The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study
It doesn't matter what their definition of racism is. "Fuck white people" is racist.
We should do this in America, too, and for all sports.
The web UI is pretty bad IMO. We need to get some serious designers on that.
I'm guessing that a lot of people who grow up under communist governments have learned that what the government says is bullshit and they should trust what random people say more, since they don't have the ability to do research online and have access to free, uncensored information.
Then they go to a democracy and continue the pattern.
No idea though.
Hard disagree. I don't understand why anyone would want case insensitive.
Am I the only one who doesn't go around mindlessly capitalizing letters? Do people find it too difficult to capitalize things?
Do you want case insensitive passwords too?
If I type X I mean X and only X. Uppercase letters are different letters, just like X and Y are different letters.
The UX/UI with FUTO is way better IMO. It basically looks and feels just like Google Keyboard.
I love it, but it has some fairly big annoying things about it and I'm disappointed to see how little movement there is to fix them in GitHub. The dev seems very insactive.
We're talking about Bernie Sanders taking money from Big Pharma. If you have any evidence that he did, please share.
The tweet where he said Trump's pick was great and that people forget that the Republican party is the one that fought against Big Tech, blah blah blah.
Let's give him the benefit of the doubt for a second and say he isn't familiar with why that isn't true since he's not American.
He is publicly tweeting something supporting Trump.
There's a broad spectrum of people who are flawed which I'm 100% fine with acknowledging publicly that they did something right. But there is a line where it doesn't matter anymore.
An extreme example: if I thought of something Hitler did that was good for the German people, should I tweet about it?
No. Because I don't want to come off as supporting Hitler.
Trump and his administration are causing so much awful shit. The wording of Andy's message wasn't "Trump sucks but just FYI there's one small thing he did right". His wording was simply all positive, leaving the important context that Trump is a fascist out entirely.
People go through that all the time. It's normal. What matters is your learning. It sounds like you did learn.
Also, maybe they don't care about the text? Some people care some people don't. But probably better for it to be an email / note. Not a big deal either way. Just learn and don't ruminate on it. Everyone goes through it.
I was pretty unhappy with his leadership of Proton since its inception. Barely any work on basic features like email or calendar, constant need to rewrite the whole thing because they had some horrible backend architecture, then prioritizing crypto wallets nobody asked for and shoving more AI into places we don't care about.
I already canceled my paid plan and switched, and it honestly feels like a breath of fresh air. Things fucking work beautifully well compared to Proton's garbage UX.
Andy Yen is a right-wing Libertarian that have no idea what he's talking about.
That's enough for me to leave. Add on to the fact that Proton has been severely mismanaged since its inception. He'd rather prioritize crypto wallets and shoving AI into email than getting basic shit working.
I just moved away from Proton to Posteo for mail and calendar and Addy.io for email aliases.
I've gone with Posteo + Addy.io
Why are calendars all so shitty?
I've been working on my privacy setup and breaking away from Proton. There are a bunch of email providers I looked at, same with email aliases, password managers, etc.
But I don't understand the state of calendars. It feels like they're always shoved into email services, and they're all so crappy looking.
I was able to find one or two Android apps that are open source, and they look like they're 20 years old.
Proton Calendar, for all its faults, looks really good.
Why, in 2025, is there no simple calendar as a service with nothing else included? And why do the UIs all look like complete trash?
I don't get it. Can't one of us hire an intern to take a week to learn a CSS framework and create a decent calendar UI? Am I missing something?
If your Proton password is your encryption key, why couldn't Proton theoretically use it to decrypt your data?
AFAIK when you log in to Proton, you send them your password, they do the standard hashing and checking against the hash stored in their database, and if it matches them they let you log in by sending you a token of some sort.
If the your password is your encryption key, and if at some point Proton needs your plaintext password in order for you to log in, then doesn't that mean they still have a way to access your data? They could take the plaintext password and decrypt everything in your account without you knowing, right?
Previously, some doctors had to divide bills by 10 and submit 10 claims to get costs covered.
Do bike tires increase pressure in summer?
I know bike tires will lose pressure in colder seasons because the air temp causes the pressure to drop, but is the inverse true? Does bike tire pressure go up in summer due to heat?
If so, do I need to deflate the tires a bit in summer? Do bike tires ever explode because of a temperature change?
I'm disappointed with Third Wave Water
Not with their end product - the powder itself is excellent. But every little packet is plastic, and doesn't have to be. The world has such a serious problem with plastics, and for a lot of products it's kind of necessary, but this is not one of them.
Restaurants have had the same size single serving packets for sugar, salt, and pepper for decades now and those are paper, which is much more environmentally friendly. It's even better for usability! With paper, I don't need to go find my scissors like I do for TWW's plastic packets.
I asked TWW if they would consider using paper instead, but got a generic reply that they'll bring it up, but evidently nothing has been done about this.
Is anyone else as disappointed as I am with their use of plastic packets? I care a lot about having clean water for my coffee, and I care just as much about not polluting the rest of the world because of it.
Is it really a breaking change if a method changes output after an update?
This might seem obviously "yes" at first, but consider a method like foo.debugRepr() which outputs the string FOO and has documentation which says it is meant only to be used for logging / debugging. Then you make a new release of your library and want to update the debug representation to be **FOO**.
Based on the semantics of debugRepr() I would argue that this is NOT a breaking change even though it is returning a different value, because it should only affect logging. However, if someone relies on this and uses it the wrong way, it will break their code.
What do you think? Is this a breaking change or not?
Question about FOMO in Baldur's Gate 3
I haven't played any Baldur's Gate games before but I've heard so much about this game that I'm going to buy it.
However, before I start, I always wonder about this: some games allow you to unlock any weapon at some point in the game, and if you miss one in some quest you can always go back. If you accidentally sell one you can buy it back or forge a new one again, or have it respawn. If you want some other class you can switch later.
Other games are not like that, and if you screw up or aren't aware of [full in the blank] then you can't unlock something.
What's the story with BG3? Do I need to be careful and plan before going on missions?
In Chinese, Sodium is "鈉" (Nà). Is this because it's also the elemental symbol?
Or is this just a coincidence? Any other elements with the symbol as the full word?