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jazoom··on “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”
Vivaldi. But if desktop Firefox gets as slick as the new Firefox Preview on Android is becoming I might start using it on desktop.
jazoom··on “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”
The hiding www thing along with AMP in general made me finally leave Chrome after over a decade using it. I don't use Firefox, though.
jazoom··on Has esketamine been overhyped?
Commenters so far haven't actually answered your question. They just gave examples where the 2 enantiomers have different effects. There are countless examples of these since our bodies' molecules naturally have "handedness".

What you were essentially asking was would 100% of the "bad" enantiomer be significantly worse than a 50/50 mixture. This is the real question here. For there to be a significant difference in this case one of the ketamine enantiomers would need to counteract the other's ill effects.

Disclaimer: although I am a medical doctor, and my first University degree was in organic chemistry and biochemistry, some of this academic stuff is but a hazy memory for me.

jazoom··on The Rust compiler is still getting faster
I'm a Rust noob but I think skunkopalypse was making some good points. I wish people didn't vote down his/her comment to death and actually replied to it so I could learn why he/she wasn't right.
jazoom··on OwnCloud Switches from PHP to Go
Running a binary really should be easier than installing a runtime and directories full of code. I'd be even more inclined to reach for a container in the latter case.
jazoom··on Canadian cities take wooden skyscrapers to new heights
Plus it sequesters carbon
jazoom··on Show HN: Sinuous – Small, fast, reactive UI library
I've started learning Rust after many years of NodeJS. In the past 3 weeks I've seen more "blazing" in Rust library marketing than in all my years of NodeJS combined.
jazoom··on Ask HN: Suggest me a new programming language with small user community to learn
Lua is 26 years old. The OP said younger than Go. Go is 9 years old.
jazoom··on We Changed YugaByte DB Licensing to Apache 2.0
>However, the reality is that CockroachDB is not yet at the levels of adoption where AWS would be interested. So why did Cockroach Labs make the change?

Because it's too late once they get to that stage. The licence needs to be changed ahead of time. Because companies generally try to plan ahead more than a few months into the future.

I was following along with you until this point, but now I feel like you're trying to hard to paint these companies in a negative light and not give any benefit of the doubt.

I use CockroachDB and I have looked into your database recently. If I recall, your database dashboard was in the enterprise version only. I may look at it again now. I'll try to give you the benefit of the doubt (that you're not intentionally misrepresenting your competitors) even though you don't seem to be so charitable with your competitors.

Edit: Looks like dashboard is still proprietary. Also FYI, this page is unusable on my Pixel 2XL:

https://www.yugabyte.com/platform/#ee-1

jazoom··on To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
usually I just do !g and that solves the problem ;-)

But also, thank you. I didn't realise there were so many bangs.

jazoom··on To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
I try to use and like DDG, but the results just aren't as good. For example, it seems to be completely unaware of Docker Hub. Like, pages from that entire subdomain never show up. I can search "Docker hub" and it doesn't even show up.
jazoom··on Ask HN: Why shouldn’t I roll my own password manager?
bitwarden_rs might be a good starting point
jazoom··on Ask HN: Has anyone got a job by contributing to open source projects?
Sounds like you made your own luck
jazoom··on The forgotten joy of soap
Some people smoke for 50 years and never get lung cancer.

Body oils have compounds in them that do things other than act as a simple emollient.

I'm not trying to convince you to change what you're doing. I'm just saying it's not as simple as you're making it out to be.

jazoom··on The forgotten joy of soap
I don't know about long term harm but it won't replicate all the effects of natural skin oils. Our oils contain compounds that keep the acidity just right and keep microbes from taking over. We've evolved those oils over a long time.
jazoom··on The forgotten joy of soap
In general people should probably bathe less than they do in Western nations. I'm also not aware of any specific studies. Warm water is generally enough, except perhaps in areas that are prone to odour (armpits, groin, etc.).

Bathing is more a social issue than a health issue.

jazoom··on The forgotten joy of soap
I use Enya. 1L for $2.99 from Chemist Warehouse. Probably actually has some soapiness in it but claims to be soap-free. Nowhere near as harsh as bar soap. Smells decent. Lathers well. Australian-made.

Wife gets QV Wash, which is less harsh and generally recommended as a gentle cleanser. Expensive, though. Also Australian-made. If you have dry skin, atopic dermatitis, etc. this is what you need.

Cetaphil is in the same section. About as expensive. Doesn't lather as well. Not sure if Australian-made.

jazoom··on The forgotten joy of soap
My wife (also a doctor) actually started buying some bars for exactly that reason. Unfortunately they were too harsh. It's an unsolved problem, as far as I know.

Once there's enough demand, I'm sure manufacturers will follow the dollars.

jazoom··on The forgotten joy of soap
I don't know if that Dove bar has soap in it, but there are many non-soap cleansers of varying degrees of harshness. I only know the brands available in Australia.
jazoom··on The forgotten joy of soap
What you're interpreting as "clean feeling" is likely stripping your skin of its protective oils. That's why we (doctors) don't recommend soaps as a general rule. That oil is there for a reason.
jazoom··on The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar
How far did you look? I've already bought one of these new chips in Australia from a local computer store. I don't know what your definition of "launched" is, but it's obviously much more exacting than mine.
jazoom··on Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6
They've stuffed up my billing every month for 12 months now. I've told them numerous times and they still can't fix whatever problem they have.

I'm glad other people are having more luck with them.

jazoom··on Reinventing Firefox for Android
But then when you go to enter a URL it jumps to the top. That was annoying as I was pasting in all the URLs from my other browser.
jazoom··on Alpine 3.10 Released
It's not ambiguous. As noted by the parent of the comment you're replying to, this is standard practice with Docker images/tags.

Personally, I prefer to specify even the patch level to avoid any kind of surprise, but I can understand why some people would want to be able to specify just the major release.

jazoom··on REST and GraphQL framework to build API-driven projects
>it's old

Same age as JavaScript and Python is 5 years older still. I hear a lot more about these 2 languages. There must be more to it than simply age.

jazoom··on Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
Thank you. Unfortunately I've moved on to Vivaldi (happily). If your solution works I didn't find it, nor did any internet searching help me to find it.
jazoom··on Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
Even extensions in Firefox can't customise the page you see when you open the browser! I used a "new tab" extension, but for some reason Firefox doesn't treat the first tab you open as a "new tab"(1). I quickly noticed heaps of annoyances like that when I recently tried to switch to Firefox.

1. I'm pretty sure there is an issue for this in their tracker but they don't seem to think it's important enough to fix.

jazoom··on Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
I see that stuff too. Not American.
jazoom··on Breast MRI in cancer survivors results in more unneeded biopsies
> but I would say that not doing tests because of the information hazard issue is a symptom that something is wrong

I agree with that. Unfortunately, what is wrong is probably something to do with human nature, and a system might not be able to fix that.

jazoom··on Breast MRI in cancer survivors results in more unneeded biopsies
Be academic all you like. However, I live in the real world, with real patients. I live in a world where I can tell a patient that a mole is completely benign and it still makes them anxious and they want me to cut it out.

Some people are anxious types. Few people can comprehend medical statistics. Even an intelligent person such as yourself doesn't seem to comprehend the danger that can come from a "check up".

After you've diagnosed thousands of patients and discovered hundreds of incidentalomas, perhaps then you can tell me how simple this is.

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