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shadykiller

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shadykiller··on Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine
Can someone explain how and where to use a Workflow Orchestration Engine ?
shadykiller··on Broccoli: Syncing Faster by Syncing Less
Is it possible to use this as rsync replacement ?
shadykiller··on Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study
Quote: "Glucosamine is a polysaccharide that is found naturally in cartilaginous joint tissues, bones, skin, ligaments, and nails"

Why not just eat natural sources like cartilage, bone broth, skin etc ?

shadykiller··on India, Jio, and the Four Internets
Reliance isn't an innovator. It's more like a contractor with deep pockets and political contacts. Gets laws and permits easily and deploys bought technology.
shadykiller··on Shelly – a programming language to draw in the browser
This is awesome !! Are there any cool drawings I can take inspiration from ?
shadykiller··on Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
In one of my recent interviews at a mid size silicon valley company, I was given 4 hours to make a tetris like game.

One of the most enjoyable interviews ever with no whiteboard and no one around me to check on my progress. I was blank for first half an hour or so but made great progress by the end. Eventually got the offer.

shadykiller··on Grant Imahara Has Died
RIP. He was my favorite person and in my opinion, most talented on the show.
shadykiller··on Google to Invest $10B in India
I wouldn't call Mukhesh Ambani as Jack Ma. He inherited a lot of wealth and more important, a lot of government connections. He can bend rules for e.g. his non-existent Jio University got the tag "Institution of Eminence"

He gets foreign technology and just jumps in any sector with governments blessing. Be it oil and gas, infra projects or even telecom

shadykiller··on Ampere’s Product List: 80 Cores, up to 3.3 GHz at 250 W; 128 Core in Q4
Most logical naming of processors I’ve ever seen. E.g: Q80-33 - 80 Cores 3.3 Ghz Q32-17 - 32 Cores 1.7 Ghz
shadykiller··on A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
Then your website isn't stupid but rather the FB crawler
shadykiller··on Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chose party over democracy
Not much different from many countries e.g. India
shadykiller··on Most-streamed track of the day by country
Wow ! Also integrates the browser back button a history of the countries I select
shadykiller··on Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS
I once used the similar strategy to hook into DC++ used for lan file sharing in our school. There was a chatroom game which had contest for unjumbling jumbled words. My app would inject into the DC++ messaging pipeline, read the unjumbled word and type back the correct answers.

It infuriated long time players whose score I beat in just a few days. It was fun :)

Still have the source code here - https://github.com/shadabahmed/quizroom_hacker

shadykiller··on Betelgeuse Remains Steadfast in the Infrared
Does that mean it's not exploding ?

Super disappointing. Is there still hope to see the supernova in our lifetime ?

shadykiller··on Hallucinogenic Fish
Datura is known for lasting mental impact. It can can also be really dangerous for potential users due to extreme delirium and confusion. Most trip reports are also negative.

Unviable as a street drug.

shadykiller··on ‘We feel really terrible,’ says chief executive whose app roiled the Iowa caucus
From the article here - https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/02/04/companies-behind-iow...

Shadow Inc. — the tech company behind the app — launched in 2019 with backing from political nonprofit ACRONYM, according to a statement from the nonprofit.

ACRONYM founder and CEO Tara McGowan, a Newport, R.I., native, said on Twitter that Shadow is “an independent company ACRONYM invested in.

McGowan, who lists herself as a former journalist, married then-Hillary Clinton campaign staffer and current Buttigeig strategist Michael Halle in 2015, according to a Providence Journal marriage announcement and Halle’s Twitter account.

Not at all suspicious !

shadykiller··on Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults
This is a useless research and doesn't prove anything.

Milk fat sourced from grass fed cows is actually pretty rich in healthy fats like Omega 3, CLA and Butyric acid. In fact many people who can't tolerate milk, can easily digest milk fats like butter and ghee which are devoid of the usual milk allergens (Lactose and Casein)

shadykiller··on Biggest list of fully remote, 100% distributed companies
Cool. Gitlab even has a salary calculator.
shadykiller··on Git from the Inside Out (2015)
I gave a similar talk “Inside Git Guts with Ruby” at RubyConf India 2013 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lPlwkxrG2NM

I had to learn a lot of git internals and it was super fun

shadykiller··on Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
How about using MDMA for couples therapy ?
shadykiller··on US 50 states redrawn as equal population (2012)
Love the state names. Far more varied and vivid than current state names.
shadykiller··on Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus in mice
One more positive from Keto apart from the health and longevity benefits (studied in mice)
shadykiller··on Tesla Cybertruck
It’s gonna cut any pedestrians it hits into half
shadykiller··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
I love the USB C/Thunderbolt 3 connector on my Macbook. I just have a single cable going into my mac from the display which also has the keyboard and mouse connected to it. The single cable does charging, display and peripherals.

For work, I have this display: LG 5K2k (https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34WK95U-W-ultrawide-monito...)

For a cheaper setup at home: LG 27inch USB C Monitor(https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27UK850-W-4k-uhd-led-monit...)

shadykiller··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
Well at least it's not 3000USD as was rumored :)
shadykiller··on A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin
What's j... ?
shadykiller··on California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E
From wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_Power :

As of January 1, 2015, SVP and the City of Santa Clara have the lowest average system rates for electricity in California for any electric utility serving over 10,000 customers.

shadykiller··on California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E
I live in Santa Clara city and my utilities except gas are provided by the city run Silicon Valley Power. It's cheaper than PG & E and i've had no reliability issues. I guess even a government run utility would perform far better than PG & E since the bar is too low.
shadykiller··on In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
Switched to Firefox a few months back. Havn’t missed Chrome at all
shadykiller··on Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment
There sure is according to Dr. Thomas Seyfried and Dominic D'Agostino -

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250801

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