CPAP has been life changing for me. For my entire life I struggled getting up in the morning, and I never felt "refreshed". Getting up before 9-10AM was super difficult. I also was often in a sort of fugue state when I would first wake up, I'd often have no memory of any interactions, and apparently was often mean.
Now I can easily get up, even at hours that were previously unthinkable, and more often than not feel fully recharged.
I have no doubt that played a part in me being unhealthy - though by no means was it the sole reason.
As an aside, also getting on a dose of Semaglutide has been similarly life changing. The damn near elimination of "food noise" has been incredible.
I know there are a number of folks of the opinion that its somehow cheating. But for me I am left wondering "Is this just how normal people feel?".
It always bothers me when someone says it’s "cheating" to use a GLP-1 agonist.
It helps but the person losing weight still has to clean up their diet and start an exercise routine. There are still major changes they need to make to become successful. GLP-1 agonists help a lot of people make better decisions due to how they fight hunger. Less hunger means less chances to make bad choices when eating, and weight loss progress is a virtuous mental cycle where you keep doing what you’re doing because you see results.
None of that is cheating. There are still major changes one must make. Taking Ozempic but continuing to eat a trash-tier diet will yield little to no progress.
Definitely agree, but man, the sheer number of folks who leave just horrible comments on videos/posts people make about how they lost weight on a GLP-1 agonist is so disheartening.
In addition to saying that its cheating, they will actively wish harm to the person by saying "just wait til you get X" where X is some side effect (real or imagined). Or just the "well once you stop taking it you'll just get fat again".
The people who say "you'll get fat again once you stop taking it" also baffle me.
The most difficult part of losing weight for me personally is changing my routine and habits. Setting myself up with a kitchen that's ready to cook. Figuring out what kind of meals I'm happy to have on a weeknight that don't require a lot of cooking. Preparing parts of meals over an hour or two on the weekend to complete some of the more time consuming parts when I'm not so constrained on time. Learning to deal with the urge I (used to) have to "eat my feelings".
All of those things don't just magically go away when you stop taking a GLP-1 agonist. Losing a lot of weight isn't just about self-control like if you're just trying to lose five pounds to make your pants more comfortable for going to your 20th high school reunion; you have to rewire your habits and mind and make a life long commitment to those changes.
Rewiring your habits and rewiring your brain are things that persist if your intention going into the weight loss was to change your habits instead of just moving the number on the scale. If you are looking to do it only temporarily and are unwilling to lock in those behavioral changes then you're likely going to fail, and that has much more to do with mindset than medication.
Now, we need price to go down and availability to go up, but people who think all the weight bounces back as a sort of "gotcha" are silly. It's possible, but is a testament to the difficulty of dealing with obesity -- not some sort of gotcha of the drug.
I personally think that Musk is kind of a dipshit when it comes to his political views, that he is a bit of a charlatan (FSD this year, I swear), that Tesla jumped the shark tank about 2-3 years ago, and I laugh every time I see more bad news about X/Twitter...
BUT I am really rooting for SpaceX and Starlink. Honestly I hope the shiny toy that is X/Twitter keeps his attention for a while and he leaves those orgs to run as they have been.
Its pretty easy to learn the rules. Once you've done that you can watch a game and know roughly what is happening. But its still a hard game to master.
One thing I found interesting, is it you go with PEWMA and create a scenario where the cluster is stressed, and then add 1 server, it pummels the shit out of the new server and you have a brief surge in failed requests.
Not sure if that is a real world issue, or just with the simulation...
This is very likely a bug in the simulation. My simplified implementation of PEWMA prioritises servers that have had no traffic, in order to send at least 1 request to all servers. There will be a window, until this new server serves its first request, where it is considered the highest priority server.
I doubt very much that this would be part of any real world implementation
I'm not familiar with PEWMA, but real load balancers sometimes have this problem. Either because of dynamic weighting that slams the new server which shows zero load, or because the new server needs to do some sort of cache warming, whether that's disk or code or jit or connection establishment or ???, a lot of times early requests are handled slowly.
Most load balancers should have a way to do some sort of slow start for newly added or newly healthy servers. That could be an age factor to weighting, or an age factor on max connections or ???. Some older load balancers are just not great at this, so you develop experienced based rules like 'always use round robin, leastconn will kill your servers with lumpy loads'. All that said, and a repeated theme across my comments in this thread, the more sophisticated your load balancing is, the harder your load balancer needs to work, and the sooner you need to figure out how to load balance your load balancers.
It should happen in the real world as well, at least that's what I've been told when I started my first job as a system admin.
The reason people cited to me back then was that the balancer usually isn't particularly smart when balancing, so they only see a free node, thus every free request is routed to it. The errors (mostly timeout) will happen once the request start to actually get processed.
Normally, the node gets a steady amount of requests over time, thus the load is constant (generally speaking, a request will require the most resources at the same relative time of their lifecycle). As all requests are fresh, they'll all hit the same load bottleneck at the same time, causing all the timeouts.
The answer is to both aggressively scale horizontally and then quickly decommission until you're back to baseline.
Or just accept the failed requests
Its been over 10 years though, it mightve been improved since.
I don't know anything about this subject, but my first thought (which may be wrong) would be to just set the weight of the new server to be the same as one of the other servers that are receiving messages (perhaps one of the lower ranks). In that way, it would not be overloaded so easily and adjust its ranking after a while
I guess my explanation was lacking then, as that wouldn't help. reducing the weight below the old nodes might work, but it would also extend the duration you're overloaded, which would also cause requests to fail.
Did this 20 years ago by having the name of the server as part of the user's profile.
User's 1 through 50 (light users) log in and their profile says they go to app-1.myapp.com.
User's 51 through 60 (heavy users) log in and their profile says they go to app-2.myapp.com.
A specific user may pay extra to have a non-shared environment, and this supports that as well.
i did something similar way back when only the server identifier was part of the session cookie iirc. Whichever server behind the LB started the session got all the requests for that session. It was more like a user load balancer vs a request load balancer.
This is pretty much how I already write SQL, just using CTEs. In fact I bet the most straightforward way to transpile PRSQL to SQL would be using CTEs.
The best description I saw of Elon Musk is that he thinks he's Tony Stark, but he's actually Justin Hammer. Which to be fair, is the most Justin Hammer thing ever.
Now I can easily get up, even at hours that were previously unthinkable, and more often than not feel fully recharged.
I have no doubt that played a part in me being unhealthy - though by no means was it the sole reason.
As an aside, also getting on a dose of Semaglutide has been similarly life changing. The damn near elimination of "food noise" has been incredible.
I know there are a number of folks of the opinion that its somehow cheating. But for me I am left wondering "Is this just how normal people feel?".