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by dijit 6mo ago
all of those examples have a known causal mechanism and a measurable outcome.
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by dijit 6mo ago
An appealing analogy but recipes have defined testable outcomes. You know what a Victoria sponge is supposed to look like (there's probably even a picture of one in the book). You can perfectly evaluate when a substitute has ruined i
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by dijit 6mo ago
There's an interesting phenomenon that Agile (capital A) has exposed me to, and once I saw it due to Agile I've seen parallels elsewhere. In that: if it fails, it is only considered evidence that you were not doing it enough . Th
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by dijit 6mo ago
Small nit: Googles monorepo is based on Perforce. I think what happened is Google bought a license for source code and customised it.
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by dijit 6mo ago
I think we put too much negative emphasis on people who aren’t as gifted intellectually. In reality, the world works because of human automotons, honest people doing honest work; living their life in hopefully a comforting, complete and who
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by dijit 6mo ago
Will you publish this anywhere? I’m interested too, but don’t have amazing patience to dig into it.
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by dijit 6mo ago
Except many search engines have a recency bias. A sane default previously; as news changes and the status quo also, but it makes you even more likely to encounter slop now.
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by dijit 6mo ago
yes
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by dijit 6mo ago
A single study with N=34 finding no significant effect on sperm count doesn't contradict a meta-analysis of 39 studies that did. That's what meta-analyses are for: aggregating underpowered individual studies into something statist
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by dijit 6mo ago
You can't downvote direct replies.
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by dijit 6mo ago
You asked for a meta-analysis. Here's one: 39 studies, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043... It found microplastics caused
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by dijit 6mo ago
'Bikes cause it too' is technically true in the way that a dripping tap and a burst dam both cause flooding. The effect of this framing (intentional or not) is to suggest we shouldn't prioritise the thing that causes 99.99% o
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by dijit 6mo ago
Sure. Here's a few: - Microplastics found in 76% of human semen samples, with PET-exposed men showing reduced sperm motility: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12299061/ - Multi-site study across China
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by dijit 6mo ago
The science disagrees with your hypothesis that "provably, nothing is the matter".
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by dijit 6mo ago
Yeah, typically we test adverse effects in mice before doing trials on larger animals. That we haven't observed such extreme behaviour in a scientific way in humans doesn't mean it isn't there, it's just that we haven&#x
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by dijit 6mo ago
the article lists several things including textiles, plastic packaging, and avoiding tyre particles. I led with containers/bottles because that's where the most concentrated single exposures seem to be (microwaving in plastic, bot
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by dijit 6mo ago
I think microplastics has been directly linked to the decrease of male hormones and an sperm quality. source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12989-022-00453-2 So, it's having an effect of some kin
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by dijit 6mo ago
Realistically, the best thing you can do to reduce your microplastics intake seems to be to avoid microwaving in plastic bowls and to avoid using plastic bottles for soft drinks and water. (Though cans actually use a thin film of plastic in
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by dijit 6mo ago
You know that feeling where you feel like you have a good handle on things- maybe it's foundational mathematics, or the fundamentals of computer software. And you start reading something so incomprehensible that you start to wonder if
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by dijit 6mo ago
And all your deployed and dev machines run the same spec- same CPU entirely? And you use them for remote development? I think this is highly unusual.
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by dijit 6mo ago
See, this is what I’m asking for. You’re making an actual argument now and I don’t even disagree with most of it. The AfD support and the white solidarity stuff is indefensible. I’d call him a Nazi sympathiser based on the evidence. But tha
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by dijit 7mo ago
What?! seriously?! I’ve never heard of anyone doing that. If you use a cloud provider and use a remote development environment (VSCode remote/Jetbrains Gateway) then you’re wrong: cloud providers swap out the CPUs without telling you a
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by dijit 7mo ago
Ok so make that case. What specifically is he doing, what mechanisms is he using, what does the trajectory look like? Because that’s an argument worth having and I’d probably agree with a lot of it. But “this is a Nazi before he gets into h
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by dijit 7mo ago
FYI I am notoriously bad at taking photos (as is constantly explained to me by family and my partner) and my Phone has 130GiB of Photos and Videos on it as we speak.
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by dijit 7mo ago
99% of people don't choose their OS. They buy "a laptop" and it has an OS on it. Or they go to work and are provided "a computer" and have very little say (or ability to change) what it's running, even if they
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by dijit 7mo ago
Ok, you know what, I'm tired of this. Elon is a narcissistic man-child with too much influence. But he's not a Nazi , and I'm really sick of Americans throwing that word around without a modicum of thought. Nazis are why m
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by dijit 7mo ago
Idk, I have to use Microsoft utilities for work (yay! game development!), and I feel like opening twitter and pasting something is lower friction than trying to do Teams automation.
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by dijit 7mo ago
because it’s a marketing channel/feed, just like any other. meeting people where they are doesn’t inherently mean you support where they are. You just meet the people themselves. It’s not like X is really gaining anything from the EFF,
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by dijit 7mo ago
Your point is stupid. The cost of offering a service and the cost of buying a service are correlated but not the customers problem . If you are the most expensive SaaS on a docket sheet and you’re also the least reliable you had better be
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by dijit 7mo ago
It’s a SaaS, and the most expensive SaaS available. If you’re saying an LLM provides more value than the office productivity suites , mail platforms and meeting platforms which run essentially the planet: then I am afraid, you have drunk th

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