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by bdzr 2y ago
> How does any Wordpress developer know they are not going to be next? Or all of the third party plugin providers? Or theme makers? All of them heavily use Wordpress branding in their services, few contribute to the open source. Easy, ju
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by bdzr 2y ago
So why should someone use WordPress, knowing one person with enormous conflicts of interest determines which companies are allowed to host it?
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by bdzr 2y ago
WordPress has always had a phenomenal admin editing experience relative to what else existed. That on top of a dogmatic adherence to backwards compatibility made the free (and paid) theme/plugin ecosystem thrive.
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by bdzr 2y ago
Does anyone know why WP engine doesn't actually support multiple post revisions by default? I worked with WordPress significantly quite a while ago and found it to be an absolute dumpster fire of a codebase. It wouldn't surprise m
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by bdzr 2y ago
Not OP, but it's certainly not by leaving drugs unapproved in the US that have been in wide use in Canada, England, Japan, etc for years (and in some cases decades). The incentives are so misaligned for the FDA that the bias for inacti
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by bdzr 2y ago
I'd never heard this before, but it's really interesting. This reminds me a lot of when Hollywood tried (successfully?) to bully Netflix out of adding a playback speed button. I'm not sure to what extent creators should be al
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by bdzr 2y ago
> Now, that said... is $42,000/yr a reasonable price? Fuck no. On a purely humanitarian level, it's unacceptable, and if we're just looking at Gilead's bottom line, I'm sure they could price this drug for a whole
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by bdzr 2y ago
Faceting over even small result sets and producing the relevant counts is really hard for postgres, and caching tends to be impossible due to the combinatorics of the problem. There's some discussion around supporting better indexing o
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by bdzr 2y ago
Pay for the sync feature, it works seamlessly.
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by bdzr 2y ago
Reading this thread it's impressive how little people know about competitive gaming while simultaneously knowing how to fix the cheating issues.
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by bdzr 2y ago
Most decisions are mixed or more one sided than following the standard "political lines", but those cases never get spoken about.
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by bdzr 2y ago
> governments signing contracts that guarantee they'll pay $X hundred million for a solution BEFORE the research has been done Did you say "hundred million" intentionally? Because the average cost of a drug has been estima
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by bdzr 2y ago
They expire after 20 years IIRC. There is some shenanigans that go on with "evergreening" where they try to expand it out for longer, but it's generally an effective system.
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by bdzr 2y ago
The ars article says 10 billion to make.
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by bdzr 2y ago
Is this the cost for the "pill" after research is done? The first pill is the one that costs billions after all.
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by bdzr 2y ago
Not a lot. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/rep-ocasio-cortez-...
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by bdzr 2y ago
One thing I'm curious about is the DOJ took specific aim at Apple Pay and how Apple was creating a monopoly by limiting third party apps from making payments. I'm personally a bit torn, because it seems like the preventing third p
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by bdzr 2y ago
> People can get so irrational when it comes to the cost of software. The same person who'd pay hundreds of dollars for a cleaner, or a gym membership, will swear up and down that 70 bucks a year for an online bodyguard is highway r
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by bdzr 2y ago
> Another weird/fascinating factor for me at least is that less convenient access to a toilet seems to correlate with less symptoms. When I'm hiking in the mountains I never seem to have a high frequency of needing to take a du
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by bdzr 2y ago
> Blocking pharma ads would help a lot as well. I don't really see how blocking ads for things help, I also think they serve a really valuable purpose. IME Doctors are so stuck in their first decade of work (CE programs are mostly a
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by bdzr 2y ago
I feel like it also helps them get an edge in the healthcare sector, which has buckets of money in the mix.
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by bdzr 2y ago
Remember when Firefox was the new hotness because it blocked ads?
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by bdzr 2y ago
Sure, though I can't cite the source off hand, I remember the statistic being something like a bachelor's degree of any kind increases earnings by roughly 17k. It's very hard to consider this anything other than a bargain for
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by bdzr 2y ago
Reminder that the average student loan debt is somewhere in the ballpark of $40k with the median being a little lower. I've found that most of the coverage on student loans misleadingly focuses on outliers. Edit: downvoted for factual
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by bdzr 3y ago
The justice system is filled with all sorts of this stuff, sadly. Claiming they can match a shell to the gun it came out of, blood spatter, etc. My favorite example of this existing at a micro scale is when a professor claimed she could det
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by bdzr 3y ago
I used Kagi to summarize the transcript: - A serious SSH backdoor was discovered in the xz Linux compression library, allowing attackers to compromise SSH servers. - The backdoor was discovered by Andres Freund, a Postgres developer, who no
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by bdzr 3y ago
> The irony of it all is that MongoDB actually matured and you do not have to jump through hoops to have, say, transactions. Are transactions still limited to a single document in Mongo?
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by bdzr 3y ago
Go forth and prosper https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GlassesMode .
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by bdzr 3y ago
I love csvkit, particularly csvstat. I just wish it were quicker on larger files. The types I deal with routinely take 5-20 minutes to run and those are usually the ones I want the csvstat output for the most.
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by bdzr 3y ago
I'm not sure how this would translate into a query, but have you thought about analyzing the longest chain of devices and comparing their PDFs? I feel like that would potentially demonstrate the game-of-telephone effect you're get

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