A person who gets bad hay fever from one brand of pollen over another should naturally differentiate their problem with something like "dandelions are the worst for me". And we've all heard that sort of thing many times.

If I am indeed allergic to a fish protein, but it translates to "all fish I've ever tried to eat and I'm sick of the side effects from trying so I'm taking the nuke them all from orbit approach" then it is simpler, and more powerful/useful, to say that I am allergic to fish.

Larger generalizations are more valuable than small ones. They save time. Leaving more time to troll on Slashdot. What's not to like?

In much the same way that Windows can be generalized to being "unstable" to a Linux person, without them going through a whole litany of instabilities in all versions of Windows going back to ProgMan, I've never had the need to sub-divide my fish allergy.

Correcting me is pedantic (and condescending) but not productive. And it's not the kind of thing to get one laid at parties. So what's the point? To be "right" in a battle that no one else is fighting? Oh, wait, this is Slashdot...never mind.

"No canary is relevant to the air quality in the coal mine because they are more sensitive than the average."

Ah, that's what makes my case _more_ interesting. I can easily "run low" on Vitamin D, and have similarly noticed the benefit of having enough after a period without enough.

From the library's notes for the book:
"Found in the seeds, grains, skins, rinds, and leaves of most plants, lectins act as smart bombs in the human body, causing toxic or inflammatory reactions that lead to serious conditions such as leaky gut, autoimmune disease, chronic digestive disorders, heart disease, and weight gain."

Ignoring the "leaky gut" one (that I may or may not have...but more probably had when I was very young), I don't any of these. I have the digestion of a horse, no heart issues ever -- I had a thorough check-up by the life insurance company and qualified for the healthiest rate of insurance, now locked in for the rest of my life. As to weight gain, I find that related to sugar. Three years ago I cut it out entirely for six months and lost 15 pounds. Gradually mistress sugar has snuck her way back into my bed and my weight is back where it was (still within the normal BMI range).

Thank you for the book information and your suspected diagnosis.

By the way, what is with "fish" in quotes?

Some can eat fish but not shellfish.

I can eat shellfish but am allergic to fish. I've met others with this (more rare) set of (dis)abilities. I can eat shrimp, prawns, lobster, crab -- all delicious. I can not eat any fish I've tried to eat.

People who are allergic to pollen don't have others saying "there are all kinds of 'pollen' and you gotta specify". Down with the allergy racism ;-)

I'll credit you with some knowledge of vitamins...

However, trying to claim/imply I am unhealthy is humorous. When I help out planting trees, I routinely do the work of three people -- whose combined age equals mine. I guess the 400 million vegetarians in India must also be unhealthy as well?

As to eggs, they provide insufficient vitamin D -- Google says you get 5% of daily req. from one egg so I'd need 20 a day...

As to my allergy to fish -- had it for 56+ years. Gone through periods where I ate zero starch...still allergic.

You know, maybe not everyone has the same problem?

The way I had it explained, the "leaky gut" can occur when a child is very young. They eat a food the body is not yet ready to handle. And it causes the body to react to the food item. What is rarely discussed or acknowledged is the possibility of the body setting up a long term reaction to the given item. Should it? No. Does it? Yes.

I don't claim to be "deathly allergic". Yes, I get some throat constriction/irritation, but I've never had major difficulty in breathing. I don't take inhalers (or any other chemical, other than caffeine).

People have hidden fish in foods I eat -- I still get a reaction. One time I got a reaction because someone had left a bone on a plate and I put my elbow on it -- age 7 or 8, btw, in case you are wondering what I was doing with my elbows on the table.

What happens to me when I eat fish is...the fish just sits in my stomach. Two hours can go by. My body gets annoyed/bothered by the situation and asks me to throw up the offending item. I do and it comes up...undigested.

Simple body rejection. Happens. Believe me I wish it didn't. I come from the wet coast, and Lox is often served at the functions I attend. SOL.

My personal choice to not eat meat is irrelevant (to you)? A humorous response, causing me to wonder how your relationships with the opposite gender are working out.

As to fish...
Yes, I seem to be allergic to some "specific protein" as I can indeed consume fish oil. Your point, therefore, is...?

