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Dr. Michael Greger's books (and website: https://nutritionfacts.org ) boast an astonishing amount of citations of medical studies. He readily acknowledges the vast volume of litera…

I experienced a similar change (more energy and steadier energy levels throughout the day) after switching to a plant-based diet, which has been shown to change one's gut microbiom…

I find it very intuitive, but maybe it's because of a missing link or two. Boolean arithmetic sometimes uses + for OR and * for AND. When considering only zero and non-zero values,…

They switched to microservices written in Kotlin, resembling the rest of their backend stack. They had an easier time hiring and retaining Kotlin developers than Erlang/Elixir deve…

For what it's worth, Grindr's chat hasn't been powered by XMPP since April 2024.

Woolly mammoths were a geoengineer species that have no living proxy. Bringing them back is definitely a controversial project, but there's a case to be made that de-extincting the…

> I look at the reddest part of the chart, I look at the peaks Neither of these are really the places I look at when examining flame graphs. I tend to look at the bottom, and work …

These properties are explained in great detail in volume 1 of Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order. Reading about these with accompanying images of spaces or objects demonst…

Here is Grindr's unionization website: https://grindrunited.org/

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is a wonderful guide on how to apply various principles of Stoicism, especially principles around cultivating resilience in the face of circumstances …

The Stoics had plenty to say on what constitutes a good life. They might have also cautioned that a 'joyful' life may not be the same thing as a 'good' life, if that joy is derived…

> Dense cities don't really matter that much Are you sure? My understanding is that people who live in dense cities rely less on automobiles, have their waste treated more efficien…

I, too, was disappointed using Leightturm notebooks with fountain pens. They're nice notebooks, but you're right; the paper isn't very good. I'm no expert, but my understanding is …

The current SCOTUS seems to be fine with coaches coercing teenage athletes into public prayer sessions, overturning a previous SCOTUS ruling. Meanwhile, I find it ironic that the s…

Chiming in with 6 years of professional Erlang experience. I'm somewhat familiar with Elixir, having worked on some Elixir codebases for a few months. > The notion that to learn a …

It sounds to me like you might enjoy SML or OCaml.

Grindr's response to this article: https://blog.grindr.com/blog/the-wsjs-old-news > What the WSJ describes would not be possible with our privacy practices today, practices we proa…

I implemented and deployed a state synchronization protocol based on CRDTs at my last job. It replaced a protocol that needed a fully connected mesh to function properly, and the e…

That's very resourceful! Your system also comes with a bunch of quotes and advice.

Why did you stop?

Definitely a tricky problem for CRDTs. A possible solution is outlined in the OpSets paper; https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04263 I hope that there are existing implementations of OpSet…

To my knowledge, the author co-authored interval tree clocks as well as dotted version vectors. He also co-authored a lot of the literature on CRDTs.

Yes there is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0m0_qtfzLs

I had the opposite experience to you. I found Pony much easier to learn than Rust. Reference types are probably the trickiest bit to learn, especially in how they relate to Pony's …

I have something resembling a Zettelkasten using Tiddlywiki with the Stroll plugin. I'm loving it. I feel like this system is taking me from being someone who hoards notes and neve…