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Yes it is stabilising, IME. I’d recommend trying again.

l8rlumpon Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

Fresh fruit and veg, nuts, and other fresh things. Thing is, modern farming and distribution practices have negatively affected the magnesium content. Drinking water also used to naturally contain more minerals but in many places is removed to cause less issues with plumbing and because “hard water” also makes it harder for soap to lather. Absorption also depends on vitamin D, so if you’re low in D, you won’t absorb as much magnesium. I have also read that magnesium is required by the body to make GABA and melatonin; supplements other commenters are mentioning.

l8rlumpon Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

I was quoted AUD$300 for the service on my Seiko, so I got it back and learned to service it myself :)

l8rlumpon New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

I also discovered the other day that you can get high-speed networking between two computers with just a thunderbolt cable. It showed up as a 20G connection anyway.

l8rlumpon Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

Now I know two mathematician jokes. The other one is "A mathematician is a device for converting coffee into theorems."

l8rlumpon The Faroes

These rich and colourful photos remind me of an internal battle I’m having with my own amateur photography. I’ve always aspired to this kind of styling, but lately been intrigued by how you can sometimes make photos subjectively better by muting the colours, making them less true to life, reducing the contrast, etc. Advocates for that style would call the photos in the blog post “cartoonish”. I guess there’s a place for both styles. For what it’s worth, I think the photos in the blog post are great.

l8rlumpon The Faroes

Or how about the Danish “får” (sheep) and “ø” (Island)?

l8rlumpon I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework

I think it's worse than that, at least for the AMD-based Frameworks. Ostensibly, S3 sleep isn't supported by the CPU.

https://community.frame.work/t/responded-how-to-enable-s3-sl...

l8rlumpon Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max

Diodegonewild might disagree with you.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfUGOPyKWwiriWhjmdtvjBw_J...

l8rlumpon Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max

Might be a lesson for us all.

l8rlumpon Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

Tab grouping is here, but not sure about automatic grouping.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834101

l8rlumpon Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

How can you increase your HDL?

l8rlumpon High vitamin B6 doses over a long period could cause irreversible nerve damage

That's interesting. The product I looked up has 50mg of the pyridoxine hydrochloride form of vitamin B6: https://www.bioceuticals.com.au/products/ultra-muscleze

Interesting that they ostensibly make a version with the P-5-P form. I've read that the P-5-P form is less associated with neuropathy. As a personal anecdote, 50mg of pyridoxine hydrochloride daily for a couple of weeks gave me nothing except numb fingers (which resolved after a few weeks). However, 12mg of P-5-P with my magnesium supplement has been life-changing so far. Been taking 350mg of magnesium daily for a year or more but only when adding the P-5-P with it, do I have relief from cramps.

Anyone in the know: is there some condition that would explain this?

l8rlumpon The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry

See here for a counterpoint on hybrids putting less stress on their engines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eC5FFoCq4s ("It Turns Out, Hybrids Are Really Hard On Engines")

l8rlumpon A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/?tab=readme-ov-fi...

These won’t inform, I believe.

l8rlumpon macOS in QEMU in Docker

New to containers. How easy would it be to run only the OSX Reminders and Calendar apps, or as stripped-down as possible a system to get these running without the overhead of the OS? The webapp versions of these are crippled compared to the OSX/iOS apps.

l8rlumpon The darker side of being a doctor (2017)

Interested to know if this is also the situation in places where the medical care isn’t free/price-controlled/subsidised, as it is in Australia?

l8rlumpon Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey

That's iCar SE.

l8rlumpon Losing my son

This is timely. We just lost our unborn son unexpectedly. He had been diagnosed with some issues with the heart and other organs. We were gearing up for multiple surgeries, a high-care situation, and him potentially not lasting until teens.

We didn't get to make memories with him, or see who he would grow to become. This is a blessing and a curse. But I believe that you and I will both meet our sons again one day in a place where there is no sickness, sadness, or death.

Romans 8:16-17

[16] The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, [17] and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Everyone suffers in this life. The choice is whether to suffer with him or without him.

l8rlumpon YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

Check out the Privacy Badger extension. I believe it removes the tracking stuff from (some) links.

l8rlumpon SanDisk Extreme Pro failures result from design flaw, says researcher

The firmware “fix” sounds suspiciously similar to their handling of a similar issue on the WD Blue SA510 SSD’s, of which I’m on my third, after the previous two failed in less than 12 months. Didn’t they start using some new 3D NAND chips? I wonder if there’s a flaw in those chips. They would be in use on many different products so may explain the similar failures?

l8rlumpon Giving a Shit as a Service (2022)

Previous discussion (152 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071349

l8rlumpon Trabant

I first heard of these cars in a story from a Croatian friend. He said they had to be careful where they parked them because pigs would like to eat the body. So it seems that it’s a real thing.

l8rlumpon Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease

I'd like to learn more about this.

l8rlumpon Exploring EXIF

> In fact, when you give an iOS app full access to your photo library, you're giving all of this information [including GPS data] away too.

Scary.

l8rlumpon IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware

If you're skeptical about the power supply, you may be enlightened by this: https://hackaday.com/2023/01/31/all-about-usb-c-pinecil-sold...

I think it's thoughtfully designed.

l8rlumpon Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud

Yep, it did this to me and helped itself to the data from my Firefox profile, and presumably uploaded this to MS servers. Great way to obtain data on a person I suppose.

l8rlumpon Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications

https://musictech.com/guides/buyers-guide/10-best-audio-inte...

l8rlumpon SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised

I've had issues with WD Blue recently. MacOS intermittently wouldn't boot on a 3-month-old drive. I wonder how much is shared between this product and the Sandisk, given that WD now own Sandisk?

https://community.wd.com/t/wd-blue-250-gb-sa510-issues/27981...

https://community.wd.com/t/wd-blue-sa510-sata-ssds-critical-...