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> Because you need to use your other hand to press that button, instead of the adjacent finger.

Funnily enough, I've used my nose to tap my watch when my hands are full

Yes, I've gotten some strange looks


I do this all the time in the winter as well when I'm wearing gloves that aren't really "touch screen" friendly

I thought I was the only one on Earth to do that (but surely I'm the only boomer doing it).

> mid-level -> senior-level transitions will leave a hole behind that can't be filled internally.

Tech companies are betting that in 5 years, AI should be good enough to replace mid-levels.

Rinse and repeat with seniors 5 years after that.

Hard to say if that bet will pay off, or what the endgame would be; just the CEO commanding an company of AIs?


High risk bets like that cause bubbles. If that bet doesnt pay off then there will be a talent crisis that the american tech industry may not recover from

Alliance Laundry which makes Speed Queen recently IPOed:

https://ir.alliancelaundry.com/news-events/press-releases/de...

Once a company goes public they tend to focus more on earnings per quarter, causing decision making to be more short-term.

Not great when, as a consumer, you hope to get a product that will last 20+ years.


Oh no... better buy one now if you have the chance.


The pods cost about 6x as much per load as powder.

So, even if they had equal cleaning performance, economically the powder would come ahead.

As it turns out, the 1/6th-as-expensive powder does an even better job than the pods, making the powder an even more obvious choice

(Unless you really value the handling convenience of using a pod and were willing to accept poorer results at a higher expense)


No. The powder he's promoting in the video (which performs better than pods) actually costs more per wash than the most effective pods on the market (Cascade Platinum Plus).


Not the GP, but do you think Serena Williams - world number 1 womens tennis player for 319 weeks, who trained for 5 hours per day at her peak - has insufficient grit?

Because she went on GLP-1 to lose weight.


Grit, or willpower, or whatever you want to name it isn't a unique, constant value. There are plenty of athletes who could spent hours training every day but are overcome by addictions. People who grind at work but cannot fill paperwork to save their life. That will diligently do something for months then stops after an unexpected interruption.

There's probably generally a bit of correlation. But just because someone can be very focused and go to extreme lengths in one aspect of their life doesn't mean they can consistently do it in every aspect of their life.


My last comment was flagged, but the fact remains that Serena Williams is a paid spokesperson for Ro.

https://ro.co/weight-loss/serena/

Her use is an advertisement, it's marketing. Her story as to why she's using it is a fiction, a fabrication.


How do you just start on retatrutide? Did you sign up for a Phase 3 trial?


It’s available in powder form online through “research chemical” sites “not for human consumption”.

Anyone saying they’re taking retatrutide almost certainly obtained it this way. Quality and purity untested.


> Quality and purity untested

Not true for everyone, or perhaps even most playing in this space.

Every batch friends of mine have ordered has been independently tested for purity and dosing. Random batches also tested for sterility.

Plenty of folks yolo it, but it’s not like it was a couple years ago. Lots of group buys being done that order a large batch and then do random sampling for lab testing.


> > Quality and purity untested

> Not true for everyone, or perhaps even most playing in this space.

> Every batch friends of mine have ordered has been independently tested for purity and dosing. Random batches also tested for sterility.

Yes, you have to test it because the quality and purity what you get isn’t tested.

When someone sells something and they make a statement about the product (e.g. “tested”), they don’t mean the customer has to test it.


Not to defend buying research chemicals of unknown safety, but that isnt what he said. Independent labs test for purity and provide certification to the companies that sell them. Those certifications can be verified by anyone. So its much less trust necessary to know what you are getting.


How do you know if the shipment you received was in the same batch that was tested?

Sure, you might be given a "batch number" that matches up with what they said was tested, but that's putting a whole lot of trust in the seller.


Group buy, the organizer tests randomly pulled vials, then ships out the kits to the end customer.

Or you test a vial from your own kit. Expensive but still cheaper than compounded GLP-1.

Or you roll the dice and assume that everything ahipped out about the same time with the same cap color is the same batch.

Or you buy from nexaph.

Everyone has to decide their own comfort zone.


> Independent labs test for purity and provide certification to the companies that sell them.

What's the name of one these independent labs? I would like to read up on them.


As someone else said, Janoshik is popular. But there are others of course. Peptide Test, or Finnrick come to mind.


Janoshik


> Every batch friends of mine have ordered has been independently tested for purity and dosing. Random batches also tested for sterility.

Where are they getting it tested?


3rd party labs with HPLC testing.

Janoshik is a longtime name in this space, originally catering to bodybuilders buying anabolic steroids and HGH.


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You're on Hacker News, you're gonna encounter chemical hacking too, and no shame in that, we're all just chemicals anyways.


It's available at many clearnet peptide websites. Caveat emptor.


I value my time as well that's why I have 2 Synology devices, one at my home, one at my sibling's home.

Both on Tailscale and we use Hyperbackup between them.

It was very easy to set up and provides offsite backups for both of us.

Synology very recently (a day ago) decided to allow 3rd party drives again with DSM 7.3.


> Conversely, entire branches of knowledge can be lost if not enough people are working in the area to maintain a common ground of understanding.

Especially if the work is classified.

The manufacture of FOGBANK, a key material for a thermonuclear weapon's interstage, was lost by 2000 because so few people were involved with its manufacture and the ones who knew retired or moved on. It's thought to be an aerogel-like substance.

5 years and millions in expensive reverse engineering was required to figure it out again.

I'm guessing they documented it this time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank


My favorite part about the FOGBANK story is that once they figured out how to manufacture it again, the new version of the material was more chemically pure than the old version, but this actually made the material LESS effective, so they had to add spcific impruities back into it to make it work correctly.

[0] https://www.twz.com/32867/fogbank-is-mysterious-material-use...


Instructions on Vine-glo grape concentrate during prohibition: "Do not place the liquid in this jug and put it away in the cupboard for twenty-one days, because then it would turn into wine."


I had another friend that simply recorded YouTube videos from their smartphone. As a zealous law abiding citizen, I immediately smacked the phone out of his hand and lectured on how copyright law is the foundation of the Information Age, which is the future, and disregarding it is an affront to modern life and civilization. I made him delete all his videos, and even made him hand write letters of apologies to the YouTube creators. These creators don't reveal their home addresses, but I'm sure they appreciated the emails containing the scan of the handwritten letters.

We have an old SCSI scanner, so it took about as long to scan it as it did to write it.


One useful addition for text file users: on Windows, create hotkey\macro timestamps using something like Autohotkey (https://autohotkey.com/)

3 letter hotkeys seem to work well - long enough to be unique without overlapping real words.

for instance, when I type ddd it automatically stamps this:

20250811 10:57 AM

then I type my note and can look back at what time\date it was.

sometimes I just need the date so that is dds (date-date-short) which gives

20250811

occasionally I just want the time so that's ttt

11:02:02 AM

I have many other 3 letter codes using Autohotkey to bring in frequently typed things too, useful in emails and such.

Since I think through typing, autohotkey has been a QoL helper.


On MacOS, TextExpander or Keyboard Maestro are great for this.


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