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Yes, in PRP they take your blood, extract platelet-rich plasma from it and inject it into your joint.

With SVF they make you a small liposuction (around 80 ml if I am not mistaken, local anesthesia), then also extract cells from it that are similar in function to stem cells and inject them into your knee.

PRP is very noninvasive. SVF is more invasive, mostly the liposuction part, but I'd say it's still walk-in the part if you compare it with something like arthroscopic surgery.

I had 3rd-degree arthritis in my knee that I developed after 4 surgeries due to a football(soccer) injury.

4 years ago I could only walk with crouches due to pain.

Last month I competed in 2 half-marathons.

I was able to get much much better by doing a lot of PRP (platelet-rich plasma) injections over past years and a single SVF (stromal vascular fraction) injection 1.5 years ago.

My MRI shows that cartilage has grown back significantly (not fully, but I no longer have a gaping hole in it).

oh, in that case it's awesome news!

Personally, I have used it on Intel macs and on my wife's M1 Pro about a year ago.

But we recently had a couple of new folks join our team who opted for M2 laptops and they've been having more or less the same pains I had a year ago, so have to run images with emulation (and those sometimes have nasty segfaults).

I have switched to Windows for development on a laptop as well.

Linux still feels very "raw" to me on laptops outside of laptops designed to run Linux, and those are very few, hard to buy, not enough options.

MacOS laptops are great... unless you need to work with Docker, then it's still a nightmare. And these days most devs who work with backend need Docker.

Windows with WSL offers a sweet middle spot.

I am extremely grateful to my parents who made me feel "well off" despite growing up in the 90' Russia.

Only when I got older I found out that often times they didn't have enough money to buy food. Explains the constant soup from potatoes :-)

Good education can do wonders for you though, in my personal experience.

Both me and many of my friends went to one of the best schools in the city by the virtue of living next to it. We started learning programming at 12 yo.

Now most of my peers who studied there, both from poor and rich families, live abroad having managed to get jobs at good companies.

Adding black currant leafs when brewing tea can add wondeful taste!

I'd say it's stronger and more nuanced than mint.

I think I solved it to a reasonable degree given the situation.

Took a few years and about 50 of PRP and hyaluronic acid injections inside the knee joint, one SVF procedure (probably the most efficient thing), and regular muscle strengtening.

MRI shows that missing cartilage in my knee has grown back.

Funny thing, if you Google right now "can cartilage in the knee grow back?" you are going to get a "NO" except for some experimental treatments.

When I was in beginning of my 20s I would put blind trust in doctors.

Unfortunately I had a ligament tear in my knee and after 4 surgeries I developed some pretty bad pains.

I took a vacation and scheduled visits to 10 orthopedic surgeons who had some of the highest medical credentials in the country.

Everyone told me that pain was caused by a different thing and dismissed ideas of other doctors.

The confidence with which they told me the reason would have convinced me have I not visited other doctors.

Later I had similar experience with doctors from other health areas.

Essentially, in medicine they can only diagnose the most typical stuff, for anything else it's just a bunch of wild guesses.

I am subsribed to their Github releases and when I saw a release for every old version I knew what's up :-)

I've been using meteum.ai from Yandex for a while, in my personal experience it gives the best results.

I realize that Vercel is a business, but NextJS increasingly looks like just a way to sell serverless with goin all-in on RSC instead of continuing of what made NextJS popular in the first place: eliminating webpack pains and SSR out of the box without forcing a specific thing onto devs.

Google Cloud still doesn't support this plugin, big shame

I am in love with travelling, and one of my dreams is travelling with friends.

But my friends, not being from a 1st world country or having a high paying job, can't afford that.

I have tried on several occasions offering to pay for the trip, but unfortunately, like the article says, most people don't feel comfortable if you do that.

Groupping several updates inside a transaction actually makes it faster because database doesn't have to "commit" changes for each one. This has diminishing returns however, if too much data changes inside a transaction it can becomes slower due to memory issues. So something like 1000-10000 updates per transaction is a sweet spot I think.

That's what I was expecting, and what I got from Google and Netflix website, but it flat out refused to open up.

Through some mystic fuckery it worked via VPN for me, but not for my wife (same exact VPN server).

An unplesant surpsise I got from Netflix is when I went to a vacation to Thailand and got welcomed with "you can't watch it here" screen.

Customer support told me I can only watch Netflix in the country I purchased it from.

This was not my first trip so must be a new development.

To an outside observer San Francisco is turning into another Detroit.

In the past I have written a script for skyscanner that goes through a list of countries and searches for the lowest price. Usually price difference isn't that big, but you can save a few bucks this way.

same story with Google One, they say "this feature is now available worldwide", but somehow worldwide doesn't include my country.

These new ARM chips are almost perfect, the only bad part is... ARM.

Most backend devs these days use Docker, and serious Docker usage on M1/M2 macs isn't really possible due to bugs and super slow performance.

I was doing benchmarks and for our workloads images would build several times slower as well as our test suites.

We had many devs in our company buy the shiny macbooks only having to return them due to incompatibilities with Docker.

My computer journey was Windows -> Linux -> Macos, now more than decade later I am returning back to Windows, because WSL is a total blessing.

My concern with NextJS is that they aim to do work that's good for Vercel and not for developers. That's why we see such a push for faster build times while severally restricting flexibility of the framework, so they can save money on VMs running user's builds.

I am a bit conflicted here. On the one hand I hate VK because it has censorship, they provide tools to police to monitor conversations and crack down on people.

On the other, now that Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are banned it leaves even less means of communication and spreading information inside Russia, as bad as VK was.

If only it was kicked out before Russia banned Facebook (it allowed hatespeach towards Russians) people might have migrated to Facebook or something, now there's going to be a void.

Well, VK Web version is just as functional as the app, so maybe not such a big hit.

Also, in Russia most people use Android, so Google Play ban would be more effective.

I think my case is definitely not a good example for a healthy work life balance, but going to tell it nonetheless, maybe someone finds themselves in this story. Been coding 60+ hours per week for the last 9 years, usually do programming on both weekends.

I have a partner but no kids, have no idea how it would be possible if I had them. Due to lack of free time and sport injuries my hobbies have mostly reduced to frequent travelling. Since I travel I barely have any friends, so I don't spend any time with them.

I try to exercise regularly, exercise takes time but it pays off for my energy levels and decreases stress.

I have recently self-diagnosed myself with ADHD, sitting idle and just relaxing produces too much anxiety, so I have to jump back into doing things. Another important thing for motivation is feeling that your work is meaningful and that you can influence the product. Being a cog in a big machine implementing what other hand down to me would have brought a feeling of helplessness.