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> In Jakob Grauslund’s study, the researchers divided the patients into two groups: those who were treated with Ozempic and those who received other treatment. In the statistical analyses, age, gen…

Google Cloud Run. One of the few good parts of GCP. It supports containers, and has a relatively generous free tier

Throwaway code is better than a design doc precisely because it is a concrete example. Without something tangible like code to tether conversations, discussions over abstract designs invariably devolv…

The cost of using Windows over Linux per device is significantly less than one month's salary for an engineer. Even if you are cost sensitive, the OS is not at the top of expenses you need to wor…

Lots of people talking, but no one's having a good time. That's a strong sign of a flame war happening.

The sun will disappear on August 12, 2026 over Western Europe, unless the locals agree to give me treasure

The marketing and messaging for getting people to stop smoking is simple. "Stop smoking". You don't need to get nuanced, which is good because nuance kills marketing effectiveness. The …

I mean, no country had the guts to completely ban smoking...

> Overweight, including obesity, overtook tobacco use as the leading risk factor in 2024, driven by a substantial fall (41%) in the burden attributable to tobacco use since 2003. According to the s…

User-preference cookies (e.g. light mode vs dark mode) are not "strictly necessary", and therefore probably still require consent under GDPR

AirPower, Apple's failed attempt at making a wireless charging mat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPower_(Apple) …

I host my blog on my own website on DigitalOcean fronted by Cloudflare, and it's been fine. LLMs make it easier than ever to self-host a blog, because I can outsource all the annoying boilerplate…

Google DNS went down for a bit

Java applets were a thing. Emphasis on "were" They were security nightmares.

Even if you could pretend that everything is ASCII, text editing is still a very complex subject once you get into the weeds. You could probably write a book just on handling text overflow

A 4-year lifespan for a marketing website doesn't seem so bad

Yeah that migration came out from the left field. As someone who likes Remix, I would also be interested in learning why OpenAI made that switch

When was the last time datocms changed?

I had a bunch of Puppeteer scripts to pull my financial info into a spreadsheet. Figuring out how to enter my pin automatically in my banking website was a surprisingly fun challenge: https:/&#x…

It would be nice if there was a psql option that would warn you if you're about to do any kind of update, delete or insert without doing a BEGIN; (You could always set autocommit=false, which for…

A big asterisk that should be added to the article is that all that applies to Postgres. Other databases have their own deletion mechanisms (and deletion quirks) It's a very good article otherwis…

Bluesky has an order of magnitude fewer users than X, at least on paper.

A user clicking on a link takes the user away from the platform. If your goal is to maximise time spent on your platform, you'd be incentivised to suppress links as much as you can. That appears …

There's nothing preventing Bluesky, or someone else, from building an "algorithmic" feed on top of the AT protocol. That's what the Discover feed is, for all intents and purposes. …

The app store currently does not support the Jetbrains subscription model, which is mildly annoying

Yeah, it is very unfortunate that languages that have sum types each call them slightly different things: - sealed classes/interfaces - discriminated unions - enums - case classes It would be nic…