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chemicalnovae··on WeightWatchers files bankruptcy
The parent said exercise though right, not weight loss? Exercise can/does lead to weight loss but it's certainly not the only benefit and might not even be the most important one.
chemicalnovae··on Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust
Sure, and most small organic molecules are an order of magnitude smaller than that definition.
chemicalnovae··on Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains
> And? That span is within an individual's lifetime, which is not very long in the context of human history. As of now there's zero sign any entity with regulatory power is doing anything about microplastics.

Primarily, I _am_interested with health outcomes within my and my children's lifespan so that's the sort of time span I'm primarily concerned about. If the comparison to asbestos hold's true then we still have a _long_ time (long enough that any potential deleterious effects will be felt by all currently living and soon to be living members of my family) before any sort of regulatory action will be taken regardless of the health impacts.

> Also, why are you trying to deliver a point without looking up most of the examples I've listed? Do you expect that to be a convincing argument?

Because I'm _not_ your fact-checker. You're other examples may well follow a much quicker time-frame between discovery and strong regulatory action; I don't really care one way or the other, since at least one example shows a course of history which would play out poorly for those of us alive _now_ and exposed to increasing levels of environmental plastics.

chemicalnovae··on Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains
I didn't go and look up the others but this argument by similarity, at least when applied to asbestos says the exact opposite to the claim you're trying to make. It's generally considered that industry/government was aware of the issues relating to asbestos in the '30s (and _started_ doing things about it then) but it wasn't until the 70's/80's (depending on the country) that its use was mostly stopped (and in places like Australia it wasn't outright banned until 2003).
chemicalnovae··on AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules
He might not have been able to explain why _but_ I'd bet anything he would have wanted to if he could.
chemicalnovae··on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
Isn't crypto used in these places simply a more convenient form on pinning to the USD than due to any inherent properties of the crypto itself?
chemicalnovae··on Polars
> Please, (a) for your own sake and (b) for the sake of open source innovation, use the tool that you admit is better.

This is...such a strange take. To follow your logic to an extreme, everyone should use a very small handful of languages that are the "best" in their domain with ne'er a care for their personal comfort or preference.

> for your own sake

They're sticking with Pandas exactly for their own sake since they like being able to use Copilot.

> for the sake of open source innovation

Ohh by all means let's all be constantly relearning and rehashing just to follow the latest and greatest in open source innovation this week.

Tools are designed to be _used_ and if you like using a tool _and_ it does the job you require of it that seems just fine to me; especially if you're also taking the time to evaluate what else is out there occasionally.

chemicalnovae··on NERV Disaster Prevention
100%, I had to pop into the HN comments after opening it because I wasn't sure which it was!

Though perhaps there is something we're missing that the target audience would more quickly identify it as real.

chemicalnovae··on The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge
I mean...maybe: https://www.space.com/diamond-rain-atmosphere-uranus-neptune
chemicalnovae··on U.S. Special Forces Want to Use Deepfakes for Psy-Ops
I mean, maybe deep fakes are _better_ at sowing distrust of information than other forms of propaganda but it seems disingenuous to treat it completly differently.
chemicalnovae··on Fun with Gentoo: Why don't we just shuffle those ROP gadgets away?
Don't be embarrassed, its what computers are for! I've done the same thing recently too. It honestly feels like a better use of a high-core desktop CPU than have it sit idle 99% of the time.
chemicalnovae··on Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
Take a look at k3s[0] for lighter k8s.

[0] https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/

chemicalnovae··on LaMDA is not sentient
The essence of this is true of basically every PhD in a quantitative field. I think its one of the things that makes people walk away after starting.
chemicalnovae··on Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac
Lots of chatter here about alternatives that all seem to miss the point that the alternatives suffer from the same filesystem performance issues that this release claims to improve. Might not be an issue for you but if you've ever had to work with a volume mount with a ton of small files (like php or node dependencies) then this could be a real life saver.
chemicalnovae··on Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege
> The entire point of a corporation, as a governance structure, in general is to limit liability for its shareholders. That's true for all corporations not just facebook. Its the reason people establish corporations instead of running businesseses informally as an individual.

Except they're not doing it to protect Zuckerberg or Sandberg as shareholders they're doing it to protect them as decision making executives. More to the point if they didn't have liability due to the structure of a corporation they would never have been in "danger" and therefore the pay-off would have been unnecessary.

chemicalnovae··on Internet Archive Infrastructure
Probably yes, but only if it was happening a lot; I don’t know what the cross-over point would be though that you’re better off just keeping the drives spinning...
chemicalnovae··on Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?
I was first put onto this book by my PhD supervisor while writing up my dissertation. Revolutionised the way I wrote English for the better.
chemicalnovae··on Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx with first and only tweet for account
I'm torn between wanting it to be VR exclusive so that it takes full advantage of the interesting differences between VR and reg. gaming, and wanting it to be non-'VR exclusive' so that I might actually get a chance to play it without having to fork out for VR gear that I otherwise have little interest in.
chemicalnovae··on Foie Gras, Served in 1k Restaurants in NYC, Is Banned
It seems the shark might disagree with you on that.
chemicalnovae··on Bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats
More to the point then, is there anything that sits between the high quality generalist journals and generalist scientific magazines (Nat Geo. and the like)?

I can and do read Nature and Science, but outside of my PhD field I find it pretty slow going and often feel like I'm missing out on what could be interesting findings due to not having sufficient background to fully understand the problem space.

chemicalnovae··on Dockcross: Cross compiling toolchains in Docker images
Yes, I don't know if this is the canonical way but you can use QEMU to build them [0].

[0] https://servicelab.org/2018/09/13/platform-aware-docker-imag...

chemicalnovae··on The cult of rotary mixers
Native speaker here and I thought the exact same thing. Was actually a little disappointed it wasn't about the kitchen appliances.
chemicalnovae··on Australian Government Design System
I mean...it's actually green and gold.

But seriously, I can only think of a handful of official things that use the "official" colours, lots of sports teams but not really used by the government.

Edit: Parent originally mentioned that the website doesn't use the "Official Australian Colours".

chemicalnovae··on A Novel Way to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria
damage.
chemicalnovae··on Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers
Excellent point, thanks for the reply, I'll give it a spin on WSL.
chemicalnovae··on Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
Just to quip on your first point, we did a decent job (especially during the first and second world wars) of aligning ourselves, though the purchase of bonds and the like, on spending money on "guns".
chemicalnovae··on Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
And where do you think oil coconuts are grown?
chemicalnovae··on Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable
No, never massive swings in the short term (GFC caused a 4% drop (7% to 3%) in 2009 for example). I think that even when the cash rate is moving quickly rates don't change more than a percent or two per year.

Re budgeting, I think the relatively slow rate of change makes it mostly a non-issue though I think people at the upper end of their borrowing power struggle with rate rises.

chemicalnovae··on Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers
Any chance this has/might get support for Windows natively?
chemicalnovae··on Redbird: A modern reverse proxy for Node
I had a similiar thought, although not OAuth2, of integration with something like authelia[1].

[1] https://github.com/clems4ever/authelia

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