Chris McCord directly addresses this in his recent ElixirConf talk. There's a threshold amount of training data needed for LLMs to work well, and Elixir more than clears it. Beyond that threshold, having more data doesn't make a tremendous difference. This means the "frustration gap" for newcomers essentially disappears - people who heard "Elixir is good" can now just ask an LLM to build something and start immediately, easing their way into understanding functional programming paradigms in order to be productive. I use Claude Code daily for Elixir development and it understands the language perfectly. The real strategic advantage is that while other ecosystems scramble to solve agent orchestration problems, Elixir/OTP already solved them decades ago. Lots more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fj2u6Vm42E&t=1321s
I actually lived in Japan for 2+ mths , ate like how I ate more than what I ate in Singapore , literally lost 5kg. I was remote working there but do travel out and walk during weekends.
I actually miss the dirty oil fried food from Singapore , it’s much nicer when it’s greasy. Japan cooking oil is very clean , food quality is much higher too, less processed.
Traveling somewhere where you walk more and then losing weight is such a common story that it has become a meme.
People also don’t accurately judge how much they eat. The portion sizes were likely smaller and the food composition was different than what you ate in Singapore, even if you thought you were eating the same. A lot has been written arguing about hidden factors in food, but in actual studies it always comes down to eating fewer calories. Eating less calorie dense foods and smaller portion sizes will do it. Even the GLP-1 studies revealed that the magic of their weight loss is directly proportional to reduction of calories eaten, even if patients eat exactly the same foods (but in smaller quantities or less frequently)
* You can use cheaper types that are nothing but omega 6
* You can heat them too high for their smoke point
* They can oxidize and go rancid
* You can use an enormous amount of it
Likely one of the main reasons a lot of restaurant food may not settle as well as home cooking. But in principle a restaurant could do the reverse of these four points.
The two most common oils in Japan are canola and soybean, and that's also historically been the case, not a modern change. They definitely do not believe there's anything wrong with seed oils.
> The two most common oils in Japan are canola and soybean, and that's also historically been the case
Umm, canola oil has only been available since the 70s. Even rapeseed oil has only been used since the 50s (it is toxic and unpalatable without modern industrial processing, as are many seed oils).
Mustard oil is traditional and still very common cooking oil in South Asia that is even higher in erucic acid than rapeseed. People have used high erucic acid seed as good for a long time.
How fast is "pretty fast"? I assume that most restaurants change their fryer oil at a max once per week. And after cooking, the (underlying) food is more likely to spoil before the oil on the food going rancid.
You should assume the worst. Even if oils are not smelly, they can be spoiled and nobody will give a damn at the restaurant.
Fast like you use it once or twice, it goes rancid.
I witnessed restaurants in the Meditterian that keep oils on the tables for salads, and they are rancid due to hot temperatures.
Cook on coconut oil or palm oil, they are the most stable ones. If you go with plant oils, use olive oil as it seets in between poly and saturated oils.
Huh, I actually thought this particular piece of woo had mostly died out at this point; haven't heard much about it for a few years.
I'd vaguely assumed that it was bored anti vaxers looking for a new Big Bad, but apparently it was Joe Rogan in 2020. Per Google Trends, it seems to have peaked early 2025, which is _much_ later than I thought. Maybe this is a consequence of dumping twitter; I'm missing out on important Oil Discourse.
Well, if you are going to stay open for long, you had better not use rancid oil! Let's ignore that concern for now, as it generally applies to all food products.
"seed oil" -- What is this nonsense that I keep hearing about on social media? Literally, RFK Jr. (US Secretary of Health) says (amoung other crazy things) that seed oils are "poisoning Americans". Is there any peer-reviewed science behind this "seed oil is bad for you" movement? I have not seen it. Also, Japan uses a wide variety of cooking oil. Probably, olive oil is the least used (only in southern European restaurants). I guess that soybean, canola, peanut, cotton seed, rice bran, and sesame seed oil are the most common oils here -- pretty similar to most of the highly developed world (except rice bran and sesame seed).
Google tells me that soybean, canola, peanut, cotton seed, and sesame seed oil are all considered "seed oils".
"high and long temperatures on polyunsaturaded oils": Japan eats more fried food that people realise, but the portion size is quite small. As I understand, to fry food, you need to have a pool of it that is constantly heated to cooking temperature. That seems to qualify as "high and long temperatures". In fact, wouldn't all fried food suffer from the same? I don't understand the science behind this comment. Can you explain it to me like I'm five? (Other people may be interested to learn more.)
Final small thing: It is best to avoid the term "Japs" in English. It has a historical discriminatory meaning in the United States.
Carbon exists only for interoperating with and transitioning off of C++. Creating a new code base in carbon doesn’t really make sense, and the project’s readme literally tells you not to do that.
> Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should.
I just upgraded back to Pro, i will post the results in 1-2 days time. I used to use pro but there's really no benefit or difference.
Anyway i did a quick check, my 503 error is currently at 3.23k the past 7 days , that's out of 1 million request the past 7 days.
I was about to upgrade to ARGO and pay for it since i was optimising the bandwidth the past month until I saw this article which really gave me a shock.... because I heavily invested in Cloudflare stock market...... Which so far has good returns and i still believe in it but this article is critical ... If what this person say is true, I might exit Cloudflare earlier, from the stock market i mean.
