Day changed to 2026-07-05
[18:59] nekoluce: https://camelcamelcamel.com/ good for amazon offers
[18:59] nekoluce: https://mynoise.net/ good for noise concentration
[18:59] nekoluce: https://www.supercook.com/#/desktop nice for cooking
[19:33] nekoluce: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/ there could be lead or cadminum into chocolate
[20:00] nekoluce: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16208394/ temporomandibular articular disorder can be alivated with surgery
[20:25] jfw: nekoluce, you've been rather unavailable here, dropping in and out and in and out.
[20:42] jfw: there used to be a thing called camelegg that published pricing history from newegg.com, and doubtless similar things for amazon, but they eventually lost the bot vs. anti-bot arms race. possibly the bots meanwhile got good enough to make it viable again.
[20:43] jfw: not exactly sure why the platforms treat their pricing data as so freaking precious.
[21:10] jfw: looking at the consumerreports one, it seems dubious to list "safer choices" based on a sample size of apparently one chocolate bar each. as illustrated for example in the wildly different levels seen in two Lindt bars differing only slightly in percent cacao. figures that Hershey's comes out the worst. and interesting to note that only some of the contamination is believed to be absorbed from the
[21:10] jfw: soil while much of it seems to come from dust accumulating on the bean surface as it's processed in whatever industrial setting. yet another win for making your own!
[21:27] jfw: "Conclusions: Surgical treatments appear to have some efficacy for people who have temporomandibular articular disorders that do not respond to nonsurgical therapies." - the current question is if I'm in that category. the nonsurgical splint therapy has been helpful with symptoms, but latest CT imaging suggests continued inflammation in the bone.
[21:34] jfw: thus I gather the idea is that arthrocentesis could reduce that or at least provide insight as to why / what's happening inside.
[22:19] nekoluce: https://registry.rslmedia.org/identities/RSL-MEDIA-Y3FP-EZ11-N this is a registry so you can ask not to use your image for deepfakes or ai content
Day changed to 2026-07-06
[00:21] nekoluce: happy spam day
[14:40] nekoluce: finish my relational database course just missing the workshops im having trouble with github because i feel i dont understand it well
[18:59] nekoluce: https://camelcamelcamel.com/ good for amazon offers
[18:59] nekoluce: https://mynoise.net/ good for noise concentration
[18:59] nekoluce: https://www.supercook.com/#/desktop nice for cooking
[19:33] nekoluce: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/ there could be lead or cadminum into chocolate
[20:00] nekoluce: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16208394/ temporomandibular articular disorder can be alivated with surgery
[20:25] jfw: nekoluce, you've been rather unavailable here, dropping in and out and in and out.
[20:42] jfw: there used to be a thing called camelegg that published pricing history from newegg.com, and doubtless similar things for amazon, but they eventually lost the bot vs. anti-bot arms race. possibly the bots meanwhile got good enough to make it viable again.
[20:43] jfw: not exactly sure why the platforms treat their pricing data as so freaking precious.
[21:10] jfw: looking at the consumerreports one, it seems dubious to list "safer choices" based on a sample size of apparently one chocolate bar each. as illustrated for example in the wildly different levels seen in two Lindt bars differing only slightly in percent cacao. figures that Hershey's comes out the worst. and interesting to note that only some of the contamination is believed to be absorbed from the
[21:10] jfw: soil while much of it seems to come from dust accumulating on the bean surface as it's processed in whatever industrial setting. yet another win for making your own!
[21:27] jfw: "Conclusions: Surgical treatments appear to have some efficacy for people who have temporomandibular articular disorders that do not respond to nonsurgical therapies." - the current question is if I'm in that category. the nonsurgical splint therapy has been helpful with symptoms, but latest CT imaging suggests continued inflammation in the bone.
[21:34] jfw: thus I gather the idea is that arthrocentesis could reduce that or at least provide insight as to why / what's happening inside.
[22:19] nekoluce: https://registry.rslmedia.org/identities/RSL-MEDIA-Y3FP-EZ11-N this is a registry so you can ask not to use your image for deepfakes or ai content
Day changed to 2026-07-06
[00:21] nekoluce: happy spam day
[14:40] nekoluce: finish my relational database course just missing the workshops im having trouble with github because i feel i dont understand it well