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by nothrabannosir | 2025-09-27 04:53:26+00:00
I have a similar story. Bought a Kinesis advantage II at the time and it provided at best some solace. Started lifting weights and all pain was completely gone within two weeks.

Not saying it will work for others but it’s at least worth trying.

PS I ended up sticking with the kinesis, now on a 360 pro. Hands down the best keyboard I’ve ever seen or used. I recommend both deadlifts and kinesis :)
by gregfjohnson | 2025-09-27 04:54:00+00:00
My programming brain has two modes. One is playful mode, and the other is drudge workaday mode. 9-to-5 Monday through Friday is workaday mode. Other times are playful mode. As it turns out, I am a far better programmer in one of those two modes. It won't be hard to guess which one. In drudge mode, I may spend three hours some afternoon trying to force my way through a problem. No turning back, the clock is ticking! In play mode if I spend three hours goofing around with the exact same problem and it's kinda not happening, well, screw it. That was sorta fun, but let's goof around with it some more and try something else. BANG! Sweet clean obvious beautiful solution straight from Erdos' BOOK. The powerful sense of joy in the latter mode sustains my love for programming, but I wish I could convince my lizard brain that it would be OK, indeed far better, to stay in play mode and not get sucked into the dark doldrums of drudge mode during "job" time.
Detecting Propaganda in Discussions about Raw Milk
by talkingtab | 2025-09-27 04:54:24+00:00
Here is an article about raw milk from a supposedly reputable source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/well/eat/health-myths-dairy.html

The question is whether we can detect an attempt to persuade us of a conclusion as opposed to having an open discussion.

There are several indicators or propaganda and one prominent one is the use of techniques to "guide" our thinking. To control the narrative. The significant event is this: "may destroy a small amount of certain nutrients in milk, she said, it’s not enough to make a real difference in how nutritious it is."

The place we are supposed to look is "nutrients". Hmmm. Is that the substantial issue about milk? We can think about this by wondering why most recommendations for mothers are to breast feed their children. Why would this be the case if pasteurized milk only differed from mother's milk by "a small amount of nutrients"? In fact we find no substantial recommendation that mothers pasteurize their milk before feeding it to children. There are certainly other reasons this is not recommended, but still if there is an issue of safety, one would expect in a reasonable discussion that this issue would be addressed.

Perhaps what we are possibly is some effort to limit the discussion to "nutrients". Are there possibly other components of raw milk that are in fact affected by pasteurization would affect the discussion?

I am not arguing here for or against raw milk. Instead I am interested in how to detect propaganda. I personally believe the raw milk discussion has become sensationalist. But this kind of "directed" discussion makes me wonder cui bono? And why is the NYT producing such shoddy reasoning?

I am increasingly aware of efforts to "guide" discussion with a range of techniques and wondering if other people see the same thing.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-27 04:59:30+00:00
PHEV drivetrain with a 50 mile all electric range: would handle virtually all of the situations.

Climbing a steep hill? EV drivetrains don't care and provide great torque. Start/stop? perfect. Regenerative braking? There you go. Need all-electric for a spell? Gas to extend range? Gas for AC/Heat? ok ok ok. Smooth operation? Low noise? Low/no emissions? yes yes yes Less wear? Less gas? Lower operating costs? Simpler drivetrains? Simpler repairs? yes to all of it.

Every bus should have been forced to be a PHEV drivetrain within a decade of the Prius/Insight being released in 1997. The USPS should have been all PHEV by then too.
by ezst | 2025-09-27 05:05:05+00:00
I second the sibling comment recommending XMPP. Take a mature server like ejabberd, set up your DNS and firewall, and you are good to go. Easy, secure, extremely reliable and scalable.

