Diets rich in polyamines like spermidine may extend lifespan. Data is presented from a study with male mice, showing that high polyamine intake increased median lifespan compared to normal polyamine intake. Spermidine levels in humans has been found to decline with age, and lower levels have been observed in individuals with...
A blood test can detect over 50 different types of cancer well before any symptoms appear, and two massive human studies have been published suggesting that this test can revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment.
When they said Reddit has 2000 employees I was shocked. what could they possibly do onto a website that is basically run by users (and sysadmins) and that is basically feature-wise mature? I really can’t figure out 2000 people working every day on Reddit… on what? just for a quick comparison, the whole IAmA was run by a...
I've been working in programming for a few years and I think I really dislike Pair Programming; I understand how it is but I often find it mind-numbingly dull. I have a feeling I'm doing it wrong but I feel like as a part of a dev team tasks should be broken into discrete enough chunks that a single person can just blitz through...
I've always felt that pair programming is more useful on early stages of a task, where there is enough doubt about implementation details and discussing them is worth.
Is pair programming the right way to address unknowns around implementation? It seems like a brainstorming / whiteboarding session might be a better fit.
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
I cook Jamie Oliver's "basic tarka dhal" all the time. It doesn't take that much time in my experience, and being a basic recipe it lends itself to lots of variations. Highly recommend.
Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.
“The research has been very clear that cursive writing is a critical life skill in helping young people to express more substantively, to think more critically, and ultimately, to express more authentically,” he said in an interview.
What research? This sounds pretty far fetched to me.
Agreed. Gaming has become a lot more acceptable over time and with younger generations. This is also true for the gender gap in gamers, which factors into the dating scene.
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
I think it's going to be an expensive novelty for a while. I'll definitely be buying it on occasion, even if it is somewhat expensive. To me the cost is worth experiencing something that still feels like science fiction!
Depends. Piracy of what? And what time frame are we talking about? I would argue that some companies have been successful in some areas. Look at Sony with the PS4 and PS5. IIRC it took 8 years for hackers to jailbreak the PS4, and by that time it belonged to the previous generation of consoles.
Interested in seeing how other people approach their backlog. I’ve finally made a list of all the games I want to finish, and I’m forcing myself to play one of them a day for at least an hour....
Yeah, I don't like the "backlog" mentality. It makes gaming sound like a list of chores, full of tedium and a sense of obligation. I buy games I know I'm going to want to play eventually, and I'll get to them when I get to them. My goal isn't to "clear my backlog" it's to have fun, play what feels right to play, and go at my own pace.
I do this sometimes with TV shows. I have a library of things I know I want to watch at some point. I roll a die and watch what it tells me. Honestly, I've been pretty happy with the process.
I look at it from the standpoint of federated social media dethroning the reigning social media "monopolies". Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and now Reddit have shown that they want engagement at all costs and will prioritize profit over people. The faster they die, the better.
From this perspective, numbers and growth are important (although of course they're not everything): People won't jump ship to a new platform unless there is a critical mass of users, because a platform needs a sufficient number of users to provide the same variety of user generated content and communities that people have come to expect.
More people using federated social media also means more developers, better apps, and a better user experience for everyone using it.
There's a snowball effect, and maybe one day we'll get out from under our rich social media overlords.
Someone should make a site where everyone can post their shreds and we can see things like total karma burned or total comments shredded, or top shredded accounts.
What is interesting or helpful is entirely subjective
Nothing is entirely subjective, at least not in the sense that you mean.
There are different degrees of shared opinion ("inter-subjectivity") among people, depending on the group. One of the advantages of the "communities" (or "subreddit" / "magazines") model is that you can find people with whom you share opinions, and if that community doesn't already exist, you can create it.
By joining a community that shares your interests, and customizing your feed to show those communities, content that gets upvoted will tend to reflect your interests, and upvotes will be a signal of quality.
People have limited time. By having an algorithm that can sort by likes / dislikes, everyone saves time by delegating some of the time-consuming task of discovering relevant content to the algorithm.
I think the primary purpose of likes / dislikes, upvotes / downvotes has always been to generate information that an algorithm can use to sort content, making it easier for the user to sift through millions of articles to find stuff that's "higher quality" or "more relevant" to them.
It's the same idea behind aggregating TV or movie reviews from thousands of people. It allows you to go to sites like Metacritic / Opencritic / Rotten Tomatoes and sort by average rating to find TVs / movies that are more likely to be worth watching.
This is good news to me. As a casual player of games with battle pass systems, I found them to be a huge turn off. They just ask for too much commitment.
Diets rich in polyamines like spermidine may extend lifespan (www.youtube.com)
Diets rich in polyamines like spermidine may extend lifespan. Data is presented from a study with male mice, showing that high polyamine intake increased median lifespan compared to normal polyamine intake. Spermidine levels in humans has been found to decline with age, and lower levels have been observed in individuals with...
Castration before puberty increases median lifespan of male mice (www.lifespan.io)
Researchers tested the hypothesis that testicular hormones released after puberty are responsible for sex-specific differences in lifespan....
Poll: What's a great webcomic that you're currently reading?
What did you read this month that you really like?...
New blood test catches cancer before symptoms start (www.youtube.com)
A blood test can detect over 50 different types of cancer well before any symptoms appear, and two massive human studies have been published suggesting that this test can revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment.
There's a parasite that triples ants' lifespans (www.sciencealert.com)
When a tapeworm sets up shop in the gut of an ant, it appears to pump antioxidants and other proteins into the creature's bloodstream....
New study shows taurine supplementation improves longevity and healthspan in multiple animal models (longevity.technology)
Reversing age-related taurine loss via supplementation improves mouse longevity and monkey health, study shows.
What are 2000 employees doing at Reddit?
When they said Reddit has 2000 employees I was shocked. what could they possibly do onto a website that is basically run by users (and sysadmins) and that is basically feature-wise mature? I really can’t figure out 2000 people working every day on Reddit… on what? just for a quick comparison, the whole IAmA was run by a...
Random Question: is it weird I don't like pair programming?
I've been working in programming for a few years and I think I really dislike Pair Programming; I understand how it is but I often find it mind-numbingly dull. I have a feeling I'm doing it wrong but I feel like as a part of a dev team tasks should be broken into discrete enough chunks that a single person can just blitz through...
Is there a food that is cheap, delicious and healthy at the same time?
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
Cursive writing to be reintroduced in Ontario schools this fall (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.
~~Almost~~ OVER 90% of the accounts on lemmy are now bot accounts!!
Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031...
What's the age cut off for socially acceptable gaming
So, hear me out....
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
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How do you go about clearing your backlog?
Interested in seeing how other people approach their backlog. I’ve finally made a list of all the games I want to finish, and I’m forcing myself to play one of them a day for at least an hour....
why would numbers matter?
In recent days I have seen these two arguments repeated quite commonly. From reddits side it was all about how "noones using Lemmy anyway"...
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Would Be a Big Deal (www.coindesk.com)
And it doesn’t really matter if it’s technically a trust.
Deleted my 12 year old, 43334 Karma, reddit account
I feel free !...
Why vote on posts?
What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I'm not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?...
Dan Stevens Replaces Justin Roiland in Hulu’s ‘Solar Opposites’ (Exclusive) (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Valve announces no more Battle Passes in Dota 2, updates will focus on in-game content | Esports.gg (esports.gg)
JPMorgan: Ethereum could be put into ‘other category’ by US Congress (www.theblock.co)