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by framebit 7mo ago
GLP-1 and GIP are both hormones the human body makes in the gut. The famous drugs are mimicking those hormones. This is more akin to taking supplemental testosterone than it is to taking Fen-Phen or whatever.
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by framebit 9mo ago
Fun fact: there's an IBM/Lotus Sametime theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daitUOzVpvc The lyrics rhyme "PC" with "easy."
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by framebit 3y ago
I found the two Sam Quinones books on the US opiate epidemic fascinating. - Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
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by framebit 3y ago
You may want to look into https://exist.io/ . It's a very indie developer duo out of Australia (IIRC). And also IIRC they were looking for a buyer on Twitter some time ago.
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by framebit 3y ago
I'm an ML Engineer who's really closer to an MLOps role. I'm weak on ML and strong on data, scaling, cloud stuff, infra as code, making processes not suck, kinda everything _but_ the ML. So take my opinions for what they are
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by framebit 3y ago
Changing duvet covers! I learned the Burrito Method [1] and never looked back. When I send this to people, the reactions vary from "OMG WHAT YOU CHANGED MY LIFE" to "you srsly didn't know that?" [1] - https:/&
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by framebit 4y ago
In some ways I feel lucky that tech was an early career change for me. I was trying to get a career in the arts off the ground, and it was going poorly. I was a recent grad millennial in the economy of the 2008 recession. The decision to tu
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by framebit 4y ago
The connection of lead poisoning and narcissism does seem plausible. It's also worth noting that, broadly speaking, the parents of Boomers (depending on their age) went through 1 or 2 world wars, the great depression, the spanish flu,
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by framebit 6y ago
I avoided learning anything having to do with front-end for a long time, and I'm just now catching up. I've been doing a course on Responsive Web Design with scrimba.com, and that starts with a really comprehensive overview of CSS
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by framebit 6y ago
Just a little local perspective on the lines in Georgia. The waits that some folks had to endure in the primaries were a huge problem. Georgia absolutely has history of voter suppression like many post-confederate states, and some seriously
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by framebit 6y ago
Awesome! Glad to hear it!
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by framebit 6y ago
Oh wow, I had no idea Scrimba was brand new! I signed up for the Responsive Web Design course last week and I'm getting a lot out of it. This is actually my first time taking any kind of web course of any type, programming or otherwise
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by framebit 6y ago
IBM is essentially a consortium of at least 35 different companies masquerading as one. A lot of those companies are doing ridiculous nonsense, but some of them are doing really cutting edge work. IBM Research in particular attracts some to
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by framebit 6y ago
The Alphasmart! We did typing class with that back in the early 00's. The IR beam to the printer felt like science fiction back in the day.
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Cell service outage spike in US(downdetector.com)
34 points by framebit 6y ago|9 comments
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by framebit 6y ago
As of right now looks like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and many others.
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by framebit 6y ago
How do you define success for you life? Put differently, what do you define as The Good Life? You have to define that metric for yourself. Nobody else can do that for you. That said, I can offer a personal illustration. I was in an art-orie
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by framebit 6y ago
FWIW, I'm not "buying" ebooks or audiobooks anymore because I found out about the magic of digital access via a library card. This is certainly not a new thing, but since it'd been years since I engaged with the public l
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by framebit 6y ago
There was an article in the NY Times a few days ago from a respiratory doctor who explained that the nature of the physical mechanisms in covid-19 pneumonia mean that the patients' oxygen saturation will go way down before they start f
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by framebit 7y ago
My public magnet high school was a weird setup where the kids had a huge variety of educational backgrounds. It was striking to me to be alongside kids who were naturally intelligent and gifted but who had gone to really crappy elementary a
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by framebit 7y ago
As a bike commuter who's not exactly in Tour de France riding condition, I whole-heartedly love what few physically protected bike lanes there are in my city. They've greatly extended the range of places I feel comfortable riding
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by framebit 7y ago
Arguably Atlanta, GA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_tree_canopy
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by framebit 7y ago
This is brilliant!! It's such a fun, friendly, subversive way of communicating "I'm a person and not a roadblock/obstacle." I started bike commuting 3-4x per week and I may consider doing this.
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by framebit 7y ago
I really appreciate the mental model expressed here: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/2/15/how-to-turn-a-... The TL;DR is that a street is in a dense area that's slow speed and welcoming to
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by framebit 7y ago
Exactly right, it's a human nature twist on misinterpreted Protestant theology. Or rather a human instinct dressed up with the language of religion, in this case Protestantism but it could be anything. The manipulative language of MLMs
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by framebit 7y ago
IMO the Protestant work ethic, while it has its roots in the ennobling of work in service to God, quickly got twisted through the Puritans and their adherence to "working out your salvation" rather than "for it is by grace yo
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by framebit 8y ago
A therapist friend recently attended a conference where a big group of doctors and health professionals focused around adolescents presented on the link between pot and the development of psychosis and even schizophrenia in users under age
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by framebit 8y ago
I actually came here to say the same thing: Civilization != Candy Crush.
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by framebit 8y ago
As somebody who made this career change, do not underestimate how much she has to learn. It's very doable, but there is really SO MUCH. For somebody who didn't grow up tinkering with computers (I didn't, my Dad needed that de
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by framebit 8y ago
That's a heck of a name conflict with https://helm.sh/ although I suppose the target audiences are fairly different.

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