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all of my incidents of losing consciousness were absolute voids to me. Once I apparently hit the back of a car on my bike and I just kind of woke up with no idea what had happened (I say "apparently" because I don't really know... I was riding my bike and suddenly I was laying on the side of the road, no in between. The other time my father punched me in the face, knocking the back of my head into the corner of a metal oven hood. I remember that but then the next thing was coming to on the ground with him over me, hands around my neck squeezing. Nothing whatsoever in between the start and end of events.

That's a pretty wild, and public, hypothetical for someone with his standing at Harvard.

I used Helix for a couple of days and really liked it for the most part. However, I would sometimes encounter a small, simple thing that I do without thinking in VS Code but just did not know the command for in Helix. I would look it up, think, "Sweet, that's efficient" and move on. This kept happening and finally I was in a situation where I just needed to move fast and did not have time to investigate how to do it in Helix so I switched back and... never returned.

It was a learning curve issue for me, not a functionality issue. I'll probably return at some point (like when the EOY season becomes slower and I have more time to explore) but for now I'm back to cruising in VS Code.

Anyone that says, "they don’t have to manage infrastructure" I would invite them to deal with a multi-environment terraform setup and tell me again that about what they don't have to manage.

I think that this concern is valid but there are deeper more foundational issues facing the US that have led to the sum of the issues mentioned in the post.

We can say that if this rotten support beam fails the US is in trouble but the real issue is what caused the rot in the first place.

Most companies don't really need the majority of React's power. There is room for a low to mid level complexity library/framework to fill the space that the majority of sites really need (like, that brochureware site should be statically generated and needs none of what React offers and the site that deals with dozens of requests per minute can be greatly simplified). What we need is a low complexity tool that has a fantastic DX. Of the many projects that deal with this none has taken hold in the way that React has.

One thing it's doing is jacking up electricity rates for US States that are part of the [PJM Interconnection grid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJM_Interconnection). It's a capacity auction price that is used to guarantee standby availability and it is [up significantly](https://www.toledochamber.com/blog/watts-up-why-ohios-electr...) at $270.43 per MW/day, which is far above prior years (~$29–58/MW/day) and this is translating to significantly higher consumer prices.

The site that is linked here is a site dedicated to the sale of the drug NAD so it is not objective on the topic of aging. Not trying to debunk anything but let's put on our skeptic hats here and be extra vigilant, given the source.

Regarding NAD, not the article but it pertains to the subject, I actually think it has promise and as an older person take NMN to very (like... WOW, very) positive result (an NAD precursor that is arguably better as it is used by the body to create NAD whereas the consumption of NAD itself via the digestive system is in need of study as the suspicion is that it doesn't make the journey very successfully).

The person she spent her life with died. She could have just been sad and lonely over that, not some lack of "identity".

I've been married for over 30 years and we both have our own independent identities and successes (as well as shared ones). We are still very close and loving. Neither needs the other to live but after so long our emotional involvement with each other is as deep and foundational as the roots of a great tree. Losing her (or her me) would be utterly devastating and how we identify ourselves has nothing to do with it.

There is so much to address in this post but I want to look at just this part: "One of the reasons we know this story is bogus is because of the New York Times story which cites anonymous officials, “speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation”. That’s not a thing, that’s not a valid reason to grant anonymity under normal journalistic principles. It’s the “Washington Game” of “official leaks”, disseminating propaganda without being held accountable."

It is not accurate to claim "that's not a thing". Citing anonymous sources is a long established practice (in particular when it comes to law enforcement activities or potentially sensitive political reporting). The NYT has formal editorial standards around the identity of anonymous sources that require editors to assess the justification for applying it. It doesn't mean the information is reliable, that's where an editorial eye comes into play, but it does fall under the category of normal journalistic practice.

Next the "Washington Game": there’s a grain of truth here, but it is overstated. Yes, leaks can be part of a strategic move by politicians and it can be a source of exploitation by political operators but to equate all anonymous sourcing with propaganda is misleading. Plenty of such reporting has resulted in significant truths being revealed and powerful people being held accountable (Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, Abu Ghraib). Responsible reporting involves weighing a source's motivations as well as corroborating and contextualizing that information as accurately and truthfully as possible.

The author's dismissiveness oversimplifies (or mischaracterizes, if I am being less generous) the reason and function of anonymity here. They overstate the issue with propaganda and anonymous sources. Accurate in the sense that anonymity can enable propaganda (it has happened), it is inaccurate in its absolutism.

I feel like this sort of tone, with the absolutism, the attempt to reduce the complexity and nuance of reporting to the point where it can be dismissed is pretty typical of what passes for commentary in today's blog/tweet/commentary culture but it really plays more into the hands of those that would sow confusion and mistrust than it does into that of the truth and accuracy.

The take away from that blog post: "I would personally stop using the products from batches that were measured to have high amounts of benzene"

Make sure your sunscreen is free from things like benzene* or you may just be trading one cancer causer for another.

