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NoThisIsMe··on Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
> sat fat matter more to blood cholesterol than food cholesterol

Can you expand on this? I don't understand.

NoThisIsMe··on Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly
From the article

> What this code does is read an index file that contains the list of R packages from CRAN, and subsequently download the description files of the first 200 packages to the user home directory (which is actually a virtual filesystem in WebR [1]). > [1] https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/mounting.html

So I think it's a virtual filesystem in browser memory.

NoThisIsMe··on “Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
You're thinking of memoization, which is related to but distinct from DP. Memoization is "top down", DP is "bottom up". DP generally has better space complexity (memory requirements). For example, for a function that computers the Fibonacci sequence, space complexity with memoization is O(n), vs O(1) with DP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#Fibonacci_...

NoThisIsMe··on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral
> no difference between man/womnan

For the record, nobody says or believes this. We believe one should be free to change their gender, eg a woman should be free to live as a (trans) man. That's an entirely different thing than saying the man/woman dichotomy doesn't exist.

NoThisIsMe··on The Fairphone (Gen. 6)
I also wish there were more compact options, but the Pixel 8 is 71mm wide and you can unlock the bootloader. And if you're gonna run a custom ROM, the Pixel 5 is still a decent option.
NoThisIsMe··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
It's distributed in the Play Store, so Google controls the update servers, no?

Edit: or Apple, whathaveyou

NoThisIsMe··on Coffee for people who don't like coffee
This! Whenever I mention that to me fancy light roasts taste sour, the response is almost always puzzlement, even from those who prefer dark roasts. Nice to know it's not just me.
NoThisIsMe··on Are you cleaning your water bottle enough?
Is there an advantage to borosilicate glass over food-grade stainless steel?
NoThisIsMe··on What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports
It's a deliriant, not a disassociative. Worth mentioning the trip is said to be deeply unpleasant, and also the plant is poisonous.

But yeah I too find it interesting how a drug can seemingly yield the same specific hallucination in different people. See also spiders and DPH (another deliriant).

NoThisIsMe··on Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
Alexander doesn't like sky scrapers, but he absolutely does not advocate for suburbia, at least not the the car-dependent hellscape you presumably have in mind.

You can archive considerable density without skyscrapers. In fact we've been building vibrant, walkable cities without skyscrapers for most of history.

NoThisIsMe··on Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
What are you talking about? Nixpkgs is one of the largest and most up-to-date distro package repos out there.
NoThisIsMe··on Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library
> but your cutesy coding style makes that a non-starter

I don't think this is fair. The code looks pretty readable to me.

NoThisIsMe··on Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv (2023)
Yep that too
NoThisIsMe··on Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv (2023)
It is absolutely not an anti pattern to check Direnv's `.envrc` in to source control, and if you don't then you're passing up on much of Direnv's value proposition.

Obviously don't put secrets in there. For secrets and overrides you can use separate a `.env` file which is not checked in, and source it in `.envrc` with `dotenv_if_exists`

NoThisIsMe··on Cities need more trees
> This is dumb. The same way wrapping cars in bubble wrap would be dumb but also make the cars safer.

I doubt that would work, but if it did, why exactly would it be "dumb"?

> Most of the ideas in that channel are just insane emotional propaganda

Nah, most the ideas in that channel are the output of decades of empirical research on road/street safety by Dutch government agencies.

This video [1] from another channel describes how Dutch legal reforms in the early 90's enabled this evidence-based planning by correcting incentives and dramatically simplifying the regulatory framework.

1. https://youtu.be/b4ya3V-s4I0

NoThisIsMe··on Larry Ellison Owns 98% of Lanai Island, Hawaii
Sad but not surprising. [Private] property is theft, as they say.
NoThisIsMe··on Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)
Invented their own database? They use Cassandra IIRC
NoThisIsMe··on Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling
There is stop scroll support in GTK4
NoThisIsMe··on Apache Superset
Clojure is not particularly obscure
NoThisIsMe··on I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
You can get all of that with just Emacs tho
NoThisIsMe··on I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
This is not an issue with Emacs though, GUI or otherwise, because everything's just a buffer
NoThisIsMe··on California nearly decriminalizes psychedelics – but governor hits brakes
Yes
NoThisIsMe··on Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?
That's not the question. The question is: If there are no marbles in a bag, are all marbles in the bag black?
NoThisIsMe··on Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly
Looks much closer to Grain [1] than AssemblyScript

1. https://grain-lang.org/

NoThisIsMe··on Is it possible to write games like Pac-Man in a functional language? (2008)
That's not how the term is used in programming. Side effects may be intentional.

"Effects" (without the "side") usually means the effect is modeled as a type/value that is returned by the function.

NoThisIsMe··on Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
> Which allows you to create images using the command line to build them up step-by-step.

I mean.. you can also do this with the Docker CLI right?

NoThisIsMe··on Ask HN: How to encrypt data in a SQL database?
This would be an atypical use case for Vault AFAIK. My understanding is it's intended for sensitive config-like data, not sensitive app data.
NoThisIsMe··on Ask HN: How to encrypt data in a SQL database?
No, that's fine. I'd shy away from third party libs though, would probably use what Node.js provides out of the box. Or possibly something in the database, but I've never looked into that. Just don't roll your own crypto _library_, obviously.
NoThisIsMe··on Gödel's solution to Einstein's field equations (2021)
Could you expand on this, or provide a source? I don't see how physics could yield a pure math result like that.
NoThisIsMe··on Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
This is testing the code that emits the SQL code, not the SQL code itself. Sometimes that's what you want, but it's not what OP asked for.
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