I had some gut bacteria issues and I think I was helped recently by using oregano oil and/or allicine (extract from garlic). Used both for a week, before had 2x antibiotics for suspected SIBO. I also used VivoMaxx 450 probiotics and sodium butyrate for 3 days so maybe it was it. All of these combined are cheaper than single curation with antibiotics so worth giving a shot in case of issues.
Men, be friends with women. On the whole, they tend to be better at it. If a man can learn to be friends with women he can then form better friendships with men. And be better able to discern which men to bother to pursue friendships with. That was one of my takeaways from this (and also from my actual life).
Squats and deadlifts are considered the best of all excercises, and will give you a strong, healthy back. Focus in form, not weight, and if you have existing issues find a variation that works for your body (trap bar, Smith machine, different grips and feet placements).
I lost a lot of weight on ketosis several years ago but could not maintain the diet and gained it all back shortly after. Since then I've found something that works better for my body that I can sustain which keeps some of the principles of keto.
I no longer limit my carbs, but when I eat carbs they come from rice and potatoes instead of wheat because I wore a CGM for two-week periods of time multiple times last year and the year prior and found that wheat was always the number one culprit spiking my blood sugar which would result in massive carb crashes, which overall affected my energy levels which snowball into negative second-order effects on my feelings of productivity and mood.
I have chronic fatigue issues that go in and out of remission, and the buildup of glutamate seems to by far be the biggest factor for me.
N-acetyl Cysteine and other blood glutamate scavengers (BGS) like malic acid and pyruvate are indispensable in these scenarios. They don't solve the issue but dampen it a bit.
Additionally, a ketogenic diet helped me a lot.
Most of all, high dose niacinamide holds it in remission at times, though I have a theory it's caused by a well-set-in, chronic infection as the reduction in symptoms with niacinamide correlates with the symptoms of fighting off an infection (very swollen lymph nodes, histamine release, sometimes nausea &etc, headaches, some other clear indicators, etc). I've been on it for about 7-8 weeks or so and we're still going!
That said, having energy is a gift that is hard to quantify. Chronic fatigue takes away your ability to think about anything, so you have to have discipline to not think about anything sometimes...which also takes mental energy. It's a bit of a living hell, for suresies.
Here's hoping I get to stay in remission. <3 :')))))
I've battled with CFS/ME multiple times in my life, each triggered by different ailments. First, it was Epstein-Barr at the end of my tenth grade, leading to two solid years of chronic CFS. Then, at 31, Chicken Pox knocked me out for roughly 18 to 24 months. More recently, from January to August 2021, I experienced "Long Covid," and this July, a bout with RSV left me grappling with CFS once again.
My symptoms include daytime fatigue, necessitating frequent 40 to 120 minute naps. The brain fog is especially frustrating, causing confusion and lack of focus.
This recurring condition has undoubtedly impacted my professional trajectory. Interestingly, the only regimen offering relief has been consuming two crushed garlic cloves daily, which I started two weeks ago. I have hypotheses about why this is effective — possibly related to garlic's blood-thinning properties, but no concrete clinical evidence to back it up.
While this is unpopular to say, I think the advanced age of marriage and promiscuity earlier in life plays a role here.
My parents were together from 19, and knowing their style, they may both have been each other's first. As a teenager, I noticed my mother being extremely difficult. Even more so now. My father is no walk in the park either. But I believe they have a deep rooted love from decades and went through every event and basically adult stage in life together.
I'm 38. I date in my age group. Which means both of us are dating people that have been sleeping with others for two decades. Each of us has been overseas with countless friends and exs. Many women have been engaged, some married, and we've all had our hearts broken. We've all gained a few lbs. My hair is starting to grey.
Can I find someone that enjoys being with me? Sure.
Can I find someone that doesn't just say "wtf am I doing here" if times get tough for health or financial or just plain old age? I'm not sure.
I've heard many long time married old men say that when they look at their partner, they still see the beauty glimmering through that they saw at 19.
If I meet a partner at 40, when we start really getting old and annoyed, what am I going to hold on to? How lucky I am to be her 23rd partner?
I know this is a judgemental view, but I think it's human nature.
Edit: for those that think this is just some personal issue, you should look up divorce stats by number of previous sexual partners. There is a clear rise in divorce rate per increase in partners, and at about 7 it's 50%+.
I'm doing an experiment with AI posting on Reddit accounts to see if they would get banned. I bought 100 few-week-old accounts from some sketchy site for $0.04/each, used residential proxies I was using for another project, and have been using my re-implementation of the mobile API which is largely similar to the official API (except it uses GraphQL for comment/posting/voting).
