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So statins lower LDL; what lowers inflammation?

Really? I sat in one that belonged to a friend and it convinced me to get one as my desk chair. I enjoy it; I find it comfortable. What do you not like about it?

My job has been amazing thru all this. The first words from my supervisor was “your family is important, take the time you need”.

I’m just about a week later in my kidney donation than the author. My husband was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in late 2022 and it rapidly progressed to end-stage renal fa…

I struggle with sleep and I was excited by this—until I saw it requires a subscription. I’ll pass, thanks.

Not to mention you have little choice in taking on that debt. If you need medical care, you need it. It's not like you have a choice to have life-saving care or not.

Ever known anyone in end-stage renal failure? Not a lot that could be that really bad; waiting to get on the UNOS transplant list, while doing daily dialysis…

Huh? Kodak was (is? meh.) in Rochester NY; Polaroid was in Cambridge, MA. That’s as about as east coast as you can get.

Tracing the lineage of the British royal family back to Elizabeth I.

Why not just use a tool like asdf ( https://asdf-vm.com/ ) or mise ( https://mise.jdx.dev/ )? These tools have the advantage of not being multi-taskers and can manage version for a…

Doctor of osteopathy (DO). My first doctor as an adult was a DO and treated things like sinus infections with medication, but when I picked up a ladder and something popped in my b…

You have to do leetcode if you want any hope of being able to find a different job. You have to be ready for that kind of question. I’m a software engineer with 20+ years of experi…

Don’t most people get injections in their non-dominant arm? That’s how I do it, remembering as a kid that when I’d get shots, my arm always hurt for a few days.

I didn’t do that when I set up my dev machine, and got into quite a mess of differing brew install versions plus different repos having different dependencies. asdf helps quite a b…

I noticed they installed version managers for Java, node, and directly installed Go. Never mind the nightmare that is Python on macOS. I’ve become a big fan of ASDF ( https://asdf-…

YES EXACTLY. I keep myself in the interviewing loop at my company because I actually enjoyed the process when I joined. It was conversations over “executable” solutions. Now, we ki…

No. That got cut as well.

I love that this is advancing treatment; I was somewhat disappointed that apparently, you must HAVE cancer first in order to create the vaccine. If there was a vaccine that prevent…

I’ve been working in software for 35 years. Never been laid off but ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of it happening to me. I saw how being laid off devastated my father and brother. The close…

“They (workers) don’t get to choose their compensation, they don’t get to choose their promotion, they don’t get to choose to stay home five days a week,” said James Gorman, CEO of…

>Would you sacrifice time with your kids over the holidays for vague assurances and the opportunity to make a rich person richer or would you take the out? This quote right here sa…

I’ve been reading about these people doing “OE” and I don’t understand how. My one current job takes up EVERY MOMENT of the time I am working and then some. I have no mental bandwi…

34 myself, and same. It’s kind of anxiety-provoking because if I have to find something else, I’m scared I won’t be able to.

What I worked on was all bespoke in-house developed software written in PL/1

Garbage collection.