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98codes··on Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age
The article doesn't say anything to infer that it's odd, but the rate of incidence of dementia being 20% seems awfully high to me.
98codes··on FedNow Is Live
Zelle: Fuck
98codes··on What Happened to Jai Alai? (2013)
This was a regular for springtime gym class in my NJ public high school -- easy to run with the only gear needed being a ball and a bat, basically softball but slower and softer.
98codes··on California's Death Valley crosses 53° Celsius as blistering heat wave continues
And a viable way to get to safety, including a full tank of gas, spare tire, and more water than you'd think.
98codes··on Loss of Mid in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage
More like mediocre; average, perhaps, but unacceptably so.
98codes··on New in Chrome 115
It's like Google is trying to give the government evidence of browser / ad vendor bundling effects
98codes··on What Did People Do Before Smartphones?
Nintendo. Lots of Nintendo. Also Mtv.
98codes··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://98.codes

Content going back ages, mostly died out when blogging did -- with social media slowly dying, I'm hoping the overall tread will reverse.

98codes··on Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’
The only thing they care about is bottom line, and this, "Huffman says the blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact”," is key.

To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark) and not have a revenue impact at all raises some questions, primarily if there are any revenue streams based on usage, or only on monthly subscriptions and non-view-based ad contracts?

98codes··on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
100% -- I'm not creating an account if I can't use the app, demo the app, or otherwise get a proper idea of what I'm signing up for, in order to see if it'll be worth my time to begin with.
98codes··on Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
> Finally, and I think this is a really important thing to do, I try to organize events

This is generally the thing Seattle is missing -- people that organize and then tell people to show up at X place on Y date. Most of the time, it's a million people that all say they would love to hang out more, but nobody ever makes solid plans.

98codes··on Tell HN: Today Is Global Accessibility Awareness Day
> educating ourselves about common mistakes folks make when designing UI

The main issue I see is that most devs simply do not care, and/or dev management not prioritizing it unless required by regulations.

The biggest problem I see is that isn't likely ever going to change.

98codes··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
Same for Xbox & Windows -- the app is barely serviceable, and I figure that's by design from Apple.
98codes··on Mastodon is doomed?
And as someone that's recently left Twitter behind where that would've been unthinkable a year ago -- it's clearer than ever to me now that none of it matters. If I were to lose everything on Mastodon tomorrow, oh well.
98codes··on Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy
If it's unused generally but also kept up, sure. That's generally not the case for empty houses.
98codes··on Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing
24 ads and other trackers from The Verge attempted to load on that page alone; usually much more if those are allowed to succeed.

That said, I disabled that creator follow nonsense the moment it landed. Not because of the URL tracking, but because it is stupid.

98codes··on Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
GM isn't nearly immune to this BS: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664814/gm-ev-restrict-a...
98codes··on CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
For example?
98codes··on Ford is Losing $22,000 Per EV Sold
This is just a straight clickbait version of the article* posted yesterday.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35276024

98codes··on Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says
If you have a history of non-payment they may require a security deposit, but with the exception of cable/internet most residential utility bills are sent (and paid) post-usage.
98codes··on The emotional toll of caring for research animals
Am I reading this right? Those in the dental profession commit suicide at 2x the rate of the general population?
98codes··on Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else?
Looking like AWS is having issues: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
98codes··on Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today
It was the moment "embrace, extend, extinguish" was no longer the purview of only Microsoft.
98codes··on Amazon Buys One Medical
One Medical is basically a conglomeration of doctor's offices with an app that allows for easy scheduling, remote visits, chat, and other stuff.
98codes··on Today's 5-year-olds will likely live to 100
45 checking in -- essentially, preventative maintenance. Increasingly, a focus on joints and the muscle groups that support them, particularly towards range of movement/flexibility. Annual physicals to catch problems early, ask your parents about family health history if you haven't yet, and don't ignore the small things that linger.

The better health habits you can lock in now, the better -- it's only going to get harder from here on out to lay that foundation.

98codes··on The End of the English Major
It depends on the individual; your college degree gets you your first job after college. After that, it's experience and relationships/contacts.

I know of English and Liberal Arts majors that are doing very well in tech fields doing work other than development: program management, developer relations, customer success, sales, marketing. Some in development too, just not as many.

The difference with those folks is that all of them kept a broad understanding of where they wanted their career to go, and allowed themselves to take on broader responsibilities and deeper challenges as time went on.

98codes··on The End of the English Major
We can thank iOS and Android for the death of desktop/filesystem knowledge for people at large. Universities will need to start requiring a General Computing course to close that gap, if they aren't already.
98codes··on The End of the English Major
I actually had a _lot_ more trouble with the first sentence oddly enough; the proliferation of commas where (in modern syntax at least) there should be no commas kept placing unnecessary and unwanted breaks in the language flow.

It's entirely possible that by the time I was into the second paragraph that I had simply adjusted to the writing style and was able to proceed without any issue; I haven't the time to properly compare the two.

98codes··on The Camera-Shy Hoodie
The strobing seems to defeat the effect -- you only need one good frame with a face showing to defeat the hoodie, and this seemed slow enough that I could pick up the face of the demo guy with my own eyes in realtime.
98codes··on I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to
> to buy things

Exactly. That's not renting, and co-op owners aren't landlords unless they turn around and rent the unit out.

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