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Backend newb, here. I have a dumb question - can someone give me a summary, or blog post to a summary, of the pros /cons of async versus threads?

One thing I have been using as a way of understanding hi-perf backends is analyzing why the vert.x framework [1] (and its underlying server, netty) does so well on benchmarks [2], but as newb, I do not think I would get a lot form that exercise without a little hand holding.

[1] https://vertx.io/

[2] As of today, #28 on tech empower benchmarks - https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
no matter how clever you think you're being, if you have not consulted an IP attorney about this, be prepared for some unpleasant surprises.
Biochemist with CD here (taking adalimumab + 6-mercaptopurine), this is the best advice.

There's no curing it, the best you can do is take the treatment and be as healthy and active as you can generally! Kudos.
This basically only protects employees of small businesses. The language makes it seem like anyone working at a FAANG definitely still can't invent anything.
> What? Surely, everyone is thinking of this?

Amazon probably has enough trade to commission an entire ship unlike most companies who are using containers, and why they can divert to other ports which is whats being reported here. TLDR they have the size to be flexible in logistics.

Sometimes you need to get someone with enough general knowledge to act as a troubleshooter though, like this chap.
https://youtu.be/OBu5ewmEP2E?t=27

Stagnation occurs everywhere, people get comfortable which is why some on here big up those with Military experience because the military will get you out of your comfort zone.

Unions often but not always drive stagnation, rarely do they come up with innovation because some of the bigger unions work across a variety of different companies or organisations and just work on pay and conditions which is sometimes harmful to a business during its life.

Unions can have their place against bad bosses, but a union which could work well is one that is operating in just a business or organisation and isn't solely focussed on pay and conditions, they should drive innovation and efficiency or work with innovation & efficiency because there are times management and boards can stagnate and then businesses organisation can decline.

Covid has certainly exposed the lack of stock holding in the Just In Time (JIT) system of doing business.

Dell is another business to look at when he was starting up in the early years, he used his contracts to shift stock holding onto the suppliers to keep "inventory" at the right levels for accountancy purposes so suppliers had trucks loaded with goods waiting in goods in to unload. He also recycled returns which he got into court trouble with, ie flogging components from returns in new pc's.

Quite often you will find businesses bending rules somewhere though and it could be anywhere, contracts and accountancy practices can be common but not the only way to get the books looking good.
Every vegetarian but not vegan I know, including myself, eats dairy like crazy so I cant really say I experience this sentiment.

Also fruits and veggies are basically the definition of food that needs refrigeration or “processing” for preservation. Strawberries that aren’t specifically bread to be hearty can spoil in less than a day. Prior to refrigeration we leaned on (and probably still do if you have a garden) canning, drying, pickling, fermenting — I mean making garlic confit was originally a way to preserve garlic.

And you can preserve meat fine without refrigerators, that’s why we started salting, smoking and curing meat.

The thing you compromise without a refrigerator is the ability to have truly fresh fruits, veggies, and meat for longer than the natural spoiling time.
The Satoshi Fortune (2020)
you can write a userscript that does this and distribute that.
He had other issues as well, like permanent allergies.
Define success. There is good reason that most gastro doctors don't suggest diets as a solution and instead say things like "avoid anything that bothers you." It is because there is no evidence that a particular diet helps with inflammation.

You might be able to avoid symptoms of pain with a particular diet, but that is only a very minor benefit. If you aren't preventing the inflammation you are still going to suffer all the worst effects of the disease. If these kids aren't getting routine colonoscopies / MRIs (like one every two years or more) to try and detect if there is any inflammation, then they have no idea if the diet is actually working for them or not.

If you go to any Crohn's discussion group where it's the actual _people_ with Crohn's talking and not their parents, they will say things like: "Every asshole thinks they have 'thee diet' that will work, when they don't." See for example /r/CrohnsDisease.

> while still avoiding any foods that are potential triggers for inflammation

There is no evidence that specific foods are triggers of inflammation, only triggers of _symptoms_. The best guess we have is a particular type of bacteria + bad genes is the real cause of inflammation, but that bacteria exists everywhere (including drinking water).
> It's not just autoplaying video that's the problem, it's the fact that these videos then go on to autoplay something else completely unconnected to what you were reading without asking you first.

No, screw that as well. If there's a text article with a video attached, I don't want to be interrupted by the autoplaying video while I'm reading the text.
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Oh yeah… poor word choice on my part. I’d actually say it’s pretty damn creative given that this was unproductive space for 10 years and was well on its way to being a dead mall.

I guess I meant to say that “facilities” implies new construction in the reader’s mind, but in fact, they’re being more clever.
Well, partially correct. It was a quality-of-life thing until the banksters realized they could let out more IOUs than gold they had in the vault. From there on, it would only be a matter of time till the gold-standard becomes abolished, giving governments and banks the ability to print money at will.

