The world seems to be divided between people who assume that things work well until they are proven not to, and the other kind of people, who are known as “responsible adults.”
Responsible adults say that vibe-coding a serious product is a bad idea, because you aren’t capable of recognizing or fixing certain serious problems that commonly arise.
The actual study states in the summary that it's the cardiac protective improvement that reverses, not that you're worse off for having taken a GLP-1.
So yeah, when you stop taking something that protects your heart and kidneys, it stops protecting... your heart and kidneys.
There's an increasing body of work that indicates that long-term GLP use (initially higher doses for weight loss, then tapering down) retains the cardiac and kidney benefits and can actually lead to additional weight loss.
> So yeah, when you stop taking something that protects your heart and kidneys, it stops protecting... your heart and kidneys.
This is not at all obvious and still requires further study. Do the drugs themselves have heart- and kidney- protective effects, or are the heart and kidneys protected by maintaining a lower weight, or lower resting blood glucose, or lower inflammation, all of which are effects of the drug?
Everybody hating on the IPX, but I have so much nostalgia. Yes, my friends who ran a repair shop kept employed fixing them, like transmission shops survive on minivan transmissions.
That era hardware (although I ended up with a fair bit of experience on the whole Sun 3/4 lines)... I had just gotten out of the Army, didn't know what I was going to be when I grew up, and the future was so terrifying but bright.
It's a good thing that I don't horde (except cars, that's a problem), because I'd have racks of these things. Named after Star Trek characters, not because I care about it, but because that was the naming convention at one of my first "real jobs".
IDK, maybe nobody else thinks this way, but I'm really glad to see someone fixing one.
Most of that is misguided. The IPX was the high volume, low cost, face-for-the-user Solaris box during exactly the moment in the mid 90's where Intel and Microsoft took over and Sun and the Unix vendors lost the plot.
People remember it as a ridiculous $15k joke that was half the speed of the Pentium 100 you ordered out of the back of Computer Shopper.
But when the IPC and IPX were released, SPARC was still ascendant (Intel's flagship was the 486/33!), "PCs" were still running Windows 3.1 (or just DOS), Linux didn't exist yet, and they were the best computers you could get. Well unless you were a graphic nerd and tilted to SGI instead.
I very specifically remember salivating over these boxes, which were legitimate upgrades over the SPARCstation 1/1+/2 machines which were groundbreaking in the late 80's.
I remember the java station 1 as well which was running byte code natively in an IPX-like box. That thing really was so horrendously slow out was basically a paperweight. I had the chance to play with one when it was just new but it was like a joke or something.
Maybe that gave the form factor a bad name because all their good stuff was in pizza boxes.
I had one on my desk and eventually a collection of Sparc 2, 10's and a V in my garage. I miss the keyboard and Sun OS 4, the Trinitron display and working on difficult engineering problems on those machines.
I do. At my first job it looked so technical! Sure they were a bit rubbish but at least you didn’t have to pick all the hair and gank off the rollers and balls all the time.
Having to explain to customers that they didn't receive an email because Outlook has a multi-stage set of email servers and the inside ones reject due to the edge (antispam) servers is always interesting.
It would be interesting to have something like this but designed to act against OSC (I don't remember the expansion, it's a protocol used by a bunch of mixing boards), to help folks doing "amateur live sound" get the best out of their systems.
Somewhere in my copious free time I should take a pass at this.
Without extra shenanigans if you have an unstaged file that fails your test suite then pre-commit will reject your commit even if the staged files are error free.
But is it possible to build real apps that work well? I can absolutely confirm. Deploying software that's used by household names.
I think people are making a lot of false dichotomy around this, just because there's AI slop doesn't mean that it never works.
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