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by arwhatever 1y ago
Proving or disproving intent is hard, in court trials often taking days of witness testimony and jury deliberation. These hot-take/title patterns "X is about Y1" are exploiting the difficulty of disproving them. I often see i
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by arwhatever 1y ago
The most grating title/text pattern for me is: 1. Stop []!
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by arwhatever 1y ago
The AI usage mandates are odd because why do the execs doubt that the workers try on their own to get the maximum utility out of the AI tools?
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Index the H1B quantities issued to the unemployment rate per job specialty + geographic region?
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Paranoid null checking of every property dereference everywhere (much?.like?.in ?.my?.joke) whether each is ever possibly null or not, usually combined with not thinking through what the code behavior should be for each null case. (Gets a l
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by arwhatever 1y ago
What?.could?.possibly?.go?.wrong?.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
It could be said that you’re over-generalizing here. Arguing against any attempt at competitive healthcare pricing because medical emergencies exist is a bit throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
I don’t think so, although that seems like a fair question of you to ask. I’ve tried on numerous occasions to get pricing quotes for healthcare both paying fully out of pocket, and for getting an estimate for what I’ll be left covering afte
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Pricing signals have been blocked from flowing from consumers to providers since LONG before that.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
When did the U.S. really try?
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Is all of your healthcare 100% heart attacks?
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by arwhatever 1y ago
1. A properly competitive marketplace 2. Socialized medicine 3. What we have now I would like to see #1 tried but at this point I’ll gladly accept #2
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by arwhatever 1y ago
I'm way late to think of this and circle back here, but if you don't mind briefly switching languages to F#, I first grasped these concepts via "Designing with types: Making illegal states unrepresentable" https:/&
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by arwhatever 1y ago
I might suspect that if you are lumping all statically-typed languages into a single bucket without making particular distinction among them, then you might not have fully internalized the implications of union (aka Rust enum aka sum) typed
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Fantastic comment from an earlier posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35720336 “… one of the principle issues is that it's less a protocol and more a skeleton of a protocol.”
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by arwhatever 1y ago
wat
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by arwhatever 1y ago
I wonder how much of a bright line can be drawn to distinguish these sites that charge to “help” you through some governmental process vs like TurboTax.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
“Yo dawg, I heard you liked XML …”
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Christina P: “I graduated with a degree in philosophy only to discover The Philosophy Corporation wasn’t hiring.”
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Won’t this cause [insert LLM] to lose context around the semantics of messages passed between microservices? You could then put all services in 1 repo, or point LLM at X number of folders containing source for all X services, but then it do
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by arwhatever 1y ago
“Oh, that must be exhausting.”
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Types require opt-out and automatically extrapolate onto new code. Tests require opt-in.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Unclear from the video: do you need to use any sort of bait or lure to attract mosquitoes upstream of the fan?
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Do you feel the urge to fuck your toaster? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Stack Overflow is a programming Q&A website where people get mad at you for asking programming questions the overwhelming majority of the time.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Not to mention > $10K financial transaction disclosures
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Our culture is an unfortunate nexus between strong contract enforcement and weak consumer protections.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
We just had this a week or so ago. Stray cat was so cautious that at the end of convalescing in our garage following getting fixed (we had to trap him) he stayed in the garage all day after we opened the side door, and even then, near dusk
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Occasionally see pizza delivery signs atop super duty trucks where I live.
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by arwhatever 1y ago
UPDATE plate_scan SET soft_deleted = 1 WHERE now() - scan_date > 30

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