Tether coins are basically the same thing. You still have to trust the neo-banks to still be holding your actual dollars somewhere in their vault. I don't, that's why I prefer not to buy bogus coins.
I take a particularly dim view on websites that have these. I don't care if that's how they make their living - they are making money by scamming people.
Why isn’t it an innovation? It’s a pretty brutalist view of how the world works, and is arguably optimizing for the short term over the long one. But it seems to work (and quite well at that).
Feel free to provide details.
> The wording is unfortunately brief, but Fisher the professor of genetics is referring to the future “stock” and the ultimate elimination from the population of the genes that cause the defect, as is clear from his earlier writing on the subject. To eliminate the defectives themselves would constitute murder.

If you are going to quote the article, maybe read it first. The author is quite clear that he believes this to be a misunderstanding given other writings by Fisher.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/decentralized-finance/st...

Ethereum was dominating TRON until very recently and this does have to do with huge increases in Gas prices on Ethereum
Celebrating people and history is a core pillar of identity. The “founding fathers” are central to the story of America’s founding.

Jesus is certainly a glue of Christianity, Mohammad of Islam, etc.

Does that mean we have to accept all of who those people are? Of course not. We can choose to celebrate the Federalist papers and denounce the slaveholding.

People have a natural desire to follow leaders, to idolize people. In doing so they are tied more closely to others who value/worship/memorialize the same.

That’s (one!) tribal glue.
Why would you prefer and value your bank sending you some automated valueless security theater[1] over your relative sending you a human to human birthday greeting? And why would you build the system so that, for everyone, personal communication is expensive and burdensome, and for every company, mass advertising is cheap and easy? (Relatively cheap, because companies have vastly more money than individuals).

This applies whatever the cost values is; if it's low, it's low for spammers. If it's high, it's high for individuals. And wherever "low" or "high" is, someone you like will think it expensive enough to be in the way and someone you dislike will think it cheap enough to be no problem.

[1] if the bank stopped the attempted logon, I don't care. If the login was actually me messing up, I already know. If they didn't stop the logon, then they didn't detect it was fraudulent and wouldn't be emailing or calling at all.
> I don't know if his narcissism rises to the level of a disorder

I don’t really know much about him except for his ego, which seems to overshadow all of his achievements.
Binance and Bitfinex definitely let you do this, so that's not why.
WNT = (V+1)(M+1)(S+1)
This space is moving extremely quickly, and there are a bunch of other targets with drugs currently on the market or under investigation and showing results. I have to say the progress in recent years has been extremely exciting.
Agreed. Please use them when it makes sense. This is just a joke.
Just for reference the full quote is:

> (6) Fisher, in a testimonial for von Verschuer after the war, supported von Verschuer’s “wish to benefit the German racial stock, especially by the elimination of manifest defectives, such as those deficient mentally”. The wording is unfortunately brief, but Fisher the professor of genetics is referring to the future “stock” and the ultimate elimination from the population of the genes that cause the defect, as is clear from his earlier writing on the subject. To eliminate the defectives themselves would constitute murder.

Context is important. Cherry picking specific sections to make a point contrary to what is actually being said has a name, but it escapes me.
Because my main strategy for DeFI has been to (a) provide liquidity in Uniswap pools with tokens paired against USDC and (b) liquidity on Curve, where you stake USDC and DAI.

I have had returns that are simply unmatched by any savings account, the liquidity pools with stabletokens help to reduce a lot of the volatility while generating some income from the collected fees, and if I there is any big downswings, I don't need to rush to cash out because most of my holdings are in stables.

I know that I don't want to touch Tether, but if USDC is also deemed toxic, it forces me to reevaluate the risks of both USDC and DAI (which is basically 50% backed by USDC currently)
This really seems like an overreaction to what I said.

The email thing is a metaphor. The point it attempts to make is not about obviousness of superiority of a technology, but that not all new technologies are novel. Sometimes they do an existing thing in a different way.

I do think it is inaccurate to say that everyone interested in the space is just in it as a get rich quick scheme. There is a very unfortunate and distracting amount of hype and speculation, but lots of people are just trying to build stuff they (correctly or incorrectly) believe will be useful, just like I've seen people do during the mobile boom and the web boom before that.

I share your skepticism, but not your certainty.
No man is an island?
That's a passport book.
> WHY?

Because that's how the web team is measured and rewarded. Management wants to see more view views, longer time on site, etc. Leadership doesn't understand nor care about a shite UX (so no one lower in the org is concerned).
Just one minor nitpick...the literal purpose of yogurt was, originally, to eliminate the need to keep milk cold. It's a preservative. You don't need to refrigerate yogurt. That being said, most yogurt sold in the store has just about as much sugar in at as ice cream. (Which may be closer to the reason why we have so much IBD in the Western diet.)
Ultramobile PayGo - $3 per month on a month to month basis, 100 mins talk, 100 texts, 100 mb data.
Apple is rarely first with new technologies.
Sorry, I seem to have mistook passive-aggressive for civil.

