apwell23

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by apwell23 2y ago
GP is attacking annoying bullshit language. Not the CEO.
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by apwell23 2y ago
> $100K all-in comp (which seems low to me for a tech salary) ic1 at dropbox is 175k and ic4 is near 500k, ic5 near 700k. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/dropbox/salaries Do they really need such highly paid e
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by apwell23 2y ago
> move multi thousand line codebases between languages i am more curious about why someone do would this
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by apwell23 2y ago
Yes because certainty was used to refute the findings. I don't have an issue otherwise. That certainty is what led me to believe i can look up genetic markers in my 23andme.
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by apwell23 2y ago
"The high ratios of phospholipid to cholesterol and bile acid to cholesterol in their gallbladder bile explain the extreme rarity of cholesterol gallstones. All these characteristics may reflect a long-term biologic adaptation of the t
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by apwell23 2y ago
only genetics influence those markers? I thought even stress causes increase in cholestrol levels. How is this person so sure that Masai have some sort of special genetics when there are so many other factors.
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by apwell23 2y ago
thats really interesting. did your a1c numbers go down too?
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by apwell23 2y ago
> Get a blood lipids panel and see what your ApoB is like! not sure how this tell me if i have 'unique feedback mechanism' . wtf does that phrase even mean.
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by apwell23 2y ago
> they have a unique feedback mechanism that suppresses endogenous cholesterol synthesis that most of us don’t have. What unique feedback mechanism is this and how can i find out if i have this too ? circular reasoning "what makes t
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by apwell23 2y ago
were the results from cutting out carbs in plant based diet. could you have achieved same thing with animal based low carb diet?
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by apwell23 2y ago
curious. Was there a change in your a1c after your experiment?
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by apwell23 2y ago
i would love to used to use it change code in ways that compiles and see if test fails. Coverage metric sometimes doesn't really tell you if some piece of code is covered or not.
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by apwell23 2y ago
their own pamphlet is wrong ? "Taking the medication could be linked to ileus, a condition where the intestines temporarily stop functioning. Increase risk of Gastroparesis"
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by apwell23 2y ago
which part?
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by apwell23 2y ago
Thats the real dread
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by apwell23 2y ago
It makes your poop sit in your tummy and rot
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by apwell23 2y ago
Thats like saying I improved my running speed last month more than Usain bolt did in a decade.
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by apwell23 2y ago
Meta glasses are not selling either. Meta's pathetic attempt to make them 'cool' by using raybans and European models is laughable.
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by apwell23 2y ago
try meetup.com or local facebook running groups ( if you are a runner) to beat loneliness.
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by apwell23 2y ago
> There is A LOT of additional legwork and investigation required to get to the truth even if you're brilliant Sherlock Holmes (and most won't be). I got all the additonal tests though. I got upper endoscopy, a appointment with
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by apwell23 2y ago
except you can work on your loneliness and try to have social interactions outside work. I guess you can say " you can try not to have kids so you can work from an office" . I have no answer to that.
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by apwell23 2y ago
oh yea because " I get to spend more time with my kids" and " I am too lonely to wfh" are equivalent .
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by apwell23 2y ago
Can you tell me why doctors are totally useless in diagnosing extremely common issues like acid reflux. Why do GI specialists have no freaking clue what is causing acid reflux. Why do they not know what how exactly my a1c is relevant to he
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by apwell23 2y ago
gotcha. > There are also cases where documentation led companies to growth—one example is Stripe. when you said 'there are also' i thought you were talking about the same thing as the comment you were responding to. Not sure
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by apwell23 2y ago
> developer tool documentation i dont think thats what is being talked about here. Why would they write shitty tool documentation if practically their product. OP is talking about this > never once did I see code documentation work o
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by apwell23 2y ago
> There are also cases where documentation led companies to growth—one example is Stripe. how do you know this ?
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by apwell23 2y ago
> LLMs are great for simple, common tasks, i.e. CRUD apps, RESTful web endpoints i gave it a yaml and asked it to generate a json call to rest api . It missed a bunch of keys and made up a random new key. I threw out the whole thing and
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by apwell23 2y ago
Classic tech interview question
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by apwell23 2y ago
> AI products are used ubiquitously to generate code, text, and images, analyze data, automate tasks, enhance online platforms, and much, much, much more—with usage expected only to increase going forward. Why does every hype article sta
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by apwell23 2y ago
i posted that example from a comment that linked to this repo https://github.com/mythz/clojure-linq-examples my point was that laguange support for sql like sytax is part of what makes LINQ linq. Java niceties is not r

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