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by wahern 2mo ago
Chiropratic can help with pain, but not for the claimed reasons. Studies show it's as efficacious as massage therapy. I believe the same is true of cupping. Insurers increasingly cover these sorts of therapies, and primary's incre
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by wahern 2mo ago
> Arguably the ability of people to see how the wealthiest people are living is going to create exactly that sense. Nobody is seeing how the wealthy live. They're seeing caricatures of how people imagine the wealthy live, or sometim
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by wahern 2mo ago
Superheating, too, and that's something that can happen in a microwave, occasionally causing severe burns when superheated water flash boils. AFAIU, it's the same phenomenon--lack of nucleation sites to kick-off the phase transiti
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by wahern 2mo ago
The metro is pure brutalist, through-and-through, and it's utterly amazing. But you're inhabiting the space; there's little-to-no contrast with foreign elements; and the nature of the structure means everything about brutalis
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by wahern 2mo ago
It's a totally different perspective and experience when inside the metro. I really dislike brutalist architecture, but in the DC metro station you're not just looking at it, you're inhabiting it. And the architecture isn&#x2
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by wahern 2mo ago
> The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up[1], Esquire, February 1936 [1] https:/&#x
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by wahern 2mo ago
Amazon had approximately zero net profits for 20 years or so. It was a meme not too long ago--how much longer will investors keep pouring money into Amazon before either they stop or Amazon starts reaping a bounty they had been sowing for d
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by wahern 2mo ago
TIL: https://www.monicahq.com/ and https://github.com/monicahq/monica Last commit was a little over 11 months. There do seem to be a couple of signifiant security issues opened since then, with no res
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by wahern 2mo ago
C99 added designated initializers and compound literals, and C11 added anonymous structs and unions of the kind you showed above. These are 3 of the biggest features Plan 9 added to C, and they were adopted relatively quickly. But there&#x2
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by wahern 2mo ago
I'm not sure of the exact history, but it may have been copied from how affordable housing projects are subsidized at the Federal and state levels: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RS22389.pdf Affordable housing
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by wahern 2mo ago
Tax incentives these days include transferable tax credits. Even if your net tax rate was 0%, you can sell the credit to someone else, typically a bank. IOW, states and countries give you money, not simply give you a tax rate break.
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by wahern 2mo ago
Good advice yesterday, good advice today, and good advice tomorrow. I don't remember if I read this advice or just intuited it myself (perhaps after some hard lessons), but it's a programming habit I've kept for as long as I
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by wahern 2mo ago
I think she's betraying that her knowledge of his personal character colors her interpretation and experience of his work: > Why, then, does his work not give me the ultimate frisson I get when I feel I am in the presence of creativ
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by wahern 2mo ago
If I understand the code correctly, OpenSSH only injects delays and chaff when you're actively typing data through an interactive session directly to the ssh client itself (i.e. it's reading your key strokes from the TTY, as oppos
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by wahern 2mo ago
You can farm fish outside territorial and exclusive economic zone waters. But in any event China has substantial EEZ waters: https://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=848... Taiwan isn't much of a hi
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by wahern 2mo ago
This is documenting and standardizing OpenSSH's ssh-agent daemon protocol, used by ssh and sshd to talk to ssh-agent. ssh-agent is like 30 years old. The protocol wire format is derivative of the SSH protocol.
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by wahern 2mo ago
This always comes to mind whenever [grilled] cheese sandwiches do: > I was reminded of a conversation I had with an American military intelligence officer who was having a supper of Jack Daniel's and Coca-Cola at a Kigali bar. >
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by wahern 2mo ago
While the photos of nail houses tell a story of state-tolerated individual defiance, the reality is actually the opposite: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6194/1/Driven_to_... Nail houses alwa
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by wahern 2mo ago
What's the importance of Islam arising outside the Roman empire? It seems to me that to consider Islam outside the history of western civilization you must first define western civilization with that result in mind. It's tautologi
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I'm partially sympathetic to bashmelek's point of view. So much of the history and culture of Western civilization is actually rooted in the eastern Mediterranean. In the old world all writing can be traced back to Mesopotamia&#x2
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by wahern 2mo ago
If snail mail cost $0.001 per recipient people would be getting much, much more junkmail. Likewise, if e-mail cost as much as even bulk snail mail, there'd be much less spam. Some sort of payment scheme is really the best, most durable
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by wahern 2mo ago
> And a veiled pitch to real cryptanalysis researchers: "Researchers at Anthropic then spent several hundred hours learning enough cryptography research to validate the model’s claim" Many of those researchers, particularly the
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by wahern 2mo ago
As someone who enjoys (especially when I was younger) lucid dreaming, I found Inception well researched, and definitely dove into themes like consciousness, agency, and the reality (or unreality) of cause+effect in human behavior (but even
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by wahern 2mo ago
Memento, Inception, and Tenet are just action movies? It's interesting you use the word, succession, because all three of those movies explore the thematic, cinematic, and psychological meaning of that word. The abstract ideas he explo
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You still can't test for the existence of functions, non-macro constants, typedefs, structure members, or other arbitrary interfaces. Newer compiler introspection facilities like __has_include or __has_builtin generally only help with
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by wahern 2mo ago
Given he made $1 million+ per year as an executive, it's possible they needed a pretense to fire him "for cause" under a contract that otherwise stipulated some sizeable severance greater than the cost of litigation and settl
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Despite being so famous, I feel like his ideas haven't aged well. His ideas were contentious yet embraced by popular science writers, and there's never been a reckoning.
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Most of the best writers today , and aesthetically the baseline expectation. But I personally like the older em dash and semicolon laden styles that used a greater diversity of forms to weave thoughts together. A stream of short sentences
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by wahern 3mo ago
To play devil's advocate, the problem with exposing more info is you limit the allocator design space. 1) If the app knew about and could use the additional underlying capacity, memory checkers wouldn't be able to find small overf
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by wahern 3mo ago
AMD does segment. Only their EPYC, Pro, and some embedded models officially support ECC. Many other AMD chips have unofficial support, but if you care about data integrity, it feels like a gamble. You have to rely on suspect motherboard sup

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