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by ivanhoe 3y ago
They both are still safe in expected doses for majority of people (roughly 90%), and even for those 10% with sensitivity the main health concerns are temporarily gastrointestinal problems like flatulence & bloating - more of a nuance th
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
I see sugar and HFCS added to salty foods as a much bigger problem because you literally have no way of guessing it's there. FruitLoops and similar cereals are sweet, it's pretty obvious it has either sugar or artificial sweetener
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
> I don't want your synthetic poison in my kids food. Allulose is not a poison by any measure, but if you're so paranoid about what your children eat why feeding them with instant foods like FruitLoops in a first place? Breakfa
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
From everything we know so far allulose is a safe replacement for sugar (it's also FDA approved), so I don't really see how it's such a big problem that it's not specially labeled? It's indigestible by humans so it
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
If you like baklava, try also kadaif (aka Tel Kadayif), it's even better...
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
I keep saying this every time Delphi is mentioned, but it definitely deserves the praises: Borland Delphi had the best and the most useful documentation/help system that I ever used - and those were times before Google or even access t
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
The problem here is how justifiable is the change in prices, not the amount. If you raise prices because you really have to and I can't keep up, that's OK, that means that my business is not viable anymore, I need to charge more a
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Well, you usually can simply move just for a few streets/blocks, it's very unlikely you'll have to move out of the town...But let's imagine if many little shops would be forced to move out of the town because of high ren
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
If you run a successful restaurant paying for "protection" to mobsters is a negligible cost to keep your business running (and your kneecaps not broken), but that doesn't make the racketeering acceptable...
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
The problem is that most of people don't work in a giant ass company and so don't have the same problems you've had have, and thus they can achieve the same easier, faster and cheaper with monoliths - but they don't beca
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
If that happens it's an organizational problem (lack of mentoring, code reviews, access control), not an architectural problem...
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Text is for details, diagrams are to quickly communicate the whole idea in a single place. IMHO every complex-enough project needs both.
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
What you're discussing has little to do with seniority - those are some personality traits that are great to have, but you either have it in you or not - people who are bad at explaining stuff will usually stay bad at it for the rest o
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Anything that you stashed just for convenience, but you could re-download or re-generate it if really needed, or simply live without it... frankly, like 90% of stuff on my disks fall in the category "I'll read/view it one day
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
It's a pretty well-known fact for years that tarsnap is basically a one-man show, and yet Colin has managed to provide fantastic service so far. Sometimes having ppl who built the service also managing it is actually a big plus, compar
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
It's hard to go beyond: "Even highly unlikely events will happen occasionally if you let the system run long enough".
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Many EU countries still allow for individuals/small companies to choose to use simpler book keeping, without going through all that bureaucracy. And realistically this types of tools are probably targeting that population...
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
What's the value of amplitude of one such 'monster' g-wave?
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Sucralose however seems to be stimulating some insulin secretion even though it has no real caloric value. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19352508/
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
I used to do it in army. Just roughly 20mins of nap and warmth can really get you back on the feet, just enough boost to survive the day. And after some time you don't even need to set the alarm, you just wake up, brain learns the rout
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
In reality they're probably good enough for most of users - but in theory any SW based solution can theoretically get exploited, so external key that requires user action is certainly more secure (and not significantly more inconvenien
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
> GPT-4: PostgreSQL: SELECT STRING_AGG(columnName, ', ') FROM tableName; Well, you asked for sql and ansi sql function is listagg(), so technically this is not the right answer - and definitely a completely useless one for mysq
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Well, for people living there it's how they pay their bills, so for them it's very practical economical problem. And not just them, the whole Veneto region in fact lives from tourism, and Venice is their main attraction, so they a
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Thing is, however, that statistics don't deal with the individual outcomes. Just because statistically the health checks are claimed not to make a significant difference, it doesn't mean that they couldn't save your life at s
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
> Having high-level languages instead of having to write assembly does not make programmers worse. It just means that instead of having to worry about byte alignment, structure packing and nuanced cache details - they can instead focus o
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
I doubt that guests in restaurants will start flipping their own burgers, or folks will stop ordering home deliveries, so I don't think the demand is a problem here. Real problem is on the other side, the vast supply of that segment of
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
It's a practice of basically praying on the vulnerable social groups, and that should make it a problem of the whole society - and even if one doesn't care of ethical issues of such exploitation of fellow human beings, and lacks a
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
> it is a realistic scenario that the small amount of legit pain is worth the incredibly reduced risk footprint. Well, I guess it depends on the type of attacks one experiences, but hackers and spammers who target US-based businesses are
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
yes, it's "mlin" or "mlyn" in a number of Slavic languages, and I just looked up it's etymology in Serbian and the book says it comes from old slavic "mъlinъ" which they say comes from the Latin root
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
and Italian "il mulino"... it all comes from Latin "molinum" for the mill (and "mola" for the grind stone used in mills)

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