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New comment by sendmarsh in "Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial"

sendmarsh — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:42:01 +0000

Let me clarify. A "medically" standard dose. My personal preference would be 1-3g.

New comment by sendmarsh in "Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial"

sendmarsh — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:04:53 +0000

It did a relatively accurate report on the original Frontiers paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/1...

New comment by sendmarsh in "Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial"

sendmarsh — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:03:37 +0000

From the Frontiers paper: "The patient received 5 g of orally administered psilocybin-containing mushrooms (Enigma strain". i.e., a standard dose of 5g of mushroom.

New comment by sendmarsh in "Changing the way you sit could add years to your life"

sendmarsh — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:51:06 +0000

Archive link works for me in Edge but not in Firefox (endless captchas). Might be worth trying another browser if you have more than one installed.

New comment by sendmarsh in "Wang Computers 'David and Goliath' Commercial (1977) [video]"

sendmarsh — Sun, 21 May 2023 16:19:29 +0000

Worked in Wang UK VS OS tech support in the early '90s.

Best memories:

- Figuring out how to get square root in COBOL (no built-in fn).

- Writing Conway's game of life in Wang assembler (more or less IBM 270/370 assembler).

Worst memories:

Quality Learning Process (QLP) - a completely ineffectual attempt to turn the company around by writing "working together for quality" on mugs, pencils etc. (at least that's how I remember it).

New comment by sendmarsh in "Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?"

sendmarsh — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:47:43 +0000

Same for me. 40-year "functional" alcohol dependency. Pattern of mostly avoiding drink during the week, desperate for Friday to come around, followed by poor sleep, tiredness, weight gain, regret.

A mushroom trip in Vancouver helped me understand the underlying cause of dependency, what I was running away from. That seemed to be all it took. The need was simply gone and the habit broken. Weekends are more like the energizing productive breaks they always should have been.

New comment by sendmarsh in "A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution"

sendmarsh — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:01:25 +0000

Less talked about is CBL-D, a Deb packaging based Microsoft Debian distro that powers Azure Cloud Shell. https://rasmusg.net/2020/12/01/updates-to-cloud-shell-docker...

New comment by sendmarsh in "Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch"

sendmarsh — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 15:21:09 +0000

Was against, but AFAIK not anymore https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/

New comment by sendmarsh in "Mathematicians who died under unfortunate or unfitting circumstances"

sendmarsh — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:50:15 +0000

Thanks, having basically understood the "Cosmos" account of her life it was good to read a detailed researched account.

New comment by sendmarsh in "Mathematicians who died under unfortunate or unfitting circumstances"

sendmarsh — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 03:22:24 +0000

No Hypatia? Skinned alive by Christian mob..