My point is not that anyone should care how I feel, in particular. I only give it out here, on a semi-anonymous forum, never IRL.

The point is, quite the sizeable proportion of people feel like that, and it is a pain for them which they won't forget or forgive, even if they choose to submit to demands. In fact, many voluntarily vaccinated people feel exactly the same, for them cooperation with any future government initiatives is out of question now. It doesn't invalidate the pain of those catching or dying from the disease, it just another pain in it's own right.

"Common good" cannot be built on pain, history is littered with unsuccessful attempts. Governments all around the world are choosing to ignore this (proving them incompetent) for some reason, and in doing so they may find themselves very unpleasantly surprised. Unless this is the end game they are looking for (proving them evil), but that would be too much of a conspiracy to suggest.
Somewhat related ...

Is there a proper name for a "top-like interface" ?

I think that "TUI" refers very broadly to any terminal user interface and both 'vim' and 'alpine' and 'top' would fall under this broad category.

But is there a specific name for a refresh-every-second, full page status output - like 'top' ?

Is there a standard library for creating such an interface, or do people always use curses ? Presumably curses did not exist in the early 80s when 'top' was first written ...
Quite a step down from the more fantastical rumours of the past decade, like the 4K Apple TV set (not the boring set top box) and the Apple Car.

Not sure what the use cases for AR are for consumers. Although it wouldn't surprise me if pretty soon we're all wearing some variant of this, and our natural world now has a data overlay with 'AI-powered' profiles of people we see. Like in that scene from the movie Bedazzled (2000), where people getting off a train have have thought bubbles superimposed over their heads representing their state of mind: "lonely", "lunatic", "cheated on his wife", etc.
How about an opt in botnet extension for your browser that focuses it's energy on sites with this sort of dark pattern behaviour. i.e. You install the extension, when you come across a site like this you vote it for getting punishment, once the site gets enough vote the botnet occasionally focusses it's energy on the site in question when the participants browser is otherwise sitting idle. The punishment could potentially be anything (follow subscribe links, consuming traffic in the background, a simple DoS), but ideally something that reduces the offending servers ability to do what it's supposed to.
> I'm surprised there isn't an extension for some kind of white-list only video stream content.

the main problem is that it's impossible to distinguish between "autoplaying video that's annoying" and "animation that's part of the page". If you're willing to block both, firefox allows you to change the autoplay policy from "allow videos by default but block sound" to "block all videos".
I don't know how the small optoisolators do when the current from a lightning strike can easily arch over several inches or a few feet. The ugly solution with a fiber patch cord on each side gives several feet of electrical insulation.
This isn’t a panacea unfortunately, this caused a woman with an infection to eliminate it, but caused her to become obese. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-becomes...

> At the time, the woman was a healthy 136 pounds with a normal BMI of 26. Her daughter weighed 140 pounds at the time, with a BMI of 26.6, but became overweight shortly afterward. Following the therapy, the woman’s symptoms vanished and she no longer experienced recurrent infections.

>Sixteen months later, however, the woman reported unintentional weight gain of 34 pounds and met the criteria for obesity. Two and a half years after the transplant, the woman weighed 177 pounds with a BMI of 34.5, despite a medically supervised liquid protein diet and exercise program.
Yes but also so many people from 1920 are living to 100 years old

Suggesting that so much of our health enlightenment is not useful compared to just better treatment

Curious to see how it plays out
Not really. The Rus empire was a thing, capital was Kyiv. It was a decently large empire that encompassed most of eastern Europe. It certainly encompased Moscow, Novgorod, etc...

It eventually fell to the Mongols. 2 centuries later Moscow overthrew the Mongols and reunited (and grew) the empire.

There's no continuous history per se, but east slavic peoples (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian) have always been essentially the same people. The Rus and Russian empires were the same people even if there was an interruption and the capital changed because of historic circumstances.

When my family came to North-America from the Austro-Hungarian empire, they were even known as Rusyn/Ruthenian (they're Ukrainian)... No one has ever disputed that the modern Russian empire represented the same people as the (Kyivan) Rus empire until very recently. Like, I know a bunch of Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs and Slovaks and they can all more or less understand each other. Slavs are far more similar than different (language, culture, food, temperament, etc...).

Edit - it's ok to admit a shared history while also wanting some countries that weren't historically independent to stay independent and forge a new national identity. Trying to rewrite history is petty.
> People in the military don't gripe?