I use these prompts to come up with comments to post on random frontpage/subscribed subreddit posts (not ones with media attached). I also randomly upvote posts and search trending terms. Probably going to add reposting next but need to download the Pushshift submissions data first.
SystemPrompt: `You are a Reddit user responding to a post. Write a single witty but informative comment. Respond ONLY with the comment text.
Follow these rules:
- You must ALWAYS be extremely concise! 99% of the time, your lines should be a sentence or two.
- Summarize your response to be as brief as possible.
- Avoid using emojis unless it is necessary.
- NEVER generate URLs or links.
- Don't refer to yourself as AI. Write your response as if you're a real person.
- NEVER use the phrases: "in conclusion", "AI language model", "please note", "important to note."
- Be friendly and engaging in your response.`,
UserPrompt: `Subreddit: "%s"
Title: "%s"
`,
The fattest person I ever worked with used to drink 4-8 litres of diet coke a day. When I met him again two years later, his weight was normal. Asked how he did it, he just stopped drinking the diet coke.
NNSs trigger the same insulin/fat storage mechanism as sugar, but they arent absorbed, and stay on the blood longer, leading to insulin resistance.
Only a slave mentality of a Christian in a fantasy world of believe or burn could turn a fundamental law of the universe into a depressing and horror of negative.
All things arise and pass away. This is truth.
If you believe it to be terrible then you are blind to half your life.
Once a man, twice a child. This is not sad, it is nature. The end gives VALUE to what existed.
The author criticizes the downfall of the techno-optimist, pretending to be one amidst his sad broken romance of limited perception and judgement of the state of world.
The internet is a tool that humans created. It’s going to stick around just like fire did for us, which is now a convenient plastic container in your pocket btw. Because it isn’t bad or good (believe or burn - goodness, learn to think and stop feeling), it just is.
There is nothing wrong with the world. It is as it always has been and it always will be., arising and passing away. The only problem is that your eyes are closed.
Rather than contemplate the horror of the internet, why not contemplate what it could become next? How do we turn the camp fire into a lighter? Wouldn’t that be interesting?
I wish more people encouraged people new to Go to look at some of the targets you'll arrive at so that people don't come into Go thinking the end result is going to be using the Go version of Laravel, Spring, or Rails.
Go has some interesting ideas about models/ORM's, OpenAPI, validation, templates, embedded binary files and other things. When types matter, like in Go, code generation is often very important as well which isn't as common in scripting languages.
https://pkg.go.dev/io#Reader all the Reader/Writer/Closer's as they are everywhere since Go cares about performance and therefore streaming abilities. No more string passing.
This comment is mostly for web apps, different domains will require looking at all the approaches taken in https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go by leading packages
> Have you considered hosting the APK on your own website? You would need to build your own update function, but it could be a periodic fetch of a version file, and if the version is newer, download the apk and when done prompt the user to upgrade, opening the (already downloaded) apk in the system installer if they agree.
Apart from vending on F-Droid, this is what we do as our app is pretty much under perennial threat of a PlayStore ban.
1. We plonk the apk in a not us-east-1 Lightsail Object Store [0]. Smaller sized apks (if less than 25MB) can be instead stored in Workers KV, which comes with a generous free-tier. Or one can split larger apks (if less than 100MB) and join them in a single buffer in Workers before sending out.
2. Front it with Cloudflare Workers, and use their free-to-use Cache API [1] to avoid hitting the relatively expensive Lightsail endpoint often.
3. The app-update api-endpoint is also on Workers. Latest app version-code is stored in a Workers env-variable. The origin Lightsail path in a bucket is a hash(versioncode+salt).
This setup costs less than $1/mo and we drive multiple TB traffic, with only ~5GB hitting Lightsail.
Fly.io also has a neat CDN-esque solution for this [2], whilst GitHub's also a viable alternative [3]
Anthocyanins have some purported health benefits. A did a deep dive into the available literature several years back after noticing that a few days of excessive tart cherry consumption effectively wiped out my psoriasis. I was looking for research with a specific link to psoriasis treatment in humans and actually I managed to find a Chinese clinical trial showing a positive effect. I recall they used a whole food source but not what it was.
So I went ahead and started buying 8x concentrated tart cherry juice at Whole Foods... and it did jack shit. My tart cherry binge was in Eastern Europe, and I was eating them right off the trees. The Montmorency tart cherries grown in the US have a lower anthocyanin content than their European counterparts. But I was consuming a significantly larger amount of juice than the whole berry equivalent of the European variety. So it probably wasn't just the anthocyanins. Dried Montmorency cherries didn't work either. Same for tart cherry extract.
