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but Meta's versions are significantly different than the old, boring thing that you and I have access to. At my company, we are slowly rewriting our python services in golang because off the shelf golang incurs significantly less costs than off the shelf python on a per request basis.
Many of the 2021 IPOs - HOOD, COIN, etc.
I will definitely agree that adding more protein would improve health outcomes for indians - all I really wanted to point out is that a reduced intake of protein does not lead to a drastic decrease in lifespan (other effects dominate that). So there isn't an inherent feeling of anxiety in people who are used to that diet to consume protein at all costs and thus start to consider snakes as an acceptable form of food.
It's probably not correct to attribute all differences in life expectancy between India and USA to diet alone - factors like air quality are so much worse in India and play a significant role in reducing life expectancy as well. What makes more sense is to compare the life expectancy of Americans who tend to follow an Indian diet vs. those who don't. Asian Indian Americans have a life expectancy of 86-89 years [1], higher than of the US as a whole and even other asian sub groups. So the relative lack of importance attributed to protein is perhaps not as big a deal as people make it out to be.
1: https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/58/5/1631/178...
I don't know if the diet is healthy or not - I am just stating that the culture itself does not place an emphasis on protein to the extent that snakes or insects become a viable source of food, but still results in healthy lifespans of 90-100 years (anecdotal of course) which is a desirable outcome for me personally. You could say that adding snake meat to my diet will increase my lifespan by 20 years and that would still seem like an outrageous choice for me to make.
Every passing day, I am more happy I am born as an Indian because I know it is possible to live a healthy life without having to resort to the consumption of protein at any cost.
I believe Heap uses Citus for distributed Postgres[1] - wonder if this issue could have been caught at the Citus level? Changing metadata about shard information can be a powerful foot gun, so the more defenses, the better.
1: https://www.citusdata.com/customers/heap
I reflected on my Vim journey after Bram passed away. It has been my only constant professional companion in the past 10 years - from university projects to FAANGs to everything-on-fire startups. All professional work I have done - the ones I am proud of, the ones that I am ashamed of, the ones that got me promotions and the ones that resulted in $M SEVs - was done on Vim. Oses/DBs/PLs/companies/co-workers come and go, but Vim has been forever.
Thanks Bram.
Is the idea here for SQLite to move from DB level locks to page locks and finally to row level locks?
File a claim, there is absolutely no downside to doing so.
The pension fund probably owns shares in the bank, which are now worthless.
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aprao on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.
It seems to me that the mechanism to maintain a ledger of user accounts is mostly the same across companies and domains, even though it is probably implemented from scratch in each company. Even if the account asset type is different, the concept of transfers (credit one account, debit another), account creation/update, history, statement generation, and correctness of calculations is mostly...
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aprao on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Coda and Confluence are very heavy weight and slow. Also, it's a pain to create pages when you need to tab back and forth to copy text and pictures. Any other solutions in the market that do a better job?
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aprao on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.
At work, I find myself writing a Python/Go/JS SDK for every single internal API that I implement. This might even be more prevalent for public facing APIs since creating/maintaining public API SDKs for popular languages are table stakes for usage.- Has this generally been true in your experience as well?- If so, are there any hacks to create these SDKs with support for best practices like...
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aprao on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:25PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Imagine a very simple user creation flow in an online marketplace:- Service A (user service) receives the request and creates a user object and sends an async request to service B and C (e.g. via Kafka)- Service B (notification service) receives the request and sends an email to the newly created user- Service C (referral service) receives the request and credits some funds to the referrerWhile...
First time seeing Glicol - really cool!
I love your blog and thorough retrospectives on all your projects - thanks a ton for the great content!
Frozen vegetables + protein (tofu) + sauce to stir fry (e.g tomatillo). I change the sauce up for variety.
This (no phones, no notifications) has singlehandedly been the most effective step I have taken for better concentration.
Can someone summarize what allowed nginx to surmount the C10K problem? Was it some clever trick or just good software design?
I read this article, but I found no content discussing the title itself (that in Japan, digicams are the new film) - maybe I am missing something?
I think the Marie Kondo fad is overblown and might be a result of 1) excessive need for direction/hand-holding in all aspects of life and 2) the west's weird obsession with anything Japanese. That being said, Marie Kondo herself does not espouse minimalism. Personally speaking, having fewer things has contributed to better mental health, although it obviously is not true for all people.
I can see the claims now - "Google is holding my account ransom for $XX/hr of customer support!"
This seems like this would win The Ig Noble Prize
Why is it that race horses have such unusual names?