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endlessvoid

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  • NSFW

    Hospital Bill 1961

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  • Even with insurance, many plans have a deductible that requires you to pay the first couple grand on your own before they'll cover anything, and even once you've paid that amount they will require you to cover a couple hundred per day of hospital stay (doubled for two patients: mom + baby).

    It is entirely normal to pay thousands of dollars for a normal uncomplicated hospital birth even with insurance.

  • Electrically savvy folks, does the bottom wire look corroded to you?

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  • Electrical Engineer here, that corrosion doesn't look too bad, I wouldn't assume it's the issue but it's not impossible it might be a contributing factor since corrosion on connections can cause heat and heat can trip breakers.

    If the breaker trips are happening when you do something like turn on the oven or the toaster then it's just a matter of the electric service to the house being too small for the apartments loads. This can happen if the apartment originally had gas appliances that were later switched to electric or something else (like a hot tub) was later added to increase the electric load beyond what was originally designed for.

    If the trips dont seem to correspond to anything you're doing with electric appliances, then the equipment may be going bad or there may be an intermittent short. Both of which are not something you would be able to troubleshoot (and frankly, if you don't know what you're doing, even opening up a panelboard like you've done can be deadly).

    Either way I highly recommend you either pressure your landlord to bring in an electrician, or pay for one out of pocket if thats not an option.

  • I Need Wedding Advice

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  • Don't acknowledge it at all, you dont owe the guests any explanation about yourself. Just focus on the couple and let anyone who wonders about your gender presentation puzzle it out on their own time.

  • Andrew Cuomo says he’ll run a third-party bid for New York mayor after losing Democratic primary

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  • That's not how it played out in Buffalo NY in their last mayoral election. A socialist won the primary and the Democratic party launched a massive write-in campaign to keep their preferred liberal "Byron Brown" in power, to the point they were handing out stamps at voting locations so that they could be used to easily "write" him. They succeeded in keeping the socialist candidate out, and despite winning, their liberal candidate ended up resigning mid-term to take a cushy C-suite job instead.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Remote desktop support is buggy on gnome and nearly non-existant on other DE's, which speaks to how poor a job wayland does at managing functions between DE's, where each individual DE has to build their own solution for basic functions, further fragmenting development efforts.

    Then there's accessibility functions, which wayland breaks almost by design by denying apps access to each other. Even something as simple as an on screen keyboard becomes nearly impossible to implement.

    Any software thats being pushed to users as the "main" experience, should not break things as common and fundemental as remote desktop or onscreen keyboards. Great way to drive away potential users switching from windows 10.

  • Niagara Falls, Canada

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  • Technically half of it already belongs to the United States. Even more technically all of it already belongs to America (the continent)

  • Why do males complain about female-led stories or too many female characters when the majority are still dominated by males?

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  • I got back into scifi books recently as an adult and was disgusted to find that virtually all of the "great" scifi authors are menwritingwomen trope goldmines.

    When there are female main characters that aren't just the authors fetishs, they're typically subjected to violence, with rape used so frequently as female "character development" that it would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.

    I've begun to prefer scifi written by women, because then at least I know its not going to be completely cringe.

  • Liberal Elite is Fully Geared Up to be Insufferable For 4 More Years of “Resistance”

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  • The issue itself is nuanced, unfortunately the debate is not.

    Transwomen who've only gone through female puberty (i.e. transitioned as minors or went on puberty blockers) are going to be physically on the same level as ciswomen.

    Transwomen who've been through both puberties are going to be pretty close to the physical abilities of the average ciswomen after a few years on estrogen, though there are some permanent effects of testosterone that will remain, like build size.

    Thats to say nothing of the fact that dividing sports along gender is somewhat arbitrary to begin with, while the average female athlete may be smaller and weaker than the average male athlete, there is still plenty of overlap, and it would really make more sense to divide sports along different criteria, like weight classes or some other more fair metric.

  • Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel

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  • I clicked on their profile to see what evoked this reaction from you and not only could you not be more wrong, but it makes me question your motivation for lying to try to silence others?

  • Private Voice Assistants on Mobile/Advice how to Privatize mainstream AI.

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  • Private Voice Assistants on Mobile/Advice how to Privatize mainstream AI.

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  • Yeah I feel that 100%, ran a Google assistant for a little bit before just being creeped out by the privacy concerns and sick of it constantly trying to sell me things. Unfortunately I think that any service reliant on a 3rd party is ultimately going to be a huge privacy invasion, since they can't turn a profit without vacuuming up your data.

    Of all the mainstream assistants, Apple seems to be the least bad in that regard, so you could consider picking up a homepod. But I would also say that for basic stuff, home assistant has been fairly painless to set up. The GUI is good enough now that no yaml coding is required unless you get into the more complex stuff, and I found the ootb functions to be "good enough" for what I wanted a voice assistant to do.

  • Private Voice Assistants on Mobile/Advice how to Privatize mainstream AI.

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  • Home assistant has a built in voice assistant function that can be as simple or robust as you need it to be. The whole thing can be setup fully locally and mine runs easily on an old micro-pc I got for $100. I had it running on a Pi3b originally but the STT and TTS would take 10+ seconds to process, which was too long.

    Out of the box it controls local devices, does to-do lists, controls media, sets timers. Setting reminders doesn't work out of the box, but can be setup with some great community templates. Services that require web content like "tell me the news" or "what's the weather in Seattle" need to be either setup with custom commands that have access to the info you want, or need to go through an LLM.

    Luckily, the past few months have seen the open home foundation add integrations for LLM's, both local and web-based (chatgpt, gemini, etc) are possible, so you can have it run queries through models run on a local GPU. Though this is currently fairly bleeding edge and I haven't tried running a local LLM myself yet so I can't speak to it's complexity.

    More on that here: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/07/ai-agents-for-the-smart-home/

  • To avoid strike, Boeing promises 25% pay hike—and to build next jet in Seattle

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  • Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives

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  • Sure that part's electric, but what about the bonds keeping the quarks of the train together?