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I do Keto. I think it does help but isn't a cure for me by itself. That plus a little bit of exercise does help me keep the weight off though.

I would definitely use sunscreen if you are in the Sun for over an hour or two depending on your skin type though. Sunburn = bad.

It has to do with UVB rays, rather than UVA rays. UVB rays only show up where I live from mid April to around October. Other months of the year, the Sun is too low in the sky and those rays bounce off of the atmosphere. The closer you are to the equator, the more yearly coverage you get of UVB rays.

I definitely should do more sunny trips in the fall/winter. I am going to try tanning in a UVB bed a couple times a week during the bad months this year. I have heard that it has helped some people.

Yeah, I use coal tar as well. I would recommend it over anything else I have tried. It is kind of messy and annoying to apply but worth it if for nothing else than to relieve the pain of dry cracked skin.

I will have to look into blue light therapy. I used to have psoriasis really bad on my scalp. This might sound gross to some people but what cured it for me was to not use shampoo & conditioner every day in the shower. I still wash well with warm water but ever since I stopped using "products" in my hair every day, I have not had an issue with scalp psoriasis in over 15 years. I will take naturally oily hair over scalp psoriasis any day.

Perhaps, I have heard about taking vitamin K with D and have tried supplements with both. You are right, maybe there is something else besides vitamin D. Maybe something to do with melanin production.

I have thought of moving to Nevada or Arizona just to be closer to the equator. However, it is going to be hard to leave the PNW because I love hiking and backpacking. Maybe I should snowbird down south in the winters once I ditch work for good.

I have had psoriasis for over 30 years now. The only consistent thing that makes it go into regression is getting a lot of sun in the late spring / summer. Unfortunately I live in a northern state, so over half of the year I do not get UVB from the sun and my psoriasis starts coming back in the mid-late fall. I have tried Vitamin D supplements but they don't seem to work for me. Even at high dosages.

That is what I plan to do when I have to start going back into the office 2 days a week in Summer 2025. Or just find another job that is full-time remote.

Doesn't everybody hate XML?

This is actually the first time I have heard of SQL/PSM. From Wiki, looks like it is for stored procedures. We do not do stored procedures at all on our DB2 instances. Heck, we don't even use triggers either. All our mainframe/DB2 business logic is in COBOL.

Yeah, this is what I have had for my past 3 phones. No bloatware issues at all.

Not to mention FI is cheap as hell if you use internet mostly over wifi.

Hmm. I guess I am just not seeing the use case but not saying there isn't one. JCL, isn't hard to do. You usually just copy 80% of it from other jobs and change dataset names, etc...

I have heard horror stories about IMS but have been fortunate to never have to use it. DB2 is pretty decent and very reliable.

Are these mainframe developers or system level guys. I wouldn't use REXX to run production batch processes. I would use REXX for TSO utilities and ISREDIT macros. JCL is pretty much a must for running batch processing. It is waaaaay more simpler and re-startable than trying to do the same thing with REXX.

COBOL is very easy to learn and write if you use it for what it was intended for. If you try to make a crud app or read from a web service, you are going to have a bad time. Trust me, I know. It can be done, but it is not pretty and was kind of shoe-horned in.

We have been trying to get rid of all of our COBOL and get off of the mainframe (many apps have been) for the past 20+ years. We are getting closer but priorities keep changing which keeps delaying that goal.

I love doing backend and db work so I would gladly switch to Go for my new projects. But, I would still need to use DB2, which (surprise surprise) is on the mainframe.

and snake_case for db/sql.

I would rather just write code and trust the existing GC than mess around with knobs all day. I suppose there are < 1% of projects that may see some benefit in messing with the GC.

Cognitive complexity? Cyclomatic and Cognitive are the two that Revive reports on.

GPU mining went waaay down since Ethereum went POS (Proof of Stake) almost 2 years ago. Does BTC even use GPU's for mining? I am pretty sure they use ASICS.

I used to do the whole tent camping thing but these days, I just sleep in my vehicle. I do enough tent camping on backpacking trips.

The old internet had no need for ad block. The old internet wasn't infested with sites trying to make ad revenue.

The PS5 is selling above PS4 at this time in their respective console cycles.

Yeah, if you type your password in manually. Password managers protect against spoofed pages though.

I just got done moving all of my accounts over to Aegis. At the same time, I put the new TOTP key into Proton Pass. Aegis makes it easy to backup your keys and use more than one 2fa app for redundancy.

Any DB is fine as a queue depending on requirements, design and usage.

When I go hiking or backpacking, I turn my phone completely off so that I have battery in case I need it. My phone would be dead in under 2 days if it was constantly trying to get a cell signal.

Ethereum is using proof of stake now.

I always just assume it is consistent to whether arrays start at [0] or [1] on whichever language I am working on.

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