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by gregwebs 1y ago
I am glad you are finding the time to avoid contaminated industrial processed food. In the apple sauce contaminations the apple sauce is always cinnamon flavored. When tested for various heavy metals, cinnamon usually has unsafe levels of h
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by gregwebs 1y ago
This is a great article on the biology of lead exposure. Unfortunately on the exposure side research wasn’t done and it propagates the myth that lead exposure is only an issue for those with lead pipes or lead paint. It’s true that these ar
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by gregwebs 2y ago
I use this timer which has the advantage of being portable: https://gymboss.com/
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by gregwebs 2y ago
What you want is at odds with energy efficiency and is therefore being made illegal https://blog.medcram.com/uncategorized/new-department-of-ene...
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by gregwebs 2y ago
AI blows me away when asked to write greenfield code. It can get a complex task using hundreds of lines of code right on the first try or perhaps it needs a second try on the prompt and an additional tweak of the output code. As things move
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by gregwebs 2y ago
It's not being reported on much, but they have moved towards normalizing diplomatic relations and Russia and the US are negotiating the outline of the deal now. Here is a recent video with John Mearsheimer (a foreign policy expert) gi
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by gregwebs 2y ago
It’s worth watching the full clip to appreciate how this starts with Zelensky undermining the peace process by blaming Russia right after Trump just answered by saying blame isn’t productive and Zelensky did it by directly challenging JD Va
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by gregwebs 2y ago
Breaking points is an independent media show on (YouTube and Spotify) that has both a liberal and conservative discuss current events.
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Bringing the Warp Terminal to Windows: Eng Learnings (So Far)(warp.dev)
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by gregwebs 2y ago
I don't see the word "consciousness" in the article. I thought that was the thing to figure out to understand the emergence of the mind.
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by gregwebs 2y ago
It is now well known that serotonin uptake cannot explain the effect of SSRIs and that we don't actually know how they work- but that doesn't mean they don't work. Most drugs have many effects (we call some of them side effec
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by gregwebs 2y ago
The state of online security hasn't changed much. What has changed is that there is an digital (as opposed to gold) international form of money whose transactions cannot be reversed or stopped. Bybit and those holders of large crypto a
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by gregwebs 2y ago
8,000 Troops got kicked out of the military for not getting the vaccine and are going to be invited back now. https://www.army.mil/article/283143/dod_prepares_invitation_...
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by gregwebs 2y ago
Thanks you for linking to that data. Glad they got it right this year. It would be great if we could also see the results of a placebo controlled trial every year as well to remove all doubt about whether or not it worked during the season.
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by gregwebs 2y ago
Is there any data on whether the flu vaccine is working this year? The fundamental problem with the flu vaccine is that they make it ahead of time guessing at what the flu will look like in the next flu season. If the flu mutates or otherwi
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by gregwebs 2y ago
Hurl is well designed for testing with marchers available for assertions. HTTL only supports strict equality assertions (for now). Hurl is written in Rust, HTTL in node. HTTL has an import system that can be useful for reusing an auth setup
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by gregwebs 2y ago
It’s unlikely to be a truly safe situation since paint wears down and chips off. It’s most dangerous though whenever there is repainting which involves sanding existing paint.
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by gregwebs 2y ago
There are case reports of people achieving remarkable rehabilitation by stressing their bones and muscles with weight lifting, for example: https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_as_reh... In general the
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by gregwebs 2y ago
Today there is a one woman campaign against lead in consumer products by Tamara Rubin. [1] Unfortunately she doesn't know how to make a professional looking website and doesn't have a degree as a doctor (which would be of no value
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by gregwebs 2y ago
The problem for me with making such an investment is that next month a better model will be released. It will either require more or less RAM than the current best model- making it either not runnable or expensive to run on an overbuilt mac
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by gregwebs 2y ago
Actually there’s a lot of innovation to be had in sand itself. Currently only certain grain sizes are used. So desert sand gets skipped and beach sand gets smuggled.
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by gregwebs 2y ago
A reason given for the dramatic increase in solar storm effects on Earth is that the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening. This is due to the current geomagnetic excursion where the location of the geomagnetic poles is changing.
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by gregwebs 2y ago
That’s useful information and we are all glad that performance regressions aren’t allowed now and there is work to make things faster. But that seems to be implementations of existing language design decisions rather than making language de
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by gregwebs 2y ago
Go was built while waiting for C++ to compile- fast compilation was an implicit design goal. Rust on the other hand didn’t prioritize compile times and ended up making design decisions that make faster compilation difficult to achieve. To m
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by gregwebs 2y ago
It seems like you are operating in an environment where a single code library can implement business logic and mediate all DB write access? Can someone update the db directly with another programming language or do they have to go through a
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by gregwebs 2y ago
When I read about Poland I see stuff saying they just banned coal and there are traditions of burning yard waste. I saw an article stating that in 2022 all fireplace manufacturers need to meet new standards which normally implies the existi
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by gregwebs 2y ago
This should make prescribed forest burns a high priority- they burn the forest floor but spare the large trees- smoothing out carbon release. There’s evidence that prescribed burns may lead to less carbon emissions [1]. In chaparral regions
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by gregwebs 2y ago
That assumes an inefficient burn that doesn’t actually heat a house either (a traditional inefficient fireplace heats a room but draws in cold outdoor air into the house). A proper wood stove, etc both heats the house and produces dramatica
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by gregwebs 2y ago
Other sources say the house wasn’t a passive house but did have fire rated walls. It seems like a lot of fire resistance can be created just by focusing on defensible space and having a concrete or metal fence. Then protecting the roof vent
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by gregwebs 2y ago
It seems some houses that focused on fire safety survived the fire with minimal damage. https://nypost.com/2025/01/15/real-estate/passive-house-surv... Metal roof, passive house so embers don’t get sucke

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