Emacsen @emacsen@emacsen.net

I'm seeing a shocking amount of anti-semitism on my feed- not from the right, but from the left.

I'll say this clearly:

If you hate Jews, please unfollow me.

If you think Israel doesn't have the right to exist, please unfollow me.

If you use Zionist as a slur, please unfollow me.

Tried the "nu" shell today. It has some really nifty ideas about handling data.

Sadly it crashes, entirely crashes, way too easily.

Hopefully they can fix this. It would be really nice...

I've had a real challenging in explaining Datashards to people because it's explaining a primitive for a thing that doesn't exist.

I'm convinced that the only right way to do this is to write lots of demos and do something like Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demo of user interfaces.

(link for people who may be unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY )

Apparently most Americans are waiting three years to replace their phones.

I'm going to be waiting a bit longer to replace my Pixel XL with either a PinePhone or a LibreM.

I have a LibreM on order but the company is increasingly worrying me.

The PinePhone looks good but we'll have to see when it comes out and what the software looks like

In the meantime I will have to get the Pixel's battery replaced because it's getting on in years.

Has anyone had experience with battery replacement?

Just had to block another lefty anti-semite. This time the narrative was

If Israel didn't exist, it wouldn't been attacked by all the Arab countries, so it shouldn't exist and then it wouldn't need to worry about it.

Basically it's like saying "If you weren't {black|gay|trans|a woman...} then you wouldn't have been attacked, so kill yourself."

People wonder why I'm so sensitive about this stuff, especially from the Left. That's why.

The Democrats have two seriously good candidates in Warren and Sanders. They represent a vision for the US and the opportunity for change.

They also have Biden, who represents the status quo.

If Biden wins the election my concern is that he won't make any serious efforts to fix the social fabric that has been town by Trump. He'll push through a status quo. He'd be Better than Trump, for sure. Is Biden who the US needs? No. And could he beat Trump? I'm genuinely unsure.

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7. I think the jury is out on Intermittent Fasting generally, but I think that the "no snacking rule" is a *very* good one.

The body should *not* need to be snacking, and snacking has all of these negative health benefits associated with it due to hormone spikes.

8. I'm jealous of my friends who are of normal weight, but for me if I place the emphais on "Body healing" rather than weight loss, it helps keep me focused and gives me good results and motivation.

6. There seems to be growing research showing that Vitamin D has an impact on sleep quality, which then effects Vitamin B production. What I'm seeing is that once you get your VItamin D levels to the 40s, it's time to shift to a Vitamin B for a few months to encourage the reformation of healthy gut flora.

I take a strong probiotic now, so this might be a good alternative for long term success.

I'd like to explore this more.

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5. While fiber is good and important, the types of fiber we eat seems very important, and processed fibers are apparently associated with higher risks of disease. That's those same ketp treats I mentioned- keto cereal, nutrition bars, etc.

5. I've been hearing a lot about the importance of Vitamin D. I got my Vitamin D levels up a while ago but haven't been as focused on it. I need to re-focus there so I can move onto step 2, B Vitamins.

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3. I absolutely overdo it on keto treats such as baked goods, breakfast cereal, etc.

I need to severely reduce those foods from my diet as they make staying in ketosis challenging for me.

Also nuts and dairy contains a lot of Omega 6's- as mentioned above.

4. There's a lot of new research on gut health and with all my digestive issues, I've been considering placing more of a focus on eating prebiotics and nutritient dense vegetables.

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2. I've been thinkjng lately about the quality of fats. Saturated vs unsaturated, poly unsaturated, and the mix of Omega 3 vs Omega 6 fatty acids.

We're learning just how bad Omega 6's are for us in SAD ratio. That's largely associated with using vegetable oils in cooking, which we do because they're cheap and shelf stable.

I've largely tossed most bad fats but need to consider them and the ratio for heart health.

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Been thinking about the Keto food pyramid and nutrition in general lately. This will be a quick series of posts, some about me and some about the ketogenic way of eating in general:

1. I mostly agree with the Keto food pyramid but I wonder about how much, once you're keto adapted, you need to be eating fat.

I'd think that you can reduce fat consumption to "fat to satiety" and burn off body fat rather than injested fats.

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This is totally #lazyweb but I could use some time with someone whose packaged Python packages and deeply groks python imports, including relative and absolute imports.

pydatashards needs some help in this area.

I'm going to RWoT and AP Conf in a little over a week and it's such a problem for me to travel:

a) I need a CPAP to sleep. Luckily I could afford a travel unit that doesn't need water. Not covered by insurance

b) I have multiple dietary issues. Gluten and FODMAP sensitive. These often aren't even options when asked about dietary restrictions, especially in another language

c) Eating ketogenically is the best way for me to be healthy and is very difficult when traveling.

If anyone is curious about some context on the recent Trump attacks on Jews, this is not new.

The Daily's coverage from October 2018 is pretty much spot on in contextualizing Trump's using Jews to rile up his base.

It's absolutely worth a listen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/podcasts/the-daily/american-anti-semitism-shooting-synagogue.html

If anyone is curious about some context on the recent Trump attacks on Jews, this is not new.

The Daily's coverage from October 2018 is pretty much spot on in contextualizing Trump's using Jews to rile up his base.

It's absolutely worth a listen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/podcasts/the-daily/american-anti-semitism-shooting-synagogue.html

A quick reminder to people who are wondering why Trump is going after Jews and calling them unloyal.

This isn't an attempt at bringing Jews on his side. 80% of US Jews voted against Trump last time and they're not likely to vote for him next time.

This is a dog whistle to his followers that "Jews are unloyal". That is a very old antisemetic trope- that Jews have a loyalty to someone other than the King, or some place other than the fatherland.

3. I could essentially have an empty class and then use Python's dynamic objects and tack on the correct methods.

This is clean-ish in that I'm not messing around with type(...) constructors as I would with option 2, but it also means I can't ask an object about its inheritnece, ala instanceof(..).

OCAP, open ended classes and flat taxonomies are hard...

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I'm struggling to map the OCAP security model on top of Python's object model. This has left me with three sub-optional solutions:

1. I can forgo the OCAP idea of "If you don't have capabilities, you don't have the method" and just throw an error for things I don't have capabilities for.

2. I can use classes, but since I don't have a clean tree-like ontology, I have to dynamically generate new classes on the fly. This sounds cool but it's ugly.

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Hearing DoorDash has continued to use tips to pay its workers is frustrating. At the same time, it hilights how the workers through tipping.

Tipping culture doesn't benefit anyone, It doesn't benefit workers, it doesn't benefit customers. It doesn't benefit labor that's unable to benefit from tips (such as kitchen staff in a restaurant). It just lets employers pay their employees less.

It also puts the customer in the bizzare position of negotiating the price of the service.