glormph
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2 years ago
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on: Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)
I considered a lung plus but the risk of tripping while running and it hitting my teeth made me buy a mask instead which also covers the nose. Icicles form on that too though.
glormph
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2 years ago
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on: Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)
Maybe when going fast on a bike, they'd cool down faster. I remember from ice skating below 0C that if I didn't wear sports glasses, my eyes would hurt afterwards in the warm dressing room. I've always attributed that to them "thawing" although that's probably not literally what they do.
glormph
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2 years ago
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on: A complete guide to building a hand-wired keyboard (2020)
I agree that looks and deskspace is not something to optimize for and number entering is great on the number pad, but the ergonomics expert at my job informed us that shorter hand travel to the mouse is better against straining or something, so not using numpads would help. Or move the mouse/trackpad to the left.
glormph
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2 years ago
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on: Own-goal football (2022)
Still, I was surprised when someone told me the rule was "at least two opponent players between you and the goal line" instead of only one. I had never thought of the keeper.
glormph
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Ha, I learned about no soap on HN some years ago, a HNer claiming their lovers thought the no-soap skin smelled great. I guess it's likely that other bacterial species may thrive on your skin when not washing with soap (soap washing would remove more bacteria, only allowing fast-multiplying bacteria to repopulate the area, while water-washing would leave more different species). Not sure if the microbiome difference is better/healthier/nicer smelling. I jumped at the "my lovers loved it" recommendation and gave it a try (still used shampoo, no success excluding that, washed hands, used deodorant and paid extra care to smelly areas), and the armpits definitely smelled differently (but hardly like flowers) after a while of this practice, __to me__. As pointed out already, that may be have been my olfaction getting used to my newly acquired BO, like not noticing the smell of your own house, but others' houses smell different. My post-training clothes still smelled terrible.
glormph
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4 years ago
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on: Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts
There have been some no-soap discussions on HN and I think a user called graeme described something similar, some years ago.
I've tried not using shampoo but it was mainly rough and then I gave up (too early?). Anyway, I also wonder about possible benefits in not using detergents for skin biome (including a nicer odour), so soap is for my hands (interfaces with potential pathogens) and greasy stuff. The rest is easily cleaned with water.
glormph
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4 years ago
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on: Why do we use R rather than Excel?
Also, if you need to do something (even once) and have to know how you did it three months later, write a script.
glormph
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5 years ago
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on: We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril
Ticks have eight legs and are thus not insects, but more closely related (I think?) to spiders.
glormph
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5 years ago
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on: Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake
Not that my statistics knowledge is great, but I wonder why they don't show fig.4 with SD bars? (Or if the plot represents the model, show the data points the model was fitted to?)
Edit: fig.4, not fig.3
glormph
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5 years ago
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on: Children’s role in spread of virus bigger than thought
Exactly. The paper itself concludes somewhat softer that "children may be a potential source of contagion in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in spite of milder disease or lack of symptoms"
The patient group consisted of "children ... presenting to urgent care clinics or being hospitalized for confirmed/suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children", so they are pre-selected , making the role of the full amount of children in the population in spreading harder to know.
As you note, that doesnt rule it out either.
glormph
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5 years ago
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on: The social obligation to be bad at things
To me this also works the other way around. If am overly critical to others' work, my own work suffers. Only realized this now, thanks.
glormph
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5 years ago
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on: 40-60% of the unexposed produce Covid-19 antibodies due to earlier cold exposure [pdf]
AFAIK it depends on how long lived the antibody response is. Memory cells can last different amounts of time for different infections, or (like for certain calicivirus infections?) hardly develop at all. Have no nice paper on hand to back this up though. But if it's a short lived response (as in years, not decades), it's good to be freshly exposed and like another commenter said, kids get colds all the time. And likely parents of young children too (I know I did). Maybe that helps?
glormph
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5 years ago
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on: 'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects
I had never heard that about sunlight before, but if true, it seems impractical to roll out ICU beds into the sun. (Not sure if patients outside of hospital would need blood thinning of course.)
Edit: read too quick when typing "outside of hospital", ambulantory care has nothing to do with ambulances.
glormph
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6 years ago
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on: Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high
Maybe I'm misreading your comment, but the outcome of quarantining measures is not only monetary. If the economy suffers more to solve the current crisis, more people will die because of secondary effects. I guess that is included in the calculations.
glormph
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Smallest laptop that is decent for coding?
Actually, while indeed heavier, I was surprised that my 2018 13" fit in the sleeve of my older 11" MBA. A bit snug, but the screen width seems to have expanded inside the frame. And yes, while the widths are fairly similar, the depths are not.
glormph
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6 years ago
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on: Why Google Did Android
Maybe I'm mixing my timelines but when was this? I thought the N9 was released a couple of years after the first iphone? Around the time there was iphone4?
glormph
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
Not sure if you're being intentionally ironic about "not a narcissist but perfect" :).
I'd echo the rest of your comment with my MD friend's "narcissists can't be treated, they think there is no problem and pointing out what they are doing only makes them think that their behaviour is actually good...".
glormph
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6 years ago
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on: How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
They possibly undergo some reaction in the reindeer's liver to break them down, before excreting them in urine.
glormph
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6 years ago
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on: Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment
Not that I know much about fasting, but by fasting you mean you skip breakfast, eat healthy and that's it? That sounds like a lot lower hanging fruit than I thought it'd be, thanks!
glormph
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6 years ago
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on: Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)
Although they share origins, Italian calzone is not Swedish kalsonger, Swedish husbonde is not English husband.
