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by carlmr 2y ago
That's a good idea. Another idea I've had is that the state could become an investor in that company. In shark tank if you want money you usually sell a stake in your company. If a company needs a bailout. The executives would los
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by carlmr 2y ago
>and any intent to accurately inform vs. just get clicks. This is missing one option. The source - plastic surgeons - may be people that profit from liposuction treatment. To keep patients they might not want people to use ozempic, or at
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by carlmr 2y ago
I get really bad GERD from coffee and black tea, a bit less from green tea. I don't get GERD from Mate tea or energy drinks. So I think it's not the caffeine. Since they both contain high amounts of caffeine, even higher than blac
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by carlmr 2y ago
I'm wondering how diet is not mentioned as a possible culprit. They say that nobody really knows what's the cause, but looking around there aren't many studies. I'd be surprised if diet didn't play a major role in t
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by carlmr 2y ago
>His training is in medieval military history. He is not an anthropologist. Yet he is always make grand pronouncements about human behavior. Some of the best software engineers studied something else. Only because his training is in some
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by carlmr 2y ago
If only there was some middle ground between a golden parachute and gulags.
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by carlmr 2y ago
I have used ChatGPT a few times instead of looking up documentation. It can give you a better start point for common stuff, like draw a scatter plot with upper and lower limits with matplotlib. I then tweak the example to suit my needs exac
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by carlmr 2y ago
Squats are one of the best exercises you can do for overall health anyway. - Big muscle groups activated all at once - Burns a lot of calories - Strengthens a whole chain of muscles necessary for good posture - If done right (deep squats) m
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by carlmr 2y ago
With these tasting kits, I noticed I can discern the smells quite well, but I can't place them. But maybe that just takes more training.
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by carlmr 2y ago
I found running style is a major contributor. I got knee pain preparing for a 10K run in my early 20s. When I stopped for a month it would go aways, but when I started again it would instantly come back. I then learned about natural running
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by carlmr 2y ago
I think this is because of two things. 1. the commitment for one more 45-minute episode is a lot less than a 3h movie, even if you then spend 6h bingeing it because you're hooked. 2. Netflix allowed binge watching which wasn't pos
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by carlmr 2y ago
But we're talking about chapter lengths here, something that is trivially measurable.
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by carlmr 2y ago
This is just Goodhart's law in action: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. . The measure still might be interesting, but it shouldn't be used as a target to guide decisions about what is or isn't
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by carlmr 2y ago
>even if it might not sound very proper or educated, it’s not wrong per say You're right on the Chinese bit, just wanted to alert you that per se is from Latin by/in itself . It has nothing to do with to say .
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by carlmr 2y ago
Also if you talk about picogrammes those might have been carried to the crime scene by somebody else. Imagine you're condemned to prison because you sat on the same train as a soon to be murder-victim, and your dandruff landed on their
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by carlmr 2y ago
>I am left wondering if anything approaching a "standard" exists for smells ... You can buy tasting kits for whiskey or wine. They include individual scents like peaty, smokey, oaky, blackberry even some weird ones like band-ai
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by carlmr 2y ago
>For most companies and applications, developer time is many orders of magnitude more expensive than machine time. For me the context was mostly working in DevOps CI/CD. Slow CI scripts slow down developer feedback and cost machine
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by carlmr 2y ago
>There's no point in developing at half speed or less in Rust compared to Python In a lot of cases the Rust development speed is faster IME, because you can really get the correctness on the first go much more often than with Python
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by carlmr 2y ago
For the technical side, this is a part of what a good software engineering team should be teasing out from the verbal requirements. Check if the intermediate PDF is needed, if it is, it still shouldn't be part of the automation path, b
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Anecdotally I have found it faster to order pcbs and get them shipped from China than get them built locally. I'm not convinced this is because of the workers still. What you have in Shenzhen is that you have everything in one plac
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by carlmr 2y ago
Of course this is on point, you shouldn't write Rust like it's Java, however looking at Java, you shouldn't write anything like it's Java. Java has brought forth the biggest madness of tacking on OOP to everything that i
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by carlmr 2y ago
We don't know yet. But besides the nicotine addiction, there are other components in the vapor which we have no long-term data on, because it's just so new. But we know that there are components in the vapor that are harmful to yo
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by carlmr 2y ago
I've seen equally many projects never achieve lift-off because they were stuck in analysis paralysis trying to architect MVP for scalability, extensibility etc. And even if that succeeded you often end up with fear of change because th
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by carlmr 2y ago
>The myth of revenue centres was made up by sales & marketing. Funny that sales and marketing sells and markets itself.
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by carlmr 2y ago
This is something I find quite fascinating. I've seen so much time wasted on Python this way it's incredible. Insanely smart optimizations done. But then you rewrite the whole thing in vanilla Rust without profiling once and it&#x
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by carlmr 2y ago
>fixing the work ethic of American Semiconductor Factory employees How do you pinpoint this to be the problem? How are you sure that it's not some narrative used by corporate to excuse outsourcing or putting pressure on wages? I thi
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by carlmr 2y ago
They're already severely understaffed, I doubt kicking out the current people working there would help. On a top management level, maybe, but I don't think train conductors can do much about a train schedule that is impossibly fai
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Among the 65-and-older group, who receive social security, non-whites represent 1/3, then 1/4, then 1/5 as you ascend by decade. What is the base-rate here though? Is it vastly different than for the general population? O
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by carlmr 2y ago
>This will be a problem when there is a very high possibility of mass unemployment when advances in AI will make most jobs obsolete. We've been here a few times. Not with AI, but with the agricultural revolution (hunting and gatheri
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by carlmr 2y ago
Are there any studies on this? Not diabetic, but kind of want to prevent getting there, and although I always try to eat enough fibre I guess this could help add fibre anyway when I don't have enough.

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