Looks like another case of private equity shenanigans.
Summarized from Wikipedia: A private equity firm bought the hospital chain in 2010 with borrowed money. They tried to flip the hospitals to a new buyer but failed. So instead they sold off the real estate and borrowed more money to pay dividends to stakeholders. Now the hospitals are deep in debt, plus they pay rent on land they used to own.
What a bunch of vultures.
Fat fingers. Thank you for catching that.
They had their phone with them.
Cool video. That's an interesting demonstration of wave interaction. It's just a phased array with all the sources pointed inward at each other. You could do the same thing in air with an array of speakers. I can't imagine air would work to create the kinds of temperatures and pressures required to make diamonds, though.
There are engineering/physics software packages that can simulate wave interactions like this. Here are phased array examples using COMSOL, and MatLab. You might be able to approximate the behavior in a FEA or CFD tool, too. Setting up the model is not a trivial exercise, though.
Your idea of arranging energy sources in a sphere, focusing their energy inward toward the center, reminds me of implosion-type nuclear weapons. That's basically how they work.
TheDude did some server maintenance on the 9th, but other than that I'm not aware of any issues. Everything works fine on my machine, so obviously there aren't any problems (j/k).
Did you have issues at a particular time? Maybe we can find something in the logs and trace down the issue.
Edit: you can also catch us on our Matrix channel for more timely tech support.
Give Alberta and Saskatchewan to the US.
Let the US keep the eastern third of Washington and Oregon. Canada doesn't really want those people anyway.
What a sweet kid. I hope the parent has a sense of humor about it and tells the kid he was good for trying to do something nice for a neighbor even though there was a misunderstanding.
Apparently Ukraine has gay super soldiers. Does anyone know where I can find one? Asking for a friend.
Here's a zoomed-out version:
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/01/09/g-s1-41784/los-angeles-fire-photos
The British were so focused on whether they could, they didn't stop to think about whether they should.
My youngest isn't old enough to be a scout but still wants to keep up with the older siblings. So we are including a siblings-only class at this year's Pinewood Derby, and this first-timer is getting a little extra help from dad.
Are there any other scout dads here on Lemmy? I don't imagine it's a large demographic here.
R.I.P. ~~Biggie~~ Big Pun (damn, my bad)
Bonus panel:
No snow yet in my area, but I'm still out here commuting in the damp and the dark. It'll be much prettier once we get some white on the ground.
Microsoft's store is broken. I have had a similar problem with Minecraft.
Want to buy DLC for my kid in Minecraft.
Get forwarded to the Microsoft Store to process the transaction.
For some reason the money goes into my Microsoft account balance rather than going toward the DLC I wanted to buy.
Cash balance in a Microsoft account cannot be used to buy Minecraft DLC, and cannot be transferred to a Minecraft account. (Why tf not? Minecraft is a Microsoft property.)
I now have money stuck in the Microsoft account that cannot be refunded, and I can't get the DLC I wanted.
This sucks.