jacobmartin

> Think about say, ordering food by searching by hand for every business within a given radius around you, going to their own website, looking at the offering, and entering your details. And then doing it differently the next time when you feel like eating something else.

This is exactly what I do, and it's completely fine. My desktop web browser can even save my credit card details (but I have mine memorized so I don't do that) and does save my address to make it just as easy as GrubHub or whatever. Three different restaurants have thanked me for using their website rather than the other services that they go through because it's cheaper to them.

jwz's links with an HN Referer header only show an image of a testicle, in case someone doesn't know.

Any idea how pure or clean these online sources are?

Yep these two places are very common to be swipe only. I have to go a human teller at <massive and famous hospital> to pay for parking and the cc machine will still only read swipes.

Damnatio memoriae if the issue is actually "functions as intended" and that can be clearly seen from the documentation?

Short and fat--never a smoker. Still collapsed my right one and then the left one a week later. The doctors said they'd never seen that (bilateral in such a short timespan with no apparent cause) and had no idea what could be causing it. I had to laugh. Pectoris Excavatus or other skeletal abnormalities can cause it but I don't have any of those either. Just luck of the draw I guess.

I agree. I live in Boston and winters are oppressive in large part because sunset is at 4:30 (or earlier). For Boston at least, I strongly feel we should just move to Atlantic time and just bite the bullet on the difficulties this causes with teams elsewhere. This proposal effectively does that for Boston, but I understand why the people of Marquette would be opposed.

This particular passage reminds me of the anti-example in Strunk & White about "Avoid[ing] a Succession of Loose Sentences."[0]

I know others have pointed out that the article's point is about those with intellectual or learning disabilities, or learners of foreign languages, but I wonder if this really bears out. Literary Latin is full of (extremely) periodic sentences and once one has picked up on the general prosody and feel of this practice, those sentences aren't particularly hard to understand, even as a non-native reader.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-2_qp8jQ61OI6NHwa/page/n27/m...

Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30416070

I've only been using desktop Linux for 15 years, but it is vastly easier to use it as a daily driver than it used to be. It still has its problems--just yesterday I sunk an hour into an elusive bug. But when I was doing that, I remembered that such things used to be nearly constant and aren't any longer.

> "In voice pitch, we are looking at more like 60 percent [difference between men and women]."

Is this speaking in raw frequency? If so, I think it is overstated. A 50% reduction in frequency is only one octave, which is 10% of the range of the human ear. And a 50% increase in pitch (from men to women, which is what I think they are saying based on other sources on human voice pitch) is only a 5th, the interval in the Star Wars theme, or 'God Rest, ye merry gentlemen,' which really isn't that much.

> According to Puts, this fits with the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis, which states that since testosterone takes away energy from the immune system, only men in the best of health—whose immune systems are not suffering due to physiological stress—can afford to develop testosterone-dependent traits.

Well I guess my autoimmune disorders explain why I'm a tenor. Oh well, that means I get the best arias.

For most people, I've found that what they call a 'deeper' voice is simply a more resonant voice. There's a video where Tom Scott is trying to sing. He sings a note more resonantly, and he thinks he dropped down the octave. But he actually stayed at the same pitch.[0] So I wonder if that is why 'deeper' voices are perceived as more confident, simply because the people are speaking at roughly the same pitch but are speaking more loudly and more resonantly.

I also question a bit whether deep voices really are more appealing on a society-wide basis, maybe for sexual attraction purposes, though I have some thoughts on that too.[1] But, most male singers that have been prized as stars sing higher. It's a meme now that all male pop singers sing way up in the stratosphere, but it's been true historically too--the tenors got the best arias most of the time. There are certainly lower-voiced outliers (Bing Crosby comes to mind), but the 'stars' so to speak have often been higher-voiced.

[0]: https://youtu.be/2QKPQ6JYVhU?t=439

[1]: I remember being inexplicably taken when I watched Mindhunter by the male lead. I took a straw poll of several gay men I knew, and they all said that Jonathan Groff was sexy specifically for his voice, which is indeed quite high, noticeably so even just casually viewing his movies. Obviously, this anecdata doesn't undo the actual research in the article, but I do think it is a bit more complicated than presented here.

When I came to a more "apostolic" branch of Christianity from a more "evangelical" branch, my own baptism was somewhat suspect because there had been a separation of matter and form. (The words were said and then I was baptized, rather than them being said while I was baptized.) The bishop ended up saying it was okay.

I wonder if the CDF is being a little overzealous here. The sacraments (especially baptism) are hard to break if they are done with the proper intent. The Catholic Church has historically recognized other forms which seem further away than just "I" to "we". For instance, it recognized "the servant of God is baptized" and possibly even "may you be baptized" (see https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258b.htm#vi). In fact it seems to border almost on superstition to belabor this point and is somewhat scandalous. But I'm episcopal and not Catholic, and not a theologian, so I don't really have any authority in the matter.

