bedobi

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by bedobi 6y ago
> there MUST be universal laws that govern it I disagree. There's a strong desire from a western scientific mindset that everything be possible to reduce and turned into laws and models, but that doesn't mean everything works l
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by bedobi 6y ago
Intuitively, at least to me, human languages and cultures don't lend themselves to universal laws. And I guess I just don't see the point making any claims of universal laws. You could just say "these are incredibly ubiquit
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by bedobi 6y ago
Irrespective of Pirahã, I still think Chomsky and anyone who agrees with him are wrong. Yes, he's come up with some useful abstractions and has identified, articulated and put into models ubiquitous features in human languages and cu
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by bedobi 6y ago
The drugs in question are absolutely intended and trialed for human use. It's just that they don't pass the approval process, or they did back in the 60s-80s, saw virtually no legitimate clinical use, and were discontinued.
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by bedobi 6y ago
Granted, Dianabol and Trenbolone were both approved for a time, but neither was ever really in meaningful widespread use for any legitimate medical purpose, which is in no small part why they are no longer approved. And there are lots o
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by bedobi 6y ago
It's kind of semantics but I guess it depends on the definition of "knowledge". I happily agree bro scientist bodybuilders have advanced our knowledge of performance enhancing drugs in some ways, if nothing else by simply abu
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by bedobi 6y ago
The broscientist bodybuilders are wrong about almost everything they think they know about performance enhancing drugs. Also, to the degree endocrinologists and doctors in general don't "know" about tren, dbol or what have yo
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by bedobi 6y ago
I know nothing about Bazel, but I've never understood the JVM community's obsession with getting off Maven. My experience of Gradle is Gradle projects require a PhD in Gradle AND intimate familiarity with the tastes of whoever imp
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by bedobi 6y ago
It's a shame that so many "great" people are (or were) also awful people.
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by bedobi 6y ago
Just look at all the "OOP" languages where both the language developers and the user community are coming around to the facts that * immutability and absence of state is preferable to mutation and statefulness * Option/Maybe
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by bedobi 6y ago
As a professional dev who has made a career out of working in "OOP" languages and codebases, I kind of agree. The reason why Functional Programming concepts are increasingly adopted by "OOP" languages is because Function
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by bedobi 6y ago
Yeah the Docker step isn't strictly speaking necessary for the deployment, it's more for devs with diverse OS's to be able to isolate dependencies on the OS. At JVM shops, the same .jar unfortunately doesn't reliably and
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by bedobi 6y ago
At a previous job, our build pipeline * Built the app (into a self contained .jar, it was a JVM shop) * Put the app into a Ubuntu Docker image. This step was arguably unnecessary, but the same way Maven is used to isolate JVM dependencies (
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by bedobi 6y ago
Couldn't agree more - most pieces of writing, especially in the workplace, should optimally have a VERY brief summary introduction, and the complete version should be succinct, but not to the point of as if a robot wrote it because it&
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by bedobi 6y ago
At a previous job, our build pipeline * Built the app (into a self contained .jar, it was a JVM shop) * Put the app into a Ubuntu Docker image. This step was arguably unnecessary, but the same way Maven is used to isolate JVM dependencies (
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by bedobi 6y ago
Love all the comments to the effect of if agile/scrum/other buzzword isn't working, it's because you're not really doing it/you're not doing it enough/you're just cargo culting it bla bla bla
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by bedobi 6y ago
At a previous job, our build pipeline * Built the app (into a self container .jar, it was a JVM shop) * Put the app into a Ubuntu Docker image. This step was arguably unnecessary, but the same way Maven is used to isolate JVM dependencies (
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by bedobi 6y ago
> the king hold no legal/political power, not even in a "symbolic" sense. That's not true. The royal family of Sweden have immunity from prosecution, fines etc. And not just in theory - there are actual examples of ro
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by bedobi 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this piece of info, I had no idea, seems like great news!
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by bedobi 6y ago
Ah, apologies, I didn't mean to be a wise ass! I agree /r/wallstreetbets is hard to grasp :P I'm just along for the ride
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by bedobi 6y ago
here's my understanding (which may be wrong, and this isn't financial advice or a recommendation) if the stock is at $20 and you think it will go to $10 you can sell the stock at $20 (even if you actually don't own the stock,
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by bedobi 6y ago
Most of my GME units were purchased at ~$100. But I like the stock! So today I bought more at $330. I'm not worried that the aftermarket nominal price is just below that, because I think that's just fake short ladder figures on ve
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by bedobi 6y ago
Couldn't have said it better
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by bedobi 6y ago
Even the label "rationalist" itself is pathetic, and very revealing. It's basically a way to signal "I am right, take my word for it". And no, while I enjoyed reading and watching the lord of the rings as much as an
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by bedobi 6y ago
I really don't like it. I'm not mad others like things I don't. I guess what does bug me is, the type of people who generate and like this kind of drivel have a strong tendency to walk around thinking they know better than Li
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by bedobi 6y ago
Downvote away, but I really don't understand why psuedo-intellectuals who write pretentious posts full of meaningless nonsense are so popular on HackerNews. This guy runs a psychiatry called "Lorien", lives in a group-housi
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by bedobi 6y ago
Similar here, probably the best decision I ever made for mental and maybe even physical health.
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by bedobi 6y ago
I don't disagree with this, but sadly, a prerequisite for that is a position of privilege where you're able to push back against non-valuable work. I've seen many, many very good software developers that have this quality,
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by bedobi 6y ago
I'm totally on board with making cities greener and more people-friendly, including carbon and congestion charges and outright bans on cars + increased spending on infrastructure and public transport etc. Virtually all economists are t

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