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steanneon Lawmakers propose 'speed limiters' for repeat offenders in New York

not everyone who is rushed to the emergency room arrives in an ambulance.

steanneon Older men with no sexual interest in women at risk of earlier death

...or they're gay.

steanneon New aluminum radical battery promises more sustainable power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triflate

maybe?

steanneon The dangers of tea drinking in nineteenth century Ireland

https://youtu.be/_ZzLsaP-5po

steanneon The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

i found a reference to phantogram playing at i/o 2018 and the voice sounds right, but can't find that specific song

steanneon Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr;

this looks like a variant of thunder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weather_symbolsNEW2.png?u...

steanneon Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative

the very first time i went looking for a discord plugin, i was looking for a way to block that after having entered too many chat channels accidentally. it might be a killer OPTION.

steanneon Solid state active cooling on a Mini PC

https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gwe

steanneon Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years

white cane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_cane

steanneon 418 I'm a teapot

also dogs

https://http.dog/418

steanneon Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

motorola in 2011:

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/motorola-laptop-dock-review/

steanneon Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advises

from what i vaguely recall, a body starts releasing insulin when it expects incoming sugar because if it waits until the sugar hits the bloodstream, it has to dump a bunch at once, which is a strain, so it uses environmental cues like the taste (or even smell?) of something sweet. if you keep tricking your body by tasting something sweet, have it start to release insulin, and then have that insulin go unused, it may start to ignore that signal.

steanneon Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advises

the jar of hellman's in my fridge has sugar on the label.

steanneon New York Is Forcing Schools to Change How They Teach Children to Read

here's a good long article on it

https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-...

ah, linked and discussed previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20790600

steanneon Proposed dam to protect NL, DE, DK, SE from rising sea levels

well at least it's a smaller proposal than this dam:

https://www.nioz.nl/en/news/een-dam-dwars-door-de-noordzee-w...

steanneon You Do Not Have a Shoe Size

yep. wide toes, normal heels. i ended up in toe shoes too.

steanneon Regenerating Jordan’s native forests

https://www.scribd.com/document/415337338/Miyawaki-English-B...

steanneon Thunderbird 115 Supernova Preview: The New Folder Pane

move mail between accounts by drag and drop or even handy shortcuts

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/move-...

steanneon Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/02/the-ohio-train-...

steanneon Tell HN: Prompt leaking is the most scifi thing ever

if you can find a copy of survival printout by total effect, it's fascinating to see how they used a natural language processing to pick the stories for the anthology, in 1973

oh, it's archived https://archive.org/details/survivalprintout0000unse

steanneon Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better

librarything still sells and works with cuecats

steanneon Wikipedia’s Redesign Is Barely Noticeable. That’s the Point.

oh, i noticed it this morning and immediately blocked the floating things.

steanneon Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffy%27s_Cut

steanneon Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?

the kingdom of southern great britain?

steanneon Eli Lilly stock fell by $20B because of a fake tweet about free insulin

dicsussed more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568165

steanneon Ask HN: Which boring technology do you still use?

i use mtpaint, which is fantastically old/ugly/tiny and perfect for small jobs

steanneon Ask HN: Which boring technology do you still use?

echo "notify-send 'tea is brewed' -t 0" | at 6:21 pm

steanneon Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse

you may be able to participate in servers that have bridges, like to irc or matrix. that's a minority, though.

steanneon Was Vincent van Gogh color blind? (2012)

seems normal: different mechanisms creating almost the same symptoms. a few different sources from googling protanopia vs deuteranopia:

> Why is protanopia like deuteranopia? Red and green colorblind deficiencies (deuteranopia and protanopia) are very similar, as these cones often overlap. Therefore, protanopia and deuteranopia can often eliminate the ability to see both red and green, showing the world in vibrant blues and yellows, as well as very similar browns, oranges, reds, and greens.

> People with deuteranomaly and protanomaly are often incorrectly diagnosed collectively as ‘red-green’ colour blind because both types generally have difficulty distinguishing between reds, greens, browns and oranges. They also commonly confuse different types of blue and purple hues and many other colour combinations.

> The answer is that dichromatic colorblindness is imitated by assuming two of the three types of receptors receive the same light input. In deuteranopia, for example, the assumption is that the neural receptors expecting medium (M) and long (L) wavelength light are both receiving signals from cones with long (L) pigments. This results in the yellow you noticed. Note also that deuteranopia and protanopia don’t result in exactly the same hue of yellow because of the difference between their peak sensitivities. In one case it is assumed all signals are coming from L pigments and in the other all from M pigments.

steanneon The world map that reboots your brain

there's also a nice subset of maps that have south at the top.

http://gisweb.massey.ac.nz/topic/webreferencesites/TheUpside...