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jgalentine007··on Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left
It's more expensive to buy and prepare fresh food than shelf stable ultra processed foods and requires more time. Poor people have access to 'poor' calories. I would wager that children would also inherit the eating habits of poor parents.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20720258/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14684391/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4254327/

jgalentine007··on Rainfrog – a database management TUI for Postgres
I really like this, and I think others will too. Please be judicious with feature requests - so far the simplicity and ease of use is what I like most about it!
jgalentine007··on Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob
I agree!
jgalentine007··on Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
I did - I had a Macbook air on and off on the side, but Windows was home base for 30 years. I ditched Windows for good when 11 came around, it has become untenable.
jgalentine007··on Coding in Vision Pro
LG 24" 4k monitors are like $350 - might be worth a try. I have two with my M3 Pro and they look fantastic - sharp text, good color and viewing angles.
jgalentine007··on PostgreSQL is enough
Maybe faster... but I've met very few developers that are good DBAs (that understand procedures, cursors, permissions etc.) Database schema versioning / consistency is a whole other level of pain too.
jgalentine007··on Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web
Very cool use for Vimium, I like the approach!
jgalentine007··on Americans falling behind on auto loan payments at record pace
I see so many new $80k trucks in my area that people can’t possibly afford. They’re the last people that would ride a bike or vote to improve infrastructure like that, unfortunately.
jgalentine007··on Full Speed Ahead: EV Study Reveals Impacts of Fast Charging
I think the BMW is more of the issue than anything else…
jgalentine007··on Perils of not being attractive or athletic in middle school
And now those unfortunate to be both unattractive and athletic, have quickly dwindling opportunities with the increasing cost of college and advances in AI and automation. The intelligent, introverted, artistic are ducked.
jgalentine007··on Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street
I was totally surprised how many people I had met in those first classes, who had no programming experience whatsoever and were surprised by the amount of math in the curriculum - they were for sure chasing a trend.

I think my class was the last to graduate from arts/sciences, the CS dept was moved into the engineering college.

jgalentine007··on Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street
If I remember correctly, there were 600 CS freshmen in 2000 at Virginia Tech, only ~60 of us were left by graduation, I think largely because of people evaluating their prospects after the crash (and computer science is hard).
jgalentine007··on Pinball is booming in America
Trolls!
jgalentine007··on TS to JSDoc Conversion
As someone who has had a large project go from TypeScript -> TS/JsDoc -> back to TypeScript... I was NOT a fan of trying to use JsDoc for types.
jgalentine007··on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
I've been having to use Bing to find things. BING.
jgalentine007··on Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave
Tony Robbins talks a lot about this. I'm not one for self help books but it really does affect your ability to affect change.
jgalentine007··on Why do new cars look like wet putty?
Well I think the author makes a good point - the flat finish looks a lot better with more interesting colors (and more gloss). The abundance of de-saturated blues and green will age like milk.
jgalentine007··on Remote work is gutting downtowns
Which is funny, because after 2008 it felt like a lot of the bedroom communities / strip malls struggled and went down hill (lack of demand I guess) - and it felt like a whole wave of young people were only wanting to live in the city.
jgalentine007··on Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest
I do feel like MacOS has done a better job of continuity - they change the system preference tool one time, Microsoft has done it like 4 times. Microsoft messed with the Start menu nearly every release, most people would still be fine with how it was way back in XP/2000. The place where MS shined was program and api compatibility and no sudden surprises (usually) - you knew what was coming down the roadmap ahead of time!
jgalentine007··on Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest
Same, and DOS before it. I've always been a Microsoft fan, but I'm a bit tired now. Apple silicon is a killer feature and I'm finding it hard to justify not moving wholesale to it (I'm dual wielding right now).
jgalentine007··on Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest
I did Windows Me, Vista and 8 already, I can't put myself through another cycle. MacOS it is!
jgalentine007··on Tldraw's $2.7M Seed – A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web
They seem to be clones of each other. Not sure which came first.
jgalentine007··on AI will dominate the animation industry in less than 5 years
I don't know where you shop, but at my grocery store its 16 self check out lanes and 2 cashiers.
jgalentine007··on CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards
They made 3-wheelers illegal, Onewheels seem not much safer.
jgalentine007··on My First Piano
Exactly. I have a Kawai upright, used to have access to a Steinway grand, now wishing I had a Nord Piano 5.
jgalentine007··on My PhD Genealogy
If you like this, you might be interested in AstroGen, the Astronomy Genealogy Project that I helped design: https://astrogen.aas.org
jgalentine007··on Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)
Interestingly enough I picked RabbitMQ for the same reasons for a distributed execution system I designed at work. RabbitMQ provides a lot of nice to have features and flexibility when it comes to delivering messages between endpoints. The fact that you get access control, easy encryption, multiple protocols (mqtt/amqp/stomp etc), excellent reliability and scalability rolled into a mature system is pretty awesome. The concepts are easy to understand and get real code working. The interfaces with RabbitMQ are simple enough that you could replace it with something else without having to untangle a whole lot. The other killer feature for me was async event listening which cuts out a lot of overhead from polling / long polling.
jgalentine007··on Embedding an EXE inside a .REG file with automatic execution
Yes, there is an atomic test / mitre attack technique exactly for this. The lame part is the attack executes successfully on stock windows 10/11. Its one of the top threats of 2021/2022. https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/a...
jgalentine007··on I've used all the notebooks
There are some really affordable Maruman spiral notebooks that I like to use, much better than any office depot stuff, and more practical than Rhodia and other fancy brands. https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Spiral-Note-Basic-Notebooks/...
jgalentine007··on Inspecting Web Views in macOS
Sounds like they need useMemo(), useCallback() and an abort pattern, lol.
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