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by carlmr 9mo ago
>The share of U.S. households reporting at least one user rose from about 11% in late 2023 to more than 16% by mid-2024. I was wondering how you could get such a high impact overall. But it seems one in 6 households are on GLP-1 drugs in
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by carlmr 9mo ago
>It’s not readily apparent at first blush the LLM is doing this, giving all the answers. Now I'm wondering if I'm prompting wrong. I usually get one answer. Maybe a few options but rarely the whole picture. I do like the super
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by carlmr 9mo ago
They have, kind of. Check out Gaggiuino. Sadly not really open source (Gen3) but you can get a cheap $500 Gaggia Classic and add fine grained control with an Arduino and display: https://gaggiuino.github.io Then there's the
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by carlmr 9mo ago
Additionally, most meetings are worthless drivel from an IC perspective. The off-topic/drilldown is usually when ICs actually discuss topics relevant to them and get into a level of detail on issues that actually helps further the proj
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by carlmr 9mo ago
>With the cost reduction opportunities of mass production, I don't see why they should cost more than $500. I think it's more of a supply and demand thing. People spend a lot on their hobby. And it's not as much mass produ
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by carlmr 9mo ago
The within settlement window might still be a good addition to the method name. Since that is something I can at least Google.
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by carlmr 9mo ago
>It is generally desirable to keep invalid objects properly typed I think that's the bigger issue in Java. `int` can't be used in generics, so now you use the boxed type `Integer` which needs to be checked on each use, which de
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by carlmr 9mo ago
>I find that the years that I spent on art (playing around, learning new things, not taking other peoples' orders) lasted longer than the ones I spent doing software development for money. >I personally don't find the logari
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by carlmr 10mo ago
>Higher incomes have historically been a symptom of productivity If I go to Zürich I get a burger for 30Fr that I can get in Southern Germany for 15€ and in Berlin for 8€. That is with roughly the same quality. I'd say past produc
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by carlmr 10mo ago
>invest more relative to their passenger load. For Switzerland does this account for the almost double salaries or only absolute spending? If you spend 1€ in Switzerland I imagine you get much less work output than for 1€ in Germany.
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by carlmr 10mo ago
>so we farm incredible quantities of tobacco to extract its poisons. Evolutionarily the best survival strategy.
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by carlmr 10mo ago
>the possibility of it being software, hardware or QC There's a certain overlap here. It's not completely orthogonal. Having worked on safety critical systems before a lot of effort is put into detecting hardware errors in the
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by carlmr 10mo ago
Asa foetida is way worse than skunk
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by carlmr 10mo ago
That's fine as well. I just don't want to punish you for life for small infractions every once in a while. Humans make mistakes.
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by carlmr 10mo ago
>it turns out that they got dozens of speed camera tickets per year To me the answer is quite simple for any of these. Treat repeated small infractions like bigger and bigger infractions. E.g. double the cost every iteration if it happen
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by carlmr 10mo ago
>Gitea scales really badly with large repos in my experience. Isn't it written in this super scaling language that everybody says scales super well? What is the problem with it?
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by carlmr 10mo ago
I've also been hiring before and if my colleague told me he had a list of people he didn't want hired because they didn't write him back, I'd laugh my ass off and continue on with my day.
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by carlmr 10mo ago
>enjoy and appreciate something on a daily basis is beneficial to overall satisfaction with life. I'll couch this in a warning that you need to have the money for it, but for me an espresso machine and good grinder was such a great
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by carlmr 10mo ago
This is also why I kind of hate it when rich people say that money doesn't make you happy. It's true, it doesn't but if you don't know how to pay for your next meal or worse your kids next meal, or you're sick and c
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by carlmr 10mo ago
Still besides the point. The company failing or not is orthogonal to them being able to identify failure in others.
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by carlmr 10mo ago
This is a separate argument though. A failing company may still be right in identifying other companies failure modes. You can be prescient about failure in one area and still fail yourself. There's no gotcha.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
>That's how you get to false equivalencies. No, you're just putting something into it which doesn't matter to me. Not a false equivalency.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
I personally don't care too much for hierarchies, so I didn't factor this in. You can be toxic at any level.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
I'm not sure if this is advanced trolling at this point.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
>A pity. Saw Zig as something rising but with this kind of toxicity, no thanks. Don't get me wrong, it is a bit toxic. However, I feel like taking one comment in a larger article and blowing it up out of proportion is just as toxic.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
They are blasting the product tbf. The people part is a small part of it. And apparently at least distracting the HN Community from their point.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
>When you write Rust code without lifetimes and trait bounds and nested types, the language looks like Ruby lite. And once you learn a few idioms this is mostly the default.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
>You get memory safety. That's about it for Security Not true, you get one of the strongest and most expressive type systems out there. One example are the mutability guarantees which are stronger than in any other language. In C++
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by carlmr 11mo ago
>like an animal with no higher order thinking. In Germany I see far fewer abandoned shopping carts than in America.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
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