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onewobblywheel t1_je4whch wrote

Reply to I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit

"Google" was a popular word with little kids in the 1900's - 1960s.

Goo-goo ad gah-gah was how we described "baby language". Saying, "he goo-gooed" or "he googled" was to say he was using baby language.

The name Google was derived from Googol, which is a word for a very large number (10^100). According to Wikipedia, The word googol was coined in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta (1911–1981), nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner. He may have been inspired by the contemporary comic strip character Barney Google.

So, yes, we knew that word. Similarly with hogwarts, describing the "warts" from warthogs.

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onewobblywheel t1_j7jymbh wrote

Reply to TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee

I am reluctant to post this, because I know it's going to trigger a lot of negative commentary. But if it helps even one person, then it's worth it. But I'm not going to come back to see the vitriol I'm sure will follow.

If you're one of these people who "acts out their dreams", there may be a way to avoid the brain maladies mentioned here that most doctors won't know about. First of all, if you can stand on one leg for more than a minute (for both legs), relax. You're fine for now. But if you want to stay. fine, read on.

You know how some people are lactose intolerant and others aren't? Some people have celiac disease, and others don't? I've had a recent health scare, and I took a deep dive into the science of nutrition. Long story. I'll spare you. But I've learned that some people can be sensitive to red meat (anything mammal). It's just a little too close to cannibalism, and cannibalism causes all kinds of neurological disorders. For other people, any form of animal protein can be slightly toxic -- including fish. There have been cases of dementia and parkinsons disease reversed by eliminating animal proteins from their diets. But it doesn't work for everyone. You have to experiment and see what your body responds to.

Just so you know I'm not saying this for an animal rights agenda, I also learned that saturated fat from animals -- lard, tallow, ghee (butter with the milk proteins removed), is actually healthier for your brain than any vegetable oils, including coconut oil. Seed oils are the worst. But (and this is vitally important) you have to keep your saturated fat intake below 8% to 10% of total calories or it can cause deadly heart disease. (About two tablespoons per day on a 2000 calorie per day diet seems to be perfectly safe.)

Anyone under the age of 25 probably needs animal protein in their diets. They're still building muscle and other body structures. After 25 we don't typically do as much of that anymore, so we don't (on average) need as much protein anymore. There's plenty of protein in the vegetables and grains we eat.

Sugar is also toxic to your brain. It has about 3/4 of the toxic effects of alcohol. Remember Ronald Regan? He ate a lot of jelly beans every day. That was probably why his alzheimers disease was so profound. (this is just one anecdote, but it's illustrative.)

For some people the sugar toxicity stops with refined sugar, but for other people it extends into the high glycemic foods like white rice and potatoes. Again, you have to experiment, but this typically requires continuous blood glucose monitoring. Not cheap.

The bottom line: Eliminate sugar and animal proteins from your diet, eat about 8% of your calories from saturated fat (your brain is actually mostly made from saturated fatty acids), and use a mono-unsaturated fat (olive oil or avocado oil) for the rest of your fats, and your brain should be fine into old age. I used to be a hearty meat and potatoes man who drank a soda with dinner every night, but my research has turned me into a beans (cooked with lard!), grains (oatmeal flavored with ghee is great!) and colorful vegetables guy who only drinks water, tea and coffee.

A word about lard -- don't buy it. Store bought lard usually has a lot of trans fat mixed in. Trans fats are deadly. You can render your own lard (or tallow) easily using a microwave oven and a coffee filter. But you can research how to do that yourself. Store bought ghee seems to be fine.

FYI, I'm not a doctor. But I am a professional researcher trained in critical thinking skills. I'm not going to say more. Do your own research, but be careful. There's a lot of misinformation out there about keto and carnivore diets from people with an agenda. Short term results, even five years, are not the same as 100 year longevity with your wits and agility intact. Look at what the centenarians are eating. More importantly, what they were eating 50 years ago, and in what total quantities and proportions. And remember, medical science deals with averages. But no one is average. We are all unique. There are more than 10,000 chemical mechanisms in the human body related to diet and nutrition. Only a fraction of them have been investigated. The more confident someone seems to be about nutrition, the more skeptical you should be about their claims. Myself included.

