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by perardi 5y ago
I, too, am approaching 40, and I am still shocked by how many people, how very many high-functioning/high-status/high-contribution-to-society people are fueled by drugs. Doctors, nurses, lawyers, managers, psychologists, developer
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by perardi 5y ago
Ah, memories. I got on a BBS through a local university (Bradley University) in 1994 on my first computer: a Performa 630CD, with a Global Village 14 Kbps modem. If I recall, and I barely do, because I was in 4th grade, I got into it via a
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by perardi 5y ago
Bit of a tangential rant: meth is actually truly really bad, and I wish our drug education growing up hadn’t painted this nebulous concept of “drugs”, because there’s gradations of harm. I’m approaching 40. (Ugh, I hate to admit that.) I
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by perardi 5y ago
The Atlantic has a decent summary. (If a bit of an over-the-top headline.) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
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by perardi 5y ago
methamphetamine ≠ amphetamine Adderall is a mixture of amphetamine isomers. Which is prescribed all the time. (And let’s be honest, abused…) Methamphetamine is not Adderall. Meth is almost never prescribed, as it has far higher neurotoxicit
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by perardi 5y ago
Did you even bother to read the article? They have an entire page on power consumption under various workloads. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
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by perardi 5y ago
I understand that the bleeding is a serious concern, but does that have an immediate, potentially fatal or life changing impact - or does it happen with enough warning that you could stop taking aspirin and/or get medical assistance?
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by perardi 5y ago
A bit of a tangent, but not that much: I loathe the new Safari “tabs”, with as much scare as you can get in those scare quotes. But, I still can’t leave Safari be, as I appreciate the history and Keychain sync with my iOS devices. It’s that
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by perardi 5y ago
Though he did notably compromise on Carbon. The early plan was Cocoa/App Kit all the way, which meant a fundamental rewrite of all the important applications, namely Adobe and Microsoft stuff. Which would not have flown.
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by perardi 5y ago
Nothing says “basic financial literacy” like altcoins and NFTs.
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A per capita chart? Our World In Data is great for that. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths?country=USA~GBR~CAN~...
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by perardi 5y ago
Insert an obvious and oft-repeated lament that Flickr could have thrived if they had been managed properly. But gosh, Flickr was and is so good. (At least on desktop.) The simple fact I can link to a photo with an obvious download button
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by perardi 5y ago
Lightroom (or at least Lightroom Classic) defaults to embedding all metadata, but it’s exposed fairly prominently in the Export dialog, so I suppose people turn it off to, I dunno, hide their secret sauce.
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by perardi 5y ago
It still strikes me as a bit weird that Canada did not have its own constitution, as in technically completely independent of the British Parliament, until 1982. And technically the head of state is…well it’s complicated. https:/&#x2F
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by perardi 5y ago
OK, that’s nice. How do you get on the ballot in every single state for the Presidency? Are you going to run competitive House and Senate races in every single state? What’s your plan of action for getting the debate committees to allow a t
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by perardi 5y ago
They sure kept trying that for football. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2001) And it sure went nowhere.
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by perardi 5y ago
Well the website is down, but from the cache, the primary selling point is… ”An ƒ1.8, six-element, glass lens brings in 2.4x more light than any other webcam…With a 7.8mm, 4K Sony sensor” …which granted, is better than other webcams. Exce
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by perardi 5y ago
In this case, it appears to be…another website analytics tool. Not sure how that is “enormous”.
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by perardi 5y ago
I’m surprised that doctors are prescribing TRT, with testosterone enenthate, but then only having the patient inject once a week. That half-life is really sputtering out by the end of the week. (Well, I know why—like you said, compliance.
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by perardi 5y ago
Here, I’ll play devil’s advocate, even though I may have dabbled in anabolics once or twice. (Kidding, DEA! Obviously! D.A.R.E. worked for me!) The potential side effects are real. Very real. It requires a high degree of information liter
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by perardi 5y ago
As was Anavar, an anabolic-androgenic steroid. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8970686/ It was fairly commonly used in the Bad Old Days of HIV/AIDS, before there was anything resembling a real treatment. Got a lot
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by perardi 5y ago
I have tried both, for a nagging rugby-induced shoulder injury. Nothing. Nada. No perceptible difference. I am…passingly acquainted…with injectable performance-enhancing drugs, and TB-500 and BPC-157 just did nothing for me. Nor did they fo
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by perardi 5y ago
Well among other things: way to utterly and entirely ignore the LGBT creators on there who are making money but also creating erotic content for their communities.
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I’m sure there’s got to be other full-time UI designers/part-time circuit queens out there. Can’t be that weird. But yes, these are consenting adults (a fair number of them quite highly educated and absolutely aware of what they are
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I am sure someone is going to come up with silly edge case examples, but OnlyFans is for porn, and anyone else who says otherwise is trying to spin you.
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Yeah, I absolutely admit to my hypocrisy and/or short-sighted attitude here.
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…well I am not going to go through and do a full audit, but a fair bit is explicit, and realistically people are paying for the videos and not the stills.
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Sustainably? Or will they replicate, survive for a while, get to a critical mass, and then get nuked from orbit by Visa?
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by perardi 5y ago
Wow, you spend years thinking crypto is convoluted nonsense…and then something comes along that impacts a lot of your friends, and you start to change your mind. I have a fair number† of friends and acquaintances who have OnlyFans. Some for
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by perardi 5y ago
Well by gosh, I am old enough to remember Adobe Multiple Masters… https://blog.typekit.com/2014/07/30/the-adobe-originals-silv... …a technology which went absolutely nowhere. Makes me glad to see Helvetica is

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