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gvand··on Greg (2017)
Most of the times that "move fast, break thing" is more like "move fast, do stupid things".
gvand··on Greg (2017)
A very stupid metric, or very useful if you want to know who just wait for emails instead of doing long strands of deep work, with notifications off or not visible.
gvand··on Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge
The binary size is not really important in this case, llama.cpp should not be that far from this, what's matter as we all know is how much gpu memory we need.
gvand··on Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties
N=1, as someone would say. I asked because if there are real and evident health benefits i expect it to be documented somewhere.

And considering that crossfit isn't anything substantially different that things available in other disciplines (weightlifting, etc...), i don't expect it to be substantially different even in the outcomes.

gvand··on Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties
Reminder:

Always reflect on who you are associating yourself with, in a cult, company owned group, non-democratic group, activity that marks you as "one of them",etc... you cease to be an individual and become just the fuel behind someone else's agenda and values (neither of which you can control).

Be an individual.

gvand··on Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties
> Crossfit (done properly) is leagues better for your overall health than weightlifting, running, bicycling, you name it.

Says who? Links, please.

gvand··on Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
I would be VERY interested in a VERY detailed description of how they, as a software company, handled this hardware project.
gvand··on Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
Nice project.

As an aside, I genuinely wonder under which circumstances a CDN will be useful for a static website nowadays. I have a static website that has been on the HN homepage a few times and got picked up by the Chrome mobile recommendations and a nginx/https with slightly tweaked configuration never had a problem handling the traffic even on the smallest DO droplet.

Edit: Thanks for these replies.

gvand··on Huawei's alternative OS to Android set to roll out as early as fall
In all honesty an excuse my french, if they manage not to turn all this in a shìtshow of epic proportions for their customers it would be quite an achievement I think.
gvand··on I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code
Nice project!
gvand··on Google Salary Ranges and Levels – Levels.fyi
Dear friends at Google, since I guess many of you will read this, I have a question for you. Is there any internal discussions going on about what you should do with all the money you are earning once your basic needs are covered and you find yourself with money that could be invested in interesting projects?
gvand··on I turned my interview task for Google into a startup
I wouldn't have expected anything less from them, go Uber! Always the worst!
gvand··on Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions
I was referring, in a convolute way, to the fact that all the data collected have been/will be used to train the models that will allow offline voice recognition (like the one google has shown at i/o last week).
gvand··on Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions
Thanks to the sacrifice of these clueless users (or at least a good part of them are) the era of offline assistants is near looking at what Google has shown recently.
gvand··on Ask HN: What is your best way to learn a new programming language?
If you have never programmed before I wouldn't care about the fastest, you risk learning nothing fast.

Avoid any hacks, shortcuts or methods more appropriate for less practical subjects.

Find a good and definitely not concise book or a good MOOC that explains all the basic concepts with lots of examples you can try in a Jupyter notebook. The more you code the more you learn.

gvand··on Ask HN: How do you deal with high blood pressure?
You don't say how much above normal it was and for how long or give details about your current physical state, just in case I'd recommend a general health check-up. My guess is that as most of us you don't do those regularly.

Hypertension is most of the times but not always caused by your life style choices and can be fixed (not dealt with) improving weight, diet, fitness level (chronic stress and caffeine/smoking are a factor too).

For diet recommendations you could look into DASH[1] to get an idea of the direction you should take.

Anyway, this is a good time to start improving your life style as any[2].

[1] https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/guide...

[2] I did. It worked. A lot.

gvand··on Fitness influencers are full of shit
Sure, but there is not much to do here, those who follow these clearly steroids/photoshop/BS-fuelled influencers are not the target audience of people that produce real fitness/bodybuilding/calisthenics content.

I'll stay with AthleanX, Jeff Nippard, Fitness FAQ, Calisthenic Movement and many others... to each his own.

gvand··on Fitness influencers are full of shit
And don't forget those that do the same thing on youtube and have a huge following made of beginners.
gvand··on Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
> According to one estimate, Himalayan salt is 98% sodium chloride, with negligible levels of minerals such as magnesium, potassium and calcium.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_salt

And as far as taste go, I can just taste the lack of iodine.

If I had to recommend an alternative, for those that are not doing IF, eat a kiwi (double the amount of vitamin c, way more fibres) and some nuts (magnesium and potassium).

gvand··on Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
They made a movie out of it: "The Road to Wellville"[1].

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/

gvand··on Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
Could be, especially depending on how much salt you ingest.
gvand··on Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
cnahr, it's the average American that is extreme in the opposite direction. You can be extremely healthy following some basic and well tested advices (the HN crowd have contributed to great threads on this) without eating iridescent Himalayan thunder berries juice every full moon like Dorsey could sooner or later recommend.
gvand··on Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
Read the article and ask yourself which one of the things described would seem out of place in one of those sad gossip magazines targeting low-income housewives.

E.g. water mixed with Himalayan salt and lemon in the morning.

And since I'm mentioning it, Himalayan salt is not better than normal salt. It could also contain more contaminants and it has no iodine (that could not be desirable in some countries).

gvand··on Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
For some time I've searched a way to define him (that didn't include insults) and this one is quite good.

Can't understand how people can follow this guy and his trivial/dumb advices. To me, he is just like that person that can't stop blabbering about stuff that has been around for decades but that he has just discovered or one of those people that blindly follow every popular trend (see the ones listed in the article) without even thinking if they really should.

gvand··on Blood platelets activated during exercise increase neurogensis: mouse study
I wonder if someone has ever applied some of these studies (that sometimes show an increased lifespan from 30% to 60%) with the sole intent to obtain a super mouse with incredibly long lifespan and some other incredible characteristics.
gvand··on Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids
I really hope that Apple has a health device future in mind for the Airpods.
gvand··on Random Forests for Complete Beginners
Please don't stop and post other articles :)
gvand··on Fintech fiddles as home burns: 97% of apps lack basic securit
The article or the original post don't really give many details but I have been telling people for years to think trice before using the new shiny app that their bank offer (most of the times developed by consultancies that don't really care).
gvand··on Thinkers and Drinkers
Sometimes I feel I really need something like that.
gvand··on Announcing Building Git
Since it seems that he used Ruby throughout the book, I wonder if that's the right choice or it will limit the book's audience.

I'm contemplating writing a long "from scratch" style book on another topic and I'm still not sure which language I should use. Using more than one (Java, Python,...) and generating multiple flavours of the book could be a good idea I think.

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