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by carlmr 2y ago
We could do randomized controlled studies, where we first have a phase where everybody just eats what they eats, we record caloric intake and nutrition profiles of the food they eat. To be sure that price is not a factor we pay for all the
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by carlmr 2y ago
Do we know this is not a problem? Maybe there are other health effects like people subconsciously eating more because the body is craving certain micronutrients, leading to getting fat from too many macronutrients.
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Basically, the vaccines dont work with prior exposure, and there is no test to know if men have been exposed. So thats why there is no focus on men, and why initially men were only approved for use if they were under 26 years old, based
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by carlmr 2y ago
>With life on Earth perhaps, but I don't think it's not impossible in general. I don't think even that. There are extremophile bacteria that tolerate very high levels of salinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by carlmr 2y ago
If you've ever used an ML descendant you'll miss sum types wherever you go. If you've ever used Erlang you'll miss the OTP actor implementation wherever you go.
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by carlmr 2y ago
So much this. Write code that you can reasonably expect to not be slow af, while not sacrificing readability. Then profile and optimize if necessary.
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by carlmr 2y ago
>I once interviewed and by dint of knowing Python’s itertools module, absolutely destroyed the interviewer’s questions that they clearly thought would take some time to do. If I see such a situation I usually ask the interviewer whether
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by carlmr 2y ago
I wrote Python for years before seeing it somewhere, going huh, and then I thought it's quite neat. I still don't think it's that confusing. It does what you think it should if you're reading pseudocode, which is after a
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by carlmr 2y ago
>It takes out one non-trivial element from the whole driving experience and lets me focus more on all the other things you need to do while driving. Your mind is not very busy shifting if you've been driving manual for a while.
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by carlmr 2y ago
It's also environment dependent. Put a 10x engineer in a megacorp bureaucratized setting and they'll be slowed to the same crawl as everyone else. In many cases I've observed 10x engineers are those that can simplify and aut
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by carlmr 2y ago
>Yes, fat is 'good for you'. Without consuming it, you die. Right, in small amounts though. You don't need that much. Eat a handful of nuts and you're good. It's like a teaspoon of sugar in your tea won't ca
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by carlmr 2y ago
It's simple, if you have the supply chains already you have more to gain from automation. And as we know from TPS it's easier to automate processes we know how to master manually first.
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by carlmr 2y ago
>It would be like Ph.D. students forgetting how to spell "onomatopoeia," A (native) PhD student forgetting how to spell onomatopeia might be normal, but 3 I would say is statistically unlikely.
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by carlmr 2y ago
Meat industry. They're pushing "big sugar lied to you" (true), "(saturated) fat good for you!", which is contrary to most evidence we have. Only because sugar is bad for you does not mean fat is good for you. Eviden
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by carlmr 2y ago
Fair, I overlooked the developing part. However can't think of many East Asian countries that would qualify then.
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by carlmr 2y ago
>See other developing countries in South/East Asia that pump out lots of low quality engineers. South Asia sure, large quantity, low (average) quality. East Asia if you include Japan and Korea has pretty good engineering talent, I&#
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by carlmr 2y ago
Sitting in a car in traffic might not even be that healthy either. And it definitely costs time. But I don't want to tell you how to live.
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by carlmr 2y ago
I read that Ozempic works against all cravings, even addictions. Maybe we can cure money addiction.
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by carlmr 2y ago
>it might well put us all out of business overnight. It might well do that. But worrying about the future like that has no purpose. If the machines become intelligent enough to replace knowledge work they'll be able to improve thems
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by carlmr 2y ago
>For example city centers are usually the most polluted, but can have some of the most expensive square meters to live in. Although it is true that maybe most people are not aware of that. Or it's a known tradeoff. If you live in th
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by carlmr 2y ago
I regularly use ChatGPT at work, it's helpful in refining wording for emails and documentation. It's helpful for getting a starting point for Python scripts. I haven't seen it being a game changer though. Copilot has been a b
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by carlmr 2y ago
Have you tried other AI tools? Is Copilot the only one you're discontinuing?
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by carlmr 2y ago
>this take doesn’t make any sense having small amount of unsafe primitives is not the same as having all of your code unsafe I've been arguing this for years. It makes the area you need to review more tightly much smaller. Making it
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by carlmr 2y ago
It's also fairly normal to do this. Google benchmark [1] even warns you about this. [1] https://github.com/google/benchmark
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by carlmr 2y ago
>where people told me there were network problems but it was actually not Always ask if they assume it's network bound or they have measurements. Measurements may sometimes be wrong, but assumptions are more often wrong than right i
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by carlmr 2y ago
Enough is obviously good, there's plenty of stuff where you need antibiotics to heal. Enough can be bad if abused, since some doctors overprescribe antibiotics for cases where it's not warranted, e.g. a cold. Most colds are viral
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by carlmr 2y ago
You mean vtable for inheritance? There's no ownership relation here.
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by carlmr 2y ago
>I had a fever dream that my brother had called an ambulance to save me. Reminds me of this, people imagining a helping person or spirit in a dire situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_man_factor
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by carlmr 2y ago
A mix of both, the poverty creates some of this ignorance by lack of access to education. That people in the US choose to be ignorant despite having an education happens, but it's rarer than where there is no education.
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by carlmr 2y ago
It is, it's preferable to have no antibiotics than not enough antibiotics. This only creates resistant strains and doesn't heal people.

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