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bschwarz··on Red meat consumption within high-quality diets may support mental health
Best taken with a grain of salt as this study was funded by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
bschwarz··on Should you take creatine?
For an alternative consider the German-made Creapure, on which a large chunk of creatine monohydrate research has been performed.
bschwarz··on Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?
CM42 Central is a workable replacement and FOSS but there's definitely room for improvement.
bschwarz··on A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)
Light pollution is probably a good proxy measure for wealth in the local population after a certain point.
bschwarz··on Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
Try a keyboard with very light keys and a trackpad that allows you to tap instead of pressing. The Svalboard is one such keyboard and helped me greatly - I don't even think about the finger tip pain anymore at this point.
bschwarz··on Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron Keyboards
Currently using a Magic Trackpad, but might upgrade to a trackball for convenience. It's supposedly on par with standalone trackballs!
bschwarz··on Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron Keyboards
No discussion about ergonomics is complete without a mention of the Svalboard[0], a spiritual successor to the DataHand you can actually purchase today. I'm not affiliated in any way, just a happy user who's career has been saved by the Svalboard when no other ergonomic keyboard could.

[0] https://svalboard.com

bschwarz··on Svalboard: Datahand Lives
It's also quite a bit cheaper than unsuccessful physiotherapy, occupational therapy and other medical interventions. And no, simply lifting weights does not fix all musculoskeletal issues (RSI).

I'd say it's well worth the price for people that need it!

bschwarz··on Svalboard: Datahand Lives
Here's a demonstration of 120 WPM on the Lalboard, the base/inspiration for Svalboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMhOIgrdeE0

I'm currently sitting at around 90 WPM on the Svalboard - slower than I was on a normal keyboard but now pain-free.

bschwarz··on Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
The boring exercises too were once novel but you're right in that continued progression is the most important thing. However, you can't improve what you don't measure.
bschwarz··on Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
Struggled to find a specific comment earlier today via Algolia, found it as the second result on Vectara.
bschwarz··on 'Darwin's oak' to be felled
For half a millennium countless people have made the decision to let this oak tree live, yet - quite asymmetrically - just six people will get to remove it from our planet.

This really isn't too different from the recent felling at the Sycamore Gap.

bschwarz··on Manipulative Consent Requests
The only acceptable cookie banner is none at all.
bschwarz··on Running everyday to escape stresses may lead to dependence not mental wellbeing
Related study on mountaineering https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00406-022-01476-8
bschwarz··on 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)
...in sedentary men
bschwarz··on Hafting an Axe: DIY (2020)
The wood of ash branches in particular is especially nice for this purpose. Hornbeam as well!
bschwarz··on Growing a home apothecary
There is also the capitulare de villis[0] from around AD 800. The German Wikipedia entry has a well formatted list of all the plants and trees. Very interesting!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulare_de_villis

bschwarz··on What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
Please post a picture of your hammock setup, it sounds very interesting!
bschwarz··on Ultimate Hacking Keyboard
Unfortunately the μTRON was discontinued in early 2017 and finding one online now is incredibly rare - I know because I've been looking ever since!

Some TRON heritage lives on in the Esrille NISSE and the Keyboardio Model 01, although they don't feature Topre switches.

bschwarz··on FixYT
Thanks, that's a good idea. This would eliminate the need to download anything and make it usable from mobile without any additional steps!
bschwarz··on FixYT
After getting fed up with the ongoing changes to subscriptions I created a barebones tool to act as a replacement. No Google/Youtube account needed, new videos are fetched using the API, setup is git clone and open in browser.

https://github.com/adabei/tubeless/

bschwarz··on Living Surveillance Free for a Day
I've been thinking about getting an "loyalty card" untied to my person but I haven't figured out a way to do this other than getting somebody to sign up and give me his card. This is because (at least here) they will send you your card in the mail, you can't really lie about any contact information.
bschwarz··on [dead]
This would have to be a removable sticker in order to be a serious solution.
bschwarz··on Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
They did search the plane according to the foreign ministry's Twitter https://twitter.com/Minoritenplatz8/status/35232163910871449...
bschwarz··on Opera 15 released
I didn't expect them to release a stable build this fast. The current build is still lacking a lot of features which might alienate some users forever.

And while they didn't add native bookmark support (they really seem to want to push this) they have released an official bookmark extension which is also a work in progress. You can get it here: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/bookmarks-man...

bschwarz··on Opera Mail – standalone mail client
Opera Mail (previously M2) is probably still using the Presto engine (and the old interface) as they seem to have just extracted it from previous releases. Thus it is incompatible with their new version and Chromium.
bschwarz··on Google Reader alternative with BitNami and Tiny Tiny RSS
If you are only interested in exporting your feeds (and no metadata) you can use this URL: https://www.google.com/reader/subscriptions/export?hl=en and skip Takeout.
bschwarz··on What if I lost my laptop?
If there's no way to use the computer the thief will instead wipe the disk making it impossible to track.
bschwarz··on Build your own Google TV using Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Socket.io
I've tried Raspbmc and ran into all kinds of weird problems. As a result I installed Raspbian, added XBMC myself and have been happy ever since.
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