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I think it actually changed. I have a broken bone and have been consulting with ChatGPT (along with my doctor of course) for the last week. Last night it refused to give an opinion saying “ While I can’t give a medical opinion or formally interpret it”. First time I’d seen it object.

I understand the change but it’s also a shame. It’s been a fantastically useful tool for talking through things and educating myself.

I personally find the idea of water being important to be overstated. It’s frequently repeated as fact but I don’t see it quantified.

The only experiment I have found that attempts to measure this is by Kenji with pizza. In his test, the water did not matter.

https://www.seriouseats.com/does-nyc-water-make-a-difference...

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Re:Expect mass layoffs later today, Monday at latest on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:41PM (#35103583)
Looks like a friend of Rahul Ligma
but they flew on from Maui instead of turning around. if they’d turned around then the cockpit voice recorders would capture the incident. instead they had 5 hours to get their story straight and no actual recording of the incident.
Re:Ask HN: Is it a good time to buy a house? on Monday January 23, 2023 @03:48PM (#34494802)
if prices go down you can’t just refinance and pay less. refinancing requires paying out the old mortgage. so that doesn’t check out if prices are down.

if interest rates go down you can refinance.

it’s not a zero risk purchase. the price going down means you’ve lost value but your loan value stays the same.

Re:Big water cutbacks ordered amid Colorado River shortage on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:39AM (#31749489)
tell us you didn’t really read the parent without telling us you didn’t really read the parent
Re:Why are cars killing more pedestrians? on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:18PM (#21173356)
It indicates they’re not using it for work.
Re:RSI as a Developer on Sunday September 01, 2019 @02:44PM (#20853946)
I had a battle with tendinitis for about a year and it was terrible. I was icing my hands multiple times a day at work just to get by and it really destroyed my productivity.

One thing I noticed that’s not in this article (and from my perception is commonly missing from resources about RSI) is cortisone shots. In my case I tried for a long time to get by with better ergonomics, stretching, NSAIDs, and ice but getting cortisone shots in both my hands made the pain stop for long enough that I could actually rehab my hands properly and function at work.

After the shots I started lifting weights and focused on my ergonomics and it never came back. I’d highly recommend asking about them if you have an inflammation issue. In my case it bought me the time and space to really fix the underlying problems.

Re:RSI as a Developer on Sunday September 01, 2019 @02:40PM (#20853919)
Lifting weights was the long term fix for me when I had a RSI.
This is a great list. One thing I want to add is that when I was suffering from tendinitis, I wasn’t able to really start building strength until I got cortisone shots. They’re a temporary solution but they can buy you the time to be able to function and start exercising. It’s a very powerful tool.
Re:Java is still available at zero-cost on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:04PM (#17882596)
Same for us for Go. The releases have never caused any trouble and the performance improvements are nice to have. For us it’s just changing one base containers version.

That being said we still use mostly Python 2 for our Python services.

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Re:Should function arguments be reassignable or mutable? on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:38PM (#16047305)
Yes. Erlang has tail recursion which helps prevent that http://learnyousomeerlang.com/recursion