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bacro··on Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment
From the experience I have from doctors in Portugal, they will ignore that. My brother was not even warned by the doctor that he was pre-diabetic after checking his blood results.
bacro··on BenQ RD280UA: a 3:2 aspect ratio "programming monitor"
Question for the experts here :) How much better is, regarding eyestrain, to go to a 27' 4k monitor instead of a 27' 1440p one? What about refresh rate, does it help with that as well?
bacro··on Physically healthy 28-year-old woman schedules euthanasia due to depression
The question is: What if the depression she has has a cause that can be curable 100% and she can have a very happy life, would she still want to do it if she knew that?

I am not sure that we "should be free" to end our life as you say. Sure, we did not have any say about coming to life but I think that if you don't have any incurable disease that causes you significant pain, you can always find something that will make life worthwhile. Unless you are born in Northern Korea or some country that restricts your freedom.

bacro··on Physically healthy 28-year-old woman schedules euthanasia due to depression
That is what I think as well. Seems very irresponsible by the doctors.
bacro··on Physically healthy 28-year-old woman schedules euthanasia due to depression
I agree with that when the problem is irreversible and will cause unending pain for the person. However, this case does not seem like it. If she had like Parkinson or Alzheimer then I would understand but depression? There are very good anti-depressants that help go through if she cannot find another way to cope. Also, there might be something physically wrong that doctors might have overlooked which causes her depression.
bacro··on Hisense A9 Pro E-Ink Android Smartphone
I already have that on my Boox Note Air 3C and it is pretty handy. I can watch for hours without straining my eyes.
bacro··on Things engineers believe about Web development
Recently I was reading the Learn CSS the pedantic way book and the definition for inline boxes did not match the way that anonymous block boxes were generated when an inline-level element had a block-level element as its child. So I went looking elsewhere for a more appropriate definition for that case and found this issue on standards: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1477 It was really interesting to know that I was not the only one confused. My question was: Does the inline-box generated by the inline-level element contains the box generated by the block-level child or there wasn't an inline-box that was a parent of them all but there were 2 siblings inline-level boxes of the block-level box that were wrapped in another anonymous block boxes? Reading that issue I got to know the concept of fragments, which I did not know browsers had. But the issue seems to suggest that the box tree for this case should have the inline-box as being a parent of the block-box. Which led me to another question, in that case, if I apply a border to the parent inline-level element, shouldn't it apply to the overall box that is generated (it does not)? The answer is that borders between block-boxes and inline-level boxes should not intersect but that is really difficult to derive from reading the standards alone. Anyway it was headache-inducing trying to learn the box-model pedantically :) I wish I could learn more about layout in browsers and I trying to read the code of LayoutNG in Chromium but I need more aspirin hehehe
bacro··on Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry (2013)
Dead Space series (specially 2), Max Payne, Metal Gear Solid 3, Silent Hill 2, Rule of Rose, Mass Effect 3 are the ones I remember that I enjoyed its story and cared about the characters pretty much.
bacro··on Pixel Tablet
iPad still has huge disadvantages to me:

- Android tablets have the Opera browser which has text reflow functionality which works much much better than anything else. This is a huge deal for me. - I can access the file system and do whatever I want with it. - I still like notifications more in Android vs iPadOS.

If it were not for these things, I would buy an iPad in a heartbeat.

bacro··on Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and academic performance
Early morning classes are such a bad idea. Hopefully, this bad practice can change in the future.
bacro··on Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers
# We always worked in a way where the master branch is running a regular release train into our internal / beta / preview release (depending on company and audience size).

