Does anyone else feel like dayquil is an effective decongestant? I do. I can literally feel the gunk running down from my sinuses to the back of my throat when I take it. Confusing to me cause it's phenylephrine, which is what the article states is ineffective. I've had this experience after reading these reports about a year ago.
> Guaifenesin, also known as glyceryl guaiacolate, is an expectorant medication taken by mouth and marketed as an aid to eliminate sputum from the respiratory tract.
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> Guaifenesin is used to try to help with coughing up thick mucus, and is sometimes combined with the antitussive (cough suppressant) dextromethorphan, such as in Mucinex DM or Robitussin DM.
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> Dextromethorphan (DXM), sold under the trade name Robitussin among others, is a cough suppressant used in many cough and cold medicines.
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> The primary use of dextromethorphan is as a cough suppressant, for the temporary relief of cough caused by minor throat and bronchial irritation (such as commonly accompanies the flu and common cold), or from inhaled particle irritants, as well as chronic cough at a higher dosage.
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The combination of the two is designed to reduce coughing and when you do cough, it is much more productive with the expectorant and cough suppression. It isn't a decongestant, but it has (personal anecdotal take) a good effect on getting rid of the secondary effects of congestion.
I swear I read a report somewhere that said something like PE is effective iff you take twice the dose on the box or you take it with other drugs (I think ibuprofen was tested?), although I can't find it again, and I may have read it when I was congested and only had PE.
My lived experince with PE is it never works most of the time. But if I realise I need psuedoephedrine and I'm not somewhere or sometime where I can access it, I'll get PE and hope. Sometimes hope works, but it usually doesn't clear my sinuses very effectively. But if I have sinus congestion related to flying, I might also have soreness related to flying and take PE (because you can get it at the airport) and ibuprofen together, and maybe it works.
But also some people are more sensitive to some drugs, so it could work for you, while not being very effective in general.
> I swear I read a report somewhere that said something like PE is effective iff you take twice the dose on the box or you take it with other drugs (I think ibuprofen was tested?)
Oh yeah combine with Tylenol and increase the dose if you want to experience adverse cardiac events. The oral form of PE is really only good for jacking up blood pressure, it doesn't help with congestion more than placebo: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4500855/
From what I hear, it's a nightmare to get Siri to know what light you want to turn on. Unfortunately it seems like apple is trailing the pack in the smart home area.
150 miles off the coast doesn't sound that far from the subduction zone. Seems hard to believe there wouldn't be some tectonic relationship between the areas.
The phrasing is a little unfortunate, but this area sits on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, which is in one sense the "origin" of the Juan de Fuca plate. If you imagine the overall Pacific Plate and the North American plate, in the area off the coast of Vancouver/Oregon/Washington there's an other mini plate wedges between them called the Juan de Fuca Plate. In this area, it's the Juan de Fuca plate (not the Pacific plate) which is subducting under the North American plate.
The boundary between the Juan de Fuca plate and the Pacific plate is this Juan de Fuca Ridge. This ridge is a site of sea floor spreading - it's not subducting.
So there is a tectontic relationship between the two sites - sea floor spreading at the ridge is one of the factors that drives the subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate. But at the same time, any activity happening at the ridge is not "caused" by the subduction.
Trying to get a sense of what's going on - and you seem knowledgeable. Is this thumbnail a reasonable approximation?
To my completely uninformed mind, it seems like you're saying, there's no huge plate to plate buildup of pressure, it's more like the ocean floor is spreading out, kinda like that picture?
The point is that subduction zones are convergent plate boundaries (two plates are coming together, and one dives under the other) while rifting zones like this are divergent plate boundaries (two plates are spreading apart). Distance doesn't matter, it's the direction of travel.
disclaimer: I'm not an expert, but I've been watching some geology lectures focused on the pacific northwest [1] for fun recently.
This is on the Jaun de Fuca Ridge, on the other edge of the Juan de Fuca plate [2] from the Cascadia subduction zone, so it's related in the sense that it's the same tectonic plate, and the plate is very small (as far as I understand, it's a remnant of a plate that has been subducting under North America for a very long time). It is not (in my very-non-expert opinion) necessarily related in a direct sense to what is happening in the subduction zone.
Wow, that playlist is absolute gold. These kinds of instructional, high-quality, long-form lecture series are IMO maybe the best thing on the internet. The kind of thing when I encounter it makes me take a step back and really appreciate the fundamental beauty and utility of the internet.
Sometimes I wish there was a frontend for YouTube that only has these kind of long-form lecture series, but I've never found one. I think part of the reason why is that essential "quality" is somewhat ineffable.
Honest question, tires, or brakes? I was under the impression brake dust was the worst polluter. I'm sure tires aren't great either, but they should be equivalent between EV's and ICE cars. Brakes last significantly longer on EV's and therefore would help with pollution.
> note that gofmt doesn't indent, which is the hard part
interesting because for me it's hard to read changelogs of js/ts based repos that are using prettier compared to go repos, I wonder if the indentation is a reason for that. I'm honestly not sure what the author means by that either, gofmt seems to fix indentation for me.
If you're reading a PR diff on GitHub you can get it to ignore whitespace diffs by adding ?w=1 to the url - complete lifesaver in this kind of situation.
Also, the white space diffs shouldn't be significant as long as all the files were already properly formatted before the change. If your diffs are including unrelated formatting changes, then you should do a single commit to format all your files. You can also use git-ignore-revs so that this formatting commit won't show up in git blame.
I think "SHAKEN/STIR" is supposed to fix this long term. I'm not sure why it's taking so long, but I believe phones will already indicate if the phone call has a verified caller id. Probably next step is to just block any non-verified caller. I'm assuming there's just a lot of migration work to happen.
I would say that money is the root of the problem. I think that most VOIP providers don't want to loose out on unencrypted traffic (both legitimate and spam).
Also, why do I seem to always get spam from a few providers? And why aren't we holding them accountable?
Money is always the problem. In the carrier world, the party accepting ("terminating") the call gets paid by the party originating it. This is why there are VoIP services that will give you a free inbound-only number and why others only charge for outbound calls.
If you're a carrier, it pays to terminate all calls -- spam or not -- by delivering them to your actual customer. You get paid by the originating carrier, and in a lot of cases you also get to charge your customer per-minute fees (or use up their prepaid minutes).
> Signed traffic between Tier-1 carriers increased to 85% in 2023
We're getting there, just not soon enough. The whole world will have transitioned to never answering their phone before this actually is fully enforced.
I also get very few spam calls, but I ended up buying Verizon's thing that prevents spam calls. It is all a scam but before signing up I got a ton of spam.
(What makes me sad is that I mostly use Google Voice; and that blocks spam pretty well. But people can still call my actual mobile number by guessing it, and they do.)
Google Voice has gotten somewhat difficult recently because some API-to-SMS services consider it "VOIP", and so they flat-out refuse to send text messages. Some places do this on purpose (Discord won't let me use it for 2FA because 2FA is really their anti-spam mechanism, not a security feature), and some places do it by accident (I couldn't add my Fidelity FSA debit card to Apple Pay because it simply won't send the verification code to my number on file). So some people have my "real" phone number now and it makes me sad, but that's why they call it the Internet Of Shit. (I don't even WANT SMS 2FA. Less secure than making your password 1234. Harder to use than a Nomad. Please let me use my Yubikey or a Passkey.)
This is making the news since it's another Boeing issue, but it seems like any issue with a 757 at this point would be from improper maintenance, right?
