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It took a few weeks to go away completely, but got noticeably better just after a couple of days. I'm pretty confident in that diagnosis, as nothing else have changed.

> So please don't interpret this story as a reason to avoid any vitamin D supplementation. 1-2000 IU/day has been shown to be safe with long term use I'll give you a more regular s…

Sort of, there is pseudoanonimity layer in Telegram that doesn't show your phone number to others, so if you can be reasonably sure that Telegram isn't going to give you up to the …

Maybe GPL started as an anti-capitalist license, but in practice it became very much pro-capitalist. It got to the point that GPLv3 and AGPLv3 were split into two licenses to satis…

> Say 100 nodes edit a doc. To drop a tombstone, without a central server we need 99 acks. Even with a server, the server keeps an ever-growing list of ops unless it uses some garb…

> it's because CRDT merges aren't a good fit for the problems a code editor is trying to solve I think you are not talking about CRDTs here. CRDTs are a pretty good fit for distrib…

> Memory issues with tombstones. Marking as deletion has a cost of maintaining them throughout the session. That's not true, you don't need to keep them throughout the session. You…

20 years ago we already knew that internet was too architecturally broken to be free as that was around the time early attempts of censorship resistance were born, like Freenet [1]…

It was hard to jam radio transmissions in the past, but these days it's common. Russia did that to Ukrainian channels in Crimea and Donbass and Belarus has access to the same Russi…

They were not, but since the polls were banned during elections the government at least had some deniability and fewer people were convinced it was all fake. But this time massive …

Deep discharge is a factor, but not a big one, heat has very little effect, it only affects voltages at which battery will be considered overcharged or deeply discharged as specs a…

You can put your equipment on a voltage relay to make failure modes as simple as flipping a circuit breaker. It will turn off once voltage drops too much and will wait for it to st…

Yep, and once you start using custom DC UPSes the biggest issue will be battery chargers that kill lead-acid batteries. Things are better with LiFePO4 these days, but for lead-acid…

That's not really a proper way to deal with it. Proper UPS for a home server or any standalone server or appliance has to hook up either after ATX power supply in parallel and prov…

It's controversial because there is nothing actually rude about "it's broken! FIX IT!!!" message and when people are truly rude while asking for support it's because they are frust…

Personal computers have an advantage here: it is acceptable for them not to work when they are not directly used by someone. It means they can be stored in safes when not used and …

It's not that safe, not like vitamin C safe. Especially not in doses sold in pills in pharmacies around the world.

If economic protectionism is the concern here, the US could forbid Chinese companies from doing business in the US, but not censor their platforms, apps, websites in the US just be…

What if you don't provide NATed internet to Windows machines at all and only let specific apps to connect to it through manually specified local proxies and maybe some whitelisted …

"The work on what eventually became C++ started with an attempt to analyze the UNIX kernel to determine to what extent it could be distributed over a network of computers connected…

> Perl 7 will eventually improve performance in a significant way It's never going to happen. They don't even think of performance as an important value to have [1]. And in current…

> The cloudflare posts that get upvoted are just actually interesting to the HN target audience, myself included. And it would have been fine, if it was you who submitted them, not…

Kernel's fsyncing behavior is one thing, but just relying on a massive amount of fragile C code running in kernel is a significant liability, especially if your software is a centr…

Yes, this is a notable problem in all of such conversations. Classifying people based on the opinions they express is a prime example of a logical fallacy. But it's somewhat unders…