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By coincidence, I am doing it now. I always drink water first thing in the morning in order to restore fluids after sleep. I am also drinking coffee with milk, but no sugar. Lastly, I am drinking some psyllium husk powder that I blend into a couple of mugs of water.

I take the psyllium husk at about 10am. Then I have another coffee or two, but no meals until dinner time, about 6pm.

I started doing this just this week because my father had an angiogram which lead to the discovery that some of his coronary arteries where quite block with plaque. This is disturbing for me as he has looked after himself pretty well for his whole life. He's not a smoker or heavy drinker, eats well, doesn't snack, isn't a sweet tooth. And he has exercised consistently for his whole life. And yet, his arteries are in shit state.

So I have to wonder if it's genetic. So I figure I'll try to increase the soluble and insoluble fibre intake as it is said to inhibit the absorption of cholesterol. I also want to drop a couple of kilos I've put on during lockdown.

I've never had a lot of karma as I don't comment that often and certainly haven't posted an article. But I suspect that my opinions would soon seen what little karma i do have, disappear.

I saw an ad on TV last night (possibly a mining industry ad. Not sure, as is so often the case with tv ads) that said there was 4 tonnes of copper in each wind turbine.

So add that to the mix of what it takes to build a wind turbine. I'm not sure of the cost of copper production but I bet it's not cheap or easy on the environment.

Might be something to factor in.

> ... I am infuriated whenever anyone says something so false.

Citation please.

Is it actually false? Your one case does not a fact make. What percentage of confirmed cases in people under the age of, say, 40, result in long term complications?

Edit: Corrected punctuation and replaced "statistical fact" with just "fact".

“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail – its roof may shake – the wind may blow through it – the storm may enter – the rain may enter – but the King of England cannot enter.”

Except in a "State of emergency" in Victoria, Australia, in this present day.

Definitely a classic brainrape.

I find that what keeps me at a workplace are the relationships that I form there. When I enjoy the company of the people that I work with, then I enjoy coming to work, even if the work itself leaves a bit to be desired.

I guess that this perhaps implies that communication is good and so all the desirables (code ownership, reviews, transparency, clarity of responsibilities etc) fall out as a result of a group of people relating well.

So, it's the relationships, more than anything else, I think.

Not to mentioned the prose ...

"For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blankets between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal. "

I think this too, when I read about WASM. It seems to be tackling the same problem that java was created to solve. Namely, a platform independent VM for running applications (applets) in the browser.

I, for one, would appreciate an explanation of how WASM differs from the original JVM, if someone has a moment.

Thanks for that. I hadn't heard of Harold Bloom before today, but what I've read about his scholarship and writing today, leads me to think that I could use one or more of his books as a guide to reading books from the western canon.

I'll check out 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?'

If I were to read one of his books as a guide the best bits of the canon to read, which book should I read?

The main options appear to be 'Genius', 'The Western Canon' and 'How to read and why'.

I'd like to read more, and a good guide to Western literature might be helpful.

It might be time for democratic countries to consider not trading with China. China is totalitarian and marxist and is therefore incompatible with democratic values. But still democratic governments and corporations aim to trade with China because it's a massive market and there's plenty of money to be made.

The Australian Prime Minister is between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, China is our major trade partner. On the other hand, America is our ally and also a major trade partner. So Morrison has to dance with each.

Blizzard, I read, have significant investment from China, and China are a massive market for them. So they self-censor in order to stay in China's good graces.

I don't see how corporations and countries can do business in China, without compromising their values and possibly stepping on the values of citizens/customers in democratic countries.

How is it sexist?

Ripcord is currently running in 23.3MB on my machine

"There’s a huge section of the tech ecosystem that’s constantly told they’re not smart enough to be here and that their work doesn’t matter. I spent a decade hearing C was beyond mere mortals, that you must be a genius to go anyway near low-level code, or algorithms, or distributed systems. The inventor of Git is notorious for pushing this narrative! But the truth is, anyone with enough brains and patience to learn how to do any kind of computing is “smart enough” to learn things like this."

As someone who spent the first decade or so as an embedded software developer, I wanted to move into web based systems because its a "bigger world". I'm a couple of jobs into this bigger world now, and it just keeps getting bigger. I feel the need to keep my finger on the pulse of new tools and technologies, but I try to hold that in tension with the advice we get here to keep things simple, be pragmatic, don't adopt technologies or techniques just because google does. I've always fancied myself as a generalist, but this bigger world makes me feel a bit like Bilbo Baggins, "like butter spread over too much bread."

My point: I've been in both worlds and I feel more at sea working on internet based systems. I had more mastery over the embedded systems I worked on, than over the web based systems I work on now. So my experience is in support of the author's point that ...

"anyone with enough brains and patience to learn how to do any kind of computing is “smart enough” to learn things like this."

Moreover, I would suggest that the average full-stack web developer is probably over-qualified.

You can use your own mind. Assess the actual point of view, rather than engaging your bias the minute you detect a whiff of religion.

Read the article. At the end the author says

> By the way it's nice to know that the USB protocol has a bit to indicate "a valid oven". I wonder when that is used.

The bit fields he uses as an example related to USB protocol implementation.

My bad on the missing 'the'. Mechanism is in the abstract. Of course it is. I see it now. Sorry about that.

Probably wise to mention your PhD here on HN. Nerds (apart from me) are the finest proof readers and grammar checkers the world has ever seen.

Seriously, all the best on your PhD submission. Sorry for the confusion.

You've submitted this. I hope the spelling and grammatical errors aren't a problem for the readers. First of which is a missing 'the' in the first sentence. Later 'categories' instead of categorise.

Still, it seems interesting and I wish you all the best. I hope you are awarded your PhD.