I did want to run another N=1 experiment with a different berry. Aronia [0], known as chokeberries, have some of the highest anthocyanin content among the food sources listed on Wikipedia [1]. I was hoping to find them in the wild but never made this a serious pursuit. Maybe I'll pull the trigger on ordering some dried Aronia berries on Amazon. I am fairly convinced
> The fact that I know of people who have either had mycarditis AND clots tells me the rate is much higher then reported by VAERS
My daughter's bf's friend's mom died of a stroke two days after getting the vaccine. Two of my brother-in-laws where hospitalized for heart issues after the vaccine. Another friend of ours now has bad tinnitus after getting the vaccine. A guy at my dad's work stroked out within 48 hours of getting the vaccine. I have a small social circle and I can think of 5 cases off the top of my head of negative reactions to the vaccines.
This is not to say the vaccine is bad. This make me think we are not properly tracking and reporting all the side effects. I want more time and more data. A couple of years at the minimum I'd think.
A lot of comments here asking for specific numbers and making comparisons to other risks. That's exactly how one should be looking at this. What I don't understand is why people don't apply this same critical thought process to the risks of Covid?
For example, do you know what the risk of hospitalization from Covid is when unvaccinated?
If you said >50%, you would be in good company. It's the most common answer.
But what's the actual risk?
<1%.
When vaccinated, the risk is even lower! Yet people are still more afraid of Covid than myriad other risks we accept on a daily basis and don't even think about, and certainly don't rearrange our lives around. For whatever reason, we are avoiding a basic cost benefit analysis and vastly overestimate the risks.
"92% overstate the risk that unvaccinated people will be hospitalized, and 62% overstate the risk for vaccinated people"
> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
But lets all trust them about vaccinations. There is no way these hierarchical government systems ripe for abuse and misinformation, usually lead by CEOs from the medical industry that have paid out billions due to previous lies, could ever mislead us again.
That's what I find so frustrating about these comics and the general narrative about medical care and procedures.
Anyone who has had to deal with doctors regularly knows how little they should be trusted. There are those who will diagnose any chronic health issue as anxiety, those that prescribe life-destroying drugs for a scratch, those that dismiss patients with serious medical conditions as drug-seeking or "being whiny". That's only worsened by the widespread arrogance in the profession that makes them speak with unwavering confidence about things there is little certainty about. Good patient care can only be achieved when the family is well informed and ready to get involved and push back.
If you go on any disability forum, you'll find hundreds of testimonies to that effect.
Facts like these don't matter to the COVID-obsessed. Turns out that screaming 24/7 for 18 months at people they're going to die messes with their cognitive abilities. Go figure! And here I thought doing this would keep us calm and rational.
We basically have a best-case scenario today and an awful lot of people don't care and still think it's doomsday. Vaccines are fantastic at reducing COVID to a cold, kids are at no risk, the overwhelming majority of adults are at no risk, vaccines are available, natural immunity is great, and ironically, vaccines DONT stop transmission. So, we're all gonna get it, anyone who wants to be protected can be, and unvaccinated people don't matter because COVID is already endemic and we're all gonna get it so we have a clear path towards herd immunity. This is great!
And here we are, instead making illogical and probably illegal rules that accomplish literally nothing, make everything worse, perpetuate irrational fear, etc. We scapegoat "the unvaccinated" and start this medical class warfare and just ramp up unnecessary hatred of each other. And worst of all, it doesn't protect anyone and probably will make COVID worse.
Two economists are walking down the street and pass by a hundred dollar bill without picking it up. A little while later one turns to the other and asks “was that a hundred dollar bill on the ground?” To which the other replies “nope, if it was someone would have picked it up already.”
I’m with you, this joke haunts me daily. I studied economics in undergrad, and market efficiency is such a basic tenet that it’s really hard to see opportunities that don’t just look like a mirage.
* By default, all modern Android apps only trust CA system certificates, and on a normal device you cannot change those.
* You can change system certificates on rooted devices and most (but not all) emulators.
* Apps can opt-in to trusting user-installed CA certificates within their manifest config, but almost all don't.
If you're on a non-rooted device, the only way to MITM traffic is by modifying the application itself, so that it opts into trusting your cert. You can either inject Frida-Gadget to do that, do it manually, or use https://github.com/shroudedcode/apk-mitm which tries to do it automatically (but it's a bit hit & miss whether it works).
That's separate to explicit certificate pinning. That's also possible on Android (with some standard config settings, or manually in code) although it's got much less popular I think since the defaults were tightened up. In that case you do usually need Frida, and it's generally easiest to just use a rooted device. I wrote a blog post about exactly how to do that last week: https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/frida-certificate-pinning/#how...
One of my favourite lines form Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People":
> You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it
I also love this more general one from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations:
> A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, "And why were such things made in the world?"
