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Re:Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @10:22AM (#47323684)
I have a TCL so maybe it's different, but did your TVs require connection to set up?

The TCL can still act as a HDMI switch with CEC, and that can be labeled through the remote if you want, so there was never any need to connect to a network.

Yes, it is an issue.

One of the big problems with anesthesia is balancing respiratory depression while medicating the patient enough to manage the symptoms. Fentanyl is used in anesthesia and it causes respiratory depression.

A strong pain medication that doesn't slow or stop breathing would significantly improve the safety of anesthesia.

I wonder if this modification brings it closer to the mitragynine from kratom, which has opiate like pain dulling effects with very minor or no effect on breathing.

I hope so because the administration is looking to really fuck over medical research by making the 7-OH stuff a schedule 1 narcotic, when it has so much potential for improving anesthesia and pain management by removing respiratory depression from the pain killing element of the anesthetic cocktail.

Re:Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today on Thursday February 19, 2026 @11:36AM (#47075627)
Lotus root is pretty common. A crunchy tuber that keeps its texture after cooking, bland taste, unique visual appeal. I threw some in the last pot of bean chili my family made, and the kids liked it.
Re:Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today on Thursday February 19, 2026 @11:29AM (#47075534)
Seeing my neighbors gathering ginkgo nuts made me curious enough to try them, and I waded right in without understanding the risks! TLDR— they're not a great food source. It's yet another one of those cases where you have to wonder what "delicacy" means.

The actual fruit (looks like a rotten plum, smells terrible) has ginkgolic acids which cause contact dermatitis (think poison ivy).

Then the nuts themselves contain Ginkgotoxin, which interferes with your B6, screwing up your nervous system and causing seizures. Cooking reduces but does not eliminate Ginkgotoxin.

I only ate one, and ate it raw. It was a delightful texture, but tasted like chewing random plant matter. Like leaves from a tree. Was maybe half a cubic centimeter of matter. Escaped any ill effects.

According to my research, kids can have seizures from as few as 10 nuts, which would probably be like 1.5 spoonfuls if you mashed them up. The guidelines I found don't seem very scientific but supposedly a kid can safely handle 3-5 nuts over the course of a day, and an adult could handle 5-10. So it doesn't seem like there is a good margin of safety.

Overall a real risk to health for an insignificant amount of food that doesn't taste special. But a nice texture.

She has always and consistently advocated for free speech when it was beneficial to her or her allies/benefactors
Thats more of something that happens in China, here we'd call it "The Market Choosing" or something
Re:Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules? on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:15AM (#46872907)
How much did it help? How far have you ascended?
Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:12AM (#46872868)
Placing them underwater means you get free, unlimited cooling.

Exactly the opposite of space, where all cooling must happen through radiation, which is expensive/inefficient

Re:Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:54AM (#46872584)
It's a remarkable tragedy how many people don't understand your point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year

Too many people think your life is a binary 'living or dead' when thats not the case at all. I didn't even understand it fully till I was hit by a car.

Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:20PM (#46805772)
I'm not disagreeing with your overall take, but Tesla and other EV manufacturers have released the same model of vehicle with different battery technologies at different times. Only saying that dropping 4680 production isn't conclusive proof itself.
Re:The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967) on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:07PM (#46805706)
That analogy doesn't fit the situation of a social contract not being fulfilled, and your overall point is extremely antisocial.

You appear to be saying if one person or group fails to uphold their obligation to you at any time, you are thereafter released from your obligation to the rest of humanity.

Re:Package Management Is a Wicked Problem on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:34AM (#46797629)
Your parent comment is referring to its inception, 25 years ago.
Re:San Francisco Graffiti on Monday January 26, 2026 @03:48PM (#46771300)
People underestimate the tattle-tale culture in China.
Re:The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967) on Sunday January 25, 2026 @04:09PM (#46758266)
Whats the high horse? Was there anything illogical or even exaggerated in what I've written?
Re:The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967) on Sunday January 25, 2026 @12:17AM (#46750978)
This makes sense if you are ok with your life making the world a worse place. Other people want to try and make it nicer.
You're not securing your banking details from the bank. The people running the elections are a probable adversary during elections, though.

That makes software really unsuitable.

Re:The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:07PM (#46606133)
It can be a bit tricky to attribute the product of an entire company to the CEO... even if the CEO is a founder!
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @05:07PM (#46580773)
I agree it makes using my computer worse, but I'd like to see how far Apple is willing to go here.

They won't do perfectly circular windows, that would be crazy— but I think we all know they can go further than this.

Re:Lessons from 14 Years at Google on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:24PM (#46495016)
There have been times historically where that was true but all productivity gains have been captured by the .1% for the past few decades.
> I wonder why isn't operating them age-gated.

It is! Have you met a baby before... no teeth, severely diminished strength and muscle control

Re:Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:33PM (#46389257)
Imo, there would be no value in writing something where an iPad would satisfy the requirements, and I appreciated the list, and we're thinking about the large magnatile things now.

Do you have an easel whiteboard paper roll thing? I think it fits this list.

Re:Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:10PM (#46389160)
Parents who are analyzing the problem like you would do well going straight to the iPad with unlimited access to YouTube.

You can get an old iPad cheap and your kid will spend every waking second on it till they're old enough to drive. Or even longer!

He may have understood it, but the feelings of anger about it are so overwhelming he had to post anyway, even if it didn't perfectly flow with the conversation.
Well put. There are two sides of the coin: the lazy questioner who expects others to do the work researching what they would not, and the lazy/indulgent answerer who basically LMGTFY's it.

Ideally we would require people who ask questions to say what they've researched so far, and where they got stuck. Then low-effort LLM or search engine result pages wouldn't be such a reasonable answer.

What if some of the homeless people are children or people who could lead normal lives but found themselves in dire circumstances?

Some of us believe that keeping children out of poverty may be an investment in the human capital of a country.

Re:What Comes Back When Stopping GLP-1s? on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:19PM (#46064806)
This is the paper referenced by the article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Research on what percent of people regain weight, with some interesting findings on other things that regress like blood pressure.

Re:Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:09PM (#46064719)
The average salary in the USA is still $66k. You're living in a bubble to think people don't want to get more time out of their family's iOS devices.

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