Matrix problem statement/what it set to do differently is "rooms should survive their server going down". Although nice-sounding, it's never realized in practice: your server going down means your account is unavailable too, and you can't use the network. Rooms syncing is essentially "old IRC net splits" with more steps (and much more RAM/CPU). This way of tackling this sort of "high availability" at the protocol level makes implementing the Matrix spec impossible (there is only one almost-compliant server implementation to talk with almost one feature-complete client, all by the same entity, selling it as opencore). Now compare that with the half dozen or so well-maintained XMPP servers (and plethora of clients), most of which support a form for HA/resilience that happens at runtime-level instead of protocol-level (via Erlang clustering/distributed JVM). In other words, if that's what you care about, XMPP implements Matrix mission statement better, more efficiently and with less organisational centralisation than Matrix.
by boneitis | 2025-09-27 05:11:16+00:00
You might check out the Keychron K3. The 500+ looks (at least, in the photos) so much like my K3 that I thought at first it was a collab with Keychron.

If you're looking at configurations that look very different aesthetically, keep in mind you can replace with aftermarket keycaps.

There are several variants of the "K3"; some configurations will have swappable switches, others not. Beware.

If you want software hackability as well, you'd probably go with one of the QMK/VIA versions.
by yojo | 2025-09-27 05:13:36+00:00
I’m realizing we might be talking past each other. By “scroll-blocker” I meant a visual design that hides the fact that there’s more content down the page. It’s not literally preventing scrolling.

Here’s a decent writeup on the problem and some design options: https://uxdesign.cc/dear-web-designer-let-s-stop-breaking-th...
by mkozlows | 2025-09-27 05:14:16+00:00
So a) that seems like a nightmare to me no matter what keyboard I'm on, but b) if you have frequently-used shortcuts that are a pita to get to, you can put them on a layer where you just use them.

Like, I legitimately don't know anymore how you take a screenshot on MacOS, but I know that I hit the modifier key and then this one other key, and that takes a screenshot. Also don't know what you press to move from virtual screen to virtual screen, but mod-m and mod-comma go left and right for me. And in a browser, mod-s and mod-f do ctrl-shift-tab and ctrl-tab.

It's a terrible idea to do this for rarely-used shortcuts, as you'll never remember them; but for ones you use frequently, it's better-than-native, because you can put them on convenient keys that are easy to hit, rather than whatever contortions you'd need to do to hit Ctrl-Shift-F12.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-27 05:14:18+00:00
My parents sent me to years of piano lessons before I ever touched a computer keyboard, and my typing reflects it. I don't move my wrist. I move my entire hand. This drove my high school typing teacher nuts, but I was the fastest in class by a wide margin so he didn't push back too hard.

I've tried traditional home-row typing but I just can't do it. And after all these years, my wrists still don't hurt at all. I can't prove that there's a connection, but I strongly suspect it.
by XorNot | 2025-09-27 05:16:55+00:00
Except we already pull it out of the ground, and people are heavily invested in that process. Working with what we have is the best option here: far easier to enthusiastically go after methane leaks when the industry is otherwise being told "we will buy a lot of your product forever.

Which is really the stakes here: if you can "burn" fossil fuels without putting GHG in the air...there's no reason to stop using them at all. In fact we should vastly expand their use.
by stevenicr | 2025-09-27 05:20:49+00:00
I am about to embark on my 8th attempt to install matrix / synapse / element in a fresh debian box.

I have succeeded 3 times to varying degrees (never got the extra things added like better moderation or custom stickers I think it was) -

I just did a quick ddg search to see if there are current docs on doing this setup.

Last time I remember running into docs that said these are old docs being archived, but no new docs available.

I spent a number of days in the chat trying to hone in on the small errors in homeserver yaml and going back and forth trying to get nginx or caddy to do that basic things it needs to.

I'm sure there were other weird things.

My quick scans of the search results and stuff on element saying its old, use pro element (with no links to pro element, which I finally found, - now has me out trying to learn how to use Kubernates or whatever - so another detour to other places to learn things before getting to 'is it possible to install this thing on current debian today'.

before I can even get to seeing if the install info is updated or complete these days.

