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Personal anecdotal experience, but I experienced my most rapid period of hair loss while taking creatine. This was for about 1 year when I was 22-23. It could be underlying genetic…

I have mixed feeling on this. Some parts of this are probably good advise, at least with respect to clocking titular promotions. No disagreement around visibility of delivered "big…

Seems there's a lot of comments in here expressing discontent with the dismantling of GT programs. I won't speak as to where/how GT programs should be implemented, I have no idea. …

Yup. There's definitely some neighborhoods like Great Falls where it seems like everyone is either a corporate exec, a federal politician, or a pro athlete.

I'm 29 years old, and I have definitely noticed my memory getting worse over the last ~5 years. I've always wondered if this is something to do with sleep deprivation, increased st…

> When a major new technology comes out, huge new opportunities open up for founders that get in on the ground floor. > Moments like these don’t happen often. When they do, it’s th…

Southwest is my favorite airline for domestic US travel. Two free checked bags by default is amazing. I also personally like the no assigned seats, and no first class. I also had a…

For something kind of in the same vein, a youtuber Chad Caruso rode a skateboard all the way across America from Venice Beach, CA to Virginia Beach, VA: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

As I understand the bill is solely focused with the national security implications of ByteDance being China-based, and not the social impacts of short form video platforms on menta…

They seem to heavily invest in their social media presence with things like the YouTube channel, but then also use social media indicators (likes/follows/subs/etc) as a measure of …

Similar to the firing-unfiring of Sam Altman, so much of this seems to be boil down to OpenAI's puzzle-box organizational structure. It seems like the whole "capped for-profit with…

Despite being framed as something for legacy C/C++ codebases, this is pretty good advice for setting up testing and CI automation around any project. I recently started on a new Ru…

Neat, I didn't realize you could order it like that. I'm realizing now another (and potentially stronger influence) is just years of muscle memory starting pipelines with cat.

I also use cat this way, and for me the biggest reason is it just allows for a more intuitive left-to-right reading of any pipeline. Things like this: head -n 500 access.log | grep…

I recently took a Distributed Systems course, and I also thought it was very interesting and unexpected how in the most basic form of Paxos, there is no concept of node roles or hi…

I also used RDS Blue/Green deployment to apply a MySQL major engine version upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0. With respect to downtime it worked fantastically, I think we measured 13 second…

I'd consider buying a headset that could do the following: - Virtual desktop experience at least as good as a single 27inch monitor - Doesn't make me nauseous or hurt my neck - Isn…

I kind of agree with you, but to play devil's advocate, AirPods basically reset the baseline perspective around bluetooth headsets. Before AirPods, bluetooth headsets were definite…

Was the comic Dilbert? Curious to lookup the original

Sand Hill Road is a road in the SF bay area where a lot of VC firms have headquarters. People use "Sand Hill Road" to refer to the SF VC industry the same way people use "Wall Stre…

Has Oxide released any information on the price range of one of their machines? I assume if they're targeting mid-size enterprises it would be outside what I would consider buying …

Kinda like how benihanas are lame, unless you're shaved-head Jamie Thomas taking it down a gap: https://i0.heartyhosting.com/skateboarding.transworld.net/wp... From this Transworld…

I always thought names like "180 nosegrind" made no sense. Why not "180 switch 5-0"? That seems so much more intuitive. It made so much more sense when I learned a lot of these tri…

Here is a podcast excerpt (FXguide podcast) of Alvy Ray Smith describing the whiteboard incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0RRx0Wd7w

In general I find I'm productive in Rust; however, I do agree that there are some features that produce more confusion and debugging than others. For me it seems to be async and dy…