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by dolni 5y ago
This whole post hinges on the assumption that whatever universe is simulating our own follows the same set of rules as we do. Musing about concepts like simulation complexity or energy requirement is essentially worthless if you don't
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by dolni 5y ago
Buildah is what the Dockerfile could have been. Instead of using general-purpose shell scripting knowledge to produce images, we ended up with a custom instruction file, complete with its own quirks. I am not sure why everyone seems to thin
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by dolni 5y ago
Firstly: Is the system actually "stacked against you" or does it provide better quality of life for everybody? Yes, there are people with disproportionately more, but even the people at the bottom are better off under this system
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Executives making too much is not a problem with people having careers and specializing. Executive pay will not, nor should it ever, equal worker pay. I am not going to pretend multiple millions in yearly compensation is reasonable. But the
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by dolni 5y ago
> So nobody should be able to take on any occupation except farmer or hunter-gatherer, because we would go extinct if everyone was a pharmacist or cop or baker? So you took my examples and decided that because I didn't enumerate eve
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by dolni 5y ago
That people reject taking on a career and being productive members of society is troubling. It also displays a ton of ignorance. Suppose we lived in a society where people didn't specialize and there were no careers. What would the day
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by dolni 5y ago
You're making the incorrect assumption that catching some new, dangerous strain of COVID is a guarantee. It isn't. Pushing out a vaccine that causes harm, even if it's substantially less than the virus it protects against, is
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by dolni 5y ago
"Real" programming languages are leagues ahead of shell scripting languages in terms of transforming and moving data around. Most shell utilities are focused on text processing or are thin wrappers around system calls. If you&#x27
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by dolni 5y ago
The mistake here is assuming that every shell script needs complex argument parsing, subcommand support, and a verbose usage message. I would even go so far as to say they're _rarely_ needed.
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by dolni 5y ago
> I was sold a vaccine that limited hospitalization and death and we have three vaccines that all do this, frankly, miraculously. Really? What news do you watch? I was sold a vaccine that was 90% effective at preventing COVID infection.
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by dolni 5y ago
So... then it was a surprise?
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Exactly what I expected to hear. Let's acknowledge that at least some of the stuff we're seeing is being driven by politics to the detriment of actual science. Some of that might even include (gasp) information about vaccines.
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It wasn't a surprise result, you say? Then how could it be that lockdowns were lifted in the US with barely 50% of the population vaccinated AND without approval for children?
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> No regulatory body in America ever claimed it was safe to use before the side effects were discovered. US regulatory bodies said that the COVID vaccines were safe before blood clotting and myocarditis were discovered. > The FDA does
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Studies continue to show vaccines are less effective than we were all lead to believe. It seems like every new study that comes out lowers the bar even further. Pretty soon we'll be hearing "the vaccine doesn't help at all, b
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by dolni 5y ago
Are you seriously arguing that politics is somehow unique to the USA? What kind of argument is that? > The alternative is that they're all crazy (and/or malicious), and that's a <<very>> difficult thing to prov
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by dolni 5y ago
Neither did any of the vaccines before people started getting them. What are _you_ talking about?
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by dolni 5y ago
> There are well over 100MM shots administered since April and the worst side effect as been a dozen blood clots in women who had a pre-existing condition that caused them. Thalidomide was perfectly safe, too, until kids started being bo
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by dolni 5y ago
It didn't go through full preclinical trials. What are you on about?
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Science does adapt. And as often repeated, we know little to nothing about COVID. Lifting the mask mandate was a political move, and it was a poor one. Not pushing KN95/N95 when it was basically guaranteed to be increased protection wa
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by dolni 5y ago
> Getting really drunk and driving home is also a decision about your body. So is smoking inside restaurants. Smelly analogy is smelly. You're talking about the difference between very specific behaviors being prohibited versus blac
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I gathered the bit about microservices from > I try to extend the simplicity of golang all the way to the network architecture.
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> I've learned that it's better to build many very very simple things and connect them. Not for any technical reasons, but because it allows other developers to quickly begin adding to and fixing your systems. You get to levera
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by dolni 5y ago
Enforcing an IDE across a team for consistency is a real stinky smell. You don't have CI/CD? You sure as hell aren't going to run an IDE in CircleCI or Jenkins to do your builds.
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I think one could make the case that IDEs enable the type of complexity you're referring to. I don't know that I view that as a positive. A lot of software development is about managing complexity. IDEs allow developers to be slop
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by dolni 5y ago
I suppose if I was to recommend some "safe long-term storage formats" I, too, would choose things that are readable in plain ASCII and/or have open source roots. Shoutout to the Library of Congress for doing the real heavy li
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by dolni 5y ago
> Do you have evidence that they considered frozen vegetables to be ultra-processed? Or are you just assuming they did? Last time this discussion came up, I told people to just read the actual study [1]. This link has it behind a paywall
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That's a fair point. Thank you for clarifying the distinction.
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> Most fruits, meats, and vegetables don't spoil in only a few days. Modern flash freezing technology also makes frozen vegetables very nutritious and flavorful. But flash freezing is an industrial technology not found in your stand
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Why should I believe that "mechanically separated meat" is any worse for me than any other meat? Clearly the act of separating parts of an animal is not adding unhealthy compounds to your food. Which then makes me think: if they a

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