CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 2y ago
If you've ever tried to parse WHOIS programmatically, you'd realize that it being an unstructured blob of text is actually quite unconducive to it being useful. Having every endpoint return a standardized JSON payload specified in
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
If you're trying to debug why a website's setup isn't working, the first step is to see if what the registry thinks the nameservers should be matches what the nameservers in DNS actually are. These can fall out of sync if e.g
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
How do you determine the value of a domain name? Also there's nothing particularly valuable for most short domain name strings except on .com. It's generic words that tend to be valuable, not a short random string.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
GDPR is what changed this. Before that, registrars had little incentive to hide it for free when they could instead charge you for the service. It was not trivial that Google Domains (rip) came with free privacy proxy right from the beginni
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> But if you look at many cities you'll see that population has not grown significantly. You've got cause and effect backwards here. The population hasn't grown because the housing hasn't been built for them. The ci
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Ahhh OK so it's essentially the null or identity value, saying "you don't need this component for an exact representation". That makes sense, thanks.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It's not wasted effort at all, as this app comes installed by default for over a billion users. Only a tiny fraction will ever install another calculator app, so the default one better work entirely correctly. When you have that many u
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> Obviously we'll want a symbolic representation for the real number 1 Sorry, why is this obvious? A basic int type can store the value of 1, let alone the more complicated Rational (BigNum/BigNum) type they have. I can absol
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> Having everyone together in one place at one time is what makes the Olympics special. Special for the athletes, live spectators & host city alike. A good idea in theory, but in practice the cost of hosting the entire Olympics in a
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It's not an exception at all. People get promoted all the time. Most people I work with have been promoted at least once since joining the company, some multiple times like I have.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
They're talking about referrals, not reference checks. Getting good referrals is hugely important, especially at smaller companies that don't the capacity to do a rigorous hiring process.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
"Going above and beyond" at a big company, if done in a smart strategic way, is the best way to get promoted, and getting promoted results in significantly higher pay. I've gotten promoted twice at my current employer over th
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
People are routinely killed by falling bullets. It turns out that the vast majority of idiots firing blindly into the air don't know or care to shoot only straight up, and it would be the same problem for whichever idiots were trying t
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
There aren't workers doing those jobs in the US anymore. 100% of those close-to-the-actual-manufacturing jobs were outsourced. The remaining people in the US aren't doing the same jobs; they're doing HQ stuff.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> Again, offshoring normally implies that there are workers still in an "onshore" office. Not workers doing the same jobs though. Look at how manufacturing was offshored over the past several decades -- for many companies, ent
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Alphabet ($GOOG) 2024 Q3 earnings release [pdf](abc.xyz)
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> If after the price increase there are 10% (50) parking spots open, that means at least a 100 people went elsewhere (20%). Your math ain't mathing.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
To be clear, version a is referring to literal (non-metaphorical) crutches, and is not the version being used here because GLP-1 agonists are not literal crutches. Version b is the only possible use of the word being used in this conversat
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Exactly! For many drugs it's essentially a funny accident of history that they were originally discovered while attempting to cure something completely unrelated to what is now their primary usage.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
There's not that much free space available. It's a maximum of 10%. Almost everyone who was ever going to be able to go here is able to do so, they're just paying more for the privilege and they aren't wasting as much t
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Unless you're gonna make it fully automated, it's not gonna work here as it can't be within kilometers of the landing site during landing in case there's a catastrophic failure.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
People don't realize that Ozempic is already a third generation GLP drug, Mounjaro is a 4th, and the try generation drugs are already in wide scale clinical trials. We do in fact know a lot about how these drugs affect people by now, a
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Amazingly enough, the drugs do address the root of the problem. Snacking / junk food is less appealing on them.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> Cities and councils should not be making decisions based on how to raise revenue. ... although if they were, the price of parking would be way higher. The optimal price for parking is a time-and-day-dependent price set high enough tha
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
So I live in NYC, and constant honking and worrying about being run over by cars when I'm trying to cross the street contribute way more to my stress than the state of the subway in NYC. Driving, or being around vehicles driving, is i
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> This is a diabetes drug, remember. No, Wegovy and Zepbound are not diabetes drugs. They are weight loss drugs. > ... but problems with controlling themselves around food. Problems that Wegovy and Zepbound solve for most people taki
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> maybe some therapy for addiction (of all kinds) and a shift in focus toward health is a better idea than being on a drug for the rest of your life. It doesn't work for nearly as many people as GLP-1 agonists do. There are many di
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
The marginal cost to produce the few milligrams of the drug that goes into the pens is much much less than $2.83; it's on the order of cents. Plus, scaling up manufacturing of the drug is easier than scaling up manufacturing of the au
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Realistically this treatment is just not available to most people (for the simple reason that there are way too few non-car-dependent cities in the US, and the ones that there are are super expensive). But GLP1 agonists are available to mo
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
There are also doctors that are prescribing vials of semaglutide and commodity needles, and training patients to properly dose up and administer the drug via a standard needle. There's more to it than the auto-injector pens, but not t

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