radiofreeeuropa

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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
You've got some serious biases sending you some weird places in evaluating my posts. > 1) Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813704 you regurgitate the classic Apple propaganda of "web apps are akshual
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
... a simple compound that was already developed and in-use, so the current patent (the one that's made it a big, ongoing news story and a kind of social phenomenon) is rewarding only going through the approval process for using it f
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Of course there's conflict of interest. I'd prefer we address all the things their actions motivated by that conflict of interest are shielding me from before we smack them down, though. After that, yeah, I'll take up a pit
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
I don't want web apps on my phone (or, in an ideal world, anywhere else) so that's also a good thing. If they're not viable, it forces developers to make real apps or else just make a web page instead of whatever awful-UX non
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
> I'm not a Mac user, but I wish I had Safari on desktop as an option today. Webkit browsers do exist on other platforms. They're far and away the best-performing sorts of actually-usable (in terms of supported Web features and
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
It's the only reason you don't see a lot more broken websites on Firefox, which would drive its market share even lower. Lots and lots of Web development projects target Chrome, then make sure it works on Safari. In that second st
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Chrome did that three ways: 1) performing better and crashing less than mainstream alternatives (just IE and Firefox, then) on non-Mac platforms (so, most desktop computers) for a good long while; 2) aggressive advertising to trick people w
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Counterpoint: Safari is by far the best mainstream browser, because it's got the only engine that gives half a shit about battery life, and because they push back on shitty features Google wants to make "standard" so they can
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
... and drugs. And they had 86% adherence for a year. If they'd studied this farther out and it went the same way as basically any study that's done that, adherence would be a lot worse in another couple years. And that's in
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Yep, overeating (and, to some degree, not enough moving around) is the reason. True. But “just personally do better” doesn’t work very well when applied as a medical intervention (they have tried, and checked, over and over, a hundred diffe
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Yes, it’s a google away.
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Run a study of your approach and show good results over a cohort for 2+ years and you'll make an entire sub-field of medical scientists very happy. [EDIT] It's not that your approach can't work, it's that if (for examp
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
There's anecdotes, and there's science. Individually, there's (previously) been nothing better to suggest than "try harder (and, maybe, smarter)". Statistically it was almost useless, but it's the best we had.
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Under-discussed benefit: being able to have all your clothes actually fit at the same time (no wardrobe scattered between your "skinny" weight and your "fat" weight and rarely being in the right place for more than a han
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
I'd describe the effects as basically the opposite of self-torture. Self-torture is dieting/fasting without the drugs. With them, it's great. No afternoon light-headedness and difficulty concentrating, no hunger pangs, no &qu
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
It's great because we had no other way to address this problem at a population level. Not any realistic ones, anyway. Like, I figured we were just never going to solve it, given the two possibilities were "radically re-engineer
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
There's a whole little online subculture of people in the US importing the precursors and making it themselves at home for dirt-cheap. I gather it's extremely easy and basically fool-proof, as far as producing the desired drug and
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Any means of attaining weight loss at a similar rate will tend to do the same thing. Especially if you’re starting from quite-heavy, not just dropping 20lb or something.
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Does there exist another source for a good, broad web index that can provide results like mid-'00s Google? I use DDG mostly but if I need to actually search the web I go to Yandex (I don't have Kagi... at least not yet). I don&#
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
I'm 40 and it's been getting faster consistently since my mid-20s or so. I'd say a year now feels about as long as 3 months did c. 10 years old. Summer rolls around and I blink and it's already getting too cold for the b
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
> Even in this thread it’s more praise for Bandit than anger at Homer’s portrayal. Initially, and more-or-less consistently for the first 7-9 seasons or so before it switched format and kinda became a straight (if goofy and heightened) v
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
I can't think of another cartoon targeted at that young an audience that I'd even consider sitting down and watching a half-dozen episodes of without a kid around, but I can imagine doing that with Bluey. Like I've for-sure l
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
It's been like that since before "AI" (before ChatGPT's big marketing break-out) Google's revenue is largely from promoting scams and tricking old people into clicking ads that look like normal search results. They&
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
My boomer dad grew up poor & rural enough he started life with a dirt floor and outhouse, puttered around doing odd & entry-level jobs but nothing that could be called a career until he was 30 (no college, of course), had kids and a
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
> It is a lazy dodge around the traditional responsibility of regulators to identify and regulate actual anti-competitive behavior when it actually happens Traditional since the ‘70s, when Chicago school jackasses got their way and all b
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
Mosh is excellent. It lets remote sessions survive (well, automatically and transparently recover from) disruption that reliably kills ssh. I basically don't use ssh at all any more for interactive sessions, because I'm sick of a
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
I came to this book too late for the core message to resonate as far as mindset and methods (yeah, yeah, I found this path and walked at least this far on it already, you're preaching to the choir, should have read this when I was like
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
In medical jargon, sure. In common usage, including among medical professionals , it's extremely common to just say "baby" in many contexts, especially when the baby is wanted and expected to be viable and brought to term. N
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
When I'm not busy worrying about everything else, I worry that there's assuredly an explosion of local corruption, especially outside of cities large enough to still have something resembling actual local news media, that we can
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by radiofreeeuropa 1y ago
The comparison for something as openly partisan on the left as Fox News, in US media, would be something like Democracy Now! or maybe The Nation. The thing is, though, there are a few components here: there's level of favorability towa

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