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prrls commented on CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape   landscape.cncf.io/... · Posted by u/pagade
prrls · 5 years ago
I feel dizzy now, thank you.
prrls commented on Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)   theanarchistlibrary.org/l... · Posted by u/fallingfrog
oxymoran · 5 years ago
“Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to.”

My anarchist sympathies want this to be true but this is a demonstrably false fairy tale. Just look at how we treat the planet and other living things in the presence of lawful order. Why would you assume that we would act righteously in the absence of law? It is painfully obvious that we would act much worse under anarchy.

prrls · 5 years ago
Anarchy doesn't mean "absence of law". Absence of law is anomie. One is often confused for the other, but there is a slight difference.

Anarchy is more about you and your community having the autonomy to decide your own rules, not a central authority. I believe "autonomy" is the key word here, not "law".

prrls commented on Real World Programming in SWI-Prolog   pathwayslms.com/swipltuts... · Posted by u/luu
prrls · 5 years ago
I heartily recommend "The Search Space" podcast to anyone interested in learning more about logic programming. The host is very good at introducing concepts in an easily understandable manner, and at chaining them in the right order so that you don't feel overwhelmed. I'm a complete noob, plus not a native english speaker, yet I didn't feel the need the rewind things at any point while listening to it.

https://thesearch.space/

prrls commented on China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says   npr.org/2020/07/04/887239... · Posted by u/hkmaxpro
dis-sys · 5 years ago
Seriously, suppression of birth?

According the exact same logic used by this ZENZ guy, China's majority group (Han) has been subjected to such "genocide" for decades. As a result of such "suppression", only 400 million Han Chinese were born in the last 30 years rather than the estimated 800+ million.

prrls · 5 years ago
I may be mistaken but Han Chinese weren't forced to undergo sterilization. If you had a second child, you were fined and your child wouldn't be recognized as a Chinese citizen. Still horrible though.
prrls commented on Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?    · Posted by u/iameoghan
prrls · 6 years ago
Oxide Computer Company

https://oxide.computer/

“True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.”

Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...

Basically, on-premises hardware is years behind what companies like Facebook and Google have in-house, it may be time to close that gap.

They also have a podcast, "On The Metal", which is such a joy to listen to. Their last episode with Jonathan Blow was really a treat.

https://oxide.computer/podcast/

It's mostly anecdotes about programming for the hardware-software interface, if that's your thing ;).

prrls · 6 years ago
And for people wondering why caring about on-premises hosting when you have the cloud, a few weeks ago there was a thread about why would you do the former in favor of the latter. It puts on display that actually a lot of people are still on-premises, and for good reasons, which makes a good case for a company like Oxide to exist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089999

prrls commented on Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?    · Posted by u/iameoghan
prrls · 6 years ago
Oxide Computer Company

https://oxide.computer/

“True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.”

Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...

Basically, on-premises hardware is years behind what companies like Facebook and Google have in-house, it may be time to close that gap.

They also have a podcast, "On The Metal", which is such a joy to listen to. Their last episode with Jonathan Blow was really a treat.

https://oxide.computer/podcast/

It's mostly anecdotes about programming for the hardware-software interface, if that's your thing ;).

prrls commented on A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)   fugue.co/blog/2015-11-11-... · Posted by u/catacombs
prrls · 7 years ago
This article gets why Emacs is awesome so right, that, to be honest, there's nothing to add.

I'm always amazed by the people leaving Emacs for a few years to then come back and falling in love with it once again. Only very good tools make us feel like that. Everything else is nostalgia.

prrls commented on Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment   bbc.com/news/health-46363... · Posted by u/lxm
virtuallynathan · 7 years ago
The 800 calories they are eating doesn't seem terribly healthy: "patients were asked to follow either a ‘home-made’ milk- and fruit-juice-based diet (811 kcal/day, 64 g protein, 132 g carbohydrate, 6 g fat) with a multivitamin/mineral supplement (Forceval® [Alliance]), or a micronutrient-replete commercial LELD (832 kcal/day, 87 g protein, 120 g carbohydrate, 12 g fat).

I imagine these people are probably staving... I'd rather go low-carb myself.

This is the study, DiRECT: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754868/

prrls · 7 years ago
A lot of people here are suggesting, like you, that a low-carbs diet or ketos can help your body "heal" from T2D. I just don't see why starving yourself from carbs, which is like the basis of life for your cells, is going to help. From what I gleaned here and there, T2D is more linked to fat-heavy diet, which clutters blood vessels and keeps yours cells from absorbing the insulin your body produces, thus preventing them from "disgesting" the carbs you sending to them, resulting in diabetes. Reducing all the cholesterol in your diet will help your body "cleanse" gradually from these plaques on your blood vessels.

I'm not doctor, nor a nutrionist, but this guy makes really good and sourced videos on these subjects:

On Keto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzHLAqyO7PQ

On carbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyOACAdvAsE

I really recommend watching them. They're clearly oriented (duh), but still quite informative.

I'm sorry, my reply is a bit rushed and not that polished, but I really wanted to reply to see if anyone has something to say about this interpretation of carbs and T2D. (And it's damn late right now where I live!)

prrls commented on Carbon Removal Technologies   carbon.ycombinator.com... · Posted by u/sama
zeroname · 7 years ago
> Why don't you just stop eating meat, stop driving, stop whatever else that you do and have a smaller carbon footprint naturally, instead of living a carbon lavish life and paying some money to be called carbon neutral.

Why? Because I want to keep my standard of living, just like almost everyone else. What a silly question to even ask. Any solution that asks people to practice austerity is obviously doomed to fail. Any solution that leverages a human's self-interested (even if it's just vanity) at least has a chance.

> Its like bribing your way out of jail after you have done the crime.

It's more like when faced between the choice of paying a fine or going to jail, you pay the fine. That money can be put to work and that time can be put to use, but if you just sit in jail nobody benefits, it just costs the public money to keep you there.

Except of course in reality there is no crime here that anybody could get prosecuted for, and the real victims haven't even been born yet.

prrls · 7 years ago
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

These things you classify as comfort may not be that essential and good for you and the others. Someone that eats animal products everyday and claims that it's their comfort, while it's affecting their health, the lives of 56 billion animals per year and the environment, is, to me, problematic.

I always, in my head, compare it to slavery. While it's not the same thing, of course, the pattern is the same. Something that's not ethical at all, but we, for a long time, did not care because of the comfort it brings us. Can we still live without it? Of course. And well.

I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time getting my point accross in these topics, but what I mean is that what you call "comfort" may not that critical to your well-being at all. You don't need to change eveything from day 1, but doing it a bit more everyday will make feel like a better human being, as you know you're living by respecting others and your environment, while giving money is kind of too easy and doesn't influence what's surrounding you. If you want things to change, you have to be this change. By being it you expose others to the issue you're fighting and make think about it in another way, up to a point they might understand it and join the fight, or at least acknowledge it. It's a very slow process but this is how sustainable change goes since the dawn of time. Actions matter, but ideas win. And ideas don't get seeded with money (well, in the long-term... because propaganda and stuff, but I hope you get the gist).

In another comment you mention you don't like walking. These likings are not by any means frozen in you. Maybe you never tried enjoying walking alone, with your thoughts drifting away in your mind and just living the present moment. Comfort is really subjective, I really think what we should all yearn for is the greater good, which, suprisingly doesn't cost that much in the end and gives you a real sentiment of fulfillment. It's just a matter of /being/ that change.

u/prrls

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