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- wkrsz parentI'm using a separate app for 2FA with both Google. What forces you to use YouTube app?
- > At the time, they were right; it was as good as society had ever been.
Debatable. Proponents of "original affluent society" argue that agricultural civilization was a major step back in terms of quality of life.
- On the other hand a cotton bag won't contribute to a spoon's worth of plastic in a brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1
- > Resist the urge to build walls between people/teams/departments
Do you often have to deal with support staff reaching out directly to developers on Slack to investigate some problem – without going through "normal" process of creating a ticket that gets assigned? Or even asking for features.
Developers generally want to be helpful, but also small requests often turn out to be rabbit holes. And even in best case it distracts from work that was explicitly assigned and scheduled.
I noticed I experience a bit of anxiety every time I'm doing some work that came through backchannels. The way I try to alleviate is create the ticket myself, mention its source and assign it to myself. This way switching context is visible and I can tell myself that "if manager doesn't want me to spend time debugging this now, they can react".
- TIL "babbling idiot" is a technical term https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q797603
> failure condition on a computer bus or network in which a malfunctioning node sends data at inappropriate times thus interfering with the communication of the working nodes
- They'll figure something out, some ideas:
1. The cash doesn't have to be withdrawn all at once, it can happen over the course of months 2. The cash can come from earlier cash transactions, not withdrawal 3. Payment can be indirect: CEO donates to a non-profit that hires sheriffs family 4. Instead of kickback the CEO can repay the sheriff with another favor at future time
I hope we're not planning to outlaw cash and implement total invigilation of every transaction just to make corruption slightly more inconvenient.
- I meant that if you have two separate substances, we can reasonably assume they will also be used individually, giving bacteria chance to develop resistance. Then strains with different resistances meet in one organism and swap genes.
Although that's extremely simplified. I recall reading that the usual mechanism is somewhat different. When you take one antibiotic to fight one pathogen, also attacks other bacteria in your gut microbiome (also those benign and even useful). Those bacterial also develop resistance. Unfortunately they can later share their resistance genes with harmful bacteria.
- Bacteria can develop resistance to individual antibiotic mechanism. Then two strains can swap resistance genes to produce a super-bug: https://asm.org/articles/2023/january/plasmids-and-the-sprea...
My understanding is that in this case bacteria would have to develop resistance to two mechanisms at the same time, which is much more difficult.
Mandatory quote: "Life, uh, finds a way"
- I'm waiting for preview feature: https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/issues/26
Fortunately it's now on top of the to-do list: https://github.com/users/MHNightCat/projects/4/views/1
- > But small amounts of insulin are also released before any sugar enters the bloodstream. This response is known as cephalic phase insulin release. It is triggered by the sight, smell, and taste of food, as well as chewing and swallowing (5Trusted Source).
> BOTTOM LINE: Eating carbohydrates causes a rise in blood sugar levels. Insulin is released to bring blood sugar levels back to normal. Some claim that artificial sweeteners may interfere with this process.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners-b...
- > Alcohol truly is one of the worst drug we use
I also highly recommend episode about alcohol from Huberman Lab: https://hubermanlab.com/what-alcohol-does-to-your-body-brain...
They eye opener for me was how "moderate" alcohol use (like 6 beers over the weekend or 1 beer every day) causes lasting effects. One of them is increasing cortisol levels throughout the week.
- Why is this causing USD/EUR exchange rate to fall? And in general USD to lose value compared to other currencies.
My guess is that expectation of higher inflation was combined with expectation of further interest rate increases to combat it. Interest rate increases generally make currency more attractive for investments from abroad, which increases exchange rate.
This expectation was "priced in" current exchanged rates and now the market has corrected.