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IAM specialist. Hobby Erlanger and Rustacean.
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izend··on Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
I was recently diagnosed with otosclerosis, have you found a hearing aid that works best for otosclerosis, my Doctor mentioned that most hearing aids don't work well for low frequency loss.
izend··on Coddled Kids Become Depressed, Anti-Social College Students
As a parent we are constantly worried about road safety, I feel like the roads are more dangerous than when I was playing street hockey in the streets back in the 80s. Honestly, I've noticed EV drivers are typically driving over the speed limit.
izend··on Mycenaean Warriors and the Sea-Peoples (2013)
Another example might be the Anglo-Saxons "invasion" of Britain near the end of the Western Roman Empire. The reason why the Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain isn't entirely clear but it appears throughout history there are periods of mass population movements due to various reasons such as climate change, population explosions or invasion by "steppe people" as Dan Carlin refers to them.
izend··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
I would be more concerned about the Meta Ray-Bans as they actually look like Sunglasses:

https://www.ray-ban.com/canada/en/rayban-meta-smart-glasses

izend··on Snowcraft – Building a Lego Snowfort from giant Lego snow-bricks
I believe this is why my grade 2 class in Montreal was shown this famous Quebec movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_Who_Stopped_the_War where the movie ends with a child dying in the collapsed snow fort.
izend··on Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a profit
"It's always been a remarkably lightweight application"

Early in it's life it was not known as a lightweight application, I'm pretty sure it gave Java a bad reputation for Desktop apps.

izend··on Global CO2 Levels
I posted the longer view in my other comment, take a look here:

https://today.tamu.edu/2021/06/14/ancient-deepsea-shells-rev...

izend··on Global CO2 Levels
The growth rate of C02 is a very big concern but I disagree with the narrative that the Earth is going to turn into Dune-like planet by 2100, see the C02 levels 15 million years ago:

https://today.tamu.edu/2021/06/14/ancient-deepsea-shells-rev...

izend··on Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in 14k-year-old tree rings
The 1989 solar storm did cause damage to some Quebec transformers:

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/lights-out-in-quebec-the-198...

izend··on MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O bottlenecks and how to solve
Exactly, there is no way the state can be persisted on absolutely every change. It has to be periodically dumped to the database.
izend··on Users report iPhone 15 is overheating
Just buy a new battery when you drop below 80%
izend··on Ask HN: Why is home property information so public?
In Canada the MLS Canada and title ownership is gated by realtors and expensive fees which gives them all the power to control the narrative.
izend··on Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
Thanks great video describing the neutron production issues and the cross-section issues of their fuel choice.
izend··on Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
What about this detailed criticism of Helion's entire reactor and long term plans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUPhsFoniw

izend··on Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Your thoughts presented would cause you to be cancelled in Canada right now.
izend··on U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 6.52%, highest since mid-2008
I'm betting the rates will be back to 2% by 2026 as global growth collapses due to a combination of high interest rates, deleveraging of over-leveraged organizations and geopolitical strife causing further de-globalization.
izend··on All poverty is energy poverty
Europe has the resources to produce cheap energy they just decided to not exploit it and import their energy from Russia and others.
izend··on All poverty is energy poverty
For a 2.5 kW solar system would cost somewhere around $2-5K USD and the 5kWH battery would also cost $2-5K USD. I don’t think the average Rwanda citizen has $5-10K available to install just enough power to run their fridge.
izend··on If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever
Makes you wonder if it is some sort of collusion to make it more difficult for current employees to jump ship if they know it will be painful ordeal.
izend··on The Big [Censored] Theory
We are heading to a world where every major country will be deploying a Great Firewall like censorship, especially as the cost of implementing and maintaining such a system drops.
izend··on Talking about layoffs
I doubt this will be the case in 6-12 months.
izend··on Dwarf Fortress Update – Tutorials and Tooltips
Much fewer users though... If Dwarf Fortress magically had the UX they are working on now back in 2012 it would be worth at least $50million+

Now, the fact they skipped working on the UX until now allowed Tarn to implement very difficult crazy features Z-level fortress layers and Fluid Dynamics.

izend··on Migrating extraterrestrial civilizations and interstellar colonization
I wonder if it is the other way around, biological life is actually post-machine/robotics.
izend··on Bevy 0.7: data oriented game engine built in Rust
I spent quite a few hours working on an example of Bevy 0.5 and Tokio for multiplayer backend server.

https://github.com/peterholko/bevy_tokio_tungstenite/blob/ma...

izend··on Dead Hand
Supposedly the nuclear weapons development and maintenance was well funded in Russia.
izend··on Space-based ballistic missile defense: a multidimensional analysis (1985)
Ballistic Missile Defense is irrelevant when the enemy has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...
izend··on US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018
Compare the US M3 growth vs the Japanese M3 growth from 1990:

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US JAN 1990 M3: $3.166T

US JAN 2022 M3: $21.8T

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JPN JAN 1990 M3: ¥708T

JPN JAN 2022 M3: ¥1536T

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US nearly 7x

JPN just over 2x

izend··on Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers
The talented API developer Brandur Leach has his technical blog here: https://brandur.org/articles

Lots of articles on Go, Postgres and databases in general.

izend··on How the Native American population changed since the last census
Indian is definitely not used in Canada nor is Native American as it turned into a very derogatory term. The preferred term is First Nations and Inuit.
izend··on Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)
This strategy only works because vacancy rates are low and interest rates are low.
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