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Which obviously is dramatically exaggerated because it literally is a drama and a masterpiece of propaganda. Although I don't recommend trying it at home without supervision of a competent doctor and believe there are numerous people to whom it did more harm than good, I still am sure there are many people sustainably taking amphetamines (some even black market) for no harm at all and for great good managing their ADHD and appetite successfully.

I once read it can help manage ADHD.

> Ozempic is proving to be a powerful growth engine. Its worldwide sales have increased by over 60% in the past year alone.

For what I know its sales are only limited by how much they can produce. Figuratively everybody everywhere wants Ozempic but the supply is limited and the prices are too high (could be even higher though - people would still buy).

Despite somehow liking WinAmp 2 more than WinAmp 3, I could never understand why do people consider WinAMP 3 awful. Nevertheless I just switched to foobar2000 on Windows and DeaDBeeF on Linux because their UIs just are perfectly bullshit-free practical pragmatic tools and I came to feel I want a tool rather than a show.

> some kind of mysticism, expanded consciousness, new types of awareness, ESP, and so forth. And I've concluded that it's not a scientific world.

Something being not scientific doesn't imply it doesn't exist. It may instead just be too hard to observe scientifically, sound too crazy and appear uninteresting to scientists. Nowadays there already is enough credible research in these areas to be confident exotic phenomena actually take place in peoples brains when they report mystical experiences - thanks to techniques like fMRI, EEG, transcranial stimulation etc. People may tend to make epic claims and construct wonky ideologies based on what they feel, but they don't always make the entire story up. UFOs also are known to exist AFAIK - there just is no reason to believe that's alien spaceships, that's just flying objects we failed to identify and explain. We just need more real scientific exploration to decrease need in fairly-tale explanations of the phenomena people observe - hasn't this almost always been the case with everything since the stone age? The very fact people try to discuss "supernatural" phenomena with a scientist suggests presence of the demand for more science in this.

> I don't want to write a book. If I did I'd use LaTeX before RST.

To me this seems a horrible decision at the stage of writing/structuring. I'd rather write in Markdown (this way I could just write, without bothering about typesetting) and only convert to LaTeX for publishing. I'm not proficient in LaTeX though - I once tried to learn it and it felt like learning a language of an insectoid extraterrestrial civilization - completely unintuitive, almost impossible to do anything new - what hasn't been already done by someone else enabling you just copy-paste your own text. IIRC it doesn't even have first-class Unicode support.

> Because the biggest advantage of Markdown is that it's easy to read

Do you really read Markdown in plain text editors? I only do occasionally (nevertheless I'm glad I can). Most of the times I use tools like Obsidian, Typora, Markdown Monster etc.

HTML is just too bad for plain source reading relatively to Markdown and too complex for reliable mapping between what it is looks, what it means and what it is.

This said, something slightly more complex than Markdown while slightly more elegant, less chaotic and more readable than HTML sounds a great thing to have.

There certainly are cases where Makrdown seems the best choice - wherever simple plaintext editors are going to be used often. Nevertheless I doubt Markdown is the best choice for tools like Obsidian - perhaps people working on new projects of this kind should also take a look at rST or AsciiDoc.

Do fines to big corporations even work? I tend to suspect paying them is a part of the business model - they will keep doing whatever they want to generate huge profits covering whatever fines they may have to pay.

How does this compare to Erlang?

> I have devices with USB OTG, and a USB-C hub for the webcam.

Using an external webcam with an Android device seems a fairly exotic scenario doesn't it? Whatever, I would intuitively expect (disclaimer: almost no experience in mobile development) the Android OS to detect a USB-attached camera as another built-in camera and expose it via common APIs rather than let you access it via some sort of low-level libs reading the USB.

> Using Python scripting and OpenCV, I had a working cross-compatible script in 10 minutes, for both Linux and Windows.

Which toolkit did you use?

