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dEnigma··on For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy
I'm pretty sure the Inuit diets in Alaska and Greenland are pretty similar though, at least in terms of macronutrients (i.e. a lot of fat).
dEnigma··on One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
This seems like a recreation of Cubeworld, which unfortunately seems pretty much dead now (but the developer disappeared for years at a time in the past too, so who knows). Too bad they changed a lot of the systems that made the game great for the Steam release.

https://picroma.com/

dEnigma··on I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand
For people with Gemini clients, this URL works:

gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/how-I-ended-liking-gnome.gmi

dEnigma··on What happens to used electric car batteries?
You can definitely buy powder in paper/cardboard packaging, at least here in Austria. But I just checked my box, and it's unfortunately not made from recycled fibers. At least recycling this won't be a problem.
dEnigma··on Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on Pfizer vaccine trial data integrity
Is your last claim a joke or serious? Because anecdotally I've seen almost the exact opposite in my social circles. But of course that's just personal experience.
dEnigma··on Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
But the real alternative is another (better) proposal, not keeping things as they are.
dEnigma··on Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
Why is the alternative automatically a triple room with no common area, and not simply a single room with at least a window (plus a common area)?
dEnigma··on OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind
A few years back I was playing OpenMW quite extensively, always on the lookout for potential bugs. I remember it getting harder and harder to find new issues, and for most of the ones I found in the last few months of that period I had to double- or triple-check with the original version to make sure it was an OpenMW-specific bug (often times it turned out it was a bug with the original game as well). I contributed some 100-150 bug reports, most of which I think are fixed by now (a bit hard to tell because they switched bug tracker in the meantime).

Funnily enough sometimes OpenMW worked too well. E.g. there is a script that damages the final boss for each of his "captains" that you kill, which never worked in the original version because IIRC the engine couldn't modify the health of an unloaded mob. In OpenMW it worked perfectly, with the side effect of subtracting exactly 100% of his health if you killed all underlings, resulting in you encountering a corpse as a final boss.

dEnigma··on Paracetamol use during pregnancy – a call for precautionary action
I see only one complaint in this thread, and that is your comment.
dEnigma··on Paracetamol use during pregnancy – a call for precautionary action
Same in Japan apparently

http://www.survivingnjapan.com/2011/01/how-to-find-tylenol-i...

dEnigma··on While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working
Okay, I've never thought of NOP as "no 'P'", so this caught me completely by surprise and made me laugh out loud.
dEnigma··on Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry
Solus.

Best "works out of the box" desktop Linux experience I've had; which made me stick with it. I recommend the Budgie edition for a clean desktop environment that stays out of your way and doesn't confuse you with a billion configuration options. The packaging process is also quite easy in my opinion. In case you want to add some software that isn't yet available in the repository; either for everyone or just for your own use.

As a possible pain point starting out I've heard the installer can be a bit finicky (I myself had no problems with it though).

https://getsol.us/home/

dEnigma··on Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016)
That's exactly what they're saying. Look at the first paragraph.
dEnigma··on A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
Do you experience any issues with it? Seeing as it hasn't been developed further since 2018, while youtube-dl is still being worked on (including new features).
dEnigma··on Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
Funnily enough I just read some more of the context around that comment and have to agree that it wasn't that bad. I think people, including myself, mostly remember the "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by[...]" part. Personally I always find that hilarious because e.g. my mother can trivially use Linux and Dropbox, but I would have an awful time trying to walk her through BrandonM's proposed setup.
dEnigma··on Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
Really cool of you to mention this publicly! As thehodge said in his comments this is far from usual, and most big websites would just silently renew their certificate without giving any credit.

> Yes, I know most of you can do this in 3 lines of Python and a cron job

At first I thought this was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous Dropbox dismissal by BrandonM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

dEnigma··on uBlock Origin review
To Hacker News, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's procrastination problems!
dEnigma··on Mirror image DNA polymerase has been engineered
I feel like this should link to the original tweet [1] or even the article behind it. Had to navigate through three layers of retweets to get there.

edit: Okay, I guess it's about the additional discussion below that particular tweet.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/NatureBiotech/status/142079563395...

dEnigma··on The weird world of Australian sea snakes
It's really sad that (most) animals don't understand when we want to save them from a perilous situation, and instead get frightened, and/or aggressive. Always lessens the feeling of having done a good thing to realize that the animal probably thought I was trying to eat it, with all the stress and panic that entails. But then again I might be humanizing them too much.

P.S. I can't imagine the stress of having small kids in an area with deadly animals. It's bad enough here in Austria, were there aren't as many dangers by far. Kids are too curious for their own good.

dEnigma··on Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
Wow, you're right. At least on Linux with Firefox 90.0.2 scrolling with the mouse wheel moves the page by such huge steps that it's basically unusable. Had to navigate with the arrow keys instead.
dEnigma··on Every Super Nintendo Port on the Game Boy Advance Compared (2020)
After reading your comment I had to check out the situation in the case of Donkey Kong Country, since that series has some of the most impressive SNES soundtracks in my opinion. While they did an impressive job, there is still a distinct difference between the two systems.

GBA: https://youtu.be/UlTgFb0qbxQ

SNES: https://youtu.be/_4EjGXRDOH0

edit: They added some interesting didgeridoo-like sound effects to "Forest Frenzy" though

dEnigma··on TimeTrack Raspberry Pi
The two office jobs I worked in Austria both had me punch in and out.
dEnigma··on Steve Jobs in Kyoto
I was also thinking about a drone view or simply scaling the walls or trees nearby to try to get a full view of all 15 stones. Unfortunately the Google Maps image is quite low resolution and I can't achieve enlightenment.
dEnigma··on Heat dome causing record breaking heat wave
"The primary component of the Earth's upper mantle, it is a common mineral in Earth's subsurface,[...]". This sentence, also from that same Wikipedia article, seems to suggest that availability wouldn't be the problem. But, whether the whole process is practical/reasonable, is another question entirely.
dEnigma··on Groundbreaking new bridge design could transform rail crossings across the UK
Counter question - do you think the team of engineers would scrap their whole, hard-earned design because e.g. they found out that after 20 years it would stain to an ugly yellowish hue in sunlight?
dEnigma··on Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
Hopefully not cavity emptor
dEnigma··on Book Review: Double Fold
,he said, ripping the first Gutenberg bible into shreds after copying it.
dEnigma··on Wayland: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative
I had forgotten about that redirection (and didn't read your note), so I thought you were making a crude joke with that link at first.
dEnigma··on Antibody levels highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic Covid
But not everything turns out as you'd expect, so it's important to actually test and provide evidence.
dEnigma··on Being Poor (2005)
I never saw this feeling expressed by anyone else. Had a period in my life where I was "heating got turned off"-poor. It took me quite some time after financially recovering until I felt comfortable spending money on anything other than the most basic food/clothing/etc. But now sometimes it just clicks and I realize that I can buy whatever I want (within reason, e.g. expensive foodstuff in the supermarket). Great feeling.
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