Calavar

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by Calavar 3y ago
Yep. Microsoft has forgotten what their value proposition for Windows is. Once they started to see it as a tool that extracts value and not a product that provides value, everything started to go downhill. I think there is a real opening fo
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by Calavar 3y ago
I suspect that it would have a similar number of edge cases, but they would be harder to interpret and reproduce. That's just been my experience with moving from unlearned algorithms to deep learning in general.
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by Calavar 3y ago
Your initial argument was "art is not a charity" - i.e. people don't produce quality artistic work unless there is a financial incentive, for which copyright is an essential requirement. Now you have carved out three or four
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by Calavar 3y ago
I'm not talking about cave paintings. When Livy wrote Ab Urbe Condita, when Chaucer wrote Centerbury Tales, who were they planning to sell the rights too? Professional/career writing didn't become the default until the middle
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by Calavar 3y ago
Today, yes, but that's not universal across human history.
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by Calavar 3y ago
You're right, implicit import (autoload) is an opt-in feature. Rails used to use autoload by default as of 3.x/4.x. It's been quite a while since I used Rails, so I'm not sure if this is still the case. Ruby imports have
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by Calavar 3y ago
I don't think that's right. This is my understanding: It takes an infinite time to cross the event horizon from the perspective of a distant, stationary observer, but a finite time from the perspective of the object that is actual
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by Calavar 3y ago
std::print is coming with C++23. In the meantime, there's std::format_to. You still have to dump the output into an std::ostream, but at least you don't have to use the disgusting ostream interface directly.
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by Calavar 3y ago
> When performing string concatenation operations, it is more advantageous in terms of performance to use std::ostringstream rather than std::string. This approach is also used elsewhere, such as debug_utils and node_errors. (From the No
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by Calavar 3y ago
> Years in, how much do you think school long ago vs on-the-job experience informs behavior? It's not medical school that makes the difference, it's residency, which is > 10,000 hours of on-the-job experience, more or less i
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by Calavar 3y ago
Interesting. I was going off of 2009 data. I am quite surprised that the situation reversed in such a short period of time.
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by Calavar 3y ago
> Are they in the same percentile as US doctors, but just everyone in Europe earns less Europe is a big target, and there is quite a bit of variability country-to-country, but in general I would say yes. For example, in France the median
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by Calavar 3y ago
The USA also has significantly more doctors per capita than the ither Anglophone countries (Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) and still has higher cost of care and worse healthcare outcomes than any of them. I've been saying this for a long t
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by Calavar 3y ago
It's not classism. Nursing school is a different form of training than physician training that teaches a different skillset. This is like asking an air traffic controller to fly a plane. Air traffic controllers are smart, highly educat
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by Calavar 3y ago
The real-life modern counterpart to Roald Dahl's fantasy machine is ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation). It works almost exactly the same as the device from the story. The longest that a person has survived on ECMO so far is a
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by Calavar 3y ago
You are both correct. Back in the 80s and 90s, it was projected that there would be a physician surplus about 10 to 20 years down the road, so the AMA advocated cutting the number of residency positions [1, 2]. But those predictions didn&#x
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by Calavar 3y ago
> incentive to chase HCOL areas where they can get paid or higher margin patients/procedures. I can't speak to dentistry, but physician income tends to be lower in HCOL areas because they tend to be oversaturated with physici
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by Calavar 3y ago
Most actually. As a country, we've had about a 10-year run of wage growth beating inflation. This only flipped in 2021. But the compounded wage growth from ~2013 to 2021 still beats the downward trend from 2021 to now. [1] https:&#x2F
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by Calavar 3y ago
My apologies because I was trying to recall trends from memory, and my timescales were off. Physician wages started to decline against inflation in the 1990s. They have been outpacing inflation for the past 10 years or so, but have still n
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by Calavar 3y ago
Yes, that's what dynamic means in a frontend dev context. This is a typesetting and document layout context.
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by Calavar 3y ago
Again, healthcare expenditure has been going up versus inflation, and physician compensation has been going down versus inflation. So if you're looking for divers of growing healthcare costs over the past decade, physician compensation
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by Calavar 3y ago
While this is true, physician pay also accounts for less than 10% of Healthcare spending. It's Amdahls law. You could cut physician pay in half, and it would barely touch total healthcare costs. In fact, we have been cutting physician
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by Calavar 3y ago
If you follow the comment trail back up, in the context of this conversation, static means PDF, hard constraints of physical page layouts; dynamic means HTML, digital, no hard layout constraints.
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by Calavar 3y ago
You mean different purposes by humans or different purposes by machines? For machine manipulation, I think it makes more sense to directly manipulate the AST. For human manipulation, I think the cognitive overhead of mentally converting bet
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by Calavar 3y ago
Sure, you could do that. But how does it help you understand the code better than reading it in the original source form? Programming languages are more than syntax. If you don't understand the semantics, you don't understand the
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by Calavar 3y ago
I think you're getting the definition of acronym mixed up with that of abbreviation. An acronym is an initialism that is pronounced as if it is a natural word. For example, NASA is both an initialism and an acronym. FBI is an initialis
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by Calavar 3y ago
I would be skeptical too if it was just a one time thing, but it wasn't. Around the same time as that HN comment, YouTube rolled out a redesign of their frontend that used the Polymer framework. At the time, Polymer depended on a depre
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by Calavar 3y ago
If you want to get that reductive, ultimately everything in the universe is just particles and forces and interactions between them, and any concepts beyond that are arbitrary lines drawn by us humans in an attempt to organize the chaos. In
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by Calavar 3y ago
No industry is a monolith, and yet there's not a single whistleblower that's come forward? There's not a single hedge fund that's dropped a Hindenburg style expose as it short sells a pharma company's stock?
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by Calavar 3y ago
If you take a biopsy of an inflamed part of the intestine in a person with ulcerative colitis, you can stain the cells in that sample, look at them under a microscope, and see a lot of gunk collecting around the nucleus that you don't

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