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I can relate to this. The "permission" aspect also cuts both ways sometimes, because I learned to be cautious and then _that_ became the thing I was doing wrong, according to others, who berated me for not being assertive enough.

I just encountered this. FYI You can use v2 which still retains commonjs support.

The incompatibility is indeed exponentiated with TypeScript.

There is currently no non-hacky way for using both legacy modules and ES Modules in the same project, and many libraries on NPM have moved to ESM-only. TypeScript's transpilation needs to know what to target as regards modules and JS version, which makes things even crazier than they already are.

Absolutely this. It's not necessarily communicated that well in the article, but this is the main reason people are frustrated.

Thanks for mentioning these! They look pretty interesting.

The worst one for me is the lack of visual feedback after clicking on a link. It makes me question whether I clicked properly and leads me to click again.

a French news article [about Japan]

Interestingly I experienced persistent bullying that included physical assault and mental abuse (it was always successfully passed off as a joke when they did something to me) in the French system.

It was so bad that I still relive it daily every single day now, many many years later.

Do you think these courses would be worthwhile for a seasoned software engineer?

I have the same experience. I also overshot "assertive," but the alternative was that everyone would continue to steamroll me to the point of despair. Assertive wasn't enough to safeguard my dignity.

It is indeed exactly as you said. The world chewed me up for being innocent. I was routinely physically assaulted at school. These things were passed off as roughhousing or joking and the adults never intervened, and some even seemed to appreciate the "humor."

The adults rolled their eyes at me essentially for being weak, it was sort of like "sigh, what are we gonna do with that kid?" It occurs to me now that these were bitter, jaded people who hated a child for his naiveté.

If I defended myself, I was the bad guy. At some point I thought: "it doesn't make sense that I am the one who is right and that everyone else is wrong, so maybe I should be more like those guys." But then I got punished too. For example, it was considered funny for people to kick me in the balls at times. It had happened to me 10+ times and nobody got punished. Regrettably, I did it once to another kid and it was a scandal and I got punished.

I am in a healthy place now but I thank God I got through the teen and young adult years without becoming a criminal. I think I easily could have, because I came out of school a deeply damaged individual.

Dark mode has somehow reached meme status on the Internet, not unlike bacon, in that everyone now essentially either "f'ing loves" it or is (jokingly) deemed an untermensch.

Personally, I was never into dark mode so this article feels vindicating; nor bacon, for that matter. I think I just committed several incidents of e-blasphemy.

Smooth scroll that snaps to set scroll levels is absolutely infuriating. I question the psychological integrity of anyone who thinks it's a good idea; how much of a control freak must you be to want to micromanage people's scrolling?

Wasn't Allen Ginsburg also in favor of child abuse?... He was a member of NAMBLA...

At least Moloch isn't real.

You're right. And thank you for that link.

Another famous person currently fighting it is Alex Trebek. Stage IV. And sadly, he just had a relapse.

It is not so simple. Many kinds of cancer cells can use ketones too.

- Indeed, it's tartar. I admit to having used the term loosely in my writing, because tartar is hardened plaque.

- Nowhere have I said I never went to the dentist. I just have no need to go for cleaning every 5-6 months anymore, whereas I used to be obligated because the tartar was so bad. Whenever I do go for a checkup, the dentist confirms there is no tartar. When I stopped needing cleaning he asked me what I had changed, and I mentioned vitamin K2. He wasn't aware of its dental benefits, but has since looked it up so he knows what I've been doing.

edit: Fixed for accuracy. Fine, I accept that plaque has not yet become tartar. You are 100% correct with regard to the semantical accuracy of my usage of the word "plaque" instead of tartar, but you have not falsified anything.

edit #2: Removed unnecessarily defensive parts.

I love reading about nutrition so I just happened to read several articles about K2 which prompted me to look at the relevant research. K2 is pretty big in ketogenic circles, so there's quite a bit of content written about it, although I do not subscribe to ketogenic diet theory at all.

Part of my research involves reading impressions and reviews posted online. I take it all with a grain of salt, of course, but as long as you label it as low quality data, it still has value. Sometimes it matches up with research. In the case of the effect on dental plaque, I could not find any research backing it up, so I discarded it as a fact but I was still aware of it; later, when I observed the benefit in my own experience, knowing that others reported the same thing helped me determine that it was in fact the K2 that did it (and then I knew to re-test K2 to confirm it).

I'm not aware of any research that establishes how it affects dental plaque, but there is research that suggests it dissolves arterial plaque, which is, in part, made of calcium (hence the cardiac calficiation score), and there is sufficient information overall to formulate a hypothesis on why it would work for dental plaque.

The general effect of vitamin K2 is connected with vitamin D, calcium and magnesium. Vitamin D upregulates calcium utilization, and has been shown to cause conditions of excess calcium e.g. hypercalcemia when cofactors are not present (e.g. magnesium or vitamin K2 deficiency).

While magnesium has a modulating effect on calcium absorption and utilization, vitamin K2 has a stronger effect whereby it causes calcium to be pulled out of inappropriate places (arteries, and apparently teeth) and moved towards appropriate places (bone and other tissues).

Dental tartar typically consists of biofilms made in part with calcium that shield the bacteria from the immune system (consider the term "dental calculus," which has the connotation of calcification). Presumably, vitamin K2 pulls the calcium from the biofilm, which causes it to collapse.

I understand. I think if you or someone else were skeptical, they'd probably be right to be. But you'd be surprised how far you can get using heuristics and experimentation with low-risk nutritional products to determine if they are beneficial or not, although any results achieved this way are understandably not very convincing to an external observer.

