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New comment by timonovici in "GNU Octave"

timonovici — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:15:01 +0000

hehe, I used in my college classes, at Technical University of Moldova, my teacher was a bit on the fence about it (he was demanding Matlab, but the uni wasn't providing any licenses), but he reluctantly agreed to it. Worked pretty fine, I could use my linux laptop, and didn't need to crack matlab.

New comment by timonovici in "Childhood antibiotics as a risk factor for Crohn's disease: Cohort study"

timonovici — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 06:15:17 +0000

Yeah, i remember being prescribed ampicillin and aspirin for every cold, as a child. They didn't care, they only wanted to "do something". I remember in highschool having a colleague who's overprotective mother was also a germophobe, and was treating her only son with ever increasing doses of antibiotics every winter. By the time we met, pills had no effect(according to them, the hell knows what they meant by "effectiveness"), and he was getting intramuscular ones. The poor people probably never learned that there almost no antivirals, and are doing more harm that good. Antibiotics are thought to be a panacea around here, in eastern Europe.

New comment by timonovici in "Childhood antibiotics as a risk factor for Crohn's disease: Cohort study"

timonovici — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 06:02:12 +0000

In my case, medicine and diet had little effect. And I was in pretty bad shape, i got to the emergency room several times a week with awful abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation. A different doctor adviced me to eat anything I want, but for at least half a year to eat kefir with every meal. That worked. Whenever I feel like my digestive tract is getting funny, i add a few bottles of kefir for a few days.

New comment by timonovici in "Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?"

timonovici — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:56:29 +0000

I also lost access to a previous gmail account - I changed my password with a random generated one, and god (and a google engineer) knows why, I lost access. No amount of appealing would return my access, even if I was wiling to show my national ID card and stuff.

Anyway. About your plan with the email server. We ran such a thing for an organisation in Romania. You'll be surprised how many times our emails ended up in Gmail's spam folders (other providers too, but gmail runs an especially harsh algorithm for spam filtering), even though we had DKIM, SPF and all that jazz setup. You will most likely be locked out of most people's reach, unless you use one of the largest providers. So maybe government regulation is the only realistic way out.

New comment by timonovici in "NewLimit: a company built to extend human healthspan"

timonovici — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 13:01:26 +0000

> I applaud the pursuit of longevity and health so long it is paired with the egalitarian outcome in that everybody will be entitled and receive it, regardless of who they are and what they did.

Aren't Americans struggling getting diabetes medicine? And chemo? Is it a reasonable expectation that this treatment, whatever it is, will be any different?

New comment by timonovici in "AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service"

timonovici — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:02:12 +0000

Don't they already use MySQL for example? I don't think it would stop them in any way, unless some lawyers had some really antiquated views, coming straight from the 90's

New comment by timonovici in "A Tale of Two Ships [pdf]"

timonovici — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 22:18:23 +0000

Probably because of different alloys used, different thickness. You don't expect a commercial ship to be shot at with missiles.

New comment by timonovici in "The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)"

timonovici — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 08:17:04 +0000

There is only one reason for me to use it: as a historical reenactor, I strive to make my equipment as accurately as possible, and I read various articles regarding roman military food, how widespread were certain metal alloys, how they used to do soldered joints, and so on. I wouldn't make an account to JSTOR just for a hobby - I use their search to find DOI's, and get them via Sci-Hub. I do buy books and stuff as part of my documentation, but there are really specific articles, usually a few pages long, that I can't find in both a convenient and legal way.

New comment by timonovici in "Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us"

timonovici — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:46:01 +0000

The thing with the sodium was debunked like a hundred times already, how long is this myth gonna last? Beside a temporary spike in blood pressure, there is nothing wrong with eating salt.

https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-salt-scam-1973d73dccd

New comment by timonovici in "The Fasting Cure Is No Fad"

timonovici — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:55:06 +0000

Coffee and tea helps me in such cases. Plain, no sugar, no milk. Brushing your teeth can also reduce hunger. Also, try to take it gradually - I don't eat at all on Wednesdays, making a ease-in and an ease-out -the diner the night before and the next day's breakfast in an apple, a carrot or a glass of kefir. Fasting more days in a row take an incredible amount of willpower (one of the reasons why I do it), and also takes a toll on your concentration, physical power.

I used to do it on Saturdays, because then I could reduce my physical activity to an appropriate level - but lately I've been going to festivals, or going out with friends, and it was not doable. Try to find a way where it works well with your schedule. Also, it may be a good idea to be discreet about it, because coworkers, friends and family will pester you.