Good luck out there.

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onewobblywheel t1_j462oko wrote

Reply to comment by Wade-Mealing in IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source by sector3011

i'm afraid I don't know those details. I was concerned about copyrights/patents or whatever would have applied and asked about that. I was told that IBM funds their CS department and that gave IBM the right to use the code. We had an FTP account into the school's servers. That's how we retrieved it. I assume it was a two-way street with some contracts and agreements involved, but again, I don't really know.

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onewobblywheel t1_j41g0oq wrote

Reply to IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source by sector3011

I was an AIX "developer" working for iBM back in the 1990s.

I was involved in the TCP/IP subsystem. We started by downloading source code created by CS students in a few universities that IBM had donated money to.

Then we ran it through a series of tests, then made a few tweaks, if necessary, then put the IBM brand on it and shipped it.

That's how IBM did "development" back in the '90s.

Not much is lost by sending it to India.

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onewobblywheel t1_j2xeop1 wrote

Reply to comment by Vrulth in What is the lowest-carbon protein? by abercravest

>around 4 times less,

Does that mean 1/4 as much? You're implying that a 75% reduction isn't a HUGE difference? Maybe "minuscule" was a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much.

If we eliminate all rice farming (possibly the most widely consumed food in the world) what do we replace it with? Corn?

From the article: "rice contributes about 10% of emissions from the agriculture sector globally"

That sounds bad, right? But wait... "Rice paddies account for approximately 12% of the global croplands of the planet" -- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255623930_Rice_in_the_Global_Food_Supply#:~:text=Rice%20paddies%20account%20for%20approximately,%5B4%5D.%20...

So, 12% of our food production results in 10% of our emissions. That seems like rice is a below average emitter of carbon.

Check my math please.

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onewobblywheel t1_j2vd3x3 wrote

Reply to What is the lowest-carbon protein? by abercravest

None of the animal proteins, obviously.

Plant proteins -- beans for instance, or nuts, actively remove carbon from the atmosphere.

There's even a usable amount of protein in rice and other vegetables. One cup of beans, and of rice and of pretty much anything green, plus a handful of nuts, gives you more than enough protein for the day.

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onewobblywheel t1_iy9dqvb wrote

Reply to Every mass shooting in the US visualised from 2014-2022 by MactionSnack

Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll...

Anyone who wants to buy an assault weapon should be required to read the names of all these people first. Then the price of the gun should be increased by $10 for everyone shot in a mass shooting over the previous 12 months. $100 for everyone killed. Give that money to the victims, or their families.

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onewobblywheel t1_iubeiee wrote

Reply to comment by SoItWasYouAllAlong in TIL that antimatter is made with antiprotons, which are the opposite of protons, with a negative charge, antineutrons with a neutral charge and positrons, which are the opposite of electrons, with a positive charge. by Doomguy2021

>No experiment has ever unambiguously demonstrated any difference between inertial and gravitational mass

You're confused. Inertia and gravity are fundamentally different things,

mass is a property of a thing that causes it to resist changes in velocity.

Gravity is the interaction of two things, currently assumed to be the result of their warping of space-time.

Matter and Antimatter can have the same mass and same inertia, but what if antimatter warps space-time in the opposite direction of regular matter? Instead of a dimple, it makes a bump ???

No one knows.

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onewobblywheel t1_iub1huy wrote

Reply to comment by SoItWasYouAllAlong in TIL that antimatter is made with antiprotons, which are the opposite of protons, with a negative charge, antineutrons with a neutral charge and positrons, which are the opposite of electrons, with a positive charge. by Doomguy2021

Mass and weight are different things. Mass relates to inertia, not necessarily gravity. (things can have the same mass on Earth and the Moon and Mars, but weight different amounts on all three planets -- yes, planets.)

To the best of my knowledge, no one has measured how antimatter is affected by gravity. No one has made enough of it to do that. It's still an open question.

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