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by ericmcer 2y ago
Weird I feel like I read the opposite, that a high protein/fat diet would slow cancer because it thrives on glucose, so cutting carbs/sugar was key. It seems counter intuitive to me that meat & sugar would both be correlated b
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Seriously, every person needs the opportunity to really throw themselves into creating something for a year. I think so many people walk around thinking "if only I had time/money/space/whatever I could do something amazi
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by ericmcer 2y ago
The one about "developing coping mechanisms rather than skills" definitely resonated. Life isn't gonna be perfect though so learning how to cope with less than ideal situations is a required skill.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
ChatGPT came out in late 2022 so it has been almost 2 years since the "AI is going to change everything" wave started. Looking at myself and my coworkers I don't feel there has been an uptick in developer output in that time.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I am in the same boat. It also feels like the more time I spend at one company in one role the more I gain crazy amounts of context over every aspect of our software, so the less effort it takes to do the same amount of work. I can do many
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by ericmcer 2y ago
"So we have $29M in annual revenue on an average of 3.4M searches per month in 2021." Is this real? That averages out to 40m searches, so .75 per. It seems insane to get close to $1 per search. I figured the return was closer to a
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Totally agree. For the 'Portfolio' strategy to be effective you need all the bets to be of a comparable size. If I place 20 $1 bets and 1 $10,000 bet, winning the $1 ones is going to be cold comfort to losing the $10,000 one. Simi
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Can anyone explain why Netflix is considered to have such high tier engineering? Just from a super high level view they store and serve ~5000 videos saved at a few different qualities (4?) so lets say a total of 20,000 videos. Those files o
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Why are you doing this? Developer efficiency? Consistency in UI/UX? New behaviors existing libraries don’t support? Some manager thought it would be a good idea? Just stay mindful of why you are being tasked with doing this so you can
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It isn't rhetoric... It is a specific combat strategy that small nations employ against huge ones. By targeting non-combatants and creating "terror" you can break the will of a larger nation. If the USA in 2001 could have wav
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It would be terrorism if they celebrated the civilian casualties and wished there were more. If they could have executed this without a single civilian injury they definitely would have. I guess intent is what makes it terrorism vs war in m
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Will be interesting to see the ratio of civilian to military injuries was and if this is better or worse than something like a bunch of drone strikes or rocket strikes.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Violence has been probably the biggest driver of innovation for us as a species. I would categorize thousands of weapons as "cool" viewed dispassionately. Aircraft carriers, Fighter Jets, Cruise missiles. They are all definitely c
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by ericmcer 2y ago
The "news" doesn't even seem to exist anymore. News providers have adapted to the readers only wanting hear their own views supported. Not only are there specific providers for specific worldviews, but major providers seem t
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Milk bar always seemed like an example of using raw marketing power to convince people something is good. I saw Tosi on Chefs table and it was crazy how generic what she was doing was versus the other chefs on the show. Juxtaposing her with
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Well it depends how you interpret wiping out a group of people. If you were to base it off DNA, then we are still slowly working towards wiping out the Neanderthals. If you were to base it off “pure” genes (when did the last 100% Neandertha
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Those are great but all really family oriented. Sometimes it’s nice to remember they aren’t just dads. My dad doesn’t usually express much emotion or enthusiasm, but one day he told me about a group trip he had taken at 18 across Europe. H
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Ha yeah seriously. That makes me think of a managerial strategy that involves feeding a low performing employee softball tasks and praising them for completing them. Once they are convinced they are highly competent slowly start ramping up
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by ericmcer 2y ago
My city uses an insane portal that most junior devs could probably replace with a week of hard work. It has massive security holes, uses unstyled HTML and doesn’t have a single convenience built in I think these platforms just have a ton o
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I have only done 15mins at a stretch, but I did foam earplugs with noise cancelling headphones on top and it wasn’t too bad. I just pretended I was in some kind of sci-fi medical healing tube.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
oh yeah I wasn't bashing it, but my kid is a sophomore in high school. Thought there would be something more advanced at that age.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
My kid is in a programming class, so far it has been... kind of a joke. Extremely controlled environments and dragging "code" around in the form of colored blocks. I wish they taught JS/HTML web dev stuff. Even if someone onl
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This is the most practical way. Put in the time, become indispensable, then figure out an arrangement that meets you and your employers needs. I have had a few contract remote gigs and they always end in the employer going broke or me movin
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I would say that is true for any web app with multiple contributors. If you don’t use an existing framework and try to just use js DOM methods you will end up creating your own framework eventually, but now no one understands it except you.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Frontend devs usually know exactly what browsers they support and to what level. I wonder if at Google the list is just Chrome and other browsers can deal with it.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
That is super interesting and a little scary. Sounds similar to dreams where you tell an amazing joke or story and people are laughing uncontrollably and you feel like the funniest person in the world, then if you can recall the joke on wak
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by ericmcer 2y ago
If you live your entire life worshipping pencils, treat other humans benevolently due to the laws the pencils have passed down, and die clutching a fistful of them with a smile on your face, is that crazy?
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by ericmcer 2y ago
The real is extremely mysterious though. We are just a clump of matter floating through space with some crude detection devices equipped so we can tell when electromagnetic waves hit us. If the brain is just forcing all this input into som
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This is the dynamic that every corporation and government entity leverages. I feel like a frog noticing the water is starting to get hot as I see everything: water, power, trash, internet, groceries, registration fees, etc. getting more and
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by ericmcer 2y ago
One caveat I would say is that dieting is a personal journey, so always pay attention your energy levels and weight as you try to different diets. Your ideal diet is going to be unique to you and it will change over time. I tried restrictiv

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