RobertRoberts

Last few times I went for a teeth cleaning, I was told about how "tarter" (the supposed "bad stuff") develops mostly around where the saliva glands excrete into the mouth.

I added this to how I was able to have a full hole in my tooth fill back (when poor and in college) in by just keeping it clean, not eating junk food, and swishing spit in my mouth around that tooth religiously for a long time.

Dentist later said, "nope, didn't happen, teeth don't work that way"

Look up Chinese cancer villages, this is the real scary pollution. Thankfully we have the EPA in America (and unions, and many other things) that have defended the US population from mass poisonings.

This is evidence that our laws and regulations are working well here in the US.

As it seems it's getting harder and harder to find "cancer causing something" in the US. Which is why maybe we are now finally getting around to finding "nontraditional source of secondary organic aerosol precursors".

This appears staged.

I have had messy spaces, and it's never so evenly dispersed.

What is the purpose of glorifying clutter and mess?

It was hard work to get out from under this kind of bad habit, I would never want to go back. Maybe this a form of "office grunge" just to be cool and get clicks?

How would you save the "reject all" selection without using a cookie for that user's session?

> What _is_ difficult is corresponding a position on the staff to a physical note on a keyboard, especially when you have a treble clef and a base clef.

This is my biggest issue. I played piano for years and still struggle with this. (though I never excelled, and started young)

Any suggestions on a simple way to overcome this issue?

Fair enough.

My battle with Gnome was when they tried to merge touch screen devices with desktop, and every day tasks took multiple more clicks or navigation.

The usability on Gnome is the worst of all the desktops I have ever used. I will never use it again. (been on Linux 14 years, windows/mac 20+)

I agree, and I like the suggestion of the Perixx keyboard. (seems like a knock-off brand though, any ideas on quality?)

MS ergo keyboard's (current mainstay) keys fail every so often, so I have to buy a new one every so often. So yes, something with mechanical keys would be great.

This _could_ be the ideal keyboard. But to find out, I'd have to invest a lot of hours of effort for DIY and/or spend a lot of money. And then what if it's terrible in the end?

This is part of the challenge I face, so I am living with MS ergonomic keyboards until I can either try one of these first, or take a risk.

> I want more keys. I want my dedicated f-keys back...

This is my issue as well. I want a "normal" keyboard, only ergonomic, split, with all the fancy joint happiness that brings.

It seems these are impossible to find without some kind of 3d printing and DIY from scratch.

I am not able to invest in learning a new keyboarding process because I have to work on too many different computers over a year span that I have no control over, and I don't want my muscle memory to erode because of one special keyboard on my home workstation.

State attorney generals are voted on by state elections, and it's unlikely many people know or can meet an attorney general.

The Sheriff is a county election, and is likely to be known (or even well known) in the community even before being elected.

I have been told by a sheriff deputy that the sheriff is the highest authority in the county, above all other authorities, that even the Presidents have to ask permission to enter their county. I am guessing this would include attorney generals as well.

The Sheriff is the only law enforcement officer in the US that the people vote for. All others are appointed.

This brings the most powerful enforcer of the law in the US very close to the citizens and voters. They know this person and can personally remove them from office in small elections.

I tried writing code to simulate the "Monkey's typing on a keyboard === Shakespeare" concept.

It was a simple "hello world", and then with only the characters needed for the program. I didn't see it spit out any usable code when I played with it.

But even if it had, it still wasn't able to run without my code existing already... (and the environment I coded it in)

I have simple rule to start with that helps with so much. If it has a processed sugar, I don't buy it. (I have an exception for organic sugar because, how bad can the processing be?) This includes maltodextrin, artificial sweeteners, etc... (also no artificial colors or flavoring, also great indicators of how toxic the product is)

Why? Because if it has that one ingredient (group) it's almost always a low quality product that will make me sick.

I haven't had the flu for over 20 years.

Does Mastodon have an API I can use to access everyone's feed?

I am curious because I have never used the API, and I can see Mastodon taking over if they have an API that let's 3rd parties interact and download content.

I was surprised to see feature phones prominently linked on Nokia's site recently.

https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/feature-phones-series

Are you building sites or apps? I got to the point a long time ago where I just didn't care to cover every single design need and just made my own mini-framework.

