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Re:Brain cells keep growing well into our 70s on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:00PM (#34277315)
> The team also ensured that none of the individuals had been depressed or taking antidepressant medications. This is important because previous research by the same team demonstrated that antidepressants negatively affect neurogenesis

That's sort of misleading, the research (at least the visible portion) says that Benzodiazepine negatively affects the neurogenesis that Fluoxetine (Prozac, SSRI) causes

A lot of people have already commented on how Israel and the Middle East consider Sunday to be the first day of the week, but I'd like to add that the week itself seems to originate in Judaism (Wikipedia, "Week"):

"A continuous seven-day cycle that runs throughout history without reference to the phases of the moon was first practiced in Judaism, dated to the 6th century BC at the latest."

In Judaism the week starts from Sunday, so you could argue that it's not completely illogical for it to be the case in the US.

Changing the rest day of the week to Sunday was a change made in Christianity by the Council of Laodicea:

"Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ".

Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:28PM (#31854082)
> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program.

Wouldn't this be a violation?

Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:25PM (#31854042)
I too have reservations about Copilot, but does the MIT license define a "substantial portion"? I doubt a snippet would fall under either "copies" or "substantial portions"
ISPs, I'd imagine, make a pretty good living off of internet gigs. Internet megs even in some cases.
Re:Ask HN: What are the first things you do with a new laptop? on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:32AM (#30343753)
If the package was sealed, why factory reset?
This sounds a lot like what you're describing: https://github.com/tkellogg/dura
Re:Opinions on Not Having a Degree on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:30PM (#29949383)
I feel like it isn't a problem now, question is if it's likely to ever become an issue later on (e.g. a sudden shift in the market to not recruit without a degree that would effect even experienced developers). I may just be paranoid in thinking about this.

Opinions on Not Having a Degree

Hey,I've been a software engineer for around 6 years now and am a tech lead. I sometimes have anxiety about not having a degree, worrying that the day may come where I will get stuck in terms of advancement or changes in the market will not allow me to get the jobs I want.I'm an autodidact and dislike formal learning environments, and also don't want to put my life on hold to go do a degree,...

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Re:“Work will never love you back” on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:21PM (#29787819)
> ADD/OCD

Same boat here, hang in there.