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elchief··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
I started volunteering at my local bike kitchen co-op, mostly just to meet like-minded people
elchief··on Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager
i wonder if there are any kidneys or other organs on their 3rd person...

like the donee dies, and the original kidney goes on to someone else

elchief··on Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
I thought it was neat that the dyneema string he used is the same stuff they use on new (expensive) bike spokes
elchief··on Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning
They'll be too dumb from CO2 poisoning to understand the problem!
elchief··on University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013)
I remember walking around Oxford and seeing "New College" with the date of 1379
elchief··on The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]
well it's not a free market anyway, and supply has been severely constrained for decades, so I'm okay with not screwing renters
elchief··on 90210 – running the show without property tax
I just want AI to write and "film" the third season of Mindhunter, that's watchable
elchief··on Show HN: I Derived a Pancake
here's kenji's recipe (footnote 64 in the article, in case you missed it lol):

https://www.seriouseats.com/light-and-fluffy-pancakes-recipe

elchief··on The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients
"eat less ultra-processed food"

well, how do you think Canola Oil is made exactly?

it's cracked, cooked, pressed, washed in hexane and acid, neutralized with caustic soda, bleached, deodorized

on what planet is that not ultra processed?

so, i should avoid ultra-processed food, except oils that are ultra-processed?

whereas tallow, is...cut from meat

i'm not suggesting you should only eat tallow, I'm just saying it's not ultra-processed.

elchief··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
i find earplugs so uncomfortable that it ruins my night
elchief··on Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)
put everyone's birthday in your calendar, and wish them a happy birthday (at least a text) every year

like their stuff on social media

friendships ebb and flow, as people get married, have kids, get divorced, kids become independent, move away, move back. don't give up on a friend even if they disappear for a few years when they first have kids

try to arrange at least an annual in-person meet up, if in the same city

try to involve them in your interests, and try to take up their interests, or at least be curious

fantasy football is helpful. golf as you get older. baseball games. meet for lunch if you're in their part of town. host parties for events like super bowl, the oscars, stuff like that

elchief··on I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
I'm slightly annoyed that vite's default port isn't 8483
elchief··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Kipchoge broke 2h a few years ago, but it was on a closed, low altitude track, with a fleet of rotating runners in front of him, providing wind blocking/drafting as well as pacing

Amazing these guys did it in a real race with no one in front of them (at the end at least)

elchief··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Not necessarily genetic. They run a lot, at altitude, from childhood
elchief··on Pole of Inaccessibility
I guess Furiosa is set near Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia then...

(The first chapter of the movie is titled The Pole of Inaccessibility)

elchief··on Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes
Didn't Doyle support the White Feather movement, which led to many suicides?
elchief··on Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All
duckdb has it

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/sql/query_syntax/groupby

elchief··on I have a GPS bike computer
actually, i think i'll use an old android phone...
elchief··on I have a GPS bike computer
can anyone recommend a cheap but good bike computer with turn-by-turn nav? (for mountain biking)
elchief··on Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
Exercise,sleep,vitamin d, omega 3, curcumin

And avoiding putting stuff in your body that makes your immune system react like air pollution, microplastics, hyper processed foods

elchief··on Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
Exercise raises acute inflammation but lowers chronic inflammation
elchief··on Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/inflammation-...
elchief··on Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
I've heard the zinc kind is less likely to leach bad chemicals into your blood stream. is this true?
elchief··on Yes, the Book of PF, Fourth Edition Is Coming Soon
Don't know if it's allowed here, but I'm selling my PC Engines APU2 if anyone is interested :)

It has OpnSense installed, but you can install anything you want

4GB RAM, 16GB ssd, wifi

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4038077093121720

elchief··on Deep Research as a Swim Coach
didn't know Total Immersion was canonical, but I'm glad someone else thinks so!
elchief··on Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One
Metabase is written in clojure, if you want to see the source code of a large web app

https://github.com/metabase/metabase

elchief··on DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
I wish to god they would allow 2 connections. One read-only for my BI tool, and one read-write for dbt/sqlmesh
elchief··on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
I cant see Mozilla surviving this. This is something monopolies get away with, not also-rans
elchief··on Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything
and yet

One in Four US Households Likely Exceed New Soil Lead Guidance Levels

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GH00...

elchief··on Understanding the trade-offs of using Tailwind CSS
I respect what tailwind has done

But, here's an issue for me: it makes your (cacheable/compressible) CSS smaller and your (uncacheble/uncompressible) HTML larger

Of course, you can cache and compress HTML. Unless you're using TLS, then you should not compress HTML (see BREACH). And unless you have any dynamic data on your page, then you won't be using caching...

And Tailwind makes HTML responses quite a bit larger

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