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I've read that certain people can't convert NMN to NAD very well and the accumulation of NMN can actually result in serious neurological issues. Seems to be working fine for you, but I would caution people here to do their research before using any supplements. Some of them can be very harmful, especially in early stages where they haven't been properly studied.

The majority of everything on Amazon seems used. I stopped buying electronics from them (unless it's something cheap I don't care too much about) and I buy directly from manufacturers or walk into Best Buy and buy it new. Hard drives, memory sticks, GPUs, monitors/TVs, and headphones from Amazon are a hard NO from me. The chances of them being used or outright counterfeit is ridiculously high now. Pretty much everything I purchase from Amazon these days seems to be used or fake. This includes something as simple as Vitamin D supplements, where you can tell the packaging has been tampered with. Sometimes I even get consumable products where the seal is gone or has been torn in half.

Teams is the most loathsome piece of collaboration software I have ever used. When it comes to finding basic things, the UX is so far from intuitive that it makes you wonder if they're just trolling us with these awful designs. I remember being excited about a Slack competitor when it first came out, but the same issues it had back then still exist to this day. I wish they would just pull the plug on that piece of crap.

Previous Subie owner here (03 WRX, 04 Impreza, 03 Outback). I've been looking for an older one (2004-2013) for the last 6 months. The amount of people that don't know or don't disclose leaking differentials, leaking transmissions, and head-gasket issues (despite claiming they've been "fixed") is staggering.

With one car I inspected, me and two other buyers came to see it at the same time; I think the seller orchestrated that intentionally. Well too bad for him, I inspected underneath and it was a leaking mess from every section. To which I quickly pointed out to the other buyers. We all walked away lol.

Of course you can have these issues with newer models also, but they're so prevalent with the older ones.

I did the same thing and it was good for a long time, then one day I came in to find the maintenance people replacing it - thinking it was broken - instead of just twisting it back. I guess they weren't too bright (lol).

They have some postings for jobs that I might actually enjoy working on also. Too bad they don't offer remote roles.

I agree; I'm in FAANG and it's even encouraged in my group. They are super easy to construct and work with and we've yet to encounter any side effects of using them despite our millions of customers world-wide.

Maybe people should become familiar with Grug: https://grugbrain.dev/

I'll take the t-rex.

> apex predator of grug is complexity. complexity bad. say again: complexity very bad. you say now: complexity very, very bad. given choice between complexity or one on one against t-rex, grug take t-rex: at least grug see t-rex

Or superadobe homes, the structure that broke the California seismic testing equipment: https://calearth.org/pages/what-is-superadobe

They are also fire resistant

I kind of agree with this. On the one hand when DLSS works well, it's amazing. I didn't notice any issues at all playing Senua's Sacrifice and Senua's Saga. They were both as good as playing on everything maxed without DLSS. On the other hand when using it on Jedi Survivor, it's a very janky experience. You can clearly see artifacts and it trying to "self-correct" when using DLSS vs without DLSS.

Well this is interesting. I was able to find the impossible one within 2 seconds without crossing my eyes. The easy one took about 5 seconds, 3 seconds for hard. I've always been hyper-vigilant with patterns (to a fault), so not sure if that's playing into this.

Is that what other folks are experiencing also? I see most comments are trying it with their eyes crossed, but what about without?

EDIT: ok I just watched the video. No eyes crossed. For the balloons one I beat out the girl in the video by 2-3 seconds. For the birds about the same. The skittles one tripped me up, couldn't find it. The other few I found around the same time, the lights at the end I didn't find in time either. It seems I'm quicker when there's not too many colors involved. Still that's spooky.

I'm not suggesting it's definitively wrong based on my anecdote, I am just speculating that it might not be true and that it's hard to avoid injuries in life requiring MRI. Do you actually have discussions around medical issues affecting you or the people you know? I do, quite often. What is their demographic? I said over 35, which is the demographic I associate with; these people typically have a slew of injuries and medical problems accumulated over the decades, making it more likely for them to having used an MRI machine.

I think I agree. It might take me 30-60 min to look at a Figma mock and transfer a form with several different HTML elements then wire them up to an API service on the front-end. I can do that now in 5 minutes by simply having AI look at the mock and generate the code for me, where I spot the errors right away due to my level of experience. It looks exactly as professional code should look from a senior+ engineer. I've got things honed down now to where it maybe takes 2 iterations to get exactly what I'm asking the LLM to do, but I'm often getting it on the first prompt now or maybe making a couple of one line changes in manual tweaks.

I think junior devs could easily get lost in the output if they're not familiar with what it's doing and why it's doing it.

I'm not sure that's true. I can't think of a single person I know over 35 that hasn't had one at some point. I'm an edge case for MRIs (I've had well over a dozen, maybe even two dozen), but I had to get one for a badly sprained ankle and that's a relatively common injury.

