clairity

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jack-of-all-trades startup founder, mba and mechanical engineering degree holder, basketball player, and animal lover.

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Comment · 3 years ago
it does provide rotational stability (along with the PCL, between the femur and tibia; the condyles help here too) but it’s primarily job is lateral stability in the front-to-back direction, because without that, you cannot negotiate uneven terrain at all. this is vividly illustrated in a dissection by manipulating the knee with and without cutting the ACL. with no ACL, the knee is a wobbly mess, especially in the front to back (ventral-dorsal) direction.

ACL injuries have long been known to be worse in women because of anatomical differences in weight distribution relative to hip to femur to tibia angles, both statically but especially in motion.

Comment · 3 years ago
it's less about what foods to eat and more about eating much less: one modest-sized meal a day. that's all we "need". we eat too much of everything and our bodies are not evolved for such excess. this is literally the biggest bang for buck for chronic diseases like this, but also the hardest thing to do because of socio-cultural considerations. it also takes some time to train your digestive system down to that level.

once you have amounts under control, then you can taper off the processed foods, especially sugary things like soda/juice (fruit is ok because it comes with fiber), salty things like chips/frozen dinners, and bread/rice products (a little whole grain here and there is ok). minimize processed foods but don't worry too much about the mix of foods otherwise (protein/fat is fine, just don't overeat).

then taper up anaerobic exercise to 2-3 times a week. find a sport or activity you like (e.g., tennis) and pay for an organized league/class so that you stay committed. (aerobic) walking, for instance, is not typically strenuous enough for your body to process the excess nutrients and improve cardiovascular fitness, which is what's needed to help keep heart disease under control. you can start with walking if you're in bad shape, but you'll want to graduate to anaerobic exercise as soon as you can.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
now that physical branches are not really a differentiator of big banks, a couple hours of your time spread out over a couple months is totally worth the switch to a credit union in lower fees, better service, and supporting a more local economy.

it's completely, undeniably worth it. unless you're a real big shot (worth millions in assets to the bank) who doesn't have to deal with the dehumanizing aspects of corporate "customer service", there is zero reason to be with anything other than a small local bank/credit union.

Comment · 3 years ago
i've played with nesting on firefox and, much like the :has() selector, it seems good enough for the 80% case, so i wish they'd unflag it so we could get the clock started on having it be commonplace in a year or two to use it confidently.
Comment · 3 years ago
safari and chrome have had :has() for a while, but it's behind a flag in firefox. the firefox version is good enough that i wish they'd unflag it already (as in, it's good enough to handle this particular input/label issue for instance, but not really complex selector combinations and edge cases).
Comment · 3 years ago
yah, would be nice if it were baked into html itself, but at least the javascript isn't complicated, and can be put in an `onclick` attribute:

  <button onclick="document.querySelector('#my-dialog').showModal();">open my dialog</button>
Comment · 3 years ago
visible is a good deal as long as your area isn't oversubscribed for verizon (luckily mine isn't).

any reason why the watches have to be completely standalone? does the family setup not work for having multiple watches managed by one phone?

Comment · 3 years ago
real world boston was the only reality tv show i watched more or less all the way through. it was fun while it lasted but once it was over, reality tv felt "done" and i didn't really want to watch much more of it. i still don't understand the lasting appeal tbh.
Comment · 3 years ago
again, CO₂ doesn't matter, despite the mediopolitical hysteria over it. it's a gas that life depends on and is well-adapted to. but pollution has been killing millions of people a year for at least a hundred years already and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. generation and transportation account for the majority of that pollution.
Comment · 3 years ago
instead you get to breathe in that sweet, sweet tire dust, which hybrids and EVs tend to make more of because they're typically heavier than their ICE counterparts.

but until the electrical grid is moved to cleaner sources (including nuclear for baseload), it doesn't make much difference what you drive. with the current distribution of generation, we'd be mostly shifting the pollution from tailpipes to smokestacks (especially at the margin) rather than getting rid of it--coal emissions are many times worse than tailpipe emissions, not to mention the pollution from coal, oil & gas extraction.

and pollution is exactly what we should be worried about, not CO₂, which is the worst sort of distraction when trying to make sense of the environmental dangers we're creating (it muddies the waters to create uncertainty and inaction).

Comment · 3 years ago
that's an astute observation. i think the current administration designed this legislation for maximum airtime by trying to go all-in on debt forgiveness, without any conviction about whether it could actually withstand challenge.

if they were interested in actually helping the disadvantaged, then there are plenty of workarounds, like forgiving the interest and fees on student loans rather than forgiving principal. this would be more impervious to the idea that the executive branch was trying to wholesale rewrite legislation, rather than tweaking it on the margin, which was part of the court's rationale in this case.

Comment · 3 years ago
you've done a great job on the overall UI/UX, but as always, for me the question is where and how the product fits in the overall marketplace. this is true even for free/open source products, as it's hard to maintain momentum on stuff no one else really notices or uses.

is there a pain for managing content for technical writers? yes, probably. not many products target this niche. is the pain big enough to overcome inertia? that seems questionable, but perhaps it is big enough. i doubt large businesses would even look at a fledgling product like this, as it doesn't solve enough pain for them. it seems that there might be a market in small-to-medium-sized technical businesses that have like 1 technical writer and a few guest postings to use a platform like this.

but does it make sense to target developers at all? perhaps for initial marketing, but i'd conjecture that devs mainly just want to get something out on one platform (whether their own blog, or dev.to, or whatever) and perhaps secondarily on twitter (or similar) for more reach and discussion. it seems to be an uphill battle to get them to switch over to a completely different tool that requires integration to get content flowing to all the right places (which is what a headless cms requires).

in any case, the positioning as a headless CMS falls flat to me. that seems to be leading with a technical detail ("headless") rather than the pain and the solution. my off-the-cuff suggestion is something more like "Content Automation" as the descriptor. similar to "Marketing Automation" (e.g., buffer, hubspot) yours is a CMS plus and an automation platform (in the making). it helps people crank out technical content and put it in all the right places to be seen by the people you want to target.

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