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There's a whole industry around suing website owners who have websites that aren't accessible. It's kind of messed up. The WSJ did a story on it a while back: https://www.wsj.com/b…

There's something called a "lean mass hyper responder", it's a type of person with high LDL but they're still healthy. You may fall into that category. However, high apob is more c…

This kind of stat is misleading and is seen in many health metrics - blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. In fact, it's sometimes known as the "cholesterol paradox" because people wit…

I've heard people say you don't need to rinse, but from experience this just doesn't seem to be true, or at least it's based on the dishwasher you have. I had a dishwasher 15 years…

For a few days I was getting the prompts and finally the 3 video warning. I went without youtube for a few days, when I tried yesterday my AdBlocker was working fine on it. I watch…

I've had tinnitus for around 15 years now. I've followed the research pretty closely. One thing to be especially weary about is the placebo effect. For some reason it's especially …

I second this resource. Lots of good threads and discussion here. The forums are full of threads where people talk about things they've tried.

As an intern 20 years ago I wrote a lot of VBScript code to automate the generation of a bunch of Excel reports. I ran into my old boss 10-12 years ago and he said the scripts were…

I don't understand why some people feel the need to be so snarky in their summary messages: > I'll bet this clown got paid to write this article and they did a poor job of it, too.…

I wonder if the submitted link should be changed to your link. I can access your link fine but I get an error when I try to access the submitted link.

The first book I ever bought in a computer store was Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus. Back in the mid-90's I saw it randomly while walking by the games section and thought it …

It sounds like you did the right thing, you were concerned and kept an eye on things. Calling the police would have been overkill and maybe wrecked this kids' family life (like wha…

I remember joining these back in the day. They were actually pretty good at driving traffic to niche sites. I used one about 15 years ago to help promote an ASCII Art app I wrote (…

> Researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that study participants consumed on average 270 calories less per day over two weeks if t…

I have a popular web based ascii text generator ( https://patorjk.com/software/taag ), it uses FIGlet driver that I wrote ( https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js/ ). Many of the oth…

> Like the one where everyone made their avatars be simpson-style This takes me back. A decade ago I paid someone $5 on Fiverr to draw me as a Simpsons character. She was one of se…

> The feeling among many product managers and engineers was that if a platform was 99% safe, that was enough, according to one former executive. The point was to find a way to avoi…

> The company set up an internal calculator for workers who left the expensive areas of San Francisco and New York to calculate how much their pay would be cut if they did not retu…

They probably used him as an example because he runs a podcast on gambling addiction. It says he was gambling away his 401k, which sounds pretty serious. They may have also used hi…

I was able to cancel my WSJ subscription last year through an online chat (it was almost identical to how I unsubscribed from the NYTimes). I definitely would have preferred a canc…

Western Maryland has a pretty low cost of living. I live in the Baltimore/DC area and have co-workers who live in Frederick because they could get a large house for cheap (and 3 th…

Using Google Map's measuring tool, Garrett County is 115km from Pittsburgh, PA, 231km from Baltimore, and 207km from DC. It'd make sense that news from Pittsburgh would be more rel…