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eurasiantiger··on The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness
My dictionary says ”industrially produced food”, i.e. frozen and ready to eat meals, snacks, confections, etc.

The issue is that the plastics and non-stick coatings leach off plasticizers and forever-chemicals which cause hormone and neurotransmitter disruption in humans, which cause obesity, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, cancer and other serious disease.

eurasiantiger··on Tuql: Automatically create a GraphQL server from a SQLite database
Slap them into entity-normalized subgraphs and now you can compose all your databases, indexes, queues, etc. into one supergraph where you can seamlessly resolve entity fields across all your data stores.
eurasiantiger··on Risk of testicular cancer and neurodevelopmental or other psychiatric disorders
Last I saw epidemiological data, cannabis smokers had a slightly lower odds ratio for lung cancer (<1.0) than non-anything-smokers (=1.0), while tobacco smokers had an OR in the high single digits (>8.0)
eurasiantiger··on Risk of testicular cancer and neurodevelopmental or other psychiatric disorders
”Some risk factors during adolescence and adulthood have also been described, such as having an occupation as a fire-fighter, working with aircraft maintenance and marijuana smoking”

Firefighters and aircraft mechanics get exposed to high levels of PFAS, but what is the devil’s lettuce doing here?

eurasiantiger··on LSD: Not Even Once
”although the possible association with psychotic symptomatology seems clear, the scientific community is far from being able to provide conclusive evidence on this topic”

You need to read the actual text and not just the title.

eurasiantiger··on LSD: Not Even Once
Anything happening under the influence is not classified as a psychosis, mind you.
eurasiantiger··on LSD: Not Even Once
Alcohol is more likely to cause psychosis than any drugs.
eurasiantiger··on LSD: Not Even Once
Today many people learn that there are thousands of different LSD-like psychedelics (and other drugs) they don’t talk about in schools
eurasiantiger··on Micro- and nanoplastics breach the blood–brain barrier in mice
Remember, Morgellon’s is a fictitious disease.
eurasiantiger··on PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
File reading excluded, CSV to array is like two generator functions and a main, even with rudimentary schema support. No reason to add a dependency at all.
eurasiantiger··on PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
The web has always been inherently complex, so it is only logical that frameworks for building things on the web have evolved to tackle all the possible complexity. Of course also the introduction of handheld devices and duplex multimedia features has made the web more complex, but mostly we just didn’t care 20 years ago, because we could get away with less. Now, more and more things are exposed to us every day, requiring us to grok it all to be able to make day-to-day decisions.

No wonder so many people turn to magical thinking, cargo cult coding or Uncle Bob -like messiahs.

eurasiantiger··on Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023
The short version: have your harmony or bassline go down when your lead melody goes up, or vice versa.

(It’s not that easy in theory but that is the gist of it.)

eurasiantiger··on Geneticists develop novel gene therapy for glaucoma
Glaucoma is the one and only indication for which the United States government has been supplying select individuals with government-grown medicinal cannabis since the 70’s.

For free!

eurasiantiger··on Auto-GPT: An experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous
”Access to this site has been restricted.”
eurasiantiger··on Clean front end architecture with SvelteKit
That sounds like absolute hell to dig through once you hit N+1 queries.
eurasiantiger··on Show HN: TypeAPI – An OpenAPI alternative optimized for code generation
This is reinventing the type introspection features of GraphQL.
eurasiantiger··on A Mulching Proposal (2019)
Even if there is artistical merit to his performance, it is in poor taste, as using another artist’s work as-is as a part of a new artwork is generally frowned upon.

Minting NFTs off the original is straight up thievery.

eurasiantiger··on A Mulching Proposal (2019)
Hail residential care!
eurasiantiger··on SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
In an online environment, having your system go down during those rare times will eventually cost you your business.
eurasiantiger··on Processed foods key to rising obesity 'Protein hunger' drive obesity study shows
It’s the plasticizers and non-stick forever chemicals that are causing obesity and illness. The more processed the food, the more residues there are.
eurasiantiger··on A professional couple who make over $200k combined couldn't afford a home in LA
You can get a vacant house from the Japanese countryside for a flat $300 per year.
eurasiantiger··on Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis
You are gravely mistaken.
eurasiantiger··on Perseus – NextJS alternative in Rust
Like React: view = component(state)
eurasiantiger··on Perseus – NextJS alternative in Rust
True. We must port it to Haskell.
eurasiantiger··on The Finnish Secret to Happiness? Knowing When You Have Enough
One cannot be content with anything unless one decides to be content with something.
eurasiantiger··on NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security
The RESTRICT act isn’t GDPR and actually contains everything they couldn’t pass in the PATRIOT act, right?
eurasiantiger··on VW Had US Customs Seize and Destroy a JDM Van for Looking Like the Classic Bus
Ah, the corporate hellhole is showing its fangs.
eurasiantiger··on Low and moderate alcohol consumption not associated with increased mortality
The study is biased
eurasiantiger··on Johnson and Johnson reaches deal for $8.9B talc settlement
Also, they enable money laundering on massive scales. KPMG, I’m staring at you.
eurasiantiger··on “Inside-out Wankel” rotary engine delivers 5X the power of a diesel
I find it hilarious that an energy war makes inventions like this suddenly come out of the woodwork.
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