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I assumed it was just being used as additional evidence that you shouldn't tie any frustration with this post/its format to original original author.

I just assume I'm overly familiar with it as someone who was a natural test-taker. (Early 30s)

Heck it might've been just a part of development and not a part of the production/user-facing features. I know my former employer lists everything that was ever in our process "just in case".

Folks expecting a simple lifestyle tweak be warned, the original training is by Wim Hof and in addition to the (fairly intense) breathing exercises involves lying in snow for 30min and hiking a snowy mountain, both partially naked.

While participants replaced the cold exposure element with a cold shower after they went home from the training, the techniques still took 2-3 hours per day. Also on the day of the data collection, they performed the techniques right before being exposed to E coli, so they had "advance warning" as it were.

Still very cool to see the immune system changes observed, since that's rare, but definitely requires a commitment to produce it in its current format.

Yeah I try to avoid "midwest" at all, except when being vague is a goal. The distinction between "Great Lakes" & "Great Plains" seems quite useful both geographically and culturally and "midwest" seems to just splotch right over that boundary.

I agree with your western boundary, though I'd probably just call it "The Rockies" myself, and let Nevadans and Utahns get absorbed either into "West Coast" or "Southwest" as they personally desire.

This system does create some problems for e.g. Missouri & Arkansas, which are in the confluence of 3-4 other regions, and you have to accept that Pennsylvania and New York get cut in half, but it's what my brain has settled on.

Samsung calls it "Magnetic Secure Transmission" as I recall. I wish they would advertise it more because it was honestly the greatest feature on that phone in my eyes, but everyone assumes it's exactly the same as Apple Pay. Retailers were shocked every time I used it (though in some cases they refused to even let me try).

I'm personally glad to be off Samsung products again now, but I was really disappointed when my spouse switched to a model without MST.

Up next: DuPont acquires Discord, ExxonMobil acquires Bumble, McKesson acquires Niantic/Pokemon Go...

I don't understand the hate for TikTok I frequently see on HN. Is it just ordinary ageism/curmudgeonliness?

I'm not in its core audience myself, but it seems to me to be a very smartly put together app, both in its core features (practically the only video remixing/editing app for mobile that retains tolerable levels of both accessibility and expressiveness) and in its platform (particularly the recommendation engine which seems to drive pretty solid engagement).

Ironically, something has autosubstituted an em dash "—" for your original double hyphens...

> There doesn't seem to be an equivalent phenomena with language.

No, there are a number of disorders & brain injuries that specifically affect language. The general term you're looking for is "aphasia".

They include a wide variety of symptoms across the language system, from phonology to word retrieval to sentence construction.

> The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on.

Is this verifiably true? I trust Apple on security matters more than the average laptop maker, but the fact that so many of these indicator lights are software-controlled erodes my trust in basically all of them.

I think kingkawn is using a less technical meaning that I hear often... "having no self-awareness" ≅ not considering the effects of one's actions.

Certainly I think that's what my parents were implying when they accused me of it. At least I doubt they were worried I was a p-zombie.

> Dev tools for Windows and iOS/ MacOs are fairly straight forward

Are they? It's probably been a decade since I touched a native GUI (and I was without a mentor and working on already-old software) so I legitimately don't know. Using something like Visual Studio's form builder was fine enough, but it was not a very expressive toolset as I recall.

Web you can get started "instantly". Your browser covers most of the tooling you need and you can tweak any live site.

I don't like that that's how it is. From an abstract perspective I'd rather not be working on web because it seems like we're trying to make a better car by building a bicycle inside of it. But the low bar for entry is hard to beat.

> The conversion between RGB and CIELAB is almost meaningless (according to wikipedia) or perhaps there is a still a way to do that and helpful?

As I understand it, that line is really talking about coming up with formal conversions. That is, some color spaces are effectively not well-enough defined (neither in relation to reality nor to each other) to be scientifically useful.

It's like how you might say converting from length in pixels to centimeters is "meaningless" because there isn't truly a consistent physical relationship between them, but people still get plenty of use out of making such a conversion every day.

> Interesting. Perhaps this information is not available with the images? or are they.

It's rare for images to use these colorspaces or gamuts. They are complex and cumbersome, and RGB makes for a damn good "pipe wrench" of bluntness and utility. Plus very few developers are aware of how deep color science is, and assume RGB is (pretty close to) the ground truth.

Yeah and debugging it usually requires me to examine my least favorite and most fragile parts of my build tools.

I think my employer's gulp config has had source maps broken for 2 years now, but I'm probably the only person who would do anything about it...