I'd love it if someone that writes docs there could watch somebody try to install this thing, and all the going back and forth and searches and 20 different websites and tutorials from so many different places to do things to make it work.

It's worth it, but it's a lot of moving parts to get started,

and the moderation - that was 10 times easier with RealChat system Eugene released to the world 22 years ago.

Still there's nothing better self hosted that I have found.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-27 05:21:00+00:00
As a very young child, I grew up in the remote hill country of the Pacific Northwest. Thirty years later, I moved to Seattle and decided to go hiking in the Cascades. The smell of those mountains immediately unleashed memories I didn’t know I had. It was really unexpected how much memory was keyed to that smell. Also, that smell induced a strange feeling like I was supposed to be there as if it was my native environment, and I hadn’t lived in the region for decades.

I am an avid outdoorsman. One thing I have realized is that every wilderness locale has a distinct natural smell. It isn’t just the plants but also the minerals, soil, and bacteria that live in that environment. There are vast regions of the US where I can probably identify the locale with some degree of fidelity by the smell. It is a bit like how an expert sommelier can identify wines. Civilization is more hit and miss but wilderness is almost fingerprinted by its smell.

Humans are clearly capable of sensing it and imprinting based on it. We don’t think about it much but it is there.
by mkozlows | 2025-09-27 05:22:41+00:00
Try something like a Sinc: https://keeb.io/products/sinc-rev-4-split-staggered-75-keybo...

It's still mechanical, it's still split, it's still QMK programmable, it's got hotswap sockets so you can try different switches... but it's also an extremely normal staggered layout with function keys and everything.

I think it's worth trying the ortho 'n' layers approach, because it has real wins to it; but if you've tried it and don't like it, this is one step closer to normalcy, while still keeping many of the wins.
by hannob | 2025-09-27 05:23:32+00:00
This comes up on a regular basis in the discussion around hydrogen, sometimes it's also known as turquoise hydrogen. The claims made here are very misleading, let me quickly explain why.

The idea here is that you make hydrogen from fossil methane by splitting it into hydrogen and carbon. Now, the claim is that you now have "clean" or "climate neutral" hydrogen. But it's made from fossil gas, and there's carbon. If you would now bury that carbon or do something else that guarantees that carbon never ends up in the atmosphere, ok, you might claim that. (Still with caveats: your fossil gas production has upstream emissions you need to account for.)

But that is not economically feasible. So the idea is: sell that carbon as a co-product. But now, that carbon will in almost all cases eventually still end up as CO2 emissions. But these pitches never talk about that. Claiming that hydrogen is "climate neutral" is, then, more an accounting trick. If you are honest, you would have to do something like associate half of the eventual emissions to it.

I wrote about it in more detail before: https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/the-problem-with-tu...
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-27 05:25:30+00:00
I understand the frustration but in the case of aircraft, that's a nope-not-ever. Even a 50mw handheld can wreak havoc on night vision equip. Put away lasers until they're gone.

A larger but somewhat different issue is that pilots have some obligation to report laser sightings. Most reports are beams waving elsewhere and not striking their aircraft.

But even those sightings are an issue because officials commonly (and misleadingly) present the stats as if they were all aircraft strikes. News orgs repeat the claims without vetting.

Generally, I treat handhelds of >1W with weapon-ish caution. I won't point them in a direction where people are likely to be.

I have an LEP light and I'm more flexible with that but I still keep it off of moving objects.

For nightly walks, I carry a 21k lumen LED torch that helps with oncoming highbeams. The highest setting is a reasonable response to lightbars.
by freehorse | 2025-09-27 05:26:32+00:00
Because you have learnt it already and you can make predictions. And you don’t lose pressure sensitivity, you still feel the pressure of your hand to the glove, a better example would be using an exoskeleton or robotic arm or inactivate certain nerves. Still you risk more of breaking it imo and you have to be more careful in the beginning until you learn again.

