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eveningsteps··on Servo 2025 Stats
Maybe that was explained in Rego's September talk [1] but went over my head, but how does Igalia steer Servo? I can understand that when the project was under Mozilla, there were people primarily from, or tied to Mozilla keeping it afloat. Since Igalia is a _consulting_ agency, I don't suppose they work on code themselves, so what do they do to, well, attract new people and keep existing contributors in the loop?

[1]: https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-a-new-web-engine-writte...

eveningsteps··on Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety
In my opinion, yes. Echoing the sibling comment, having a large amount of distributed skin lesions, or any joint pain at all makes one reconsider their options. Surface-level treatments might be very uncomfortable to apply and wear and provide only temporary and unstable relief, as well as UV sessions. Unless you live by the seaside or would like to go there several times a year to keep the skin clean, it's infeasible as a long-term solution. On the other hand, the quality of life improves immensely with injections - the symptoms _just_ disappear, which no diet, or lifestyle change, or application, or alternative medicine, or other supportive care can achieve in the majority of patients.

It goes without saying that your situation may be different, but most people I know opt for them meds, choosing Bimzelx, or a similar treatment (Taltz (ixekizumab) or Skyrizi (risankizumab)). The only downside is the cost, but it may be very well possible to wring it out of your insurance, especially in Europe.

eveningsteps··on Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety
Surprisingly enough, this partially exposes the link between depression and some of the autoimmunal diseases. One example is how patients with psoriasis have significantly elevated levels of proteins from the IL-17 family (namely, IL-17A, IL-17C, and IL-17F) - up to 4 to 8 times above nominal values.

At the same time, bimekizumab, one of the bleeding-edge psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis treatments, suppresses production of IL-17A and IL-17F (methotrexate does that, too, albeit to a much smaller degree). As a result, people receiving IL-17 suppressors become happier over the course of years, and not only due to months-long remission - I had a chance to see this in one of the experimental treatment programs.

eveningsteps··on An 'education legend' has created an AI that will change your mind about AI
Why does this read like an ad?
eveningsteps··on Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
I have upvoted this, but on a second thought, this is probably what I would do as well if I had the possibility to observe the victim, yet all the chances to have not been caught. Makes for an exhilarating complaint and report as well (evidence: this thread).
eveningsteps··on Alexei Navalny has died
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ILxqIEEMg
eveningsteps··on Alexei Navalny has died
Context: https://web.archive.org/web/20200414045757/https://navalny.l...
eveningsteps··on Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week
nit: it's "brick and mortar"
eveningsteps··on Space Elevator
Oh, you'd be surprised! https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
eveningsteps··on Ask HN: Who else is working/on call over Christmas?
Volunteered to be on call -- here's to hope I won't have to press 1 to ack, 3 to nack, 7 to STFU.
eveningsteps··on The Harry Potter fallacy
Also known as a fallacy fallacy. Related: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/9
eveningsteps··on How to stay informed without getting paralyzed by bad news
no paywall: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%...
eveningsteps··on Myths about the brain
> The third myth is that there’s a clear dividing line between diseases of the body, such as cardiovascular disease, and diseases of the mind, such as depression.

"The Widowmaker", the 15th episode of "Circle of Willis", also touches this topic, where heartache and uneasiness may, and often do, kill: http://circleofwillispodcast.com/episode/3c339c578a884870/th...

eveningsteps··on Web-based editor
> ... VS feels like a big, bloated IDE where you have to memorise the location of 4e6 different GUI positions and take your hands continually off the keyboard to do anything.

it sounds like you are completely ignoring the command palette, which allows for a quick, keyboard-only way of interacting with VS Code. have you given it a chance?

eveningsteps··on How I Experience Web Today
Very bitter and to the point. I regularly wonder, do the people who want features like these installed — feedback form, "support chat" windows of various degrees of fakeness, subscription offer popups jumping in your face, and other absolutely baffling obstacles — really use their own web sites? Have they ever had to?
eveningsteps··on Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)
`sleep` could be an appropriate candidate
eveningsteps··on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
details:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20140705203439/http://www.slate....

* https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/199353/did-the-stac...

eveningsteps··on Bit (1.0) – a modern Git CLI in Go
lazygit was one of the greatest discoveries for me (just see their example workflow in GIF!): https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
eveningsteps··on Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
You mean, Internet Explorer?