matthewtse

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by matthewtse 2y ago
I went wakeboarding in a freshwater lake a few years ago. On the first wipeout, my face smashed into the water, and it went very far up my nose. On getting up, I remembered "Naegleria fowleri", and wondered, hmmmm this might have
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by matthewtse 3y ago
I love this reply. It's a particularly touchy subject because it involves people's health and the ability/inability to pay for it. But as a sufferer of a debilitating disease with a miracle drug that costs an arm and a leg, I
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by matthewtse 3y ago
(I left a previous comment as a similar sufferer of a lifelong genetic disease that was cured by a breakthrough medicine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37541222 ) Funnily enough, although in practical terms my life is
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Wow what a nice article. Funny, I'm typing on a set of Signature Plastics DSA keycaps right now, and I had no idea they were designed in the 80s. Really nostalgic to read about the history of this company. And also, I've had Melis
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Just subscribed to your YouTube channel, hope to see more Mechanical Marvels from you! It's rare to feel an unstoppable childlike smile creep onto my face, the smile of experiencing joy+wonder, and I felt that today. Also super impress
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by matthewtse 3y ago
I felt the same yearning. I found a creative outlet in hardware, that still furthers my software engineering career, by building a custom mechanical keyboard to improve coding speed, accuracy, and efficiency. https://www.reddit.c
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by matthewtse 3y ago
really nice and clean, one feature I'd like is a colored bar that indicates when it's daylight vs. nighttime in the different time zones
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by matthewtse 3y ago
I've been using unscented "Dr. Bronner's - Organic Lip Balm" for years. I have cripplingly sensitive skin, and this was the only brand that doesn't irritate it (love their bar soap too). I have basically bought a st
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by matthewtse 3y ago
This article was enlightening in summarizing all the Antitrust activity recently. What I was looking for, but didn't find in the article, is why the FTC has woken up against Big Tech, after 25 years of silence following the Microsoft c
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by matthewtse 3y ago
It's interesting to me how Prometheus came to dominate the metrics ecosystem over the past decade. When I first encountered it, I had a visceral reaction against it, primary over: 1) The PromQL query language is really not intuitive. I
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Interestingly, hacking seconds have become so ubiquitous, that some watches will advertise the "lack" of hacking seconds. I.e. in the Rolex GMT, when you adjust the hour hand independently of the seconds hand, the seconds hand con
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Not just in late-1700s Europe. I spent years pursuing a cure for chronic illness, and at one point I crossed paths with a homeopath of sorts. Among other things, she gave me a fairly strict diet, and I still remember one sentence: "No
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by matthewtse 3y ago
> It is possible to genetically engineer Streptococcus mutans, the dominant human mouth bacteria, to produce ethanol instead of cavity-causing lactic acid I hope it's in such small quantities that it wouldn't cause any alcoholi
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by matthewtse 3y ago
ahhh so it's a parody of an actual business, that does in fact perform this service! The photos looked a bit too real to be a full parody. I in fact lived on one of the streets in the photo, and it looked accurate.
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Wow, the language on this website is really on-the-nose. As I was reading through it, I legitimately could not tell if it was a legit business or satire (and I still don't know).
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by matthewtse 3y ago
I really identify with this article. I find the modern "autopilot" social life tends to put me in touch with much the same people. Whether that's through meeting similar friends of friends, similar socioeconomic people throug
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by matthewtse 3y ago
wow nice, I'll give this a try. I've always used jq for viewing json, but it's the wrong tool for my use. I basically want to explore json interactively, not parse it specifically. So the workflow is to keep "jq"ing
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Sorry to hear you're a non-responder to Dupixent. But really glad you found a different pill that seems to work! I use to worry that my body would someday stop responding to Dupixent, and my whole life would suddenly crash down around
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by matthewtse 3y ago
TBH, it's exactly the same for me too. It's really amazing how much the human mind adapts both upwards and downwards. These days I find myself sad about the same kinds of stuff as everyone around me (money, relationships, etc.), a
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by matthewtse 3y ago
> I really can’t imagine someone who sitting around deciding “I have to eat more bread, the government’s pyramid drawing demands it” rather than just eating what they want to eat. Actually, to a shocking degree, yes. I grew up in an immi
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by matthewtse 3y ago
A sincere thank you :) Yes, the worst was a period of months when I was effectively a burn victim (>70% of body with severe bleeding sores, and fully bedridden). The worst part was that, unlike with a burn victim, it wasn't clear to
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by matthewtse 3y ago
> If you ever get sick of infections I assume you meant "injections" :) For the value that Dupixent provides for me (effectively infinite), I'd do just about anything. So the injections don't bother me at all. Though
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by matthewtse 3y ago
It's utterly amazing to hear of another group of sufferers who are the beneficiaries of modern miracle medicine. Personally, I suffered from an extreme case of eczema my whole life, which left me effectively a disabled person. Although
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by matthewtse 3y ago
> This is not an option for the vast majority of people A bank SD box costs $50/year. Why is this not an option for a majority of people? If anything, it's more accessible to use a bank SD box than being a technical enough pers
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by matthewtse 3y ago
That was the problem for me too. There are many implementations of Shamir Secret Sharing out there, but they're all idiosyncratic and impossible to vet unless you have a background in cryptographic security, and like you said nearly al
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by matthewtse 3y ago
It's for this reason that I eventually decided upon pencil+paper secrets in a bank safety deposit box, which can be backed up or even split up in a 2/3 fashion for things super critical. The yubikey ends up being solely for conven
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Yeah, when your competitor is one of the biggest companies in the world who's willing to light millions on fire to offer a COMPLETELY FREE competitor for the sake of "developer mindshare", it's pretty easy to see the end
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by matthewtse 3y ago
After the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub (including Atom/Electron), they really made immense efforts to speed it up! It's been years since I've used Sublime Text, but I imagine VS Code is as fast if not faster at this point.
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Curious, why Sublime Text in this day and age of VS Code dominance? Sublime text was my first "in the middle" text editor, more featured than vim/emacs, but lighter weight than IntelliJ. I somehow got my internship company t
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by matthewtse 3y ago
Ah yes, sturdiness is another magical quality of lightning that is under-appreciated. I've never had a lightning cable end break, or a lightning port wear out, the device is long obsoleted by that point. Another problem I had with USB-

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