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by patorjk 5mo ago
There's a whole industry around suing website owners who have websites that aren't accessible. It's kind of messed up. The WSJ did a story on it a while back: https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship
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by patorjk 2y ago
There's something called a "lean mass hyper responder", it's a type of person with high LDL but they're still healthy. You may fall into that category. However, high apob is more correlated to heart disease than hig
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by patorjk 2y ago
This kind of stat is misleading and is seen in many health metrics - blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. In fact, it's sometimes known as the "cholesterol paradox" because people with higher cholesterol have a lower risk of dyi
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by patorjk 2y ago
I've heard people say you don't need to rinse, but from experience this just doesn't seem to be true, or at least it's based on the dishwasher you have. I had a dishwasher 15 years ago where I tested the idea of not rins
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by patorjk 3y ago
For a few days I was getting the prompts and finally the 3 video warning. I went without youtube for a few days, when I tried yesterday my AdBlocker was working fine on it. I watched several videos and got no warnings. It's unclear to
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by patorjk 3y ago
I've had tinnitus for around 15 years now. I've followed the research pretty closely. One thing to be especially weary about is the placebo effect. For some reason it's especially bad when it comes to tinnitus. I think that&#
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by patorjk 3y ago
I second this resource. Lots of good threads and discussion here. The forums are full of threads where people talk about things they've tried.
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by patorjk 3y ago
As an intern 20 years ago I wrote a lot of VBScript code to automate the generation of a bunch of Excel reports. I ran into my old boss 10-12 years ago and he said the scripts were still humming along. I've sometimes wondered how long
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America’s Most Expensive Trailer Park, Where Homes Sell for Millions(wsj.com)
3 points by patorjk 3y ago|0 comments
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by patorjk 4y ago
I don't understand why some people feel the need to be so snarky in their summary messages: > I'll bet this clown got paid to write this article and they did a poor job of it, too. It's really turned me off from contributi
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by patorjk 4y ago
I wonder if the submitted link should be changed to your link. I can access your link fine but I get an error when I try to access the submitted link.
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Gut Bacteria Are Linked to Depression(wsj.com)
10 points by patorjk 4y ago|4 comments
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by patorjk 4y ago
The first book I ever bought in a computer store was Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus. Back in the mid-90's I saw it randomly while walking by the games section and thought it almost too good to be true. I ended up spending countle
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by patorjk 4y ago
It sounds like you did the right thing, you were concerned and kept an eye on things. Calling the police would have been overkill and maybe wrecked this kids' family life (like what happened in the article). Other than that, I see no p
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by patorjk 4y ago
I remember joining these back in the day. They were actually pretty good at driving traffic to niche sites. I used one about 15 years ago to help promote an ASCII Art app I wrote (I'm still a member too). I just checked and the webring
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by patorjk 4y ago
> Researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that study participants consumed on average 270 calories less per day over two weeks if they slept at least one hour more than normal. When I saw
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by patorjk 4y ago
I have a popular web based ascii text generator ( https://patorjk.com/software/taag ), it uses FIGlet driver that I wrote ( https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js/ ). Many of the other ones out the
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by patorjk 4y ago
> Like the one where everyone made their avatars be simpson-style This takes me back. A decade ago I paid someone $5 on Fiverr to draw me as a Simpsons character. She was one of several people on the site doing this. I just checked and s
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by patorjk 5y ago
> The feeling among many product managers and engineers was that if a platform was 99% safe, that was enough, according to one former executive. The point was to find a way to avoid human curation, the person said. I wonder if the initia
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by patorjk 5y ago
> The company set up an internal calculator for workers who left the expensive areas of San Francisco and New York to calculate how much their pay would be cut if they did not return If you moved based on what the calculator said and the
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by patorjk 5y ago
They probably used him as an example because he runs a podcast on gambling addiction. It says he was gambling away his 401k, which sounds pretty serious. They may have also used him as an example to make it easier for gamblers who come acro
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by patorjk 5y ago
I was able to cancel my WSJ subscription last year through an online chat (it was almost identical to how I unsubscribed from the NYTimes). I definitely would have preferred a cancel button though. A few months later I resubscribed after th
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by patorjk 5y ago
Western Maryland has a pretty low cost of living. I live in the Baltimore/DC area and have co-workers who live in Frederick because they could get a large house for cheap (and 3 the counties being discussed in the article are to the we
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by patorjk 5y ago
Using Google Map's measuring tool, Garrett County is 115km from Pittsburgh, PA, 231km from Baltimore, and 207km from DC. It'd make sense that news from Pittsburgh would be more relevant to the area. Also, according to Wikipedia, G
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by patorjk 5y ago
A more recent study [1] showed it to be around 209-278 calories per day, and 308-478 calories per day in people who had high insulin secretion. The study also showed that a hormone that increases hunger decreased significantly on the low ca
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by patorjk 5y ago
My mom had a bad case of COVID (13 days in the ICU). It affected her hearing. She said the hearing in her left ear would just cut out almost completely, and then later come back but not as strong as before. She went for a hearing test and t
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by patorjk 5y ago
lol, you're welcome on the api spy! Always cool when someone remembers that :).
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by patorjk 5y ago
Companies can be around for a while before they refine their product and really take off. I disagree with the idea that AOL's heyday was the early 90's. From my own experiences growing up - and even from just looking at their subs
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by patorjk 5y ago
I setup my own geocities website in 1998, so they had to have had it then. According to the document here [1], AOL's web browser was introduced in 1995. [1] https://www.technologizer.com/2010/05/24/aol-an
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by patorjk 5y ago
> People even discovered more of the Internet, such as things like "file transfer protocol," where they could get lots of stuff no one had ever seen in the form of files. Programs such as "finger" let a person see who

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