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Mine was held up by the seizure. I got an email about it, but they were able get it out a month or so later. They were able to work around it, but I don’t recall the details. I think they had a blog post about it.

> If the bug just started happening look through recent commits that even remotely relate to what you see.

git-bisect can be incredibly helpful here if you happen to be using git. I’ve only needed to resort to it a few times. It’s not magic but it can help speed things up.

I’d go the opposite direction and say throw on an audiobook. I walk pretty regularly and found that a good long audiobook can be motivating.

Is walking on a treadmill significantly more or less beneficial than walking in a big circle? Does a constant change in view confer some measurable benefit compared to a static view?

Seems short-sighted. That Twitter hasn’t fallen over appears more like a credit to the SRE work that went into getting everything running on, effectively, autopilot. Today’s Twitter infra is clearly a far cry from the stuff a decade ago.

Definitely agree on the weed. I tried a high THC tincture about two years ago and my tinnitus was practically screaming for a few hours. No fun. Not sure about CBD, not interested in finding out.

I typically rely on keeping background noise going to drown out the tinnitus, but I’ve also found that earplugs can work.

I don’t use them as much, but in my case, yeah, they’ll increase the volume of the tinnitus. In a weird way though, I’ve found that if that’s all you’re hearing then you can kind of get used to it and your mind starts to kind of drown out the noise. You can also meditate and focus on the tinnitus with the same effect, and there too the earplugs can help.

I don’t tend to wear them for more than an hour or two since even the soft ear plugs seem to make my ear ache.

I just got the email about it going from mean to release today. Only a couple chapters in but so far I think it’s a solid addition to my Rust library. Congrats and thanks for writing it!

I imagine they’re more than happy to take your cash at their 4-star and pop-up physical locations.

Any good references for learning how to use a scope and other equipment? I haven’t gotten around to cracking open TAoE [0], but I did pick up the “hands on lab” version [1] which looks promising. Any resources on getting familiar with test equipment would be appreciated.

This book from a parent post looks pretty good: Understanding Signals with the PropScope from the company Parallax [2] and it looks like there’s a bundled kit on Amazon.

[0] https://artofelectronics.net/

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/elect...

[2] https://www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/2134871UsersMa...

> Research suggests less than 1% of "crypto" usage is for criminal activity.

I’m really curious to know where this statistic is coming from. Spend a day following other sources [0] and you’d be hard-pressed not to come to the same conclusion.

[0] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

Clearing huge swaths of Brazilian rainforest, “the lungs of the planet”, to make way for cattle seems like a pretty significant contributing factor though, would you agree? Less demand for meat, less demand for eliminating large pieces of a rather important natural carbon sink.

Fact? Do you have a citation for the higher intelligence, lower rates of depression/anxiety bit?

I went vegan for about a year not too long ago. Just thought I’d try it. I ended up really liking it, mainly because it got me a bit more comfortable cooking and trying recipes and ingredients I would never have considered. I’m not vegan anymore, primarily because of a living situation (roomies.) I like meat, but I’m still thrilled to whip up a good quick vegan or vegetarian dish now and then.

However, if you take a meat centered dish and just remove the meat, or throw in a meat-like substitute (beyond burgers more than something like tofu or seitan), then yeah, it’s not going to be great. Vegetarian and vegan recipes are often really good precisely because they don’t attempt replace meat with anything. Instead I think they rely more on spice and flavor combinations.

You’re not going to find a replacement for a killer dry-aged ny strip steak that’s grilled to perfection. But you might find a fantastic curry, kimchi stew, roasted pepper, or black bean burger recipe that help to broaden your tastes and get comfortable eating less meat.

> Also, most of the ocean plastic comes from a small number of rivers in the less developed world. [1] Rich countries aren't really the problem.

I don't have a source for this, so take it for what it's worth, but as I recall rich countries remain a significant part of the problem. TFA mentions it, but, iirc, the US used to ship its plastic waste to China for recycling, but the "single stream" approach to recycling resulted in a contaminated waste stream that was more expensive to handle. So China stopped accepting our recyclable waste. In turn, we started shipping our recyclables to Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries instead. They're happy for the business, but they don't have the infra to handle the amount of waste we're sending, and general mismanagement is widely recognized [0]. As a result US plastic waste intended for "recycling" ends up in dump sites, landfills, etc. in SEA countries and eventially accumulates in rivers, sewers, and eventually the ocean.

I don't disagree with you regarding landfills. There was a post here recently that seemed to lean more towards just throwing plastic away, that way it ends up in a landfill, rather than "recycling" it and having it end up in the ocean by way of the Philippines

[0] https://www.pemsea.org/publications/reports/reducing-plastic...

“Just works”, unless you’re doing anything remotely technical. I like macOS, I use it daily, but unless you’re popping open a browser and checking email and that’s it, there’s nothing out-of-the box about it. You’re likely going to set aside some time to set it up for actual work.

White wheat flour has a higher glycemic index than table sugar[0]. High GI foods can lead to blood sugar spikes, potentially to ”impaired insulin sensitivity” [1], and a host of related health problems. Diabetes, obesity, etc. In a sense it’s worse than refined white sugar for many, if not most, people. Particularly those living a more sedentary lifestyle.

If you subscribe to the notion that sugar is poison[2][3], then highly refined, processed, wheat flour is also poison.

[0] https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glyce...

[1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22206-insulin...

[2] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2009/06/104177/sugar-poison-says-u...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM (see 35-39min)

Exactly. s/closed-source/google/

I've not used Firebase, but seeing as it's not, as far as I can tell, "core" Google (i.e., not related to search or advertising explicitly), I'd be concerned about relying on it in any substantial, business-critical, way.

