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New comment by mometsi in "I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water"

mometsi — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:15:46 +0000

In the linked article, rybett@aol.com uses the CORREL function in an openoffice spreadsheet to determine a weak correlation between autism diagnoses and sulfur content in tap water in a few regions of New Jersey.

His other publications include a self-published amazon book titled Autism, Enzymes and the Brimstone Demons. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Enzymes-Brimstone-Demons-Trill...

New comment by mometsi in "I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water"

mometsi — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:52:03 +0000

It's not used for b12 production in human metabolism. It is, after all, a vitamin. Is this about cobalt deficiency in dairy and meat animals?

New comment by mometsi in "Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?"

mometsi — Wed, 28 May 2025 05:06:31 +0000

  .happiness {  
    color: #FFF;
    background-color: #FFF;
  }

New comment by mometsi in "Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink"

mometsi — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:57:02 +0000

Exactly. It's the same way that having a deformed jaw, hydrocephalus, and leg braces equates to being absolute ruler over an empire colonizing half the world.

New comment by mometsi in "Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus"

mometsi — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:19:59 +0000

Feature request: an alarm clock mode that gradually fades in stall warnings and mayday chatter when you need to wake up.

New comment by mometsi in "OCR4all"

mometsi — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:14:28 +0000

> How is this different from tesseract and friends?

The workflow is for digitizing historical printed documents. Think conserving old announcements in blackletter typesetting, not extracting info from typewritten business documents.

New comment by mometsi in "Ask HN: What's the best implementation of Conway's Game of Life?"

mometsi — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:32:48 +0000

Most clever has to be the encoding on the left side of the flag of Belarus, which reveals a special pattern after 1991 iterations!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus#/media/File:Be...

Edit: not really. But what a wasted opportunity. Come on, State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus, what are you doing all day?

New comment by mometsi in "Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster"

mometsi — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:23:28 +0000

I wonder if there's a significant nominative determinism effect--

One might expect some of the most prominent people in math and cs theory to have names like Aaronson and Baez...

New comment by mometsi in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

mometsi — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:05:08 +0000

Mandatory binding arbitration will still be an issue.

Maybe pack those pseudocourts by registering a huge roster of consumer-oriented arbitrators?

New comment by mometsi in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

mometsi — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:35:49 +0000

New comment by mometsi in "DARPA solicitation for the Active Social Engineering Defense program (2017)"

mometsi — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:11:12 +0000

Edit: Whoops. I incorrectly believed that Caffe was developed with DARPA support. I see DARPA acknowledgments on papers written at BLVC by some of the same authors, but not on Caffe itself.

New comment by mometsi in "Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email"

mometsi — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:12:18 +0000

Seems like a reasonable alternative to Proton for multiple domains: email that costs money instead of being haunted by AI.

That logo is creepy though, and implies exactly the opposite.

New comment by mometsi in "No-hole surgery: no keyhole, yet surgeons can now still operate under your skin (2023)"

mometsi — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 06:11:26 +0000

I'm no topologist, but I don't think they're going to be able to place that catheter without at least one hole.

New comment by mometsi in "Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'"

mometsi — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 08:55:45 +0000

Less conveniently, you can use your browser to inspect the code panel and change its font to whatever you like.

New comment by mometsi in "Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'"

mometsi — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 08:47:22 +0000

You may gaze upon SF Mono only in conjunction with the APPLE DEVELOPER TOOLS; any unauthorized viewing will melt your eyeballs.

Here's the location of the Ark, for those still curious:

https://github.com/thelioncape/San-Francisco-family/tree/mas...

New comment by mometsi in "Mysterious tablet with unknown language unearthed in Georgia"

mometsi — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:41:59 +0000

Terrible decision. Upper Volta was the coolest country name on Earth. Who wouldn't tremble before the Upper Voltaic Ambassador?

New comment by mometsi in "Mysterious tablet with unknown language unearthed in Georgia"

mometsi — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:02:13 +0000

Would have been far more interesting and mysterious if it was Georgia (outer Main Belt asteroid).

New comment by mometsi in "Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city"

mometsi — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:47:18 +0000

It's the brand name. When you need authentic pottery built to last, look for CHON on the cylinder.

Customer: *checks cylinder*, hey, this isn't CHON, it's C𓅓ON!

New comment by mometsi in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

mometsi — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:43:58 +0000

For this set I'm gonna need a 5HP turntable with dual 4-jaw chucks

New comment by mometsi in "Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea"

mometsi — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 03:22:00 +0000

He (Alfred) was well-known for explosives but most of his money came from his shares in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel, run by his brothers.