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New comment by brippalcharrid in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

brippalcharrid — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:52:14 +0000

They can also tend to be harmful in combination, such as in the case of relatively unstable unsaturated fatty acids going on to be glycated in the presence of sugars (some moreso than others); it wouldn't surprise me at all if there were examples such as this which fuelled a significant proportion of all "diseases of civilization".

Strava removes 2.3M rides from leaderboards in clampdown on cheats

brippalcharrid — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:23:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/strava-removes-2-3-million-rides-from-leaderboards-in-clampdown-on-cheats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895649

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New comment by brippalcharrid in "The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust"

brippalcharrid — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:53:07 +0000

Stated preference vs. revealed preference

New comment by brippalcharrid in "A scientist who disarmed an atomic bomb twice"

brippalcharrid — Fri, 30 May 2025 03:17:16 +0000

I don't know what's worse: a gradual realisation that there's going to be nothing that anyone can do to prevent your sudden, violent death or a gradual realisation that you're going to be slowly asphyxiated.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages"

brippalcharrid — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 01:08:03 +0000

The human brain can run on up to 70% ketones overall (this is not only safe, but it appears to have additional therapeutic benefits) and your body can synthesize glucose in your liver and kidneys from fats and proteins though gluconeogenesis to supply the remaining parts of your brain that can't metabolize betahydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard"

brippalcharrid — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:50:51 +0000

That may be, but you know that in order to truly one-up him and show your dedication you're going to have to do it on rollers.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors"

brippalcharrid — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:00:49 +0000

You get this with anything that hasn't been mass-produced at a large scale and commodified for a long time. It's more remarkable that something like a car (or a mobile phone, or a CPU) is cheap than that something like an electric bike motor is expensive. And it could be that this is a poor application for this type of motor technology and that a better type will be developed and that we'll look back on this as an expensive relic that was holding us back.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine's Starlink Service"

brippalcharrid — Sat, 25 May 2024 01:27:08 +0000

He's probably hesitant to do something that would be likely to bring his company's satellites closer to being seen as combatants in a proxy war between major powers, seeing as they were being used as an important part of Ukraine's drone warfare in this case, and actively countering Russia's countermeasures would be likely to move the status of him and his business interests from "relatively neutral" to "Axis of Evil".

New comment by brippalcharrid in "When Nostalgia Was Deadly"

brippalcharrid — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:50:59 +0000

Hiraeth is a Welsh word that describes a longing for a place that cannot be visited, perhaps because it no longer exists or has never existed.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes"

brippalcharrid — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:45:07 +0000

I imagine that for any small-to-medium sized avian a ~100lb robot could very easily become a threat.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Welding of Plutonium (1958) [pdf]"

brippalcharrid — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:39:51 +0000

It's p̶a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶u̶l̶a̶r̶l̶y̶ pretty hard to obtain guidance systems and components or certain types of ruggedized electronics that haven't been deliberately gimped to prevent them from being used in supersonic or exoatmospheric missiles while on the USA Naughty List, and North Korea doesn't yet seem to have an advanced manufacturing base for this that I'm aware of, whereas Texas or Japan would be a different story.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries"

brippalcharrid — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:28:53 +0000

I don't think that the signer would be able to verify the authenticity of the data that it received from the sensor and image processing circuitry unless they were able to authenticate each other securely. I know that an attack on a system like you proposed would still be expensive, but it would become more attractive if its characteristics were overplayed (and would then be subject to legal challenge). Forensics, of course on the other hand is based on experts saying "yes, by all accounts this appears to have happened".

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries"

brippalcharrid — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:55:20 +0000

Cryptographically verified recordings don't sound practical to me (sensors and video processing electronics sound like a lot of hardware to put in a secure element), but I'm sure we will see generative AI inflating away the value of blackmail material soon; one mitigation for this could be cryptographically signing material and then publishing the signature long before it becomes practical to fake it (i.e. the past, increasingly), then periodically creating signatures with new algorithms in advance of the discovery of practical attacks on existing ones.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Private BitTorrent trackers are markets"

brippalcharrid — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:49:34 +0000

> Condescending attitude towards his s/o.

Do we have a particular reason to believe that skydhook is a man, or is this an assumption?

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Preserving Bach’s Manuscripts"

brippalcharrid — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:28:13 +0000

Following on from this, I imagine that being able to synthesise atom-level (or at least indistinguishable) copies of priceless works of art of great significance could also provide a path towards resolving diplomatic disputes, such as in the case of the Elgin Marbles.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Some of the best people will say all of the wrong things during an interview"

brippalcharrid — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:23:08 +0000

"Well, I don't think that's actually a weakness."

New comment by brippalcharrid in "AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives"

brippalcharrid — Tue, 23 May 2023 14:56:17 +0000

Or offensive weapons; the classic prison toothbrush shiv can be a perfectly effective murder weapon, and its ergonomic handle can provide all the grip and support that an offender might need.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "Why is my dryer radioactive?"

brippalcharrid — Fri, 19 May 2023 10:12:50 +0000

It would probably just appear as faint noise, and then only if it happened to be at wavelengths that the sensors were tuned to detect, and which the machine's signal processors weren't trying to ignore, and if the image processing was designed to draw attention to it.

New comment by brippalcharrid in "The myth of the $600 hammer (1998)"

brippalcharrid — Thu, 18 May 2023 02:06:40 +0000

The bureaucracy- and accounting-related points of the article aside, though, the Department of Defense must regularly buy non-ferrous, non-sparking hammers with list prices of more than $600 (adjusted for inflation).

New comment by brippalcharrid in "The Quest for Transparent Cocktail Ice"

brippalcharrid — Tue, 16 May 2023 13:16:58 +0000

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