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Medicine, biology, history and politics all in one. This was a great read!

"Twenty years after Takaki had eradicated beriberi from the navy, Japan faced Russia in the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905. The army hospitalized 250,000 soldiers with beriberi, 27,000 of whom died. The shocking toll ended the army’s resistance. In the middle of the war in February 1905, Gen. Masatake Terauchi ordered the army to mix barley with its rice."

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This was a heart warming story

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Super in depth analysis on podcasting. Love the data and the conclusions

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Can’t pick out even a single thing to quote because this is all so good. Each paragraph and point is so heavy hitting

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"With smaller grocers disappearing, there’s probably room for both Walmart and Aldi to pick up the pieces, Vu added. In the meantime, Aldi will keep leading the price wars, putting pressure on the bigger players, too.

"They're incredibly successful," he said. "We haven't seen a disrupter in the grocery space like this in a long time.""

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Some really cool scalability work; and cool data structures!

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Learnt more about C++ than I ever thought I'd want to know.

If you're curious about how exception handlers are implemented under the hood and why you might want to avoid move-only exceptions in cross platform code...

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Worth reading for anyone that's getting started, or an expert on, code reviews.

"Frequently the root cause of code review thrash is the issue of trust. If a lack of trust is involved, it does not matter how good the code is. This is especially true when author is changing code that someone else feels ownership over."

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Interesting take on specialists versus generalists, and how having too narrow a worldview can be harmful. It’s a plug for a book, but still worth reading.

“Unfortunately, the world’s most prominent specialists are rarely held accountable for their predictions, so we continue to rely on them even when their track records make clear that we should not. One study compiled a decade of annual dollar-to-euro exchange-rate predictions made by 22 international banks: Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and others. Each year, every bank predicted the end-of-year exchange rate. The banks missed every single change of direction in the exchange rate. In six of the 10 years, the true exchange rate fell outside the entire range of all 22 bank forecasts.”

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“New findings by Harvard Medical School researchers confirm that it’s not the children who are failing, it’s the schools we place them in too early. These researchers discovered that children who start school as among the youngest in their grade have a much greater likelihood of getting an ADHD diagnosis than older children in their grade. In fact, for the U.S. states studied with a September 1st enrollment cut-off date, children born in August were 30 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than their older peers.”

This article summarizes a new study into early childhood development and the educational system. The results are stark...

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“Doriane Coleman is a Professor of Law at Duke Law School. As an 800m runner, she became the U.S. National Collegiate Indoor Champion in 1982, and the Swiss National Champion in 1982 and 1983.”

Counter point to the piece I shared the other day.

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This article goes into the (mal)practice of dentistry in the US. Interesting take both on a case of fraud, and on the history and development of dentistry in the country.

“The uneasy relationship between dentist and patient is further complicated by an unfortunate reality: Common dental procedures are not always as safe, effective, or durable as we are meant to believe. As a profession, dentistry has not yet applied the same level of self-scrutiny as medicine, or embraced as sweeping an emphasis on scientific evidence. “We are isolated from the larger health-care system. So when evidence-based policies are being made, dentistry is often left out of the equation,””

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Really engrossing. And a topic dear to my heart since robocalls are the reason my phone is always on silent.

"In the past few years, there hadn’t been much that Democrats and Republicans in Congress could agree on. Health care, immigration, taxes, deficits—every debate, every topic and idea was us vs. them. Here, finally, was an issue that perfectly bridged the partisan divide: a burning hatred of robo­calls."

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Senseless violence :(

I hope all those I know from Lahore are safe, along with their families and friends.

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I am unreasonably excited by this.

I finally set up WSL *yesterday* on my desktop so I could more easily work on side projects, and the performance difference was noticeable.

I did get 2 BSoD's that were reliably reproducible, but along with this and VSCode's remote - WSL support it was really great to develop on windows. Something I never thought I'd say in a long time.

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This was an engrossing human interest story. Not only does it cover a decades long friendship, it goes into the early days at Google, a bunch of technical material, and how productive focus time can be.

"At Google, Jeff is far better known. There are Jeff Dean memes, modelled on the ones about Chuck Norris. (“Chuck Norris counted to infinity . . . twice”; “Jeff Dean’s résumé lists the things he hasn’t done—it’s shorter that way.”) But, for those who know them both, Sanjay is an equal talent. “Jeff is great at coming up with wild new ideas and prototyping things,” Wilson Hsieh, their longtime colleague, said. “Sanjay was the one who built things to last.” In life, Jeff is more outgoing, Sanjay more introverted. In code, it’s the reverse. Jeff’s programming is dazzling—he can quickly outline startling ideas—but, because it’s done quickly, in a spirit of discovery, it can leave readers behind. Sanjay’s code is social."

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:/

"People angered by this ruling point out that when a white man had a natural genetic advantage, it was praised, while a Black woman is being punished for hers. "

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Interesting read into what the various bills and hosting costs are when running your own software company.

"Hopefully getting a behind-the-scenes look at what it costs to run a site like Unsplash will help you with your own business, or at least give you a better understanding of what’s involved."

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I've been wanting this for so long. This is really exciting!

"An interesting pattern emerged during these conversations. We saw many developers trying to use VS Code to develop against containers and remote VMs configured with specific development and runtime stacks, simply because it is too hard, too disruptive, and in some cases impossible, to set up these development environments locally."

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This was one of the most cool tech stories I've read in a while. Hacker mindset at its finest.

"We somehow got away with our plan to kill IE6 without facing any meaningful corrective action. Few people even knew we were involved at all and those that did, did not want to bring attention to it or risk encouraging similar behavior. At a beer garden in San Francisco, our boss, winking his hardest, made us swear to never do anything like this again."

Would be interesting to see someone attempt something similar now at e.g. Google. Seems impossible.