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SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages

Trying to attribute it to just one cause is always fallacious. In truth the modern Western diet is probably the worst of it.

Highly processed seed oils that are chemically extracted and used for frying and baking. I'm not one of those people who believes that they are genuinely toxic but they have too much omega-6.

Inexpensive sources of sugar everywhere.

Conditioners and preservatives in everything.

Most vegetables and fruits are sprayed with pesticides to some degree.

Low variety and diversity of vegetables in traditional diets.

Combine this with exceedingly high levels of misinformation both from the government and various dietitians, celebrities, medical journals, doctors, Facebook groups and users, conspiracy theorists etc. It's hard for people to know what is actually going to kill them and what isn't.

All I can tell you is is that I got a pair of 90-year-old grandparents who always eat eggs and bacon for breakfast, cook their food the old fashioned way, drink plenty of tea and always seek out the highest quality ingredients for their foods.

SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: Zig's comptime is bonkers good

Zig is overall pretty good as a language and it does what it needs to: staying in the lane of the purpose is very important. It is why I do not particularly care for some languages being used just because.

SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds

Roman lead pipes were not a significant factor on the health of humans back then... To the same extent as public sewers, bathing, hygiene rules etc. Rome had it a lot better than even some countries today. Yeah you still had to deal with infections and such which could have been deadly but time and medicine era that you were in you had way better health outcomes in Rome

SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021)

You don't have to necessarily use kqueue on a BSD. In areas where it might make more sense performance wise you can obviously use poll. I'm not opposed to introducing an alternative interface like epoll, but it's only recently that Linux has managed to bridge the network performance gap. I attribute that to a lot of money being poured into it with pure and raw optimization from all of the Linux sponsors that they get which is really cool and great for them but it does not necessarily make gnu/Linux a purer system. Both approaches have their merits. There's no reason to sit here and claim that one is better than the other

SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus

It's 'easier' for some people but you lose GNU bash compatibility and it kinda underlines all of the issues with interactive only shell systems -- a lack of interoperability.

It's honestly a non-issue in the current year to learn zsh or tcsh

SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: 25 Years of Dillo

Nedit takes like 6M on a Linux machine.

Older and lighter toolkits like fltk are better.

SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: 25 Years of Dillo

Swift requires LLVM and has shit performance. I'm generally a fan of only C/C++ and Pascal/Modula stuff. All these new found languages like Rust and swift are pure trash.

SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: 25 Years of Dillo

Swift means it'll require LLVM.

QT is bloated and resource intensive. Most of us don't want gigabytes of data being spent on special effects.

SMP-UX | 1 year ago | on: 25 Years of Dillo

Unfortunately, with it's use of Swift code, QT (which is now a bloated piece of trash since version 5) etc. It's just not tenable unless they give us a pure version without that shit

SMP-UX | 2 years ago | on: Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life?

HPE bought Rackable for NUMALink tech, moreorless.

I'd have less faith in corporations to do the right thing. As an Indian, I get nothing but slave treatment even in America because I'm expected to work for less and harder than my white counterparts.

SMP-UX | 2 years ago | on: Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life?

I understand. Raion of the pre-2021 era was prone to making a lot of edgy and offensive jokes. He made a joke about me being Indian and I kinda just went "really bro?". He expressed regret when I talked to him in 2022 about it. I'm just not able to excuse a bunch of grown men attempting to call him a criminal for urbex or hold his past against them forever.

SMP-UX | 2 years ago | on: Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life?

Ah yes the same people who run that "more welcoming place" dog piled and harassed the guy on Reddit leading to two of them getting permabanned from Reddit for violating the content policies regarding harassment, doxxing and more.

Sometimes, people are bad the whole way round. Lesser of two evils may be necessary.

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