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  • How Bad Is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?

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  • Long Covid Symptoms

    Check the long list of just the mental Long Covid (aka Post-Acute Squelae of COVID or PASC) symptoms:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959835/

    The ER Connection

    Recent findings involve research with the endoplasmic reticulum that appears to go off the rails when over-stressed breaking the mitochondria within a cell robbing it of ATP production and increasing lactate (related to metabolic acidosis) in the body:

    My current reasoning is somehow to recover you've got to pace yourself just enough to encourage new mitochondria to form, but not so much that you experience PEM/crashing. The ME/CFS people have been discussing pacing for years. So:

    Fail With

    • staying in bed for weeks doing as little as possible (a very slow success?-- mitochondria aren't encouraged to form)
    • trying to train it away with exercise/exertion (a quick fail-- the stressed ER will break mitochondria and flood body with lactate and set you back with a slew of acidosis-caused symptoms that will take time for the body to resolve. e.g. kidneys excreting the acid, COVID diabetes from gluconeogensis of lactate into glucose in order to raise the body's pH away from acidosis)

    Possibly Succeed With

    This was a purposefully supplement-free/drug-free plan.

  • Advice on dealing with ADHD and remote work?

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  • Actually that is kind of scary, most companies supply you with a work device so it can be securely administered. That's kind of a red flag that they accept you working from whatever you have.

    Get the laptop if you can, you can probably claim it for a reduction of taxes (keep the receipts). Keep it separate, always. You'll appreciate being able to close the "work device" when the day is done. Also, very much lock it down--do not let friends/family "borrow" your laptop.

    People do the worst crap on computers that aren't their own.

  • Meta will be releasing a Twitter clone/competitor this summer. Will you join?

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  • Hundreds of Protestants attended a sermon in Nuremberg given by ChatGPT, which told them not to fear death

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  • Wow. Now we're getting close to being attended to by Omm in THX1138.

  • Which programming languages do you use?

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  • Regularly Use

    • bash
    • python
    • golang
    • rust
    • elm

    Favorite

    • rust because it provides a pretty good expressive type system for letting the compiler keep you honest.
    • elm helps me avoid client-side programming hell with JavaScript.

    Interested

    • zig because of its promise of "compile it for anything" and small language philosophy.

  • Is it hard to give up your niche reddit communities? I may have a solution. Kind of.

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  • Fun fact: Aaron Swartz who helped create RSS, was involved early in the development of Reddit.

  • What tech are you most excited for in 2023?

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  • I switched to iPhone because the OnePlus brand-enhancements was the "last straw" of my experience with devices in the Android ecosystem. Other problems:

    • Updates. Major operating system updates maybe only lasted about a year. With OnePlus I think they even tell you that you'll get two major updates and after that, the "device" is practically "end of life" if you wanted to avoid security issues.
    • UX jank. Even if you had infinite major Android updates, Android itself was perpetually moving goal posts with how applications "looked." This was most prominent when you tried to assist someone with a different (older or newer) version of Android. "Where things were supposed to be" for settings etc was always different between versions. If you asked them which application they were using for a function, you invariably got a "blank stare" because they did not in fact know because they were using the default...
    • Shovelware. Every phone came with uninstallable applications which were nearly always crap, but somehow essential and were configured to be the default for messages, calling, contacts, etc.

    I'm not going to say that iPhone does not also have these kinds of issues, but combinatorially iPhone has less of them because you are not multiplying configurations with different screen resolutions, microprocessors, Android versions, manufacturers, carriers and promotional rate plans. I won't buy locked devices, because for me, it is better to consider the mobile phone as a tool you buy, and not a flavor-of-the-season vessel for a carrier's service plan. The prices of unlocked devices are closer to the true value of the device.

  • What tech are you most excited for in 2023?

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  • OnePlus was wonderful, it was just the kind of support (helpfully and covertly making apps slow down to increase battery life) that I needed to switch to Apple iPhone.