would need to ask every patient in for every type of scan it their images can be used for medical research which is just another form/hurdle to jump over for everyone.

I use Lemmy and moved here in protest of the Reddit API pricing changes, but I’m not entirely opposed to other forms of social media. I’m aware of the privacy implications of a lot of them, and try to manage my use of them accordingly. I have Instagram and Snapchat etc which I have used for years to keep in touch with friends. 90% of my friends use Facebook messagenger to IM and I think that’s pretty standard in Australia. I can’t justify cutting that many people off for privacy reasons. I understand the privacy implications of using these. It’s a balance. Social media can be bad for mental health, but a lack of social connection can be too. You need to find your own balance.

They don’t want to be contacted. I don’t think we have any moral obligation to supply them with medicines or technologies that they don’t want, even if they would objectively improve their quality of life.

No they will probably never advance substantially in technology. To get to where the developed world is today took centuries of industrialisation and trade.

But there are, presumably, happy with the status quo.

I think AR and VR are actually progressing at a reasonable pace, tech like the apple vision pro and the bigscreen beyond are beginning to converge to a comfortable and powerful experience and AR will be better supported by a platform like the vision pro than by any previous major industrial AI offerings like the hololens. I think in the short term people will move to external compute on a puck worn on the waist much like the battery of the vision pro was but with all or most of the compute power.

I think BEVs will continue to advance, without even considering a major technological breakthrough I expect they will out-range many ICE vehicles very soon. If solid state truly goes commercial scale it will be even sooner.

Mobile phones I actually think are stagnating. You’re right that there’s more power in them than necessary these days. Batteries get bigger and cameras get better but not much else changes. Interested to see where they go.

Standard resin becomes very weak at even low temperatures. There are special heat tolerant resins you can buy though.

Yes, the joke is that if the sequel is just called Cyberpunk 2, it’s only logical that it is set in the year 2. The game will be set in the future.

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Australia: 20 days PTO by law, 13 public holidays (depends on the state, but no less than 10 which are national), 10 separate days for use when sick or caring for someone who is sick. There’s more entitlements for different scenarios but this is pretty much the baseline.

It’s not entirely incorrect. The two party system is designed to force both parties to appeal to the average person. But when one side goes radical and still appeals to a big chunk of voters, the other side has to consider how to capture those voters too. In the case of the democrats, that means taking an extremely conservative approach to countering the Republicans, because they somehow still believe there’s a chance Republican voters will swing towards them. Young people are looking for a far more left wing government than the democrats are providing and so voter apathy among that demographic is so high, leading to this spiral. There are people fighting for sure, but the average is moving to the right.

It shouldn’t be, but German Auto makers are extremely slow to evolve due to their ridiculous bureaucracy. They’ve had ages to get on top of it and ignored it and they should pay the price for that, but they’re too big to fail for their countries economies. They’re definitely beginning to waver in the face of competition from china, so this comes across as the EU giving them a final respite to really start competing. Then again, could just exacerbate their complacency, we’ll have to see whichever way it goes.

In private messages outside of work, yes, it comes across passive aggressive and is a hard stop to a conversation. In work context though, it’s pretty common on teams as an acknowledgement, though I still think it’s nicer to use like a heart react then actually reply.

I’d like to think it’s a kind of zero approval gambit, he was once a dem I heard. But I think it’s much more likely he’s literally a Russian asset and the question is how much damage can the American system of checks and balances prevent before the next elections.

The average use case for the majority of truck owners in the US does not involve towing. Light trucks are driven an average of around 30 miles per day, which is why I say for most people they’re actually in a pretty good position, other than being pretty expensive vehicles of course. If you own a caravan or something and are doing regular massive road trips, you are the minority that these vehicles still don’t cater to.

The Silverado EV and F150 lightning seem pretty decent from the specs, but towing anything they still seriously suck. But for most people they’re actually already pretty good… Unlike the cyber truck.

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I did a cursory google while writing out my reply and stumbled on this one: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103515004509

I’ve found some less legit sources that report similar values from the Venera probes. 2-4m/s is probably more accurate.

Overall it is hard to say, at those pressures if the wind could get any dust in the air the energy behind it would definitely contribute to erosion.