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martin1975··on No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)
Only if you use it in a manner not prescribed or on the label - 10-15mg/kg body weight every 8 hours with a maximum of four doses within 24 hours. It is available OTC everywhere except maybe the USA. Then again. USA has many things restricted OTC because the pharmacy/medical industry is more interested in milking you for money than helping you. They disguise this behavior as 'safety'.
martin1975··on Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18
They love their children too...
martin1975··on Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18
Sounds like a mental health preserving bill.
martin1975··on Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own
What justifies paying 53k a year for Harvard? I went to a state university for my undergrad in CS. Would I have learned anything different at Harvard?
martin1975··on Capsaicin is a psychoactive substance
Dave's Hot Chicken in SoCal uses carolina reapers to spice their most spicy fried chicken. I really couldn't finish more than 1/3 of it. I've no idea how people eat this and remain unhurt.
martin1975··on Clang is better than GCC
Indeed, clang has better error messaging than g++/gcc. Just my 2 cents, if you have a choice, do your C or C++ bit in Rust (which like Clang, is llvm based). I've been writing C/C++ for a very long time now, it's time to move away from it slowly....to a better tool like Rust.
martin1975··on Little languages are the future of programming
a.k.a. Domain Specific Languages

Hello ANTLR..

https://martinfowler.com/books/dsl.html

martin1975··on Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
If he had an argument, he'd have presented it in his post.
martin1975··on 99Wh Battery Linux Laptop
Why do you run Linux on Alienware hardware?
martin1975··on Is 40 hours a week too much?
I spend 40 hours at work. Doesn't mean I am productive for all those hours. My productivity may be 20-30 hrs/week between meetings.
martin1975··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
Personally, I'd keep the software devs + QA. Most of them probably don't care so much about politics/culture and are hopefully motivated by doing a good job. Without dev+QA, there's no Twitter. So I would understand a total mgmt purge....
martin1975··on The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry
same here. I've pounded C++ and C code for 20+ years. Rust is the right tool to replace both of these. Long live Richie (well maybe not him but his work), Kernighan and Stroustrup.
martin1975··on Functional programming should be the future of software
Hammers ought to be used to solve every problem.
martin1975··on Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021)
erowid.org... for many many more experiences with psychedelics and all other types of drugs. Make sure you read both the negative and positive experiences and try not to self-diagnose.
martin1975··on OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows
There's a reason why IETF deprecated TLS 1.0 and 1.1. So your point is somewhat moot. If anyone's using either of these, they're just waiting to be exploited.
martin1975··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
What's the plan to get rid of bots?
martin1975··on I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)
God sometimes spares some who would surely die due to circumstances, like this pilot through a horrific air crash....or Viktor Frankl and other holocaust survivors.... to show His power and glory to the rest of humanity.

Or maybe it's just all "luck", as many opined.

martin1975··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
one of the many reasons I've never installed TikTok on my Pixel...and never will.
martin1975··on Kanye West is buying Parler
I can't message that guy directly nor can I reply to his comment to ask for more info. That kind of speech definitely falls into legal 1A speech. It also seemed like he was baiting - which is as you pointed out, not illegal speech.

I'd also like you to consider another possibility - people on the internet lie and distort the truth. A lot. Eg. he may have gotten banned, but not for what he says here on HN. Or he may not have been banned at all but knows he'll get upvotes on HN if he bashes Gab, which was initially backed by YCombinator....until it wasn't. I'll let you figure out why they stopped supporting them.

martin1975··on Kanye West is buying Parler
Didn't peg Australia for a repressive country/government. If this is really the case, meaning, laws are codified against "hate speech", it's pretty much the beginning of the end of them, IMHO. Free expression should be as close to absolute as possible, everywhere....
martin1975··on Kanye West is buying Parler
Assuming the user's comment meets the legal definition of 1A speech and is not porn, if you can show me a single instance where anyone that posted a comment that was either removed or censored in some way by anyone with access at Gab, I will personally send you USD $50 in crypto at any address you specify in the comment, after I corroborate your example/evidence with Gab's management.

I've been on Gab since its inception - the only type of comments/users that get booted are those who engage in illegal speech. Illegal speech != distasteful/hateful/politically-charged/racist/sexist/divisive/etc.

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re...

Is hate speech right? In most cases, probably not unless you're saying things like "f..k all pedophiles who rape children", then it's righteously motivated. Is it legal? Yes. This is a very important distinction and what gives the USA its unique character and distinguishing trait among ALL other nations who do not have these types of freedoms codified in their constitutions...in fact, in many countries you'd be sacked quietly for saying the "wrong" thing - where "wrong" is defined by whomever happens to be in power (e.g. Russia, China come to mind)

martin1975··on WhatsApp is more secure than iMessage: Mark Zuckerberg
Nailed it. WhatsApp was the first or among the first few kids on the block... and maybe if FB didn't acquire them, they'd have improved or heck, even gotten subsumed by Signal. Signal's non-profit and for now, well funded... nowhere near the coverage of WhatsApp but I steer everyone toward Signal when I can...
martin1975··on Ask HN: Are we all burned out?
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”- Viktor Frankl

Find someone or some cause/purpose and fully surrender to this person and/or cause. Then you won't think about burnout and you will experience happiness as a side-effect of your surrender.

martin1975··on Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates
Imagine my shock, Apple's being greedy....
martin1975··on Physicists rewrite a quantum rule that clashes with our universe
So is the rule or the universe off? Or is there something else missing to a more complete description of the quantum universe?
martin1975··on World’s Best Airlines Were Just Announced and Not One US Carrier Made the List
What is a 'good' airline, and who gets to define the standard of 'good'?
martin1975··on It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++
If only IBM can get Rust working on AIX..... we may even start using it. Rust is an able C/C++ replacement. Even Linus, who's picky about what goes into the kernel tree, is allowing/supporting it. It really shouldn't be a burden to pick up for anyone who's done C/C++, IMHO.
martin1975··on Choosing happiness
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”- Viktor Frankl
martin1975··on New Zealand's plan to prepare for inevitable climate change impacts
Florida hasn't sunk yet....
martin1975··on Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead of $100
Does this qualify as a crypto joyride?
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