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More and more people are dying from heartattacks caused by understanding the true costs of losing control and relying on cloud religion and throwing money into Bezos' fireplace.
I haven't quit caffeine... because I'm working on quitting sugar.

So I drink coffee, black.

Coffee has become a really different experience without anything added (sugar or creamer).

All of a sudden the roast really matters (I like medium). and the brand really matters.

As for caffeine, this is how I do it: 1 "normal" coffee in the morning, then decaf from then on.

The normal coffee usually tastes better than decaf. (and a bad decaf tastes like bottled cancer - I swear I'm drinking turpentine)

I treat decaf like it's benign but my friends remind me - "decaf does not mean caffeine free".

That said, I think quitting sugar is harder than quitting caffeine.
I suggest you add a drop down with some composition examples in the editor so it kind of demos out what it is capable of.
The language feels quite natural to transfer an existing score or to compose something out so it could fill out some niche. I'm not a trained musician so take this as an opinion.
for some reason i treated haskell differently when i learned it. IDK why, probably because it was tied so closely to functional programming. Yeah it should be treated like any other language I think
> For me, 95% of the trick was just finding a good decaf.

Is there such thing as a good decaf though? All the ones I have ever tried had an horrible chemical-like taste.
You seem pretty judgemental. It's not a good look
Pain-free quit:

* buy a pack of pure caffeine tablets (various brands, including generic)

* quit

* take a whole tablet in morning (or equivalent to your coffee intake with some time spread if necessary).

* every day over two weeks reduce caffeine intake to zero e.g. shaving or breaking pills
Yes, I started a YT channel
I think sugar is worse. Someone here also mentioned that even artificial sweeteners affect your blood sugar.
FAST mode disabled the screen raster output to allow more cycles for user code. The TV monitor was free to improvise its output, which for me was alarming rolling garbage and an audible whine.

Turbo mode changed the clock speed, which was a less hectic experience.
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> This is how the real world works - try applying to jobs with a beautiful resume.

Not in my experience. I got interviewed at top tech companies and joined a well-respected one after submitting a 'beautiful' resume which I really only spent a few hours designing. One of the tech interviewers thanked me for putting the time and effort into it, especially not trying to fill the entire page with as many bullet points as possible. A good design can't make up for a lack of experience in a field, but I don't think it's nearly as detrimental as you're making it to be.
Quantizing is much safer. Adding random noise is useless because one can just average multiple samples.

If you want to be extra safe, quantize the user's lat/lon before computing the distance, and then quantize the distance again.

(Quantizing only the distance can theoretically allow an attacker to travel in one direction until they see the transition from one bucket to the other which would tell them exactly when they are precisely 10 miles from the target.)
Just started my coffee quitting journey 2 weeks back! Partly for health reasons, but also because I noticed that I am quite dependent on it.

Right now, I’m limiting caffeine intake to a cup each of decaf and low caffeine tea per day.

It hasn’t been too hard to be honest, but maybe the withdrawal symptoms haven’t fully kicked in yet. We’ll see.
My longest official title was 56 characters, and my second-longest was 52. Absurd!
Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
I have had somewhat similar experience (as have many others).

My suspicion would be that the site is explicitly, manually banned by some person at Google.

There is nothing to do about it except maybe start over with a new domain name, new server, preferably not under your own name (what name the domain name is registered under).

Short of that: Maybe implement Google Amp, Analytics etc ... but probably too late for that.
I quit coffee about 3 years ago. I still drink coffee (< 10 times a year) when it's really cold outside or when we're traveling, but it's no longer compulsive. I can have coffee when I want, and choose to avoid it when I don't.
Note-taking apps can't think for you
Thunderbird will store the password in password manager though. It should be accessible.
Maybe overlapping regions would be a fix?
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It just doesn't matter that much. No one (well, save literally a single person) can even see vote totals. Votes do one thing—make comments more or less prominent within a thread.

I see voting as a sort of collective curation mechanism, and I vote accordingly. If I see a insightful comment that I think more people should read, I upvote it. If I see a dumb comment I think less people should read, I downvote it. Assuming others agree with me, the insightful comments end up higher in the thread, and the stupid ones become faded and easy to ignore.
> (2) insomnia

Unfortunately for me, this is a feature.

