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Re:Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antid... on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:15AM (#46812227)
To add another data point: 4,000 IU (two Kirkland capsules) daily keeps my Vitamin D levels at the high end of the reference range. I also take six Kirkland fish oil capsules which happens to hit the 1,500 mg DHA+EPA target suggested in the article.

Honestly, Costco supplements are hard to beat since they're both USP certified and are usually the cheapest.

Re:Thread Pools on the JVM on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:19PM (#27888804)
> and bounded thread pools with bounded queues, FIFO policies, and silent drops are also bad.

Care to elaborate please? Seems like the author is recommending unbounded thread pools with bounded queues for blocking IO. Isn't that pretty similar?

Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:39AM (#22867296)
Probably because both the Arabic and Mongolian scripts descend from the Aramaic script
Re:Why Is Concurrent Programming Hard? on Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:34PM (#19993905)
Unreal, I recall seeing this a while back but I forgot to bookmark it and couldn't find it again. I really think that the actor model and functional pipelines are the correct way to do concurrency in most software these days. The actor model can be used to encapsulate mutable state when needed and functional pipelines otherwise.
Re:Mathematica Version 12 Released on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:34PM (#19675070)
I really think that Mathematica and Matlab failed to capitalize on the rise of AI and ML in the last decade. Seems like Python is the only go-to language these fields.
Re:C++ State Machines on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @07:05PM (#19559420)
The proposed state table is hardly more scalable. It's obviously not infinitely scalable but In my proposed way, you only have to specify the cases where a state transition actually occurs.
Re:C++ State Machines on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:24PM (#19559165)
Well another OO way would be to add a state member to the Heroine class and create a state class for every possible state (X,Y,Z). Each state can then be responsible for interpreting the input and transitioning to the next appropriate state (if any)
Re:Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Imp... on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:25PM (#19547838)
It was honestly a shock how terrible the US A&W was when I tried it. Canada's A&W is indeed MUCH better.
Re:Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:45PM (#19330849)
Some like to pretend that the economy is a zero-sum game, that in order for some people to get rich, they need to climb on the backs of the poor. In some cases this is true, but in most, wealth isn't transferred, it is created. This is certainly one of those examples.
Re:Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:45PM (#19185686)
Facebook has paramilitary factions genociding the Rohingya? I'm not denying that Facebook played a role in the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in Myanmar but to place the blame directly on them is absurd. Facebook is just an ill-moderated medium.
Re:Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:13PM (#19185479)
Except Facebook and Google aren't operating mass incarceration camps that target people solely based on ethnic/religious affiliation. The moral dubiousness of working for Google isn't the same as working as an informant for the Chinese secret police.
Re:New Photon Release of Eclipse IDE Ships with Full Rust Support on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:33PM (#17419338)
I used to think that before I tried using Qt Creator. Your project doesn't need to be a Qt project for you to use it. Make sure you enable the clang code model plugin. It's a bit slow but otherwise flawless.

Ask HN: Resource recommendations to learn modern concurrent programming?

Posted by dimitrov on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @06:40PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been trying to read more on how to design concurrent programs however the more I learn the more I feel lost on how it all fits together. Actor model, Software Transnational Memory, CSP, Async/Await, Coroutines, Message passing, etc..Despite doing some research, it's hard for me to judge the quality of the resources I find. What books/tech talks/papers would be a good starting point to...

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Re:Tour of F# on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:38PM (#13708941)
Another https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/fsharp/
Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:53PM (#13125633)
Lots of harsh language in this thread. Calling things awful, horrible and garbage isn't advancing the discussion in any sort. Stay civil.