Reacting to the headline, I understand the basic concept of medicine is you treat a patient who presents with a condition, not a condition in isolation like some kind of abstract math problem. I think it's a mistake when doctors say to each other, even as a shorthand, I have a gallbladder to deal with, when it's a real person, and the best results come from considering the whole person when pondering how to care for them and which treatments to administer, with the medicine being only a part.
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bolangi commented on Engineers repurpose a mosquito proboscis to create a 3D printing nozzle techxplore.com/news/2025-... · Posted by u/T-A
> Its inner diameter is 20 micrometers, which is about 100% finer than the best commercially available tips.
"100% finer", who uses language like this? I don't even know what it means. How about "half the diameter"?
bolangi commented on Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership ahelwer.ca/post/2025-11-2... · Posted by u/tensegrist
I don't know what TLA+ is, but thanks for an entertaining rant, and the excerpt from Heller's timeless book.
bolangi commented on Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux · Posted by u/grigio
If you live in the terminal it's all dark mode*
* unless you are one of those weirdo's who has a black on white terminal in which case you should be on a watch list (/s in case wasn't immediately obvious).
I've been there since the DOS days when it was all dark mode, green phosphor characters on a black CRT. I was there when amber monitors were the new thing. (I still love sunglasses with brown lenses.) And I watched the early Apple computers with graphics and black-characters-on-white display style that has been the rage ever since... well since the recent new thing being dark mode.
It reminds me of fashion trends, miniskirts then maxis, up and down past the knee like tides.
Fads, that's the word.
Not sure how well this dovetails with the research presented in the article, but Grinder and Bandler's work -- which they named Neuro Linguistic Programing (derived I understand from analyzing the brief therapy and hypnotherapy techniques of Milton Erickson) -- postulated that people have dominant modes of thought: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. They correlated these modes with eye movements they observed in subjects when asked to recall certain events.
In my personal experience, my mind became much less busy as a result of several steps. One being abandoning the theory of mind -- in contrast to spiritual practices such as Zen and forms of Hinduism, where controlling the mind, preventing its misbehavior, or getting rid of it somehow is frequently described as a goal, the mind's activity being to blame for a loss of a person's ability to be present in the here and now.
As a teenager, I can remember trying to plan in advance what I will say to a person when faced with a situation of conflict, or maybe desire toward the opposite sex, doubting that language will reliably sprout from my feelings when facing a person, whose facial reactions (and my dependence on their good will) pulls me out of my mental emotional kinesthetic grounding.
As humans we use language, however, it seems possible to live in our experience. Some people who are alienated from their experience, or overwhelmed by others, seek refuge in language.
There is obviously a gap between research such as this, and how someone can make sense of their agency in life, finding their way forward when confronted with conflict, uncertainty, etc.
bolangi commented on Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division heise.de/en/news/Cherry-g... · Posted by u/jsheard
Interesting, do you have any examples of the latter two categories? Looking for a replacement for my Cherry-Keyboard.
Unicomp took over the IBM buckling keyboard manufacturing. I like their clicky keys, but now their Model M costs US $189, a bit high.
bolangi commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
The article is missing links to one of the first fingerprint diagnostic tools, https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ , formerly called something like panopticon.net.
When I read about Pancake, for a very short moment I was hoping for some Elan[1] influences…
For a short while, I ran the Eumel operating system and wrote an application in Elan. Among other interesting properties, files weren't saved, but were checkpointed by the OS. I enjoyed this exercise, although Eumel remained a very small niche.
bolangi commented on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person sashachapin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/eatitraw
The bit about him spilling olive oil onto someone's dress then playing it off with a flirtatious joke seems very strange to me. Maybe it's just my upbringing but trying to pull off a joke like that in a tense situation seems very risky. I would be worried about coming off unserious, indifferent, and sleazy while also stoking an even angrier reaction from the person.
Britney Spears did it in the music video for Toxic.
Do your own projects on the side and keep your antenna peeled for other opportunities more in line with your own life goals.