rkallos

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by rkallos 1mo ago
They can be when they are converted into nitrosamines, which appears to happen in the absence of plants. In the presence of phytonutrients, nitrates are converted to nitrites, which have several health benefits. In the absence of phytonutri
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by rkallos 2y ago
Dr. Michael Greger's books (and website: https://nutritionfacts.org ) boast an astonishing amount of citations of medical studies. He readily acknowledges the vast volume of literature around nutrition, with more and more st
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by rkallos 2y ago
I experienced a similar change (more energy and steadier energy levels throughout the day) after switching to a plant-based diet, which has been shown to change one's gut microbiome over a few weeks.
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by rkallos 2y ago
I find it very intuitive, but maybe it's because of a missing link or two. Boolean arithmetic sometimes uses + for OR and * for AND. When considering only zero and non-zero values, the semantics are the same. 1 + 1 + 0 is non-zero, 1 *
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by rkallos 2y ago
They switched to microservices written in Kotlin, resembling the rest of their backend stack. They had an easier time hiring and retaining Kotlin developers than Erlang/Elixir developers.
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by rkallos 2y ago
For what it's worth, Grindr's chat hasn't been powered by XMPP since April 2024.
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by rkallos 2y ago
Woolly mammoths were a geoengineer species that have no living proxy. Bringing them back is definitely a controversial project, but there's a case to be made that de-extincting the woolly mammoth could help prevent permafrost from melt
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by rkallos 2y ago
> I look at the reddest part of the chart, I look at the peaks Neither of these are really the places I look at when examining flame graphs. I tend to look at the bottom, and work my way up. The key thing (imo) to look for are wide piece
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by rkallos 2y ago
These properties are explained in great detail in volume 1 of Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order. Reading about these with accompanying images of spaces or objects demonstrating the presence or absence of these properties is w
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by rkallos 3y ago
Here is Grindr's unionization website: https://grindrunited.org/
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by rkallos 4y ago
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is a wonderful guide on how to apply various principles of Stoicism, especially principles around cultivating resilience in the face of circumstances beyond one's control. However, to read only Medita
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by rkallos 4y ago
The Stoics had plenty to say on what constitutes a good life. They might have also cautioned that a 'joyful' life may not be the same thing as a 'good' life, if that joy is derived from vice or a lack of virtue. https:&
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by rkallos 4y ago
> Dense cities don't really matter that much Are you sure? My understanding is that people who live in dense cities rely less on automobiles, have their waste treated more efficiently, and consume less energy per capita in order to
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by rkallos 4y ago
I, too, was disappointed using Leightturm notebooks with fountain pens. They're nice notebooks, but you're right; the paper isn't very good. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that more denser of paper (80 g/m^2
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by rkallos 4y ago
The current SCOTUS seems to be fine with coaches coercing teenage athletes into public prayer sessions, overturning a previous SCOTUS ruling. Meanwhile, I find it ironic that the same state enacting this "intellectual diversity" l
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by rkallos 4y ago
Chiming in with 6 years of professional Erlang experience. I'm somewhat familiar with Elixir, having worked on some Elixir codebases for a few months. > The notion that to learn a language you also need to learn a second one is not
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by rkallos 4y ago
It sounds to me like you might enjoy SML or OCaml.
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by rkallos 4y ago
Grindr's response to this article: https://blog.grindr.com/blog/the-wsjs-old-news > What the WSJ describes would not be possible with our privacy practices today, practices we proactively implemented two years
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by rkallos 4y ago
I implemented and deployed a state synchronization protocol based on CRDTs at my last job. It replaced a protocol that needed a fully connected mesh to function properly, and the entire cluster would suffer a grey failure if a connection wa
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by rkallos 4y ago
That's very resourceful! Your system also comes with a bunch of quotes and advice.
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by rkallos 5y ago
Why did you stop?
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by rkallos 5y ago
Definitely a tricky problem for CRDTs. A possible solution is outlined in the OpSets paper; https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04263 I hope that there are existing implementations of OpSets that perform well. I find the soluti
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by rkallos 6y ago
To my knowledge, the author co-authored interval tree clocks as well as dotted version vectors. He also co-authored a lot of the literature on CRDTs.
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by rkallos 6y ago
Yes there is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0m0_qtfzLs
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by rkallos 6y ago
I had the opposite experience to you. I found Pony much easier to learn than Rust. Reference types are probably the trickiest bit to learn, especially in how they relate to Pony's generics. Everyone is different, but I found learning t
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by rkallos 6y ago
I have something resembling a Zettelkasten using Tiddlywiki with the Stroll plugin. I'm loving it. I feel like this system is taking me from being someone who hoards notes and never looks at them to someone who actively learns and reme
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by rkallos 6y ago
The Lamy Safari was the pen that started my addiction to fountain pens. It holds a special place in my heart.
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by rkallos 6y ago
I used to use Emacs and Org Mode, but, like many other commenters here, I noticed that I never went back and reviewed my notes. Now I'm experimenting with TiddlyWiki, and I've been having a lot of fun with it. With a small modific
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by rkallos 7y ago
I've been managing my personal finances with Beancount since the summer. I've been enjoying it a lot. I also use Fava to explore the data.
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by rkallos 7y ago
I was curious about this too, so I read a few more posts on their website. The article is about the latest prototype for a device that accumulates plastic for disposal. The idea behind it is to create U-shaped artificial coastlines that slo

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