MassPikeMike

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by MassPikeMike 13d ago
The article discussed "CYP2D6 inhibitors like Wellbutrin and DXM" and I can offer one data point. An officemate came in with a bad cough one day. I had over-the-counter cough medicine with DXM handy and he took some. He had never
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by MassPikeMike 22d ago
The claim that BuyVM is scammy contradicts my experience. I have had excellent customer service from them. Yes, like (say) airline tickets, the demand for their lowest-priced offerings exceeds the supply available at that price point, and i
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by MassPikeMike 2mo ago
If you scroll down to "Prime Performers" on the page I linked, it lists a Massachusetts company and a USC lab that turns out to have a branch office in Massachusetts.
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by MassPikeMike 2mo ago
Perhaps remarkably, the US intelligence community is funding work on this problem in the open, as part of IARPA HIATUS [1]. The program's initial phase is winding down now, so some of the performers' papers ought to be hitting the
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by MassPikeMike 3mo ago
These days when people see consecutive pithy sentences with parallel structure, they immediately holler "AI generated." For years I've wanted to improve my writing and reduce my tendency to string together long floppy clause
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by MassPikeMike 4mo ago
Judging by ads for cell phone service, most people pay more than that per month to be monitored by the Feds.
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MIT researchers revive 40 year old triangular zipper concept(tomshardware.com)
11 points by MassPikeMike 4mo ago|0 comments
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by MassPikeMike 4mo ago
Similarly, in 1790s America, farmers west of the Appalachians were growing plenty of corn, but because of bad roads the only feasible way to transport it to the much larger markets east of the mountains was as whiskey. When Alexander Hamilt
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by MassPikeMike 5mo ago
Ever since the invention of the printing press, every new communication technology has reduced the effort needed to widely disseminate information-- and misinformation! So you could say this is nothing new. On the other hand, this is remark
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by MassPikeMike 5mo ago
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." -Blaise Pascal
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by MassPikeMike 5mo ago
This collection of "Rabinisms" [1] (thanks to the Internet Archive for keeping it from being lost) can give you some of the flavor of the delightful experience that it was to take one of his classes. RIP. [If P = NP,] then all of
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by MassPikeMike 6mo ago
The article "FTFY Buddhist Ethics" [1] comes to a similar conclusion about the development of West Coast Buddhism but isn't on board with it. IMHO an interesting contrarian take. [1] https://vividness.live/ftf
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by MassPikeMike 6mo ago
I have this problem despite adjusting my monitor height properly. I consulted a practitioner (in Taiwan, so I'm not exactly sure how to describe her.) She directed me to do the following: stand on tiptoe closely against a flat wall whe
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Dabao board features open-source hardware RISC-V MCU(cnx-software.com)
3 points by MassPikeMike 7mo ago|0 comments
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"bunnie" Huang prepares a dev board for Baochip's "mostly-open" X1 RISC-V MCU(hackster.io)
2 points by MassPikeMike 7mo ago|0 comments
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Dabao evaluation board for Baochip-1X(crowdsupply.com)
6 points by MassPikeMike 7mo ago|0 comments
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Triangle: A Two-Dimensional Quality Mesh Generator and Delaunay Triangulator(cs.cmu.edu)
3 points by MassPikeMike 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Inverted Panopticon(shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)
1 points by MassPikeMike 8mo ago|0 comments
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State Department confirms federal censorship shield law incoming(prestonbyrne.com)
51 points by MassPikeMike 8mo ago|24 comments
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Enabling C threads in a Python/WASM environment(yosefk.com)
2 points by MassPikeMike 8mo ago|0 comments
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by MassPikeMike 9mo ago
See also the very comprehensive presentation at https://codepoints.net . For example https://codepoints.net/U+2248?lang=en
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by MassPikeMike 9mo ago
OP wrote: "My current laptop is an aging X1 Carbon generation 7... A few months ago a few keys of the keyboard stopped working. I decided it was time to look for a replacement." Isn't that like deciding to replace your bike b
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by MassPikeMike 9mo ago
This puts me in mind of the words of George Bernard Shaw: ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.'
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by MassPikeMike 11mo ago
I am usually working with historical documents, where both Otsu and adaptive thresholding are frustratingly almost but not quite good enough. My go-to approach lately is "DeepOtsu" [1]. I like that it combines the best of both the
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The Ofcom Files(prestonbyrne.com)
3 points by MassPikeMike 11mo ago|1 comments
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by MassPikeMike 1y ago
Bikes can work great for travelers aged from, say, 13 to 70 without much luggage. Not so great for travelers outside that age range, with more luggage, or with physical disabilities. I wonder what fraction of travelers falls into the latter
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by MassPikeMike 1y ago
I agree that in our current system, consumer choice generally determines which product wins. But does the best product really always win? As a fan of BeOS, it doesn't seem that way to me.
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by MassPikeMike 1y ago
The article is quite one-sided. My experience is certainly that B6 has an effect on nerves, but in my case that's been a good thing. I started a software job in 1995, writing a lot of code. By mid-1997, I had severe nerve pain in both
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by MassPikeMike 1y ago
This is great and has a lot of early historical perspective that I had never seen chronicled before. But it is necessarily limited in the amount of album covers it can feature from what many would consider to be their heyday, the 1950s thro
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by MassPikeMike 1y ago
Jane Jacobs's grandmother, Hannah Breece, was also a remarkable, dynamic woman: the first American schoolteacher in Alaska after its purchase from Russia. Jacobs did valuable work editing her grandmother's incomplete memoirs and p

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