conorh

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conor AT squaremill DOT com - https://squaremill.com - web/app development
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Comment · 11 days ago
I hope this produces some useful anti-venom that is cheaper and widely available. My kid was stung by a small bark scorpion on his thumb here in Arizona and I would not wish that experience on anyone. For hours afterwards he was in excruciating screaming pain, and he even lost his vision for while. That lasted about 24 hours and then it took weeks for him to recover feeling in his hand. Nothing seemed to help with the pain and there was very little we could do for him. I would love to have had a more available anti-venom, but apparently now it is so expensive they only keep it around for the very worst cases.
Comment · 2 months ago
Who knows about a career, but my kid was super into scratch and has now moved on to godot. I think the learning curve was excellent and helped by a few things: the built in community, the see inside button and the ability to work on projects on a locked down browser/computer at school.
Comment · 5 months ago
I think you have your pricing wrong there, Gemini 3.5 flash is $1.50 input and $9 output.
Comment · 7 months ago
Great article, never realized just how adhoc the source map 'standard' was!
Comment · 10 months ago
Traveling around India I ate some food at a train station before boarding an overnight train and became extremely sick. I arrived early into Bikaner and as I started wandering around I became more and more delirious, to the point that I don't have clear memories of what happened after for a day or so. A (not well off) family however found me, brought me to their home, put me up in a rooftop sort of room, called a doctor, and then fed and took care of me for the next few days. They refused to accept any payment except for the rehydration packets they'd bought. I am forever grateful to them and I think of it and try to pay it forward whenever I can.
Comment · 11 months ago
It is truly amazing how far Proton/Steam OS has come along. I recently installed it on some old AMD hardware I had lying around, hooked it up to my TV and everything just works - zero problems. I look forward to checking out this Steam Machine!
Comment · 1 year ago
I installed steam os this week on some old hardware I had lying around (all AMD) everything runs perfectly, zero fiddling around. All my games run fine - admittedly I'm not playing any of the latest and greatest aaa titles but baldurs gate 3 and the latest katamari game run great.
Comment · 1 year ago
I really appreciate the grinding puns in this comment.
Comment · 1 year ago
My kid plays a lot of tennis, since the age of about six or so. He enjoys it, does group practices twice a week, one private lesson and then a tournament every so often. He is age 12, but we see the commitment it takes to get to the next level and it is crazy, six days a week of practice, tournaments most weekends, travel etc. Some kids we meet truly have the drive/love of the sport and really want to do it. I'm quite happy my kid does not because the parental commitment is also intense!
Comment · 1 year ago
It is a very interesting article, but I'm a little horrified at the amount of effort going into military projects to kill more efficiently.
Comment · 1 year ago
From my understanding she feels that the mechanisms for these endocrine disrupters are there, that they act similarly to BPA, which is better understood, and that over time as research is done we will find more ways that they interact. The research is hard to do and takes a very long time, and quite a lot of it is not definitive because it is difficult with so many confounding factors, but there is a lot of it and more over time.
Comment · 1 year ago
My wife is a doctor dealing with (part of) the endocrine system and for years she has had us avoiding heating anything up in a plastic container and avoiding food/liquids+plastic where we can. She believes that these endocrine disruptors are very likely much worse for us than we currently realize, and that the research is eventually going to show that.
Comment · 1 year ago
Some insurers yes (and even then it takes several tries), but at least one has said outright no.
Comment · 1 year ago
My wife's practice is directly affected by this, the fees insurers charge her to receive money from them are crazy. Some insurers will only pay her in a debit style card that they then charge her an extra percentage fee for receiving.
Comment · 2 years ago
I suppose this is an opinion article and click bait at that, but what a piece of useless fluff - someone with a strong personal belief (religious based as they are Catholic) that refuses to acknowledge any possible benefit.

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