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New comment by watercolorblind in "GLP-1 may slow biological aging"

watercolorblind — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:28:13 +0000

Just sharing to spread the good word: with my ex-wife also having EDS and rheumatoid arthritis, she saw a large benefit from low dose naltrexone.

https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/effective-doses-of-low-dose-na...

New comment by watercolorblind in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

watercolorblind — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:49:12 +0000

Other than their typo there is a fun collision there with an older Ruby gem: https://github.com/nesquena/rabl

New comment by watercolorblind in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

watercolorblind — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:38:35 +0000

Thank you for the backup link! I hadn't known he had passed, and I didn't expect the link to fail. I first read the story back in 2008 or so, and it's been one of those works that lodged itself in my mind so it's sad to hear he died.

New comment by watercolorblind in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

watercolorblind — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:21:44 +0000

The scifi story Manna starts with management being automated: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

It's a different type of soulless hell, and it's a good read if you haven't already.

New comment by watercolorblind in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

watercolorblind — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:49:24 +0000

Comfy shirt to wear during yard work, working on the car, painting a wall, or laundry day around the house. It's reasonable to me.

New comment by watercolorblind in "I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue"

watercolorblind — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:34:45 +0000

The primary pain point I see here is if devs lean into transactions such that their job is only created together with the everything else that happened.

Losing that guarantee can make the eventual migration harder, even if that migration is to a different postgres instance than the primary db.

New comment by watercolorblind in "Scott Adams has died"

watercolorblind — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:09:31 +0000

As someone who has been quite hard on myself too:

To err is to be human. If you minimize your life to minimize negative impacts on others, you are hurting yourself (and your friends and family). If you make a mistake, learn from it and try to be better. None of us are born with the skill and knowledge to do the right thing all the time, and sometimes there is no right thing, just different tradeoffs with different costs.

New comment by watercolorblind in "ChatGPT Health"

watercolorblind — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:09:53 +0000

When your health data can say you are trans, and the government decides to persecute you, then yes, it important to maintain privacy.

New comment by watercolorblind in "Have I Been Pwned 2.0"

watercolorblind — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:42:53 +0000

Maybe a uniform tax credit/refund for each citizen that is covered by that level of government. We the citizens can then decide if we fix the issue or continue to generate fines, but at least the budget isn't expecting revenue that could disappear (like the lack of traffic tickets during the beginning of COVID).

New comment by watercolorblind in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

watercolorblind — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:16:56 +0000

A physically impaired person can be a good yoga instructor: they'll suggest alternatives, different/better cues, or provide more accessible classes such as yin or seated yoga.

Just because they are physically impaired now doesn't mean they were before, and an instructor won't necessarily move through the poses with the class since they can have 2-3 classes per day.

New comment by watercolorblind in "Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Perform code reviews on a canvas"

watercolorblind — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:27:09 +0000

We would need ruby support too.

Beyond that, if my MR/PR has two (or more) logical commits, will the tool support reviewing each in isolation? Often times, I will do a refactor in the first commit, and have a second commit with the new feature that makes use of the refactor. Reviewing it all together can result in muddying the water.

Another thought: if I edit a function to call a different function defined elsewhere in my codebase, is there a way to include that functions definition into the canvas (either by the author in preparation for a reviewer, or by the reviewer) to facilitate verifying the behavior across this new boundary?

New comment by watercolorblind in "Ruby 3.4 Highlights"

watercolorblind — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:10:25 +0000

Some other examples: DragonRuby, and Chef (which I prefer over ansible).

New comment by watercolorblind in "How Games Used to Look: Why Retro Gaming on a CRT Looks Different [video]"

watercolorblind — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:53:14 +0000

Yeah, it's a medium that is not known for fine details given everyone's experience with it in school growing up, and the landscape/flower paintings that are common at art festivals; however, that does not mean that is all that can be done with the medium. Some artists pursue photo-realism [1].

Using something like a heavier weight (takes more layers), hot press (smoother grain) watercolor that makes it easier to add finer sharper, details. Additionally, there are mixing mediums [2] that allow changing application in different ways and there is masking fluid which helps preserve a sharp edge when working on multiple layers.

There is a variety of media that is "watercolor" as well: watercolor pencils, water soluble pastels, opaque watercolors, watercolor markers, and granulating watercolors.

1: https://doodlewash.com/guest-artist-photorealism-watercolors... 2: https://www.art-is-fun.com/watercolor-mediums