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by jwestbury 3y ago
I'll note: HAES, at least initially, was about living a healthier lifestyle regardless of weight, especially recognising that without this latest batch of weight loss drugs, sustainable weight loss is incredibly difficult, and that w
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> So yes, using SMS as anything is just another pointless American thing, The thing you're not grasping here is that SMS exists on every phone. WhatsApp does not. Signal does not. Telegram does not. Communication benefits massively
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Sure - but I can use iMessage on my phone to text those people anyway. WhatsApp has basically zero market penetration in North America, unlike Europe, so there's no network effect to speak of.
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This is super cool (pun not intended, but embraced), thanks for sharing!
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Can't remotely justify the price to upgrade from my trusty A7iii, but definitely excited about this one!
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Ask HN: What's the most interesting (non-AI) advancement in tech in 2023?
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Well, yes, when it comes to knowledge I'd say that it is a good thing to remove those supporting fringe content. Consensus amongst those who generally care about a topic is probably better for ensuring largely correct data than the a
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OP's advice is also incredibly frustrating if you've ever encountered a form where the Submit button seems to just do nothing. (Yes, you could pop a dialog which tells the user why it's doing nothing. In practice, that doesn&
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Years ago, I worked in support at AWS. Because of the rather peculiar way AWS accounts are linked, any company with access to AWS GovCloud had all of their accounts flagged as GovCloud accounts -- and all of their support requests were rout
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Consciousness is not especially well-understood, and there's some evidence that even under general anaesthesia, humans experience disconnected consciousness (i.e., consciousness without a perception of environment). It's not unrea
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It's important to recognise that even with "lifestyle" changes, weight loss is often not sustainable. Here's a quote from a review of the literature undertaken in 2018[0]: > In a meta-analysis of 29 long-term weight l
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To be fair -- it's been a couple of years since I played Valve multiplayer games regularly. Has cheating increased at a high rate in the past, say, 3-4 years? I will say, I think the biggest problem contributing to high levels of cheat
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There are many behaviours which were common throughout human history which would now be fringe movements. Human and/or animal sacrifices, for instance.
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> The most antisemitism lately in my twitter feed comes from the academia and leftist intellectuals. I'm curious what you're defining as antisemitic here. I've seen a lot of claims that being anti-Israeli-government is equ
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Quite a lot. A laptop screen + external monitor is an awkward solution. Display size and pixel density issues make it annoying to navigate the combined desktop environment. I have very little interest in doing so, personally -- if I'm
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Here's a Web result for "change your mind."
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My biggest pet peeve: Apple has decided to convey low/high temperatures different than standard. Every major weather agency and app advertises the daily low as the low temperature during the night following the advertised high. Apple,
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> This is tautologous. No, it's not, and it's a problem that you're thinking this way. A tautology would be "Americans in the top 10% of wealth are wealthier than the bottom 90%." A tautology is necessarily true
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> And we wonder why employers want us back in the office. I mean come on. I worked less than anyone else on my team at my last job. I was probably doing "active" work for 3-4 hours a day -- plus meetings. I was also a senior en
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> This is really the secret sauce of AWS, industry leading operations/stability/backward compatibility. After working there for >5 years (premium support at AWS, then EC2), I've found myself missing Amazon's operat
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It seems to be a bit complicated in this location -- because the "private" owner is actually a public body. I do also wonder about existing public rights of way in the area, as I don't believe property owners can restrict pho
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> It also allows you to effectively nullify recoil through custom scripts uploaded to it. Valve seems to have done a pretty good job dealing with this in their games. Surely there exist more sophisticated anti-cheat mechanisms than &quot
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> Yet another move by MS contrary to the ‘see we arent the same company as we used to be’ vibe they’ve tried to cultivate. I'd wholly bought into that narrative. Over the past year, I've become so opposed to Microsoft that I&#x
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> Because this whole process is dependent on finding profiles on their platform. The other issue is stale resumes, at least in my experience. I've been in the industry for over a decade, and been in big-name tech companies for nine
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If you've not had it, I cannot more highly recommend ESWL. In my case, it just felt like some light bruising for a day or two, and otherwise an 8mm stone in my kidney was obliterated with no effects.
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Chronic stone former here, and I can confirm this. That said, I did have a stone large enough to get stuck in the urethra -- not the ureter. The doctor was quite impressed. Unfortunately, I passed it in a public toilet shortly after leaving
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I've joked that LinkedIn is like a reverse dating site: Instead of attractive women dealing with loads of men whose messages they're uninterested in, it's men dealing with loads of attractive women whose messages they're
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Not GP, but there are things which ChatGPT is just better for. I've been getting into the weeds with k8s a bit lately, but most of my past experience is just using platforms which abstract k8s away from me. So, when I run into issues,
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> with perennially popular topics like bawdy humor and fart jokes The Miller's Tale is my go-to for both showing people the joy of medieval literature, but also as a counterpoint for people reminiscing about the "good old days&
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Correct. Veritasium actually did a video on exactly this set of items last year[0]. The tl;dr is that NIST has a large collection of items which are rigorously produced and tested, with detailed documentation about their composition and tes

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