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by cies 2y ago
Some one asks for ideas on how diet may help. Someone else answers with a ref to Dr Greger. Now you come that this "widens the empathy gap that sufferers already face" and "trivializes the disease". I think you are overr
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by cies 2y ago
> Dave Asprey claims that calcium oxalate (abundant in spinach) can cause arthritis. Cause or "is correlated with"? I know that spinach (and other high oxalate foods) should not be eaten more than once or twice per week.
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by cies 2y ago
I've heard people had good results with cutting out all dairy. (They were already eating very "clean": little meat, no refined sugar, no refined starches, very little vegetable oils) Dairy, as I understand it, is highly infla
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by cies 2y ago
It's not bad. There are some rough edges though (like the platform types, that CAN be implicitly `null`, horrible).
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by cies 2y ago
I wish this was available as a flatpak. There are just toooo many dependencies that need to be custom install to install Sonic Pi. Packaging it for distro will be a nightmare. Flatpak to the rescue.
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by cies 2y ago
I look at Rust more as an FP lang than an OO lang. By FP I mean: you have data and logic; never a combination of both (classes/objects). Java makes this king of separation between data and logic really hard. Kotlin came to the rescue f
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by cies 2y ago
I beg to differ. Any closed source app could easily contain a keylogger: great feature! If we want people to run closed source on Linux, we need facilities to sandbox these apps like on other OSes. Flatpak is moving in this direction. Wayla
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by cies 2y ago
both tuples and record (structs) are product types. tuples are "untagged", records/structs are "tagged" (the members have names). sum types also have tagged and untagged variants. the untagged variants are less usef
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by cies 2y ago
> that doesn't undo the last 15 years of Java code that I've written where that wasn't really an option. Same for C# with this new feature. Sum types (as I like to call tagged/type unions) are such an important tool t
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by cies 2y ago
Indeed. Security (all apps get all keypresses and hard to implement correct behaving lock screens) and multi-monitor with factional scaling per monitor; those were the things that apparently were to super-duper hard to fix in X11. Maybe a y
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by cies 2y ago
> X11 was and still is superior to wayland "was" sure. "still is" it depends on your use case. for me Wayland overtook X11 as superior in the last year.
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by cies 2y ago
We're in 2024Q3, things have improved. Nvidia helped out. (X)Wayland/KDE/Qt/GNOME bugs were fixed. Apart from that, use X11 as long as you wish! I'm just glad we can finally improve the open source desktop-environme
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by cies 2y ago
> Beware, the commentator is now going to argue that the covid vaccines were somehow secretly injected before 2020, because, you know, it was part of "The Plan (tm) (patent pending)" Did you read the HN guidelines? https:&#x2F
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by cies 2y ago
A cachier roll, that is locked into the voting machine. The voter selects an option on the machine, each option has a number. Once the voter confirmed it's pick the number is printed on the cashier roll and "rolled" into view
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by cies 2y ago
Indexing maybe. But there's more: IntelliJ understands your code, and this make more sense for static/strong typed langs. We do a lot of Kotlin and IntelliJ is indispensable.
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by cies 2y ago
> The 'local' people were workers brought to the island by the British, and then forced to leave the island once the job ended. You are using exactly the kind of positive wording for horrible things that I was making a point ag
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by cies 2y ago
"rules based international order" (just as BS as "protecting democracy")
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by cies 2y ago
At some point no humans existed on earth. But when the UK "took control" (a.k.a. invaded) there were inhabitants that apparently had to be "evicted" (a.k.a. expelled or forcefully kicked out). I believe the people that i
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by cies 2y ago
"In 2023, Human Rights Watch condemned the action as a crime against humanity." Yet the BBC fails to mention this in their 2024 article, instead they use this language to describe the event: "Britain took control of the Chago
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by cies 2y ago
See how sneaky the language being used is crafted to not put blame on the UK: "Britain took control of the Chagos Islands, of which Diego Garcia is part, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965. It went on to evict its population of m
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by cies 2y ago
Sure call it what you like. Just know that it's very different from a Firefox add-on.
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by cies 2y ago
> Also, I’m not aware of any static typing add-ons for Lua I'd not cal TypeScript an addon to JS. It's a language that transpiles to JS (and so does CoffeScript, Elm, etc. etc.) There are many language projects that transpile t
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by cies 2y ago
If we are going to compare to WW2, I think Ukriane's love for Bandera is the best thing to keep in mind. I'll show some wikipedia things here... See here the photo of the Euromaidan head quarters: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by cies 2y ago
I stand corrected: the US armed the Mujahadeen. > why should we be interestedin any other analysis of the situation you may have? I dont want you to be interested in anything. Your interests are your concern. > Potemkin Are you saying
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by cies 2y ago
> You cannot expect praise for needlessly destroying somewhere and then rebuilding it. The word "needlessly" is being contested. If the Minsk accord were adhered to it was not needed. Apparently some felt this was needed. Also:
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by cies 2y ago
I meant to say: I dont use it for security, I use it for convenience.
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by cies 2y ago
I use port knocking to keep my ssh logs clean. I dont think it adds security (I even brag about using it in public). It allows me to read ssh's logs without having to remove all the script kiddie login attempt spam.
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by cies 2y ago
We use ElasticMQ to have an SQS compatible service for local development. We use it with docker-compose locally. In our remote envs we use SQS. So far I had not problems with ElasticMQ. I'm much intrigued by the small LOC count of Smoo
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DataFrame: Kotlin's Innovative Approach to Data Structures [video](youtube.com)
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by cies 2y ago
> The billion dollars mistake is not having nulls, you need some concept of null. > The mistake was allowing nulls to be a valid value for all pointers/reference at the type level. Hence I call it "implicit nulls" in my

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