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l8rlumpon Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

In Firefox I feel I can probably do away with bookmarks because of the address bar autocompletion. I think they used to call it the awesome bar, but I haven't heard that term for many years.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...

l8rlumpon Used car market gets even more bizarre

l8rlumpon Ask HN: Are there paid commenters on HN?

Is the voting system not susceptible to meddling?

l8rlumpon Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

LÖL

l8rlumpon Ivermectin shows clinical benefits in mild to moderate COVID19: RCT double-blind

There's probably a proper term for this but it seems to me there's a lot of absolute-izing language being thrown around, on issues that aren't absolute. Eg, anyone not 100% onboard with immediately taking whatever vaccine is on offer is an anti-vaxxer. Anyone interested in searching out possible off-label uses of ivermectin might as well just cease and desist because we all know ivermectin is just for killing worms in horses.

It's designed to shut down any reasoned discourse or critical thinking and I'm surprised it's still working.

l8rlumpon Ivermectin shows clinical benefits in mild to moderate COVID19: RCT double-blind

I would also add, before you argue that it's ineffective, please consider it in the context of its place in the "triple therapy". We use drug combinations to treat things like cancer and peptic ulcers because of synergies. My understanding is that the ivermectin and doxycycline help zinc to get into our cells and the zinc is what does the work to inhibit virus replication.

l8rlumpon Ivermectin shows clinical benefits in mild to moderate COVID19: RCT double-blind

I'm not sure if this qualifies as "institutional" medicine, but here's the professor who invented the triple therapy protocol for peptic ulcers:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7wwdo6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POfIMGS2D6A

l8rlumpon FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

Is this what you're talking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

l8rlumpon FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

It seems you're suggesting that the virus only mutates in unvaccinated people? Do you have any further reading on this?

l8rlumpon FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

No gain and possibly harmful. I read this recently and thought it interesting. Admittedly, references would be nice though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091443

l8rlumpon FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

In the context of their statement, if natural immunity is as good as vaccination, then there is no gain from vaccination.

l8rlumpon Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller

51 sounds similar to "I want" in Chinese.

https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websit...

l8rlumpon Reaper: Digital Audio Workstation

Perhaps Reaper's hackability/flexibility (e.g.scripting/API/js DSP programming language) is its "thing"?

l8rlumpon Apple Introduces AirTag

Thankyou! I've been having fun with ToWL[1] but this might be the next step.

[1] http://www.phreakmonkey.com/2016/08/towl-telemetry-over-oppo...

l8rlumpon Apple Introduces AirTag

Hacky solution that works by tunneling telemetry data over open wifi links: http://www.phreakmonkey.com/2016/08/towl-telemetry-over-oppo...

l8rlumpon Apple Introduces AirTag

Any recommended further reading on the LoRa solution?

l8rlumpon The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out

>neither of our experiences is a lie and you definitely do not understand mine or any other alike.

They're not talking about personal experiences, they're talking about objective truth, and of those there's only one.

l8rlumpon The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out

I wonder what the odds are of a single Looney Tunes episode coming into being without intelligent design, let alone our infinitely more complex universe. I also wonder about Wile E's ability to comprehend the ways of Messrs. Hanna and Barbera.

l8rlumpon Latches in C++20

The name has been overloaded ;)

l8rlumpon “Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”

Any recommendations on sandbox software/workflow on Windows? I tried Sandboxie, but it caused the sandboxed app to crash.

l8rlumpon You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

Hi there. I hope this is kosher, but I just added my contact info to my profile ;) I own Photoshop CS3 on Windows and would love to keep using it too!

l8rlumpon Hard Disk Hacking (2013)

It sounds like you know the workings of these drives. Any advice on getting "ATA CMD Tracing" working on them? I saw that string in the firmware but I'm not smart enough to enable it myself :)

l8rlumpon Speeduino: Open-Source Engine Management

Any links/info on these devices?

l8rlumpon FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format

PIK project is also a terrible name for people who understand Danish.

l8rlumpon Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?

If you touch twice on the home button, the contents of the screen move down to alleviate this.

l8rlumpon Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube in attempt to extend copyright

How are people keeping so up-to-date on when works are going public domain? Is there some resource I don't know about?

l8rlumpon Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64

I believe the lower-level access mode of Victoria HDD only works on 32-bit Windows. This was one reason I specifically sought out a 32-bit version of Hiren's Boot CD.

l8rlumpon Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless technology

This is what HN is all about for me. Great conversation and great info :)

l8rlumpon Benjamin Franklin's 13 Virtues – The Guide to Self-Improvement

Reference?

l8rlumpon Consider a Dell Optiplex FX160 Instead of a Raspberry Pi

He said he's running Plex on it. I wonder what the underlying OS is.