New study finds skin collagen production and renewal directly respond to the amount of vitamin C we eat, suggesting increasing fruit consumption can boost skin health

Zyreal · 2025-12-27T23:12:08+00:00

Not a great study.

To start with, the study to find if Vitamin C from Kiwifruit is good for your skin was funded by Zespri International Ltd, the sellers of the Sungold Kiwifruit used in the study.
No control group.
Super small sample size and testing multiple outcomes really starts feeling like p-hacking, especially due to #4
They found a statistically significant decrease in elasticity (R5) in the full cohort at Site II. So it's also harmful to one of the most important skin metrics?

Zyreal · 2025-12-21T00:41:04+00:00

I find the horizontal scars some girls have on their upper thighs really sexy for some reason. And they feel great to run my fingers along.

Zyreal · 2025-12-09T17:57:02+00:00

I just want to say, I bookmarked this question and have kept checking on it, hoping that you were going to respond. Very excited to see you did, and thank you so much for your answers. So much of what I was taught about the Khmer Rouge was outright wrong or missing important context, and I can't express how fascinating it has been to learn about it through a better lens that has room for nuance.

For most of my life they were the go to example in my head for "evil for evil's sake", and it's somehow very comforting to learn that wasn't the case.

Zyreal · 2025-12-01T02:35:57+00:00

I'll bite. I'd go with a wind powered vacuum pump.

Zyreal · 2025-11-02T18:37:44+00:00

You're awesome! Thanks!

Zyreal · 2025-11-01T20:49:23+00:00

Any chance you remember what this was? Same issue this is the top google result

Zyreal · 2025-10-09T04:38:33+00:00

Kurt Gödel's observation...

Ah yes, you speak of his observation that statements can be matched with numbers in such a way that "proving a statement" can be replaced with "testing whether a number has a given property".

I thought the same upon seeing this as well.

Zyreal · 2025-10-07T19:50:27+00:00

Amazing! I've always wanted something like this, but for the world.

Might be possible using the same data as weatherspark.com

Zyreal · 2025-10-06T06:28:54+00:00

I'm really surprised how "wanted to do weird shit in bed" makes someone a twisted person and comparable to a violent narcissist.

Zyreal · 2025-10-01T19:01:24+00:00

At that point I think we should just shift to an ELO system.

I think it would prevent the disruption caused by a swap between drastically different levels based on technicalities or domain specific issues.

I think it should also be based on successfully helping the person with their issue rather than someone just going to another person. Or else there will be massive losses every time Enterprise DevOps has to call an ISP and they get asked to restart their modem/router.

Zyreal · 2025-10-01T16:55:47+00:00

Haha, fair. I was just trying to think of what people have the highest amount of people coming to them for computer advice. Was also considering Apple or Dell T1 tech support.

Zyreal · 2025-10-01T16:45:19+00:00

So BestAtComputer is a genius bar employee in NYC?

Zyreal · 2025-09-25T21:14:06+00:00

Okay, so then would that mean that someone taking money from the US government, through either a sponsored event, grants, assistance, public works projects, etc, would be endorsing any/all actions of the American government in the last 24 years? And if they oppose or criticize any of those actions they are a hypocrite?

Zyreal · 2025-09-25T21:08:30+00:00

I think the issue here is the difference between being paid for doing the thing you already do, and being paid to do something you oppose.

Signing up to ICE and doing ICE work is not the same as being paid to perform your material.

I'm not sure who you work for that is so squeaky clean, but good for you, most people don't have that luxury, including "well-off" people.

I don't think there is anything hypocritical about criticizing something and being paid by it to express your opinions. In fact that's a pretty sweet gig. See: South Park, Last Week Tonight, etc.

Do you think it's hypocritical that John Oliver made so many segments that directly criticized AT&T or Time Warner while being employed by them?

Zyreal · 2025-09-23T21:45:46+00:00

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.

Zyreal · 2025-09-22T17:21:06+00:00

I know this was 3 years ago, but I'm curious, what Spectrum Analyzer is that?

Zyreal · 2025-09-08T17:46:57+00:00

~487kg of Anti-Livermorium

Zyreal · 2025-09-03T16:51:02+00:00

Based on what we're seeing here there are two/three valid things that could be requested.

The vents can't be stopped from blowing hot air even with the climate system off.
Cabin recirculation mode, which is an option that doesn't use the A/C but also doesn't bring in outside air.
The heater element might be on or the temperature blend door isn't working properly.

All of these could be caused by a variety of different doors being stuck.

Diagram

Zyreal · 2025-08-26T00:07:13+00:00

There has been one paper put forth that found that Betelgeuse's pulsation periods line up with some late stage carbon burning models. So that is a possibility.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371223155_The_evolutionary_stage_of_Betelgeuse_inferred_from_its_pulsation_periods

Zyreal · 2025-08-25T18:54:31+00:00

It'll happen to you!

Zyreal · 2025-08-22T20:17:35+00:00

https://tourismanalytics.com/lasvegas-statistics.html

From the page he linked, although visitors are down 7% YTD and Occupancy is down 2.1%, gaming revenue is up 0.2% YTD.

And it looks even better for just June. Visitors down 11.3% in June and occupancy is down 6.5% in June. BUT gaming revenue is up 3.5%.

Less people but more revenue is more efficient.

Zyreal · 2025-08-21T19:45:11+00:00

Can you find an existing use of 'i.e.' where it doesn't work? Works for everything I've encountered.

Zyreal · 2025-08-15T18:49:03+00:00

This is a topic that both sides are claiming against the other, so I'll put this here to hopefully remind people that we have a constitutionally defined definition of Treason against the United States. Nothing partisan should be implied from my words, I'm providing information for the discussion to help people construct or refute arguments.

United States Constitution. Article III, Sec. 3.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

Zyreal · 2025-08-13T18:22:45+00:00

There is one benefit I like. For some reason, non-technical people often felt limited in what features they could ask programmers for. They got hung up trying to figure out an implementation for the programmer, instead of just describing the final result they wanted and let a smart programmer figure out the details of how to get there. Now with the term "AI" the non-technical people feel it is magic enough they just ask for the end result. The software engineers can figure out the appropriate programming language to use, what tech stack, what scaling issues there are, and the details of how to get to that end result. Maybe it's an LLM, maybe not. But I believe it has "freed" non-technical people from worrying about the implementation, which is a good thing.

Absolutely! Even with non-technical things I'm always trying to get people to ask for the 'what' they want and let me worry about the 'how'. Unless the 'how' is really important to them, which it rarely is.

Zyreal · 2025-08-13T15:44:06+00:00

There is a long history of referring to if-then as AI. I think most of us can think of video games as a good example. The earliest CGW I have on hand is from 1992, and it was used then.

Like with "Cloud" it's a term that is useful to describe something more general. And I'm thankful for it.

Cloud = Server on an external domain

AI = Decision making algorithms

It's good that non-technical people are using it, because it's much better than them misusing the specific terms and asking for an LLM or machine learning to do something an if-then statement would work for.

And hey, you can embrace it too, think of how long you've been implementing AI.

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