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Readit Newswincent commented on Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone github.com/pencilresearch... · Posted by u/ductionist
I modified my touch bar to no longer show the play/pause button because every time I forgot and hit it, I got punished by Apple Music opening and getting stuck in a loop of me force-quitting it and it restarting.
Me too. Sad to say just how huge the quality of life improvement from this small tweak.
> One question you are probably wondering is why would the Prettier team fund another project!? In practice, Prettier has been the dominant code formatter for JavaScript and as a result of a lack of competition, there has been little incentive to push on performance and fix various edge cases.
I was indeed wondering that but the answer doesn't really answer the question for me. Why not set a bounty to improve Prettier instead of building a competing project just to increase the motivation to improve Prettier? Or is the end goal to shut down the Prettier project and encourage people to switch to the Rust based one? Seems like an unnecessary fragmentation of an already confusing landscape.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something though.
> why would the Prettier team fund another project!?
Less "the team" per se, and more vjeux, I think.
Literally unplayable.
Even then, Apple took enough care about every aspect of design, materials, and manufacturing that they could non-ironically show a high detail photo of the back of the machine on the back cover. Not only is it delightfully quirky; it's beautiful, even today.
I've been blogging, albeit not consistently, for 25 years or so. I don't even know how many readers I have, because I don't do any analytics.
When I write, it's for me, for the pleasure (and sometimes pain) of ushering thoughts out from the unstable flickering of my consciousness and into the realm of the fixed and concrete word. Well, as "fixed" as these kinds of digital artifacts ever are, I guess.
Sometimes people write to me to share their thoughts about something I wrote, and that's cool,but it's not the reason I'm doing the writing.
wincent commented on 10% of the top million sites are dead ccampbell.io/posts/10-per... · Posted by u/Soupy
wincent commented on You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016) physiqonomics.com/eating-... · Posted by u/gonehome
I weigh 350 pounds. I'm very obese. I know this.
When I was a teenager, I looked at people who weighed 300+ pounds and though, how do you get that way. Don't you realize that you are gaining weight? Don't you know that you just have to eat less to lose weight?
Anyway, now I realize that I am hungry. It never goes away unless I eat a significant amount of food. My body told me to eat, so I ate.
It doesn't even take that much extra food to gain a lot of weight. One extra piece of cake a week is a few pounds in a year. If you live a few years, it adds up. You gain weight in kilograms and lose weight in grams.
Hunger is a sensation that happens inside a person's body and mind. You cannot compare your hunger to my hunger.
So many diets talk about not being hungry while you are on the diet. I've been to dieticians and told them I'm hungry, and they suggest eating more protein or more fiber. That does help, but I still feel hungry.
There is a very good chance that someone is writing a reply with some suggestion as to how I should eat so that I'm not hungry. Thank you for the thoughts, but realize that you don't live in my body, you don't know how I feel, you don't know what I've tried.
Hunger sounds like a problem to people. Hunger feels like a problem inside the body. People still tell me I shouldn't be hungry. Maybe part of the solution is realizing that eating to satisfaction is ... bad for some people. Maybe it's Ok to be a little hungry.
Anyway, these are just some thoughts. I'm down 30 pounds from my max. I think I have a good mentality now, but it took years to get here.
> Maybe it's Ok to be a little hungry.
This is the key. On evolutionary time scales, human beings have only very recently come to inhabit a world where regularly being able to eat to full satiation (and beyond) is commonplace. Being "a little hungry" is actually the typical condition under which most of our ancestors over many thousands of years have operated. Put an organism evolved to survive amid scarcity in an environment of abundance, and it's going to gain weight unless it comes up with a method for stopping at or before the earliest signs of satiety.
wincent commented on An update on recent service disruptions github.blog/2022-03-23-an... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
from that article it sounds like they are mostly doing "functional partitioning" (moving tables off to other db primary/replica clusters) rather than true sharding (splitting up tables by ranges of data)
functional partitioning is a band-aid. you do it when your main cluster is exploding but you need to buy time. it ultimately is a very bad thing, because generally your whole site is depenedent on every single functional partition being up. it moves you from 1 single point of failure to N single points of failure!
Towards the end:
> In addition to vertical partitioning to move database tables, we also use horizontal partitioning (aka sharding). This allows us to split database tables across multiple clusters, enabling more sustainable growth.
wincent commented on An update on recent service disruptions github.blog/2022-03-23-an... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
It’s interesting to read that so many systems and activities are dependent on a single point of failure : the main primary MySQL node at GitHub.
Linked in the article is this other one, "Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale" (https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relation...). That describes how there isn't just one "main primary" node; there are multiple clusters, of which `mysql1` is just one (the original one — since then, many others have been partitioned off).