highmastdon

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by highmastdon 6y ago
I started taking vitamin d when I started my professional life as a software engineer after my studies. I had a minor winter depression, and I’ve never stopped taking. Since then I’ve had no colds at all. Of course this is anecdotal, but I
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Well a deadly pandemic wouldn’t need immunity, they’d all die. Regarding parent; I believe it was known that the measles vaccine wouldn’t protect for life but for a fair amount of time where having to go through the disease would’ve given l
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Is this something we should wish for? It’s my understanding that for SARS-CoV-2 a lot of people seem to have t-cell immunity because they’ve been infected with other families of coronavirus. Correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t vaccinating
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Turkey has been treating people with HCQ from May onwards, despite outcomes of the now-retracted(!) study once published in The Lancet, and they have a very low death rate. 256/1M Population. (See: https://www.middleeasteye.
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by highmastdon 6y ago
There’s enough evidence for medication and preventive supplements (Ivermectin, Vitamin D) that lockdowns aren’t necessary anymore. Other treatments have looked promising when applied early in the disease instead of after hospitalisation. Ac
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by highmastdon 6y ago
This is great. Of the effectiveness is a as good in the long run, we don’t even need a vaccine since it’s no longer a high risk disease. It’ll be a flu like vaccination where elderly and at-risk people can be using it
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by highmastdon 6y ago
I feel USA is more liberal in that perspective. I would agree with the system if the options you mention were also available in our country (NL) but they aren’t. You can’t even move to homeschooling when you’ve only enlisted one of your chi
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Just the idea of a school is worse than a prison: - it’s mandatory - closed confinement - not allowed to do what you want in that closed area - you’re being told what to do for at least 8-14 years - you’re being told when to pee - during th
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by highmastdon 6y ago
The whole world is starting to cuddle everyone to death. It’s so disgusting to see the walled gardens censoring, boycotting, deciding what is truth, interfering with ones beliefs and trying to modify them. Also everyone feels offended by so
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Scrolling is horrifying on mobile phone (iPhone 6, iOS 12.4.8). I have to move it instead of letting it slide. Not sure why that is, maybe you’re taking over the scroll, or scroll listeners
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Thank you for open sourcing these libraries. Your mindset of an app in an hours really strikes me as ple asant. I’ve used PHP Yii framework and everything used to work that way. From layout till auth till database modelling and generating e
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by highmastdon 6y ago
On mac there’s a window manager called yabai which I’m using and works very well. It’s a bsp (binary space partitioner) for some advanced uses as moving to other desktops it requires SIP to be disabled (System Integrity Protection) but for
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by highmastdon 6y ago
On iOS there’s an option to “reduce white point”. This way you can get reallly low brightness and low contrast on your phone. I’m using it often during night. I suggest to add a accessibility shortcut to the triple click home to toggle it
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by highmastdon 6y ago
This doesn’t strike me as a benefit. Soon you’ll have a multitude of apps and libraries instead of one framework to maintain, upgrade, refactor etc. The same goes for the idea of micro front ends being a collection of apps all in different
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by highmastdon 6y ago
There’s still an option in accessibility to “Reduce Motion”. It does feel slightly quicker. But most animations are changed by a less visually impactful fade
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Don’t forget that also 1MB of JavaScript is much much more heavy on the client than 1MB image
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Sure there is a huge leap, but there’s enough research on organic food being beneficial to both growing and eating. Researchers have been blackmailed into presenting their studies as irrelevant. One recent issue came up in the Netherlands w
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Which part needs recovery? The pandemic, of course, but if it were up to democrats the shops would’ve been closed and businesses bankrupt more than by trying to keep stuff open. Minimum wages have increased, stock market is doing fine, une
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by highmastdon 6y ago
As a foreigner not living in the US of A, I feel that your last paragraph outlines it perfectly. Also, a lot of the outspoken left wing is about groups and not about individuals. To mind comes: institutional racism, gender equality, white p
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Would you rather be forced to pay 130 bucks a month and still have to pay up to 800 bucks a year for initial costs of health care? Because that’s what it means. Or you get your own health insurance and have something to choose from
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by highmastdon 6y ago
What strikes me is that it seems each side only thinks in the outcome of the others’ parties rethoric instead of the contents. Maybe that’s also what’s at core of the matter of this polarisation.
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Even though I was NEing to this comment, I feel the quality of the comments is becoming more Redditilized, which saddens me. It used to be that every comment was going into detail on what the point was instead of a sarcastic one-liner (snee
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Somehow this made me feel happy that GraphQL is part of the Linux Foundation
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by highmastdon 6y ago
'Stupid' is very subjective. Let’s take your example of the face masks. You (scientists including) call stupid whenever people aren’t wearing the masks. Others (also including scientists) might say that wearing a mask is stupid (b
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Or Colemak for that matter
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Side note: don’t call the countries in the European Union “states”. They’re sovereign countries that have committed themselves through treaties to the Union, not a US like government body
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by highmastdon 6y ago
How about SketchUp?
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by highmastdon 6y ago
I honestly don’t see a purpose for a mouse when you have a state of the art, not yet surpassed trackpad. Of course it is mostly regarding the MacBooks, not when you’re using an iMac or Mac Pro even though the wireless versions are also a jo
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by highmastdon 6y ago
> The fact is that the virus inhabits the lungs, and damages tissue as it replicates. Just because someone isn't having an acute symptomatic response doesn't mean that there couldn't be long term effects from infection If
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by highmastdon 6y ago
Why would there be a difference in treatment for entertainment vs general purpose? Both are devices that I’ve bought, so I should be able to use them as I see fit.

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