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mrestko commented on Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites   showcase.onlyrecipe.app/... · Posted by u/AwkwardPanda
stuartbman · 4 years ago
I use CookBook which scans websites, and OCRs cookbooks with good success! I have all my regular recipes on there now

https://thecookbookapp.com/

mrestko · 4 years ago
Looks cool but did a very poor job of importing the first recipe I tried.
mrestko commented on Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories   github.com/tkellogg/dura... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
abcd_f · 4 years ago
As a sidenote - “dura” is a common and fairly rude Russian word for “fool” or “imbecile” as applied to women.

Perhaps it was intended, but I can’t quite make a connection.

mrestko · 4 years ago
And "git" is English slang for similar.

Dura is also an anatomical term for the tissue encasing the brain.

mrestko commented on Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain   bidmc.org/about-bidmc/new... · Posted by u/yasp
jjtheblunt · 4 years ago
Is it just that "randomized clinical trials" can not exist for definitive actions like surgery or steroids, as there's nothing that can play the role of placebo?
mrestko · 4 years ago
No, there have been sham controlled trials of surgical interventions before, they're just rare. One example is kyphoplasty.
mrestko commented on California is shutting down its last nuclear plant   cnbc.com/2021/10/02/why-i... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
Retric · 4 years ago
Blame the free market. In 2020 5% of solar power produced in California was curtailed as in not supplied to the grid because it was unneeded.

Baseline power is no longer desirable because California regularly has a large surplus of renewable energy which drops the spot price of electricity to ~zero. Reducing nuclear capacity factor almost 1:1 increases prices which means solar adoption kicks out nuclear very early without massive subsides.

Even that’s a simplification they actually price things based on nodes due to limited transmission infrastructure. http://www.caiso.com/pricemap/Pages/default.aspx

mrestko · 4 years ago
The first line of the article:

"California is not keeping up with the energy demands of its residents.

In August 2020, hundreds of thousands of California residents experienced rolling electricity blackouts during a heat wave that maxed out the state’s energy grid."

How can you say baseline power is not desirable?

mrestko commented on Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer   deepmind.com/research/pub... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
jcims · 4 years ago
It seems like one potential endpoint of this type of research, beyond the medical applications, would be to explore the effects of synthetic amino acids that allow the incorporation of other materials into the protein output.

This could open the door to materials synthesis and other types of fabrication.

mrestko · 4 years ago
Whatever you're imaging, it's likely it could be accomplished with the standard compliment of amino acids.
mrestko commented on Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics   axisofordinary.substack.c... · Posted by u/raviparikh
Causality1 · 4 years ago
Considering spacetime, matter, and energy are all quantized, why is something like Gabriel's Horn significant? I don't see how it has any more relation to reality than phrases like "negative surface area" would.

Also, it's patently absurd someone would include Fitch's Paradox, a piece of philosophy, on a list of "counterintuitive facts."

mrestko · 4 years ago
I don't think we know that spacetime is quantized.
mrestko commented on Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (2012)   bbc.com/news/health-19812... · Posted by u/ScottMann
rich_sasha · 4 years ago
For a popular magazine that seems fine... analgesic as strong as morphine + fewer side effects = better overall ... no?
mrestko · 4 years ago
It's hard to know what the side effects are since it hasn't been tested in humans and is not in a form where it would be a useful drug. We've had plently of promising drugs turn out to have unexpected and sometimes devestating side effects when tested in humans.
mrestko commented on Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (2012)   bbc.com/news/health-19812... · Posted by u/ScottMann
mrestko · 4 years ago
The title is not good--lots of meds are betting than morphine...that's why we have all the other opioids: hydromorphone, fentanyl, remifentinil, sufentinil, oxycododone, etc.

If you look at the Nature abstract linked from the news article, all they claim there is that the analgesic effects can be, "as strong as morphine."

This also a protein which is inherently more expensive and difficult to turn into a drug compared with a small molecule.

mrestko commented on Southwest Airlines grounds its entire fleet amid giant computer outage   nypost.com/2021/06/15/sou... · Posted by u/tosh
mrestko · 5 years ago
"Software is eating the world."

u/mrestko

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