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cat199··on Phenethylamines I have feared and loathed (2020)
> I am low in BH4 which limits my ability to metabolize amino acids down the common pathway and thinks like phenylalanine get metabolized dow the alternative pathways creating PEA and Tyramine. But also I have the mental illness associated changes in TAAR1 and VMAT1 and VMAT2. (I have schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder.)

this is an amazing amount of self knowledge about these topics - i'm sure some came from introspection, but for the rest - how did you find these things out or are you in the field?

seems like useful knowledge for people to have, aside from problems with over self diagnosis of course

cat199··on The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae
seen .. much bettern to hear the song in context in a soundsystem live tape (several on yt) - and possibly with cough cough sacrament - e.g. coxsone, killmanjaro, etc.

<3 the 'digital raggae' electronic pre-dancehall sound

cat199··on How the Native American population changed since the last census
> a little awareness goes a long way and can save a few awkward situations

if society ever gets this right about northern ireland it will be a good day for everyone :)

cat199··on How the Native American population changed since the last census
> Someone who's great^N granddaddy banged a slave is

... the great grandchild of a slave?

if that were me i'd have many questions about the situation and how it impacted the next generation, etc.

this is the problem with dismissal -

it facilitates or accelerates the process of suppressing the history.

cat199··on How the Native American population changed since the last census
I get the problem with claiming it to sound 'exotic' or whatever - exactly as you mention - this is 'entitlement' to sound special - but -

Thinking differently -

5 generations is also (assuming childbirth at 25 and not carefully auditing for off-by-ones):

1 generation of 1:1 mix, 4 generations ago (b. 1897)

1 generation of 1:2 mix, 3 generations ago (b. 1922)

1 generation of 1:3 mix, 2 generations ago (b. 1947)

1 generation of 1:4 mix, 1 generations ago (b. 1972)

1 generation of 1:5 mix, now. (b. 1997)

In other words - 50% of your parenting influence descends from 4 generations of mixed marriages, and the entire mixed lineage begins approx ~100 years ago where it certainly would be a huge factor in daily life. It's quite possible that you may have even met the original couple or their immediate children, and very likely that you met or had extended contact with the 25% generation who in turn almost certainly was extremely impacted by the preceding 2 generations.

Pretty sure there is some cultural trace either overtly or in the form of inherited scars.

The reason many mixed don't know much about their fraction is because their ancestors were put in indian schools and married off to anglo settlers or any number of other far worse 'ethnic cleansing' atrocities. Whatever in-depth discussion remained was likely suppressed or downplayed to facilitate assimilation, leaving only hints and impressions behind in the people. At this point there is no way for them to know anything more about their past even if they wanted to.

pretending it's nothing only makes it worse and grows the divide to the past - which itself is a shift away from native views of history and connectedness to ancestors

cat199··on Native American restaurants
> Instead, it’s going to look like traditional ingredients prepared with modern American and occasionally modern Mexican cooking techniques. Without knowledge of the history, that seems like it’s “inauthentic” or “westernized”, but really it’s all we’ve got.

mixing up and confusing south-of-the-border indigenous culture with 'hispanic' and north-of-the-border indigenous culture as 'native american' probably doesn't help this much, dishes aside

cat199··on Window System X (1984)
> I'm guessing the unix big iron culture of the time was primarily tape based.

pretty much any 'real' workstation and for sure minis+ had tapes

cat199··on How to Set Up a Router's Port Forwarding for a Nintendo Switch Console
> not actually knowing what ports third party switch software

more than likely i'd think this is for enabling inbound responses to outbound ephemeral ports given the port range

cat199··on Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis
Used it in a previous ops support gig to build up a mini knowledge base of canned issue responses / topical oneliners - we couldn't install software but could save network drive files; tiddly kept my response system flexible & portable between systems - definitely recommend for this use case
cat199··on Ask HN: Advice on Colocating Servers?
> less expensive than the colocated hardware and the three additional people required to provide support and ensure service levels

i often hear people comparing cloud vs colo but not including more traditional dedicated hardware rental - seems to me this should be pretty similar, maintenance wise to cloud since H/W is handled by the vendor (just need to monitor hardware faults in addition to OS/app layer & notify DC on issues)

cat199··on German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
"digital sovereignty" is a nice phrase
cat199··on A terrible schema from a clueless programmer
orr.. could have switched to https://man.openbsd.org/spamd greylisting a few months later in 2003
cat199··on High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior
> Even if you switch from a sugary drink to the zero-calorie version of that drink, you'll be doing yourself a favor in the long run; the jury's out on how bad aspartame is for you, but we know very well how bad these quantities of sugar are for you.

this statement is logically incorrect - if the 'jury is out' on aspertame, when it 'reconvenes' it could discover that it is worse for you than HFCS, and so no, in fact, the prophylactic switching that you speak of would in fact be detrimental.

