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by dimal 3y ago
This must be why I can’t do well in any coding interviews. I’m just too damn smart.
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by dimal 3y ago
It was not FUD. It’s not faster than carefully mutating the DOM, but back then, almost no one was “carefully mutating the DOM” all the time. It was a shit-show of ad hoc re-rendering strategies that often re-rendered excessively because no
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by dimal 3y ago
> If that bothers you, there are always more expensive ways to eat real meat I’ve been buying free-range chicken and eggs for a while, but recent reports have said that there is basically no actual free-range chicken or eggs on the marke
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by dimal 3y ago
I think there have been studies that show that you’re correct. My question is how much room is there improve that efficiency as production scales and improves. But even now, there’s the benefit of producing less suffering. No need to breed
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by dimal 3y ago
Yeah, but compared to their modules, it’s enormous. It would be a huge part of my case. And for the functionality it provides, it doesn’t really need to be that big. It has a great interface and it’s beautiful, but eurorack modules tend to
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by dimal 3y ago
I would love it if they made some Eurorack modules. I have a DFAM and love it, but for most equipment I only consider Eurorack. The DFAM has to sit outside my case. The ergonomics of that are weird, and there’s only so much room for desktop
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by dimal 3y ago
That’s not what he said. He’s actually making an interesting point about readable code. I’m not defending his current behavior, just these comments about readable code.
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by dimal 3y ago
Having just experienced a startup that attempted to do what you suggest, I will say that in this case, it did not work. First of all, there is so much more institutional knowledge to document than just installing something. Second of all,
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by dimal 3y ago
In college in the 90s, I lived in a run down, shitty house with four other freaks. We did drugs, made weird music, had great parties and jokingly called our house Biosphere 3. Some of us even got brightly colored jumpsuits. It was like livi
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by dimal 3y ago
Terribly misleading link-bait headline. The authors were specifically trying to determine whether the hallucinogenic effects are related to the antidepressant effects, so they blunted the hallucinogenic effects by applying ketamine while un
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by dimal 3y ago
Is anyone actually doing the semantic web anymore? I thought people gave up on that over a decade ago. It’s hard enough to get devs to just make content semantic enough for accessibility, let alone defining semantics for computers.
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by dimal 3y ago
I don’t think he was advocating anything. I think that misses the point. He was just trying to state the matter in a form that would allow people to understand the suffering better and have empathy for those who are in that type of sufferin
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by dimal 3y ago
I had nocturnal hypoglycemia. My blood sugar would drop precipitously while I slept and then I’d get a rush of adrenaline, which would bring my glucose up and wake me up. A doctor told me to drink apple juice before bed. Bad idea. Here’s ho
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by dimal 3y ago
And yet, a lot of companies are doing well as remote-first. It depends on the company culture. You can’t use Slack and Zoom and expect it to work well. It’s a different way of working, and I think the companies that learn to do it well will
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by dimal 3y ago
Which, to me, reads that Midjourney was a tool he used, not that Midjourney created it. Compare to “How I used Illustrator to design a brand identity”. That’s a perfectly cromulent sentence, and no one would expect that to mean that Illustr
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by dimal 3y ago
Eh. I guess I don't see how `cache.invalidate()` is a drastic improvement over `invalidate(cache)`. And my experience with ORMs has also not been pleasant, although it's been a few years since I've used one. They seem very co
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by dimal 3y ago
Exactly. They're supporting their interests. But whatever, if that's what it takes, fine.
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by dimal 3y ago
Yes. I am not against data hiding. I love data hiding. My comment was not related to data hiding. It's simply pointing out that this kind of unexpected complexity seems to always come up in OOP in my experience.
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by dimal 3y ago
I think of subtype polymorphism and dynamic dispatch as two different things, but maybe I'm misunderstanding something here. Subtyping/inheritance is sometimes convenient, but inheritance tends to be a constrictive way to reuse co
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by dimal 3y ago
> What's wrong with that? My question is, why is that necessary? Exactly what is the benefit, except for a tiny bit of convenience? Why is that better than functions that work on well-defined types? It adds coupling, and coupling ad
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by dimal 3y ago
I’m confused by this comment. How are private members part of the class interface? They are internal, not exposed to the outside, so how can they be part of the interface, which by definition is what the class exposes to the outside?
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by dimal 3y ago
This just reinforces my bias that OOP is what is really harmful. Really, what good reason is there to have data and behavior bound to the same object? I’ve never seen a good argument for that. It’s just taken as a given. It seems nice and c
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by dimal 3y ago
They say that they are verified. For heavily moderated subreddits like AskDocs, I think it's highly likely that the mods take it seriously enough to maintain quality.
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by dimal 3y ago
My experience with doctors in a patient setting is that they have generally been far less empathetic than the doctors in /r/AskDocs. Those doctors seem to be motivated to help and actually show some empathy. While Reddit on the wh
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by dimal 3y ago
> AI-augmented care is the future of medicine. Somehow I think that the only profession in the US that still uses fax machines will be slow to take up this new technology.
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by dimal 3y ago
> I don't understand why Wired chose to omit those. I like to think I’m a rational person, but I read the headline, got alarmed and clicked on the link. I read the article and got more alarmed, and so I clicked on another link withi
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by dimal 3y ago
Just because there are legitimate reasons for bulk mail to exist doesn’t mean it should be discounted. Most bills are electronic nowadays, and for the smaller number of people that live in rural areas and maybe still rely on snail mailed bi
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by dimal 3y ago
The question I have is, why does the USPS provide a discount for bulk mail at all? Sending bulk mail is less than half the price if a regular letter. It’s basically a subsidized door-to-door garbage delivery. My recycling bin is right next
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by dimal 3y ago
There are a lot of good arguments [0] that peer review doesn't work, and leads to worse outcomes than just publishing openly and letting the marketplace of ideas decide which papers are actually worthwhile. Think about it. A small grou
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by dimal 3y ago
Normally, I’d agree with you, but in this case, I think the medication is warranted. While PTSD may be caused by societal factors, healing large numbers of individuals from it is not going to happen without medication. Speaking as someone w

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