I’m not a fan of meat substitutes like impossible or beyond, but tofu, seitan, and (occasionally) tempeh are awesome and easy to cook up. I agree with you that a vegan meal generally doesn’t have a centerpiece food item, and that the complexity of flavor more than makes up for it.

The problem with meat substitutes and alternative meat dishes (i.e black bean or beet burgers, or tempeh “bacon”, etc.) is that no matter what, it’s not going to taste like what you’re expecting. I’m often happier eating vegan recipes that make no attempt to replace meat.

This sounds like solid advice. A rewrite would be a world of hurt, particularly if you don’t have buy-in from the existing team.

Regarding the team, junior they may be, as he says, but they’re rolling with a multi-mullion dollar product. If they’re keeping the product going and continuing to add business value, then they’re doing something right. Their engineering practices might be questionable, but they seem to have a solid product.

However, getting testing in place is going to be a challenge. I’ve encountered systems that sound similar to this one (perfectly functional, zero discernible architecture, not remotely designed with any kind of testing in mind.) It’ll be difficult to convince the suits that introducing testing has any real value when you’re starting from zero.

The first thing than comes to mind is the strangler fig pattern. Sounds like a useful idea in this instance.

> …an alternative [to a re-write] is to gradually create a new system around the edges of the old, letting it grow slowly over several years until the old system is strangled.[0]

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html

I’ve never read The Silmarillion, and other than the hobbit cartoon back in the day, the LOTR movies are my only real connection with JRRT. I read the first book, but found it to be a forgettable slog largely due to a weird musical wizard that (thankfully) never showed up in the movies.

Regarding the rock-splitting competition spoiler - I thought he was going to win. I’m only two eps in, but I’ve enjoyed the show so far. It’s much better than I expected, particularly given everything I’ve read about it being so poorly executed. I had much lower expectations. I’m not raving about it, but I’m not panning it either.

I imagine that if you’re much closer to the source material, then there’s no way this show could have possibly met your expectations. On the other hand, if you want to catch a decent LOTR spin-off, and you’re neither a film student nor a die-hard JRRT fan, I’d say give it a shot.

That and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, Westernized diet already high in sugars and preprocessed foods, and, most recently, plastics (re: the top article for the other day [0]) Seems reasonable to assume it applies to domestic animals as it does to people.

Of these, I’d bet that nutrient collapse, so far, plays a significantly smaller role.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/bpa-plastic-containers-bad-h...

> Nearly 1,000 obesogens with such effects have already been identified in studies with animals or humans. They include Bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastics, and the phthalates, plasticizing agents used in paints, medicine and cosmetics. Others include parabens used as preservatives in food and paper products, and chemicals called organotins used as fungicides. Other obesogens include pesticides and herbicides, including glyphosate, which a recent study found to be present in the urine of most Americans.

It feels like modern, Western, society is like living in a big Petri dish. It’s one big experiment in which we’re swimming in chemicals that we later find out interact with us and each other in negative ways. We should have reigned in these kinds of “innovations” decades ago. Americans are now urinating carcinogenic pesticides, rainwater even in most remote regions in the would is undrinkable [0], and we’ve had strong evidence for a while that some of the constituent components of commonly used plastics disrupt biological processes in humans and other animals.

In 50-100 years people will be looking back in horror at the kinds of self-inflicted suffering we’ve produced. And for what? Money? Convenience?

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40859859/rainwater...

"should be quite likely" seems to make some rather large assumptions, doesn't it? There remains zero evidence for extraterrestrials at all (so far), let alone those that have evolved into space faring/exploring civilizations, to say nothing of those actually interested in visiting our little dirt ball (physically, robotically, or otherwise.) Boring as it is, it seems way more likely that people are mistaking some natural phenomenon for extraterrestrial visitation.

If you haven't heard of Mick West, check him out. He does a pretty convincing job explaining away quite a bit of the UFO stuff that's been "leaked" out of the military or reported on breathlessly by the media these days. My favorite recently was his breakdown of the "triangle UFOs" that were "swarming" a Navy ship off the California coast.

Way downhill. The MSDN circa 1996-2000 (if that's what it was called, I don't recall) was excellent. Their C/C++/Win32 documentation was clear, helpful, and concise.

Then with the advent of .Net (or, at least, around that time, say 2000+) things just ballooned and suddenly the MSDN became super difficult to navigate, almost overnight. Even today, there's a lot (a lot) there but it's nowhere near as useful as is used to be. The MSDN habit of providing a TOC to the left of any given article seems like it /should/ be useful, but instead it's been beaten to death. There must be a better way to navigate their documentation than that.

Also, surprisingly often links to other documentation are broken - that's not new, it's always been the case iirc, but it's much more prevalent these days.

And, some of their stuff has a lot of documentation, but it's just difficult to follow. I swear they're paying technical writers by the number of sections they can chop a give subject into. I was looking into Azure/Business Central documentation a while back and didn't find anything useful even though there's a ton of information there. I had ~10-15 tabs open all roughly referencing different pieces of what I thought I needed. Eventually, I stumbled across a dev blog, not MS, describing almost exactly what I needed, along with some crucial details that I never saw in Microsoft's documentation.

The Ancestor's Tale is an intimidatingly large book at first glance, but I found it well worth the read. I'd recommend it before The Selfish Gene just because, despite the size, to me the progression from chapter to chapter really kept my attention.

Not to mention the Glomar Explorer [0],[1]. The CIA might not be in the engineering business itself, but definitely has the money and the resources to fund those who are.

[0] https://interestingengineering.com/culture/glomar-explorer-t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer

A product that takes a similar approach is: “A Curious Moon” @ BigMachine [0]

It’s not an intro to time series or data analysis, but it’s a great intro to Postgres, db administration, and etl that follows a fun and compelling storyline. The presentation is different, but the “edutainment” style is similar.

[0] https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/