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dmtroyer··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
we are also flooded with the highly curated exceptionalism of others.
dmtroyer··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
do countries other than the US have chiropractors?
dmtroyer··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
wow this article really struck a chord.
dmtroyer··on Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
IoweIowe
dmtroyer··on Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font
was also confused...
dmtroyer··on Apple HomeView
I double checked that it wasn't April 1st.
dmtroyer··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
I'll throw my anecdote into the mix that I haven't had any trouble, with mission control or otherwise.
dmtroyer··on Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
they spend almost a whole page addressing this.

... Alzheimer’s disease symptoms typically develop after patients’ working years, with only 5-10% of cases occurring in people younger than 65 years (early onset).11 14 While subtle symptoms could develop earlier, they would still most likely be after a person had worked long enough to deem the occupation to be a so-called usual occupation ...

dmtroyer··on Health NZ staff told to stop using ChatGPT to write clinical notes
sounds like they need a better instructions.md
dmtroyer··on Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports
also, I'm not sure retailers are necessarily to blame. some use pretty simple math in calculating the retail price based on cost and don't necessarily have visibility into the tariffs.
dmtroyer··on Little Free Library
agreed, it is a net benefit, but maybe not the intention. I drop off books in these regularly that probably have decent resale value (relatively speaking) but very rarely find anything I am interested in reading.
dmtroyer··on Little Free Library
any idea what app they were using? I want an app to scan a bookshelf for books I want or may want to read.
dmtroyer··on Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports
Based on the graph, the increase in cost to the retailer was $0.49 and they marked up $1.10. I imagine this is pretty standard markup but multiplies the effect of the tariff and passes it to the consumer, not to mention the producer and importer.
dmtroyer··on Little Free Library
I’m convinced people pick these over to resell the books in some cities.
dmtroyer··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
Is the RAV4 PHEV still seeing huge markups in the US?
dmtroyer··on Bye Bye Gmail
oh, yeah, I dont' use it very seriously. mostly a secondary personal address.
dmtroyer··on Bye Bye Gmail
that's fair. I was thinking more of an easy way to use a custom domain for email.
dmtroyer··on Bye Bye Gmail
iCloud is also a decent option. Works well for me.
dmtroyer··on Volvo EX60 Targets 400-Mile Range and Coffee-Stop Charging
It's unfortunate many people will be hauling around all of that battery for no reason.
dmtroyer··on Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
also happened to me.
dmtroyer··on Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling
I would have appreciated seeing this at the top of the article.
dmtroyer··on Reading RSS content is a skilled activity
agreed. don't be afraid to use the mark all as read button!
dmtroyer··on Reading RSS content is a skilled activity
funny, I am revisiting rss as a means to escape social media algorithms and doomscrolling. there are lots of good resources in the comments to even further fine tune RSS beyond just being careful about what I subscribe to.
dmtroyer··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
Are pilots landing at DCA conditioned to ignore TCAS warnings on approach? Would there have been one?
dmtroyer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
are you able to post salaries?
dmtroyer··on Ask HN: Can calculus be taught without differentiating or integrating by hand?
I always thought my calculus 1 & 2 courses focused too much on writing solutions without really understanding concepts. I was pretty lost in calculus 3 and 4.
dmtroyer··on Bad Manors: The McMansion as Harbinger
Never? Really? There’s plenty of complaints of the 1% and their excess.
dmtroyer··on What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015)
Funny, I'm right at 8000Hz like the peak of their distribution. I've had tinnitus for years but never knew the frequency until now.
dmtroyer··on SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
smells funny to me.
dmtroyer··on SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
> took half a day to implement + test

anyone else have trouble completely disregarding the whole of the article when they see things like this?

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