Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I usually keep it plugged in but when I don't I've noticed the battery has drained faster than I would have expected. That said; the few times lately that I've gone on battery, the drain speed has returned to what I would ex
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
My oldest was born two weeks after the first iPhone was announced. When she was 7 I let her buy an iPod (the one that looked like a thin iPhone) after she saved half the money. My son is about 18 months younger and I did the same for an i
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Interesting. I take a vitamin D3 supplement daily because a physical a couple of years ago showed I was a little low (I do keto so I'm assuming that's why). Sounds like I may need to add a Zinc supplement as well? > Did they
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I can't speak to what's common but, with my dad it was he was increasingly confused, constantly tired and sleeping all the time, and progressive weight loss. He was down to 100lbs when they admitted him.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
The surgeons never said one way or another. I got the distinct impression that they are, unfortunately, at quite a loss when it comes to people like my dad since he shouldn't have been immunocompromised. In fact, prior to the biopsy,
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
They did but couldn't detect the fungus from that so they proceeded to the biopsy. The surgeon said that the cerebral spinal fluid can get filtered quite a bit by the time it gets to the area where they do the tap which was why they c
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
My father contracted cryptococcal meningitis seven years ago and, according to his doctors, was days away from dying from it (he has fully recovered since, thankfully) The problem, though, wasn't treating it. His neurosurgeon told me
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I have highly religious family members who will actually say things like, "The devil was on my shoulders and that's why I..." To which I reply, "No, you were just being a dick." Strangely, they don't find that
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Wouldn't surprise me if, were someone to follow the money, this wasn't related to the upcoming release of The Exorcist: Believer . EDIT: Apparently this was written before that movie started filming so, I guess not.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
It's amazing to me that, after all these years, people are surprised at how bad Microsoft is at security. I genuinely don't understand why companies use their products after decades of egregious security vulnerabilities.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I worked with Scott at a startup he co-founded after Sun. He's a good guy. I remember him telling me a story about when he first met Tiger Woods. Their wives were college friends so Tiger and his wife visited the McNealy's at th
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Have a look at your peanut butter. That's right. The major food manufacturers add sugar to peanut butter . One of the best peanut butters I've ever tasted was Crazy Richard's. Here's the ingredients list verbatim: Pean
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Agreed. There are over 50 different names for sugar that the FDA will accept on the ingredients list and you can bet your ass the food manufacturers will take advantage of that. I saw a popular granola bar once that listed four different k
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Ever been to a medical provider (MD, NP, PA) and have them breeze in, mumble some questions to you, type some things on their computer while barely looking at you, and then breeze back out, all within 15 minutes? That's because they ar
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
The food industry in the US is making us sick. Full stop. Combine that with a healthcare industry that cares for anything but health[1] and I can't help but think we may be on the precipice of a set of problems not seen before in socie
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Especially with "the Denver stop" which has now been made legal in Colorado. My son got clipped on his (human powered) scooter by a truck at an intersection the other day. He had a walk signal so the driver should have yielded.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Microsoft, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll build it on top of SharePoint."
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Can't speak for OP but my wife just bought a new Mach-E and I drove it for the first time yesterday. Smoothest ride I've ever had in a car, hands down.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I've seen so many projects like this come and go. They go, in my opinion, for a reason: Web technologies just aren't great as an app platform. If you want a web-like platform on which to build a cross-platform application, I reco
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Much thanks to everyone involved with JavaScript over these 28 years! I've enjoyed using it from the beginning.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I've had to get their certifications. They're just as much garbage as the rest of their offerings. The courses they provide are nothing but marketing material. They don't improve your understanding of the products at all.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I hate to go negative. I really do because, usually it doesn't improve the discourse whatsoever. However, I feel like it needs to be said: Microsoft makes bad products[1]! They're overpriced, insecure, slow (it's astounding
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I was really hoping this was a 1.0 announcement but, I'll take what I can get. Red is a really promising language. It, like Lisp, gets flak because of the syntax but that really becomes a non-issue pretty quickly once you start using
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Loops have the potential to be very inefficient. As an exercise you can write two scripts in Javascript, one that has a for loop and another that does the same thing functionally. Then you can use Node to dump the VM instructions. You mi
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Coming back to this a week late but, MY GOD YES!
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
It's quite old and so doesn't include the rise of the Internet and subsequent innovations but, Accidental Empires is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Empires Where Wizards Stay Up Late -
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
All Microsoft needed to do is look to the Apple Music app to know how bad an idea building it on WebView is. But, yeah, I wholeheartedly agree that they should either develop or use a native framework (Flutter perhaps?) rather than trying t
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I have such fond memories of going to my grandparents house and looking at the rows of yellow magazines sitting on their bookshelf. My favorite was an issue about the Loch Ness Monster.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Sadly, that is a commentary on the quality and efficiency of the US healthcare system. Before I get an onslaught of downvotes: my wife is a Nurse Practitioner and her and literally every provider she knows that I have met agrees that our he
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
You guys are singing the song of my people. For years I've been confounded at the idea that we need to be building/compiling interpreted code. And the tooling... my God! I know this makes me sound like an old man (because I am)

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