it's a lot of things, none of them in the browser anymore

RSS says hi!

as much as it pains me to say it, that is also a sailed ship

I still follow feeds, my blog's RSS feed gets ~1.5K fetches every day.

How is it a sailed ship?

how many of those 1.5K you think are using a web browser to read that feed?

The platform I use doesn't give statistics on that (I don't host my blog), but I assume the number is >0, since there's a lot of good browser based and free RSS readers.

that comment is a classic and certainly entertaining, but there are multiple levels of safety to prevent something like this from happening, the first of which is the wall of tombstones that greets you when you arrive at that specific dive site. To end up in that situation means to have already made a number of big, big errors.

I remember the Blue Hole as one the best dives I made, and not even the scariest: that prize goes to the time I was in calm waters at 20 meters, and the pressure regulator just failed, leaving me without air from both mouthpieces. And that's why you have a buddy...

I don't think I've ever had anything fail on me diving, but I've been with people who have run out of air (my buddy was constantly using all his up), so having to breathe off someone else's tank isn't uncommon.

As I mentioned in my sibling comment, I did have a scary time on the Blue Hole. I think my other most nervous dives were:

- Pacific dive in Costa Rica in rough seas and surge. We suddenly had visibility drop to near zero when we hit the outflow current of a river. Definitely a lesson in how quick conditions can change.

- Cavern diving in a cenote in Mexico. Nothing weird happened, but we went kinda far in, and I get nervous in overhead environments.

same, blue hole is notorious because inexperienced divers get pressured into deep dives they haven't trained for by local guides looking to make a quick buck.

my scariest dive was when a 14 year old got separated from the group and thought it would be a good idea to continue his dive for 30 minutes.

placebo is not that effective

Placebo is by definition highly subjective, and not even in the sense of one's opinion, but rather that it works or not at a subject level.

Yes, it is. People have gotten better after having been told by someone in a labcoat that what they're taking is a placebo.

if you referring to Kaptchuk TJ, Friedlander E, Kelley JM, et al. 2010, that study still involved some deception[1]. See also Locher C, Frey Nascimento A, Kirsch I, et al. 2017

[1]: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-effects-without-dec...

Do you assume that, or did you read about it in studies?

I read about it in studies!

see, for example:

Hohenschurz-Schmidt D, Phalip J, Chan J, et al. 2024 Placebo analgesia in physical and psychological interventions: Systematic review and meta-analysis of three-armed trials.

“The average short-term placebo effect was small,”

Strijkers RHW, Schreijenberg M, Gerger H, Koes BW, Chiarotto A. 2021 Effectiveness of placebo interventions for patients with nonspecific low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“probably not clinically relevant.”

I went to see ControlD's website to see if it was any good but the chat thingy was trying to convince me by saying "protect your connection like the Coliseum protected Rome, try ControlD's free DNS", which I guess is a way of trying something funny since I'm connecting from Italy, but it does not inspire much confidence in their protection abilities

So it protects your connection by putting up a spectacle? (assuming it meant Colosseum)

It’s clearly AI generated, and badly.

Incredible that they found a way to use AI to do anti-marketing and lose customers

A remarkable number of people seem to think "let's add AI to this!" is (a) always the thing to do and (b) don't even examine the output once before having it go live (or afterwards either).

Mine (Spain) said "control your DNS like a flamenco singer" and it doesn't make sense at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

From the UK you get "Explore your rules like a London detective" which barely makes sense, and is an immediately makes me think it will be useless.

US version:

“Unlock the full potential of your network with Control D's advanced filtering and security features, perfect for the land of the free.”

I don't even have to say my country, thanks AI:

"Explore your network's potential with Control D's advanced DNS analytics, perfect for a tech-savvy Canadian like you."

> I don’t remember the last time I ran into something in Safari and Chrome but not FF.

IIRC Firefox lagged quite a lot on Color Profiles and :has

we don't know how the mass inside a black hole is doing, but we have a pretty solid understanding of the volume and the total mass of black holes

that surely might be a... diversion from boring work, but fun? fun is something else

Type 2 fun maybe.

the book Golem XIV comes to mind (highly recommended!)

and if you didn't like or cared to learn CoreData? just jam a sqlite db in your application and read from it, it's just C. This was already working before Angular or even Backbone

the second is also really good. the second couple is... different. Good but not in the same league

Maybe it was just the last two I was thinking about. Been a while. These things start falling down when they start getting explained.