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ClosedPistachioon BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

Actual title is "BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments"

ClosedPistachioon President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987

Our Fake History did a segment on a William McKinley recently and concluded with the bombshell that, despite being a "Tariff man", by the start of his second term did a full 180 on the idea. The whole series is worth a listen

https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-ten/episode-232-...

ClosedPistachioon Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored for It

I'm not defending it, but I'm pretty sure it's using the expression "truth to power", tweaked - "truth to billionaires". It's not meant to be literal 'truth' in the dictionary sense. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_truth_to_power

ClosedPistachioon Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon

>"There is still a 96.2% chance that the asteroid will miss the moon," NASA said in a statement on Thursday.

Isn't this completely divorced from the article title? Shouldn't it be "could hit moon"?

ClosedPistachioon Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube

Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections on 1 year of become successful on YouTube" isn't complete. Either remove the parentheses (thus making those words part of the title), or consider a different sentence structure.

ClosedPistachioon Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind

A popular topic here:

Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors? [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951990] 105 points|negativelambda|3 months ago|114 comments

Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39887661] 86 points|bookofjoe|3 months ago|89 comments

More: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

ClosedPistachioon I bought an encyclopedia

Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational.

https://www.sae.org/publications/books/content/bosch10/

ClosedPistachioon Dad's Diet Before Conception Affects Kids' Health

I personally believe there's something to this, but sadly this one is "in mice".

ClosedPistachioon Blue Ball Machine

https://cslincoln.ytmnd.com/

ClosedPistachioon Things that didn't age well

Was expecting many things, like a listicle, but it's actually titled like a Jeopardy! question

ClosedPistachioon Longtime Super Mario voice actor Charles Martinet retires from the role

Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213020

ClosedPistachioon A single antibody tackles two childhood viruses

In rats

ClosedPistachioon Myths about Cooking with Salt

Samin Nosrat's "Salt Fat Acid Heat" [0] really helped me understand cooking with salt (and balancing it with fats and acids). Also this LifeHacker article [1]!

[0] https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/ [1] https://lifehacker.com/season-your-chicken-even-more-you-cow...

ClosedPistachioon Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

Funny, Meta just went through the same trouble with the name 'Meta'.

ClosedPistachioon Two corpse flowers are blooming in the U.S.

If you're wondering like me:

>Titan Arums have a fairly long and unpredictable flowering cycle, and they can take up to a decade before they flower for the first time. Even mature plants can go years between blooms

Both are in California (one is nearly finished blooming), and the plant isn't native to the US

ClosedPistachioon Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”

ClosedPistachioon Do life hacks work? We’ll never know

I've enjoyed the content of one of the original "life hack" websites (lifehacker.com) for many years. Sometimes hokey, sometimes unhelpful but always with good intentions. And I think that is the spirit of a life hack- the sight positive change in perspective. Changing your paradigm, in nearly any case, often yields a good outcome.

ClosedPistachioon Grail wrongly told hundreds of people they might have cancer

I read the title quickly as Gmail and was very concerned and confused...

ClosedPistachioon Supreme Court Narrows the Scope of the Clean Water Act

From the article, "While the nine justices agreed that the Sacketts should prevail, they divided 5-to-4 as to how far to go in limiting the EPA's authority."

ClosedPistachioon Mouthwash use could inhibit benefits of exercise

(2019)

ClosedPistachioon Microsoft vs. Google: The Endgame

Benedict Evans has been doing a great job thinking this through recently. He has a newsletter but the podcast is great too.

https://another-podcast.simplecast.com/

ClosedPistachioon Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022

Honest question: where do all of the new zero day vulnerabilities come from, new features/code? Just new bug detection techniques? I'd think over time entropy would get us to a point where there's hardly any vulnerabilities at all, but that's clearly not the case.

ClosedPistachioon Police used a baby’s DNA to investigate its father for a crime

This bothered me a lot, so I contacted the department of health and requested the opt-out form. They emailed me back rather quickly with the form, but boy does the text of the form try to dissuade you!

"I understand that there are numerous benefits to public health in retaining residual NBS samples. Residual NBS samples are the only available opportunity for a complete population study to be conducted since there is a sample received on virtually every baby born. In addition to this, the NBS sample is sometimes the only remaining evidence available to the family from their child if their child becomes missing. The main benefits to NBS sample storage are: • Quality assurance and improvement for the NBS laboratory. • Research for new technologies and for detecting new disorders. • Research for new treatments and cures for major childhood diseases. • Population incidence research on disorders and environmental contaminant exposures. • Parents can recall the specimens to help determine the cause of an unexplained death of their child (SIDS). • Parents can recall the specimens to aid law enforcement in identifying their missing child. "

ClosedPistachioon Whose breath are you breathing?

Any recommendations for a good portable CO2 monitor?

ClosedPistachioon Newer, better sunscreens have not been approved by the FDA

"NOTE: BioMin® F is not currently available for sale in the US. Although the Fluoride levels in BioMin® F are well below OTC levels in normal toothpaste, Flouride is classified as a drug in the US and has not yet been approved by the FDA."

Crazy...

ClosedPistachioon When Did the Medieval Period End?

Our Fake History tackles this subject! This podcast is amazing (I discovered it on Hacker News actually!)

https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-4/episode-88-are...

ClosedPistachioon The Return of New York Harbor’s Oysters

New York City Is Building a Wall of Oysters to Fend Off Floods

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29307258

Cleaning New York’s filthy harbor with one billion oysters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18957542

ClosedPistachioon How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? (2019)

Do you think this is why, perhaps instinctively, dog owners share parts of their meals with their dog? Interesting hypothesis...

ClosedPistachioon Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers balking

Actual article title: "Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers balking"

ClosedPistachioon Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes