I’d point out this is a temporary pacemaker, not a permanent PPM or ICD. You get these as an inpatient in the hospital when you’re recovering from some pretty intense cardiac procedures. One of the advantages they point out is not having any electrodes to remove in this new device. With temporary transvenous pacemakers, they don’t implant an electrode in the heart, the wire is just chilling there in the bloodstream in your heart.

Not saying it’s not a cool development but it’s going to need a lot of testing and validation before it’s accepted in practice.

Note: I’m not a cardiologist, but I work with them doing EMR stuff and have to know a bit about cardiology.

It might be 1000% more confidential, but is it effective? Anecdotal evidence doesn’t count. For all we know AI therapy could be actively harmful to certain conditions. I’m not sure there’s any published studies on this.

Battleshits.

I’ve seen some videos of people punching through windows and instantly cutting an artery, wouldn’t be surprised if something similar happened here.

Certified medical laboratory scientist here: reckon we still do this because it’s fast, free, requires no technology, and can give you some decent insight into what’s going on. Of course, you’re going to want chemistry and microscopy to confirm anything, but color can certainly steer you towards a pathology. Even the fancy analyzers with automated dipstick chemistry and computerized microscopy report color and clarity.

Also if your pee is any darker than straw colored, drink some water. I’ve seen so much nasty piss come through the lab. Apparently a ton of people aren’t drinking enough water.

I spend a grand on a nice adjustable dumbbell set and a bench and went from 165lbs to 210lbs over the last 18 months with a combination of weight training and eating better. It’s absolutely possible to work out at home with the resources that are out there these days. I do miss some of the equipment at the gym but the convenience of a home gym is just too good.

I would point out that getting lean/shredded is not a function of the gym, it’s a function of the kitchen. You cannot out exercise a bad or even mediocre diet. You can use a gym to build muscle, increase flexibility, or improve cardiovascular fitness, but there’s no avoiding making changes to your diet if you want to decrease body fat.

A 1080p Bluray disk will look far far better than Netflix in 4k every time because its not compressed.

You’re not wrong about the quality difference but video on a Blu-ray is compressed. There is no way to get raw video unless you’re shooting it yourself.

any form of compression will cause loss in fidelity in some way

Lossless video compression also exists although I don’t think any consumer products have it.

Get a deep UV flashlight (280nm Nichia LED works very well) with a high pass filter on the end to eliminate any stray visible light it emits. Fire it up in your own home in the dark. Deep UV is great for making things fluoresce and the high pass filter increases the signal to noise ratio, so to speak. Even things that weakly fluoresce will stand out in a dark environment with this type of light.

You will be absolutely disgusted. There are drops of liquid and other flakes of random shit everywhere. There is no escape, it would be a Herculean effort to clean it all and keep it clean. I think the only place you wouldn’t see things would be one of those clean rooms at chip fabs.

Not saying that hotels aren’t nasty, but you’ve probably got a bunch of similar stains in your home or apartment right now. It’s not necessarily blood or body fluids either, UV lights show where nearly anything was spilled.

Trip to Costco every 1.5-2 months to stock up on meat and whatever else we can buy in bulk and freeze. This trip completely fills the freezer and requires reorganizing it and breaking down the bulk packages and vacuum sealing smaller portions for single meals for two people. We also do a similar trip to H-Mart for Korean things and a huge bag of rice.

Trip to the grocery store weekly to grab smaller things we might need. Sometimes it’s much larger than others. Big meal prep day on Sunday so we don’t have to do as much work during the week.

Lists are essential so I can free up that memory for something else. I also will think of things at the most random times and I’d never remember them without immediately putting them on the list. Also helps ensure that if either my wife or I go to the store we can pick up things the other has thought of.

You’d have to have the most insanely strong calves in history to push up using your feet only.

That’s becoming less feasible with every day that passes.