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vivalibreon I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days

There is a YouTube channel that has a lot of excellent content on finding and fixing parasitic electrical draws. Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics.

nb: I am not affiliated with this chan, just a fan.

vivalibreon Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve, in Small Study

Why are we not comparing infection and death rates from people who take hydroxychloroquine long-term (e.g. lupus patients) against non-takers of this drug with the same overall demographics to determine efficacy?

vivalibreon Ask HN: How did you learn a foreign language?

This. I took all the Spanish available to me in middle school through undergrad. Moved to Honduras, and I could barely understand anything. Watching Honduran TV with Spanish subtitles, and spending a lot of time around people who didn't speak English, worked... although it was a good four or five years before I could think and speak in Spanish. Still, worth it!

vivalibreon How to pronounce GIF? Jif peanut butter settles the great debate

By that logic, GIMP, which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, should be pronounced "IMP"

vivalibreon Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate

KeyChest.net does this and posts about it regularly to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=keychest.net

vivalibreon Ask HN: Startups Offering Personal Loans for 5-8% APR?

I got USD$30k @ 5.5% with no origination fee from Lightstream.com. I am not affiliated with them. Just a happy customer.

vivalibreon Ask HN: What was your first programming experience?

Ten years old, typing BASIC games into a TRS-80 Model I from a book. Then at eleven, got a C-64 for Xmas, and taught myself BASIC and 6502 assembly. I had to learn assembly because BASIC couldn't handle the I/O speed of 2400 baud :-D

Now I write encryption libraries for a Major Cloud Provider

vivalibreon Ask HN: Best Mouse for Avoiding RSI

I personally love this vertical mouse for avoiding RSI: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FNJB8TT/

Budget option: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TJ4ZD28/

vivalibreon Ask HN: Whois records for Amazon Route 53?

Using the "jwhois" tool against a domain at Route53, I see that it queries whois.verisign-grs.com and then gives me the data I expect

vivalibreon Ask HN: What's the oldest software you still use today?

Oldest as in oldest origin or oldest release?

Irfanview comes to mind as the default image viewer for Windows

vivalibreon Belize’s thriving Afro-Caribbean community

My youngest son is half-Garifuna. Hard to believe this article goes so in-depth and fails to really touch a critical part of the Garifuna culture: punta dancing

vivalibreon Scientific Study Confirms Freddie Mercury's Voice was One-of-a-Kind

Ahem... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREKkAk628I

vivalibreon Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1

And I can confirm that this is done at some Very Large ISPs. Seen it with my own eyes, e.g. 30/8

vivalibreon White House scraps proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees

"Today, Congress passed a bill in both houses requiring airlines to disclose baggage fees. Riders to the bill also funded $100M for pork-related research in Alabama."