What makes a good treadmill good?

Genuinely curious as I've (in my limited experience) only ever seen them intermittently used a handful of times and then forgotten about. My dad used to buy up used ones for a pittance for their motors which he used for hobby projects, and most of the time they looked unused except for some dust or dry rotting.

I find `sudo killall -9 zoom` seems to work to stop this. That may be overkill but was just the first thing to occur to me. But I'll probably just sandbox it into my windows VM whenever I bother to set up passthrough on my camera.

I did all of my homework in college in LaTeX for this exact reason (and would liveTeX lectures). I had a setup where my input was side-by-side my output and the compilation time was very fast, so I could almost see what I was writing in real time. It actually became easier after freshman year than writing things down.

Different from the person you replied to, but my wife is also autistic, and she does the exact same thing (both needing for me to ask for her attention multiple times and not hearing anything for the first little bit if I don't get it). It used to annoy me but then I realized that was a silly thing to be annoyed about, and I just had to change my mode of talking to her.

I am a pianist and have spent years trying to eliminate tension. It's a lifelong effort! But so worth it.

I recently saw a video of a concerto by cellist Bruno Philippe and was astonished to see how loosely he appeared to be holding the bow. It almost appeared that it would slip at any moment. Yet he was in total control and his tone was perfect!

Just to piggyback on this, the source code for the BSD utils is eminently readable and simple, almost always more so than the equivalent GNU options. I understand that there are reasons for this, and I'm obviously very grateful for all sorts of GNU software. But if I want to see how something works, I'm going to go for the BSD sources first if they exist.

That's very interesting. I grew up in a Baptist Church, where 'Calvinist' and 'Arminian' described intra-denominational differences so the 'Calvinists' were broadly similar to the non-Calvinists in pretty much all beliefs except the TULIPy ones. It makes sense there would be greater differences in other denominations.

I agree with you. I'm sure that meditation, psychotherapy, contemplative prayer, possibly even drug use, whatever, have benefits. I'm just also sure that it takes quite a bit of dedication, introspection, and time to get there.

As an aside, isn't "you get what you work for" quite literally the opposite of Calvinism? At least, it seems to go against every element of TULIP?

I saw a guy on tinder once say not to even bother if your texts are going to be green. It really rocked my world to realize there are real people actually like that out there

This sounds very interesting and potentially quite fun. How would one get into this? Is there a specific tool chain you use?

1) assumes that all levels of 'cooperation' with what you perceive to be evil are equivalent. I happen to agree that both testing medication and using cell lines to develop it are more or less equally distal to the original problem (as it is perceived), but not all people do. (The distinctions between formal and material cooperation, and proximal and distal cooperation, are relevant to many ethical systems, even outside of religion.)

2) is irrelevant to people not in the camps of 'most religious leaders' or a 'major religion.'

I mostly agree with you on 3). I think some positions are simply not open to some people with certain religious beliefs. A devout Muslim cannot work at a liquor store. An evangelical cannot be the JP anymore. An anti-COVID vaxxer (even for religious reasons) can't work for the federal government. So it goes.

However, these considerations are only tangentially relevant to a consideration of the morality of a register on these exemptions.

I live outside Boston just barely out where walking to the subway is infeasible (30min walk). But, it's only $2 or $7 to park at the T station and take the train in. This is a win-win for me, if I feel the desire/need to go into Boston. I don't have to worry about paying exorbitantly for a parking garage (or finding a parallel parking space and then parallel parking), and it isn't terribly inconvenient, even with a 2-year-old.

Not the parent that you replied to, but I use full PCI passthrough for my Nvidia (RTX 3060) and it works just fine. I had no idea Nvidia had done this before or else I would've seriously reconsidered my choices for this build... Nevertheless it seems to work just fine.

I can't say anything about low-dose lithium so I'm sorry if this is out of scope.

I did however take 600mg daily of Lithium Carbonate for a long time and it really helped me with my anxiety, and, importantly, it reduced my suicidal thoughts/self harm urges to basically zero from multiple times a day. This isn't as low as the doses people seem to use with Orotate, but it's still "subclinical".

Ah, makes sense. Thanks!

That makes sense. Thanks!

Honest question (I am totally ignorant about these things): If you did this, would you be able to accept patches from the community on the open core? Or would releasing your proprietary code violate the GPL of the coder who sent the patch?

I have a Stanley 4 1/2 which I've dated to c. the 1890s and several wooden planes which are even older! I cherish them (and my other hand tools).

In a similar vein, no rasp or file will outlast its user just by its nature; nevertheless, Auriou rasps are some of the finest tools I've had the pleasure of owning and run circles around mass-manufactured ones.