Balgair

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by Balgair 3y ago
There are a lot of good decaf coffees out there. Also teas. You don't have to give up the taste or the ritual to cut back on the caffeine, you don't even have to give up caffeine totally. You can cut down a lot on it too.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I've read a little bit about life on ships during the age of sail. One common theme is that the enlisted men's lives are basically thought of much like the wooden planks: Not at all, and if so, only when it's affected the mis
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by Balgair 3y ago
I was working on a guiding fiber optic cable, so the signals were live during implantation. The fiber is then pulled out once the electrodes are in the correct position. We used ML to help determine where the tip of the electrodes were in t
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by Balgair 3y ago
I did some work on DBS devices. Yeah, that's an intense surgery. The MD doing the implantation was a rockin' bitch-ass motherfucking stone cold killer. Sorry for all the curse words, but that's the best way to describe her. I
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by Balgair 3y ago
Anything that can change the god-awful situation of daycare in the US has my vote. I can't see how it can get any worse.
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by Balgair 3y ago
Even the X = Z sounding in English makes it sound bad: Zitter. God, he really did no market research at all, didn't even roll it around in his head for 3 minutes.
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by Balgair 3y ago
Primarily formaldehyde, but there are a few other things in the modern products that I can't remember. It goes into tissues and creates networks that essentially freeze membranes in place. It kills nearly everything and preserves large
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by Balgair 3y ago
I've had a few close family members pass from cancer. I was a caretaker during these times for them. Talking with them, changing them (people are really heavy!), feeding them, medicating them, bathing them, etc. We had very good hospic
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by Balgair 3y ago
Stored in fix, so refrigeration isn't strictly necessary, but out of convention, anything in fix is in a fridge of some sort. Kids of a certain age get to hold them directly in gloved hands. The place has to have some ventilation, as a
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm in biotech. My graduate education involved a fair bit of volunteer work with , believe it or not, human brains. We'd take these brains out to schools and museums for public education. There were a lot of brains in the educatio
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by Balgair 3y ago
These articles tend to show a divide in the HN community (speaking in broad terms here, HN is incredibly diverse). One one hand, there are people that love coding, or are not from the US, or have made themselves successful, or generally d
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by Balgair 3y ago
After our first, I felt like I gained superpowers (okay, not super, somehowpowers?). Especially with the lack of sleep. Even a month beforehand, that lack of sleep would have wrecked me. I mean, it still did, but somehow I just no longer ca
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by Balgair 3y ago
What a winnowing process! The only people that make it through really aren't the people you'd want to make it through. No one with a lick of other opportunities would take a job there. If hiring is a market-like process, then thes
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by Balgair 3y ago
Fire extinguisher. As for the reason, I'll just say I still have a family because of one.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I think I'm the odd one out here. I like it a lot more when the rest of the audience is interacting with the movie, heckling, shouting, laughing, etc. Yeah, sitting on your loud phone and not watching the movie is just strange, of cour
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by Balgair 3y ago
Nevermind. I got the log-in-wall again. Please ignore.
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Tell HN: You can view Twitter profiles again without logging in
2 points by Balgair 3y ago|4 comments
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by Balgair 3y ago
I used to work with upper limb amputees. Learned a lot there. There's a standardized testing kit for prostheses and injuries that's surprisingly low tech and amazingly useful: The Southampton Hand Assessment Procedure (SHAP) It&#x
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm outside of FAANGs and the valley and in biotech and formerly DoD. For us, it's always been 'this bad'. Applying for thousands of jobs isn't too terrible, depending on the economy of course. Covid was a rare brig
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by Balgair 3y ago
> Instead he’d poll Twitter, ask a friend, or even ask his biographer for product advice I'm sorry, he has a biographer following him around now?
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by Balgair 3y ago
I think Hume's 'Of Miracles' (1748) provides a good framework here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Miracles Hume's argument against miracles is based on : 1) The uniformity of nature (the laws of
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by Balgair 3y ago
One quirk about HN is that if you complain about the downvotes, you'll get even more. The community does seem to treat karma as the truly imaginary internet points they are.
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by Balgair 3y ago
> (why would he care so much about this, boredom?) > due to extreme unreflected and unchecked ego Unfortunately, I think it's worse than that. My belief is that it's manic phases caused by bipolar disorder. If you squint an
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm reminded of this DFW quote: "Here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody wor
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aussie Rules is my favorite of the football sports. I say this as a mega fan of American Football, Union, and League. Sacrilege, I know. The scoring opportunities are much higher. The pace is much much faster. There are more players, more u
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by Balgair 3y ago
Great question, and I'm unfortunately going to have to give the answer of 'it depends'. Each study is different and therefore run differently. Many, many , factors determine how a study is run, analyzed, and published. Most
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by Balgair 3y ago
For a 'quick' overview into the mess that is IRBs, this book review is a good starting place: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-from-overs... TL;DR: IRBs are a mess, hyper-individualized, an
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by Balgair 3y ago
Try nitter.net
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by Balgair 3y ago
Darwin talked about bird deaths around him during the winter. By his estimation, he thought ~3/4 birds would die of starvation every year. A massive amount. He commented that a plague of 1/10 people would be a near apocalypse, yet
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by Balgair 3y ago
https://www.uua.org/find

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