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That's actually a reasonable amount, comparable to what your body normally produces.

I can't understand why all the OTC pills seem to come in doses of 3-5 mg. It's really unnatural and probably messes with your system.

Did you find pills with your 500 ug dose? Or do you cut them or use volumetric dosing?

Re:Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use? on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:20PM (#33708980)
Slickedit. Great product, has vi and emacs editing modes.

https://www.slickedit.com/

When I was a new manager, I had a problem employee. He was very bright, but very lazy. He wasn't self-motivated and was always doing everything in a mediocre way.

I ignored the problem for a long time, which caused friction within my team.

I eventually had to fire him when the situation got very severe.

The mistake I made was not addressing it right away.

I think that now, how to fire (or better stated, "manage up or out") your first employee as a new manager is one of the most important things you have to figure out how to do right.

The next time I had a problem employee, I got on it right as soon as the problem was clear. Saved me and everyone around me lots of grief.

Debug ships with DOS itself, so it's available on every system.

Masm and other assemblers have to be obtained and installed separately.

Re:Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal? on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:49PM (#33208653)
When I saw this subject I thought it was about living in an airport terminal, like Mehran Karimi Nasseri did in Paris for 18 years.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mehran-karimi-nasseri

Re:Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (2009) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:07AM (#32848160)
Every time I drive on highway 17 I always notice how many black bumper swipe marks are on the median barriers. I think: every single one of those marks prevented someone from heading straight into the oncoming traffic lanes!

Wow, how many lives were saved!

I'm on my third foreign language. I believe you have to have a "multi-pronged" approach.

I think the most common mistake people make is to study a lot of grammar at the beginning. Mostly at the beginning you need pronunciation and vocabulary. Grammar should come a bit later.

I use:

1. Duolingo. I also pay for it and practice my mistakes the following day to build in some time spacing for memory retention.

2. Anki (spaced repetition). I use both a frequency dictionary of flashcards from the Internet and also make a second deck with a small number my own cards

3. On-line lessons from Verbalplanet. Surprisingly affordable!

4. Occasional consumption of media in that language. (Trying to read news in that language or watching TV shows in that language.)

Re:The technology that changed air travel (2018) on Saturday September 10, 2022 @05:24AM (#32789111)
This article was interesting because it described how Sabre and Amadeus came about in the first place, but (from my perspective as a consumer), they've done nothing incredible since the seventies. They did nothing but sit on their duopoly.

Even when the internet became popular, the first search engines (like Travelocity and Kayak) really sucked.

It wasn't until ITA Software came about that there was an honestly good and useful travel search engine. ITA is really the "technology that changed air travel" in the internet age.

These things come in cycles. It's been a party for the past fourteen years. Finally the Fed is taking away the punch bowl. Sometimes you can just smell the recession in the air.
Re:Ask HN: Why does Albanian data get so easy leaked? on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:12AM (#32649341)
Where I lived in California, you had to take one year of a foreign language to graduate from high school.

If you were university-bound you usually had to take two or three, depending on where you were headed. It's nowhere near enough to speak fluently.

He said, "We're going to jawbone a lot about inflation and make some token steps, but not actually do what will solve the issue. Who do you think I am, Paul Volsker? We're in debt trap and more worried about springing the trap than about persistent and high inflation. Don't worry, young whippersnapper, in the future you'll own nothing and you'll be happy!"
Well, it's understandable.

Incompetence is not a crime.

Fraud is a crime.

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