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The Physics of Squeaking Sneakers

arstechnica.com
5 points·by overtone1000·4 mesi fa·0 comments

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overtone1000
·3 giorni fa·discuss
In such situations, the golden mean is a useful lens.
overtone1000
·11 giorni fa·discuss
If you read the article, you might rescind this prediction.
overtone1000
·13 giorni fa·discuss
If one of these clients of yours became an engineer, doctor, or lawyer, would you want their services for yourself or your family?
overtone1000
·17 giorni fa·discuss
It's always fun to see an interrobang in the wild.
overtone1000
·19 giorni fa·discuss
Thanks, now I'm craving Ovaltine for the first time in 20 years.
overtone1000
·26 giorni fa·discuss
Much has been written on dietary simple sugar. It's controversial, so I can understand why the author may have skirted the topic. I thought the bit about tooth decay in chimps was a good hint that there are probably _some_ health effects.

I think what's interesting about this article is that one common bit of advice about limiting dietary sugar is that there's a big difference in the rate of absorption of simple sugar between fruit juice and raw fruit because the fiber content of raw fruit offers a natural means of limiting the rate of simple sugar absorption. But, if we are breeding extremely sweet fruit, it's a reasonable hypothesis that if such a "natural balance" of fiber and fructose exists, perhaps it has been undermined.
overtone1000
·mese scorso·discuss
True believers will leverage themselves all the way to the moon by selling gold calls so they can buy more SpaceX calls.
overtone1000
·2 mesi fa·discuss
In the onslaught of discouraging news that is our world, this piece is downright inspirational.
overtone1000
·2 mesi fa·discuss
313 Team runs arch btw
overtone1000
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Restic+Backblaze
overtone1000
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Co-worker 4 is the one I want to have a beer with.
overtone1000
·3 mesi fa·discuss
+1

Photo storage and display is definitely a top 5 reason to self host these days. Restic and backblaze make a great off site backup solution because, like the OP said, this is important stuff.
overtone1000
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I am confident a gofundme would provide enough tokens for this work.
overtone1000
·4 mesi fa·discuss
For me, it's the difference between taking your medicine a bit at a time on your own schedule or taking it all at once as an unwelcome surprise. Sure, setting up file system mounts or adding udev entries is easier to do once in Ubuntu than in NixOS, but I only need to do it the one time with NixOS. Thereafter, the config serves as both documentation and backup. For a hobby self hoster like me who occasionally shoots himself in the foot and has to rebuild a system, it is ideal. I don't know if it really saves me time, but I do know it saves my sanity.

I am no nix whiz, but it's the only OS I run outside of containers. Anything I can't easily get with my nix config I shove into a container, run it as a quadlet, and call it good.
overtone1000
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Medical equipment reps often play a pretty active role in patient care. Can't get in touch with a rep to put a device into its MRI safe mode? No MRI for you. Can't get a rep in to help the surgeon with the type in hardware they were going to install? No surgery for you.

People's AICDs aren't going to start exploding, but I'm pretty confident this will hamper care for many patients.
overtone1000
·4 mesi fa·discuss
And then that 25% is 10% of US banks' entire lending portfolio, so private credit is about 2.5% of their entire portfolio.
overtone1000
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I thought the same.

"Dictated but not read."
overtone1000
·4 mesi fa·discuss
This is by far the hardest anything on HN has ever made me laugh.
overtone1000
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Came to say the same. Neither Ctrl+F by this human nor ChatGPT could find anything at all about age or identity verification. I think the title should be changed.
overtone1000
·5 mesi fa·discuss
As the founding fathers said, "If the king comes knocking, a fight just means you're the enemy."