dehrmann

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by dehrmann 2y ago
When it comes to implicit type conversion, JS has nothing on PHP.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I intentionally didn't weigh in because on one hand, its main functionality is still going strong, and it hasn't had major outages. On the other, its user base has changed, advertisers are avoiding it because of its users, and we
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by dehrmann 2y ago
One place I worked, customers (usually merchants) sent product data through an API my team managed. I was working on a data validation project and ran across an item that was getting rejected. One of the fields customers can set is tags. Th
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> put up with shit like this that doesn't even happen in industry Musk did a trial run with it on Twitter.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
If the only things left to compete on are the camera and frame construction, maybe it's time for the non-pro line to go away.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Alternatively, in a high-dimension space, everyone sits in their own corner.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
You have to deal with the AirTrain (which isn't free) at JFK. The Tube actually has a Heathrow station, and the RER goes directly to CDG. It's even easier to get to Gatwick than JFK.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Uber and Lyft are both public and profitable, now. The drivers also pay taxes on their earnings.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Where do you normally take taxis? Hailing them can be hard, they might not want to go where you're going, the credit card reader might be broken, and they might take a worse route.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Taxis are great if you're in Manhattan (or JFK) and not going too far uptown.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
There's truth to the main point that "gig economy" companies aren't adequately held responsible for the services they broker or sell (depending on your perspective). They avoid risk in a way that isn't obvious to bu
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Long-term profitability can be a goal, too. A lot of short-term profit behaviors can hurt long-term profits.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Friendly reminder that you are most likely not NASA and have different goals, so you should approach the problem differently. The cost of a stack overflow (even at FAANG-scale) for you is likely many orders of magnitude cheaper than for NAS
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I always assumed EVs use regenerative braking as much as possible on their own.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I keep waiting for people in less risky parts of California ask why they're paying more for insurance and power so that people can live in risky, fire-prone hills and mountains, but it doesn't seem to be happening.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I must be missing something, but FAIR is an insurer of last resort backstopped by the insurance companies who refused to sell risky policies in the first place?
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> a group of Italian researchers followed 257 people who had plaque in their carotid arteries. They found that 20 percent of the people in their study who had microplastic-laden plaque had had a heart attack, stroke or had died after alm
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Scientists still don’t know what this plastic is doing to us. I think it's because of this and how expensive, inconvenient, and possibly dangerous the alternative is. There's a lot of risk of illness in food handling, and thi
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The real question is when does something break that causes near-universal outrage. Unless something breaks in the near-term that most people care about, nothing will change.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The main conclusion is flying helicopters this close to a commercial airport approach at night is a bad idea. I'm sure it's much safer, but ever seen the approach into SJC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpT1wjwlL
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by dehrmann 2y ago
New JS frameworks every week stopped around the time React became popular.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Yet Palmer testified in his deposition that Carpenter twice offered him a copy of the thumb drive and told him, “There were things on the cell phone that, ‘once you see them, you can’t unsee them,’” according to the ruling. Wouldn&#x27
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I'm not sure how much this actually happens or if product teams and algorithms figure it out just by trying different things and chasing engagement metrics.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
4 has been true for over a decade.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> elitism I often encounter on jobs that goes along the line of: "I just use vim and (by implication) so should you." This always felt to me like an old-school woodworker saying you can do a large project with hand tools.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
In my first job, I used C, vi, and cscope. In my second, Java and Eclipse. I was an order of magnitude more productive with an IDE. Some of it was the language (though I was actually pretty good at C and rusty at Java), but most of it came
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by dehrmann 2y ago
tl;dw: when a particular engine design used by the 737 MAX (but also other Boeing and Airbus planes) ingests a bird, if there's enough damage, it starts burning oil before the cabin bleed air intake. The cockpit and cabin have air supp
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by dehrmann 2y ago
True, but you also need fewer planes if you go faster, though plane costs are linear and fuel costs are square.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Is it worth using a custom library so you can do .flatMap(Maybe::stream) instead of .filter(Optional::isPresent).map(Optional::get)
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> The exception that is raised when an empty Maybe is used is a checked exception so you don't forget to handle it. I think they acknowledged get() should have been getOrThrow() so it's clear what can happen, but I don't k

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