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firecall··on Ask HN: Have you created a 'fake' (pseudo anonymous) social account; if so, why?
It’s standard practice to create multiple Facebook accounts to manage Facebook Ads.

Never ever use your own Facebook account, and make sure you have multiple connected.

Some agencies have vigorous practices around it due to the nightmares of getting banned or locked out of creating ads.

Same with Google.

You just can’t or rather shouldn’t run big ad accounts using your own Google or Facebook accounts. But yet these companies don’t have a concept of accounts for just admin and business purposes.

firecall··on Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"
You could probably take some pills that will make you think you are! LOL

I feel like testosterone therapy should be more readily available….

firecall··on Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"
Agreed. That’s really my thoughts.

The internet or rather the crawlable WWW itself has changed.

The WWW content itself is no longer what it was.

firecall··on Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells
Interestingly, when I was part of a weight loss diet study at my local university I actually gained muscle whilst losing weight.

I had multiple full body dexascans during the programme.

I didn’t change my exercise routine at all. I wasn’t hitting the gym or doing weights, just my usual basic cardio.

And I gained muscle and lost ~10kilos in weight.

It wasn’t much muscle, but the amount of muscle was higher than before.

firecall··on The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver
Warning: May Cause Seizures
firecall··on Windows 11 ISOs for ARM64 devices
So can this be used to create a VM on Apple Silicon Macs?
firecall··on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
Regardless of what you think of The Guardian, if you are posting on X, then you may as well be posting on 4-Chan at this point.
firecall··on Replacing my $8000 Mac Pro with a $1400 Mac mini [video]
I don’t know for sure.

It’s dual link DVI.

So maybe you’d need Dual Link DVI to mDP, then mDP to USBC?

Or maybe a TB2 style adapter to TB3. Instead of mDP. I think Apple sold one of those?

I googled and Dual Link DVI to mDP seems to exist!

firecall··on Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge
No, it's not right!

And I agree with you!

I truly don't understand why this is contentious.

firecall··on Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever
My strategy would be to go for redundancy:

The physical book can contain a QR Code, Barcode, printed URL and so on, that’s correct at the time of print.

But then leave hints on how to search and find the book online if those resources are not available.

Such as a promise to list the book with your Author name, book title, ISBN and so on.

Then replicate the content across the internet, and try to cross link to all the resources.

The only thing you can really trust is your own domain name, so that has to be the base right now.

firecall··on As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory
Dev tools:

Familiarity and muscle memory for the layout of the chrome dev tools is what keeps me using Chrome during the day.

That and Chrome profiles!

I do happily switch to another browser for actual web browsing things.

firecall··on Ask HN: How is the job search going?
There is a maxim in marketing that consumer spending slows on the run up to an election.

Something like the 2024 US election has an impact globally.

Like I say, it’s a maxim and YMMV!

However, the election distraction effect could certainly be impacting recruitment.

firecall··on AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space
Far out LOL

That's amazing!

firecall··on There is mounting evidence that starting a business reduces stress
There is Good Stress, and there is Bad Stress!

Being in a stressful situation that you have little or no control over is likely creating a bad form of stress. Such as being trapped in a corporate job under a toxic management structure.

However, dealing with your growing business and recruiting to fulfill more orders than you can otherwise handle, that's probably a good stress.

Watching your business collapse and orders vanish, thats a bad stress!

Stress isn't one thing, and running a business generally creates stress at both ends of the Good Stress vs Evil Stress Tier List! ;-)

Now financial security on the other hand, that has to be around the top of the Stress Reduction list!

firecall··on Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
It's required to pause and give the parts 20 Seconds to Comply!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1uR-OFLGCE

firecall··on Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
Why don't they have 360 vision?

Why does it need to turn its head or it's torso?

Maybe just to make it more humanoid?

firecall··on Bulma CSS Framework
I hate gambling ads and casinos.

But I reckon in this case, if I had to guess, I think maybe it's an external or internal developer that's making lots of Casino websites. Maybe they work for a group that owns all those brands?

Surely it can't be individual casinos, where Bullma is big in the Casino website development space and has grown in that sector by word of mouth!? LOL

firecall··on Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment
If you own an EV and have a Smart Meter, you can get these rates with OVO!
firecall··on How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs
Will JPEG XL support return to Chrome?

