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emsy··on There has never been a better time to be short
You can win a few inches by supplying HGH during adolescence.
emsy··on There has never been a better time to be short
I'm also very short. I will probably give my children hormones to be taller, but just to be around their age average. I don't think you should deliberately make your children smaller unless it poses a health risk or they are female. For me personally, being short isn't much of an issue. As I get older, the advantages are increasing. I don't have many of the back problems friends in my age have and the injuries from falls are much less severe with every inch fewer.
emsy··on Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world
This is a comment only an engineer could come up with. It's not a "grey zone" ffs. You compare talking to people in order to do your job with teaching a class of pubescent kids or wiping old people's asses. Those are not even remotely comparable.
emsy··on The Physics of baking good Pizza (2018)
The role of a pizza stone is to provide heat from the bottom. The important part is how much heat is released over what time. If you have an oven that is very hot, you find yourself needing a stone that doesn’t transfer as much heat (e.g. made from clay) , because your bottom will burn (with a coridierite stone for example). In ovens, you need all the heat you can get. From what I’ve heard baking steels work best for ovens.
emsy··on Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
You a G!
emsy··on A Linux Evening
It’s a reappearing issue with Linux that you run into problems other operating systems don’t have to this degree. Which is sad, because seeing the direction Windows 11 is heading towards, I’d like for Linux to achieve widespread adoption.
emsy··on Crypto’s Final Price Could Be Zero
Mainstream media’s final reputation could be zero.
emsy··on The truffle industry is a scam
It was made by a new-age-y friend with self-salvaged truffles.
emsy··on The truffle industry is a scam
Does this apply to the EU? I had store bought truffle oil and self-made truffle oil and both tasted similar, so maybe it’s more regulated over here.
emsy··on Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak
German speakers are giggling over the headline (kakapo means poopoo butt)
emsy··on You can't store Kanye West interview in your Gdrive for violation of hate speech
Isn’t that kinda proving some of his remarks his right?
emsy··on C++ audio mixing library design
I'm a huge fan of Shovel Knights sound so I'm looking forward to Mina the Hollower!
emsy··on Overwatch 2 will require a phone number to play
I figure you don’t regularly play CSGO then ;)
emsy··on Why modern software is slow
Your comparing gigabytes of data to a few MB. Now that hardly seems fair.
emsy··on RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
WebOS is so much better than AndroidTV or the Samsung and Philipps OSes my previous TVs had. I actually have no need to use a Media Stick.
emsy··on Cairo: Alternative Windows Desktop
The point of border menus is that they are virtually infinitely high, meaning they’re easy to hit because you only need to aim at the horizontal position.
emsy··on Quantum tunneling makes DNA more unstable
Doesn’t even have to be an unknown effect, just known effects we’re not aware are at work would be a huge discovery.
emsy··on YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
I already spend much less time on YT since they butchered their recommendations. Now I‘ll think twice before clicking on a video, so I very much welcome this change. Just as you can watch incredible videos about every topic on YouTube, you can waste hours watching junk. To me, this change is a great incentive not to do the latter.
emsy··on Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=apple+reject
emsy··on Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch
The problem is that this is not something Apple wants to have on the App Store. They reject apps they deem arbitrarily unsuitable all the time.
emsy··on Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
Regulation, full stop. The reason Big tech makes so much profits is because they have no accountability and at their scale, social shaming doesn’t work.
emsy··on The Zimbu programming language
Pretty rich, coming from the guy that created Vimscript (and I say that as a Vim fan).
emsy··on Some Epson printers are programmed to stop working after a certain amount of use
I understand the reason for the change, but thanks for mentioning the original title in the comment. I think it's really funny.
emsy··on Ask HN: PayPal dismissed my claim, saying I didn't provide evidence (yet I did)
Request a chargeback at your bank and accept that PayPal will close your account.
emsy··on EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved
You are forced to download the Facebook app?
emsy··on Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover
>It is an expensive process so it must have an evolutionary advantage.

>But from what I remember there is good evidence that it improves the baby’s immune system among many other things.

>So bottom line is in the absence of massive amounts of strong evidence against breastfeeding, by default you should favour it.

These are all bad arguments.

emsy··on WeatherKit
Apple could use this to build a weather app for the ipad. Calculator kit when?
emsy··on Development Environments
Not everyone works on small codebases. Encouraging refactoring is a good thing.
emsy··on Forces that fuel friendship
That’s Reddit. On HN I sometimes find people with niche interests and expertise in all kinds of fields, which I like. It’s also relatively civilized. You don’t need to be a 4-chan edgelord to be not-normie.
emsy··on I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
I stand somewhat corrected, but you have to admit that rule has never really been enforced.
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