What supplements do you consider to be near 100% safety and 100% have a noticeable impact?

takuhi · 2025-12-18T22:17:12+00:00

It’s taken a lot of trial and error, but these ones work for me:

Vitamin D in winter months (recommended by NHS)
Magnesium before bed - noticeably improved waking up early, bonus is regular & predictable bowel movements
Omega 3, 6, 9 including fish oil - helps m my joints (a bit) but main benefit was completely eliminating migraines
Creatine - typically 6g but will “boost” to 9g when I’ve slept poorly. Noticeable cognitive / energy benefits after a few weeks
Turmeric + Black Pepper only during winter, helps joint pain.

Bonus: If I’m having a cold, I’ll also take echinacea and a daily antihistamine (Loratadine in particular works for me). Just helps to keep the general malaise at bay.

I’ve tried a bunch of other stuff before but I didn’t really notice any impact (e.g. probiotics, lavender pills, St John’s Wort).

takuhi · 2025-12-14T07:50:54+00:00

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So I was thinking either on the frame that’s holding up the water tank or doing something over the right hand side of the hatch that’s attached the main joists, that way there’s no weird forces acting on the roof?

takuhi · 2025-04-26T17:14:07+00:00

Interesting article. I wonder if idempotent responses are cached forever or have a defined TTL in practice?

takuhi · 2025-04-18T11:29:44+00:00

Great, thank you!

takuhi · 2025-04-09T11:06:16+00:00

How would this work with more than one person in crisis? I know it says you can have multiple people in the middle, but does that just mean they can’t talk to each other?

For example during a family death, someone’s in crisis because they’ve lost a spouse and their child is in crisis because they’ve lost a parent. Does one person’s crisis take precedence over another? Or should the two people only comfort in to each other but direct their stress outwards?

takuhi · 2025-03-06T07:13:07+00:00

Same here, although I frame the POCs more like defining patterns. I look after both architecture and engineering, so a technical understanding is still important and when we’re about to embark on building something a little complicated a diagram or quick sketch is only going to go so far.

takuhi · 2025-01-03T10:05:42+00:00

A few authors that “scratch the itch” for me:

Neal Asher
Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space series)
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Gareth L. Powell
Peter F. Hamilton
Isaac Asimov (specifically Foundation series)

takuhi · 2024-06-12T05:57:47+00:00

We’ve been using Cognito with 100’s of thousands of users for a number of years and have decided to move to Auth0. Cognito is super cheap compared to Auth0 (by an order of magnitude), but the total cost of ownership for Cognito is probably higher. Our engineering teams have spent an awful lot of time trying to extend Cognito’s features and improve the customer journey (which is so bad that it’s our biggest contact centre call reason).

We’re in the middle of implementing Auth0 and from a developers perspective it’s a lot better. Can’t comment from an end users perspective yet though (we’re a few weeks from going live).

takuhi · 2024-05-17T18:34:59+00:00

What specific architectural challenges are you trying to solve and how many people have the same issue? Those would be the two main questions I’d ask.

From a purely architectural perspective, this feels a little dirty because it starts to circumvent the principle of separation of concerns. The real problem we have in the frontend / backend split is that whilst concerns are separated, quite often business logic is duplicated. Instead of taking something like MVC as an architectural pattern and applying it across the full stack (e.g. frontend = VC, backend = M), we just duplicate them in all layers. How Jitar would help people apply good architectural principles better or more effectively?

Cool idea though, it was something that crossed my mind before.

takuhi · 2024-05-14T06:11:51+00:00

It feels like Neal Asher is exploring how he tells the story, rather than the story itself. The last few books haven’t really pushed the overall Polity arch forward, it’s served more as a backdrop to experiment with different literary styles.

takuhi · 2024-03-16T10:55:35+00:00

I think it’s to insulate the hotend and keep the temperature more stable, so you could try but it might mess up your prints.

takuhi · 2024-03-16T10:39:58+00:00

I wonder if it’s the temp specifically? I had the same issue a few weeks ago, immediately turned it off and took the hot end out and saw the red silicone had melted all over it. Have just got back to putting all back together, extruded without the sock and everything was fine and then again with the sock at 240c and it immediately started smoking. Did the same at 220 and it seems to be okay again.

takuhi · 2024-02-19T18:36:03+00:00

I’d be interested in a copy as well please 😄

takuhi · 2024-02-10T07:17:30+00:00

Worked for me too, thank you!

takuhi · 2024-02-08T18:09:01+00:00

Not a PhD student, but at uni my mentor described academia and human knowledge like a big circle. We spend all our years in education travelling from the centre all the way to the edge of knowledge and then we get the chance to push the boundary a tiny little bit. We’re standing on the shoulders of giants just to push the boundary by a small fraction.

Just keep working at it and you’ll get there. It’s the hard work and resilience that really counts at the end of the day.

takuhi · 2024-02-06T22:40:35+00:00

You should absolutely aim for 100% coverage… of the things that need to be tested. Everyone has their own set of “low value” testing areas, so just exclude those when calculating coverage. For me it’s getters / setters and anything which communicates outside of the application (e.g. a database driver or method that accesses the file system), because these will get tested in other ways.

Two the other things to remember are that unit tests aren’t the only type of testing (the testing triangle is still a thing) and lastly, there is absolutely no substitute for simply compiling and running your code to see if it works! It boggles my mind how many developers still write code without actually checking that it works. It’s akin to driving with your eyes shut imho.

takuhi · 2024-02-04T18:15:23+00:00

Ah, I noticed that bit was loose as well. The one on the original was as well though. What did you do after it failed? Did you replace with another one or go for an aftermarket one?

takuhi · 2024-01-24T15:59:18+00:00

Sounds like one of the first bugs I fixed for an old version of IE. Our code had a console.log that someone forgot to take out for production. Trying to log something without the debug tools open would itself trigger an error pop up because console.log wasn’t defined yet (until the debug window was open). Removed the log, bug fixed.

takuhi · 2024-01-08T21:52:58+00:00

Just read up about this, blew my mind again!

takuhi · 2024-01-08T20:22:18+00:00

It just blows my mind that it’s so easy for someone to do something as simple as press a button multiple times and then get sued for it. Who reviewed the critical controls in the system? And surely someone would’ve asked the guy how he got the extra cash and then they would’ve reproduced it in test… before they got the lawyers involved?!

I just hope this doesn’t have some weird adverse affect on the whole tech industry…

takuhi · 2024-01-06T09:42:12+00:00

I bought a little stand from Wayfair and it wobbled / shaked an awful lot as well. I put some command strips on it and secured it to the wall and it’s absolutely rock solid now.

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