Even when I go a week to a month without caffeine, I tend to stay up late, but not late enough to get things done.

However, if I drink something caffeinated, then I can turn that into staying up late enough to work while it's quiet, and I become much more productive.

There are other reasons as well, however they are more specific to my personal scenario, and not really generally applicable. If you're curious, I'd be happy to talk about them in some other way, but not in a public forum. (My email is in my bio if anyone's interested.)
Have you tried a swiss water decaf from a serious third+ wave coffee place? Are you grinding? I hear decaf described as "weak" or "brothy", but not as "chemical" or "solvent-y". I pollute coffee with some cream (but no sugar) and I don't know that I could triangle-test-detect a good decaf.
I started with going from coffee to black tea, which is supposedly about half the caffeine... now I just skip tea sometimes. maybe i’ll stop it completely
I'm not a doctor, but at least according to Mayo Clinic (which I think is somewhat respected?), artificial sweeteners don't affect blood sugar [0].

> Sugar substitutes don't affect your blood sugar level. In fact, most artificial sweeteners are considered "free foods" — foods containing less than 20 calories and 5 grams or less of carbohydrates — because they don't count as calories or carbohydrates on a diabetes exchange. Remember, however, that other ingredients in foods containing artificial sweeteners can still affect your blood sugar level.

That said, it's probably still not super healthy for my to be ingesting as much aspartame as I do. Eventually I need to ween myself off that, but one step at a time I suppose.

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/expe...
Indeed.

A couple of months ago, a junior developer mentioned he'd need a library for a bar chart, and asked for directions how to use it in an Xcode project. It turned out to be easier to draw the chart with a few rectangles, and the developer had one of those great a-ha moments.
I quit caffeine this past fall and it was one of my best decisions and hardest things to do.

Months after quitting I feel like I have more energy than I did at my peak caffeine usage.

The withdrawal was tough. The muscle spasms caused me to hit my bedframe. The headaches left me unable to do anything productive for a couple days. I had spent the prior days taking the bare minimum to make the headaches go away but it was a fine line before deciding to forgoe it.

Teenage me had built up to taking 700mg/day on average. A year before quitting I'd start the day with a bottle of 5 hour energy and a 200mg caffeine pill just to get out of bed.

I still drink the occasional tea or take a small energy drink before going for a long workout.

I refuse to ever drink coffee again. I've become appalled at how ingrained coffee and caffeine is in the cultures around the world. It's become normalized for people to say that they're grumpy before consuming caffeine. I don't want to be dependent on anything like that ever again.
The word is thrown around too much because a lot of people are acting deservedly so? By definition if someone's called elitist, the target audience probably disagrees with that judgement. But again, if self reflection is being considered, the target audience should try to think if there's any base to the accusation.

In this case I or others are not alleging this person owes the company much. They should feel free to move as soon as possible if they don't like the commute or the work. It does look like the hardware place looks like a crappy deal. I'm just curious if the OP is truly doing whats in their interest or if they're overindulging their cushy position (being an in demand engineer) to their own long term detriment.
Not OP, but I quit for months in 2020.

What happened for me was winter. I was waking up at 7, running every day in the morning, working on a project before work. Then winter hit and seasonal depression makes it hard.

So now I'm waking up earlier, and doing more work, but I'm using coffee again....
My guess is you're going to be fine and that you're through whatever withdrawal you're going to deal with. I go through stretches where I have some decaf every day, and I never even have to think about stopping; there is zero withdrawal from it.
How to find a book when you've forgotten the title
I don't get what the problem is. He used DNS as a name server, which is what it is. The only weird thing is TXT instead of CNAME.
Honest question, then: outside of things like ethical concerns about supporting Facebook, and some missing features like enabling a passphrase to open the app, why should anyone use Signal over WhatsApp? Given that WhatsApp has a better UI/UX and that the people you want to talk to are much more likely to have it, and it supports some things that Signal is known for like disappearing messages (though limited to 7 day expiry).

I love Signal and all the work Moxie and his team have put into it and the protocol, so this isn't a diss to them, but just wondering what the disadvantages would be for someone just looking for an E2EE communication app.

