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811.
1000s of Toxins from food packaging found in humans – research(theguardian.com)
37 points by prmph 2y ago|11 comments
812.
Ask HN: Just how dangerous are lithium-ion batteries?
4 points by prmph 2y ago|6 comments
813.
by prmph 2y ago
What happened to the Grand Inga Dam project? I thought that's what this story is about.
814.
I'm 70 years old – and climb a mountain every day(theguardian.com)
3 points by prmph 2y ago|0 comments
815.
by prmph 2y ago
What's wrong with just having a table that rolls? Why does it have to walk? Cool project though, but it sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
816.
by prmph 2y ago
Aging is more than simply losing your looks. The aging process affects every system of the body: hearts get weaker, immune systems get weaker, eyesight declines, aches and pains abound, etc. Weaker systems and organs are more disposed to ex
817.
by prmph 2y ago
> mainly attenuated > may reflect So the study acknowledges that this is all not yet settled. The (potentially damaging) effect of excessive exercise may be stronger what the study found, or it may be neutral (i.e., not actually e
818.
by prmph 2y ago
True, but if exercise is potentially actually aging you faster, then it is only a matter of time until your quality of life is prematurely compromised, no?
819.
by prmph 2y ago
The actual study is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10274991/
820.
Rethinking Exercise: How Too Much Can Speed Up Aging, According to Finnish Study (2023)(thomashealthblog.com)
48 points by prmph 2y ago|51 comments
821.
Weight-loss drugs 'slow down the ageing process', scientists suggest(theguardian.com)
1 points by prmph 2y ago|0 comments
822.
by prmph 2y ago
> Like, you are asking for a Result type. If this was added to the spec tomorrow and existing objects were updated with new methods that return Result, and you can't modify built-in types, then you can't actually use the shiny
823.
by prmph 2y ago
So clean the language up, call it a slightly different name if you want, and let those who want to go modern do so. For those who can't, offer maintenance but no major new features for the original version. Being wedded to mistakes mad
824.
by prmph 2y ago
Good, I also used to think storing timestamps in UTC was sufficient. The examples really explained the problems with that well. One other issue to note is that, if you store dates in UTC, now the fact that they are in UTC is a tacit assumpt
825.
US Reaps Rewards of Ukraine's Battlefield Successes(cepa.org)
3 points by prmph 2y ago|7 comments
826.
by prmph 2y ago
Exactly, this is my thinking as well; I've mentioned the recursive concept in another comment before. And I suspect the question of free will is not resolvable until the hard problem of consciousness is solved. The cells in our bodies
827.
Zero calorie sweetener linked to blood clots and heart disease, study finds(cnn.com)
46 points by prmph 2y ago|64 comments
828.
Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, but Something Else Does, Study Says(sciencealert.com)
2 points by prmph 2y ago|3 comments
829.
by prmph 2y ago
Exactly. I've found that even with a greenfield project, there is the tension between keeping things simple and avoiding fully-engineering code so as to quickly get to an MVP, and the fact that code that is under-engineered is creating
830.
by prmph 2y ago
Reminds me of Jesus' words: Everyone seeking finds... Yeah there are some things you probably will never be a master of, but if you have the motivation to spend enough time at it, and not give up due to discouragement and reversals, yo
831.
by prmph 2y ago
> This is covered in any elementary stats or probability book. No, it is really not. That you are avoiding giving me a straightforward answer says a lot. If you mean this: > So any proof that P(X) != 0.5 falsifies it Then the fact tha
832.
by prmph 2y ago
> By definition a fair coin is one for which P(H) = P(T) = 1/2. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin . But that's a circular tautology, isn't it? You say a fair coin is one where the probab
833.
by prmph 2y ago
So you response actually strengthens my point, rather than rebuts it. > From a subjective Bayesian perspective, p(X) is a measure of how much confidence I - or any other specified person - have in the truth of a proposition, or my own ju
834.
by prmph 2y ago
> For example, if X is the event "you get 100 heads in a row when flipping a fair coin" then it is false that P(X) = 0.5 I think you haven't thought about this deeply enough yet. You take it as self evident that P(X) = 0.5
835.
by prmph 2y ago
So my theory is that probability is an ill-defined, unfalsifiable concept. And yet, it _seems_ to model aspects of the world pretty well, empirically. However, might it be leading us astray? Consider the statement p(X) = 0.5 (probability of
836.
by prmph 2y ago
True, but there is a difference between "can be type checked" and "can be type checked in a reasonable amount of time". I get reminded of this everything I have to work with a certain large Typescript code-base of mine t
837.
Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?(theguardian.com)
1 points by prmph 2y ago|0 comments
838.
by prmph 2y ago
To check these types would then require possibly infinite time, and the checking may never halt, per the halting problem. Useful types are a compromise between expressiveness and practicality.
839.
by prmph 2y ago
Rust is a systems programming language. It forces you to think about computer architecture as you are writing code. The language is a tool expressing how logic should execute safely and performantly on actual hardware. That is both its stre
840.
by prmph 2y ago
> Write the HTML agnostic to how it's intended to appear, and then just use CSS as a tool to style the already existing document. But it's not possible to write HTML agnostic to how it's intended to appear, in the general

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