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by hhas01 7y ago
Why? Do you think that women in my close family have never miscarried? Or that experience is the only contribution that matters? I may have flunked med, but at least I picked up enough to appreciate what a chaotic crapshoot animal biology
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by hhas01 7y ago
MAX is Defective by Design. Leave the aerodynamically unstable designs for the hotshot fighter planes; everyone else just wants to get from A to B without cratering into the ground inbetween.
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by hhas01 7y ago
“She was actually surprised how common an occurrence a miscarriage is” Answer: very †. But it often isn’t talked about. And, I strongly agree, not talking about it is very Bad indeed. Ironically, I think developed nations’ success in all b
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by hhas01 7y ago
Oh, please. Miscarrying is worse for the person miscarrying. I’m male, single, childless, dumb as a stump, and even I can work that one out. It’s not just emotional; it’s biochemical too. Look, no-one says grieving spouses don’t require sup
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by hhas01 7y ago
TBH, I think that’s as much accidental as by design. ObjC didn’t do generics until just recently, so the standard collection classes (NSArray, NSDictionary, etc) couldn’t specify element types so had no choice but to leave those APIs type
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by hhas01 7y ago
“ Don't forget that miscarriages effect [sic] the spouse too.” Of course close family [that know about it] will also feel grief; that’s only natural. I think the point being made is that it is far worse for the individual doing the a
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by hhas01 7y ago
Yeah, it’s not a new idea; but I’d say “some” languages rather than “many”. Dylan’s another case; great pity it didn’t fare better. (I’d much rather be using it than Swift.) Also, none of them are in the mainstream, which creates general ch
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by hhas01 7y ago
“my observation that API's in Python tend to much nicer and much less verbose” I trust you don’t mean Python’s stdlib APIs, which are an inconsistent mess. (Python 3 did very little to improve this, unfortunately.) There’s also a lot t
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by hhas01 7y ago
The problem right there is in the definition of “liberal”. A cautious, forward-thinking designer-developer would interpret it as “allow for unknowns”. Whereas sloppy-ass cowboys think it means “accept any old invalid crap” and pass their ga
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by hhas01 7y ago
Depends on the language. I do agree that lossy coercions are a Bad Idea; a [mis]feature added with the best of intentions and inadequate forethought (e.g. AppleScript, JavaScript, PHP). OTOH, a good [weak] untyped language should accept a
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by hhas01 7y ago
Yep. Being able to work fast and dirty is a huge boon when testing ideas and figuring out the initial design, and it is deeply annoying that so many typed languages refuse to permit this. The faster you can write code, the faster you can th
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by hhas01 7y ago
Faster-than-light in a medium , which slows light down. Not faster than c , which I believe is the point Einstein et al were making when fixing the speed limit of the universe. Although a lighthearted joke about “sciencing hard” being in
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by hhas01 7y ago
Yeah, there’s a lot of knock-ons with “just” extending the gear. It would definitely cost a lot more (though still far less than a complete new airframe), which is obviously why Boeing and customers wanted to dodge it. On the other hand, bu
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by hhas01 7y ago
https://comb.io/dqaqWp
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by hhas01 7y ago
Causality’s the pig. Outracing your own light cone presents a problem, to say the least.
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by hhas01 7y ago
AI is not some magical pixie dust or golden retriever chasing a stick. It may have its applications in pattern matching, particularly in chewing the exabyte datasets we increasingly have now, but it isn’t going to fetch the answers for us.
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by hhas01 7y ago
Except, string theory and multiverse aren’t theories . Heck, they’re not even hypotheses (since they offer no means to test them). They’re simple speculation; what philosophers right back to the ancient Greeks were only too happy to rest o
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by hhas01 7y ago
Stagnant? Or just mature , like a fine cheese and wine?
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by hhas01 7y ago
Aye, it’s easy to make criticisms (and Zeus knows the price of good science is eternal vigilance), but the easiest and most satisfyingly Ockhamite explanation of the slowdown in physics remains: all its low-hanging fruit is long since tak
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by hhas01 7y ago
Yup. In an ideal world, all systems would be built by domain experts who are trained to program. I cut my teeth as a self-taught scripter/automator before going professional and eventually becoming a writer/educator myself, so I’v
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by hhas01 7y ago
Jesus. Pardon my French, but seeing that photo makes me fully appreciate two things: 1. Just how incredibly low 737 sits to the ground (obviously a feature from back in the days when luggage was manually loaded), and 2. How anyone would t
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by hhas01 7y ago
“And the truth of the matter is that some companies in Indonesia have a bad culture” So same as some companies in US then. Naming no names.
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by hhas01 7y ago
“In Theory; Current practice has all but forgotten this. That is why many Physicians themselves are looking at Yoga, Meditation, TCM, Ayurveda etc. to supplement their treatment.” Eh, no. If many Physicians are looking at TCM, Ayurveda, etc
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by hhas01 7y ago
“Do you realize these systems are designed by respected doctors and product managers? They tell the programmers exactly what to do.” And here, in a nutshell, is EVERYTHING wrong in modern software development. Doctors are NOT programmers. I
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by hhas01 7y ago
“But you must admit that the profession brings out some very arrogant traits.” Which one? You know we’re also talking about programmers, right?
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by hhas01 7y ago
Growing complexity. Struggling scalability. Overspecialization. Balkanization. Failures of accountability. OP’s firsthand observation on the awful state of programmer-produced medical software, the original linked article, and notoriously l
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by hhas01 7y ago
So, sharks selling surboards. Not exactly PubMed though, is it?
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by hhas01 7y ago
Yep. Never blame users for raging at the system until you understand the system as well as they do. Techies have it easy: they only have one job and that’s all they ever do. It looks very different from the other side. (Protip: The key to
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by hhas01 7y ago
Inasmuch as “Caveat Emptor” is the Latin to live by, physicians and hospitals are indeed responsible for making sure what they’ve just bought is safe and fit for purpose. Especially with HIPAA et al already breathing down their necks. The b
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by hhas01 7y ago
“If you lose half your brain, you’re probably dead, and if not, you’ll be drastically impaired the rest of your life.” Depends. Patients who undergo hemispherectomy at a very young age can recover remarkably well; a testament to the incredi

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