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Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Two large lotteries in my area:
Lotto Max: 1:33,294,800
Lotto 649 1:14,000,000
(excluding the smaller pool draws of 5/6, 4/6, etc)
One ticket as the width of a human hair (60-80 µm).
The winning numbers are a hole the width of a human hair.
The odds of winning 1:14m is hitting another hair head on in a line 14,000,000×0.00007 m=980 meters wide. (~840 meters to ~1,120 meters)
The odds of winning 1:33.3m is hitting another hair head on in a line 33,294,800×0.00007 m=2,330.636 meters wide. (1,998 meters to ~2,664 meters)
(calculations by ChatGPT)
If I buy a ticket, it's so I can daydream for myself.
Comment · 1 year ago
Back when I was invested into todo lists and the Android task list app I was using was still available (since archived by the author):
01 Today
02 Soon
03 Month
04 Scheduled
05 Later
09 Cancelled
other tasks lists like "1 SuperImportantProject", "9 Someproject".
Then discipline to recycle your lists, and force yourself to stay on list.
The key app features required: 1) multiselect and move between task lists, 2) easy, low friction task creation, 3) calendar and task integration for scheduled tasks
Comment · 1 year ago
I find HN rife with its own form of "I'm too smart" bro-science.
Your cardiologist spoke directly with you; they're a trained, accredited, licensed, and in good standing professional. Go with your interpretation of what they told you.
Additionally, lets learn how to over-come HN's own form of bro-science because I'm pissed off right now.
Step 1: go to pubmed and throw the most basic of terms in: "marathon training cardiology damage"
Step 2: Quickly review the studies listed; we want to see studies after the advent of advanced hormone and mRNA quantification--that's around 2005 to 2010 or so--or anything within the last 5-10 years.
Step 3: Read through one study especially if it appears to be well setup or specific to what we are trying to understand--we can look at the abstract if we have some knowledge in the area, or are just getting a feel for the topic.
Step 3b: take note of terms; this study is an easy one and has everything we want to see in the abstract: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36767963/ "Effects of Long-Term Endurance Exercise on Cardiac Morphology, Function, and Injury Indicators among Amateur Marathon Runners" in the Int J Environ Res Public Health . 2023 Jan 31;20(3):2600. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032600.
Step 3c terms:
- cardiac morphology, function, injury indicators;
- left ventricular end-diastolic volume and left ventricular end-systolic volume indicator;
- myocardial injury indicators, serum levels of cardiac troponin I, creatine kinase (CK), creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and N-terminal pro-b-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP)
- Long-term high-intensity endurance exercise (not indicated; but "High intensity Steady State" (HISS) and similar will creep into our vocabulary)
Step 4: refine search to something like "cardiac morphology myocardial injury marathon amateur"; throw on "biological indicators", "creatine kinase"
Step 5: rinse, repeat, and read deeper into some of the studies.
Anyways, "Long-term high-intensity endurance exercise caused some damage to the hearts of amateur runners." and your cardiologist said the same. Or you can believe some rando giving medical advice on this forum. And honestly, I'm beyond irritated at the consistently bad takes on medicine, biomedicine, and exercise on YC HN.
Comment · 2 years ago
The full article is available as the published Nature version care of Yale's Carlson Lab.
Specifically, Baik, L., Talross, G.J.S., Gray, S., Pattisam, H.S., Peterson, T.N., Nidetz, J.E., Hol, F.J.H. and Carlson, J.R. (2024) Mosquito taste responses to human and floral cues guide biting and feeding, Nature https://rdcu.be/dXckk
or maybe you can find it via: https://carlsonlab.yale.edu/full-publication-list
Comment · 2 years ago
Author font family: normal normal 14px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;
News YC font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
Per https://unicode.scarfboy.com/ these are the characters (formatting issues are expected):
U+03B8 θ GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA
U+2713 CHECK MARK
U+203E ‾ OVERLINE
U+2191 ↑ UPWARDS ARROW
U+2193 ↓ DOWNWARDS ARROW
U+007E ~ TILDE
U+03B1 α GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA
U+03B2 β GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
U+0394 Δ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
U+03D5 ϕ GREEK PHI SYMBOL
Specific characters that aren't showing up:
U+2713 CHECK MARK, U+203E ‾ OVERLINE, U+2191 ↑ UPWARDS ARROW, U+2193 ↓ DOWNWARDS ARROW, U+03D5 ϕ GREEK PHI SYMBOL
Arial contains most of these, Verdana does not. That's the limit of my knowledge of webified things.
Comment · 2 years ago
I heard this presented as a photography class. Doing a quick search shows that it's from a memory plot in "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.
The story features Jerry Uelsmann and having his class of photographers either work by quantity or quality of shots.
The specific example I remember was "you can only take 1 shot" vs "take as many as you can"; and the lesson being /the group that did many reps had ultimately better photos/.
Comment · 3 years ago
This used to be a feature in Opera a decade ago IIRC.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for giving that insight against my assumption!
I discovered GPSJam a few months ago, and have enjoyed some of your content on Twitter, and really enjoyed your work on the longer form article from a few years ago (the FBI one; "Secrets of the Sky") [0].
Best wishes for your endeavors!
[0] - for anyone curious: https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1250581745935593472 or https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sowJrQQfgxnLCErb-CvU...
Comment · 3 years ago
(major assumption) That's more than likely the position of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).
Its support planes are in the area [1], and it was sighted on Sep 28 near Italy [2], and if I understand it correctly, has been tasked to this area.
1 - https://twitter.com/wipljw/status/1712780646530118125
2 - https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/vessels/USS-Gerald-R.-Fo...
Comment · 3 years ago
> Aside from not being able to differentiate one window from another similarly colored window in the background
I thought this was my slowly acquired technical debt: "what option have I missed? Is this like Aero and I have to turn it off?"
The "where the eff is the scrollbar thumb? ffs" situation has occurred more times then I care for.
Comment · 3 years ago
No edge case dependencies on the WWW server's configuration, and no sudden "why did we just saturate our external connection?"
No emergency change requests from the outage team that has to be impacted by other areas and fit into the infrastructure's teams maintenance windows and their capacity to address that.
No rebalancing of workloads because Jane had to implement (or schedule the task and monitor it) that change, Joe had to check and verify that the external availability tests passed, and Annick had to sign off on the change complete, and now everyone isn't available for another OT window for the week.
Or something.
Comment · 3 years ago
The codes are possibly (also) related to incidents that CDC or other organizations would like statistics on.
Lemur's aren't common, ducks are, and "Chlamydia psittaci in ducks: a hidden health risk for poultry workers" is (via https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25854003/)
Comment · 3 years ago
I have more trust for eBay then Amazon at this point.
However, I think the last purchase I made through Amazon was super specific (particular model of washing machine agitator motor) and unlikely to be glump-binned. So perhaps that's the approach.
Comment · 3 years ago
My first comment on this site was about Bombardier.
Bombardier went into high-risk, high-reward territory, and failed:
1) project they'd never done before
2) technology they'd never used to build and model
3) highly integrated supply-chain with large number of partners delivering large sub-components that had to integrate with other large sub-components
4) pre-planned delivery dates to customers, and still had at least two delivery slips
5) "bet the farm"
Additionally, the C-suite was comprised of nepotistic family connections--who may have been fully qualified, or may have only achieved their role due to the family ownership.
Political conjecture aside, this is a engineering and business failure.
Large teams prioritize service resilience and depth of coverage.