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I appreciate that feedback! I'll fix those issues up. It's definitely a v1 sort of thing but my daughter's seemed to love it. And yeah UI is hard, this is my first go at that as a mostly backend engineer.

We honestly don’t know. Current safety standards mostly focus on preventing tissue heating, because that’s the one effect we can reliably measure and understand. But there’s a chunk of exploratory research out there looking at potential “non-thermal” effects—things like subtle shifts in cell signaling, membrane permeability, or oxidative stress—that might not show up as a measurable temperature increase.

So far, the studies that have been well-designed and replicated haven’t consistently nailed down a clear causal link between non-thermal EMF exposure (within the limits that regulators consider safe) and actual health problems. Still, some researchers argue that we’re not accounting for all the slow-burn, cumulative effects that might be happening. It’s not easy to tease out these subtle influences from the noise of environmental variables, and that makes it hard to really say we’ve got a handle on the whole picture. Check out Prof Michael Levin's Bioelectricity work if you want to go down a very interesting rabbit hole about what we're only recently discovering about how our biology might really work and how electricity and emf's shape it.

Not the man made kind, which are different from natural sources and greatly increase the background EM fields we live in.

Why are brazil nuts bad exactly? I eat a couple daily to help with symptoms from hashimoto's and test my selenium levels frequently since not all nuts are created equal.

Bram has a talk where he goes into the issues with Proof of Stake, centralization and categories of issues that don't exist in proof of time and space: https://youtu.be/2Zlcgt8FVz4?t=510

Chia team anticipates an S curve where adoption will level off and at that point it'll mostly be companies or people that have extra storage laying around and figure 'why not' store some plots on these disks to try to earn a bit of money. Or orgs plotting to new servers while they're waiting to be used, deleting plots as the storage is needed.

They also argue it's more green because if you don't want to store the plots, you delete them and the storage is still available as normal storage for other purposes. With PoW, you have specialized hardware that isn't useful for other purposes and you burn a lot of electricity all the time securing the network.

Tried connecting to MySQL 5.6.10a RDS Aurora cluster with username/password and SSL enabled, much as I'm able to do with other clients, but handshake fails with `140230041270248:error:100000f0:SSL routines:OPENSSL_internal:UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL:../../third_party/boringssl/src/ssl/handshake_client.cc:568`

Maybe boringssl is too new for my version of mysql supported tls protocol versions?

Good trolling on his part. New twitter account with no credible info about him to be found.

Some context on how this list was curated and what it means would be useful.

I gave this a go today and managed to install huginn on my synology nas by simply searching for the docker container. I then setup 3 agents to scrape a Shopify webstore jason endpoint that I’m always checking for inventory, have huginn parse the json and send me an sms via twilio if inventory changes. Took about 2 hours, wasn’t too bad. Huginn twilio docs seemed dated.

Used python simplehttp server and ngrok to replicate a json url and play with the triggers to test it all before pointing it at a real website.

Nice to add a new tool to the belt, thanks!

This used to be true, that US doctors were taught to treat pain itself but now medical education is more aware of the dangers of addiction and abuse and hopefully new doctors don’t prescribe at the same rates or have the same falsehoods about painkillers being safe.

Why not elementary schools too? :(

I’m no archival expert but here’s my lazy mans 3 location strategy.

I use iCloud photos by default, then open google photos app on my phone every once in awhile to have a duplicate cloud sync ($2mo). Then when I remember every month or so I open photos on my Mac and copy everything over to my synology nas which houses a master iPhoto library that is hundreds of GBs at this point. Using iPhoto is probably a mistake here since it’s fairly terrible, but not sure how else to reasonably manage all my photos. I’ve tried Picasa but came back.

I’ve been burned by apps like everpix cloud storage that suddenly shut down and gave me only a few days to download nearly a terabyte of now unsorted photos. Similar thing with Sony cloudstation. I wouldn’t trust any single cloud storage provider from screwing you at some point.

That and their support is terrible. I had a google wifi AP die 3 days outside of its 1 year hardware warranty and their support told me, nothing I could do but throw it in the trash. They don’t repair them and wouldn’t replace it for me. Google also doesn’t have a great track record of long term support for hardware devices. Although with Nest division that might be different.

Which montage do you use and for how long?

Amazon is in constant development of secret projects to throw at the wall and see what sticks. Having worked on their hardware teams they’re constantly reverse engineering products and engineering new potential items that seem kinda out there or anticipating filling a market need that doesn’t yet exist. Swing enough times you’ll get some hits.

From what I recall zero downtime simply meant if a ilok went missing then PACE would assist you in replacing license(s) to a replacement ilok from their end. Trouble is often times you couldn’t quickly find a replacement ilok without a guitar center nearby and would still have to order it through avid store and wait for it to arrive if you didn’t plan for this.

I would still just do Whole Foods delivery and cook together if that’s what they’re after. It sounds like they’ve memorized the recipes if they really cook them that much.

