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«So John went back to the hospital and spent a month on powerful antibiotics pumped directly into a vein near his heart.»

This is not «extremely common».


Sure, but if you want to water the claim down to the idea that only extreme doses of antibiotics have noticeable effect sizes then its not a relevant claim to 99.99% of the population.


No it is not, but ignoring the part about the severe infection require extended hospitalization and trying to reduce it all to “antibiotics” is extremely disingenuous.

Given that antibiotics are common but extreme infections and extended hospitalizations are not, why would anyone focus on the antibiotics as the root cause?

Not all antibiotics are created equal nor do they affect gut bacteria the same. There isn’t a singular scale for antibiotic power. Often, antibiotics are given via vein because they aren’t absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, for example. This doesn’t tell us anything about the magnitude of impact on gut bacteria relative to an antibiotic that actually starts its journey in your gut.

This is a complicated case. Reducing the entire complicated episode to “it was the antibiotics” is extremely reductionist.


And you would prefer the English flag then - not the flag of the UK?


I think you’re interpreting the advice way too literally. The author probably didn’t mean for you to document the answer to every single question you get, but questions you get about the system or domain you’re working, and where the answer isn’t readily available anywhere else.


I don't disagree with you. If the question was about design decisions I'd made, I'd be in full agreement. But the article quite literally says 'every time.' You could rightly say I'm being pedantic, but if you're going to write life advice, it should be quite specific IMO. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but rightly (also IMO) pointing out flaws with the wording and tone.


> Every time someone asks you a question, they are highlighting a gap in the documentation.

This is a sensible statement assuming that the question is about the domain or system you’re an expert in. Not “what time is it” or anything like that.

> Take the chance to write the answer down

Perhaps the author should have qualified this advise with “take the chance to consider”, but I think the advise stands well on its own and I understand to apply common sense to it.


> for Node, there's npm

True, NodeJS runtime comes with its own «standard library» but npm has nothing to do with it.


About 10% of calorie intake is the protein sweet spot. Incidentally about the average you would get from a divers whole foods plant based diet. Meat diets will struggle to get that low. In fact, the Norwegian government has stated that it would in fact recommend 10% because it would be the best nutritional advise, were it not for the fact that it would be hard to fit into the common meat based diets of Norwegians. I wish I could provide a source but have since been unable to locate the official document Were it was discussed.


Exactly how certain is it?


Sorry stopped reading at “ Meat provides far more nutritional value than any plant”

Edit: Vote it down all you want. The statement isn’t getting any less idiotic


Interestingly, exact same phenomenon occurs in speech. What is the difference between the sounds /a/ and /o/? Turns out it’s timbre and that our vocal cavities changing form changes the timbre while the vocal chords produce the same fundamental frequency.


Further, by producing spectrograms, you can see the dominant harmonics of vowels, they are called formants, and you can learn to differentiate vowels based on comparing spectrograms without hearing the sounds. It’s pretty cool.


It’s interesting that proponents of a simpler web argue in favor of Jquery for a use case where jquery is in fact very easy to live without. One would almost think dogmatic thinking is involved.


> It’s interesting that proponents of a simpler web argue in favor of Jquery for a use case where jquery is in fact very easy to live without. One would almost think dogmatic thinking is involved.

But to do without it, you will end up rewriting the shortcuts and utility functions that JQuery provides, effectively recreating a project-specific, less-tested and less-supported JQuery.


Are still talking about the jQuery usage in https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html or in general? If the former, then I agree that jQuery was unnecessary here, all API functions used by the author now has appropriate functions shipped natively in the browser runtimes, so using jQuery was actually more work than not (unless the author never used the vanilla API but have used the jQuery API).

Otherwise I agree with you in general.


Yes agree completely and the same counter argument can be made for more advanced frontend frameworks.


Not fair. Upgrading java libs like spring is just as laboursome given enough major releases have lapsed. Backenders need need to get their oumf out of their oumfs, and realize this is all about what you’re used to. Upgrading spring if you know spring is not as hard as upgrading React when you have no clue about React. There’s no significant difference.


I cannot tell you how many times I've stumbled on SO post that just recommends - "Just use Node v10". Usually, with no explanation. Ohhh....


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