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fierro commented on Thoughts on Seed Oil   dynomight.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/paulpauper
fierro · a year ago
I think about it like this - seed oils are in nearly all processed foods. Read the labels of anything in your house that's in a bag, or will not expire in the next week. 95% chance there is sunflower/canola/safflower/sesame seed oil in it.

By avoiding seed oils, you tend to eat more whole foods. It's not an awful cue to pay attention to.

fierro commented on Thoughts on Seed Oil   dynomight.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/paulpauper
criddell · a year ago
I think the final paragraph is a great way to frame it:

> Look, I wish strong seed oil theory were true. That would be great. All we’d have to do is reformulate our Cheetos with different oil, and then we could go on merrily eating Cheetos.

The problem with our (Western) diet isn’t that we’re using seed oil. It’s the diet itself.

fierro · a year ago
if the seed oils in Cheetos are not the problem, what is it? the flour?
fierro commented on An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus   npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/andsoitis
instagib · a year ago
I have had several audiologists begin their speech of “as you may know tinnitus is from damage to the ear due to loud … “, well mine is from Covid.

I read about a study a few years ago that focused on shocking the tongue and its nice someone followed up on it. They described one year of relief post treatment.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201015173126.h...

Bimodal neuromodulation combining sound and tongue stimulation reduces tinnitus symptoms in a large randomized clinical study. Science Translational Medicine, 2020; 12 (564): eabb2830 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abb2830

Mine is constant and loud. If people speak and pause it gets difficult to orient where we’re at with the fire alarm sound going on in the middle of speech. Soft spoken people I have to fill in the conversation with guesses to what they said.

Hearing aids help but you’re not supposed to sleep with them in. So when you manage to fall asleep then wake up, it can be hard to fall asleep again or impossible.

fierro · a year ago
anecdote for anyone else reading about Covid related tinnitus - I've had hearing damage related tinnitus for a decade. Got Covid in April '22 which caused my existing tinnitus to 2-3x in severity, lasting a couple months before it either reverted to baseline or I got used to the new normal. Very scary experience. The CEO of Texas Roadhouse famously committed suicide due in part to severe post-Covid tinnitus.

For anyone struggling to cope with Tinnitus out there, one thing that has helped me immensely is Zen meditation. Doesn't make it go away, but builds up a control over attention with which you can cope much better.

fierro commented on U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS   apnews.com/article/foreve... · Posted by u/geox
LeifCarrotson · a year ago
Wow, 4 ppt is much more aggressive than the previous limit.

My well water was contaminated by Wolverine/3M to 90 ppt, we got a settlement because it was greater than 70 ppt. They installed GAC filters in my home to limit the contamination to 10 ppt. Here are the old limits:

https://www.michigan.gov/pfasresponse/drinking-water/mcl

fierro · a year ago
where did you get testing done?
fierro commented on S3 is files, but not a filesystem   calpaterson.com/s3.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
treflop · a year ago
What’s your experience like at other storage outfits?

I only ask because your post is a bit like singing praises for Cinnabon that they make their own dough.

The things that you mentioned are standard storage company activities.

Checksum-all-the-things is a basic feature of a lot of file systems. If you can already set up your home computer to detect bitrot and alert you, you can bet big storage vendors do it.

Keeping track of hard drive failure rates by vendor is normal. Storage companies publicly publish their own reports. The tiny 6-person IT operation I was in had a spreadsheet. Hell, I toured a friend’s friend’s major data center last year and he managed to find time to talk hard drive vendors. Now you. I get it — y’all make spreadsheets.

There are a lot of smart people working on storage outside AWS and long before AWS existed.

fierro · a year ago
it's well known and not debatable that Cinnabon is fire
fierro commented on Thanksgiving 2023 security incident   blog.cloudflare.com/thank... · Posted by u/nomaxx117
pphysch · 2 years ago
More likely: "no one has any idea what these old credentials do, so let's not touch them and potentially break everything"
fierro · 2 years ago
this is more plausible to me
fierro commented on Thanksgiving 2023 security incident   blog.cloudflare.com/thank... · Posted by u/nomaxx117
fierro · 2 years ago
>The one service token and three accounts were not rotated because mistakenly it was believed they were unused.

This odd to me - unused credentials should probably be deleted, not rotated.

fierro commented on Launch HN: Escape (YC W23) – Discover and secure all your APIs    · Posted by u/glimow
fierro · 2 years ago
congrats! Really crisp idea, excited to try this out
fierro commented on Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners   ubicloud.com/use-cases/gi... · Posted by u/umur
fierro · 2 years ago
didn't see any mention of caching in the docs. This tends to be pretty important for fast build/CI at many different key points of a given workflow (dependency cache, build cache, docker layer cache, image cache, etc). Wondering if I missed something.
fierro commented on LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning   lightning.ai/lightning-ai... · Posted by u/rasbt
rsweeney21 · 2 years ago
It's still strange to me to work in a field of computer science where we say things like "we're not exactly sure how these numbers (hyper parameters) affect the result, so just try a bunch of different values and see which one works best."
fierro · 2 years ago
we have no theories of intelligence. We're like people in the 1500s trying to figure out why and how people get sick, with no concept of bacteria, germs, transmission, etc

u/fierro

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