Alex3917

61 ms·

781.
by Alex3917 5y ago
Discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5995095 Where commenters of course insist that fungi can't develop resistance to anti-fungals, and fungal infections aren't dangerous in the first p
782.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> That is, I've been trying to figure out where ansible fits in the bigger picture of the modern trend towards IaC. As a developer working on a small startup, I don't like using Docker because it makes the fan on my MBP go craz
783.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> It's also fairly controversial within the Python dev community. I can't speak to the Python book, but his Unix and SQL books are fantastic.
784.
by Alex3917 5y ago
I learned Python on a whim after seeing a Udacity course on Python posted here in 2012. In retrospect, it was a very good life decision. Godspeed.
785.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> If you need to make a DB trip on every request There's no extra DB request, assuming you need to lookup the user model on each request already.
786.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> How do you revoke tokens on lost laptops? Have the user change their password, and store datetime_password_last_changed on the user model. Then just treat any tokens issued before that time as expired. There are some use cases where st
787.
by Alex3917 5y ago
Sardines are fairly low in mercury. You might not want to eat them every day, but a few times a week shouldn't be a problem as long as you're not also eating other fish that are higher in mercury.
788.
by Alex3917 5y ago
It's probably only mushrooms that grow on wood. I doubt button mushrooms are going to confer much anti-cancer benefit.
789.
by Alex3917 5y ago
Yeah I mean of course mushrooms that eat wood are going to have most of the health benefits.
790.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> By impossible you mean impossible-impossible or too much of a hustle? Too hard, in terms of finding and preparing them, but also in terms of finding something with mushrooms you'd actually want to eat every day. Unless you're
791.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> Unless the mushrooms are killing you with something else before you get cancer I suppose. Probably not unless you’re poisoning yourself with heavy metals, pesticides, or fertilizer. E.g. avoid the morels next to apple trees, giant puff
792.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> According to the findings, individuals who ate 18 grams of mushrooms daily had a 45% lower risk of cancer compared to those who did not eat mushrooms. Raw or cooked? I also wonder what the methodology is; it's pretty easy to eat 1
793.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> But what led to the coral death in the first place? Probably warmer water Building resorts near the water isn't compatible with having living reefs. Not to mention that not only does Indonesia not ban reef-toxic sunscreen, stores
794.
by Alex3917 5y ago
Yeah, this is the version I remember also. PB has said many times that he built the first version that could only display threads of his own email in a day. But going from a series of raw email messages to an email thread that can be displa
795.
by Alex3917 5y ago
IIRC their email parsing code became the basis of Google Groups, which then became the basis of Gmail.
796.
by Alex3917 5y ago
I got banned from our schools computers for installing "hacking tools." I had NetHack in my personal drive. This is after I got in trouble for "plagiarism," for including a hyperlink in an essay.
797.
by Alex3917 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org
798.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> facebook buying Instagram was probably more significant than all the other acquisitions combined. Deja News was probably the biggest tech acquisition by a FAANG company. The average white collar worker spends ~6 hours a day in their Gm
799.
by Alex3917 5y ago
Also women and smokers are underrepresented among hospitalized patients, which was the first confirmatory evidence from over a year ago.
800.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> this new research finds that the spike protein itself can cause damage. Downregulation of ACE-2 causes damage, not the spike protein. The spike protein itself causes downregulation, but not enough to cause damage.
801.
by Alex3917 5y ago
Yeah we've known this for over 10 years, zero surprise here. There were literally popular books written saying that this would be the mechanism of action for novel coronavirus pandemics (and how to treat them) years before the current
802.
by Alex3917 5y ago
> I would also like to see technology interfaces developed for animal use. I feel like just asking this question is step one on the journey toward overdosing on ketamine and drowning in a float tank.
803.
by Alex3917 6y ago
I guess. As a former college athlete though, I do feel like there's something nice about being able to play soccer or whatever without being surrounded by other people who have a financial incentive to murder me.
804.
by Alex3917 6y ago
> This comment is romanticised nonsense which is consistently opposed by research. Suicide rates fluctuate wildly over time though, so trying to understand suicide by looking at relative rates within a given year is going to give you at
805.
PEP 563 and Python 3.10(prettyfwd.com)
17 points by Alex3917 6y ago|2 comments
806.
by Alex3917 6y ago
Looking at the paper, it looks like the authors didn't correct for the fact that CO2 levels during the late Cretaceous period were around 1000pm, so at the time there would have been significantly more available calories per square mil
807.
by Alex3917 6y ago
> if this being in the news causes fewer people to get vaccinated, pausing it may be a mistake that will cause more overall deaths. Except for that the government covering up the MMR investigation instead of doing it openly is what cause
808.
by Alex3917 6y ago
> not even preparing for them as they’re the predominant format, is just showing a lack of preparation. Why would you spend six months preparing for them when you could build and launch an entirely new product in the same amount of time,
809.
by Alex3917 6y ago
> Why didn't employee profit-sharing increase at the same rate as non-salary compensation did for CEOs? Because employees generally hated profit sharing and created unions to fight against it. Joseph Blasi talks about this in his bo
810.
by Alex3917 6y ago
It's interesting because while Miss technically just means that a woman is unmarried, in practice it's only used for children. Similar to how Master technically just means an unmarried male, but I doubt anyone on here has been cal

More ›