Fitbit tracker is how I discovered I am in bad shape when it comes to sleep. My doctor was worried I had dementia due to my cognitive issues and hallucinations in the past few years, and he sent me for neuro-psychiatric testing and to see a neurologist for it. I kept mentioning that my sleep tracker is reporting a lack of quality sleep, especially REM sleep. I said yes I know it's not 100% reliable but it seems worth looking into because on days I get some REM, I feel great. Docs weren't really taking me seriously though.

Thanks to the tracker, I was able to determine that on nights I have just awful sleep, it correlated with my exercise days. Turns out that taking a pre-workout loaded with caffeine at 4PM is a terrible idea because caffeine can have a nearly 12 hour half-life. Oops. Ditched the pre-workout and my sleep improved significantly. No more insomnia and less time waking up in the middle of the night. I still have issues with REM at least half of the week unfortunately.

I finally got referred to a sleep study a few months ago and although it was for existing sleep apnea - which I've already been treating successfully with cpap/autopap for decades - it confirmed that I am indeed not going into REM. So it's not dementia (at least not yet), it's lack of REM sleep. It also revealed that my body is moving a lot during sleep, not good. And for the cherry on top, I recently started exhibiting behavior of REM sleep disorder where I am smacking/punching myself and my partner and yelling out in the middle of the night. Definitely not a good sign, but at least now we know sleep issues are at the heart of it. That Fitbit sleep tracking turned out to be very valuable after all.

Your chances of getting better are still greater than if you just willynilly self-treat without the support of those diagnostic tools. Yes for the majority of people, simple spine degeneration may not be a big deal and probably easily treatable at home with stretching and strength training exercises. There's degeneration, and then there's borderline myelopathy; you sure is hell don't want to make that worse (trust me) before you get a chance to see a medical professional. Myelopathy is insidious too, it can turn into a catastrophe without you realizing. One day it might be pain, the next it could be near paralysis.

I agree, the quality of care received is very lacking (especially in the US, I don't think anyone would argue otherwise), but if you find a physical therapist that is actually willing to look at your MRIs to determine what the mechanics of your particular situation are and work with you on what feels good vs what makes things worse, you'll be far better off. They do exist, it might take time to find them. If you go into a PT clinic and they don't even look at your imaging, I'd go somewhere else.

PSA: Be careful about doing McKenzie technique exercises! It made it worse for me because the physical therapist didn't do a good enough analysis! I encourage a thorough assessment that includes an MRI review of your spine first.

The link posted above mentions it as well

> Although most patients favor spinal extension, there are, however, patients who favor spinal flexion instead. For these types of patients, the repetitive extension based exercises can possibly lead to peripheralization which is the worsening of distal referred pain from repetitive motion. In contrast to centralization, peripheralization does not carry a good prognosis and is to be avoided. It is thus vital for clinicians to form an accurate assessment of the directional preference rather than assuming a patient will favor extension and thereby proceeding with therapy based on that assumption.

EDIT: Just to clarify further, the potential side effects are not just "pain". In my case, doing a cobra pose causes me to piss myself and lose feeling in my legs. This can be catastrophic to some people. Please folks, do not just go off some rando on social media telling you "X will treat your neck/back pain!". You can end up seriously much worse than you started. You need to SEE what the problem is first and only an MRI and a trained physician can tell you what is appropriate for you.

I think 26-45 might be the more realistic ideal range. Even then, if you have chronic health problems, godspeed.

There's certainly more wealth available if you have the means to get it though.

I actually don't hit too hard since I started on a Roland e-drum set and if you hit too hard on those, you risk breaking the pads, so I think I developed better stick control from that. On my acoustic set, I've only ever broken the Zildjian sticks and some cheapo Amazon brand ones. The Vic Firth have held up for over 2 years.

I also use the Sabian AAX line and it works great. I like to play along with rock, hip-hop, and pop. I found the Sabian's to be a good middle ground for now.

Judging by the feedback I'm getting in other comments, I guess the Zildjians are not any less reliable than the Sabians (and I understand the Sabians are derived from Zildjian anyway?). I'll have to give them another go at some point.

I've got one machine and a VM on Windows 11, but I use Windows 10 on my primary gaming laptop and work laptop. People always ask me why I'm still on Windows 10. Obviously there's nothing I can do about the enterprise version installed on my work laptop, so let's just focus on the gaming one. It's got an i7-11800H, RTX 3080, 64GB of RAM, and a Samsung 990 PRO nvme drive. When I bought it, it came installed with Windows 11. Even with the proclaimed performance enhancements of Windows 11, this laptop seemed quite slow for the specs it was sporting. I decided to revert back to Windows 10 and all of a sudden we're flying. I've tried on one other occasion to upgrade with Windows 11, but the performance just does not match up. I don't understand the problem, but it's the primary reason for keeping me on the platform. The other reasons for staying on Windows 10 are: no ads, less telemetry (although I disable this with Windows de-bloater and O&O shut-up anyway), and more intuitive interface. I hate having to customize the shit out of Windows 11 to get the experience that was out of the box on Windows 10; things like start menu placement, context menu behavior, taskbar settings, notifications, etc.