I think a good heuristic is if something is a very common nutritional element, then it's likely safe. Vitamin K2 in its MK-4 form is found in the cheese and meat products produced by grass-fed animals (think Netherlands, France...), while its MK-7 form can be found in certain plant-based products fermented with B. subtilis (Natto). People eat high-K2 diets around the world. It was certainly not going to kill me to try it out at a dose not exceeding what you can get from food (e.g. Natto can have 1000mcg of K2 MK-7 in a single serving!).

I also try not to take most supplements every day, because the idea is simply to top off levels of things I'm deficient in, plus to give the body some time to eliminate the supplement after using it, which reduces toxicity risks even further (turnover is an important factor), and also reduces the risks of forming a dependency (for example, I don't take taurine supplements every day, in case the body's own taurine production would get suppressed).

edit: "what to combine it with or not,"

It complements vitamin D, magnesium and calcium. I discuss this briefly in another post in this comment tree.

I personally use a product called Doctor's Hope MK4+MK7.

Disclaimer: I do not advise anyone to take this. I'm just reporting on my own experience.

I am not affiliated with anything related to healthcare or nutrition. I am just a software developer.

edit: I also don't take this that frequently anymore. I take it once a week only, with a meal (K2 is fat soluble). If I take it too frequently, it gives me some digestive discomfort.

I've been a reader of health and nutritional science for many years. Yes, I researched vitamin K2 before taking it. No, I am not into random bro-science. I am highly objective and have been able to achieve good results with various nutritional interventions, for several deficiency-related conditions.

The reason I started taking it was not dental plaque, but because my diet had few sources of vitamin K2 (due to diagnosed digestive issues) and the scientific consensus was that it is a valuable nutrient that occurs in diets correlated with reduced cardiac and other disease. I understand that correlation is not causation, but it is plausible that adding something missing in my diet could produce a benefit, and my mission was to correct deficiencies. It is, after all, a nutrient found in common foods.

I had read the claims about its effects on plaque incidentally to my research, but did not consider them factual because this effect had not been studied to my knowledge.

Several hours after taking K2, my teeth would start to feel a bit smoother. About a week and a half later, bits of plaque would start coming off my teeth when I brushed them. To answer your question, you can't not notice it. It's a chunk of solid white gunk that I couldn't previously remove from my teeth that has now become detached.

After a year or so I neglected supplementation with vitamin K2. The plaque eventually returned, albeit very slowly. Upon resuming vitamin K2, it would again dissolve.

I understand your skepticism with regard to n=1 vs. scientific theory, but I am a pragmatic person. I have been able to repeat this, and I can confirm it works for me. To put theory over practice when the reality of it stared me in the face would have been fallacious.

I used to have to go to the dentist every 5-6 months in order to remove built-up plaque that kept returning.

After starting supplementation with vitamin K2 every few days (a combination of MK-4 500mcg and Mk-7 100mcg), within a few weeks the plaque came off on its own when I brushed my teeth, and now I just don't have any plaque anymore.

This doesn't work for everyone, and for me, the MK-4 form alone did not produce this effect. The MK-4 form is sort of like "preformed" K2, as opposed to the MK-7 form, which is more like a precursor that persists in your blood for much longer before being converted as needed. It probably has something to do with dental plaque / biofilm being calcium-based, and vitamin K2 causes calcium to be removed from inappropriate places in the body.

I much prefer this to something fully engineered like micro-robots.

edit: It seems it's not really "micro-robots" after all; nonetheless, I much prefer nutritional intervention when effective.

This is kind of a Kafkaesque way to destroy the developers' pysches.

I feel like you've misunderstood the critical replies you've received above. You may think you are profiting by trying to allocate every millisecond of the developers' time, but it comes at a great cost that is hard to see upfront, but is very very real.

FYI I've selected Svelte for an enterprise project and after using it for some time, it seems to have some pretty big issues. I would honestly call the current release a beta version.

In particular, there is a _lot_ of flakiness with reactivity and because reactive things are magical in Svelte, it's very hard to diagnose and correct such issues. Reactive code becomes spaghetti fairly quickly once you start adding logic to prevent it breaking.

Those neat out-of-the-box transitions completely break unmounting/remounting as would be the case with, say, changing "pages" (using a router). If there's any transition still going on, the unmount will fail and yet the replacement component will be mounted, resulting in a frankenpage.

It's also maybe _too_ declarative in the sense that certain things that are easy to do imperatively require you to coerce Svelte to achieve them. You sometimes find yourself deliberately trying to fool Svelte into doing an update.

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But do I regret choosing it? Not really. All frameworks have flaws. IMHO: Angular is a convoluted spaghetti of nonstandardness, React has its head on backwards with JSX, Vue has too many quirks... I'm partial to riot.js which has just been updated to v4, but I have yet to try the latest version.

Humans being bipedal and "vertical" might have something to do with it too, if the idea is to signal oneself as not being "head-on" it might not be so intuitive with a human, whose "front" (including the face) is always looking at the dog from above, and whose side is not that distinctive.

I've toyed around with the template-strings-to-markup approach before, but couldn't quite figure out how using `map` to generate dynamic lists avoided doing a full O(n) loop upon each update without some kind of diffing engine (other than the browser's own markup diffing).

How do we know that what we perceive as randomness in quantum mechanics is "true" randomness, and not just something we say is "random" because we fail to model it?

There are market concentration regulations. The SEC typically applies a formula to determine if an acquisition results in a single entity owning too much of the market, in which case it would not be approved.

I don't know if this has been considered for these companies, but I suspect it may have been bypassed. At the very least, that's what an investigation would determine.

You might be interested in Proton Native (https://proton-native.js.org/#/) which should produce a much more lightweight output and has native controls. I have not used it though so I cannot vouch for whether it is sufficient for your needs.

"I am willing to treat this claim more credibly"

That's a personal heuristic - a very reasonable one, but it's still an argument from authority.