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- The orthodox reason for why people are overweight is calories in, calories out. Does it matter if those calories are a prepackaged cake or candy? In the end it is just calories.
Would gratuitously large steaks in the meat section and huge rotisserie turkeys instead of chicken at Costco produce the same result?
It seems strange to pick on certain types of foods unless believe those foods are the cause of obesity instead of just eating too many calories of any kind.
If you think cookies and candy are bad but other things are not, why? Is it that they are easier to over-eat? If so, how does that compound over time, given humans are trying to maintain homeostasis which includes a healthy set weight via satiety. Exercise induces more calorie consumption later. Over calorie consumption also induces lower consumption later. This seem like relevant factors.
- This just begs the next "why". Why are people eating more now?
Such a significant behavior change across a large population is not well explained by "we just did".
I'm not sure fast food consumption or huge portion sizes is a great explanation. If fast food is the problem, why does that matter if it just comes down to calories? As for larger portion sizes, would even larger portions make us continue eating? Would tiny portion sizes make us all deadly malnourished?
- I'm referring to companies financial statements where these numbers are reported. It doesn't mean the cash comp isn't high or that a specific job offer won't have a lot of cash comp.
What it does mean is that, in aggregate, Roblox has issued $1B in new shares to employees in the last 12 months, diluting shareholders by 4% or so. This is the most significant factor making the company cash-flow positive while remaining not profitable. It's essentially the same as investors putting more money into the business constantly.
- The type of consumer buying an ASUS device is the type of consumer that thinks the spec sheet tells them how good something is. Eg, faster CPU and more RAM, or higher screen refresh rate or whatever is good regardless of any other variables or the package as a whole.
This means they are "some of the best Android phones you can buy", as in, they have some of the best specs per $ you can buy. Not that they are actually good phones.
It makes total sense someone could think they are great phones while they also have terrible software support since software support is not a simple hardware number on the spec sheet.
This is very like PC people that hyper-focus on a few metrics like CPU frequency since it is simple and numerical and easily compared, even if it is not actually sufficient to tell you much about full system performance.
Example ASUS phone description from enthusiast: "It's got good speakers, 2 charge ports, 165 refresh rate, optimal cooling, a set of ultra sonic buttons, ip54, crazy good battery, acceptable camera, storage is crazy high 256GB for 1 grand, 512 for 1.1 grand, 12G ram for 1k, 16G ram for 1.1k, can take 2 sim cards."
- Cloudflare is cash-flow positive because a big chunk of employee compensation is paid thru the issuance of new shares (eg constantly raising more money and diluting existing owners / investors). If you include that comp as a cost they are not making money https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/net/financials/cash-flow-st...
- Does the solution involve using Cloudflare workers? Because, as I said, I'm sure it is possible but maybe we've gone off the deep end a bit. Just how crazy of a configuration do you want just to serve files from an object store?
This looks like an awful lot of setup for "easily solved". Easily solved is what S3 does where this isn't even a problem.
- I believe Cloudflare (and many other cos like it) have never produced operating income. They are growing and obviously important and potentially very profitable in the future, but when discount rates are much higher and you add in some uncertainty, one could argue they don't look as hot as they used to.
- The example shows leaving your bucket name in the url as a way to filter out requests to other bucket names. If you want your static site to have http://mysite.com/bucketname/index.html then I guess that's ok. But again, careful configuration and still not for every situation.
I'm sure you can layer more rules to get it exactly right but I'd not be eager to layer on complex configuration through multiple service providers when it is avoidable, unless there is some very compelling overriding reason.
- B2 can be great but it is missing a lot of features when compared to other object stores so it isn't a good solution for every scenario.
As an example I investigated, to put a custom domain in front of a B2 bucket they suggest using Cloudflare and CNAME-ing a bucket subdomain (eg f000.backblazeb2.com) https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-deliver-public-...
Well if f000.backblazeb2.com is used for any other people's buckets too, which appears to be the case, I guess I am now able to serve other people's files from my domain? This seems terrible.
- The whole point of IA is cheaper storage that is infrequently accessed, and there is a price to accessing it. If you need / want frequent access just use the regular storage class.
All object stores out there have a flavor of IA class with an access fee that should be far lower than the storage class savings for scenarios where you would even consider using this. If you don't want or understand this cost optimization you simply don't use it.
- The actual quote seems to be “So long as you have Congress keep extending the debt limit and doing deals because they’re afraid of the consequences of doing the right thing, that’s the political structure of the political system, eventually you’re going to have a debt spiral,” he explained, per Bloomberg. “And a debt spiral is like a death spiral.”
- From another study:
"Perchlorate is an oxidizer used in fireworks. Though fireworks displays are held over Lake Biwa, which supplies water to Kyoto, the city’s water treatment process lacks the ability to remove perchlorate. This study investigated perchlorate contamination in source and tap water resulting from a fireworks display. During 2016, the perchlorate concentration in the source water increased to 22.3 μg/L during the 19 hours following the display and then decreased to ,0.5 μg/L during the 43 hours following the display. The perchlorate concentration in the tap water increased to 13.6 μg/L during the 35 hours following the display, and then gradually decreased... it took 11–29 days to decrease its concentration in tap water in Kyoto to <0.5 μg/L."
Flow behavior of perchlorate from a source lake to a water supply tap following fireworks displays https://iwaponline.com/wpt/article/14/3/695/69039/Flow-behav...
- I have not been monitoring the SIMD situation in Zig so it is nice to hear that there is some general support for intrinsics even if they are not yet added.
Thanks for your effort working on an implementation too. I am aware how large these instruction sets have gotten so I can at certainly imagine at least some of the effort of the undertaking.
- Unless something has changed I really wish Zig was open to SIMD intrinsics. Imo, if you're manually writing SIMD, you are doing complex performance-oriented programming and you really do end up needing to know what the instruction set you're using gives you for tools. Eg arm64 has pretty cool interlacing/deinterlacing which would be goofy to re-create on amd64 and there is subtlety to multiplication and lots of other things. SIMD instructions also sidestep lots of compiler-ey stuff like strict aliasing and types don't matter, sizes and lane positions do. It is an interesting beast.
- 91 points
If we would have an obesity epidemic even without "optimized flavor and marketing strategies", then it is totally irrelevant.