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btlr··on Metformin shown to prevent long Covid
Are you implying that metformin could be a tinnitus treatment?
btlr··on Gut Bacteria Are Linked to Depression
In my own personal experience, I notice a dramatic and direct link between my mental state and how my gut feels (potentially vice versa as well), so this tracks for me. It's exciting to see all of this research coming out about new novel ways which we may improve mental health treatments.
btlr··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
They made a phone once, and it didn't pan out. [Source](https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/heres-why-the-facebook-phon...)
btlr··on Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM should have been
Where did you get this "Java failed" idea? Java is one of the most widely used languages in the whole world...
btlr··on Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
Apollo program, LHC, Human Genome Project, ITER, and more...?
btlr··on Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
I frequently get emails from people who have skimmed my address from my profile (usually by looking through the stars or watchers of popular repos). I ended up setting my public email on GitHub to an alias so I could filter it out.
btlr··on GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme
Fairly sure they just do it and don't try to be sneaky for the most part.
btlr··on Hyper 2, Electron based terminal
On my Mac I still prefer iTerm, but I really like using Hyper on my Windows box.
btlr··on If your iOS 11 device unexpectedly restarts repeatedly on or after December 2
That makes sense I suppose.
btlr··on If your iOS 11 device unexpectedly restarts repeatedly on or after December 2
Curious to know more about your claim that rewriting stuff in Swift causes a lot of bugs - got any sources on that?
btlr··on Former Apple Employee: Touch Bar Shouldn't Be Forced on High End Users
That would be an ideal implementation, though I wonder if part of the reason it hasn't happened is similar to the reason that the Taptic Engine hasn't been implemented on iPads, which if I understand correctly is the difficulty associated with scaling to larger screen sizes.