* https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/is-sunscreen-safe

This is exactly my situation (cooktop in an island with nothing above it). Our solution (because we cook a lot and often it's Chinese food with the attendant oil) was to just stick an existing rolling island in the garage with an induction hotplate on it and do our messiest cooking out there. Not ideal but it keeps the house cleaner and we didn't have to spend much.

Personally I would prefer a Chinese style kitchen with a fully enclosed cooking space (sliding glass doors to leave open if desired) and exterior ventilation. It keeps the worst of the aerosolized oil contained and away from the rest of the home.

The first point is about using an onSubmit event that is triggered by an onClick of a button. Why? Just add type="submit" to the button and the onSubmit event will be triggered by a click or by hitting the enter key. I'm confused as I feel like this is so simple that I must be missing somethng?

When a resource becomes restricted and is at the same time foundational to life would it not be reasonable to say that it cannot be held for profit?

The next steps in this sort of pretentiousness might be, "multi-threaded breathstreams unmitigated by interstitial cessation, conjoined with progressionist effervescent and aurally delivered syncopathic acoustic tunework" and people will act like that is perfectly normal.

I am a diehard MX Vertical Mouse user. My wrist thanks me every day that I use it.

I did pretty much the same thing some 10 years ago but only for my own images and this creator overcame a problem that I could not. I ingested a collection of images, read the metadata and used that to place the images on a map like this. However, I could not figure out how to determine facing. This project has an arrow indicator to show this, I ended up setting it manually. I would love to know how they determined this because I really cannot figure it. Does image metadata contain more information than it used to? Is there a way to use an AI agent to analyze the light/angles/streets/landmarks to approximate this?

It doesn't seem to work with "any language", as claimed. It cannot process Chinese writing (nor can it process pinyin). "Error processing your text", is the message. Though it's certainly possible the volume of traffic has overwhelmed things and it would work under normal circumstances?

My first thought is that it's some form of bryozoan. Seems like most mysterious water located goo is usually that.

>the progress being amazing, and I hope it continues.

and that it does not require being lucky to receive, as you were.

The description of how the universe is expanding sounds like how an explosion expands. Rapidly then slower until it settles down and stops (with no collapse at the end, just matter in place where it landed). I wonder if that could be the closest analogy?

I can tell you that for me (early Gen X) it got bad when my wife was out of town for an extended period of weeks for work. Ours kids have moved out, we have no family in the region, all of my oldest friends live across the country and I'm 20 years older than most of my coworkers. I found myself getting home from work, making dinner and then having absolutely nothing to do for several hours. That's when I got sucked in. Next thing you know I would wake up on a rainy Saturday and just reach for the phone and then it was lunch time and suddenly dinner time. It feels pretty shitty, too.

Recently I've had to find things for myself to do in order to make sure my time is better filled otherwise I will "fill" it with doom scrolling. I don't know that my brain is more susceptible (hard to self determine something like that) but my time is certainly more open than it ever was in my life previously.

Only recently, like in the last year, have I found my phone just sucking me in. I am mindlessly browsing whatever (TikTok, Xiao Hong Shu, Reddit) and then suddenly my time has slipped away. The thing is, I'm not young by any means. I figured I was aged out of the risk that the phone could devour my time but I was so mistaken in thinking that way. Compared to how I felt my time went and was spent when I was younger (pre-internet days) this feels awful and draining and so damn easy to slip into. Feels like life is on pause yet time is still slipping away as fast as ever.

FWIW a train I've taken a few times in China (Hangzhou to Shanghai) would do San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than 2 hours (possibly 1 hour 45 minutes). This would be an express with no extra stops.

With a handful of stops and the corresponding loss of speed (I'm extrapolating as it hits speeds of 350/kph but still takes about 45+ minutes to go roughly 186km) it would probably realistically take more like 2.5 hours.

Your motivation is validation and support for your belief system. The fact that you posted a quote saying that people hearing but not following the "truth" (ostensibly as you define it otherwise why mention it, yeah?) are fools is the key indicator that you are not acting solely on behalf of love. You, like so many of your sort, are acting on what bolsters your personal beliefs and your need to have that belief.

"A fool is a person who hears the truth and calls it a lie." Sure, let's keep that sentiment going... a charlatan is a person who invents what they insist is a truth and then labels all who do not believe as fools.

That's exactly why folks remove shoes at the door when going in. I find it strange when people do not do this because they are tracking in whatever they may have stepped in throughout the day. Just pop your shoes off at the entrance and throw on some house slippers or shoes.

Probably not exactly the same but I remember trying to describe a type of pain I felt to a doctor in the US. I called it "sour" (which is how it would be described in Chinese) and the doctor laughed saying that didn't mean anything to him. I think it is extremely accurate and descriptive but to him it didn't even register as having meaning.

If the title cannot be edited then the post should be removed, IMO.