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New comment by peddamat in "Are at-home genetic tests worth it? As an oncologist, here's my advice."

peddamat — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 05:35:00 +0000

There are certain mutations like MSH6 which pretty much guarantee that you are going to die of cancer unless you are extremely proactive.

New comment by peddamat in "Costco’s butter recall, explained"

peddamat — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 01:43:43 +0000

So many "broken windows" theory believers suddenly promoting broken windows.

New comment by peddamat in "Costco’s butter recall, explained"

peddamat — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 01:42:38 +0000

shouldn't the question be, how the f does a manufacturer mess up the packaging of BUTTER. something they have presumably been selling for decades?

New comment by peddamat in "How to mail an SD card with gummy glue"

peddamat — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:32:52 +0000

It really does seem like a small piece of tape inside the envelope would have solved the problem.

New comment by peddamat in "Microsoft Phi-3 Cookbook"

peddamat — Tue, 21 May 2024 20:53:11 +0000

I get a "the request was blocked" error.

New comment by peddamat in "Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?"

peddamat — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:14:41 +0000

It's very confusing how a relativity works in a non-deterministic world. Brian Greene's illustration of how relativity "slices the loaf" in the Fabric of the Cosmos (https://youtu.be/8Y-JmocB84Y?t=1334) makes it very difficult for me to understand how things work if reality is indeed non-deterministic.

Unless reality is more like Everything Everywhere All At Once, i.e., the Everett many loafs model.

New comment by peddamat in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

peddamat — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:05:02 +0000

Thank you for posting this. Honestly, my social media bubble exposed me to exactly 0.5% of the videos on this site.

While I still think Israel is making the same mistake we did after 9/11, these videos help me feel a little of the vitriol fueling the IDF's actions.

New comment by peddamat in "Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?"

peddamat — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:36:07 +0000

Isn't it assumed that everything is deterministic apart from what is done by the somewhat magical, "free will"?

New comment by peddamat in "US achieves first moon landing in half century with private spacecraft"

peddamat — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:20:21 +0000

Isn't that generally how customers work?

New comment by peddamat in "More Californians are driving EVs, making public charging a potential nightmare"

peddamat — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:38:28 +0000

but home charging is typically during hours where renewable output is at its lowest. would be amazing if/when all EVs are automatically grid-connected when not in motion. instead of expensive centralized energy storage in giant megapacks, we have low-cost (but stochastic) decentralized storage that is available when renewable generation is at its peak.

New comment by peddamat in "Enphase Envoy-S data scraping (2016)"

peddamat — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:32:43 +0000

the integration randomly stopped working for me recently. it now asks me to log into the enphase cloud or provide a token or something.

New comment by peddamat in "Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens"

peddamat — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:10:04 +0000

The Moonman A2 is my current favorite pen. Though it's a knock-off, the out-of-box nib smoothness was better than that of the Vanishing Point that I ended up returning.

The fact that it's only $15 on AliExpress makes it a steal. No pun intended.

New comment by peddamat in "Read Something Wonderful"

peddamat — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:11:48 +0000

I really enjoyed every article served up to me.

New comment by peddamat in "Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity"

peddamat — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:53:31 +0000

I tried installing the app and got a "The change you wanted was rejected." error.

New comment by peddamat in "How to do the thing you've been avoiding"

peddamat — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:36:04 +0000

This so perfectly describes the ADHD university experience. Of course, there are other courses that you could hyperfocus on for days.

New comment by peddamat in "How to do the thing you've been avoiding"

peddamat — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:32:07 +0000

This is a really fantastic resource. It's basically the content of every ADHD book distilled into a handful of pdfs. They are a bit dense, but the content is golden.

New comment by peddamat in "That’s a huge amount of energy being transferred to the atmosphere"

peddamat — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:18:40 +0000

It is astounding how OPs generally decent point was completely derailed because he made the misstep of limiting the scope of his ire to oil. This is so common in online discussions that I wish there was a way to 'rewind' and restart a discussion after making a correction.

New comment by peddamat in "AI camera with no lens"

peddamat — Wed, 31 May 2023 19:34:11 +0000

So it's basically a Samsung.

New comment by peddamat in "We are removing the option to create new subscriptions"

peddamat — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:34:37 +0000

You might be interested in logseq, a bullet-oriented MD editor: https://logseq.com/

New comment by peddamat in "Ultrawide monitors are overrated, here's why I use a 4K TV instead"

peddamat — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 21:25:30 +0000

I feel like this is a good place for me to plug my Fancy Zones fork, which supports maximizing windows within zones. The latest alpha also supports full-screening videos within zone boundaries.

https://github.com/peddamat/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.58.7-m...

The Power Toys devs have an issue open regarding this feature, and we're figuring out next steps: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/279