New comment by timonovici in "The Fasting Cure Is No Fad"

timonovici — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:38:08 +0000

I have some personal anecdotes that support this to some degree - I have dermatitis, and acne on my forearms - the longer I fast, the less acne I have, and my dermatitis recedes. The effects are very visible, and quite quick, 2 days of fasting will completely clean my scalp.

My father had psoriasis - after a week of fasting, his scabs would completely disappear, even in winter, when he had the worse flare-ups. Even eating healthy, even avoiding all sorts of foods that he knew he was sensitive to (lemons, garlic, spices, etc) didn't have nearly the same effect.

New comment by timonovici in "An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania"

timonovici — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:28:26 +0000

Heh. It takes 10-12 hours to get from Cluj to Bucharest by train, and that's less than 500km.

New comment by timonovici in "An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania"

timonovici — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:15:16 +0000

There's a lot more to Transnistria. Russia wants it as a strategic point of access to Europe. There are roads purposely build for quick access with tanks (big, heavy, concrete roads, reinforced with rebar - your car usually makes a clunking sound as if you're on a train). So they support the region with preferential natural gas prices (sometimes the bill gets completely tagged to Republic of Moldova). At the time when URSS collapsed, and the split happened - most of the heavy industry was on the Transnistrean side (including weapons factories), so it was big loss for Republic of Moldova. The Army 14 of the URSS never left Transnistria, and Russia still refused to call them back. [ https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicarea_Armatei_a_14-a_%C3%... ]

It's a semi-lawless land, used sometimes as a hiding spot for criminals, assassins, etc. Gun trafficking is at home there. When on bike, I managed once to pass the border without being checked (and I didn't notice I didn't have my papers with me, I almost got stuck in there) - you're basically at the whims of the border patrols.

There are a few villages that belong administratively to Republic of Moldova (I visited Coșnița [coshnitza] with a friend, that is one such village) - this state of affair came with great cost of lives, and people there still remember the price they paid. Tensions sometimes get high - in 2012 a drunk guy was shot and killed by the border patrol, as he was traversing the bridge - people were literally picking up forks and scythes to avenge him [ http://www.ziare.com/europa/moldova/moldovean-impuscat-de-ru...]

New comment by timonovici in "An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania"

timonovici — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 07:57:28 +0000

Unless is a separate topic, I think there's a confusion here. When Moldavia is mentioned, they mean the historical region Moldavia, part of the Romania. We normally refer to that Moldova (that the parent is talking about) either as "Republic of Moldova", or Basarabia. Historically, there was one big Moldova, currently only about half of it is united with Romania.

New comment by timonovici in "Proposed Jail Time for Tech Companies Who Steal Data"

timonovici — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 07:40:14 +0000

Are you saying that this doesn't already exist? There are tons of people selling passwords, profiles, credit cards info, social security numbers et cetera. Or are you trying to say that legit companies will begin doing that? Aren't they already doing that too? Facebook and Cambridge Analytica being just one example that we know about.

New comment by timonovici in "The Commerce Department is considering national security restrictions on AI"

timonovici — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 11:58:44 +0000

Ah, it comes a bit later, at 19:00 -

"At that point people who are angry, mistrustful, and may not understand a thing about computers will regulate your industry into the ground. You'll be left like those poor saps who work in the nuclear plants, who have to fill out a form in triplicate anytime they want to sharpen a pencil."

New comment by timonovici in "The Commerce Department is considering national security restrictions on AI"

timonovici — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 11:54:37 +0000

https://youtu.be/GAXLHM-1Psk?t=945 - I think this commentary by Maciej Ceglowski rings true here.

New comment by timonovici in "Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds"

timonovici — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:53:54 +0000

I'm afraid the incentives are not there - and we won't do any of those things - but at some point the system will bounce back, and hopefully it will self-regulate, rather than spiraling out of control. You can already see it happening, the hurricanes are getting worse and more frequent in USA, Italy and parts of Europe are hit by floods; An occasional reactor melts down. I'd say just enjoy the next decade as much as possible, who knows, maybe it won't last even that long.

New comment by timonovici in "Android banking malware is on Google Play over month with over 10,000 installs"

timonovici — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:58:25 +0000

Try Lineage on a phone with F-Droid as your app repo: much more trustable - though not completely, plenty of blobs floating around, the modem OS, and is safe to assume there are non-public bugs out there. Also, none of the crappy preinstalled apps, no google spyware, no touchwizz madness - just a clean, vannila Andoid experience, just as the original developers intended.

New comment by timonovici in "Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News"

timonovici — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 18:27:15 +0000

Doesn't anybody do shit on their laptop anymore or on their own server? Why does it have to be 10 thousand services, why the dependency on the network and other entities? How many of these will go bankrupt by the end of the year, how many will change their terms in an incompatible way with your company project or your personal one?