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mackey commented on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study   kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
dotancohen · 17 days ago
Sensodyne toothpaste has two lines: one that contains a mild painkiller (Rapid Relief) and one that [claims to] repair small cracks in teeth (Repair & Protect).

I use the latter. I do not know if it works, but I use it. I have never suffered from tooth pain before or after.

mackey · 17 days ago
It depends on the country also. In the UK for example, Repair & Protect uses novamin but in the US it just uses stannous fluoride.
mackey commented on North Korean campaign targeting security researchers   blog.google/threat-analys... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
jjkeddo199 · 2 years ago
This is doubly concerning: Not only for researchers, but also for the public.

I always imagined the North Koreans to be at a technical level where they would be the ones consuming published exploits more so than imagining their own. This article means that they are advanced enough to focus on suppressing knowledge rather than consuming what is publicly available.

mackey · 2 years ago
There is an interesting podcast called Lazarus Heist that covers this stuff.
mackey commented on Spelunking Apple’s Open Source   bitsplitting.org/2023/03/... · Posted by u/ingve
gavinhoward · 2 years ago
Like the author, I appreciate the Apple OSS Distributions, even though I don't use Mac OSX.

Four or five weeks ago, I was searching GitHub for every instance of my email for legal reasons. I came across it in an Apple OSS Distribution. And that is when I learned that my best project had been silently shipped with Ventura.

I was ecstatic! [1] It's always great to see more people adopt your work.

Don't worry; they followed the license.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/my-code-conquered-another-os...

mackey · 2 years ago
Any idea why they would ship such an old version?
mackey commented on My Preferred Smart Home Vendors   chrisx.xyz/blog/my-prefer... · Posted by u/segfault11
izacus · 3 years ago
One thing that bothers me with Home Assistant and could never find a way to fix it:

Is there a way to disable it from automatically spying on every single logged in mobile phone? E.g. if I install HASS app on an Android phone and login, it'll automatically start tracking everything from location, connected wifi, charging timing, all of it. And I need to go and disable this manually from every entity separately... and it randomly reenables itself if the device reauthenticates.

Since I don't want to track every single step my family makes, did anyone find a configuration option on the server to turn this off for all clients?

mackey · 3 years ago
It should show your phone in the "Integration" list and then you can just disable it.

I agree that it shouldn't be like this just by installing the app.

mackey commented on Antiviral effect of high-dose ivermectin in adults with Covid-19   thelancet.com/journals/ec... · Posted by u/nradov
stdlib2 · 4 years ago
I don't get why only tiny sample size trials are being conducted on ivermectin, I mean this is a generic drug which can easily be produced anywhere and is known to be safe drug for humans plus the circumstantial evidence if not conclusive is definitely worth looking into 1) https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/epide...

i think there ought to be a bigger study on this if even there are marginal benefits we should employ them against the pandemic

2)https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea...

here is a podcast where doctor Kory talks about this with Eric Weinstein

mackey · 4 years ago
What about:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04885530?term=Ivermec...

There are several more running too, but this one is aiming for the largest amount.

mackey commented on Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)   raymii.org/s/blog/Rant_Le... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
vbezhenar · 5 years ago
I wonder how those features pass Apple review? It's easy to disable those flags to get review passed and enable them later.
mackey · 5 years ago
It depends on the feature. For things that involve material changes to your app or a feature that you don't want Apple to be surprised about, usually you will include user credentials in your submission that have that feature enabled and give them a heads up. If's a smallish feature, you don't usually sweat app review. It's obviously not a perfect system.
mackey commented on Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)   raymii.org/s/blog/Rant_Le... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
coldtea · 5 years ago
>The article says at the end: "You see? Not that hard right?". It is that hard in bigger organisations.

The size of the organisations is not important, as is the size of the team working on the particular feature/app.

Apple is huge, for example, but eg. Logic Pro has great changelogs.

We also see huge apps (with large teams) do better than than small apps (with much smaller teams). It's more about bothering/caring than difficulty.

mackey · 5 years ago
Apple has a much more traditional engineering structure and traditional release cadence though. A lot of the "worst offenders" of these types of release notes are structured and work much differently. They release updates 1-2 times a week, sometimes release features weeks after the code has shipped to users, and sometimes in stretched out rollouts.

They say there if there is a will, there is a way, so in a sense I agree that these companies probably could do something about it if they really wanted to, but I also don't think it would be easy, and considering how few people actually look at release notes, I am not sure the investment is worth it.

mackey commented on Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves   qz.com/1941254/experts-ar... · Posted by u/mattgreenrocks
clusterhacks · 5 years ago
I am in the mid-eastern United States and my experience with professional HVAC technicians has been very poor across several providers.

Most techs I get from companies have been very poorly informed and almost hopeless at "debugging" any performance or functional problem. The operating model seems to simply be to replace parts in a pre-determined "likelihood of failure" model.

I don't blame the techs - I liked most of them but after casual conversation it seems clear that most of them don't get much training.

I guess my main complaint is that while I definitely want to "call a pro" my experience finding a good professional in HVAC (and plumbing for that matter) has not been particularly successful.

And don't get me started on part pricing - I am very happy to pay for knowledge (with high hourly technician costs) but more than once I have had easily purchasable OEM parts massively marked up by HVAC companies in what seems just like price gouging.

mackey · 5 years ago
I agree completely. I think HVAC has gotten too complex for a lot of the "hand waving" that HVAC installers have been able to get away with up until now. It actually takes a good amount of pre-planning and research in order to install the proper system that is configured correctly.

Case in point, a few years ago when I was a new homeowner I converted to natural gas from oil and got three quotes from three highly rated companies. All three companies recommended the exact same boiler. A few months ago I started to research the outdoor reset functionality that allows it to change the water temperature based on the outdoor temp. Well, I discovered that the feature is basically useless for me because both of my zones are too small to generate the minimum number of BTUs at lower temperatures. So I have a (up to) 96% efficient boiler that will never be able to reach that efficiency. I either would have needed a smaller boiler and or a buffer tank to be able to work correctly.

mackey commented on Amazon EC2 Mac Instances   aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/... · Posted by u/appwiz
Aeolun · 5 years ago
> MacStadium's prices are "rather less than 20%" of AWS's prices. To make sense, AWS would have to be comparable to MacStadium's pricing.

Not at all. MacStadium is not inside the AWS network, so there’s nothing comparable about it.

I’m not sure why they went for a 24h minimum though. That defeats the entire point of cloud computing for me.

mackey · 5 years ago
That 24 hour minimum is based on Apple license agreement.
mackey commented on 30-35 percent of Covid-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis   centredaily.com/sports/co... · Posted by u/pella
brightball · 5 years ago
If this is true, it should have been in the news long before now. Why hasn’t it been?

EDIT: I stand corrected. It did, just not the Big 10 specific numbers.

u/mackey

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