One difference I suppose would be that Facebook would have all the message metadata; just not the contents.
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The problem is, even if I can be OK with bugs and problems with Signal UI, I cannot make my friends (or my 80-year-old Mom) be OK too. I personally know literally nobody who uses Signal (and a number of my friends are geeks:-)). Network effect, you know... :-(
There will always be more downtime on Slack/Discord. There are more users, more updates. Slack/Discord is a giant distributed system with nodes all around the world. An IRC/XMPP server on one machine that 100 people use is not going to crash unless intentionally.
Or just blatant click fraud.
ok, now i'm going to have to find it.

EDIT: can't find it. It was just someone pointing out that artificial sweeteners don't cause blood sugar to spike, but they might cause a crash.
Bite me, I like the new Reddit because of dark mode and its information density is perfect for my 4K display.
Ciagenix Review

Ciagenix is a big scam. So if you are going to put your money on this product; you are not going to get value for your money. There are so many things wrong about it and any sane person would easily tell this product is big scam. Take this for example; this formula has not been put through any clinical test. So we are not even sure; even if is safe or even effective.A lot of common health issues have been reported by some few people who have tried it before. The formula come associated with some serious side effects including; headaches, insomnia, racing heart and also feeling like you are going to pass out.

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Even if you think this, it is less preferable for me to be subject to two masters that I have little input on, then just 1.

That just makes the problem worse.

And my evidence is any actual real life example of a union contract, which has many things that I do not support in it.
How did you measure it?
Coffee w/ L-theanine is a whole different thing, worth trying. I quit caffeine for most of 2020, then had a Taika (taika.co) out of curiosity.. now I drink it regularly. For me, it removes most of the downside of caffeine, including withdrawal headaches.
>How can a team justify not being on AWS?

You can do the exact same thing with Pulumi and it's cross platform.

Also, in my experience, CDK is an absolute nightmare if you like running things locally and testing on your own machine
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Facebook should be deleted.
Maybe this would be a little to confusing for users, but perhaps apps that have an option to publish your location should have an option to automatically disable location publishing when you are near home, or even better when you are near any location on a user-specified list of locations.
Whoa that is heavy.
> I have at times in the past made the (somewhat joking) observation that "memory leak" and "unintentional liveness" look very similar from afar, but are really quite different beasts.

Both situations prevent you from reusing memory previously used by other objects, which isn't being utilized for anything useful at that point. The distinction is valid formally, but from a practical point of view sounds rather academic.

> And to prove the difference between "cannot be referenced" (a property that can in principle be checked by consulting a snapshot of RAM at an instant in time) and "will not be referenced" (a larger set, we will never reference things that cannot be referenced, but we may not reference things that are reachable, depending on code) feels like it is requiring solving the halting problem.

As usual, looking for a general solution to such a problem is probably a fool's errand. It's much easier to write code simple enough that it's obvious where things are referenced. Rust's lifetime semantics help with that (if your code isn't all that simple, it will be apparent in the overload of punctuation). If not Rust, then at least it would be good if you could check liveness of an object in a debugger. In C you can check whether a particular allocation was undone by a free() or equivalent. I'm not aware of any debugger for e.g. Java which would let me point at a variable and ask it to notify me when it's garbage collected, but it sounds like something that shouldn't be too hard to do, if the debugger is integrated with the compiler.
So wait by showing your location on the map you show your location on the map? Scandal.
How does library breakage reflect on Rust? Python's deprecation policy is 2 years, only a year less than that of Rust's Epoch system.
I am satisfied that I am satisfied that this is the man who killed my dog ;)
Top VPN has an unfortunate backdoor security flaw
It was probably rejected by patentbot2000.

I haven't looked at the google patent listings before. What are the 'Similar Documents' at the bottom about? Black Twitter? https://patents.google.com/scholar/10521028305159378504
> he refused to have that rock, paper, scissor match

What I thought was the funniest part (strangest) is that Moxie walked back to "I'll give you a suggestion of people and you don't even have to have any of them on" and Joe still treated it like Moxie could dictate who was going to be on the podcast. But what's the difference between that and any other guest being like "hey, you should check out ________!" which happens all the time. It was literally a nothing bet. I do think Moxie forcing the week's lineup is a bit much. A single person? Not that bad, but I could see it being used against Joe (though unlikely). But "hey you should check these people out" is nothing. Guests suggest guests all the time and so does his fanbase.

