HeyLaughingBoy

I did controller software for blood (plasma) analysis instruments for over a decade. Vitamin D was actually one of the harder analytes to process. Now that I'm writing this, I don't even remember what was so hard about it. I vaguely remember issues with the reagents clumping together and being harder to separate before they could be properly mixed with the sample.

There's been some talk (I haven't followed it) that autism spectrum disorders are linked to insufficient Vitamin D.

Here in MN, we have a very large population of Somali immigrants. Their children, born in MN, have a higher prevalence of autism than the ones born in Somalia. To the extent that the community has begun to call it "the Minnesota disease."

I was responding to the comment that there wasn't a sensor available that would work.

I worked on a system that sat in the railroad right-of-way and by necessity had to detect an oncoming train from at least half a mile away due to our response time. We were aware that the railroad already had the data on where the trains were, but for RR safety, there was no way that we could get access to that, so we had to place our own sensor next to the track.

You raise an interesting point that if you're near a switching point, you need to know the point's position to determine if there's a potential collision. For my system, it was placed far enough away so that was not an issue: if we detected a train, we knew it was coming our way.

So you detect them miles away. It's a real-time analysis problem: assign a latency equal to the longest time required to react and that's the time you have to detect an oncoming train.

When did he change his name from Tim Apple?

I generally don't start a fire in the fireplace unless the temperature is below 10F. I'm not hanging out around the firepit at that temperature.

This deserves far, far more upvotes than it got ;-)

The horses will probably go to a rescue. We run one and take in and rehome lots of horses that have been seized for mistreatment via court order.

I remember getting a mortgage and the loan officer saying that there was a 100% possibility that the loan would be sold within 60 days of closing.

That's not just happening on Amazon, tho. Hang out on /r/smallbusiness and you'll find tons of tiny retailers asking for help on how to deal with the same problem.

Yep, and I live in a rural area about 10 miles outside town. Amazon Prime was reliably within 2 days until a couple years ago when they opened a fulfillment center about 20 miles away. Now I often see an item I'm buying as available within hours. I basically use Amazon Prime as a way to avoid having to drive everywhere. Ease of returns, Prime Video, etc., are just icing on the cake.

Highlight the fact that it's a 501(c)(3) on the website. Being a non-profit opens up opportunities for donations from large corporations and applying for government grants. I notice that you have a PayPal Donate button. IIRC, PayPal has a specific payment structure for nonprofits.

You could say that about a lot of crimes, but that's not how it works.

Most software is purchased or built by businesses for their internal needs. Are you a business?

You sound like you don't like other people very much.