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nchi3··on How and why the Relational Model works for databases
> I would be surprised if the oldest code still doing something useful was more than 20 or so years old.

...you can't be serious? Every other company that has been writing code for 20+ years probably has code that is 20+ years old. Just look at banks.

nchi3··on Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese
The crystals are just from aging it for longer, aren't they? Of course a 36 month Comté vs. 4 month Gruye won't have that many similarities compared to a 12 month Comté vs. 12 month Gruyere.
nchi3··on Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese
It's hard to taste a picture! I'm not saying they're exactly the same, but they're made in extremely similar ways.

I'm from a less cheese-y part of Europe, but isn't Comté often called Gruyère de Comté for a reason? Of course they'll taste very different when aged for very different amount of times, but I've found them to be decently similar when aged for similar amounts of time.

nchi3··on Researchers trying to help patients “unlearn” back pain (2021)
For many years this type of chronic pain has been referred to as Tension Myositis Syndrome[1] (TMS) by some. Though the condition has been met by skepticism by both the medical community as well as many chronic pain sufferers, you'll find thousands of anecdotes online of it curing people from pain.

A study on Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), which more or less treats "TMS", was released last year and has shown very promising results, and the idea that many chronic pain sufferers could be affected by it is starting to gain more recognition in the scientific community.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_myositis_syndrome

nchi3··on Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese
To be fair, Comté and Gruyere are pretty much as similar as 2 different types of cheeses can get.
nchi3··on Bevy game engine 0.6
Bevy is still in its very early days. Using their limited development time to develop for what is already today old hardware doesn't make much sense considering its peak is likely another 5+ years in the future. By the time Bevy is very mature, the hardware that is only able to run OpenGL will be even less relevant and a very small niche.

That being said, as far as I know Bevy is modular enough to write third party render backends. If it keeps growing, I'm sure someone will do that.

nchi3··on Bevy game engine 0.6
That's great to hear! Thank you for all the hard work, I'm looking forward to see Bevy grow, and really hope it'll end up becoming a worthy competitor to Unity/UE/Godot for commercial games some day!
nchi3··on Bevy game engine 0.6
Super happy to see 0.6 released, great work!

I've been sponsoring for close to a year, but haven't kept up with the Discord in many months. Currently I'm just been checking for updates every couple of weeks, and sometimes checking the state of GitHub issues and milestones.

However, is there any better way for me to keep up with progress? If not, has there been any thought about having regular status updates? They don't have to take a lot of your (or someone else's) time, but just a few sentences on what's been decided, what's happened, etc, would be nice! Once every 30 or 60 days would definitely be enough.

nchi3··on UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
That's what eventual consistency is, isn't it? It's definitely not the easiest thing to design systems around, but at a big enough scale you sometimes don't have a choice.

There's also many ways to "work around it", so that it doesn't seem inconsistent to the user.

I'm definitely not arguing that it's how most systems should be designed though.

nchi3··on UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
Accepted can mean that it will eventually be created though. In the sense that it's validated and guaranteed to be created at a later point ("eventually").
nchi3··on UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
Fair enough, though what I said remains true for an "Accepted" response.
nchi3··on UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
If you get a "Created" back, it is possible for it to be guaranteed that it'll be created eventually.
nchi3··on State of Valhalla
>The limit being that the whole program, including all dependent crates need to compiled from source with the same compiler.

Which isn't really much of a problem given that the ecosystem is built around cargo compiling from source.

nchi3··on State of Valhalla
>Rust editions are no different from selecting language versions

Aren't they? Can you choose to compile Java 17 with Java 7-8 syntax, but still make use of Java 17's other features which don't break backwards compatibility? As far as I have understood, that's possible with Rust (though I might be wrong, I've never really tried using an older edition).

nchi3··on Data seems to indicate omicron milder, more transmissible, hospitalizations low
None of them are the same family as other viruses which cause the common cold.

I doubt the top epidemiologists are spreading myths.

The "unusual" cases where covid is causing death might not be enough, no. The fact that it causes people to stay at home however could be.

nchi3··on Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises
Yeah and you can write code as well. That doesn't mean it's a laptop replacement.
nchi3··on Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
Ah, fair enough! Yeah, it might not be perfect, but I don't think it's bad enough to make a mono/duopoly the better option.
nchi3··on Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
Does anyone here only have a single browser installed on their computer? I always install Chrome, but do less than 0.1% of my browsing in it. What's the reason you couldn't have both? Storage?

What you gain from using something other than Chrome is privacy, and using something other than Chromium makes it harder for Google to gain more control of the internet.

That being said, I find both Firefox and Safari to be better experiences than Chrome.

nchi3··on Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
Can you give an example? I've been using both Safari (personal laptop) and Firefox (work laptop) for years, and I've never noticed anything like that.
nchi3··on Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
No one's saying you can't have Chrome installed.

It's really no big deal to open it when you want to watch any of those. I've never heard anyone complaining about switching from your phone's browser to the Netflix app on your phone, so I don't see why opening another browser on your computer is a big deal.

nchi3··on Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
You must be quite new to frontend development, right? It's really never been easier than today to do this. Edge uses chromium and IE isn't a thing anymore (for most devs), so it's basically 3 modern and regularly updated browser engines which are _very_ close to each other features-wise.

Also, one of the biggest problems with Chrome has been that Google are breaking standards with it repetitively. If you're for well-regulated browsers, Chrome shouldn't be your browser of choice.

nchi3··on So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel?
No, but it makes it explicit regarding what's unsafe, so that you'll more easily know where to put resources to make the unsafe code as bomb proof as possible. In C that's 100% of the code, in Rust you can keep it to a low percentage.
nchi3··on Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon
Which are these "many states" other than Poland and Hungary?

It's not like Poland and Hungary are doing so without any kind of repercussions from EU.

nchi3··on Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower
That's not really true. Gravel bikes have geometries ranging from aero race bike geometriea to hardtail MTBs. I'd say most have very similar geometries to endurance road bikes though (similar stack/reach, 71ish HT angle, 425-430mm chainstays)
nchi3··on Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower
Bad as in not-smooth or bad as in pot holes? I hope not the latter, because that's dangerous no matter the type of bike, and I haven't heard/read many people complain about the former.
nchi3··on I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Impress Me
That video only explains the video footage if you assume everyone who were part of that operation are lying.

There were plenty of people who saw it on their radars, and at least one of them was a very highly ranked military.

nchi3··on Why Use a Novichok?
Oh, and he's now imprisoned for being poisoned by western countries now, or how do you explain the fact that he's imprisoned without proper reasons?
nchi3··on So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
I agree that it's all very interlinked, but that doesn't mean there's no distinction. Changing your way of thinking is purely psychological, whereas changing what you eat is both.

> id add that this is why “mastering your emotions” using the control sense of mastering, doesn’t make sense.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here, it seems to contradict what you said in the earlier sentence? For example, if you have migraines due to stress, and you learn to control your emotions, you could reduce migraines. Breathing slowly is one way to do so, but there's also a lot of more or less purely psychological ways of doing it (e.g. CBT).

nchi3··on So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
Yes, emotion is all chemicals and signals in your brain, but there's still a quite clear distinction to what the difference between physiological and psychological is.
nchi3··on Murex shell now supports mixing SQL and shell pipelines
Yeah, I was surprised to see Murex mentioned on HN as well until I realized it's not the Murex I was thinking of!
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