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I was wondering the same thing myself. Also, isn't re-building the immune system dangerous in the sense that it increases the patient's risks to certain types of blood cancers?

So cutting down on the sugar should tell the body to use more fat as an energy source, yes? In your opinion, where can I read about this stuff without resorting to websites that make extraordinary claims about crazy diets without any scientific basis? Or do I have to stick to publications?

This won't matter much to their target user. Anybody who wants more control won't be running Windows 10 or probably running an alternative OS.

The target user is not one that knows what this stuff means or at least doesn't care even if they do. "I want to be able to create this month's budget on Excel". Everything else is gibberish.

Nor should they. I upgraded my parents to use Android phones. Trying to explain what the permission system is was really challenging. "Write to External Storage" is not a statement that you can explain without mentioning the words SD card and internal storage and difference between them. So I have come to the conclusion that current software paradigms are too difficult to understand for anybody who doesn't do this for a living. I wish there was a platform that is midway between Apple's the user is dumb and Android's everybody is a tech-wizard approach.

Amen.

I do the same thing; reading on an older Nexus 7. I installed pocket when I first heard of it for this exact ability. Back then it had no recommendations or sharing or whatever. I hardly use those.

It's also very useful for when I am doing cardio on a stationary bike. Makes good use of your time while doing boring cardio work. Of course it doesn't work with anything that requires a lot of focus.

A lot of people do think that, in my experience. I agree that this is a myth and you don't even need to try a different cuisine, simply season your food with spices which are now being shown not only to be delicious but actually good for your overall health. Things like pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, sumac and a pinch of salt and pepper can greatly enhance the taste of a bland dish.

A salad, to a lot of people, might not taste very good. But adding a pinch of olive oil and some lemon juice might make a world of difference.

I guess people see those "organic" material in the store with minimal branding and then compare it to a McMeal that looks amazing.

Whenever I cook, I try to make the dish taste great, smell great and look good. All of those are important in a meal. Obviously I fail a lot, but those are my targets in creating healthy-delicious meals that don't cost a fortune.

Someone I know recently tried to make a "healthy" meal by combining lentils with oats and just cooking them in water and throwing a small pinch of cumin in it. Now that might be a "healthy" meal but it tastes like sawdust...

From my understanding, the microkernel approach has been deemed impractical for real-world use. I wonder if there is anyone out there using it?

Right and people are always looking for a quick fix and "just a pill to take". My understanding is that how nutrition affects the body is a poorly understood complex mechanism and isn't as simple as all fat is bad or all carbs are bad or red meat is poison. Keeping a diversified diet that is rich in real food and very little processed food is a good thing. Exercising is a good thing. Beyond that it seems like micro-optimizations with very little benefit.

I still don't get the appeal of these types of videos. What's wrong with an article as a set of instructions?

I mean in the context of performance tuning, all you'll be looking at is a shell. I understand some people prefer a visual approach to learning but I don't see any added benefit in producing this type of information in an animated format.

Arsenic is an effective and relatively safe substance? That's very strange since it's used as a poison. That's the thing with herbal medicine, Chinese or otherwise, the matter of toxicity.

Also, there isn't a lot of research into traditional medicine. The ones I can find often have conflicting results or simply state something along the lines of "shows promise". I wish there were more reliable studies to prove or debunk the stories we always hear about people who recovered from incurable and/or terminal diseases using traditional medicine. I guess there's isn't enough money to be generated from it.

I took an interest in medicinal herbs after using ginger tea to overcome nausea, a side effect of a drug i was taking at the time. The doctor wasn't very helpful, it worked very nicely. But my programmer-mind has trouble believing the folklore-ish stories about these herbs.

I wasn't talking about store bought burgers. They may or may not be as bad as a McDonald's burger. Get the meat, add some spices(and maybe Worcester sauce) and you'll have your own delicious patty. The whole thing takes around 15 mins and you can customize any part of the process.

However, I agree with your point that there are healthier food options out there if you have the choice.

I disagree. A hamburger you make at home is unlikely to contain the crap that is in a McDonald's burger. If you get actual meat, add a few veggies and a whole wheat bun then a burger can become an excellent meal.

It's even better if you skip the fries.

Very cool. How is the data curated and validated?

But that's for companies outside Australia, right? My experience has been that Australian companies are not still open to the idea of remote work(Melbourne).

That's without setting the connection as a metered connection, right?

Once i saw that option, I immediately set it because I also use my mobile data connection for access.

I would guess this is their attempt at going after the virtualization market. They bought Sun for the hardware(among other things) so now they need the software. VMware was probably too expensive for them.

VirtualBox is not in the same playing field as VMware but it does work well and is popular etc. The team already knows how to build virtualization software. To me they're just missing some management tools.

Big companies like Google and Oracle don't really think about what's coming next year. Sometimes they invest in something that will pay off big in 10 years. I think this is one of those deals.

This is pure guesswork obviously. I have no idea...

The only answer in my opinion, and this goes for any website with a security issue, is just not to use their service.

They either don't care or have a long list of higher-priority issues than this. Either way, nothing you can do.

Not scientific but I only had PRK as a choice. And the healing time is a lot more than the LASIK procedure. Although my doctor told me that it "could take a few more days".

