BrendanD

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by BrendanD 3y ago
Per extremity.
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by BrendanD 3y ago
Greetings fellow Monad.
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by BrendanD 6y ago
The icing on the cake: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-gia... Edit: Trying hard to not say something snippy about climate change deniers, with great difficulty. Let me simply sug
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by BrendanD 6y ago
My bedphone experience was not good. Spouse complained about noise leakage, and they stopped working within a month. Otherwise, they _could_ be more comfortable than ear buds depending how well they fit. Most wired earbuds survive <6 mon
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by BrendanD 6y ago
One of the "doctors" who recently published research on "psychobiotics" was later selling a brand of "clinically tested" probiotics tailored for mood disorders. Gut microbiome studies, at this point in time,
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by BrendanD 6y ago
I think it is (although my comment about populism was not directly solely at the U.S.). As an outsider, I would attribute the poor pandemic response to lack of coherent leadership. The U.S. federal government is obviously incapable of pulli
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by BrendanD 6y ago
Schadenfreude? More like nauseated disbelief at watching irrational populism and its concomitant intolerance tear the world asunder.
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by BrendanD 6y ago
And thank fuck for that. EDIT: Fuzzing or downvoting? Was it the profanity? I do thank fuck for the temporary reduction in incoming vectors during a pandemic.
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by BrendanD 6y ago
Need Charles Bukowski model.
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by BrendanD 6y ago
Echoing fretn's comment. This material sounds like a patently bad idea for general commerical use.
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by BrendanD 7y ago
True. I completely misread the comment to which I replied. Oops! However, my preference is still to live in a socialist country where the government can be openly criticized.
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by BrendanD 7y ago
In western countries you can, in general, publicly mock your leaders on the front steps of your legislature. Try dancing in a Winnie-the-Pooh costume in front of the Great Hall of the People and see what happens...
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by BrendanD 7y ago
eat the rich
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by BrendanD 7y ago
Not everyone lives in a temperate climate with little precipitation, nor in modern cities with wide streets laid out on a regular grid. I seriously doubt self-driving cars are ready for some of the weather conditions where I live. Freezing
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by BrendanD 7y ago
Mushy grey stuff.
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by BrendanD 7y ago
The ocean has already started to asphyxiate [1]. [1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/climate-change-s...
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by BrendanD 7y ago
IIRC CMIP5 models(used for IPCC AR5 2014) did not account for permafrost melt or changes in soil chemistry. Shortly after AR5 was released I remember reading an article or two describing how these exclusions resulted in under-predicting cl
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by BrendanD 7y ago
Dunno for certain but possibly moderation by marine conditions i.e. coolish currents.
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by BrendanD 7y ago
Nope. But they can further marginalize people with mobility issues.
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by BrendanD 7y ago
I have only lurked here for a few years, but from the beginning it seemed to me that the HN zeitgeist is slightly sociopathic. It does not stop me from lurking, however, perhaps because it is one of the last bastions of text only web.
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by BrendanD 7y ago
One of the motivations for vegetarianism is to reduce one's carbon footprint. Highly processed products packed in plastic thwart this goal.
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by BrendanD 7y ago
And not just _this_ problem.
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by BrendanD 7y ago
There was a recent small scale study[1] that suggested taking probiotics could increase the time for the gut microbiota to return to normal. The biggest bang might have been a fecal transplant of cultures taken from your own gut before you
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by BrendanD 7y ago
Fecal transplant maybe?
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by BrendanD 7y ago
This story started me wondering whether hardware, in this case Amazon order packing automatons, or wetware has a smaller net lifetime carbon footprint, assuming both are as green as possible. (Ignoring, of course global over-population and&
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by BrendanD 8y ago
Prolonged elevated cortisol levels?
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by BrendanD 8y ago
Topre's are mechanical. There is nowhere in town I can go to test to see whether I like mechanical switches and what color switch switches to get. I also need something that is no louder that a typical non-mechanical keyboad.
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by BrendanD 8y ago
There are lots of compact keyboards but few, if any, that have the cursor keys and the ins,del,home,end,pgup,pgdn cluster in their traditional positions. I am too old and used to this layout to change.
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by BrendanD 8y ago
If only it didn't have the mouse nub. I tend to hit it a lot when typing. Otherwise it would be perfect.
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by BrendanD 8y ago
Usually it is something to do with the di-lithium crystals.

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