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positr0non Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase childrens autism and ADHD risk

Unlike most people I know, I am able to swallow a pill without water.

Like everyone I know, I just take one or two pills at a time when I have a headache or whatever according to package directions.

positr0non U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel

No you didn't, front running is a specific form of insider trading and you used the term correctly :)

positr0non The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)

That would only protect against userland cheats. A cheat developer would just write a kernel module to read the memory so it wouldn't be another process attempting to read it, but the kernel itself.

positr0non Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)

Sometimes you need a formatted string outside of a printf content.

positr0non Margin debt surges to record high

That's because businesses are valued by how much money they make, not how essential they are.

ExxonMobil has a market cap essentially infinitely larger than my local water supply and the farms that grow my food.

positr0non Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

htmx requires a server. This enables a single html file to modify itself.

positr0non PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

Occasionally it is really useful to be able to do something like `new T()`. Without reified generics that is not possible.

positr0non Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people

What is the purpose of life insurance or you have no kids (or dependent parents/spouse I suppose)?

I guess to pay for your funeral costs if cashing out all your savings and possessions wouldn't cover that?

positr0non C10kday

Prometheus a decade before Prometheus existed :-)

positr0non 'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market

If that’s your thesis, $200/mo has a lot of room for price increases before you start reaching Jr dev salary/mo.

positr0non Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

Haha I think you have the history backwards here. Tmux was created as a replacement for screen when it was 20 years old! Speaking as someone with ‘set -g prefix c-a’ in their .tmux.conf because my muscle memory is so used to the screen hotkeys.

GNU screen was released in 1987.

tmux was created in 2007.

positr0non QUIC for the kernel

Once it makes it to the long haul links. Measure starting at your cell phone and packet loss is much higher than 0.025% and that's where QUIC shines.

positr0non Could a human enter a black hole to study it?

> Could a human enter a black hole to study it? No. Like obviously not.

That is incorrect. With a large enough black hole the event horizon is not a significant feature at human scale. Spaghettification will not occur. A human could easily dip inside the event horizon without damage.

Though of course once you go in there's no going back out!

positr0non The tech that the US Post Office gave us

Internet speed too. I remember my mom complaining whenever anyone emailed her pictures because it tied up the internet/phone line for half an hour while they were downloading.

positr0non How Claude Code Generates Status Messages

I wonder how much this costs across their entire user base.

positr0non What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/the-blowjob-that-blew...

Seems like a nice person

positr0non What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

I had the same experience a decade ago being ten years younger than everyone else at the park or birthday party.

positr0non What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying either, but I don't see it's relevance to what GP is claiming. Was society more fair than it is now for the last few millennia of higher birth rates?

positr0non OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

Right, I'm not saying anyone should actually be in the office 40 hours a week that sounds terrible. And even with all the RTO of the last couple years that doesn't seem to be expected many places.

positr0non What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

Macro level poorer people have more children than middle class and up people. In the "educated west" (and elsewhere in the world as well I think).

positr0non OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

Everywhere I've worked as a programmer you're just paid to do your job. If you get some of it done on your commute what difference does it make?

positr0non Fresh Tariff Games Are Leaving Small Businesses Dazed

Even a lemonade stand where do you think they get their lemons? Their water pitcher? Their cups? Their freezer for making ice cubes? Most likely outside the US or from bigger US companies with supply chains reaching outside the US.

positr0non The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

Isn’t the entire point of the Gell Man amnesia effect that all news is low quality, you just only realize it for topics you know a lot about?

And OP evidently knows a lot about honey :)

positr0non A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

What's the risk to you the user if it wasn't properly cleaned? Plug it in and format as the first thing you do if it worries you.

positr0non America’s incarceration rate is in decline

Bubble: used to refer to a situation (esp. good or fortunate) that is isolated from reality or unlikely to last.

positr0non How I use my terminal

Searches in a directory.. do you mean files or file contents? What do you do for his example of navigating to a file from the rust tool output?

positr0non Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading

The problem is desalination plants cost billions. You're not going to make money building one then running it the 1% of the time the price of electricity is negative.

positr0non Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia

I don't know.. it seems like every dog I know would rather drink out of a muddy puddle than their clean water bowl.

positr0non The Rise of the Japanese Toilet

My toilet (Kohler, in the US) has a battery that's supposed to last 100 flushes if the power goes out.

When we first got it I always found it funny to ask other people if their toilet had a battery backup.

positr0non Walmart is preparing to welcome its next customer: the AI shopping agent

> Think of Robinhood and how they gave users more expensive trades because they were paid for routing flow.

That's the opposite of reality. Most trades are cheaper routed to a PFOF market maker because they know it's just retail trades. Uncorrelated "dumb money" that isn't going to be steamrolling them with a $10m sale.

Also that would be obviously illegal and the SEC would jump down their throat. Brokers must give clients best execution.