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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
This is definitely something I’ve noticed — it’s not about naïve role-priming at all, but rather about language usage. “You are an expert doctor, help me with this rash I have all over” will result in a fairly useless answer, but using medi
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
Confidently posting links without reading or understanding them is worst of all. Your source does not remotely contradict my point. This says that, while we harmlessly consume incidental fluorine from the environment all the time, there is
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
I guess you could think of both as “alloys”, but with ionic bonds instead of metallic bonds. I’m sure there are at least six ways this isn’t quite accurate, but it’s an interesting analogy at least.
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
This is completely incorrect. Fluoride is not a component of native enamel, nor is it recognized as an essential nutrient in any way. Topically-applied fluoride converts hydroxyapatite in enamel into hydroxyfluorapatite, a harder substance
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
Or when it arbitrarily decides to rewrite half the content on your website and not mention it. Or, my favorite: when you’ve been zeroing in on something actually interesting and it says at the last minute, “let’s simplify our approach”. It
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
Wow my first venture into Claude Code (which completely failed for a minor feature addition on a tiny Swift codebase) burned $5 in about 20 minutes. Probably related to Sonnet 3.7’s rampant ADHD and less the CLI tool itself (and maybe a bit
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
This imperative/declarative shift happened as part of UIKit -> SwiftUI too. However, it’s still pretty well accepted that if you’re doing anything “complicated” you’re going to end up writing UIKit imperative code. I wonder if there
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
Exercism.org takes this approach; I’m not sure if it’s super pedagogically-driven or more about making it fun and keeping a sense of progression (maybe it can be both?) I wonder which fields of knowledge are resistant to being structured li
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
“The stage and payload have now safely impacted the Pacific Ocean in a cleared zone north of Antarctica” As opposed to the part of the Pacific that is south, east, or west of Antarctica.
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
“This, Jen, is the Internet.”
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
You’re thinking of visa overstay (a civil offense). Unauthorized entry is a criminal misdemeanor. Re-entry after deportation rises to a felony.
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
I prefer “AT Machine”, then nobody can tell whether you’re talking about Automated Teller, All-Terrain, or Anti-Tank. And that’s how you get them.
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by didgeoridoo 1y ago
Big timecube energy.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
If I want AI slop I’ll go ask a chatbot, thanks.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
He also notes that he does tip the guy who pulverizes his kidney stones.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
I didn’t even blink at this, my inner monologue just did a little “well, naturally” in a Redditor voice and kept reading.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
> vast machine of death UnitedHealthcare was my health insurance provider when my daughter got her heart transplant. They paid over $2M over several years, without a single hitch. I think the only thing we were rejected for was when we a
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
DRAM makes a line of reasonably-sweetened sodas (3-5g sugar per can) but they’re definitely a “luxury” product, in the range of $10-15 for a 4-pack. I don’t know of a single mass-market option.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
“Much literature has historically claimed that hydrogen cyanide smells of almonds or bitter almonds. However, there has been considerable confusion and disagreement over this, because the smell of household almond essence is due to benzalde
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
That way attendees could be called Llamarama Dingdongs.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
I get that the “rawness” of the concrete is what literally makes these “brutalist”, but to my layman’s eye, dying the concrete almost always makes the building appear more attractive and less like a post-Soviet ruin. https://www.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
Real Numbers Hans, the horse who stomps once if you show him any number, so long as it has no imaginary component!
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
This isn’t a tech product. It’s a decentralized archive organized by Harvard Law School Library. Being literal librarians, I am fairly sure the creators of this service have thought through how it will remain accessible in the long term.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
It’s run by the Harvard Law Library (i.e. backed by a multibillion-dollar university that is substantially older than the country it’s located in) and operated as a decentralized network across multiple public and private library systems. L
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
Hard to objectively evaluate with understanding your goals. Why the redesign? What parts of the existing UI weren’t working for you, and why? What decision process went into each part of the stack you’ve used? Most importantly, what specifi
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
It was going pretty well until the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
Not first party, but they offer integrations with Neon, Supabase, PlanetScale, and Crunchy Bridge for managed pg. Their “you’re on your own” option is really nice though for cheap, non-mission-critical stuff, and you can even scale the comp
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
Heroku was acquired in 2011, so to be fair it did take Salesforce quite a long time to screw it up.
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
1.6 million jobs fed through an LLM API… how long did that take and what did it cost? Assume 4o-mini was sufficient for the task?
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by didgeoridoo 2y ago
> A type error somewhere in a file often completely breaks the ability to Opt+click any other types to read the very documentation you need to fix the error. Clicking related types often opens a “not found” page in the documentation expl

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