For real. Removing SMS support was the biggest mistake they could have made IMO. Even though they’re right that SMS is stupidly insecure, that feature was crucial to getting people to adopt the app. As soon as they removed it, basically everyone I had convinced to install it dropped off. I still haven’t found a trustworthy replacement myself (open to suggestions), so I’m just using Signal alongside the stock Graphene messages app for SMS.

Well if someone doesn’t go vote, you don’t send the police to arrest them and make them vote; you fine them for not voting. At least, that’s how it works in Australia.

I got Control: Ultimate Edition for $4 on sale recently and was really surprised by how good it is. One of the few games I’ve stuck with right through to beating it, and the DLC too. I’ve been considering Firebreak but the backlog is long and money is a little tight for frivolous promises right now. Sounds like I should play Alan Wake, though!

Man, think of all the neat projects I could use this half-glass of compound for!

Son of a bitch, that’s a good argument.

Found the Kerbal.

I’ve done it. Circumstances sometimes demand, what are you gonna do? 🤷 But also, I always clean up after myself - wipe down around the sink if I splashed, and rinse the toothpaste out of the sink itself. That’s just courtesy, professional and general.

Man, fuck Alex Villanueva. That piece of shit brought the LAPD and public safety in SoCal back decades.

Emotional dysregulation is a bitch.

I’d be curious for a follow-up post if you find a way to help him with this! I was this kid when I was little, and needed help and kindness, but there was no understanding for autistic behaviours back then so what I got instead was bullied. I appreciate that you went looking for help instead of just throwing up your hands 🤗

https://weworkremotely.com/

https://www.dice.com/

https://remote.co/

I can’t give any of these my personal +1 as I haven’t used them, but I’ve seen their names around for years. Good luck!

Sounds like it could be a stim thing - impulsive, you say? Any chance there’s (undiagnosed?) ASD there? The mentions of bitter spray reminded me of when my mother tried that to get me to stop biting my nails. I just stopped using my lips and tongue, and only used my teeth…

Anyway, if it’s a stimulation thing, maybe finding an alternative would be easier than getting him to stop entirely.

Sounds like Happy Tree Friends?

Solutions!

But honestly, this isn’t actually bad advice for developers. Even if you have an amazing product, if your execution or marketing sucks it’ll do mediocre at best. Meanwhile, there’s real money ready for the taking if you go about solving problems that people actually have.

Example: a YouTuber I follow had some software read out text from a screenshot on his stream; he said he’d had that program built for that purpose. OCR and TTS model, output to audio source of the user’s choice. Quite simple, an experienced dev could make a few hundred bucks on that.

Example 2: I’m pretty technically capable but I want a text to video generator and can’t be bothered learning to set it up. I’m far from rich, but I paid someone $250 to build a simple prototype with a web interface and a model downloader.

Anyone can do this, the real work is finding those opportunities in the first place, and this guy is just saying to look closer to home for small simple jobs. Those small simple paycheques add up in the time you might have spent chasing a unicorn.

It sounds like the health care sector in the EU generally is worried about the misuse of acetaminophen, like for a “Paracetamol Challenge” on the level of the “Tide Pod Challenge”: https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/what-is-the-paracetamol-challenge-that-has-europe-nervous/

The misuse of any OTC drug is worrying, but this doesn’t translate into a general discouragement, and certainly not because of the “danger” that some people might not take it as directed.

I’ll give you one guess :P

but autism? Nah.

Preaching to the choir haha.

Regarding your point on the efficacy of acetaminophen: agreed wholeheartedly. Like /u/i_has_a_hat said, if you combine it with ibuprofen it’s far more effective. My go-to for bad pain is 500-1000mg acetaminophen and 400mg ibuprofen; I stole the idea from my ex’s neurologist when he prescribed it for dealing with the side effects of her main medication (and he also specifically said it would help with her period cramps too, hers were always bad).

As to the guy taking 5 an hour… That’s an incredible amount of acetaminophen, even “normal strength”. You said you wouldn’t, I think I couldn’t take that many pills. Just the idea has me gagging 🤢 I think it’s fair to call that one an outlier in the data.

I appreciate the sources, but I don’t appreciate the

You… you didn’t try at all, did you?

Because nothing you’ve posted here is news to me. I think you’ll find I said:

If the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting, I’ll concede that’s a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.

So I’ll just quote directly from your very first link, because the rest of them don’t say anything different:

Responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits and 2600 hospitalizations, acetaminophen poisoning causes 500 deaths annually in the United States. Notably, around 50% of these poisonings are unintentional, often resulting from patients misinterpreting dosing instructions or unknowingly consuming multiple acetaminophen-containing products.

And

At therapeutic levels, acetaminophen is generally considered safe. However, instances of acetaminophen toxicity often arise due to patient misconceptions about dosing or a lack of awareness regarding its presence in multiple medications they may be consuming. Intentional ingestion of large doses also contributes to toxicity.

So, in around 50% of cases, the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting. They took other medications containing acetaminophen and didn’t know it, or they took other drugs that amplified the ability of the acetaminophen to cause damage (like alcohol, which is made very clear you’re not supposed to take with acetaminophen).

In the rest, overdoses were intentionally taken, so you can’t really count those in the danger statistics since the goal was to use it dangerously.

To put this in perspective:

When taken at therapeutic doses, acetaminophen has a good safety profile. The therapeutic doses are:

• 10 to 15 mg/kg/dose in children every 4 to 6 hours with a maximum dose of 80 mg/kg/d
• 325 to 1000 mg/dose in adults every 4 to 6 hours, with a maximum daily dose of 4 g/d

Toxicity is likely to develop in adults at:

• >12 g over a 24 hours
• 7.5 to 10 g in a single dose
• Doses >350mg/kg

Toxicity in children occurs following a single dose of 150 mg/kg or 200 mg/kg in otherwise healthy children aged 1 to 6.

Just do the maths on how much acetaminophen you normally take for any given ailment, and you’ll realise just how far beyond those doses the danger really lies (or maybe that you’re one of the people who doesn’t check what they’re taking).

So, to conclude: acetaminophen is indeed dangerous if you don’t pay attention to what you’re taking or how much. Other examples of things that are dangerous if you don’t use them right: cars, ovens, lawnmowers, cotton buds, the internet… the full list is quite long, actually, but I’m sure you get the idea.

Source please? I haven’t been able to find anything credible about whatever danger it is you’re referencing - unless the danger is overdosing because the person didn’t know they were taking acetaminophen in different forms? If the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting, I’ll concede that’s a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.