Anecdotally, I feel much worse on 0cal/diet beverages than HFCS equivalent - the 0cal/diet ones seem much more likely to trigger headaches/inflammation in me, though it could be that I don't "think" i need as much food so I actually let the diet drink facillitate bad nutrition which in turn triggers these things ... probably the real 'safe bet' is to switch away from both regular and diet soft drinks, since HFCS also is not good

cat199··on Ford's $3900 electric crate motor and F-100 concept
> Few people will drop "new Mitsubishi Mirage" money re-powering an '03 Civic.

as you hint at re. legislation this is heavily dependant on how any transition is structured - a heavy-handed transition would put alot of upward market pressure on new EV's and downward pressure on old ICV's that could create a market niche for conversions - they might not spend "new Mitsubishi Mirage" money on a civic, but they might opt to save 5-10k vs new/slightly used EV for a '15 converted mercedes ...

cat199··on Ford's $3900 electric crate motor and F-100 concept
unsurprising considering how radical their product line revamp has been of late - a ford that doesn't make sedans and an electric SUV "mustang" are pretty big changes for a fairly conservative customer base
cat199··on Reporter who told Missouri officials of website flaw did 'nothing out of line'
True, but tech is not the dominant industry in all areas, and industries needing IT are not strictly limited to tech companies -

blaming education administrators specifically for not having enough funds to pay competitively is drastically different than saying there is a structural problem with the local economy such that only industry X can competitively source IT talent.

in these conversations, comparing tech job X vs other job Y is relevant, because we are talking about 'jobs and wages within local economy as a whole'

cat199··on Minimum Viable Secure Product
agree, but also point out that this argument can be expanded to essentially make all such efforts meaningless - actual security is never captured by these documents, because it is a function of the system itself, and these documents can only by definition point to some aspects of it...

p =~ np, what can I say.

cat199··on OpenBSD: How it all started
Some standards are good, some standards are bad.

OpenBSD chooses to have an opinion on standards according to the project's own security criteria - simple inclusion/exclusion of a given technology X while ignoring their decision process is not a valid reason to critique the security posture of the project as a whole.

cat199··on Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
> identification, NOT authorization

if a user can't decouple the two and control them as distinct mechanisms, the user interaction serves as both and this distinction is irrelevant

apologies but bringing this particular distinction up when has no bearing on the discussion is a pet peeve of mine

cat199··on High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers
> it is perfectly legal for a company to have a driver break the law

IANAL but i can guarantee it's not - whether or not it gets enforced on the other hand...

cat199··on Michelin Airless
... but for 'intensive purposes' on the other hand the story is less clear
cat199··on Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
nono - 'view source' is really the 'hack this website' button, it's just called 'view source' to keep the bad guys from knowing about it.
cat199··on V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one
others have pointed out that this article is talking about v7 unix and so this comment is incorrect -

and the so-called 'inaccuracy' you point out in the previous thread was the entire point of the article for that thread - that programmers need to be aware of the stack size and manage it explicitly, and many do not.

cat199··on Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
plenty of people have families and abuse the crap out of them, and people without families that want one still need to socialize enough to meet people to eventually have a family

book != cover

cat199··on Computer game play reduces intrusive memories of experimental trauma (2015)
Interesting, and I can definitely see this for tetris, but I doubt you'd get the same result throwing a veteran with PTSD into an FPS .. probably needs a few more experiments to yield conclusion in the title.
cat199··on Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
current used car market is supposedly historically high vs new - probably better to do a longer or earlier comparison before making conclusions, esp. if comparing a fairly new 'used' vehicle
cat199··on Rigetti Computing to go public
> The number of known quantum algorithms, which promise advantage over classical computation, is just a few

Not at all well versed in the topic, but to me, we are at ENIAC stage of quantum - those few algorithms where quantum has an advantage provide a huge advantage worth a high price tag to those who need them - so this shouldn't be a real worry for some level of viability, technical concerns aside (which are not insignificant, as you point out) - but also as you highlight, 'some level of viability' is not the same as 'instant changes everywhere', so perceptions of hype-vs-reality in the general population is a different question

cat199··on PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
they already do in a way through aws-service-operator and replacement aws controllers for kubernetes (ACK)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-service-operator... https://github.com/aws-controllers-k8s/community

cat199··on It takes a PhD to develop that
... the best usage of this phrase i've encountered is using it to shut down a requirements discussion
cat199··on The Martians of Budapest
> Protestant

this article is about hapsburg empire - direct line to the holy roman empire & 100% catholic officially

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