> I assume that eg. when exercising too much etc., even a healthy person would get a hypoglycemia?

I doubt so. I tried water-fasting for a week while exercising a lot and felt great. Fatigue from jogging felt nonexistent as compared to normal (my normal endurance is pretty low). Resistance exercise muscle fatigue felt way stronger (low recovery rate) than normal yet apparently didn't affect the brain as I neither felt sleepy, nor moody nor intellectually impaired.

Why does hypoglycemia happen in people with diabetes? Healthy people can stay active for weeks without food and for many years almost without dietary carbs (on just fats and proteins - see carnivore and keto diets). How comes gluconeogenesis from triglyceride glycerol and from amino acid fails to cover the essential glucose needs?

I don't understand why do "smart TV" even have to exist when we can just attach whatever a smart box to any ordinary TV/monitor/projector?

WTF is CrowdStrike and why is it affecting so many people and companies? I've never heard of it before. And apparently it isn't anything relevant to all Windows users as it didn't affect any computer of any person I personally know.

Thank you, I found out I have Vega 6 which apparently is gfx902.

Also GUI design tools like the WinForms designer but for more modern toolkits please. VB/Delphi/WinForms were such a joy to design and XAMl (let alone web frontent) is such a pain to write.

To me it seems, like it or not, the whole industry of collecting, saving, analyzing, and exchanging of information about users personal details and behaviors has to be regulated really really really strict, to the point of near-death perhaps, for the sake of national security.

Apparently it is 32bit-only and doesn't support mds+mdf while I still have some and some games on Archive.org come in this format. As long as I install a virtual CD driver I would like it to support this format as well. But I am hesitating to install Alcohol 120% (which I used in the past) because it appears 32bit-only and comes with a cryptominer (openly) and a DRM of its own nowadays. I also used DaemonTools during the Windows 2000 days but stopped as I read they were first to integrate some shady bullshit in the free version too (now its free version apparently is adware). Another alternative seems to be WinCDEmu but it somehow seems to be 32bit-only too. Installing a 32bit driver on a 64bit system doesn't sound great.

How do you mount cue+bin on Windows 10? There is quite a number of apps advertised for this but I'm curious which one is the most trustworthy nowadays, also if there is a legitimate (no adware/spyware/etc) free one to use when I need only one virtual drive, no burning nor network features.

> gfx1030, gfx1100, gfx1010, gfx1101, gfx900...

How do I find out which do I have?

I'm not logging in with Google to anything. Please classic any-email or no-email (like here on HN) registration only (and don't forget to allow changing usernames and emails). As long as it is necessary. Better no registration at all. I used to be among the early OpenID enthusiasts preferring to sign-in with Google everywhere, then I realized what the actual pros and cons are and concluded that's not worth it.

Sign-in with Google SRSLY?

I do want such people because it's the only way to make them see through enemy propaganda.

Easiness of controlling your people is less important than making it hard for opposing parties to control them.

It seems impossible to make everyone on the planet perfectly smart, yet it seems possible to make the majority smarter than it is, in this specific aspect. We already mass-teach reading and writing, also essentials of sexual hygiene etc. Why not just add basic logic, rhetoric and philosophy to the list of the essentials?

Indeed. Nevertheless lack of a conspiracy (which means organized effort of many cooperating actors) doesn't necessarily imply it's not the case at the level of many individual politicians. So many of them actively use so much of the dark arts routinely, trying to trick and hypnotize people into supporting them, that honest rational rhetoric starts seeming obsolete.

Teaching things like critical thinking, cognitive bias/fallacies/sophism detection, formal logic and fact-checking to the masses has became a vital necessity for national security. Sadly there still are many politicians who prefer to keep their people susceptible.

Curious. I believed trilobites have just evolved into "horseshoe crabs".

It seems it sometimes can deny even a pair forming a very well known composite word.

How do you handle motion sickness? It hits hard almost every time I try to read in a bus, a tram or a car.