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ssvsson A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain

Just an anecdote, from my experience of water-only intermittent fasting for 5 days. First time I did it, from around day 3, I will start feeling dizzy, if I suddenly standup from either lying down or sitting in a relaxed posture. Later I read that it was caused because of low blood pressure due to no salt intake. The next time I did intermittent fasting, I took some salt with my water, and the dizziness problem was not there.

ssvsson Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data'

Anyone knows the status of Facebook vs Steven Vachani case, https://youtu.be/-W1B89wXJU8

ssvsson Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

One thing I love about firefox is, it has a top bar which shows the title of the webpage in full, when have multiple tabs open, the title in the tab-bar is invisible.

ssvsson Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?

I try to internalize the Advaitic/Vedanta concept of I am not the body/mind.

ssvsson Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

Their mobile market share is 1.2%. I tried to use Firefox in android, their scrolling behaviour doesn’t feel native.

ssvsson German cartel office investigates Amazon’s treatment of small sellers

I think it means, you have to bring your product to VendorCentral from the SellerCentral/MarketPlace,

VendorCentral is where you become a Vendor/Distributor to Amazon, i.e, Amazon should be allowed to purchase at wholesale price from you, and sell it themselves.

and MarketPlace/SellerCentral is where you can sell directly to customers.

ssvsson Tracking China's Muslim Gulag

This article doesn't mention about another related activity which I found interesting, is that Chinese government makes its Han employees to go stay in Uighur homes to monitor their activities. http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/million-...

Reading some comments in r/China, makes it seem like it is not an exaggeration. https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/9r8vgf/chinas_govern...

ssvsson German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis

I saw this tool being recommended in r/windows10. I have tried it, no issues so far, though haven't tested to see if it does disable telemetry.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

ssvsson Breathing Through the Nose May Offer Unique Brain Benefits

Don’t try all the exotic practises in the initial 1 or 2 years. Initially it is recommended only to observe breath, and may be the 4/4/4/4 technique mentioned in another comment, you can try the 4/4/4/4 technique by inhaling through one nostril and exhaling from the other. And gradually increase the count from 4 to whatever you are comfortable with.

https://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/ayurvedic-living/livin...

Recent Yoga teachers, try to teach all types of Pranayama to a beginner, but when reading books written 100 years back, it is mentioned that mind and breath are linked tightly, and practising techniques which isn’t recommended for your condition, by an experienced guru, can actually make you mad.

ssvsson Application for Fixed Satellite Service by SpaceX

This animation based on this proposal is good, https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=AdKNCBrkZQ4

ssvsson Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

What is its latency compared to RAM, 10X ? Most latency comparisons mentioned in other comments compare RAM to pcie based optane memory, not the DRAM optane memory.

Edit: Article[1] here says the latency was 40µs with 13M IOPS, if you consider RAM latency to be 100ns[2], then it looks like 40X

[1] - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2018/10/30/windo... [2] - https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

ssvsson The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War

I found the following reddit discussions to provide more detailed perspective of this war.

View from a Saudi Arabian, https://www.reddit.com/r/saudiarabia/comments/8wnbzl/

View of an independent security analyst, https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/8qyip8/

ssvsson China’s Government Has Ordered a Million Citizens to Occupy Uighur Homes

Discussion in r/China

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/9r8vgf/chinas_govern...

ssvsson Ten years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting

Doesn’t SHAREit help with transferring between iOS, android and even PCs.

ssvsson Bytedance said to be valued at over $75B in new round

May be because the AI curated headlines are individualised for each user.

ssvsson David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages

What book would you recommend to know more about SOC?

ssvsson Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

Is there a similar chart for bandwidth numbers.

ssvsson Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro

Facing the same problem with iPad Pro 2017. Thought it was just built-in obsolescence, because I had previous iPad 3 for 5 Years with no issues.

ssvsson WWDC 2018 What's New in Swift Recap

Is there a plan for c++ Interop in swift. Or have they decided that using the obj-c bridging layer is enough.

ssvsson Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics

Is it related to feeling your grandfather's presence, when he was about to die. I have heard 2 of my friends saying they experienced this.

ssvsson De-Googling my phone

I use Yalp to install google maps. It works without play store.

ssvsson Ask HN: What is the best Modern C++ MOOC?

There is a 4 part series by him on algorithms too.

https://www.youtube.com/user/A9Videos/playlists

ssvsson Ask HN: What is the best Modern C++ MOOC?

I am thinking about going through the below course from Alexander Stepanov at Amazon A9. Anyone has experience with this course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIHAEYyoTUc&list=PLHxtyCq_WD...

ssvsson Ask HN: How to self-learn math?

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/652p2a/what_are_your_...

Related thread in reddit, which I found useful.

ssvsson Introducing Twitter premium APIs

Anyone knows how much they charge for the gnip enterprise access.

ssvsson Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Article from 4 months back,

> OmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14179006

ssvsson The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

Has anyone tried to boot smartos/illumos in Xeon phi knights landing chip (not the coprocessor card). Does it work.

Also how well does intel's userland network and storage libraries dpdk and spdk, work with smartos.

ssvsson Zebras all the way down: The engineering challenges of the data path

Thanks,

Last time I looked at Smartos, I noticed few issues regarding hardware driver support. Do you know if there has been any improvement in this area, after the acquisition by Samsung.

ssvsson Zebras all the way down: The engineering challenges of the data path

Anyone knows the status of LX(linux) branded zones in Smartos. Is it still under development or abandoned.

ssvsson China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan

Related article regarding China's investment in Srilanka.

http://thediplomat.com/2016/11/china-and-sri-lanka-between-a...