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coder4lifeon In benchmarks, Cap’n Proto is INFINITY TIMES faster than Protocol Buffers

Neat. Was last updated 3 years ago though - at least expand out the readme?

coder4lifeon Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)

I won't!

coder4lifeon How to Survive a Nuclear Explosion

You should also realize residing in the Southern Hemisphere is about the only thing that will keep you alive until your next birthday after any exchange

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/CoupeNWjgr.pdf

coder4lifeon The Guide to Optimizing JavaScript for Quick Page Loads

Don't use react?! <ducks tomatoes>

coder4lifeon Ask HN: How do you plan to survive a nuclear war?

Be an activist for nuclear disarmament.

Look at the 2019 paper on nuclear winter temp. drops:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210430022658mp_/http://climate...

Whatcha going to eat? From where, when nothing grows?

Also - get to the southern hemisphere

coder4lifeon Eating Vegetables Does Not Protect Against Heart Disease

"Eating more raw vegetables decreases CVD risk, but more cooked vegetables does not"

Would have been a more factual headline based on the original paper:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.83147...

coder4lifeon Help I can't become a digital nomad, I have too much stuff

Put it all in storage, beyond what you can take on a plane.

Forget to pay the bill. Problem solved.

coder4lifeon Is Defending Ukraine Vital to U.S. Security?

Good point, not brought up by Tucker Carlson

coder4lifeon I will never work in big tech again

Totally - we all have too much of that.

As far as the job goes: Someone will fill their shoes.

coder4lifeon Ask HN: What defunct websites would you love to see revived?

trollcats

coder4lifeon Ask HN: What do you think of Dr. Robert Malone being kicked off Twitter?

Yes censorship. If you came to my house and said the rug was dirty, I could call you a jerk and kick you out of my house, or kick you out for talking to my wife a certain way, etc. etc.

First amendment means the government isn't going to come after you for something you say. It still means private citizens running private enterprises don't have to put up with squat

coder4lifeon Ask HN: What do you think of Dr. Robert Malone being kicked off Twitter?

Do you trust everybody?

It has nothing to do with politics. Look beyond your borders

coder4lifeon Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

Anything Chang Sen Feng (Tai Chi inventor) had to say is enough for me

coder4lifeon Ask HN: What’s a productivity tip you can share?

Write a TODO list before you go to sleep each day

coder4lifeon Animal protein intake is inversely associated with mortality in older adults

A lot of other studies with better research say the opposite.

My take:

The amino acid profile in animal vs. plant proteins is the reason, with excess Methionine being the culprit. It's needed in greater quantities during your growth phase of life, not as much as you get older

Methionine increase homocysteine levels, leading to greater heart disease, and it's been implicated in cancer too (esp tumor growth)

Something called "recombinant Methioninase" is making the rounds in cancer research actually -- it lowers Methionine levels.

For the curious, my medline saved search

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22l+methionine+gamma+...

coder4lifeon Moderna Says New Vaccine May Be Ready in Early 2022 for Omnicron Variant

Took me a minute, ha!

coder4lifeon Ask HN: What is the most meaningful work you have done?

Wrote software to help people catch the bus on time, at NextBus.

We were the first to equip buses with real-time gps reporting and have that tied into digital displays at stops, and on the web.

I still see lots of my frontend stuff (backbone/js) still used after I left 8 years ago, which of course makes me happy that it's providing service to people who have to ride the bus (which I did extensively on purpose at the time - they paid me okay)

coder4lifeon What's your favorite weird CPU instruction? any architecture, any time period

Motorola 8-bit 6809 (used in Radio Shack's mid 80s CoCo - Color Computer)

HFC - Halt and Catch Fire

edit: thought it was branch and....corrected

https://x86.fr/investigating-the-halt-and-catch-fire-instruc...

coder4lifeon You get access to the human code,and get one free Git push.What do you change?

Cluster-B sociopathy/psychopathy (fix the connectome issues)

coder4lifeon Notepad++ v8.1.9.1 Release

It's so much faster though

If I'm in c# I'm in vs studio, but everything else I love Notepad++ more for it's speed.

coder4lifeon Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf]

Pro-Tip: Mega-dosing once every 4-6-12 months is even better

coder4lifeon I tried 30 mustards this summer

Kallas brand Creamy Dill is delcious

coder4lifeon Ask HN: What is the best programming book you've read?

"Enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot - rules for C and C++ programmers" by Alan C Holub.

And "Compiler design in C", also by him

coder4lifeon Vegetable oils are harmful [video]

Being younger also doesn't guarantee that death isn't around the corner next week.

Smoking doesn't necessarily mean you'll live a shorter life either

Losing 70 pounds increased my chances

coder4lifeon Vegetable oils are harmful [video]

I stay away from animal fats. I lost 70 pounds eschewing animal fat which nothing else ever did in my 53 years. "and these are just anecdotes, so just move on" <-- the video

Heart attacks - everybody also started smoking like mad and the industrial revolution was in full swing, at the same time.

I think it was the light bulb/extra light at night. no wait, it was plastics! no, it was computers.

Hydrogenated vegetable oils are crap. Oils high in polyunsaturates aren't good either. Soybean oil is crap

Get N-3s fatty acids, get plenty of monounsaturated fats. Don't heat them if you can avoid it.

Read this, it's been around forever

https://www.amazon.com/Fats-That-Heal-Kill-Cholesterol/dp/09...

PubMed > YouTube. 2016 - "Olive Oil and the Hallmarks of Aging" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26840281/

coder4lifeon The climate impact of wild pigs greater than a million cars

There are 1.4 billion cars out there causing climate impact, and we're freaking out on wild pigs

coder4lifeon Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?

We know he can't. Talking points from talking heads on TV

coder4lifeon Eric Clapton refuses to play venues that require proof of vaccination

He can refuse to play for any reason he can think up, just like any of us can refuse work for any reason we can come up with

coder4lifeon I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD

I remember really liking Modula-2 when I had to learn it quickly in 1985 for a cheap ($50? 100?) programming project. I was 16

Kudos for bringing it and other languages to OpenBSD Brain!

coder4lifeon Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed

We already knew by summer there were cases going back to October 19 in Italy, from saved sewage samples

Recently (3 days ago)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210318185328.h...