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  1. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Dude. Fucking doctor ASAP. Systemic rash is a possible sign of large-scale death of your red blood cells. Tissue necrosis is no fun. My dad was bitten as a kid, was on IV antibiotics for days and needed surgery, has a chunk out of his thigh that looks like someone took an melon scoop to it.
  2. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Dosimetrist? My wife spent 5 years as a medical physicist. I'll third that radiation oncology is a significantly siloed practice, even from other specialist doctors working on the same tumors on the same patient. There's also a lot of art and differing risk tolerances in treatment design, which...
  3. Captain Suave

    RuneScape: Dragonwilds

    Initial impressions seem good. I'll probably get this over the summer and play with my kids.
  4. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    $550B according to this estimate. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/youtube-now-worth-much-550-141144886.html
  5. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    How much experience do you have doing this work? When I was fresh in the work force (not in the trades) I expected projects to take as long as I thought they should take. About 10 years in, I started doubling my estimates by default. Now to deliver a fully refined project I'm at 4x my gut...
  6. Captain Suave

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    I posted a bike for sale here and immediately got hit with a dozen attempts at phone scams. Never was able to find an actual customer.
  7. Captain Suave

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    Facebook is fucking cancer. They're trying as hard as they can to make it unusable. The other day 25 of the first 30 items in my feed were ads or "suggested" meme farms. If it weren't my only contact to family living abroad I'd delete my account entirely.
  8. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    The H20 chips were already specifically downgraded for the Chinese market to reduce AI performance. H100+ were the subject of the real export controls. The new restrictions also impact more markets than just China.
  9. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It absolutely is not 4. Jesus fucking christ. PEDMAS. There is no P or E. 25 * 0 first, then add the rest.
  10. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    You might as well give an example where it's actually wrong (yes, steps 1 and 2 should be reversed but the result is the same). The error I referenced: (138,888^2 = 1.93 x 10^8, not ^10)
  11. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Edit: Lol, I should have known better. I went back and checked and about halfway through it miscalculated a velocity figure by two orders of magnitude.
  12. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's km/h, not km/s. 800,000 km/s is over twice the speed of light. As far as getting that high, it's "possible" but not realistic. Some napkin math says that it would take about 15 years to accelerate to that speed, assuming the impulse is equivalent to other plasma engines. Double Edit...
  13. Captain Suave

    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Clearly inspired by me playing Skyrim. Edit: I expect the series to end when Carl finally exits the dungeon and his inventory dumps onto the ground, causing a gravitational singularity.
  14. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    I'm pretty sure Connor just did some math and peaced out after deciding he had enough money to keep himself in booze and coke for the rest of his life.
  15. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    This site is has aids.
  16. Captain Suave

    Mission: Impossible 8 (2025)

    Dude, they've had Michelle Monaghan, Rebecca Ferguson, and Hayley Atwell. Not your standard mindless T&A, sure, but that's some all-time eye candy.
  17. Captain Suave

    Mission: Impossible 8 (2025)

    Depends what you mean by good. The first one was actually a noir art film, second was 90's John Woo that was only ok and hasn't aged too well, others are fun heist/action flicks. I'd say the Rotten Tomatoes rankings are at least directionally accurate...
  18. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    We abandoned the gold standard in 1971.
  19. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I'm surprised it's that cheap. Blacktail Studios sells epoxy slabs for >2x that.
  20. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm 46. I do economic modeling and optimization for heavy industry (capital investment, etc.). Noodling about the future is a professional requirement.
  21. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Meh. You should never stop wondering how things work.
  22. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I'll be really interested to see if trend-based technical analysis continues to provide explanatory power in the next 50-75 years as the populations of the major powers stabilize and possibly contract. I've never gotten deep into the philosophy of technical trends, but they do seem to be a...
  23. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Sorry, can't help the pedantic economist in me coming out. Intrinsic value is the worth of something in a non-financial context. Modern currencies have no intrinsic value. Neither does BTC. Gold has intrinsic value because of its various uses as a physical metal. "It's worth something because we...
  24. Captain Suave

    Brotox: cosmetic treatments

    Sounds like you've got your mind made up. Good luck.
  25. Captain Suave

    Brotox: cosmetic treatments

    We don't. I want my wife to look like a real woman. Much like tattoos, I've never once thought, "Wow, that was an improvement." Botox makes people look like uncanny valley plastic dolls. It doesn't fool anyone and just broadcasts insecurity.
  26. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/chatgpt-can-now-remember-and-reference-all-your-previous-chats/
  27. Captain Suave

    So, I'm dying...

    I expect it's happened to more of us than we know about. I think I'm typical of the old-school user base and I'm in my mid-40's and have somehow been part of this insane shitshow for over half my life. I've lost 2-3 IRL friends and have a social circle orders of magnitude smaller than this forum.
  28. Captain Suave

    Brotox: cosmetic treatments

    The result is its own downside. We all get old and wrinkly. Own it with grace.
  29. Captain Suave

    Once Human

    And if that reason is "Because we just took all your shit away. Now you get to do it again!", people will be understandably upset. Rust isn't really analogous, it's a pvp game. The reset is because the economy is tuned to where it's basically impossible for newbies to enter after a certain point.
  30. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    "The company says it is not shutting down but is instead 'restructuring our operations." Yeah, they're restructuring into asset liquidation.
  31. Captain Suave

    Once Human

    Perfect summary of my problem with these mechanics.
  32. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    Interesting. Research for the curious: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7464827/
  33. Captain Suave

    Weight Loss Thread

    15 lbs down since April. Shooting for another 10-15 before my next cholesterol test in October.
  34. Captain Suave

    Ghost of Tsushima

    I just finished the main plot and side quests, liberated everything, and only have a half dozen scavenger hunt items left. What a fucking great game. Straight to the all-time pantheon.
  35. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    It's only theft if they do that with money you've specified should go to principal. If you didn't specify that, you've left a grey area where they have to pick one way or the other. Then you'd have complaints that someone tried to pre-pay before they went on vacation, the bank took that as...
  36. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    He's just saying that your $1400 might held for x3 y3 at the time the third payment would normally be due unless you specify that it's supposed to go to principal. If it is counted towards principal, that should accelerate you along the amortization schedule as you expect. This is (sadly)...
  37. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    (Edit: My first post was confused.) This sounds wrong unless the terms of the mortgage somehow preclude early repayment. Simply counting towards your next payment doesn't accelerate you along the amortization schedule and you'd end up paying 30 years of interest over some shorter time period...
  38. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Maybe I'm weird, but I did. I could have bought my house in cash but chose to stay diversified and went for a 60% down payment instead. I am relatively cheap and wildly debt-averse in basically every other aspect, though. I kept the difference in the market and have ended up a similar 2%-er.
  39. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Also your expectations on inflation. If you get a good rate (not recently) and hold that loan over a medium to high inflation period (likely for the next decade) the real value of those future dollars is vastly reduced.