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ddorian43

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ddorian43··on Migrating to HTTPX2
https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784

> I've closed off access to issues and discussions.

> I don't want to continue allowing an online environment with such an absurdly skewed gender representation. I find it intensely unwelcoming, and it's not reflective of the type of working environments I value.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1rl5kuq/anyone_know...

ddorian43··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
What happens is you lose carb tolerance if you don't take them regularly.

I had really high carb tolerance but doing keto for many years has plummeted it and I'm very sensitive now (can still train it). Another example doing keto for many years you also have lower alcohol tolerance.

ddorian43··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
> It can happen in people with uncontrolled T2D as well. My cofounder is a pediatric ICU doctor who has treated hundreds of DKA patients.

Yes, but you have to work really hard for many years to achieve this!

While on T1D it happens by default if you don't inject insulin.

> while the new system also measures ketones, of keto diet fame, which are leading indicators of a really dangerous situation called diabetic ketoacidosis

It was being said like ketones are bad, because they are known for this scenario, but should be noted that it only happens in these few scenarios, like in uncontrolled diabetes or organ failure or smth.

In most other cases they should be good. But won't happen randomly unless you're explicitly doing keto.

ddorian43··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Um, no ? Ketones come from fat burning, not muscle.

In T1D with no insulin, muscle break down from gluconesis will increase blood sugar in the blood even more. The absence of insulin also makes ketone production unrestricted, so you end up in ketoacidosis.

Muscle is used when you don't have fat, or when you eat completely nothing (burn both fat & muscle).

Like I've gained ~10KG of muscle while on keto diet. Blood sugar at 70-100 depending on scenario. Usually on the lower end.

ddorian43··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Diabetic ketoacidosis only happens in T1D, or when you have something extremely wrong going on metabolically (like failing organs, etc).

Normally it should never happen. It happens at ketones like ~10+ mmol, and it's ~impossible to go more than ~6 for a healthy human even eating 100% fat and fasting for a week+ and doing marathons or whatever all at the same time.

The keto diet, can actually help in T1D, by keeping blood sugar more stable overall, but you still need insulin, just less.

ddorian43··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Metabolic psychiatry is rising, though very slowly. You do "epilepsy keto diet", and may work in bipolar/schizophrenia (need GKI 1-2, it's not keto for weight loss). But you don't need the continuous monitor, normal ketone monitor is fine, because the food list is very narrow.

The continuous monitor should help until you get the hang of the diet, it's a bit hard to maintain, but if it works, worth it.

ddorian43··on Solving the 1+N Query Problem
Or set lazy loadin to "raise" in the relationships and get exceptions if you dont explicitly join.
ddorian43··on Git at any scale
you forgot the bandwidth pricing lile its 2006!
ddorian43··on Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
Started to reverse before ai though. With the law in US (which was reverted) that you couldn't use all software research as expense so you needed to pay tax on no-profit.

Then with increased interest rates. Which are still active and weirdly should've caused more hardship than ~3 months lower stocks.

And now ai, but this depends on demand for software too, which I don't how big it is, like can demand scale too with ai?

Like when you lower electricity cost people just use more electricity.

ddorian43··on Backon – Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native)
How does it compare to `stamina` library ?
ddorian43··on FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11
> aren't reliable if an async/coroutines moves threads between calls

Then just don't move them between threads and you're good with thread locals, no?

ddorian43··on Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
Its not transactional or atomic.
ddorian43··on Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
It is called "zero copy" in clickhouse land.

That feature, is becoming central for an OLAP db, even a free/open-source one.

ddorian43··on Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
Clickhouse is *really* gatekeeping the "zero copy replication" where you store data on object-storage and have high availability from the open source version.
ddorian43··on How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data
What is your idea on monetizing it? Besides Timescale the other providers have found issue on monetization AFAIK. And they all restrict the S3 offloading for Enterprise accounts.
ddorian43··on Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
It's worse. Most/All of the development is done by subcontractors who also get apartments/villas instead of plain cash for their work. So you will do plumbing on 10 villas and for your work get 20% cash + 1 apartment that you have to sell it yourself. This for all subcontractors except steel.
ddorian43··on Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
There are 2 projects here. And there is a lot of missing details from both.

But what has happened before is that:

The government gives free/cheap/exclusive public land to someone to build apartments/villas. They sell these to whoever wants to buy before starting construction. At the end of construction, with the profits, they build nice hotels at the frontline and keep for themselves without investing any of their own money in anything.

So they will most likely build apartments in Narta, sell them to the populace, and keep Sazan for themselves as luxury resort.

Something worse than this has started happening for high rises too, where they start selling before getting the permit even. So they don't invest their own money even to get the initial permit to start building.

ddorian43··on Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
Very hard for the general public to gain things though.

It's too luxury, most likely will pay no taxes for years, you can import workers from elsewhere, etc etc.

It's not the first time this kind of thing happens in Albania and we've already seen results.

Normal people will just never be able to go there again. People in power will either get millions or 1+ free apartment/villa, or heavily discounted price (depends on how much power you have).

I was literally kitesurfing when they came and added fences to the road to block access to the beach.

ddorian43··on Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
When Trump was running for the first time, the prime minister was extremely against Trump and even ridiculed him publicly on interviews "shame of our civilization" https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/13/albanian-prime-minister...

Which backfired after Trump won twice in US. But it's just business.

ddorian43··on Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
Yes. The whole bought media, party in-power, the opposition are against the protests and are trying to downplay them.

Source: I live there. It's very easy to tell if you do.

ddorian43··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
> people will live to 125 quite steadily

Only after the current generation(s) of doctor(s) dies. And only if you make this in pill-form. Otherwise people will be people and won't even go to the gym.

It might be also the reverse, they develop a powerful+personalized drug that brings heaven on earth to your neurons (first time heroin experience + sexual gratification + childhood fulfillment + extremely addicting etc etc etc).

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Now that I think of it I'm gonna go with the latter.

ddorian43··on Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
I asked because I already know the correct answer, which is "metabolic psychiatry", meaning versions of keto/carnivore/epilepsy-keto diets (the latter is the strongest).

Context for old people in assisted living: https://www.metabolicmind.org/resources/news-views/podcasts/...

ddorian43··on Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
What is your approach towards nutrition ? Meaning which exact diet do you expect to help in mental health?
ddorian43··on The AI revolution – spamming 680PRs in 442 GitHub repos in 21 days in April
Since companies probably won't do anything about this, gotta complain harder.

Of course I was the recipient of 1 of those 442 pull requests and it was just a typo fix on a distributed database engine, the guy didn't even reply.

ddorian43··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
Jumping takes real skill. I went like 60 times and can barely jump 7m in perfect conditions by trying very hard.

That happens very rarely like recently in Israel where they went out on a storm, and there was a very rare very-big gust. But extremely rare comibation of things that can go wrong.

Yes you need to monitor the wind. I'm kiting today for example.

ddorian43··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
Kitesurfing is insane yes! I can jump up to ~6m in 1 year.

Really efficient adrenaline with relatively very low risk.

ddorian43··on What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves
Where are the gamedevs in it for the money?
ddorian43··on Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
AI, write me that sqlalchemy clone in <lang>
ddorian43··on MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)
Like, just don't tell anybody. And there are many things you haven't tried, like metabolic ketogenic therapy as an example.
ddorian43··on Optimizing Top K in Postgres
Its easier to have 1 system until a certain scale.
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