The lack of capitalization (even on HN) is a regression far worse than dash mis-use.

You can mix this recipe and "bake" in in a frying pan in minutes.

A tiny bit of practice and perspective change to get something you like and you can have fresh bread daily for the rest of your life.

Freshly baked bread is available to _everyone_.

Buy some flour, take a cup of flour, mix some water, maybe some salt, squish it some and bake it.

The downfall of society will happen within arms length of wisdom and knowledge.

It's finding systems like this that make HN valuable from time to time. I didn't even "think" to look for a system like this, and I could use it right now, and I find there are multiple other ones similar in the same posting from comments.

I have never even heard it called "the Ukraine" or said it myself, so I don't need convincing of that.

I think it's inherently wrong for one culture to make demands of another because of a perceived offense by such a small amount of people.

Imagine how this would play out if the US demanded everyone pronounce and say our country's name exactly as we prefer.

What helped me:

- Exercise.

- Change of diet. (No junk food, learned to cook)

- No/limit/control caffeine.

I only ingest caffeine when my behavior isn't critical, ie I can have coffee if my tasks are all computer related. But if there is a meeting with people in the day, I don't drink coffee because I know I will do or say something "wrong" at the meeting.

Caffeine at least it greatly increases the odds of me having a hard time in a particular event, especially if something unexpected happens.

It can turn normal event into a difficult one, and hard one into an unbearable experience.

- Forcing myself to remain calm.

The more I do this the better control I get. It's never easy, so I fail and try again. And again and again.

- Plan/train ahead of time.

I mentally practice an event that causes me issues. Everything from conversations, to procrastination, distractions, etc... I go through in my head how I want something to happen and how I want to react or choose to behave in advance. So when it does happen I have a fighting chance. A few go arounds with this (failing each time) and eventually I get a better result.

It took me practice and work and accepting discomfort on a nearly constant and daily occurrence, and to just accept this discomfort as normal. (the end secret)

I think you are in a harder place because you are used to something and now have to learn to "feel" different. Just keep trying and you will eventually feel different, it's just how life works. We get used to what we force our selves to accept. (within limits of course, right?)

Just don't give up. Fail thousands of times, but just keep going because you have already discovered you don't want to go back.

Try something new whenever you have to. These past years I've tried many, many new things because "I just don't want to keep doing what I've already done", which is similar to your situation, you have committed to something, the hardest part is over.

Come back to this comment in a few years and I am fairly confident they will be considered racist or "evil" or a micro-agression to spell or say these things you say we are free to say.

Sure, we are "free" to say them. The only time to fight against these things is when they are small, like now.

We can say "nitch" instead of "neesh" and we can say "legos" instead of "lego bricks" and we can certainly put a "the" in front of any word we want in our own language.

This is another example of cultural bullying and it's becoming pervasive.

People shouldn't let freedoms, no matter how tiny and miniscule, be tossed around by corporate or political marketing machines.

My understanding is that dry cold air doesn't feel as cold either...

I learned from a swimming teacher "water transmits heat/cold 10 times faster than air", therefore a logical conclusion is that dry air is insulating more than moist air.

Heat and cold transfer in air happens, just take your shirt off, you feel the temperature change immediately. Go to a very, very cold climate with dry air, if there is no wind, it truly doesn't affect you that badly. Same with Arizona in the summer ("it's a dry heat" is a state motto, IIRC)

This comment is on track, and it's amazing that it's gotten a single down-vote.

Though I would de-prioritize "rinse your dishes" and say the food we eat is more of the issue.

Is there some logical reason you would down vote without any explanation or counter argument?

I would recommend you research how decaf is made. There are multiple methods, and some are really nasty sounding.

The argument I got from a chemist once was something like "Yes, but they take all the toxic chemicals out of the beans after processing". Yikes.

Based on the comments above, I think I should have specified that this works well for very cold places that get very dry air in the winter.

It depends, with super (I mean very, very dry air) you can have pockets of warmth just around the heat source. But add a little moisture and the whole room feels warm.

In my experience 60 is cold no matter what. But feeling cold at 70 degrees stinks.

In England or Ireland? Ya, damp all the time all winter. It just depends on the environment. (don't want anymore moisture in the air)