Care to elaborate how you decide if it is an internal / beta / preview release? Some kind of tagging strategy or are all generated at the same time?

bacro··on Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers
True but I have seen people claim TBD should be used in all cases and I was trying to get some insights on how people use TBD for mobile apps as using release branches is not TBD as well.
bacro··on Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers
Question: For mobile apps, wouldn't gitflow be more suitable, since the app is only released after app store validation? The release branches here seem to match well this purpose. Just to curious to know how trunk-based development is applied in practice for mobile apps.
bacro··on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT Linux Support and Performance Review
How is that possible? In Portugal, for me it will be 0,26€ / kWh in January.
bacro··on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT Linux Support and Performance Review
Just for the card
bacro··on Will Intel's AXG division survive Pat Gelsinger’s axe?
I have not seen any desktop GPU that is competitive with Nvidia or AMD yet. What surprises me is how naive Intel seems to be. It is extremely hard to enter the GPU market right now, so it should expect a lot of years of losses. Hopefully they will continue and fix their drivers and hardware problems so we can have more competition. For Alchemist, if they do not price it extremely aggressively ( like 200$ for a A770 ) they will not get much marketshare, I am afraid.
bacro··on TypeScript and Set Theory
I think ICat | IDog is perfect. It means exactly that, the value can be of type ICat _OR_ IDog, so in that sense, we can only access properties that are in both of them until we know for sure if we are dealing with a ICat or a IDog specifically.
bacro··on Hydration is pure overhead
>Servers are often weaker than many consumer computers anyways, so I don’t thin it’s because it can render faster than your own browser.

Isn't this the other way around? I mean a server is supposed to be fast enough to handle a lot of requests.

bacro··on I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
I don't mind dying really and I am in my 40s and haven't accomplished much of what I wanted. However, my life is getting better and better. Better job, better pay, working from home, got a few cats that are amazing for stress and bought a new place for me. As I love to learn new things everyday, life is just getting better and better.
bacro··on Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987)
Just get inside a fridge
bacro··on Advice on JSX Conditionals
I am not sure, it has a closure for the 'error' local variable.
bacro··on Advice on JSX Conditionals
Maybe, but I just prefer to have a named function defined with a useCallback and just call it.
bacro··on Advice on JSX Conditionals
Waste of memory by creating new function objects on each render.
bacro··on Apple M1 Ultra
M1 God
bacro··on Apple M1 Ultra
M1 Greta in 2030 (when it is "carbon neutral")
bacro··on White noise improves learning by modulating activity in midbrain regions (2014)
I got it from HN as well and it is excellent! Kudos for both Andrew and whoever commented a link to it :)
bacro··on I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
Could this be the case where she was not as healthy as she thought? I mean, we do not know if there was some vitamin / mineral deficiency or the diet for that matter that she was following exactly.
bacro··on Covid-19 vaccines likely provide broader protection than natural infection
You might be misleading because that paper was in your response when you said "Vitamin d, zinc and magnesium doesn't do shit.", which that paper clearly debunks.

But yeah, as I said in my OP, I would love to have a study comparing those. I will continue to take my chances with Vitamin D, Zinc and Magnesium than with a vaccine that was rushed.

bacro··on Covid-19 vaccines likely provide broader protection than natural infection
Take my words by what they mean, i.e., 1) not 2), which seems logical to me when I say that vaccine doe not prevent infection.

In Portugal 90+% of the population is vaccinated, however we have a much higher number of infections than ever. So, this is not FUD as you say...

bacro··on Covid-19 vaccines likely provide broader protection than natural infection
>I'm also not sure if you are serious about Vitamine d, zinc and magnesium. A normal person has no real issues with those basic things.

Really? Here is a link for you: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34749737/

Most of the population is deficient in any/all of those which are crucial for the immune system. I advocate that we should keep our body working as intended, so give it the vitamins/minerals it needs, exercise, avoid stress and sleep well. I would like a study for people that check all those boxes and are not vaccinated against people that do not check those boxes and are vaccinated to see how well the vaccines really are.

Covid 19 deaths are blown out of proportion. Here in Portugal if you die and you had Covid, even if it was not the cause, it would be counted as a death by Covid. So, if you get hit by a piano when you are walking the street and had Covid, Covid is what officially killed you.

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