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cykros
·anteayer·discuss
Wow -- that's a combination I only remember people being highly cautioned against at least for recreational use.
cykros
·anteayer·discuss
Just buy poppy seeds in bulk and make a tea. They wash 'em, but not enough to get all of the opium off the outside. Okay but really maybe don't do this unless you're gonna be careful because I actually have known a guy who ended up with problematic morphine habituation this way.

That said, dextromethorphan works just fine on its own (if you take enough -- 2 tsp is nonsense). Why they feel the need to mix in a bunch of other actives is beyond me.
cykros
·anteayer·discuss
Add yet another benefit to NAC.

Also works wonders for COVID spike protein detox.
cykros
·anteayer·discuss
Most intentional overdose suicides are hoping to drift off to sleep and not wake up. That is NOT what happens with an acetaminophen overdose.

It'd be like intentionally eating death cap mushrooms.
cykros
·anteayer·discuss
Fentanyl isn't all that unsafe, aside from the habituation potential.

When your measurement is "that looks about right" when purity is entirely unknown, not much really is all that safe.
cykros
·anteayer·discuss
Everyone's ability to metabolize drugs being different has a lot to do with why the labels end up advising less than is effective for many people. Dextromethorphan surely is NOT ineffective, but at 2 tsp, yea, it aint gonna do much of anything (unless you're CYP2D6 deficient -- then, it may still do a LOT depending on how deficient).
cykros
·anteayer·discuss
"Most studies have found that dextromethorphan performs the same as a placebo and some suggested it was worse than honey."

Something tells me this is because they're using it at the dosages listed.

Because let me tell you, it certainly does NOT do nothing if you take more...

Part of the issue though is that 1 in 10 people have a CYP2D6 enzyme deficiency and if you take the tablespoon or so that would be more effective (that a pharmacist I used to work with advocated for) you REALLY shouldn't be driving (or going to work for that matter).

Phenylephrine of course is absolute garbage -- they just felt like they had to leave people a placebo for when they took away pseudoephedrine from the shelves to stop people making meth out of it.

Beyond that, I do sort of agree that putting all of these actives into a single product entirely prevents you from working the doses for what actually is effective. If you have a product full of acetaminophen you CAN'T then just take more of it to get the effective dose of dextromethorphan (and I'm not even sure there IS an effective dose of phenylephrine, but if there is it's definitely higher than what's on the label).

Not gonna say "there should be a law!" because I don't think anyone needs men with guns coming for them over this, but I do wonder why anyone buys this crap when the individual active ingredients can all be purchased and used in appropriate amounts.

But I guess most people just take what the label tells them to...
cykros
·hace 8 días·discuss
The best thing that happened for multiplayer games is that kids came along that agreed that they didn't need developers to actually create games when all they really wanted was graphics and physics so they could be responsible both for buying the game and creating all of the "content" in it by interacting with each other.
cykros
·hace 8 días·discuss
Switzerland is the only first world country.
cykros
·hace 13 días·discuss
More like Debian (and derivatives) on older hardware.

No thanks.

Slackware's running just fine on this system I've got with 15 year old DDR3 RAM without needing an article about it. It's not always thrilled with the fact that I made my urxvt's transparent, but I'm still rocking 20 open tabs on a regular basis without more than a little extra fan noise from time to time. It'd probably help if I replaced the fan(s) that died completely...
cykros
·hace 24 días·discuss
If I haven't chatted with a CEO or other builder in a week I've probably not spent a ton of time online.

Obviously different people have different time and attention; they don't all get back to you.

But it really doesn't take very long to just throw together a note sharing your thoughts or questions for them you may have. They may not answer. But they might.

If it does fail though, I've also been finding that asking an LLM what so and so would say to whatever I have to share can sometimes be insightful and based on their public comments. Though obviously, probably best not to hold what an LLM said against the person the LLM said might say it...
cykros
·hace 28 días·discuss
So it's like OpenOffice or LibreOffice or Abiword but it costs money?
cykros
·el mes pasado·discuss
The amount of people who can't see the difference between a monetary system captured by central planners who stand in the way of the free market at every turn and who, in their continuous debasement, perpetuate a K-shaped economy, and capitalism, is quite alarming.

But I suppose that we can't expect much when they've been educated by government employees.
cykros
·el mes pasado·discuss
I'm not sure I really consider SQL a programming language though. Certainly doesn't seem fair to compare it to anything turing complete (at least, unless you're going to lump in extensions such as PL/SQL or T-SQL.

Doesn't detract from the advice to learn it though. Picking up books on Perl and C as a teenager always left me feeling like I was missing something key that'd make programming more accessible, and I learned FAR later that what that was was an appreciation for making better use of structured data. In lieu of either larger data structures or microcontrollers, everything I looked at felt like a much more complicated and slightly more capable calculator; the access to large relational data models is really where the super powers of turing complete languages clicked.
cykros
·el mes pasado·discuss
Does this mean my 15 year old Phenom is too old? But it has 16 gb of DDR3 RAM!

Admittedly web browsers and it don't get along that well. Literally the only thing that drags though on my Slackware 15 system, and even then usually only when it gets to around 15 or so open tabs.
cykros
·el mes pasado·discuss
Good stuff to know, just in case the life extension tech explodes and we're all alive by the time cryptographically relevant quantum computers actually hit the scene.
cykros
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I doubt this from Start9, but it does usually at least mean that figuring out how to do so manually means not just reading docs for the upstream packages, but also figuring out what changes they made to smooth over it all.

This has always been my reason to avoid StartOS for running a Bitcoin node. When you're dealing with contentious forks (like we are right now) it's helpful to be able to get as low level as you want without realizing that things have all been hidden from you.

That said it depends on exactly what you're doing. Their server having a jitsi server that just works is nothing to shake a stick at. Nor is Start Tunnel making the server accessible over the Internet without any port forwarding required to the casual user.

I'm just not certain I'm their target userbase.
cykros
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Netanyahu is a figurehead for many too. Though if I found out my bank DIDN'T hang up on him I'd be looking for another bank.

As far as Popes go, Leo's probably upset more catholics than any in recent history. Which is saying something, given that the guy before the last one was a literal Nazi.
cykros
·hace 3 meses·discuss
The larger it is, the less likely your mining set up is actually all that solid.

The best miners are doing so with near free electricity, either with things like subsidized solar, or energy acquired from things like nat gas that'd otherwise get flared, or hydroelectric power that exists too far from civilization to have a demand otherwise.

If your miner is plugged into the grid, you're probably doing it wrong.
cykros
·hace 3 meses·discuss
https://eternal-september.org/ last I checked there was still some activity on comp.misc after Slashdot pissed everyone off with their Beta a decade or so ago (same time Soylent News spun off as well). Definitely a few others with a handful of posters.

But yes, it's definitely small islands in a sea of spam or just dead groups.