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by halfcat 2y ago
You’re not making a point by saying they’re the same. It can be true that they’re exactly the same, and still be beneficial for people to take it. This is true for most medications. The same dose of insulin that saves the life of one person
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by halfcat 2y ago
When you know better you do better. I was originally diagnosed 20+ years ago. Back then it was even worse, appointments with an “ADD specialist” were 3-4 hours, blood draws, etc and it was all very thorough. So once my meds were stable and
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by halfcat 2y ago
It depends on the prescribing doctor. When I’d get meds from my general practitioner (who was associated with a big hospital chain, i.e. more CYA red tape), there were all kinds of hoops. No teladoc, in-office only, hard copy prescription o
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by halfcat 2y ago
Chess paints a clear picture of the strategy/tactics distinction to me. Tactics is concrete. Carry out these steps, and some goal is achieved. It’s the action that actually moves something forward. I can prove that I can checkmate my o
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by halfcat 2y ago
Instant messaging and phones aren’t a big leap from Outlook, plus they’ve been in the space since 2007 with Office Communicator, Lync, and Skype for Business.
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by halfcat 2y ago
It’s not only Teams. If I send a meeting invite from my gmail with a Zoom link, it gets replaced with a Google Meet link. I have to Slack a Zoom link to everyone before the meeting every week.
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by halfcat 2y ago
while True: learn() comes to mind. Solving puzzles that involve thinking in terms of flows, accidentally learning some machine learning, and things that would transfer to tasks like designing computer networks, or scaling apps where the c
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by halfcat 2y ago
> why isn't the steel an inch thicker? In our analysis we determined that if the steel doors were thicker it would hinder our team of ex-special-forces security guards from operating their bazookas effectively in the event a suspici
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by halfcat 2y ago
What would this even look like in software? I always wonder if software is different than physical construction, or if software is just less mature of a discipline. In software, we can’t estimate projects accurately and consistently. We hav
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by halfcat 2y ago
My takeaways from experimenting with CRDTs were: - In many cases, CRDTs didn’t improve upon last-write-wins, i.e. a CRDT update followed by another user’s CRDT update 10 seconds later is the same as last-write-wins - Often the challenge was
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by halfcat 2y ago
> The strong consensus was that software is an engineering discipline I see it as a difference in time and stakes. We’ve built bridges and boats for thousands of years, where the outcome of failure is people die. This has a lot to do w
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by halfcat 2y ago
BREACH attack [1] is another interesting study. I learned about it when someone suggested using compression to address scenarios where Tailwind CSS is duplicated in HTTP responses, and a BREACH attack was suggested as a potential downside t
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by halfcat 2y ago
I recall someone, maybe Tim Ferriss, saying it typically takes him 6-8 weeks before he can do an equivalent workout on keto, and for high level endurance athletes much longer, like 12-18 months of adaptation before they start seeing clear b
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by halfcat 2y ago
Can a tool like Snowflake work if it doesn’t have access to the unencrypted data?
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by halfcat 2y ago
Agree 100%. I’ll add: build whatever interests you The project you’ll work on will teach you more than the one you abandon. Some of the most random things I’ve done purely out of curiosity, which were objectively not valuable at the time, h
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by halfcat 2y ago
To me, the most unfortunate thing in this storyline so far is not that people aren’t up to speed on AI, but that students are regularly getting penalized because they are suspected of using AI. Teachers and professors using “AI detection”
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by halfcat 2y ago
The visualizations in Dan Abramov’s talk “The wet codebase” [1] really burned this concept in for me. Seeing what a premature, wrong abstraction looks like visually was eye opening. [1] https://youtu.be/17KCHwOwgms
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by halfcat 2y ago
Conceptually is this sort of a database-agnostic SQL view? Seems like these could be stacked to simplify (or complicate?) an entire ETL pipeline. I haven’t decided where I land on this. In some ways, stacking SQL views looks like it simplif
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by halfcat 2y ago
”Make decisions where there isn’t definitive supporting data.” I still wonder if this is something AI will ever be able to do, or if it’s much harder than we suspect and at least several more AI winters away. It’s basically the is/ou
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by halfcat 2y ago
They’re probably referring to situations in California where people walk out with merchandise because the penalties are less than the merch they’re getting. It’s less of a “the way things are headed” in the US, and more of a side effect of
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by halfcat 2y ago
It appears that this is installed to the path below on Windows, if you want to check if it’s running on your PC: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\scheduler Using one of these executable names: mssched.exe jusched32.exe
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by halfcat 2y ago
You can create infinite such jokes that end with: …and the duck said to the bartender, “put it on my bill”
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by halfcat 2y ago
How do they seize it? Say I’ve got a 256-bit number memorized and I live on a farm in El Salvador. Is the US sending seal team 6 to interrogate every person trading bitcoin on earth? Or, is that maybe a bit unrealistic?
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by halfcat 2y ago
Not exactly “more resilient”, but rather, “the only way to gain more resiliency over a single system”. A distributed system can be more resilient, but it also adds complexity, making it (sometimes) less reliable . A single system with a lo
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by halfcat 2y ago
The financial incentive to continue business operations will always be larger. Unless that’s the financial incentive you’re referring to.
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by halfcat 2y ago
Who’s liable when a user is tricked into handing over a 2FA code? That’s the vast majority of the incidents I’ve seen over the years.
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Are the world police implementing this ban? And are they starting a world war to enforce it? Or how does this ban go into effect in your view?
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by halfcat 2y ago
How far do we take that? Adding layers and layers of security isn’t free, and it’s often at the expense of productivity, and if taken far enough, the profitability and viability of a business. What’s the right percentage of the economy to s
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by halfcat 2y ago
Let’s be realistic about this. A company can’t pay a ransom if they don’t have customers. Life sentences for all customers of businesses is the only effective path.
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by halfcat 2y ago
Does anyone know an iPad app that lets you draw animations like this? I tried the online editor [1] and it says “this editor requires a screen width of 1200px if more”. If I check my browser size [2] it says 2360x1426. Bummer. [1] https:&#

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