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by burke 4y ago
On this note: I’m sad ruby style guides generally ban “and” and “or”. raise(“a long error string”) unless valid This reads much worse, when the string pushes the line near max width, than: valid or raise(“.. Of course it’s
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by burke 4y ago
For some reason this one feels right to express with if-not to me too. The one place I’ll often use unless is things like: return unless valid raise unless h.key?(k) I think it might have something to do with: 1. How abundantl
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by burke 4y ago
I’m pretty sure that’s just the typical watering requirements of pothos. It’s an extremely neglect-tolerant houseplant.
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by burke 4y ago
Lightning? Certainly at the time it was released it was a far superior connector than the alternatives. USB-C wins out IMO but only because of its now-ubiquity. Lightning is still, I think, a slightly better connector for a handheld.
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by burke 4y ago
To add to this, for people suggesting that renewables are sufficient and that we should abandon nuclear for some reason or another, this report does a good job of motivating nuclear as a critical part of the solution: https://ene
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by burke 4y ago
Eh, maybe. Lots of "poisons" have hormetic effects. Intuition isn't always a great guide here, and studies seem significantly conflicted in the "modest intake" range.
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by burke 4y ago
Or, you know, invested in building games where people retrospectively assess their time spent with the game as enriching rather than exploitative.
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by burke 4y ago
If you’re a different species than I am and COVID-19 is a disease unique in my species to parasitic encounters with your species, then yes.
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by burke 4y ago
Shopify has been around for a while—since before Amazon became the everything-retailer that they are now. It started out of frustration at the myriad annoyances in trying to get set up using osCommerce and other tools of that generation. (D
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by burke 4y ago
HN's markup is idiosyncratic but similar enough to markdown that it's hard for occasional commenters to remember the details. It's also minimal enough that users are already used to parsing extra-syntactic markup visually.
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by burke 5y ago
Yeah—to reference a symbol `:foobar` in MRI's C API, you even call `ID2SYM(rb_intern("foobar"))`
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by burke 5y ago
The daemon is actually very dumb. It's just there to keep /nix/store permissions clean.
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by burke 5y ago
At Shopify, we do a similar thing using a tool we wrote called Shadowenv[1], which evaluates little programs to manipulate the environment on directory entry/exit. It's a lot like direnv, but it can't do anything that makes i
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by burke 5y ago
This was already the case: almost nowhere really uses Local Meridian Time. Greenwich maybe. Everywhere else, even when located in the most appropriate timezone to line up solar and clock noon, is _already_ off by anywhere from zero to thirt
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by burke 5y ago
Avocado sits somewhere between olive and canola in terms of linoleic acid content (one reference said 13%; another said 7–20%), and has one of the highest smoke points of all cooking oils at 271°C. It's also pretty flavour neutral. It&
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by burke 5y ago
I kind of disagree. I don't mind apps that bring their own visual styling and don't reuse OS components/styling, but I get _really_ annoyed by apps where gestures behave slightly differently. Things such as the exact toleranc
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by burke 5y ago
This would be kind of fun to write a solver for. You'd burn the first few guesses to get some positional constraints, then filter a rainbow table down to viable guesses. I'm not sure you'd be able to get a very good success r
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by burke 5y ago
Interesting. I found this link: https://portlandpress.com/clinsci/article-abstract/135/17/21...
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by burke 5y ago
This is where American drug pricing does a lot of work. I used to work for a Canadian Internet pharmacy selling prescription drugs to Americans, splitting the difference between wholesale and US retail prices. A 30-day supply of Lipitor - I
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by burke 5y ago
I'm pretty sure this comment is sarcasm, but regardless, it should be pretty obvious that diet and exercise adjustment will fix hypertension in most (not all!) cases, but that: * Lots of people aren't prepared to make the level of
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by burke 5y ago
> Primary problems stated for the Model S were issues with the suspension wishbones, as well as problems with fog lights and low beams.
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by burke 5y ago
Yeah I’m sympathetic to this argument and I myself am often annoyed by rubocop’s apparent heuristic of “is it possible to encode an opinion on this? Great then let’s do it” … but in this case, I think this rule is beyond justifiable.
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by burke 5y ago
There's no doubt that alcohol in excess is very bad for a person. There's enough doubt about whether light-moderate alcohol consumption (i.e. a small glass of red wine with dinner and two or three once in a while with friends) is
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by burke 5y ago
Easy mnemonic: “thinking fast and slow” lists them in order.
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by burke 5y ago
Good talk.
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by burke 5y ago
Which, of course, is you. Not only are you the sole dissenting voice in this thread, you disagree with the article, and the broad consensus. While there are plenty of cases where a thread, an article, and a general consensus are all wrong,
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by burke 5y ago
Or how about you provide some peer-reviewed research rather than "challenging" everyone else to find it?
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by burke 5y ago
I mean, the Framingham study found no link between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol in non-diabetics (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024517/ ). It doesn't really get bigger or
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by burke 5y ago
They’re a relatively high source of dietary cholesterol. When we first figured out that serum cholesterol is correlated with cardio problems, we basically assumed that dietary cholesterol must be bad. We’ve since figured out that dietary ch
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by burke 5y ago
It's not a straw man; I'm articulating one of several thoughts I personally have about the tool after using it for some time. I'd be surprised if I'm the only one it's occurred to and I'll be _extremely_ surpri

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