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blenderdt··on California aims to slash insulin prices
True, I should have added that to my comment.
blenderdt··on California aims to slash insulin prices
Lately I am reading into the cause of the diabetic pandemic. It's kind of shocking to read that our food is to blame and food companies are blocking change.

Somehow this 'fat is bad' lie came into the world. We have been eating fat for thousands of years. Fat is full of all kinds of stuff the body needs. The brain can tell us when we ate enough fat so we feel full. The body can handle fat very well so it doesn't get stored and we won't grow fat.

But no, fat became wrong and was removed from our food making it tasteless. So sugars are added. This is good news for the food industry because the brain doesn't register when we have enough sugars. So we keep eating.

And this item on HN continues the trend. There is no solution but it's about companies making huge profits over insulin.

blenderdt··on Show HN: To prevent dry eyes and back pain, I created a macOS app
I still can't believe so many people work on a laptop all day. It puts an unbelievable amount of pressure on your neck causing all kinds of problems.

If you can set the top of your screen a little above eye level.

blenderdt··on Show HN: To prevent dry eyes and back pain, I created a macOS app
This is not completely true.

When the monitor is at the correct hight it will put less strain on the neck.

In the neck are also nerves that are related to sight. A tight neck can also cause visual problems.

blenderdt··on Dutch Airline Pilots Association blocks mandated vaccinations for new pilots
I am not against vaccinations but I don't like your comment at all.

You also just have an opinion like everyone else.

When you listen to scientists you will understand it's much more complicated than you are saying.

Take a scientist like Geert Vanden Bossche. He really is a very big name in the world of vaccinations. But he has been warning us that vaccinating everyone during an pandemic of a fast mutating virus is a really bad decision.

blenderdt··on Ulstein X-BOW inverted bow
The main disadvantage of the X-Bow is that ships need to be very high. This kind of bow can plunge very deep so you need protection against it.

Damen's AXE bow can also be used for smaller ships but ships need to be long.

blenderdt··on WhatsApp threatened to leave the Netherlands due to controversial backdoor law
Of course that will happen.

The problem is people like Grapperhouse lack creativity. When they feel powerless they can't think of other solutions than the obvious.

blenderdt··on WhatsApp threatened to leave the Netherlands due to controversial backdoor law
This is no bullshit, it's about feeling powerless.

Grapperhouse saw how hard it is to track down child abusers. He was touched by it and he wanted to fix this.

The best solution to track down child abusers fast is to track down their communications.

But I agree with you this might not be the best solution for the rest of the world.

blenderdt··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
I have been building websites for over 20 years and this has always been a problem. 99% of the designers also design texts that perfectly fit the design.

The end result is a bad experience for both the developer, the customer and the end user.

blenderdt··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
The problem is: a frustrated user is not a leaving user. So as long the users stay at the platform and more money can be made the user experience will be crap.

Spotify has 2 types of users, the creator and consumer. As long as there is more money to be made from the creator user they will also A/B test for that user.

blenderdt··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
Today everything is focused on making money. The focus on money makes the experience good for the ones that make the money, but for the end user it means everything turns into one giant ad.

That's why Spotify uses tiles instead of tables. The tiles are important for the content producer, not for the Spotify user. A tile can scream at you 'Listen to me!', a row in a table cannot do this.

It shows that Spotify is making more money from content creators than content consumers.

blenderdt··on Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data
That assumes the location on the device is used by an app.

But signals your phone is sending can and are also being tracked.

blenderdt··on Painting a Character with Maths (2020) [video]
If you are interested in this, another great source is Martijn Steinrucken's channel The Art Of Code: https://youtube.com/c/TheArtofCodeIsCool
blenderdt··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
I have a cheap VPS, host my own email, host my own websites, never had any of the problems you are describing.
blenderdt··on Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018)
It also has to do with the low entry level. The same happened to PHP. Inexperienced programmers can easily create nice things that look great on the outside.

Libs like React and Vue are stable enough but when you throw in a lot of other dependencies it is always the question how experienced the creators were. And when unstable libs become popular bugs and security issues are exposed, pull requests are created and before you know it a next version is launched that is not backwards compatible.

blenderdt··on Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back, behaving in unexpected ways
One problem is that a lot of people in the field are very specialized in just one part of the spectrum. For example Marion Koopmans knows a lot about virusses but doesn't know a lot about immunology. That is totally ok, but also means that her view is limited and is very focused on viruses.
blenderdt··on I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge
There are rumors it will try to connect to an open network when in range.

Related HN question from years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350

blenderdt··on Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
Edit: my bad, I was looking at the wrong 'more' button.
blenderdt··on Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
If you query the first page with a limit of 10, then insert 10 items, do you get the same items with the same parameters?
blenderdt··on Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
A REST API can't use page based pagination because it's not stateless. It is also not cachable.
blenderdt··on RED is suing Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents
Edit 2: Nikon is using the TicoRAW compression from intoPIX.

So I wonder why Red isn't suing intoPIX.

blenderdt··on RED is suing Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents
I believe there are two things to keep in mind here:

1. There is the idea of compressing each Bayer color.

2. There is the compression method.

I believe this issue is about point 2, the compression. But it seems that Nikon is using a different compression so I am not sure Red will win this.

Edit: from the legal document, I believe it is about this part:

"The camera can be configured to transform blue and red image data in a manner that enhances the compressibility of the data. The data can then be compressed and stored in this form. This allows a user to reconstruct the red and blue data to obtain the original raw data for a modified version of the original raw data that is visually lossless when demosaiced. Additionally, the data can be processed so the green image elements are demosaiced first and then the red and blue elements are reconstructed based on values of the demosaiced green image elements."

blenderdt··on Long Covid risk falls only slightly after vaccination, study shows
No and yes. Long covid is nothing special. All virus infections can cause the same symptoms. The Epstein-Barr virus for example can make people tired for months.
blenderdt··on Internet drama in Canada
In the Netherlands it's a kind of strange situation. All the infrastructure is owned by KPN. They are also one of the biggest internet providers but they must allow others on their network.
blenderdt··on A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)
Since this is from 2011 you should take a look at his future of interactice design:

https://dynamicland.org/

blenderdt··on Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
Not only this. Try to change the app two years later. Dependencies gone, wrong NPM version, Webpack config depricated and what not.

That's why I like to use vanilla JS as much as possible. It will be maintainable years later.

blenderdt··on Long Covid and Mitochondrial Dysregulation
The name long Covid should have never been chosen. Every infection, every illness has a recovery time. All virus infections can cause (nerve) damage.
blenderdt··on Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
Ah! Yes this is why we use an expiration of one minute. For us the extra load that the refreshes give is not a problem.

Keeping a blocklist seems unnecessary to me, you can just lower the expiration time.

blenderdt··on Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
"...making it impossible to log users as you can’t invalidate the token for the next hour."

I have no idea what you are talking about here, can you explain this?

I work with systems that have a minute expire time. The only issue is that the clocks on all clients should be in sync with the auth server.

blenderdt··on Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
When a team is so focused on the todo list they sometimes forget the obvious mistakes they still needed to fix.
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