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I know someone with what we thought was MCAS, but it actually ended up being Alpha-gal Syndrome. Knowing that made the whole thing much easier to deal with.

I know someone with what we thought was MCAS, but it actually ended up being Alpha-gal Syndrome. Knowing that made the whole thing much easier to deal with.

The thing with all these autoimmune diseases: they have the same foundational problem. Their is something in the blood that doesn’t belong there and it resembles some part/cell of …

I'm not saying the article is wrong, but here's why I think we've struggled to have the year of the Linux Desktop: the corporations want control over users and computers that are o…

It's the "sodium benzoate + ascorbic acid = benzene" problem. Watermelon + Dr. Pepper = cancer.

AMC should start showing Chinese and Korean dramas. That would help them a lot. I'm sure that they could work a deal with those studios that would let AMC set the ticket price. The…

The whole place-and-route thing is completely wrong for using FPGAs as accelerators. We don't need an optimal layout, we need a tiled layout (like the GPU does). All that we need f…

Note: please don't turn your screenshots and digital art into JPG. JPG uses compression based on natural lighting. It works well for photos, but it's the wrong solution where run-l…

Dear HN crowd: If there were a reasonable probability of you and your continent being without electricity for a year, how would you prepare? I'm interested in your thoughts on the …

This helps me: don't do social media or any news or any thumb-memory-based anything in the morning. Don't grab your phone first thing. Just let your mind slowly warm up to work -- …

What I want: take scan/photo of a document (including a full book), pass it to the language model, and then get out a Latex document that matches the original document exactly (min…

Try fasting. Go 24 hours without food and little (water) or no drink. Do this once a month when you don't have cancer, and maybe more when you do. The theory behind it: Some cancer…

I sold a house when I moved and used that equity money to make the house payment at my new location while in school. If you don't have a lot of kids and/or your spouse brings in ju…

I went back to school for a PhD at the age of 41. I was burned out on programming, I was lacking in theory, and I was ready to see the other side of the country for a few years. I'…

I've pondered on this question some. Is there such a thing as an objective talent rating? For example, if you take a group like Dream Theater, and look at the skill of each member …

I've been doing Zoom meetings where we use live Overleaf to talk through math equations. This is cumbersome at best. I need a tool that I can use to talk with one or two remote mat…

37 seems like a high number; turn some of them into apartments instead. Put shops on the bottom floor like they do in Europe.

So who manages Pypi? This document seemed vague on that. Maybe that's the problem with Pypi's progress in life. Most packages on Pypi are complete crap. It's also heavily burdened …

GLPK or GLPK_MI? GLPK is probably the worst tool you could pick. I tried it before on some of my problems, and it would not ever finish. Use OR-Tools, if it will work for your prob…

This book has software engineering concepts that I never did see or hear anywhere else: "Expert C# Business Objects". Its concepts are language agnostic, even though it has C# exam…

As a graduate student, I have decreased my note-taking-during-lecture over time, especially if I know I'll have access to the professor's notes. However, I now take notes on papers…

I don't need AI to make art; I need it to extrapolate. Suppose I want to make a movie or a game. I can come up with some distinct art for characters and places and things. I want t…

In that vein, take a look at Datalog and Egglog.

For something completely different, try the old Viva/Azido stuff. It looks like there's a stray MSI file online: https://github.com/abdullin/viva-tools/tree/main/files . Be sure to…

Yes, Gattaca somehow stuck with me over the years. It helps me value every team member.