Pale Moon (the final XP version) is a little antiquated. But man is it fast. When you X it away, one second later it is gone from memory. No other browser comes close (and Chrome is the worst at this).

Most importantly, it uses about 20% of the memory of Chrome. My main machine has 3 GB of RAM. With it, I could watch a total of one video in one tab using Chrome and I still had RAM issues. With PM, I can forget about memory issues.

Two drawbacks (with YouTube). #1 - it doesn't support the now default video format of YT's. So either I wait half a day for the other form to be available -- only an issue on new videos -- or I fire up Chrome. #2 - it doesn't go higher than 360px. Little known fact? This rarely matters. And when it does, I fire up Chrome.

This is why people are die hard PM fans. PM is a lean, mean, machine for people who want to get stuff done.

And in my case, on that page of "Food Sources of Vitamin D", I consume a grand total of one of the items -- eggs.

I'm vegetarian, so the meat sources are out.

I'm allergic to fish, so all those are out.

I minimize my consumption of dairy, so those are out.

Surprise, surprise, I had bone issues until I took Vitamin D.

I wonder if this "article" is trying to move the U.S. to the Canadian model where the government controls the selling of Vitamin D. [I was told this by a frustrated Canadian nutritionist, and it may have been more true in the past.]

A far better article is here.

I was one of the care people for an Alzheimer's person. I worked for just a few months. Others worked for years.

One of things I did was take this person for long drives...in the living world. This 80+ year old otherwise frail person would lean forward the whole trip (holding on to the grab bar in my truck).

After I left, for months, this Alzheimer's person would ask the other staff about me. They never asked about anyone else.

This Alzheimer's person clearly learned the best out in nature. They even managed to overcome their own Alzheimer's condition.

The point is not "Who has a horse?" The point is that some experiences mean one heck of a lot more than others. Good teachers know this. They try hard to be enthusiastic...not because enthusiasm fuses thoughts to brain cells, but because when people are enthused, stimulated "in the living world", etc. they open themselves up to other levels of learning.

Given that Google is providing more and more functionality on that first page of search results, wouldn't it be funny if it was Google encouraging web sites to make crappy web pages?

I tracked The Open almost entirely from Google, including leaderboards and schedules. It was quick, clean and efficient. I would have had to be paid to go to a golfing site instead.

Garbage web sites are getting what they deserve -- avoidance.

Wiki:
SCL Group (formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories) was a private British behavioural research and strategic communication company. In the United States, SCL has gained public recognition mainly through its affiliated corporation Cambridge Analytica. It performs data mining and data analysis on its audience. Based on results, communications will be specifically targeted to key audience groups to modify behaviour in accordance with the goal of SCL's client. The company describes itself as a "global election management agency". London-based SCL was founded by Nigel Oakes who serves as its CEO.
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From the summary:

This increases the core count from the current six cores in the 8th generation Coffee Lake parts to eight cores

Given that feature size is no longer shrinking, it seems like getting rid of HT gained back not just one but two cores.

From the article:

Nonetheless, this change in branding does suggest that Intel is running out of room to maneuver. The 6th, 7th, 8th, and imminent 9th generation processors all (except for some rare 8th generation parts) use cores that are close derivatives of the Skylake design, with each new generation bumping up clock speeds and core counts a little. But both appear to be near their limits. The clock speed changes amount to a mostly negligible 100 or 200MHz, and increasing core counts is of limited value, too. The utility of the extra cores (or threads) is greatly diminished for most mainstream users, and, while Intel does have designs with more than eight cores, these are Skylake-SP and Skylake-X parts; they use a different socket, they have a very different internal layout (the cores are arranged into a grid rather than a ring), and they don't include an integrated GPU.

In a world of static feature size, they appear to have made a judgment call -- 8 cores with no HT is better than 6 cores with HT. Seems entirely reasonable to me.

Actually, it is dead easy.

If we go this way -- better design -- the customer wins and we make less money.

If we go that way -- planned obsolescence -- the customer loses and we make more money.

If you don't things are this bad, explain why Apple solders pretty much everything on a $1,000 iphone to the motherboard these days. The answer is...so it can be priced at $1,000.