Apple supporting it surely has to be a signal to begin wider adoption!?

firecall··on It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world
I also recently started taking Saxenda, and I’ll give my take on what they mean:

I found it remarkable that almost immediately after taking the drug it began to work.

And by work I mean that it removed any thoughts I had about eating.

What you feel like eating isn’t a thought or conversation with yourself that you have any more.

It’s a rather strange feeling, but also one you don’t notice as it’s an absence of something that you don’t even miss once it’s gone!

LOL - seeing as this is HN, I’ll make a joke and go as far to say that these drugs are a productivity unlock hack!

Why waste time eating when you could be building the next unicorn!

firecall··on ST Book, the Notebook Atari ST
>Active-matrix was the much better, much more costly alternative. The difference being that passive matrix could not handle motion well, so it was easy to lose track of the mouse cursor if it moved across the screen too rapidly.

For the kids today, this is why we used to have Mouse Trails in settings!

I just checked on my Mac, and we no longer seem to have that option.

firecall··on iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos
Who’s to say they won’t at some point?

This isn’t about punishing Apple.

It’s about economic opportunity for EU citizens and businesses.

The EU has a responsibility to promote the prosperity of its citizens. If that means dictating how a US company does business, then that’s what they are going to do. Which is the EUs prerogative.

As an aside, and something that is seldom mentioned, but if Apple and the other trillion dollar tech giants just paid their fair share of taxes then they may not be in this mess!

firecall··on iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos
No, it is not!

Brexit meant leaving the EU.

firecall··on Ask HN: Can a 5 year old i7 laptop compete with one made today?
It’s not just CPU either!

The GPU and other I/O makes a noticeable difference to quality of life IMHO.

firecall··on Ask HN: Can a 5 year old i7 laptop compete with one made today?
You don’t need to do that anymore!

You can just buy batteries that will do USB-C PD.

Then you get a versatile external battery solution for charging multiple devices!

firecall··on Meta Fires Employee Making $400k per Year over a $25 Meal Voucher
Far out!

Salaries in the rest of the world really can't compete can they!

firecall··on Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment
To encourage this, here in South Australia, households can get free power between 11am and 2pm, to charge their EVs.

We also charge our home batteries and run other things like the dishwasher, washing machine and so on...

It's actually a bit of a thing, where you can be out and the 11am alarms on peoples phones will start going off!

firecall··on Ask HN: Can humans reason or are they just stochastic parrots?
As an aside, The TV Miniseries 'DEVS' covers freewill in an interesting way.

The TV show, is I believe, based on a book.

DEVS focuses on the question of if humans exhibit freewill to make choices, or are our choices determined by the preceding events?

Where I suppose, if we can reason, can we then make choices (freewill) based on the outcome of our reasoning?

firecall··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
I don’t agree they are a crutch.

However, if they are, then modern life is a sledge hammer that’s constantly breaking your legs.

Our (US, UK, Australia and so on) life styles and food chain have created this obesity problem.

We are now a sedentary population, and low-nutrient high-calorie food is being made readily available to stressed, tired, overworked, and economically challenged people. When you are stressed and tired, you don’t make the best choices!

These drugs are not so much a crutch as they are a rescue helicopter!

We still need education though.

These drugs might reduce hunger, but they won’t stop you from consuming junk-food. People are used to overeating, and a feeling full isn’t always what’s stopping them from eating!

So we do absolutely need to address the root of problem….

firecall··on In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)
Thats exactly the problem I'm having!

Working with my GP to titrate off Sertraline (Zoloft) at the moment.

My GP, like many others, wasnt really aware of the issues with getting off the drugs!

I describe the brain zaps as like a wave of electricity.

Like a Sci-Fi pulsing wave. As if i've got some sort of giant capacitor discharging in my brain.

The sort of thing from a 50s Sci-Fi movie thats a tower of electricity, glowing and pulsing and radiating an electrical light show!

Exactly the sort of thing that might re-animate Frankenstein!

It's not painful as such, but it's debilitating and causes you to literally pause and make a sharp intake of breath.

I hate being on the bloody things. Wish I'd never started them. CBT is much more effective in the long term, for me. YMMV.

I find SSRIs kill my motivation and creativity.

I'd really suggest anyone think twice before assuming these pills, that GPs dish out like candy, are an easy and consequence free solution!

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