I had this platoon leader who was wondering about how much I used to gripe about everything and I told him when joes stop complaining is when you have to worry because they’re probably plotting your death or something.
Thanks, that's some fairly reasonable considerations on how this could remain better than current social media models!
Unfortunately there is no cure and everyone’s disease can differ so there isn’t one particular way to manage it. You’re going to have a journey of trial & error, my recommendation is to find a great GI doctor who will work with you on the medication side of things as well as advise you on the dietary aspects. I run the r/CrohnsDisease subreddit[0] which has a pretty responsive community and a ton of useful information you can search through to further educate yourself.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/CrohnsDisease
PoS clearly improves on the energy usage situation, which was the criticism of the comment I replied to. The other criticisms of PoS are out of scope for the specific criticism I was responding to.

I believe current PoW ethereum actually runs more transactions than the bitcoin chain, but I am not defending its energy usage. If it doesn't ever manage the switch to PoS then it will deserve the same criticism with respect to energy usage.
Is the point of the video to make users stay longer? How long do they need the user to stay in order to improve their ad profit. Here is an idea, obnoxious webmasters: add an interstitial timer, "your article will be ready in ...". It's less intrusive and i might even tolerate that if it's less than ... 9 seconds. I m sorry that google and FB are sucking up all your revenue, i d like to help
>> And yet, “Mycenaean” translates roughly to the mushroom people…

We don't know where the name comes from. The association with mushrooms is the popular etymology but that's not to say it's right. Wikipedia has this to say:

Legend has it that the name was connected to the Greek word mykēs (μύκης, "mushroom"). Thus, Pausanias ascribes the name to the legendary founder Perseus, who was said to have named it either after the cap (mykēs) of the sheath of his sword, or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site.[11]

So even this apocryphal explanation for the name doesn't imply any close association of the Myceneans with mushrooms. Certainly not for the use you suggest, that really didn't feature much in the tales of ancient Mediterranneans.
I think jams are fine, but can’t recall having tried them since being diagnosed. Diet has been fairly limited and am pretty hesitant to try new things. Might be worth trying them out to see how it’s tolerated though!
Any reports back on how effective this ban is? i.e. how much did this successfully ban nodes vs just move all their traffic to Tor?
Here are some other things that correlate with advent of the refrigeration (btw - people in Europe and Northern US had always had ample access to refrigeration - in big parts half of the year in a cellar the temperature will be below 10 degrees C).

Reduction in fermented foods - with fresh produce all year round - stuff like sourkraut becomes a flavor agent and not a staple. Ditto with all other kinds of lactobacilic pickling.

The rise of the dry yeast, mighty kitchen aid at home and the industrial bread at scale -

In the dry yeast the ratio of yeast to lactobacilli is different than in cake yeast (and cake yeast if often inferior compared to sourdough starter when it comes to bio variety)

The mixer (and chorleywood) at scale allows for faster dough development - and usually the recipes for home are insane - something like 7g of dry yeast for 500 g of flour - it pumps it full of air fast (2h), but you have more gluten that is often not chopped enough by protease action and the bacteria.

The traditional home bread making was overnight proof.

Also the flours today are much stronger than before so we get more gluten with them. And because wheat gluten is very useful - it is often added in all kinds of processed foods.

Top that with what I frankly consider abuse in both human and animal populations that probably are not terribly beneficial to people gut biome and variety.

And all this starts at the same time the refrigeration got going.

And industrial bread is roll of the dice - it may vary from really good to cardboard. But the cardboard seems to be way more popular.
I don't really understand the point about flattening.

> This way I can easily filter the data in jq or other tools without having to traverse levels.

How is doing `jq '.cpu.speed'` any harder than doing `jq '.cpu_speed'`?

IMO as long as you aren't going insane with nesting levels, it's actually better to have a proper structure than dumping everything into an ugly flat object.
In Dutch law it's actually by default the case that your employee can claim the ip of your work, if you want to prevent it you need to put the clause in, most people are not aware. Very disturbing.
Also, Google is no longer "not evil".
In actuality most CLI output is quite small and can easily be represented as a single JSON document. There are a few commands that can produce huge amounts of output and those are good candidates for using JSON Lines as noted in the article.

JC has streaming parsers that lazily output JSON lines for these types of commands. (ls, ping, vmstat, iostat, etc.)
Ok, so, real talk (and this isn't meant to be a shallow dismissal -- I'm truly interested in the answer): what can I do with Code Hike that I can't do with Pandoc (possibly with a custom filter or 2)?
>>>his overall record was similar to other recent presidents

That's kinda my point, he wasn't significantly different from the other idiots we've had in office but CNN et al. certainly didn't spend 8 years calling Obama an unhinged tyrant, despite him also being more of the same with regards to bombing brown countries.
Codewords is excellent. Minecraft maybe.