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by Swizec 1y ago
> but at some point relationships are more important than dollars Sure. Who do you have a better relationship with: That engineer who drops everything they're doing to come help you with a gnarly bug when asked, or the dude who&#x2
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Lots of fresh grads and junior staff focus 99% on being useful, but career advancement beyond the first one or two promotions depends MUCH more on being valued. “People don’t remember who went to grab drinks on a Tuesday, but they’ll r
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by Swizec 1y ago
edit to add: Heavily processed american style food started entering our market in the late 90’s early 2000’s. It never got quite as popular or common as it is here (I moved to USA in 2015)
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by Swizec 1y ago
> No you wouldn’t. Obesity rates back then were near zero. Define back then. My great grandma lived from 1910’s to 1990’s. I believe she got indoor plumbing and electricity sometime in the 1950’s or 60’s. Because everyone grew their own
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by Swizec 1y ago
> eat what your great grandma did “mostly greens, not too much” My great grandma is from eastern-ish europe and grew up on a farm. Her diet mainly consisted of potatoes, bread, corn, milk, sausage, lard, butter, fermented cabbage or turn
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Doom-Like Game in DuckDB(github.com)
1 points by Swizec 1y ago|0 comments
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by Swizec 1y ago
> I'm saying there's no ruling out they might be able to do it soon Even experienced engineers can be surprisingly bad at this. Not everyone can tell their boss “That’s a stupid requirement and here’s why. Did you actually mean
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by Swizec 1y ago
> How can it be both hereditary and given by the people? These are medieval times. Just that power wasn’t granted/legitimized from god was a huge innovation for the times. Here’s the ritual, from Wikipedia: > The peasant, sitting
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Thus only the people can legitimize a government, and governments exist to protect the people's rights One of the coolest tidbits of Slovenian history is that in the early 800’s AD we had a kingdom where the coronation involved pe
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by Swizec 1y ago
> if you are not too write heavy you can scale Postgres to very high read throughput with read replicas and only a single master The number of interviewees (I do the sys design question) who want to jump straight into massively distribut
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Is it your contention that if an obese, not-runner ... No. Every exercise regime must include a ramp up period. If I started training like an olympian tomorrow I'd be in the hospital by next week. Same thing if a couch potato trie
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> knees /../ I would not run for this reason Studies increasingly show that running is not bad for your knees and runners in fact have some of the strongest healthiest knees around. User proper form, replace your shoes regularl
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> It might be co-causal Kinda like how wine after dinner improves health outcomes. The kind of people who can afford to regularly drink wine, but not a lot, also have more access to healhtcare. Also riding horses makes you healthier! (it
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by Swizec 1y ago
How is it irrelevant? Kids will always cheat their way through classes they feel are a distraction. Even the super smart Type A kids. Hell, all humans do that. You use every resource available to get out of dealing with things that are not
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> if it really is laziness, and not something else, e.g. a mental health issue. Kids optimize. When I was in high school I was fully capable of getting straight F's in a class I didn't care about and straight A's in a cla
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by Swizec 1y ago
> When I need to write an email, I often bullet-point what I want to write and ask the LLM to write out a coherent, cordial email. I’ve gotten worse at writing emails Just send the bullet points! Nobody wants the prose. It’s a business e
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by Swizec 1y ago
I have a friend who struggled with RSI for years, tried every keyboard and mouse under the sun, and nothing worked. Then he quit the job he hated, got a job he enjoyed (both coding), and his RSI went away in a week. Sometimes it really is p
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by Swizec 1y ago
> why the menu is tied to the view at all, and not deriving its state from the user session Yes! But it turns out in some of these frameworks “the user session” is not a magic global, your view has to pass it into the template. And even
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by Swizec 1y ago
Lots of people build stuff and don’t have 25 years of experience. Or it seemed like “unnecessary complexity” when the app had 5 users and interactions took 100ms. A lot of standard things feel like “wow people are way overthinking this, it’
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by Swizec 1y ago
> To me that reeks of badly structured code, with bad abstraction layers, perhaps stuffing too much stuff into a single module or, if the language is still backward and doesn't have modules, a file Yes and that’s normal. Big ball of
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Doesn't this just change into /../ Yes and no! TypeScript helps a lot – you get quick traceability of where things are used and squiggly lines, if you break a contract. Yes a statically typed MVC framework would get you
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by Swizec 1y ago
Oh I was hired because I’ve been here before and know what to do. It’s fast becoming a career specialty lol
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by Swizec 1y ago
I work on a site that was built without frameworks with just a sprinkle of jQuery on top of a traditional MVC framework. It worked great but then the business grew and the software became bigger than what fits in 1 engineer’s head. We now h
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What happens when a hegemon falls?(economist.com)
6 points by Swizec 1y ago|1 comments
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> That's almost as bad as buying a book and never reading it. > (Which, to be fair, is a sin that I do, sometimes, commit). Buying books and reading books are separate hobbies. Everyone knows this.
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I was thinking Andy Weir but yeah there’s probably several. A strong physics background surely helps with writing better sci-fi
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by Swizec 1y ago
> > Subskills cover skills > Isn't this requirement a common fallacy in education? Whole careers have been built on being one of only a few people in the world who can perform A and B together. Like that physics guy who can al
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by Swizec 1y ago
> People should just reward better service instead of picking the seemingly cheapest option This is easy for us hackernews types with disposable income to say and very hard for the average person to implement. 57% of Americans can’t affo
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by Swizec 1y ago
Exactly. When consumers don’t vote in their own best interest with their wallets, legislation is the only option. Let’s do airlines next
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> As an aside, I don't know why AirBnB can't get their shit together and push all the fees to the map. My guess is that most of those fees are not per night? Well make the front matter say "$120/night + fees" and

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