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by carlmr 2y ago
Hm, I've always felt bottom up more difficult to learn. I always found it helpful to first have an overview, a mental map of sorts, of the high-level details, so that when I looked at the details later I could make connections and know
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by carlmr 2y ago
This is so on-point. Number of dependencies is correlated with ease of package management. If you have a well-working package manager you're more likely to use a dependency than just rewrite that little part of your code. For little pr
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by carlmr 2y ago
I mean the question is rather what's the alternative. Diabetes - even well managed - already shortens your expected lifespan considerably by more than ten years. So the safety profile has a different baseline risk. If you're morbi
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Maybe in the future there will be a temporary immunotherapy target to get the immune system to attack adipose cells but then terminate/unlearn before it gets too carried away. Unlearning is usually not a thing for our immune system
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by carlmr 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Was this part of your rental agreement? If so WTF? If not what was the reasoning?
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by carlmr 2y ago
>I also have a definition of what I think level should ideally represent: the marginal contribution of a person’s influence on the outcome of a company, relative to the counterfactual situation where that person never worked there, adjus
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by carlmr 2y ago
>In short, this bias leads planners to view their projects as unique, thereby disregarding valuable lessons from previous similar projects. I once had a discussion. We had some managers that would systematically over or underestimate the
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by carlmr 2y ago
Yes, Germany introduced them in 1976 and the EU based their regulation (Directive 93/13) on it in 1993.
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by carlmr 2y ago
I really like how in German law anything that could be regarded as surprising in a ToS is just thrown out.
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by carlmr 2y ago
OCaml without recursion would not be the same.
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by carlmr 2y ago
On point. Even then mentioning it used filter and map. But the bad refactor also uses filter and map. It's the exact same change of programming paradigm. Given the text, I would have expected some minor refactor with range-based for lo
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by carlmr 2y ago
I'm really wondering if we're going to see a lack of people with CS degrees a few years from now because of Jensen Huang saying AI will do all that and we should stop learning how to program.
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by carlmr 2y ago
If people say "believe me" at the end of every second sentence you should doubt them. Not thinking of anyone in particular.
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by carlmr 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by carlmr 2y ago
>I can find things for half the price than at a brick and mortar, it comes fast, and it's almost always about what I expect. I have never gotten the wrong item. Half the price, not sure, but for me the main appeal is I can find the
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Find the most optimal spot to set your phone That's the problem though. There is usually no good place for a phone. And the phone holders with suction cups are never that great IME. But you're kind of right. If we had a phone
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Humble reminder of how easy R is to use. I had to learn R for a statistics course. This was a long time ago. But coming from a programming background I never found any other mainstream language as hard to grok as R. Has this become bett
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by carlmr 2y ago
vcpkg is well-designed and doesn't get in the way like conan does.
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by carlmr 2y ago
Thank you for warning me, I was close to buying their oven. But don't want to support such a company.
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Was nearly hit by this just last week. ANOVA(sous-vide stuff) decided hey soon we will start charging new customers money. Can you elaborate on what ANOVA is doing?
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by carlmr 2y ago
I think Germany, while bleak, still has a lot more labor protection and unemployment benefits. While the labor protection makes it harder for new people to enter the job market - which is especially bad in the current economy - it makes peo
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by carlmr 2y ago
They're also the cheapest.
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by carlmr 2y ago
>The most effective solution in my experience has been when working remote, and having a culture where a team has open discussions on their own Slack channel, with threads for particular conversations. IME a lot of the really useful &quo
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by carlmr 2y ago
I've found that a lot of junior developers are so scared of making a wrong database schema in SQL that they rather pick a schemaless database. Which of course if you're not careful leads to multiple conflicting ad-hoc implicit sch
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by carlmr 2y ago
>I can't think of anyone since who had such an striking impact We ask for people to be more and more specialized. But problem-solving skills are a lot more universal than the specialization frenzy of today assumes. I think the bigge
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Sub-replacement fertility is human extinction. Um, why would you say that? Only if you stay at sub replacement for hundreds of years will you reach extinction. If we get back to 1 billion people in 200 years we can go back to having rep
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by carlmr 2y ago
>There were a few products that shipped full Raspberry pis in an enclosure in the name of velocity. The savings possible there were probably in the dollars, not cents, not to mention the supply chain issues. And yet companies did it in t
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by carlmr 2y ago
>The government took out debt in your name, to be paid back by future generations that you aren't helping to create... it's borderline fraud. I already paid back more in taxes than I've ever gotten from the state in educat
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by carlmr 2y ago
Exactly on point. The more we grow the bigger the future catastrophe.
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by carlmr 2y ago
I see a lot of parents say this. They somehow think their kids are a gift to the world. To me climate change, overpopulation causing insane resource consumption make it look kind of selfish when people want their own kids. I understand that

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