silicon_wally

21 karma · joined April 3, 2015

silicon_wally··on Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest

what sort of light therapy have you found beneficial? Like blue light in the eyes or red light on the skin?

silicon_wally··on Launch HN: Be Golden (YC S22) – Measure and manage your inflammation levels

I'm not sure how that is "good news". It's a nasty tactic, and shouldn't be celebrated.

silicon_wally··on How to learn hard things in tech

I can recommend Architecture Patterns with Python [0] to learn how to refactor code in this way. I don't know Python but I found the examples to be relevant to many other languages as well!

[0]: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/architecture-patte...

silicon_wally··on Launch HN: Helio Sleep (YC S21) – One-stop portal for sleep apnea

What makes you wonder that?

silicon_wally··on Posture: Is the Pandemic Breaking Our Backs?

what's the erg? a rowing machine?

silicon_wally··on Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on

The links to linuxacademy.com are broken, since it was rebranded to acloudguru.com

silicon_wally··on Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

it looks like it's not natively supported in P3D, but possible with the additional FlyInside [1] software

[1] https://flyinside-fsx.com

silicon_wally··on How to Find New Music

it is available from outside the UK on the BBC website. alternatively, most (all?) of the BBC radio stream URLs can be found here [1], and consumed with e.g VLC

[1] https://gist.github.com/stengland/8705765

silicon_wally··on Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note

but a printed map is battered by the rain

silicon_wally··on The NICAM Codec replacement project

Where do you read news? I'm looking to find a source other than the BBC