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Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Notice When People Are Directionally Correct · 2024-01-16T01:18:35.586Z · LW · GW

Shipping piracy graphs over the decades:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266292/number-of-pirate-attacks-worldwide-since-2006/
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/19/maritime-piracy-is-on-the-decline-globally.html

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on leogao's Shortform · 2023-12-22T19:32:43.830Z · LW · GW

https://xkcd.com/386/

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Childhood Roundup #3 · 2023-10-11T21:44:25.801Z · LW · GW

Studies keep showing sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children.

I assume the sugar myth is because food dye causes hyperactivity:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32006369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321798/
 

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on AllAmericanBreakfast's Shortform · 2023-05-26T22:26:19.635Z · LW · GW

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Moving VPS Again · 2023-05-04T07:57:45.620Z · LW · GW

Free static page services offer previews:

https://jace.pro/post/2020-12-17-cloudflare-pages-netlify-zeit-github-pages-and-gitlab-pages-where-to-host/

https://github.com/rossjrw/pr-preview-action

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Olli Järviniemi's Shortform · 2023-04-30T21:35:24.115Z · LW · GW

Lots of related concepts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on AWS Has Raised Prices Before · 2023-04-03T18:11:26.422Z · LW · GW

https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes/blob/main/archive.md

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Pat Myron's Shortform · 2023-02-05T05:09:14.574Z · LW · GW

+1 to be able to check notifications, messages, and specific posts here without seeing newsfeeds:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Feature Request: Self-imposed Time Restrictions · 2023-02-04T23:27:18.413Z · LW · GW

opened Github issues to track / +1:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Pat Myron's Shortform · 2023-01-29T22:22:26.590Z · LW · GW

+1 for these forum logos to be added to FontAwesome:
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/19536

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on riceissa's Shortform · 2022-10-03T02:05:57.790Z · LW · GW

wackier stuff

mind elaborating? 

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Welcome to Pittsburgh Rats [Edit With Your Details] · 2022-09-11T05:24:23.737Z · LW · GW

Only saw this event:
https://www.lesswrong.com/events/AhzqngXFmiSiC3wtw/pittsburgh-pa-acx-meetups-everywhere-2022

UPDATE: there is an active Pittsburgh group: pghacx@gmail.com and discord