Swizec

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by Swizec 3y ago
Ossuary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossuary I think this is fairly standard practice in much of Europe where space is scarce. Moreso in larger towns and cities than rural villages. It’s also why family tombs are com
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by Swizec 3y ago
> but 17th century seems way too recent to be digging people up My SO recently visited her family tomb in France. It was gone. Lease lapsed, no more tomb. Last person was buried there some 40 years ago. Church didn’t know who to contact
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by Swizec 3y ago
Part of the problem is that if you do it their way, you become them. What’s the point of winning if you get the same outcome as not winning? USA doesn’t need a left/center authoritarian regime just as much as it doesn’t want a right au
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by Swizec 3y ago
> That sort of commitment needs to be a very well paid job with a team of helpers Especially if you’ve already been doing it for 10 years. There’s very few projects I’ve kept up for 10+ years regardless of external interest. Sure I’ve be
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Interesting to hear he just doesn't feel like it any more Influencer burnout is real. Especially if you started at a very different stage in your life. One of the toughest things that happens (speaking from experience) is that you
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I’m wondering: is there a good list of data privacy failure consequences? The ultimate example is how 1940’s Germany used 1930’s Germany’s census data. In 1933 it didn’t seem so bad to tick a box with your religious affiliation …
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by Swizec 3y ago
Fair, it’s not literally useless, it does help with typos and autocomplete. But you can get so much more with just 10% extra care in how you design your interfaces that the lazy approach feels almost useless by comparison. It’s similar to
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by Swizec 3y ago
Your problem isn’t tRPC, your problem is that you have engineers who type things for typing’s sake. They’ll have the same problem in any tool. There’s a learning curve to these things. It always starts with type FunctionIWroteTodayArgs = …,
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by Swizec 3y ago
> My pet peeve is when people start saying life-extension is around the corner. But life extension is already here! We used to be quite old by 65, now you have people completing iron mans in their 80's. One of the biggest looming ec
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by Swizec 3y ago
Grew up in EU. We thought it was edgy and cool to drink alcohol around 13/14. We couldn’t acquire serious quantities so not much drunkenness happened. We’d like share a beer between 10 people and think we’re soooo drunk
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by Swizec 3y ago
The “No new launch vehicles” adage reads to me as “Don’t develop a new browser when you make a website” That doesn’t mean we never need or want a new browser. It just means that developing a browser is a separate project and if your fancy w
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by Swizec 3y ago
> These days 17 year olds can get away with "programming" by gluing things they don't understand 17 to 21-ish is probably my least gluey era of programming. I wrote an MVC framework from scratch, built my own interpreter,
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by Swizec 3y ago
> my god, say no to this shit? Fuck you, pay me is a wonderful talk that should be required watching for any creative looking to start a career. Doubly so if striking out on their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkL
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by Swizec 3y ago
Yes. The only way to solve a difficult problem with just 2 methods that take 3 arguments each is if those two methods are huge. Keep your APIs small, but poweful. This is the opposite of short function people which keep their APIs huge, but
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by Swizec 3y ago
Luckily that one doesn’t even come up. “Kids these days” don’t know about it :D I jest, but I am at least 5 years older than everyone else on the team. And have the unfun background of getting into professional webdev before jQuery.
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by Swizec 3y ago
I always attempt to die on the links should be links hill. So far the only times I didn’t get my way was when the thing was in fact semantically a button, it just happened to use navigation to achieve its aim. Usually in these cases the mar
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by Swizec 3y ago
> The conference delays the surgery, so the patient’s surgery or other high risk procedures are delayed. My understanding from listening to the author’s podcast, is that this is the proposed mechanism. There is a percentage of patients w
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by Swizec 3y ago
The author of this study talks about time of year in a later podcast, iirc. They did control for time of year (maybe in a later study) and found no effect. source: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-happens-to-patien
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I noticed people from hacker news routinely read scientific papers. This is a habit I envy but don't share. > Any tips or sites for someone interested in picking up more science papers to read. Personally, the older I get, the
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by Swizec 3y ago
> their opinions were pretty much lockstep with the US right in terms of the pandemic, and it was clear this was due to ingrained government distrust As a person born in communism but too young to remember, now living in USA, my attitude
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by Swizec 3y ago
Funnily, studies have shown that people spend more time on chat and less time in face-to-face communication when working from an openspace office than when they work from home. Hopping on a quick 5min zoom is frictionless at home. Walking a
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by Swizec 3y ago
Or if you’re going for a real hike. We hear news of tourists needing rescue from the Alps all summer because they thought sneakers would be good enough. Ankles roll real fast in the loose rocky ground above the vegetation line. But yeah you
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by Swizec 3y ago
Eh if the deliverable is a research paper, you’re doing academia even if it says faang on the paystub.
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by Swizec 3y ago
We are at the moment in time when LLMs are going from academia to engineering. It's pretty exciting. This is what the process looks like – people reading research papers, doing a bit of practical no-nonsense engineering, and sharing le
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I won't put up with 15mb downloads just to read some content Meanwhile my normie friends are sending me TikTok videos of people reading screenshots of Reddit comments posted to Instagram. Regular users absolutely do not care abou
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by Swizec 3y ago
Debunked how? Got links? I'm curious because I remember quite enjoying that book and he did get a Nobel for that whole area of research whereas we're just random HN commenters.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> "If you're a beginner with X like I am, you may or may not have discovered" What’s a beginner? Reading 3 books on $topic will give you a deeper understanding and appreciation for $topic than 99.9% of the population. Yet
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Why would I not want more insulation in an oven that's going to be used a lot more? Primarily different regulations. Everyone interacting with a commercial oven is a trained professional getting paid to be there and the space is d
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by Swizec 3y ago
> then who will? A good slogan I’ve heard repeated in more activist circles: “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
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by Swizec 3y ago
> just take out of the box and use without spending much time in setup and configuration That's me. I buy Apple because there's already enough hobbies in my life and I don't need my daily driver devices to also be playful

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