orcasushi (u/orcasushi)

orcasushi commented on Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/ivanvas

codeflow2202 · 3 years ago

When speaking about Sardinia they keep saying that their diet was mostly vegetarian:

"The classic Sardinian diet is plant based, consisting of whole-grain bread, beans, garden vegetables, and fruits. Meat is largely reserved for Sundays and special occasions. Sardinians drink wine moderately."

Truth is that the Shepherds (the centenaries are mostly found in this group) were actually eating more animal protein and fat compared to the rest of the population.

https://snipboard.io/gbi9JY.jpg

They can keep lying to most people just because you can't understand Italian but whenever people from those towns are interviewed they always repeat that they were not vegetarians. Here a quick translation from this yt video:

Graziano who got to 102 got asked if he got to 102yo because he had always followed a mediterranean diet. He asked what's that? It means that you always ate vegetables. Vegetables are bad for you, I ate the grass of 100 sheeps because I ate the sheeps. And indeed he only ate meat, meaning that this whole alimentation thing should be checked again.

https://youtu.be/LQTocSMm7tw?t=647

orcasushi · 3 years ago

The meat is bad for you propaganda. Cannot believe people buying that. It is known for millennia that a varied diet including vegs fruits and yes meat and fish is healthier then skipping any of those. But somehow now when overpopulation makes our hunger for meat less convenient it becomes suddenly unhealthy.

Of course I understand that the antibiotic and and heavy metal infested meat and fish we eat is way less healthy then the meat our ancestors would eat.

orcasushi commented on Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? · Posted by u/sirjaz

orcasushi · 3 years ago

Because desktop apps are harder to make money with. They are easy to crack / pirate. Also making a monthly subscription is harder for a desktop app (you would need still also a webapp to check for the monthly subscription).

It is on the other hand very hard to pirate software that only runs on some server. Also quite easy to force a monthly subscription if you simply hide app behind a login screen. Additionally your webapp also has the data of the user hostage so the user can not switch to a competitor.

So basicly I think webapps are a dark pattern. The user of course prefers desktopapps but due to above reasons there is hardly incentive to build them.

Will this change? I think so yes. Eventually this whole Saas bubble will burst, because - Chrome filesystem API will make building a desktop app as easy as a webapp - Open source and crowd funded software will pay the bill for those making desktop apps and users will be more then willing to switch.

When will this happen? If we are lucky within 5 years, but more likely 20 or 30 years.

orcasushi commented on Building a web app with no framework javarome.medium.com/desig... · Posted by u/javarome

itronitron · 4 years ago

No, you still don't need a web UI framework for rich front-end interactivity. That assumes however that your developers know how to write a callback function.

orcasushi · 4 years ago

Yes true! I once had the honour to work with a 'tech-lead' dev that rewrote a whole map application to AngularJS, which was the hype back then. I remember him not being able to get a just slightly complicated chain of asynchronous stuff working in vanillaJS. No problem, because he had AngularJS double binding now. No need to learn vanillaJS. Wicked stuff.

orcasushi commented on Is there a functional reason for wizards to live in towers so often? rpg.stackexchange.com/que... · Posted by u/tech-historian

orcasushi · 4 years ago

I would like to add: Increases range for sending and receiving communication via air.

This in addition the the already mentioned: - greater field of sight (eye of Sauron) - greater range of fire - symbolic (to heaven) - status symbol - defense against enemy

I remember this scene from movie 3 lotr where the 2 wizards communicate to each other to invade, by shooting beams from their towers.

orcasushi commented on Search engines and SEO spam twitter.com/paulg/status/... · Posted by u/iamjbn

wodenokoto · 4 years ago

Why has blogs and articles stopped linking to things? I'm reading a restaurant review site, and they won't link to the restaurant. The chef name is a link to a list of all articles tagged with the chefs name, rather a wikipedia link or something useful that can tell me who that person is.

orcasushi · 4 years ago

Average websites goal is now to keep you on them as long as possible. According to some metric folks, the longer you stay on a website the more money you spend there. Linking to another website destroys that metric.

Also if you are going to make a purchase somewhere, any website would try to get a cut of the money you spend by actually sending referral links to the product. So small websites that do not allow this service will not get linked so much.

On a metalevel it is thus that links or connections between items are information. Information is money. And as soon as that became evident links and connections also became more scarce.

orcasushi commented on Loopless Code (2006) jsoftware.com/help/jforc/... · Posted by u/xept

orcasushi · 4 years ago

I usually avoid loops. Guess I got sorta hooked by this new age functional school.