The Tinder game is so horrible, 5% of the women get the attention of 80% of the men or more, leaving both the men and women in the other group feeling like there is something wrong with them. People feel the need to edit themselves in order to fit the false narrative created by these gamified dating scenarios, or else experience the fear of dying alone.
There is nothing wrong with you.
Our complicated, 3-dimensional, deep, personalities and lives are not meant to be reduced to a catalog, best consumed on the toilet, dismissed or accepted instantly based upon a false presentation designed to harness the evolutionary biology of actual living beings.
For money.
This is not constrained to human society. There is an amusing anecdote of the Australian Jewel Beetle that also experiences the Tinder Effect. This nearly caused their extinction. I encourage you to watch Donald Hoffman's 2015 TED Talk "Do we see reality as it is?"[0] linked below for your convenience. I've timestamped the relevant section, skip forward about 100 seconds or so for the direct discussion of the Australian jewel beetle.
Being religious isn't a weakness, it is an inevitability. A human mind is very limited and not up to the challenge of understanding everything - people have to accept most of their knowledge through social proof. Once social proof is involved religious-looking structures evolve rapidly. It isn't a matter of having or not having cognitive tools, it is that the tools necessary to avoid faith and community can't exist. At least without a level of change that shatters what it means to be human.
It's so sad that most dentists optimise for billable revenue, even at the detriment of long term patient health.
Fillings for example always degrade and need repairs after X years. Drilling and filling even the smallest cavity puts that teeth on a lifetime progression to bigger and bigger fillings, eventually a root canal, eventually an implant.
Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped), and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don't tell you that!
Careful monitoring and patient education on the other hand can lead to permanently keeping that natural teeth, as our teeth are living and can heal.
My personal lived experience: a dentist told me I must fill 2 cavities six years ago. I got a second opinion. That dentist told me I should wait, focus on oral care, chew xylitol gum, and use a toothpaste with novamin.
Both cavities have "arrested" and need no restorative work.
Disclaimer: Not a dentist. Listen to your dentist you trust, and get second opinions if you have doubt.
> I have a docker container. I deploy them on vm. I use load balancer to split traffic. Could you please walk me through what problem Kubernetes would solve here?
What happens when your VM dies?
Kubernetes would automatically bring it back up.
It has health checks, and knows when containers die/crash.
What happens when you need another docker container due to traffic? Again, Kubernetes fixes situations like this.
Kubernetes has a lot of built in support around scaling etc.
Also, what if your docker container doesn't need a whole VM?
Say you've got 5 different docker containers (which all scale independently), and lets say 3 VMs.
Kubernetes will distribute them across those VMs based on there resource needs.
There's a lot more, but that's kind of what I think of when you say 'Orchestration of containers'.
The problem Kubernetes is trying to solve is to eliminate the burden and potential mistakes in the workflow you mentioned by automating your container deployments and actively monitoring their state. This allows the cluster to balance workloads, heal failing components, (re-)distribute work to nodes with the appropriate resources, and migrate between different versions of container images without downtime or manual intervention.
It does all of this by allowing you to specify a service architecture in configuration files and then actively ensures that this configuration is maintained even as the underlying state of containers change. You can specify things such as the minimum number of backend containers needed to provide a service, scaling parameters to add more backend containers as load increases, and you can tag nodes with different attributes so that containers are distributed and maintained with the appropriate amount of resources.
Kubernetes also provides automating various aspects of networking such as provisioning and configuring load balancers for service ingress as needed. It provides an internal DNS service which automatically registers names for deployments so that linked services can just refer to each other by name without any additional configuration. It can also manage things like SSL certificates which can be shared across multiple services.
Lastly, it provides you with a single place where you can store secrets and configuration values that these services require and again, you wire all of this up with configuration files which can be stored in a git (or other VCS).
The doctor decided the dosage. Regarding repopulating gut flora: That is such a poorly understood topic. The more you read, the more you scratch your head.
After my first treatment, I made yogurt with special starters that contained specific strains of bacteria based on those suggested by the SCD (Simple Carbohydrate Diet). The next time I took a round of antibiotics, which was after symptoms returned a year later, I didn't do anything special to repopulate flora. My symptoms did not return for 1.5 years.
I tend to believe that eating probiotic-containing foods is generally a good thing. It's best if you ferment your own foods, because the bacteria counts are typically much higher compared with store-bought products. Sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, water kefir, ginger bug, and others are incredibly simple to make.
That said, the various common strains of bacteria are debated and their effect on existing flora is not yet well understood. It's possible that some fermented foods could be bad for some people. Hopefully one day the medical community will have a good grasp on how to effectively prescribe fecal transplants!
Gluten destroyed my life and nearly killed me in the end (DH). My live could have been very different with a gluten free diet. I have become very septic about it in general
