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Re:The World Is Going Blind. Taiwan Offers a Warning, and a Cure on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:14PM (#38788848)
This is my concern as well, I think the preponderance of LED lighting could be causing more Myopia because of less IR and perhaps UV
I have a friend who has been saved by this and I have two funny points.

CF makes you not process food correctly so you can eat a ton of food and not gain weight. After taking this medicine he was upset because his body started processing food correctly and he put on a bunch of weight initially.

This really is a life saving cure for most general genetic versions of CF but he also remarked that it’s great they found a cure now because it’s basically a white people disease and the amount of funding it got for a cure was likely going to come under scrutiny.

Re:Private equity: A fee too far [pdf] on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:36PM (#37096778)
Thanks for explaining something in a simple way that gets to the root of the problem. Arguing about semantics is so common.
Re:America Is Drowning in Packages on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:14PM (#36932765)
I work at USPS and rural carriers are paid on evaluated time. While some locations don’t get many packages because Amazon has taken the load off with their own contractors, many offices have to make multiple trips because of the package load which essentially means USPS workers in those rural offices are working for free on those second trips. The package load is a real problem.
Additionally if you have Kidney disease you should take the Methyl-folate form because the generally available form of folic acid breaks down to cyanide as a byproduct.
Re:FLAC 1.4.0 released – added support for 32-bit audio on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:23PM (#32845367)
Because if the recording goes past the clipping range for digital audio it still records the data and preserves it. 32bit recording has serious advantages because it’s much easier to record a hot input because digital clipping is not possible. You just need to pull the volume down on the recorded clip after the fact and there is no clipping.
Re:FLAC 1.4.0 released – added support for 32-bit audio on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:19PM (#32845339)
I have a lynx hilo and it does 32 bit input. It’s incredibly nice for recording because if the input hits clipping range you can just lower the volume on the 32 bit recording after the fact and the recording is preserved. Lots of high end DACs have a 32 bit input output option because of this.
Bismuth is going to be the metal of the future, TSMC is also using it in their 1 nm process. As the uses for topological insulators make it to industry I think Bismuth is going to become a priority for companies to secure sourcing. China currently controls 75 percent of the supply.
Re:Foreign money funding ‘extremism’ in Canada on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:28PM (#30342792)
The fact that this comment is being downvoted enough for it to have turned grey is why I never post about civil liberties on hacker news, who wants to lose karma? I guess I will do my part today and ask people to upvote reasonable posts like this so that perhaps chilling effects on speech will not increase through negative karma feedback loops.
Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:00PM (#29883333)
This is a great analogy, I’m going to use this moving forward.
It may come to Windows 10 but AAC Bluetooth support with proper microphone switching is a huge upgrade. If you have Sony XM4 headphones the switch to 11 is worth it.
The problem is once you give someone arbiter powers for determining misinformation it’s going to be used on something that is factual either on accident or intentionally. Logically you can either have full free speech or you support censorship, I’m not convinced there is a workable middle ground.
Re:Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:42PM (#28606880)
Just like everyone else seems to think, this is the monetization model I can get behind.
Re:DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth on Friday September 17, 2021 @10:10PM (#28572948)
This quote seems real interesting: “ Romesberg thinks that these findings could raise questions about modifications of bacterial DNA that were thought to be epigenetic — that is, changes made to nucleotides after the DNA was synthesized, usually to influence gene expression. The Z substitution, he said, “shows that things that you might have thought were epigenetic might not be.””
Re:A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:55PM (#28487343)
While I am confident there is a rational scientific explanation for the hexagon of Saturn, it is undoubtedly an incredible synchronicity that the storm exists. Saturn being the sixth planet from the sun it has historically been associated with the hexagon within occult symbolism since well before humans could have verified such a storm exists. Truly a remarkable find and fact of our solar system.
Re:Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever' on Saturday August 14, 2021 @02:11AM (#28178477)
Page 10 of the slides had the study inclusion information I was looking for, participants of the study were only included if they had "acute" onset of covid symptoms within 7 days. Proponents of Ivermectin will push back on this study since advocates have been clear that it is only an effective treatment if used as preventative prophylactic or within the first few days of symptomatic response to infection.

https://dcricollab.dcri.duke.edu/sites/NIHKR/KR/GR-Slides-08...

