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badosu··on Sr.ht becomes Sourcehut
I like the minimalistic approach though I'd recommend to align horizontally the content for higher viewports, e.g. `body { max-width: 1140px; margin: 0 auto }`
badosu··on Doing more exercise won’t help you burn more calories
Except for metabolic adjustment where the body spends less calories by being more efficient with exercise or slower with low calorie diet and the notorious fact that people underestimate calorie ingestion it really is not as complicated as this article makes it sound.

It is very difficult to cutivate a consistent healthy diet and exercise regimen indeed and except for very few physiological/mental reasons any recommendation that denies caloric deficit is garbage.

badosu··on I'm going to work full-time on free software
With enough funding the developer can invest in a team, adhering to their standards.
badosu··on Americans Are Starved for Sleep
I mean, it's not common in Latin America to actually have midday naps on any urban setting. At least here in Brazil where I live.
badosu··on It’s a Great Age for Jazz, but Don’t Call It Golden
There are many artists doing that though you have to dig for that as they are not very dance friendly or require getting used to.

Some examples:

Breakcore (Venetian Snares) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1sgrw1PGM

Dark ambient (The Haxan Cloak) - https://youtu.be/9iBaQrDW544?t=590

Microtonal (Sevish) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v4JcuXoGIM

Sometimes it gets difficult to even categorize, take Igorrr for example which is a weird mix of folk/neoclassic/breakcore/black metal: https://youtu.be/UBakgOHKI-g?t=352

Sometimes you find some experimental gems on Soundcloud as well: https://soundcloud.com/isqamusic/tree_eater

There are also some more recent 'mainstreamish' subgenres of trance too, search for psycore, hitech, high-bpm, etc...

Unless you mean pushing the genre forward with also having a large audience, in which I would think more recent examples are Savant which has a lot of 8-bit and really well crafted dubstep (https://savantofficial.bandcamp.com/album/zion) or `*wave` (e.g. vaporwave).

badosu··on Americans Are Starved for Sleep
In rural or small cities yes, in urban settings (where most of the population lives) no.
badosu··on UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V
No.

I recommend using the original title: "RISC-V Will Stop Hackers Dead From Getting Into Your Computer"

Even though it's still very fallacious.

badosu··on A newly discovered tea plant is caffeine-free
I had the habit of taking several mugs of coffee per day. That helped a lot starting the day but had the side-effect of amplifying anxiety sometimes.

Today I mostly don't feel the need to drink coffee but I like to take a small cup of coffee with milk in the morning, it fulfills and is not addictive.

Maybe instead of banning coffee there can be a middle ground?

badosu··on An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU
Seems like the perfect strawman for recording face recognition data use in surveillance...
badosu··on Show HN: Vue Dark Mode – A Minimalist Dark Design System for Vue.js
Even though it's not really something intellectually appealing, I was not aware of this and glad that I saw it.
badosu··on Own the Demand
Read through "The lion King" controversy chapter
badosu··on Own the Demand
> There is no substitute for the Lion King.

Kimba: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimba_the_White_Lion

badosu··on ‘Two-faced’ membrane can create electricity from salty and fresh water
As I understand they mean that a thermoelectric generator is much more useful in small scales of size and weight, where it can't operate very efficiently.

It's primary application being for spacecraft since it can have a decent power output for a very long time, which is what's typically required from a long standing mission.

badosu··on Writing an OS in Rust: Hardware Interrupts
It would be interesting to see if modern multi-core cpus make the possible overhead of microkernels a non-issue today.
badosu··on What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
That's not a fair comparison, the level of diversity in ways to solve or diagnose a problem are much bigger in the software engineering world.

Where in a typical engineering profession you would have a somewhat defined checklist on how to diagnose an issue and a proven method to fix it, in software engineering you have a million possibilities: "- Did you check x? - Was this nth specific step for this specific framework followed? etc.."

It's messy because the problem space can't be as easily enumerated.

badosu··on An update on GNU performance
I hope someday it can work with modern hardware.

When I read the headline I was expecting some benchmark tests related to it.

Imagine a world where you could just change your kernel via `pacman -R linux && pacman -S hurd` and have a good fallback should ever linux not be a desirable option, or at least to have some competition.

