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by elric 2y ago
Back in the late 90s/early 00s when I was a precocious teenager, I ran a somewhat popular website. At some point it made sense to just buy a 1U rack moubtable server and having it colocated (commercial webhosting was expensive then). I
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by elric 2y ago
It is worth noting that London has ~80% of the population of the Netherlands but is some 5 times smaller. That's very much apples to oranges. Stricter low-emission zones result in fewer cars in the short term (because some subset of th
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by elric 2y ago
So instead of Google paying Mozilla directly, you suggest that users pay Mozilla through an appstore while giving a 30% cut to Google? Secure, anonymous cash payments would make so many things much easier. Want to read this paywalled articl
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by elric 2y ago
> we need just one teeny tiny thing: somebody capable of organizing this That and an efficient way of making those payments. Can we please get an online payment method that's as simple as cash already?
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by elric 2y ago
Stopping development of user-hostile features could reduce the cost somewhat. Snark aside, it's crazy how it's basically become impossible to build and maintain a browser unless you're a megacorp or a billionaire.
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by elric 2y ago
I really wish LinkedIn had features to filter out all the garbage from the feed. 90% is someome I know liking garbage that was posted by someone I neither know nor care about.
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by elric 2y ago
Same here. That page is not very easy on the eyes, and that's with my brightness and contrast tuned for comfort.
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by elric 2y ago
I read somewhere that these were likely Motorola devices. Does that mean they are complicit in adding explosives to their pagers (wtf?) or is Mossad conducting supply chain attacks on such a massive scale? How do they ensure only the right
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by elric 2y ago
> Current generation APAP works great - not sure why you’re calling it awful It doesn't. Your PAP machine doesn't even know whether you're awake or sleeping. It can only ever play catch-up to your breathing getting worse.
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by elric 2y ago
I think those places need a prescription in order for insurance to pay for the machine, not to buy the machine.
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by elric 2y ago
I don't think the apple watch is as accurate as they claim, and it seems to need many nights of data to make a sleep apnea decision, so in that respect it is vastly inferior to polysomnography. But hey, if it helps more people seek a p
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by elric 2y ago
> They claim it is so they know your air pressure numbers but it is all just regulatory capture I disagree. In lab titration is not about regulatory capture. It's the best place to get a good ballpark start. The rest should be up to
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by elric 2y ago
Thanks, I'm usually the one who has to get on their soapbox to say this. I'm glad I'm not the only one anymore :-)
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by elric 2y ago
Please don't recommend sleeping pills to people who have sleep apnea. They can make apneas worse.
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by elric 2y ago
Followup sucks in most part of the world, unfortunately, which leads to awful compliance. Best thing to do is install Oscar [1], take screenshots of your data, and post it to Apnea Board [2]. The folks there will likely be able to offer som
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by elric 2y ago
Heated humidification is a crux. You only "really" need it when you have a mouth leak ( or if it's awfully cold and dry in your bedroom, like an igloo?). It also vastly increases the amount of maintenance you have to do on yo
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by elric 2y ago
You don't need a prescription for CPAP masks and you don't need a prescription for CPAP devices. You can freely buy both in most parts of the world. If you happen to live somewhere where you can't (and you can't get a pr
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by elric 2y ago
Told by whom? Gravity works against you when you sleep on your back: your jaw falls in on itself, your tongue relaxes down into the back of your throat, stomach acid can flow up into your esophagus with relative ease. AFAIK the left side is
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by elric 2y ago
Upvote for the excellent Wacraft II reference. Those are some of my favourite sound effects, and they are often quoted among my friends. Here's all of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gntGbsmTY_E
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by elric 2y ago
I once configured a Jenkins instance to play different sound effects when certain builds would fail. Originally these were played out of our big office TV, but its speakers broke at some point. A few years later, a couple of new hires came
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by elric 2y ago
I started writing a reply about my childhood. But then I realized I would be sharing more than I'm comfortable sharing in public, I don't even feel comfortable creating a throwaway account to discuss this stuff.
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by elric 2y ago
Hmm, I spent some time thinking about this comment, and I still don't get your point. Does my bias invalidate my claim? I mean I don't have any hard evidence that this is happening, but from a historical point is makes sense to me
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by elric 2y ago
One of my old classmates' area of research is applying electric stimuli to various types of cells. Apparently the right amount at the right time can briefly allow foreign material to pass through the cell wall unimpeded. The complexity
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by elric 2y ago
Oh indeed, I don't think there's a shadowy cabal suppressing the knowledge of the existence of our third eye or anything like that. But in the past, the long arm of the catholic church certainly had a chilling effect on some resea
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by elric 2y ago
That was a super interesting read. Another factor that's probably missing is a weird form of prudeness/sexism. I remember reading articles years ago about new discoveries about the clitoris, and thinkig "how the fuck was this
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by elric 2y ago
I'm not sure which pool you're using, but Wezenberg is 5eur for adults, or 7.50 if you don't live in Antwerp. The cheaper pools (e.g. Plantin or Groenenhoek) are 4 or 6eur, and their opening hours are ridiculous (pretty much
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by elric 2y ago
Are you saying €8 is not too expensive for a swim? That's an insane price. Yes, the ID thing is preventing me from entering. It's not about keeping "undocumented and migrants" out. It's allegedly about keeping troub
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by elric 2y ago
In Belgium, we don't even have swimmable pools. There are too few of them, their opening hours are worthless, going for a swim is stupidly expensive (~8eur), and many pools now require that you show them ID before you're allowed t
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by elric 2y ago
Sure, but the new fabs take time to build and spin up. I don't know how exactly they spend that money, but I'm guessing a large amount is up front (acquiring land and starting construction etc), so it doesn't seem impossible
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by elric 2y ago
I see where you're coming from, but I don't agree. It should be possible for people to share stuff (nudity or anything else, really) with the people they want, without worrying that $incompentCompany will leak it for all to see. T

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