But recently realized even layman brains on drugs can understand some loop and goto statements:

"Eat Sleep rave Repeat"

Sometimes they are just the best to write logic.

orcasushi commented on R/Antiwork old.reddit.com/r/antiwork... · Posted by u/bjourne

nunez · 4 years ago

Honestly, /r/experienceddevs has a little bit of /r/antiwork vibes too.

I created a post about making time for side projects some time ago (link: https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/piioin/how...)

Some of the top rated comments as of 2021-11-02:

- "I don't do side projects. Once I started working professionally, they stopped"

- "I don't. I code enough during work hours."

- "I try to support anti work activism so that someday people can spend their life on the things they feel are important in the world and not forced to sell most of their best years."

Lots of posts there had this sort of vibe.

Part of me feels bad that so many people hate their jobs (or work in places that treat their employees like dirt). It's really hard to talk about work (even when going through a rough patch) amongst others since I really like what I do.

But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle.

orcasushi · 4 years ago

"But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle."

But I feel it is the other way around really. Low income people support the lifestyle of all us "highly educated".

I feel the biggest amount of us programmers / managers are really creating little value, but are nonetheless rewarded by a vast institution of governments and corporations.

orcasushi commented on GitHub Issues-only project management blog.placemark.io/2021/07... · Posted by u/JonathanBuchh

orcasushi · 4 years ago

I am sometimes thinking about use master branch of my repo and add a folder called 'tickets'. Then in this folder create issues as markdown files. Use some Vscode, Emacs or Vim plugin to automatically number these markdown files and present comments as lists.

No more dependency on online saas tooling and you can use the search option of your ide / os / command-line to search through them.

orcasushi commented on Can AI help design our mascot? labelf.ai/blog/can-ai-hel... · Posted by u/yboris

pseudosavant · 4 years ago

Generally, the only logos that last many decades are simpler ones that work well in black and white, and with an accent color. e.g. Nike, GE, Apple, Disney, McDonalds, YouTube, Volkswagen, etc.

Mildy stylized text of the company name is the other that lasts. e.g. Coca-Cola, Nintendo, Sony, Honda, Home Depot, Kellogs, etc.

I can't think of a company off the top of my head that is currently using a complex 3D logo right now.

orcasushi · 4 years ago

You are right, but very traditional. Try to think in a modern spirit.

If the logo can be created for by a few hundred bugs of ai service there is no need for it to last longer then a few months. Also traditional logos were created for print. If you are a 'onscreen only' company, there is really no need for a simple logo. (dont bother about asset size when the average website includes several mb of spam and js frameworks)

Further I would not know why a ai would eventually not be capable of generating a 'simple' logo with just blezer curves and few colors.

Lastly I think many of these 'simple logos' are boring. I admit I prefer the ai logos from the post. Yes call me a barbarian and yes the human drawn logo's could probably be better if made by a top notch designer (and costs $$$$$).

The future will probably be a hybrid situation where the designer is aided by ai.

orcasushi commented on No-code startup Bubble raises $100M reuters.com/technology/no... · Posted by u/dthread3

orcasushi · 4 years ago

Having myself used some no/low-code tools (service-now, mendix, outsystems), I do think they are the future, but... I think they suffer from their business model, which often aims complete vendor lock in to milk their customers as long as possible. This is currently their only way to earn back the hard invested money of developing such a tool.

We need a, open source, community driven, no-code tool.

Using existing tools I often suffered from these things: - closed source. - expensive monthly fees. - Any apps build with it are not really property of the developer, but are intellectual property of the low code tool corp - either bad ux ui or not horizontally or vertically scalable - Datamodel, Algorithm or business logic can not really be extracted from the low code platform. - You now need to become a specialist in this low code platform. These low code platforms outdate faster then the typical programming language. - The best developers look down on it so you get "lesser" developers. - If a feature is not available in the low code platform then you are stuck. - If there is a real bug in the low code platform you are screwed because you now need to open a ticket, but the engineer looking at the ticket is more help-desk then engineer. The majority of tickets they solve are from dummies not understanding the platform and they assume you are one of them. Will take several months to convince them it was a bug and was never solved during the time I was on the project (2 years). - You cannot run it on premise, unless you have deep pockets - They have non or terrible git integration. Or other collaboration problems. - Due to their dynamic nature are often slow in performance. - Corps HR department runs a different low code platform then their finance department and now it becomes a political shit show.

Terrible situation when you grow beyond the low-code platform and need to move away from it.