Having a free microkernel implementation retrocompatible with linux would give enough user data to settle the monolytical vs. microkernel debate, who knows which niche applications would it be ideal for? Mission critical software, realtime processing, embedded software, small reliable image containers, a fresh bench for new OS developments?

There's also the social aspect of how linux is currently developed, what would happen without Linus strong leadership? I am sure there's a very capable team there, but sometimes only technical proficiency is not enough. Would a fragmented leadership handle the NSA's attempted breaches as well? Having a separate project that can handle the same applications would be good in my opinion.

Bonus points for getting rid of that (GNU[+-/])?Linux bullshit.

badosu··on An update on GNU performance
Sigh, still hoping for the day it means Hurd with GNU toolchain...
badosu··on Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? (2017)
Perhaps the author thinks the analysis is shallow due to the heroic nature of the heroes's emotions, which separates them from the common man.

Although I think the greek tragedies have a higher level of psychoanalytical sophistication that would only be matched in the 19th century.

badosu··on Tricks That Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos for Now
Perhaps in the future there will be a step to edit videos with human oriented operations to remove artifacts?
badosu··on “Whole Earth” origin (1976)
If 40+ years ago NRO had meters resolution imagine what they could have today...

> A perfect 2.4-meter mirror observing in the visual (500 nm) would have a diffraction limited resolution of around 0.05 arcsec, which from an orbital altitude of 250 km would correspond to a ground sample distance of 0.06 m (6 cm, 2.4 inches). Operational resolution should be worse due to effects of the atmospheric turbulence.[24] Astronomer Clifford Stoll estimates that such a telescope could resolve up to "a couple inches. Not quite good enough to recognize a face".[25]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen

badosu··on Where Ruby/Sinatra falls short
Unless you're building something with very specific requirements just use Sidekiq [0]. It's easy to install and performs very well.

0 - https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq

badosu··on Where Ruby/Sinatra falls short
With micro web frameworks you're doomed to implement a subset of Rails, or have to dig around to find and configure one of the gems usually associated to it.

For those that are ok with this, or already have an understanding of the limited scope of your app, I strongly recommend Roda [0], it's a much more straightforward routing system with better memory/cpu usage.

I can't find a single instance for which Sinatra can be used where Roda is not a better choice.

[0] - http://github.com/jeremyevans/roda

badosu··on Where Ruby/Sinatra falls short
> This is a common technique used for tls-termination and management of 'virtual hosts', among other things.

Yes, usually you're not hosting only one application in a server, it's very useful to have the abstraction of a layer on top of many apps.

Also, to serve static content.

badosu··on If You Traveled Far Enough Through Space, Would You Return to Your Start Point?
The better term related to curvature would be if it's bounded or unbounded.
badosu··on Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story
> The tripartite definition holds that knowledge is justified true belief.
badosu··on Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story
You'd have that skill if you lived in a country that had a bloody 20 year dictatorship backed by the US.

I don't know how much of the US population is aware of their governments actions throughout the 20th century and the impact to it's public image.

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"

badosu··on Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story
Please... I was a 12 year old boy in a poor city from Brazil and knew it was all garbage.

At that time I did not even have internet and most people knew it was bullshit.

The only thing that needed convincing was that the US would do it anyways, so better to have a smooth pathway.

badosu··on Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (2015)
Thanks for sharing!
badosu··on Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
> I tend to think that the idea wasn't bad, but people trying to force it to occur faster than the natural societal evolution end up killing a lot of people.

Exactly, although I don't believe we can infer to which point the society would naturally evolve. If possible, the probable transition would be from scattered communes to a commune federation. The drawback being that it would be difficult to have political cohesion (not that this is bad, but easily corruptible by neighboring states).

> The ironic thing is that it's capitalism that is doing the automating.

Interesting insight.

badosu··on Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
> The benefit to small communities is that it is easier to police for attitude and morality. Even more so if it's a religious community, though I'm sure Marx is rolling in his grave that you would call a religious community communist given communism's materialist philosophy.

See my comment above on how monasteries came from epicurean communes.

See the title or Marx's PhD thesis: The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature

Not so far-fetched.

It's true that communism as envisioned by Karl Marx had a materialistic sense, but so did Epicurus philosophy.

Communism is Karl Marx's scaling attempt at Epicurean communes. Not a very good idea IMO.

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