this post is quite detailed and accurate, but also very sanctimonious and oblivious that what people consider a decent life has vastly degraded in perception, mostly because the goal posts are not matching reality.and it is easy to take absolutes and compare them, it doesn't mean they match societal expectations. 100 year ago eating foods that would be considered mostly inedible/unacceptable today was the norm. there is a very difficult exercise there in understanding perception vs pure numbers.
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fcpk commented on F-35 Fighter Jet's C++ Coding Standards [pdf] stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rul... · Posted by u/birdculture
And yet the F-35 is known for having extremely problematic software with many failures that have caused it to cause crashes/ejections.
reads quite like propaganda. no technical details, just "patriotic music" can defeat high tech weapons vibes. terrible boring article.
"Bandera was a World War II Ukrainian insurgent" he is a very very controversial character[0] and that description is quite reducing.
fcpk commented on Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142 github.com/arman-bd/httpm... · Posted by u/armanified
The doc seems very llm-generated. not a criticism but curious to know how much of the code was LLM produced?
Also processed red meats or processed meats in general. Processed meats are the ones strongly linked with heart disease. At least for those who dont want to go vegetarian.
Processed meats are so bad, they should be eliminated entirely from everyone's diet. The World Health Organization has classified processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen. No amount of it is considered safe.
Unprocessed read meat is still a problem and WHO advises less than 350g a week. Which is 12–18 ounces of cooked meat. 12g is about one adult serving of steak. So you really are looking at 1.5 servings per week of unprocessed red meat to be safe. At most! You probably should try for less or closer to 12g.
And really if you're at a healthy weight, then I'm not sure how helpful this is. Obesity is a bigger risk factor. This is a bit of the elephant in the room for heart health. Not only should we not be eating things associated with heart disease but also we need to keep ourselves at a healthy weight.
these are extremely outdated recommendations that make no sense. most of the basis for those are studies that took direct correlation as causality. the problem is a crappy lifestyle which incidentally typically includes processed and red meats in large quantities in the western world. saturated fats are hardly a good indicator of anything when you disassociate them from the lifestyle and foods they come with for most people. blue zones are now finally coming out as simply just the places where records sucked. there are plenty of populations with centenarians that had meat rich diets.
yes obesity is bad, as the source enemy of most diseases that kill and are not cancer is inflammation. find a diet that makes you not obese and have low inflammation, that is vastly superior to "Mediterranean diet" or "plant diet" for everyone.
I am not a statin skeptic--or rather, I don't want to be a statin skeptic. I've done the research and it makes sense to me, but I still feel some social and psychological pressures to reject statins.
When I see that it is widely accepted that ApoB is better to measure than LDL-C, but the industry continues to measure LDL-C, but not ApoB, I wonder why. It makes me skeptical.
When I see that the purpose of statins is to reduce plaque buildup in the arteries, and that we have the ability to measure these plaque buildups with scans, but the scans are rarely done, I wonder why. Like, we will see a high LDL-C number (which, again, we should be looking at ApoB instead), and so we get worried about arterial plaque, and we have the ability to directly measure arterial plaque, but we don't, and instead just prescribe a statin. We're worried about X, and have the ability to measure X, but we don't measure X, and instead just prescribe a pill based on proxy indicator Y. It makes me skeptical.
In the end statins reduce the chance of heart attack by like 30% I think. Not bad, but if you have a heart attack without statins, you probably (70%) would have had a heart attack with statins too. That's what a 30% risk reduction means, right?
As you can see, I'm worried about cholesterol and statins.
one better simple indicator than large panels, if you can't get access to them or don't have them is simply your triglycerides/hdl ratio. aim to be under 2 if using mg/dl and under 0.87 if using mmol/L. it's one of the strongest correlated indicators of cardiovascular disease. way better than any classic cholesterol ratios.
fcpk commented on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars rameerez.com/send-this-ar... · Posted by u/sebnun
yet another obsessive take on "cloud is bad and expensive" eh? I think they vastly forget the value of some SaaS offerings in terms of time saving for small companies. running and managing numerous DBs, k8s clusters, ci/cd pipelines and stateless container systems is simply impossible with a team of 1-2 people. sure if the setup is simple and only requires a few classic components, this is way cheaper and for a 99.9% SLA will work fine. otherwise it only makes sense if you had very large cloud bills and can dedicate multiple engineers to the newly created tasks.
Most DRM / banking apps work fine for me through the browser and you can add them to your home screen. Android / Samsung Pay will stop working, but if you have a Garmin watch, you can still pay with that.
But this is changing. Already in multiple countries(and soon possibly EU wide) there will be only play integrity(strong verdicts) to enforce availability of many services(if not using ios, which is the same locked in syndrome).
Yes some banks still allow classic clunky 2FA(sms, card readers, sometimes SIM generators) but it'll all eventually go away in favor of "locked and favored" os unless legislation fights against it.
Almost all of the comments here seem to miss a point. Weight lods can be extremely difficult because : 1. your body metabolism will adapt really fast to caloric restrictions 2. losing weight is easy, not regaining it is a challenge in adapting your body set point 3. having enough time to exercise to the point where calories are a deficit is a luxury many can't afford 4.the psychological state of many people is a primary cause of their obesity, and fixing this is also a lot harder.
fcpk commented on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner digitalsociety.coop/posts... · Posted by u/pingoo101010
In my opinion, this is not always a true thing because size of the needed maintenance team can mean a lot.
I find that for small-medium deployments cloud can be a lot more efficient despite being more expensive because it can
- take away a lot of the expensive maintenance and management of things like databases, backup, storage, that would otherwise requiring at least a couple more people. So if your bill is <10k/month it certainly isn't worth hiring more people
- allow you spin up systems with almost 0 cost(think cloud run / container systems) for very low usage systems.
- give you global coverage & distributed reliability that can be otherwise hard to get.