I wish I could switch over to Linux, I truly do, but it's still not ready. I recently tried out Linux Mint and immediately ran into an issue with my mouse wheel + back/forward buttons not working. Off to search for the solution and the level of effort to get it working right seemed in line with operations tasks I have to deal with at my FAANG job. I don't have the time, energy, nor patience for this bullshit just to get my mouse working properly. Imagine the hoops I'll have to jump through for all my games to work right. Also when I raise grievances like this with the Linux crowd, I either get the "try this distro" (which has its own problems) or some snarky answer. So yeah, we're not there yet.

I'm a relatively new drummer (<2 yrs as a hobby), but I'm not impressed with Zildjian so far. The cymbals have never sounded good to me - sounds "dirty" - and they feel fragile like they'd break easily. Guitar Center highly recommended their drumsticks, but after using them, I found they break easily and don't feel "right" (not sure how to pinpoint the exact issue) compared to Vic Firth sticks I have (which are excellent).

I'm not sure if this is an atypical experience with the brand or not.

I didn't see this mentioned in the article (or maybe I missed it), but what are the chances that it's already been circulating in the population (h2h) but causing very mild symptoms? It doesn't seem like we're testing for it unless a patient becomes hospitalized (and apparently even then it might take several ER trips before they decide to test). Are we relying on waste-water testing to determine community transmission then?

I have a friend here in Oregon that came down with conjunctivitis for several days and then progressed to flu symptoms. It didn't hit him hard though and he recovered on his own just fine. I'm sure many pathogens can produce this same symptom progression, but it elevated my curiosity for sure.

I see that Canadian teen who acquired H5N1 had a similar symptom progression and initially tested positive for flu strain A, but it wasn't until they did further testing specifically for H5N1 that it was discovered. I suspect these "last-resort" testing scenarios are quite common since most hospitals (particularly in the US) don't give enough of a damn to test further for cases that don't require over-night+ admission into the hospital or ICU.

This is very impressive considering the real-world complexities surrounding it, but you've taken that complexity and turned it into a fairly simple work-flow with minimal coding. I've been developing software professionally for nearly 20 years and I find these kinds of projects to be fascinating. I started out my career with a mixture of coding and non-coding "integrations" (hacks) with other software. Over the years I've fallen in the typical "how can I build this from scratch" trap, but in many cases - as you've proven - that's not always the best decision. Kudos and thanks for sharing!

I'm pro remote work any day, but isn't there a case to be made for increasing gentrification due to remote work? I'm seeing this here in Oregon.

I had no idea about this, but did manage to find an article from this summer on it: https://abcnews.go.com/US/maui-strong-808-maui-fire-survivor...

You're right though, not much mainstream media traction on this story.

> FEMA has allocated $197 million to three companies, none of which are based in Hawaii, to administer the Direct Lease program

Smells of borderline corruption from the get-go. What a shit show.

I dropped it about half-way through season 2. Even if you pretend it's not Star Trek and treat it as a stand-alone show, it's terrible. The characters are not likeable and there is no depth to the story. It seems like they just stuck together some bells and whistles to impress the modern crowd and called it a day.

Everybody hates on Voyager and while I think it's one of the weakest series of 2nd-gen Trek (DS9 being my favorite), I still enjoyed it. In fact, it's part of what got me into programming 25+ years ago and was the catalyst for me getting into scifi. The holographic doctor really fascinated me and I thought maybe if I learned programming, I could one day (in the far future) be part of developing one. I owe my career to it.

I switched from Mullvad to ProtonVPN for this exact reason about 1.5 years ago. Unfortunately ProtonVPN seems to be even worse at this now. It's become clear that the more popular VPN services are increasingly having connectivity problems to many popular sites (social media, streaming media, etc.)

Yeah "once great" is definitely a huge exaggeration. They're terribly unreliable. In the 90s we had one Jag in the neighborhood I lived in and it never moved lol. Everyone knew they were junk even back then.

How it usually went (not sure about now, but certainly 10 years ago): Dodge < Jaguar/Landrover < Germans cars < American cars < Japanese cars

I've found the opposite. The TP-link router I had was frustratingly unreliable, even when setup to reboot every night. Their firmware updates were slow to arrive. I tossed both the router and the TP-link PoE devices I had into the dumpster. My dad bought some TP-link devices and also complained about reliability issues. We've both vowed not to buy that junk again. Switched to ASUS a couple of years ago running ASUSwrt-merlin and haven't looked back.

Outside of Wells Fargo - which is just god awful in so many ways - I'm no longer getting a different experience from banks vs credit unions. Sometime before covid I feel like the line between bank and credit union blurred and eventually went away, in relation to customer experience. I have money scattered across many institutions; I get the same treatment at both bank and credit unions now.