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New comment by wathef in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

wathef — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:34:29 +0000

Los Angeles had the largest public transportation network in the United States until we paved over it[1]. We had over 1,300 miles! You could've gone from Huntington Beach to Downtown and all the way up to Burbank. You can see many of the maps of Los Angeles at the public library[2]. I don't live there anymore, love that place though.

[1] - https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/from-rail-to-roads-an...

[2] - https://www.lapl.org/research-guides/maps/maps-los-angeles

New comment by wathef in "Cloudflare outage should not have happened"

wathef — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:51:42 +0000

an insulin pump is a good metaphor; insulin as a hormone has a lot of interactions and the pump itself, if not wanting to unalive its user, should (most do not) account for external variables, such as: exercise, heart rate, sickness, etc. these variables are left for the user to deal with, and in this case, is a subpar experience in managing a condition.

New comment by wathef in "Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes"

wathef — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:05:52 +0000

congrats on the little one, here’s to many wonderful moments.

New comment by wathef in "Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)"

wathef — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:15:59 +0000

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, this is one of the best takes here. It sits squarely in the realm of evidence where the majority of these comments are anecdotal and they don’t translate to population level studies.

New comment by wathef in "Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?"

wathef — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:08:36 +0000

A carbohydrate and protein have the same calorie content, around 4kcal per gram. Fat is 9kcal per gram.

New comment by wathef in "Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered"

wathef — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:41:10 +0000

I may be wrong, but if I remember correctly Standard Charter uses their own “dialect” called Mu[1].

1 - https://icfp21.sigplan.org/details/hiw-2021-papers/14/Haskel...

New comment by wathef in "Guide to Java Virtual Threads"

wathef — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:47:57 +0000

Both of those (sum and products) are ADTs.

New comment by wathef in "Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop"

wathef — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:12:59 +0000

The problem with red meat isn't meat per se; all meat has saturated fat, some more than others. Reducing LDL cholesterol (reducing CVD risk) means increasing fiber and reducing saturated fat, and if someone chimes in saying that it's not casual, we have an excellent mendelian randomization study that gives us a pretty good link [1]. All plant-based meat alternatives, including cheeses, have high amounts of saturated fat from coconut oil, which isn't very good either.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26780009/