Re:Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever' on Saturday August 14, 2021 @01:58AM (#28178423)
It looks like the study did adjust the dosage level to a value recommended by advocates of Ivermectin like the FLCCC, .04mg per kilogram. However Ivermectin proponents have been vocal that many of the negative studies only administer Ivermectin well past initial onset of covid symptoms. I would like to find the data on how long after initial onset of symptoms, or a covid positive test, Ivermectin was given. I do not see any links to the current study in question all I see from the MSM links are PowerPoint slides and a symposium presentation. The study groups website only has links to a previous off label treatment study that included other potential therapeutics but not Ivermectin. If anyone knows where you can read the preprint I would love to take a look.
Re:Banned Seuss on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:58AM (#26382943)
Except that it is impossible to find early Disney war cartoons or more importantly “Song of the South”. The absence of SOTS is truly sad as the movie created the song “zippity do da”. “Song of the South” is beyond the pale for today’s sensibility but I do think its availability should be preserved since its titular song is a cultural touchstone much like the music from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” or the line ‘Here’s looking at you kid’ from “Casablanca”
Just FYI 30ms from hardware sources is terrible, I can achieve under 2.5ms round trip with Dante at 128 buffer settings and the older MADI protocol achieves similar levels.
Re:An update on Android's audio latency on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:15PM (#26363978)
If android can get its audio latency act together there is some real opportunity here to steal market share from Apple. Since the release of the 2nd iPad Pro Apple has forced audio processing onto the slower low power CPU core, this means that for the last three years I can run all my iOS synth applications at 96kHZ with a low buffer sample size without any drop outs on my first gen iPad Pro and an iPad mini 3. What I cannot do is get similar performance on last year's iPad Pro. It is absolute insanity that Apple has no work around to direct audio processing to the high powered cores for apps made for musicians. Presumably at some point they will allow you to do this with a documented programing call but it has been three years of bad performance on synth applications due to the necessity to have high sample buffers (ie high latency).

Discontinued: Fed M1 Report

The Federal Reserve has discontinued the M1 money supply report. Not sure what this means but I would gather many might find this interesting.https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1

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Re:When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018) on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:10AM (#26221379)
I think Silver is the straw that will break the camels back, it’s hard to know if it will be in 1 or 50 years but it’s fungible and affordable while also having increased industrial usage. At this point it is almost at parity for industrial consumption as it was in the 90s when silver was used to develop analog film. It’s certainly true that topological insulators may replace silver in many electron transfer applications. That being said medical uses due to the way it kills micro organisms through sulfur attraction, and it’s thermal properties, will possibly continue to expand industrial consumption.
Completely agree, while proprietary what Audinate has done with Dante is nothing short or a miracle. With their PCI-E FPA I have less then a 2ms round trip latency with my Hilo interface at 96Khz resolution. Additionally the virtual sound card can do 4ms latency in one direction with most modern CPUs.
By virtue of the fact that numerous people disagree with your assessment. Should it not be obvious that you could be living in your own private Idaho sharing a belief that all humans experience your gestalt. People have been finding ways to call both themselves and others mentally handicap since communication began. The irony of the current cultural dialogue is that the real negative experience of an expressive and living word is assumed to negate substantial positive aspects which are well documented by those of good humor and cheer. Your line of reasoning attempts to censure peers much as a child would demand of a playmate when in disagreement.
While the gist of your argument is technically correct you are missing one important factor, amplification wether through solid state transistor or analog tubes, causes distortion. With 44.1 kHz all sine waves above 22 kHz cannot be reproduced which makes for some pretty unpleasant distortion harmonics if those wave forms are being fed through the wire without a filter on the output signal.
Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny? on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:05PM (#23840084)
Thank you for pointing this out you are correct and I should have been more precise in my language.
Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny? on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:04PM (#23840079)
You are of course correct until Exters pyramid collapses which becomes more and more a distinct possibility as the currency is debased.

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