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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 …

Fun fact: there's an IBM/Lotus Sametime theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daitUOzVpvc The lyrics rhyme "PC" with "easy."

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 …

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.

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_ t…

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…

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 millenn…

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 o…

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 …

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 suppr…

Awesome! Glad to hear it!

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 k…

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 cu…

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.

As of right now looks like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and many others.

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 sai…

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…

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'…

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 intellige…

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 exten…

Arguably Atlanta, GA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_tree_canopy

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 conside…

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…

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 …