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I believe that shaman originally drank their own urine to have repeated trips and discovered the reduced toxicity. I suspect using reindeer came later as a way to outsource the toxicity reduction.

There are other ways to prepare Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria) to reduce toxicity. Baking at a low temperature with lemon juice simulates the digestive process enough to help.

I think the parent may have meant the opposite of how you interpreted it... That writing a tsd db from scratch doesn't match what you just stated about investing engineering time where it makes the most sense.

I think array indexes start at 1 in zsh rather than 0 as they do in bash. It sounds like such a ludicrous change that I'm having trouble recalling if this is really true, but I had previously used zsh a lot... Just got lazy with my last MBP upgrade and never installed zsh.

There are also many of us who are having trouble finding work. I'm 45, and have a ton of experience. I lost my last job after a few more younger people joined the team (all fresh out of college). They all lived together near the office, went out each night after work -- I'm a single dad with kids so can't do that these days. As much as I liked working with them, there was this growing feeling that they felt that I didn't belong (even though I had been on the team since they were in high school). Code reviews got tougher, I heard complaints from my manager that they thought I took too long on tasks. The final straw was an argument that erupted when I took a day extra than they thought it should take on a particular task. One of them had pulled in OpenSSL a little while back to do some crypto. I needed to make some changes to their code and noticed that the random number generator wasn't being seeded. I wrote some code that I've written before to gather a little entropy from the system and feed it into OpenSSL's PRNG. Even after showing them articles about weak entropy being the cause of security breaches, they collectively felt that I wasn't working in line with the team. At that point I was the only original team member, and I had six team members, all of whom were well below 30 years in age.

I've been out of work for 12 months now. Previously I passed every interview I went to (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) and had the luxury of choosing between multiple offers. I haven't got through an onsite loop with any of these recently, nor with a bunch of other companies. The only thing I believe is different is my age.

BTW, the me/them thing is reflection after the fact, not how I felt at the time.

Up next, "Amazon 'Served' as a service": Using Echo/Blink/Ring, Amazon determine when you are home then use Key to enter your home and serve you legal papers, recording the entire interaction to the cloud for access by the courts.

There are a lot of medications that have the side effect of weakening the immune system, and it seems that there has been an uptick in such medications in the last few years. There are also medications that deliberately weaken the immune system. Sure, a weak immune system is a serious issue, but if the disease being treated is worse then it's less of a decision point for most people.

What's the bet that if found guilty that none of them see the inside of a jail cell, when so, so many people convicted for charges related to their product receive insanely long sentences?

What was the Android spyware they detected? Stallman calls just about anything spyware when most computer professionals don't have a problem with it. Makes me think his 90% of 1,000 free apps having spyware could really mean nothing to most people. Without the detail we just have no idea if this is a meaningful statistic that they've come up with.