As far as Signal goes, they've almost completed every major feature I've wanted. Usernames look like they're rolling out in a few months or less and group calling works (just needs to scale). Only issues I have are that sometimes there's some latency (this seems to be more related to 1. specific peoples' phones' battery optimization settings and 2. when there are large upticks in user enrollment. So neither of these are that big of an issue for me) and I can't use markdown (essentially a non-issue). Only things I want are fairly fluffy and features I would use fairly irregularly anyways. I don't understand the distaste of UI and it hasn't been properly explained to me yet. UI looks almost identical to WhatsApp except WA is far more busy in the background (which I actually dislike) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just like to point out they are joining am existing union of the Communication Workers of America.

Why are they doing this instead of forming a tech union? What is the CWA like? And can someone inside google tell me if this is actually a thing because right now it only has 200 put of 132,000. employees supporting it.

Also does anyone think this will hurt Google's long term competitiveness?
> That said, I think quitting sugar is harder than quitting caffeine.

It is, your intestinal bacteria take that sugar and secrete opioid receptor chemicals - i may be off, but between wheat, sugar, and i think corn your gut bacteria basically control your life.

This is why people crave cake and sweets when they go on a low carb / low calorie diet, it's not because they're hungry, it's because they're changing the other half of their brain chemistry through the destruction of their gut bacteria.

It's not a bad thing to destroy the gut bacteria you don't really want to have so much of.
And deployment scripts that are unit testable. That's been years in the making.
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Very nice. Lots of beautiful and simple design of which we need more on the web.

FYI there’s a rendering bug when I move back and forward in iOS 14.

If I visit FAQ then Support, then swipe back to return to the FAQ page I briefly see the Support page fade in, followed by the FAQ page.
An option for quitting/cutting down that I don't see mentioned often is using low-caf coffee rather than having to go for cold turkey or "quantum leap" full-caff to decaf cups in the same day.

Perhaps it's so obvious that people don't think of it, but you can just mix your normal coffee and decaf in the same drink to get the dilution you require.

I have decaf and normal coffee beans, grind them and store them in separate bags and just gradually decrease the caffeine dosage through the day, and the daily dosage through a longer period if I'm trying to cut down.

FWIW
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haha. The role of HR in a corporation is to legally shield it from employee complaints/issues.
I'm curious what bugs you've experienced? The only ones I've seen are on my friends' phones and they are because those phones have extremely aggressive battery optimizations that essentially block Signal from running in the background. Once it is turned off then things work smoothly. I imagine this is a network effect related issue and that apps like WhatsApp are getting special presets because their popularity.
Telegram has way better: UI, search, bots, and all kinds of other juicy quality of life stuff that Signal doesn’t have. It all comes down to what you are using it for though, there’s a sliding scale that goes from the least secure app to “don’t use computers for this at all”, just like with medication, it’s all about juggling symptoms and risk.
Affirmative. I started having problems talking about my profession at the university, since everything I read was in English, to the point the teacher complained because I was mixing English and my native language. This experience however exposed to me to the fact that I did not want to talk about my profession in my native language, because all the important stuff is in English (software development).
HR works for benefit of the company... not the employees. It's almost the opposite of a union.
I quit caffiene about a decade ago before taking it up again six or seven years later. Quiting wasn't really that great a decision. A lot of the problems that I had attributed to caffiene or caffiene withdrawl such as migraines and periodic brain fog didn't go away without caffiene. Some of the more accute issues did, but I used to get regular insomnia (and still do) and I'd have no crutch to get me through those days after a sleepless night had thown me off balance.

What's worse is that I couldn't really get away from caffiene altogether, things like chocolate contain caffiene as well as a surprising number of drinks which aren't required to advertise their caffine quantity. So I'd occasionally end up getting some caffiene by accident and because I had been avoiding it, I wouldn't have enough of a tolerance to deal with it. I'd have a drink that I didn't know contained caffiene and would suddenly find myself wired with my hands shaking uncontrollably. That hasn't happened since I starting drinking coffee on weekdays again. Having more caffiene than I meant to is still a problem, but not nearly as big a problem as it used to be.
Try Rooibos as an alternative to black tea. It tastes closer to black tea than mint and it's got no caffeine.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25630011