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greydius··on Cholesterol levels cut in half with one-time gene editing drug in trial
Genetics can be a factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial_hypercholesterolemia

greydius··on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
馬鹿
greydius··on Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
And the brewery got the name from Ebisu, a god who is believed to protect fishermen.
greydius··on Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification
I was there a few days ago. Doesn't seem dead to me, but I don't know what it was like pre-covid.
greydius··on Did Akira Nishitani Lie in the 1994 Capcom vs. Data East Lawsuit?
> A deposition is a verbal Q & A that's transcribed by a court reporter based on what they hear the person saying.

Nishitani was most likely deposed in his native language where the particular English ambiguity you point out probably wouldn't happen. Listing things and marking possession use spoken helper words rather than punctuation.

greydius··on Why I Program in Lisp
"You're a very clever man, Mr. James, and that's a very good question," replied the little old lady, "but I have an answer to it. And it's this: The first turtle stands on the back of a second, far larger, turtle, who stands directly under him."

"But what does this second turtle stand on?" persisted James patiently.

To this, the little old lady crowed triumphantly,

"It's no use, Mr. James—it's turtles all the way down."

greydius··on The Tao of Go
I think you missed the joke. The first line of the tao te ching says something to the effect of the tao that can be named is not the real tao.
greydius··on Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI
I think it's a bit of word play. 苺 (strawberry) and 一語 (one word) are both read "Ichigo".
greydius··on Gleam Is Pragmatic
One thing I hate about F# and SQL is that they use <> as a "not equals" operator. In Haskell, <> is the binary operator of any Semigroup instance.
greydius··on Roc Lang – Elm but for everywhere [video]
Haskell:

    import Data.IORef
    
    main :: IO ()
    main = do
      x <- newIORef (0 :: Int)
      writeIORef x 5
      y <- readIORef x
      print y
greydius··on How to Send an SMS in Haskell (2017)
I'd recommend using ghcup to install Haskell nowadays. (https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/) It makes it easy to install and switch versions of the compiler, language server, and build tools.
greydius··on Japan is experiencing nationwide credit card payments issues
Not true. I bought a new Icoca recently.
greydius··on OCaml: a Rust developer's first impressions
> still way too imperative and not as functional to be called a true ML

As a Haskell fanboy, this is how I feel about Ocaml and F#.

greydius··on π in Other Universes
The same principle applies to programming. Functions that know less about their arguments are more generally applicable.
greydius··on Indians Are Entering the U.S. Illegally in Record Numbers
How do illegal immigrants become voters?
greydius··on Ask HN: For those trying to hire how hard is it to find people currently?
"Top engineers" aren't the tech workers that are getting laid off.
greydius··on Words that deserve wider use
I have a strong suspicion that Christopher Williams invented some of these words.
greydius··on MangaReader – Read Manga Website
Looks like a good resource for people learning Japanese. You can switch between the available languages seemlessly. The legality seems questionable, though.
greydius··on Dwarf Fortress is now available for Linux
I suppose this means there's a native Linux build? Because it's been playable via proton since release.

Looking forward to this change: "...soldiers that don't hoard rotten food in their rooms"

greydius··on “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022)
And spend the rest of the day golfing.
greydius··on Can LLMs Reason and Plan?
"plausible sounding" is probably the best two word summary of LLM output. A good one word summary might be "bullshit".
greydius··on Learn COBOL in a day
Do you ride a horse to the grocery store?
greydius··on Leaving Haskell behind
Anyone hiring Haskell devs?
greydius··on Railway Oriented Programming
Yes, I also was born knowing about ovens and flour. If these other things were important we'd be born knowing them as well.
greydius··on Italy shocks banks with 40 percent windfall tax for 2023
Yes, but we call them bailouts.
greydius··on Show HN: Custom Haskell handlers for Nginx
I use warp to serve my projects and configure nginx as a reverse proxy. There might be a bit of overhead with this setup, but I like how simple it is.
greydius··on Philosophy of Science 101: What is the problem of induction?
As philosophy professors often do.
greydius··on First cases of malaria in the US in 20 years
Belize is not an island.
greydius··on JeanHeyd Meneide's response to “Why I left Rust”
Mediocrity thrives on drama.
greydius··on It's Impossible to Sing and Play the Bass
Les Claypool uses a fretless bass on a bunch of songs. He often plays it with a bow as well.
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