Edit: and you probably are not gonna be as fast doing it
by umanwizard | 2025-09-27 05:28:40+00:00
Irish and British citizenship are de facto equivalent throughout the UK: any Irish person can simply decide to turn up in London without getting any kind of visa or asking any permission from anyone and live, work, or basically do anything a British person is allowed to do. So I’m curious how this will affect Irish people more broadly, not just in NI. Will they need to apply for this card?
by kqr | 2025-09-27 05:29:20+00:00
Advice fror people trying to get into text adventures: do not start with infocom games. Start with something like Glowgrass, Violet, The Dreamhold, Plundered Hearts*, or Lost Pig. They'pe friendlier to the player.

I get that the interface is a little fiddly at first, but it is highly conventional. Once you have spent a few minutes learning it, you unlock all other text adventures, of which there are many amazing ones.

I see many suggestions for using LLMs to improve the experience. I have tried that myself[2] and played others' attempts[3], and LLMs' world modeling abilities are currently insufficient for that[4]. They invent details that don't exist, they assume things have effects they don't, etc. They add more frustration than they remove.

Text adventures are often puzzle-paced, meaning they tell their story in drips separated by puzzles. These puzzles can be difficult. Best is to play with a friend -- you might get ideas from each other. If you have no interested friend, don't feel shame over looking at hints, or outright looking the solution up. But do let the puzzle simmer for a day first to make sure you've tried everything you can think of.

[1]: An Infocom game but rather different from the others.

[2]: https://entropicthoughts.com/evaluating-llms-playing-text-ad...

[3]: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=6nn0ihhejq2hrvh2&review=86904

[4]: More systematic paper on arXiv I've lost the link to but will post when I find it.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-27 05:29:57+00:00
>The courts don't decide what the constitution is

I said what laws are constitutional not "what is the constitution".

I was very specific and my argument was not long so can you explain what I said, by quoting me, that implied the courts decide the contents of the Constitution?

>The president has a duty to ignore any unconstitutional court ruling, as his oath requires.

The Constitution states “The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties…”

The president's oath is to uphold the Constitution. Therefore by ignoring court rulings he's not upholding the constitution
by mchinen | 2025-09-27 05:30:06+00:00
Definitely! This makes me think of petrichor, the earthy smells released during rain, in urban environments is very local and memory triggering because it's tied to bacterial soil/rock/plant composition. There's something visceral about it for me because my default model of memories is audio and video playback, and the smell hits me with a forgotten dimension when I go back to a place and it rains.
by fouc | 2025-09-27 05:30:08+00:00
The youtube video[0] gives a WAY better introduction to GURT than the website does:

"This is Gurted — an alternative to the World Wide Web with a custom protocol called GURT with enforced encryption, a new DNS with weird domains, web browser built in a game engine that doesn’t rely on Chromium, capable of running a Minecraft clone, Tetris, complex UIs, all powered by HTML, CSS, and... Lua."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45392233
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-27 05:30:20+00:00
Rauch got a heck of a deal: hire NextAuth/Auth.js lead developer, use zombified Auth.js as a funnel to Clerk (a portco) with prominent CTAs on every page.

Then a replacement to zombified Auth.js pops up, but this time he's early so I would take bets on him having a slice. Use your closeness (via having hired the lead dev) to facilitate "absorbing" (read: erasing) the last dregs of Auth.js, successfully replacing it with a duopoly you've invested in both sides of!

Bonus: Having raised (which you helped with) they can't undercut Clerk on some shoestring budget.. they'll fail!

The prophecy continues :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40321997
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-27 05:33:00+00:00
- Trans people being an issue.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IecBIvnsudY

- Gun problems being an issue of the person holding the gun or gun related deaths being a necessary evil - evidence from practically every country on earth with strict gun rules shows otherwise. Less guns = less gun deaths full stop.

You want just the government to have the guns? You must be 3 years old. Also I don't mind having less guns - just tie it to your political affiliation - left leaning? No Guns.

- Climate change being fake, chemtrails, Geoengineering, weather manipulation.

