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scavenger5on Long Covid has had a brutal effect on the workforce, study finds

Yes, to an extent. But many people are reporting symptoms like anxiety, depression, or brain fog, which, while could be caused by the virus, could also be caused by the pandemic. Fear, isolation, lack of social interactions can cause detrimental damage, and this should not be overlooked.

scavenger5on Long Covid has had a brutal effect on the workforce, study finds

If you look at this paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

People who got covid vs other viruses. When you follow up with them 3 months later, there is no difference in symptoms between the groups. In other words, long covid symptoms are no worse than any other respiratory virus.

So is it covid causing the symptoms, or the pandemic? All signs point to the pandemic, and the response.

Every other long covid study are observational, and are likely confounded. Strongly recommend looking deeper at these studies. Very few have control arms, like this study does.

scavenger5on Study Suggests Fructose Could Drive Alzheimer's Disease

This is a junk study. Here is the link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...

If you look at the evidence hierarchy, this study is at the lowest form of evidence (it's a narrative review -i.e expert opinion), they didn't even run a study.

The ultimate study would multiple randomized controlled trials showing sugar/fructose when controlled for calories, causes increased Alheimer's disease. Since we haven't seen that, we should not draw conclusions.

As the saying goes 'correlation does not imply causation'. We don't even have correlation yet, the headline is an overreach.

scavenger5on Ask HN: I hate gym. How to stay in shape?

Nobody can answer this for you. They are describing what works best for them. Find what works best for you. Forget what is optimal. What is something you can do consistently for years. If that's walking, then walking is still better than sitting.

I found watching TV while working out is a great motivator. Consider that as well.

And lastly. I've been working out consistently for over a decade. I still don't like it. Get your feelings out of this. Think of it like brushing your teeth.

scavenger5on Monolith First (2015)

I question the relevance of this with cloud based solutions such as AWS Lambda, where you can spin up a production ready auto-scaled service very quickly; it certainly reduces the cost of ownership and operations. Sure if you are a team of 20 developers working on an app - go monolith.

But if you are a 300 person organization launching something from the ground up, I would choose many serverless solutions over a single monolith.