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“These findings could help explain what happens when the body’s thermoreceptors become impaired in ageing and disease.”

...this new understanding of the body’s thermoreceptors could inform treatments for people struggling with thermal dysfunction.

It would be amazing if this research also led to a treatment for the rare symptom of temperature reversal caused by ciguatera fish poisoning (ciguatoxin neurotoxins) overstimulating one's nerves. I am not personally afflicted but have friends who have been; one is still dealing with various symptoms many years later.

Amazing resource - thank you for creating it!

We have "Red Gate in the Rain" by Kasamatsu Shiro [1] hanging in our home. I uploaded a photo of it and had a great time browsing other works by Shiro.

My wife also noted that we'll eventually inherit Shiro's "Snow Falling at Red Gate" [2], in the same series, from her aunt.

We've a couple other prints that I am going to search now... thanks again!

[1] https://ukiyo-e.org/image/artelino/30852g1

[2] https://ukiyo-e.org/image/jaodb/Kasamatsu_Shiro-No_Series-Sn...

Not paying with cash 11 months ago

I never thought I’d see Ely mentioned on HN.

http://moosebay.com is a close family friend who lives in and guides out of Ely. I had a great trip there many years ago.

I’ll have to ask them about your story, surely they remember it happening.

GCP Outage 1 year ago

For us Cloud SQL instances are toast but App Engine Standard instances are still serving requests. Google Cloud console is borked too, mostly just erroring out.

Martello Tower 2 years ago

Of the ones listed, I've only been to the two in Key West, FL, USA.

Neither of them (currently) outwardly resembles the, apparently common, cylindrical/cone look of most of the ones pictured in the wiki.

The West Tower garden is beautiful. The East Tower is a museum and my primary memory of it is that it houses this creepy doll that we learned about during a Ghost tour and had to go see for ourselves: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/robert-doll

Suggested title update: include species context, which is the American or Maine Lobster (officially "Homarus americanus").

That species is quite different from the myriad species of spiny lobster that are common throughout much of the world (notably that the American Lobster has claws).

I've been on two trips to Japan - 2014 and 2023. We enjoyed eating a lot of onigiri on both trips. During the latter trip I noticed that the ¥ price hadn't changed much but the amount of filling (various proteins) had gone down considerably, which makes sense from a business perspective.

We've tried making them at home a couple of times but haven't perfected it yet. Reading this is motivating me to give it another shot soon.

Perhaps. There were an odd couple of "likes" made by the SEC X account during the same time period though (they've since been "unliked"), and Chair Genlser + a follow up post by @SECGov both specifically say that the account was compromised.

Bahaha! I started getting into DnB in the mid-nineties and have left shows because of MCs that I just couldn't tolerate.

And while we're on the topic, and because it's rare for me to get to chat about DnB with anyone... here are some fun short stories from over the years:

A friends Dad happened by when I was listening to DnB without headphones and said "THAT is NOT music... it sounds like a toilet flushing".

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I like listening to DnB during focus-intensive work. On a road trip with friends I'd been working without music for a bit and when I finally put headphones on with some DnB my friends were cracking up saying that I started typing at warp speed once the music started. Hey, it works for me!

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I was wearing a Bass Drive radio t-shirt underneath an unbuttoned long sleeve shirt, so if you can picture it opened down the center and partially obscuring both sides of the large "Bass Drive" logo, and a friend starts staring at my chest and chuckling. I ask what's so funny and he says "Heh-heh... why're you wearing an "ass doctor" shirt?". "ass Dr", ha.

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I use to work on the computer late into the night at a friend's house and he had a roommate who lived in the basement. I usually worked at the dining room table, which happened to be directly above the roommate's bed, with a hardwood floor between us, and on more than one occasion he'd come upstairs half-asleep and say "PLEASE stop tapping your feet on the floor". The last thing I'd ever want to do is torture him awake with that, but I'd be so into the DnB in my headphones that it was happening subconsciously.

Heck yeah, cool! Similar experience here too. In only a few hours I got a basic working custom JavaScript space shooter going, and I've since started a Whac-a-Mole style game.

GPT explaining it along the way and allowing me to have a reasonable conversation with it when something isn't working as-expected has been a rewarding and fun learning experience.