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by garren 4y ago
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.
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by garren 4y ago
> 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 ma
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by garren 4y ago
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.
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by garren 4y ago
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?
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by garren 4y ago
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.
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by garren 4y 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.
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by garren 4y ago
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’
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by garren 4y ago
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!
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by garren 4y ago
I imagine they’re more than happy to take your cash at their 4-star and pop-up physical locations.
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by garren 4y ago
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
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by garren 4y ago
> 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 s
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by garren 4y ago
https://archive.ph/VIYE7
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by garren 4y ago
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
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by garren 4y ago
Fact? Do you have a citation for the higher intelligence, lower rates of depression/anxiety bit?
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by garren 4y ago
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 an
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by garren 4y ago
> 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 reca
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by garren 4y ago
“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 asid
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by garren 4y ago
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
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by garren 4y ago
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 rel
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by garren 4y ago
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 comple
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by garren 4y ago
https://archive.ph/a5PXU
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by garren 4y ago
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
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by garren 4y ago
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 t
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by garren 4y ago
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
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by garren 4y ago
> 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
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by garren 4y ago
"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 civilizat
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by garren 4y ago
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 tha
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by garren 4y ago
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
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by garren 4y ago
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/g
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by garren 4y ago
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

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