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by sctb 2y ago
They're minimal; retinol is usually mixed with a carrier oil or cream in various concentrations and applied topically. I would be surprised if it has an impact on the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) referred to in the arti
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by sctb 2y ago
It's a great title/article pair for HN because it's unexpected/good, as opposed to clickbait which is unexpected/bad. The guidelines permit changing the original title in the case of clickbait anyways.
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by sctb 2y ago
No way that's true. Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38864375 . It would be good if there was less Black Bar Bikeshedding.
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by sctb 2y ago
These are easily one of my favourite types of posts (and this one was particularly gratifying). I wish I could go down these rabbit holes every day! > [...] and why heterogeneous platforms are important This prompts me to wonder vaguely
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by sctb 2y ago
> I wish I could borrow someone's mind for a minute and understand more. When you say "understand", I want to say "with what?" The mind you're borrowing?
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by sctb 2y ago
Doping as table stakes is understandable. Money too, after a while. But I genuinely wonder how an athlete who put a motor in their bike and then accepted the resulting victory would feel about themselves as a competitor and a person. If the
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by sctb 2y ago
I find it surprising that athletes would choose to make a drastic departure from their prior intentions of fair competition in order to attempt to avoid the inevitability of retirement. I don’t find it nearly as surprising that someone woul
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by sctb 2y ago
> When faced with the decision of ending a career or cheating, it is not too surprising that people could choose the latter. I do find it a bit surprising, myself.
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by sctb 2y ago
> If your competition is cheating you are going to lose if you don't cheat. I put that in category #1, which isn't exactly cheating because it doesn't buy you an advantage. Cheating at school or at work is an interesting e
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by sctb 2y ago
And when does Mephistopheles chime in? I’m fascinated by the idea of doping in general, and there seems to be two distinct kinds: 1) something that everyone is doing (e.g. EPO at the Tour de France or AAS in bodybuilding) and 2) something t
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by sctb 2y ago
As a youngster, the first time I managed to get Slackware installed via floppies, I was having a great time chatting with ircII and browsing with lynx. Someone on IRC told me I needed X Windows and I was like, that sounds cool, so I learned
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by sctb 2y ago
Similarly, some Lisps (like Scheme48 IIRC) use a comma to begin REPL commands (as distinct from Lisp forms) because commas outside of quasiquotation forms are otherwise syntax errors.
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> "We're showing that older individuals' state of mind is linked to the biology of their brain mitochondria, which is the first time that subjective psychosocial experiences have been related to brain biology," > T
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> He was fond of the Nietzsche quote: “he who has a why to live can bear almost any how”, and he supplements this idea with his experiences in surviving Auschwitz and helping others in his clinical work. It seems to me as though this &qu
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by sctb 2y ago
> [...] everyone has problems They certainly do. And I don't think we can make meaningful comparisons between individuals in terms of their problems, how they struggle or suffer, etc. For me personally, I don't assume to have i
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by sctb 2y ago
Being married and gainfully employed and able to build and maintain relationships as well as hold conversations with strangers when necessary can come at an exceptionally high cost for neurodivergent people in the form of masking (like a ki
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by sctb 2y ago
This presentation is surely intended to convey a sense of spatiality related to the idea of "A shrinking life". I enjoyed the graphics and photos, and I definitely got a feeling of constriction and isolation that added depth to my
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by sctb 2y ago
In case anyone else is curious about some U.S. data on per-capital alcohol consumption: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance-reports/...
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by sctb 2y ago
I remember watching a Channel 9 video about a decade or so ago where they visited Bell and co at the MSR office in San Francisco. That's where Gordon wanted to be and so Microsoft opened an office for him. In the video he was wearing a
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by sctb 2y ago
HN doesn't shadowban established accounts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... . And there is a simple way of telling if you're shadow banned: open your comments in a logged-
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by sctb 2y ago
The "language" part. In context it seems to refer to the implementation, not the specification. I take it that pg does intend to specify a useful programming language, but not implement it.
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by sctb 2y ago
Perhaps to make it a real programming language that you could use to do stuff?
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by sctb 2y ago
I wouldn't diss those functions on the basis of modern filesystems. I would diss them because you could write a shorter bel.bel with rdc/wrc instead and, IMHO, without making the language less self-specified (since 'chars con
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by sctb 2y ago
That's exactly what benzodiazepines are for, but only for short-term taper protocols as the dependence/withdrawal profile over the long term is worse than alcohol. Medium-term can be covered by gabapentin.
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by sctb 2y ago
This is about as bog standard as it gets for academic language in the humanities. For example: > But neither reading nor lurking are ever passive acts. These acts are indeed passive, relative to the active counterpart of writing or speak
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by sctb 2y ago
It's not hyperfixation exactly, but a requirement for an ASD diagnosis is some forms of "Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities" (from the DSM-V).
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by sctb 3y ago
> They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. The notion of "without stimulus" seems related to the use of &quot
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by sctb 3y ago
I really enjoy Klein's visual works, especially the IKB series which are quite striking and impactful in person. When listening to the original Symphonie Monotone-Silence embedded at the end of the article, what comes to mind is &quo
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by sctb 3y ago
This is how Joy and Factor work as well, so I'd say this is standard fare for concatenative languages.
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by sctb 3y ago
The tests themselves are what bring precision to the notion of consciousness. Think of a medical example in which doctors are meant to determine whether or not a patient receives anaesthesia—surely a more effective empirical toolkit would b

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