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carl_dr commented on How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs? data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-al... · Posted by u/aerodog

jkaplowitz · 3 days ago

Presumably way the same as .google and all the other special-purpose organization-specific domains.

Blame ICANN for allowing any public or private organization who can meet the requirements to buy and operate a gTLD back in 2012: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...

And as per another comment in this thread, they’re doing another round of this in 2026: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068328

carl_dr · 3 days ago

Genuine question: why “blame”? Does it really matter?

carl_dr commented on Show HN: Tsbro – TypeScript for the browser, no build step github.com/stagas/tsbro... · Posted by u/stagas

Tade0 · a month ago

I'm wondering if it would be useful/possible to run the compilation in a service worker that would intercept requests for *.ts and compile them in the worker?

I've seen an alternative approach, where the TS code is sent for compilation to a dedicated server - dismissed that idea as over engineered, but then I learned that the swc WASM package clocks in at over 5MB.

I love the name BTW.

carl_dr · a month ago

That is how this works.

> tsbro solves this by completely bypassing the browser's import system using synchronous XHR, transpile with swc wasm and a sophisticated ESM-to-CJS transpiler so that synchronous require is used everywhere:

carl_dr commented on Arizona resident dies from the plague independent.co.uk/news/he... · Posted by u/Anon84

Beijinger · 2 months ago

I think the plague has not been an issue since it is very sensitive against penicillin. What is concerning is more the speed from diagnosis to death in this case.

carl_dr · 2 months ago

Sadly, it could be as simple as the guy didn’t run up tens of thousands of dollars of healthcare, and left it too late to get treatment.

carl_dr commented on The death of partying in the USA derekthompson.org/p/the-d... · Posted by u/tysone

eplatzek · 2 months ago

With COVID partying meant that someone could kill you with an illness. That's a pretty hard lesson to unlearn. They carries a lot of momentum.

Like with World Wars there's been a generational impact that changed how people relate to one another. The tribal momentum, of one monkey teaching the next, gets lost.

carl_dr · 2 months ago

Except the graph shows this was happening way before COVID. The internet and how that has changed how people relate is much more likely the reason.

carl_dr commented on Commanding Your Claude Code Army steipete.me/posts/2025/co... · Posted by u/ingve

ikerino · 3 months ago

Useful tip! I'll use this.

Not sure how I feel about it, but the the blog post seems very clearly LLM-written to me. Nobody writes like this:

> Revolutionary? No. Life-changing? Absolutely.

carl_dr · 3 months ago

> At any given moment, I have at least three instances running: one for writing blog posts, …

carl_dr commented on Moon ciechanow.ski/moon/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ghxst · 8 months ago

Just to clarify is that the detail you can make out with the naked eye or a digital censor? If you meant digital censor, how much of a difference with the naked eye would you say it is? I've had this telescope on my list for some time but am not sure if my expectations are realistic.

carl_dr · 8 months ago

Yeah, naked eye, although with a 6” telescope, I’d expect it to be a bit fainter - certainly that is the case through my 9.25” scope. I can often see a band in its rings.

It also depends a lot on atmospherics, if there is a lot of turbulence in the atmosphere it makes things less crisp (well, “dancey”, like looking through a heat haze.)

Look up your local astronomy group and go along one night, and see for yourself before buying anything. Saturn isn’t great at the moment (assuming London-ish latitudes) but Jupiter is around all night and you should be able to see it through a variety of scopes and eyepieces if you went along to a sky party.

Honestly, the first time I saw Saturn through a telescope I nearly cried. Truly amazing.

carl_dr commented on 18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World nytimes.com/2024/09/12/sp... · Posted by u/Fricken

Lio · a year ago

Some of that is almost certainly confounded by the fact that many asthma medications - most notably salbutamol - are performance-enhancing drugs; an asthma diagnosis allows an athlete to take drugs under a therapeutic use exemption that would otherwise result in a ban.

That's not true at all.

WADA does not require a therapeutic usage order for normal usage salbutamol. Anyone who needs it can use it at the dosages required to control asthma.

At these dosages it has not been shown to improve performance, as mentioned in the abstract of the first link you cited.

Further I would offer [1],[2] and [3] as evidence for why you are wrong. Salbutamol does not improve performance at normal dosages.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135409/

2. https://thorax.bmj.com/content/56/9/675

3. https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files...

carl_dr · a year ago

They don’t take it at normal dosages.

A test showed that they couldn’t get 12 trained cyclists to have a level above 510ng/ml in their urine, when they took salbutamol at the maximum WADA level of 600ug in an 8 hour period. [1]

The WADA threshold for salbutamol is 1,000ng/ml [2] So this level is about twice the level performance tested in your first link above.

Athletes can get TUEs for levels higher than the 1,000ng/ml limit or to take it using other methods than inhaling. [2]

Cyclists have been banned for having levels at 1,900ng/ml and 1,320ng/ml, and they were banned because the sport considers it a performance enhancing drug.

I imagine (but have no evidence, since they aren't published) that cyclists with a TUE regularly race with levels similar or above that. And without spending hours researching, I imagine this translates to other sports similarly.

[1] https://respiratory-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...

[2] https://ita.sport/uci-therapeutic-use-exemptions/