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  • The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.

    That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.

    His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.

    The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.

    What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.





  • Get the beans and water to a boil, then turn down the heat until it’s just simmering.

    Simmer for 1 hour, then taste test. Most dried beans will be tender, but some dried beans that have been sitting on the shelf for a long time might take up to 1 more hour of simmering, for a total of 2 hours.

    I’ve never had dried beans take more than 2 hours of simmering to tenderize.

    Dried lentils take much less time, usually about 45 minutes.

    Pour off all the water and rinse the beans until the water runs clean. The bean simmering water contains much of the indigestible sugars that make you fart after you eat beans.

    Now the beans are ready to make soups and chili or however you want to use them.

    But yeah, 20-40 minutes in a pressure cooker is a lot faster.



  • zabadoh@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlI had a journey
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    I disagree somewhat.

    A lot of high tech development comes with a greed motive, e.g. IPO, or getting bought out by a large company seeking to enter the space, e.g. Google buying Android, or Facebook buying Instagram and Oculus.

    And conversely, a lot of open source software are copies of commercially successful products, albeit they only become widely adopted after the originals have entered the enshittified phase of their life.

    Is there a Lemmy without Reddit? Is there a Mastodon without Twitter? Is there LibreOffice without Microsoft Office and decades of commercial word processors and spreadsheets before that? Or OpenOffice becoming enshittified for that matter? Is there qBittorrent without uTorrent enshittified? Is there postgreSQL without IBM’s DB2?

    The exception that I can see is social media and networked services that require active network and server resources, like Facebook YouTube, or even Dropbox and Evernote.

    Okay, The WELL is still around and is arguably the granddaddy of all online services, and has avoided enshittification, but it isn’t really open source.







  • I think you’re misunderstanding what the article is saying.

    You’re correct that it isn’t the job of a system to detect someone’s skin color, and judge those people by it.

    But the fact that AVs detect dark skinned people and short people at a lower effectiveness is a reflection of the lack of diversity in the tech staff designing and testing these systems as a whole.

    They staff are designing the AVs to safely navigate in a world of people like them, but when the staff are overwhelmingly male, light skinned, young and single, and urban, and in the United States, a lot of considerations don’t even cross their minds.

    Will the AVs recognize female pedestrians?

    Do the sensors sense light spectrum wide enough to detect dark skinned people?

    Will the AVs recognize someone with a walker or in a wheelchair, or some other mobility device?

    Toddlers are small and unpredictable.

    Bicyclists can fall over at any moment.

    Are all these AVs being tested in cities being exposed to all the animals they might encounter in rural areas like sheep, llamas, otters, alligators and other animals who might be in the road?

    How well will AVs tested in urban areas fare on twisty mountain roads that suddenly change from multi lane asphalt to narrow twisty dirt roads?

    Will they recognize tractors and other farm or industrial vehicles on the road?

    Will they recognize something you only encounter in a foreign country like an elephant or an orangutan or a rickshaw? Or what’s it going to do if it comes across that tomato festival in Spain?

    Engineering isn’t magical: It’s the result of centuries of experimentation and recorded knowledge of what works and doesn’t work.

    Releasing AVs on the entire world without testing them on every little thing they might encounter is just asking for trouble.

    What’s required for safe driving without human intelligence is more mind boggling the more you think about it.