Or order take out and save even more time and share dinner together.

Yup, our three floor building was 40k to repaint and fix a few custom windows (with plastic instead of custom wrapped glass) . Hadn’t been painted in over 20 years though.

Get a $8 chainmail scrubber and use only water to clean with. Cleaning my cast iron takes the same amount of time as my non sticks, with the exception that I take more care to dry it. Definitely an every day staple cooking utensil in our household.

Very cool, but Apple seems to come after these types of services, no?

I believe they’re referring to Chikan which is estimated to have happened to 2/3 of women who ride the train in Japan and the act violates several Japanese laws.

I haven’t personally looked at studios outside of open houses I see in my hood, the ones I’ve seen are super tiny and very expensive. But I’d look at everything. Also be prepared to be turned down by competing renters that might be just some single rich person.

If you’re open to a roommate you’ll get more for your money and might find it easier to get established. We did that for 3 years before getting married then later took over the whole place. As long as you keep getting promoted/raises and your rent can only go up by 1-3% annually then eventually it’ll swing in your favor. We played the long game.

Also with roommates there are sometimes situations where you can find something rent controlled and below market rate when someone else is already living there but your much less likely to find that with studios or property management companies.

One downside is in the unlikely situation that you’re evicted (hard to do in most rent controlled houses) and your name isn’t on the check then you’re not protected or paid out to the same extent as the rent payer is.

Oakland will be cheaper and more space and is becoming fairly trendy. But then you have to commute and it’s a totally different vibe than SF. And I believe annual rent increases are allowed there. Home invasions are more rampant there too which freaks me the fuck out.

The Oakland commute isn’t too bad though imo, I’d probably choose commuting from oakland over north or South Bay if living in SF wasn’t an option.

I will say, all complaints aside if you can make it work SF is awesome. I love that I can be at the beach one day, skiing the next, tech and biotech world hubs. Museums and science academy, parks in every neighborhood. There’s a definite energy here. Not NY hustle but CA hustle. Just watch out for the poo on the sidewalks.

Edit: If you both end up working in/near soma and don’t mind living on an island then Alameda is pretty underrated imo. I have coworkers who bike and ride the ferry over. The downtown is cute and safer feeling than nearby Oakland, more family friendly.

Also treasure island just got approved for a ton of construction for the first time. But it might be a couple years out and probably expensive cause new homes.

Two decades in SF, moved here in my twenties and have moved a few times within the city and now have a family here.

Ideally you find a rent controlled apartment, which is the majority of older homes and apartments, built prior to 1979. It’ll be very expensive initially (assuming the landlord raises the rent upon move in as they do) but less so over time. My family has been in ours for 8 years now and it’s now cheaper for us to stay in SF on my solo salary than to move to most other major cities. We invest money into other asset classes and property outside of SF since we’ll likely never afford a home in SF proper nor would we want to own one, for multiple reasons.

We love it here, as a software dev I have LinkedIn opportunities knocking down my door, food, activists, weather all amazing imo. We might consider moving to a cheaper city at some point or if our kids end up in the lottery system of public schools.

Homelessness, crime and drug abuse hasn’t improved imo. You take the good with the bad.

Anecdotally I had a close friend leave SF for a year to travel and came back to SF last month after missing it. He stayed in an Airbnb in Bernal heights for a month and managed to find a shared rent control apartment in that time for a below market price. His trick was he accidentally emailed the wrong ad on Zillow that wasn’t listed under apartments for rent. And the home owner emailed him back saying he hadn’t considered renting the home but was interested, they met and he soon moved in.

So as a renter thinking outside the box can pay off. But in general with house hunting be persistent, be early, act fast, have credit reports, references and the biggest paystubs you can procure and network like crazy.

Also some companies will pay for relocation and/or have temporary housing, so maybe get an offer first then move out here.

I had a very similar thing happen to me in the late 80’s when I was 5. I remember getting out of bed and falling to the ground as I couldn’t feel my legs. I lost function of both legs and couldn’t walk, my parents brought me into doctors and specialist and they had no answers. Less than a week later I regained feeling and function of both my legs like nothing ever happened. I don’t recall having a fever.

I actually forgot that happened to me until your story just now. Crazy.

Automatic Lamdba rotation of RDS creds stored in aws secret manager. And then terraforming it.

Use aws identities and policies to control ssh access to ec2 instances https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introduci...

Has some quirks but might be useful for companies using ec2 instances.

We just take a weekly snapshot where we run a script to drop most customer data, sanitize the little bit that is left, add our internal users and data and apply the grants needed for each person internally. This image is built and everyone can pull down the container. New grants preferably wait until the weekly snapshot happens.

Our company misses screen hero big time, comes up in discussion often. The only suitable replacement we’ve found is vscode liveshare which is actually very good but not everyone wants to use vscode.

They’ll call YOU if you’re paying for their ads platform. ‘Just checking in, making sure everything is going alright.’