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by elric 1y ago
The whole core team is amazing. Gosling wanted a language that was practical from a development POV. Over the years, it's been refined into a language with a fair amount of mechanical sympathy on top of the development experience. Than
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by elric 1y ago
Belgium. Edited the post to make that clearer, thanks for pointing that out.
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by elric 1y ago
The article claims that funds were held after being donated. That certainly goes way beyond "not choosing to do business". The claims were refuted by BuyMeACoffee, which changes things. But if I, as a donator, donate money to some
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by elric 1y ago
Someone will use your service to "donate" to a drug dealer, or to buy shady sexual material, or to sponsor some religious nutter somewhere or other. And you'll be held liable. There is a reason why the system is as shit as it
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by elric 1y ago
3DSecure is ... weird. It doesn't always trigger. It depends on some measure of "risk" (however the hell that's determined). E.g. my payments to pizza place never invoke 3D Secure because I order from them so damned ofte
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by elric 1y ago
Debanking small accounts isn't something that I'd heard of before. But debanking "undesirables" is certainly a problem. Over here (Belgium) we have legalized prostitution, but it's very hard for sex workers to open
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by elric 1y ago
How does this work in practice? Say someone wants to take a bus to the hospital. But not enough people want to go to the hospital. Will the bus not run and will you be shit out of luck?
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by elric 1y ago
`var` is very unhelpful in situations where the reader might not be entirely familiar with the context, especially when using factory methods. I don't think the author was trying to make the example "wordy" so much as "c
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by elric 1y ago
> I think you're in the tiny minority with that opinion. I'm not. The whole "I hate Jira thing" is a meme among a very vocal minority of tech enthusiasts. They don't have tens of millions of users because Jira is
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by elric 1y ago
> Count yourself lucky you haven't had to use Jira! Or bugzilla for that matter. Jira and bugzilla are vastly superior to GH Issues. Jira doesn't even deserve 10% of the hate it gets. Most of what makes Jira awful is the people
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by elric 1y ago
GitHub's issue tracker is easily the worst issue tracker I've ever used. It's at the same time incredibly limited in features, but somehow hard to navigate. As for PRs: I'm sure Mozilla welcome contributions, but accepti
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by elric 1y ago
> Just finding the repo is often a frustrating exercise Surely most open source projects have a link to their source code? Whether it's github, gitlab, sourcehut, or anything else?
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by elric 1y ago
Many projects have rules about what kinds of pull requests they accept. You would still have had to familiarise yourself with those rules, as well as the usual things like coding style, testing policies, etc.
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by elric 1y ago
In all likelihood, if the patch had been a pull request, the pull request would have been ignored as well. Much like the thousands of pull requests that are often ignored by various larger open source projects. Ain't nobody got time to
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by elric 1y ago
Impressive that it caught it. Did the apple watch catch 1-2 events per hour? Or was that a sleep study? Sleep apnea isn't usually "officially" diagnosed until you hit >5/hour, 1-2/hour isn't even "mild&
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by elric 1y ago
A privacy leak tool, and an annoyance generator. Every time I have to click their silly "prove you're human"-thing I feel a little more dehumanized.
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by elric 1y ago
Indeed. And I'm a bit surprised at how negative some of these comments are. These are just innocent observations, coloured by her experiences and biases. At no point is she claiming that these are absolute truths. We all make such snap
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by elric 1y ago
Can't read the full article. Abstract mentions 92% accuracy. That could be abysmal depending on how it's calculated? Correctly identifying 92% of heart attacks and missing 8% might be pretty good. But reporting false positives 8%
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by elric 1y ago
> apple watch doesn’t do o2 monitoring continuously, just for some fraction of the time Making it effectively useless? Unless the fraction of the time is multiple times per minute? E.g. in sleep apnea it's not uncommon for some desa
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by elric 1y ago
Article seems very light on details. Is this trying to detect ECG markers of heart attacks (like ST segment issues)? Is it somehow detecting troponin in the blood stream? How? And how are they going to prevent false positives if this is ind
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by elric 1y ago
This sounds like exactly the kind of thing Theia would be useful for. It's easier than a straight up fork of VSCode.
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by elric 1y ago
Any particular reason why they forked VSCode and not Theia?
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by elric 1y ago
More people have tattoos, so it's only natural that more people would get tattoos removed. Doesn't strike me as particularly surprising. It's a lengthy, expensive, and often painful process. Getting shoddy work covered might
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by elric 1y ago
Everything is a tradeoff. I'm sure pensions will become more affordable if we keep killing people by means of air pollution and car crashes. /s But I'm sure we'll keep subsidising company cars.
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by elric 1y ago
> Municipalities are attempting to create safe and comfortable transit systems in the face of climate change. Citation needed. Over here, municipalities are trying to find further ways of reducing the cost of public transport. Spending m
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by elric 1y ago
> This is a difficult topic because some alternative Lyme treatment providers will tell patients they have a persistent infection and then subject them to years of high-dose antibiotics with no scientific basis, which can create a separa
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by elric 1y ago
Not allergic myself, but tetracyclines basically turn me into a vampire, the slighest bit of sun exposure burns me to a crisp. Very unpleasant.
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by elric 1y ago
Not the original commenter, but my friends are aware of my picture preferences (as in: get that camera out of my face). I always say "no", and most people I know are fine with that. There are (or so I've been informed) some p
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by elric 1y ago
Sure, people talk to each other and share stuff. That doesn't magically make it ok for people to share stuff about you on a (public?) instagram account. There's a huge difference between those two dynamics. It's fine to overs
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by elric 1y ago
Was put under for minor surgery using propofol some 20 years ago. Doc started injecting the milky white goo into my IV, without so mucy as a hello, there was a clock in the room which seemed to slow down, I couldn't breathe or move or

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