Climate change was fake, it was 100% abandoned when Leftists started burning Teslas- the number one EV in America. Sounds like it was fake the entire time. Chemtrails are real, they are actually seeding clouds in an experiment that's not fully tested.

- Science, particularly medical research being fake. Covid vaccines being harmful, etc.

Lookup vaccine injury - it's a huge mess.

- "The great replacement theory"

Yeah, importing lots of people causing the housing prices to go up, also the non-stop pushing of agendas that reduce western women from wanting to have babies. A lot of that is paid for.

- White genocide in countries around the world

It's pretty much one country - south africa, but you know that.

- Jan 6th not being an atrocity.

J6 was an atrocity, it was mostly orchestrated by 300 FBI agents that worked for the leftist side of the deep state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WNNrS1hR8

- Ending non-existent wars.

I don't know what you mean by this one, ending wars isn't good in your opinion I guess.

I don't really care if you think none of this is real - just about every 5 minutes in the last 4 years under Biden we found out something was 100% fake and was motivated by pure malice against conservatives. Besides - we're winning. #walk-away
by LordHeini | 2025-09-27 05:33:08+00:00
I definitely don't want to be randomly interrupted by Ai garbage.

Those horrible automatic translations are bad enough.

And it seems the slop can't be completely disabled. I guess sooner or later it will spew out"usefull recommendations" and end up being just another vehicle for ads.

It will be shit like "did you know that the singer of band {xyz} likes this brand of {snake oil}?" or "the song you are listening to reminds me of {insert crypto scam}".

It seems soon antoher browser plug-in is required to get rid of yet antoher annoying anti-feature.
by barrell | 2025-09-27 05:33:48+00:00
Not op, but had a very similar story. Got crippling RSI to welcome me into my 30s. Couldn’t work for several months and ended up getting a Glove80 because I needed to make a living.

This definitely does not describe me. I typed around 100wpm, sometimes quite loud, often times quite a button mash, and frequently not lifting my fingers quickly after each press. Didn’t have any notion of “correct” typing
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-27 05:33:59+00:00
What violates the constitution is a matter of opinion. The courts makes those opinions.

If a court says a law is constitutional then it's considered constitutional when deciding whether to enforce the law.

It doesn't matter if you or the president disagrees. The courts opinion is what matters

Courts can be overruled by a higher court or Years later the Supreme Court can change their mind and issue a new ruling.

What matter is the current opinion of highest court to offer one about a particular law.
by XorNot | 2025-09-27 05:36:10+00:00
Sure but this is in the category of "I decided to shoot at the plane with my gun" type logic. What possible outcome is someone expecting from aiming a high power laser at an aircraft expecting?

Like the top-end of that is "after considerable discussion they abort whatever expensive activity they are engaged in and return to base". Literally everything else ranges from "inflicting grevious bodily harm" to "mass casualty event".
by tcmart14 | 2025-09-27 05:36:19+00:00
It's changed since now Ive got the ZSA Voyager and put my trackball mouse in the center, over all, it is still a small set up. But prior to, I did 60/65% keyboards. A lot of it for me was just a spacing issue. Full size keyboards are nice, but take up a lot of room with a mouse and then wanting to also use a notebook at my desk for notes and designing.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-27 05:38:48+00:00
Wow, these articles are always coming out months late

a month ago they made it sound like everyone cancelled all their AI initiatives

I said spending on AI was at massive levels.

Now they're asking if it will pay off. Yes every single product is now writing it's own narrative using agentic flows. That means instead of writing code that does something specific, the software is able to adapt.
by patel011393 | 2025-09-27 05:39:37+00:00
I solved my RSI with rest, a vertical mouse, and ZSA Moonlanders. I eventually bought one for home use and one for work use with great performance for the past four years. I can’t imagine going back, especially after replacing the key switches to quieter variants.

The split keyboard opens up the middle of my desk to fit an adjustable stand (Parblo and ElevationLab work well). So I can write and draw by hand if I want.