Took me a week until I could look at a computer screen with a ridiculously large zoom level and only for a couple of hours total per day. At about 3 weeks, I could look at a computer screen at a lower resolution but no more than 4-5 hours total.

As for risk; from my reading the greatest risk in both are post-op infections which are a concern with any procedure(even sampling blood). The others weren't really something to worry about. With LASIK, there's also a risk of flap detachment. But that could happen even with a healthy flap if the force is big enough.

I got mine a couple of years ago too. It wasn't painless at all. In fact, the first week sucked. And I developed light sensitivity although it went away after 5 or so days.

I also suffered from dry eyes. Something that the doctor says rarely happens but seems to happen more often than is being recorded(from personal research, seems to happen when person suffers from high astigmatism). But it does decrease within a few months and now I occasionally have to use the eye drops to keep them hydrated so no big deal.

Regarding the blurry night vision, it happens sometimes to me. I noticed that i notice it more when my eyes are more tired and less hydrated than usual.

Overall, I am also happy with the experience. The greatest thing about it is enjoying the underwater views as mentioned.

My eyesight was pretty bad even before I started staring at screens. But mine is due to genetics, probably.

I got a Lasik(actually PRK) procedure a couple of years ago and I am glasses-free since then with the occasional dry eye.

From what I understood, anything that causes eye strain is not a good thing. But it's not only screens(reading, bad lighting...). So things like taking frequent breaks and making sure that your eyes are hydrated will benefit you. Anything else is highly controversial at this point in time.

Here's my issue with meditation. There's no guide to what progress should look like. As in, everything I read says you shouldn't have any expectations and to just do it and there's a lot of benefit in it. I get that, I've been doing it for over a year now regularly but how can I know if it has any effects whatsoever?

Since I suspect there might be other techniques than focusing on the breath or body scans, I try to follow different guided meditations. After my session, i feel relaxed and my mind slow but efficient. Like getting up after a good nap.

But so does working out at the gym, sort of. Over there, however, you can directly see progress. With meditation...

Perhaps I am looking at this in the wrong way?

I've had that happen to me a couple of times too. One of the most entertaining times was when someone refused to move from my window seat was because they wanted to "look out from the window". After I showed her my ticket stub, she just looked at me blankly. Then I explained to her that she is sitting in the wrong seat to which she replied that she doesn't understand.

I did relent because the flight attendant asked me nicely if I mind just taking the middle seat. It was the first time I got a window seat that wasn't over the wing!

If someone already read The Enigma, would you recommend them reading any of the other books on that list?

I already feel like I had an intimate look at his life from that book so not sure if the others would add anything to my life.

I don't remember it having any difficult parts, but I did read it over 10 years ago so maybe I am mistaken.

I'd encourage you to go on with the book; it's a beautiful book. You can skip over the overly science-y parts I guess. The beauty of that book in my opinion is how the author didn't focus solely on his homosexuality or achievements but tried to show how his personality, including his sexual preferences, played a part in everything that he was able to achieve.

Too early to tell anything from this study and the article doesn't discuss any details.

But a lower incidence of autoimmune diseases have been linked to childhood infections. As in, the more pathogens you're exposed to earlier in life the more your immune system develops to be a healthy one. No sources off hand, but it makes sense if you consider that an autoimmune disease is a problem in the immune system.

I am guessing this would apply to all kinds of abnormal inflammatory responses in the body.

I am not sure what you're pointing at. I think this article aims to do the same as any other "compiler for a toy language" article; namely remove the fear barrier and explain that at their core, many of our black boxes utilize simple concepts.

I've always thought a compiler was difficult to write until I wrote my first one. Sure it is nothing when compared to a production-level compiler but definitely no longer think that there's something magical about compilers, even the more advanced ones.

Very nice. I can't seem to find it anymore on the site; is the discount on yearly prepayment still valid?

While I agree that the sample application is something that needs to be considered from time to time, I don't agree that we need to make it look as simple as the ones offered by micro-frameworks.

For one, Django isn't a micro-framework and using it as such, although possible, is probably overkill.

Anybody who has ever seen an MVC pattern or read about it will understand why it needs 6 parts and won't necessarily be intimidated by it. I know I wasn't when I first looked at it.

On-boarding new users needs to be simple and welcoming, nobody disputes that. But this trend in dumbing down everything should not extend to web frameworks in my humble opinion.

A few things so far:

Be careful who you trust. Expect the worst from people, most probably that's what you're going to get.

Most people have no clue what they're doing and are simply reacting to situation.

As for the more technical:

Best practices are mostly bullshit. There is no such thing as doing it right.

Analysis paralysis is a silent killer. I've spent the first decade of my professional life learning how to be a better programmer. Seems like I am going to spend the next one learning about compromises and getting shit done.

Nicely written. Why is it that we only look for what is important to us when we realize that we don't have long to live? Don't people realize that this is true starting the day you're born?

You're not alone. But you're also missing an important point. You often use libraries without fully understanding their code, don't you?

You have to. You usually don't have the time or luxury to dig in and understand everything when you have a specific task to complete. Unless you're refactoring some old code where you try and make sure that you understand everything relevant to that codebase. Or you can just wait until it breaks...

Things like automated testing and proper documentation try to help in this regard, but they're useless if they're not kept up-to-date with the code and they have their own set of problems.