Tharkun

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by Tharkun 7y ago
I was under the impression that it was really hard to detect magnesium deficiency in bloodwork, because most of it is either supposed to be in our bones or cells, so a blood test doesn't paint a complete picture of total Mg stores.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Mg deficiency is also implicated in some cardiac arrhythmias and supplementation has been shown to help.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
It's not regression. It's progression. Power users are more efficient and proficient on what you (incorrectly) refer to as 70s-styled terminals. It took us a while to get there. We went down the wrong path with fancy GUIs in the 9
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by Tharkun 7y ago
This is mind boggling. Who installs these systems? Who maintains them? Surely this is supposed to be done by someone with at least a certain amount of clue? Enough clue not to hook up your insecure gear to the internet? No? I don't eve
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Also remember what happened during the mass protests 30 years ago. Stay safe.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
There's a certain irony in not paying for a platform that incentivizes paying rent through said platform...
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The ancient Romans apparently enjoyed drawing dicks in public toilets and such. We may think we're more civilized, but it's doubtful that we are.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
If they're waking you up to take blood samples when you're sleeping, it's probably for good reason. Maybe the patient is at risk for some kind of kidney complications and maybe not dying from renal failure is more important t
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I know that sleep is critical to healing. And I know that a lot of what happens to you in a hospital is very unpleasant. And I know that some things might seem silly, banal or irrelevant. But please remember that this is all done from a des
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Off-topic, but damn, Drew, how do you manage to be so productive? Sway alone is an impressive beast (and the only thing that got me off my awesomewm addiction). Now you're throwing in an impressive mutt alternative? Thanks for all the
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Just about everything was small scale and decentralized a little over a century ago. Many small scale decentralized solutions don't work with a population of seven billion.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Japanese flats usually don't have central heating. They tend to have a/c in one room. The kitchen is usually tiny by western standards. Often there is no bedroom -- the living room is used for sleeping. In all, 20-30m² flats are p
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That means that importing Dutch and French power is still cheaper than the cheap coal they could be burning. Sounds like a win to me.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Not to mention the whole groundwater incident...which, had it not been for (suicidal?) miners digging a tunnel, the water supply of FIFTY MILLION people would have been contaminated.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Sex with more than one person is a lot more fun than even the most pleasurable wank to even the most ultra specific porn. In fact, you could do the naughty with someone while watching your ultimate kink. There is zero risk of societal col
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by Tharkun 7y ago
There are various ways of joining large amounts of wood together. CLT uses glue. Brettstapel uses wooden dowels (using two kinds of wood with a different hardness, so the dowels stay in place). I'm sure there are other variants as well
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by Tharkun 7y ago
This question comes up every single time anything related to wood construction is talked about. The keyword in mass timber is mass . It's quite hard to set a big mass of wood on fire. It burns slowly and relatively predictably -- mean
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by Tharkun 7y ago
So I guess it's fine for the US to ship Intel hardware with suspected backdoors in the ME. But it's somehow unacceptable for the Chinese to be rumoured to do the same?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Only one government has ever used nuclear weapons.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That's a good point. These reactors are ancient. I wasn't aware of any major improvements in spent fuel handling, so I've got some reading to do!
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Lead acid batteries have a recycling rate of around 100%. LiIon can be recycled with relative ease. This seems like a much easier problem to solve than PV cells or nuclear waste.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Placing economic sanctions on oil states which want to build nuclear reactors does seem counterproductive wrt climate goals.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That would make sense, actually, thanks for clarifying that.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Really? I don't recall ever having used a clean McDo toilet. I can clearly recall filthy toilets in France, Belgium & the UK. I'm not sure where you frequent McDo, but it sounds to me like your experience is more atypical than
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> Haven't nuclear waste recycling and safety features gotten really good in the past few decades? I thought you were being snarky at first, but the rest of the comment appears to indicate you're being serious. In Belgium we&#x2
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by Tharkun 7y ago
McDonalds has clean bathrooms? That's news to me. Source: went for a wee in a McDo in Belgium last week, place was predictably disgusting.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
There are plenty of tall wooden buildings, some with wooden exteriors, some without. Wood doesn't actually burn all that rapidly, so it can be a safe choice in the right circumstances. IIRC the biggest problem with the Grenfell claddin
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by Tharkun 7y ago
We can only hope that US voters will end up electing a government with a functioning moral compass in the near future. Perhaps said government could end up pardoning the whistleblowers exposing the crimes of the previous governments. You c
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Many years ago, OpenBSD's Theo De Raadt made a sneer at virtualization, saying something the lines of "they can't even build a secure system, let alone a secure virtualized system". I can't remember who he was refer
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I believe something called 'communism' which addresses that. Snark aside, automating shitty jobs is a Good Thing. Finding new and better jobs for those impacted should be a major political priority. Education is one aspect, but co

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