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by dkarl 1y ago
Far less prominently. I'll never forget when a programmer I worked with in 2001 or so said that he had decided to study CS in college for the money, having never written a line of code beforehand. The rest of us looked at him like he h
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> - Some people just don’t like to eat that much. They don’t actually have a faster metabolism. Eating is just a chore to them so they rarely do it. I had two friends exactly like this. One of them was 6' and 135lbs when he started
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by dkarl 1y ago
This is so true. The mental pressure your body brings to bear to try to reestablish the old equilibrium, and the emotional energy needed to withstand that mental pressure until your body accepts the new equilibrium, are incredibly hard real
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These days metrics are so ubiquitous that many internal back-end systems have SLAs for tail latencies as well.
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For progressive, educated people, Holocaust education was a double-edged sword. It made us keenly aware that the belief in the need for the existence of a Jewish state came from centuries of European Christian anti-Semitism culminating in t
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by dkarl 1y ago
I think it's just a poorly chosen analogy. When I read it, I understood "weakest link" to be the easiest path to penetrate the system, which will be harder if it requires penetrating multiple layers. But you're right tha
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by dkarl 1y ago
I think this article is unfair to SPAs. SPAs are a lot more effort, but they are better. For a long time they have been the only way to "make it feel like an app." (I think the author says "make it feel like an app" beca
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by dkarl 1y ago
Since this seems to be a guide for programmers new to Python, I wish it made it clear that dataclasses are classes; @dataclass just provides a concise way of defining classes with default functionality for instance construction, equality,
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by dkarl 1y ago
There's no claim to expertise or empirical support. There isn't even a claim that it applies an existing framework. Why would you think it was anything other than opinion? I get tired endless unnecessary invocations of "I cou
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by dkarl 1y ago
This is a great example of a practice that is pragmatic and smooths the way for future polish if the software grows in usage by 100x, without investing a bunch of effort now that won't make sense if it doesn't grow (and might stop
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by dkarl 1y ago
In one of his books about intellectual property law, Lawrence Lessig quoted an unnamed French lawmaker as saying, "There are two things Americans need to understand about art: art has nothing to do with money, and the artist must be pa
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Customers get to ask for things. You aren't the customer.
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I think I agree with that. It was not the first movie where I remember talking with people who said that it was a bad movie because it could be interpreted in a harmful way. However, it was the first movie where that seemed to be the prevai
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I think what this means is that the movies now care whether the least-common-denominator viewers get their "point." Because of this, they have to have a single easily articulated point, and they have to beat the audience over the
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The whole point is that science is the difference. Vaccines work. The business of selling vaccines might be sleazy because of the way they go about it, but the product itself isn't a scam.
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Acupuncture is like herbal supplements. There are studies you can point to if you want to defend it, which is handy for people who make money on it. I know a guy who worked for a veterinary clinic for years and used to bellyache about how t
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by dkarl 1y ago
My prediction: within 50-100 years, traditional Chinese medicine will be like osteopathy in the United States: impossible to distinguish from mainstream modern medicine, even though it bears a name reflecting its origins in pseudoscience. I
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> doesn't validate their pseudoscientific pursuit If you take an idea with a pseudoscientific origin, and you test it in a sound scientific way, you're doing science, not pseudoscience.
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I'm a big proponent of using types, but my experience with "Validated" types has not been positive. It's nice when it's unambiguous, but adding "validated" to the name of a type can mean almost anything. W
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> Keeping them somewhat less accessible tends to filter out people who don't do their homework I strongly disagree. Your circles might be different, but in my experience, wanting to do your homework makes it less accessible, because
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I agree; I wondered how HN would manage to make the article controversial, and this was the answer, equating the sound of playing children with the sound of intrusive commercial marketing aimed at children.
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I've found it's best to explain my job using unintelligible jargon. There are three choices, really: You can give a quick explanation in terms they understand, which makes your job sound easy and makes them wonder how anybody gets
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by dkarl 1y ago
> a few days in a gym can fuck you up for an entire year, even with a lot of experience. I basically never met anybody who does regular resistance training without having some sort of pain somewhere, all the time > Maybe if you are un
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Granted this probably isn't the parallel application that the other poster was envisioning, but it can be extremely useful when a computation depends on a large number of I/O-bound tasks that may fail, like when you are servicing
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And for those who also don't want to be forced to sequence the computations, i.e., wanting to run them concurrently and potentially in parallel, each approach to concurrency supports its own version of this. For example, choosing Scala
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> the 787 does not use an FDR/CVR but a more modern type of recorder that captures more data. which supposedly India lacks the equipment and/or knowhow to download I thought there was a new lab in India that was equipped to rec
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Regrets are not irrelevant when people face the same decisions over and over and make choices that they previously regretted.
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If you assume that people's preferences are revealed by their behavior, then you are assuming there is no stupidity. You're starting from that conclusion. However, you could also choose to believe their regrets, when they look bac
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"Stupid" is used as shorthand for a lot of things, one of which is, "likely to act in a self-destructive manner when better alternatives are available." With that in mind, I have to disagree with this: > they’re intel
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People outside of engineering can't give engineers immediate credit for long-term decisions. They don't have the competency to know what to reward. I'd go further and say that even within engineering, people outside of a team

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