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98% don’t use periods. ;)

I find that my sourdough starter’s smell is noticeably more yogurty (lactic acid) and less tangy (acetic) when I add a tiny amount of food grade calcium to the water. There’s a similar effect on the final bread as well, but there are other factors (eg fermentation time/temperature) that probably have a bigger effect on the final loaf.

I believe the calcium feeds the lactic acid producing bacteria, favoring their growth.

I really enjoyed “The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine.”

About early surgery and the discovery and adoption of anti-septics.

FaceID still works for this, for me. I do not have to enter my password for purchases.

Given the potential consequences of a mistake, it feels like there's still a pretty big difference between "nearly flawless" and flawless.

Speed control I'm fine with and is obvs. a mature tech that has been around for decades. Maybe it's the way I drive, but I find lane assist a liability -- especially on curves. More than once the car swerved unexpectedly one way or the other going around a bend. After the 2nd time that happened, I shut it off.

That makes sense and I appreciate the reply.

I'd probably choose not to grab a beer -- unless the social cost/effort in saying no was higher than saying yes. Quite likely I'd feel put upon with having to respond in a way that I thought didn't offend you...and all by pithy text messages. What a hassle!

Totally get that's a me problem though and I'd fall into your 70%.

Thanks for the insights though -- I find the concept of friendship fascinating (if perplexing).

I like the straightforward, logical approach -- it's helpful for me to think about the process in those terms. Thank you.

However, thinking about the process this way makes it really apparent that I've got no desire in trying to make friends -- each of those steps individually feels like a nearly insurmountable nightmare for me... much less doing all of them (and more than once!).

I read the title and looked at the graphical abstract. :)

You’re right in that the LCD did not seem to improve MetS (the focus of the paper), but it looked to me like there were benefits to combining fasting with low carb, i.e., weight went down more.

That’s a good point. Though AI should be millions(?) of times faster and get to those leaps quicker…but can it?

Would be very cool to see that experiement.

This article (and the concept of “business war games”) brought me back to one of the first computer games I ever played: Lemonade Stand on the Apple II.[1]

Sounds like Lemonade Stand was a simplified version of some of these games from the 50s.

40 years ago and I still remember the optimum price to charge for a drink ($0.11).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand

“Statistically likelier,” but still mathematically possible confirms the OP’s point.

This seems to be really testing for pseudo-random numbers. Relevant Dilbert (and article): https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/~blackb/RNG.html.

Esoteric Latin joke? HN rules.

I find hard c marketing is still more effective in US post/pandemic economy.

Tic-Tac-Toe? A strange game.

A&A and Supremacy were our go-tos.

Totally agreed and well said. It can be easy to read too much into something (especially when people are learning how to understand literature in high school), but some level of decision-making, i.e., design, goes into every word.

Nathaniel Hawthorne didn't choose scarlet because it was his favorite color.

I don't fully disagree, but I am constantly judging others (much to my dismay). And, then I also see articles like "Research indicates that only about half of perceived friendships are mutual" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12246819).

Similar: I think of it as the "I'm not crazy and/or dangerous" indicator. It also allows you to assess how compatible you'll be conversationally.

It's the handshake portion of the Human Data Exchange Protocol (HDEP). I'm fine with that, but similarly to the previous poster, I'm lost when small talk goes beyond the first few transactions. I usually don't know what to say and/or don't usually care about what they are saying.

Brilliant! (I just wish it was easier to tell which ones were in 5.1.)

The other downside is you only get 2 channel audio.

> My theory with money: the less your customer has, the more important appearances are.

Your specific example may have more to do with proximity to the customer.

Not repeating, correcting.

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

So, I see something, but feel I must be missing the pièce de résistance here. There's a background covered with parallelograms and the words "Mother-Fucking Lasers" that flash every once in a while.

Should I be seeing something else? (I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu.)

I'm impressed it has the smoot and evens includes a reference: http://spectrum.lbl.gov/www/personnel/smoot/smoot-measure.ht....

Pwdhash is another option. There's a firefox plugin for it that I use.

I use the same method across (most of) my platforms.

Linux - KeePassX Win 7 - KeePass iOS - MyKeePass {manually updated from database in Dropbox) Blackberry - KeePass for Blackberry (manual update of database)

I've luckily not had issues with concurrent database access.

(Doesn't help

Fun game and great proof of concept, though the aerodynamics aren't very realistic and whenever I've flown a helicopter through a cavern it's never never seemed that quite that blocky.

Neat easter egg at the end though.

So "my third language" is a succinct form of "my second second language."

CNN is always shown this way in airports and I fly so much that it now looks normal to me.

I assume my brain has learned to compensate.

Hiroo Onoda may be dumb, but I believe you can't tell that based on this story. To suggest otherwise is myopic.

Apply Occam's razor: news of Japan's surrender is a (probably not uncommon) Allied trick vs. the US created a magic secret weapon that would force Japan -- a country so dedicated to winning they crash planes into boats -- to surrender shortly after Hiroo left it.

In Hiroo's Japanse solider's shoes, which seems more likely?

So, true, you'd think he'd eventually figure it out (i.e. give up), but perhaps his grip on reality became a skewed after living alone in a jungle for decades (i.e. he's made of tougher mettle than I am).

Still doesn't indicate dumb to me though.

(Edit: Added epiphanic id ests to last paragraph.)