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by hvocode 5y ago
Chronic fatigue syndrome has long been known to often start with a viral infection (for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21756995/ ). Other issues can arise as a consequence of viral infections as well (e.g., t
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by hvocode 5y ago
I’m in the same boat. Due to security restrictions of my employer I can’t use cloud services to store work related stuff. I was really bummed when I discovered that a lot of the interesting features of my RM2 require their cloud service.
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by hvocode 5y ago
Reinventing known things and claiming that they’re novel is sort of his shtick. That said, he often does do interesting work - it just takes quite a bit of patience (which many people don’t have) to wade through the fluff and self-congratu
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by hvocode 5y ago
Part of me wants to disagree since some of these features make my code shorter, but I have to agree since they commit a sin of language design that I dislike - implicit magic. Decorators are useful because they can help you shrink code by
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by hvocode 5y ago
I’m getting a little tired of articles or chats with people where you get the impression that people think the vaccines will create some sort of covid-proof bubble around them. This is the only explanation I can find for people acting surpr
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by hvocode 5y ago
The details of Windows executables are all well documented and open - it's very easy to parse a windows executable and run it. The part that's missing to run it without Windows is the implementation of system calls and system lib
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by hvocode 5y ago
I'm not sure it's a question of FOSS OS vs non-FOSS OS. Working with MacOS has always felt similar to working with other non-Linuxes -- it's different. When OSX first came along with Rhapsody, while it was a form of UNIX it
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by hvocode 5y ago
Oh come on. Even before the pandemic your typical anti-vaccine person also wasn’t universally against all vaccines. They usually had some subset that represented their favorite rationale for not getting it: those containing substances the
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by hvocode 5y ago
Competitive programming is fun. It’s amazing that some people seem to think everything is about career path optimization. Are we not allowed to do things for fun or just to pass the time anymore without someone writing that we’re wasting o
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by hvocode 5y ago
I wouldn’t overthink the tools. I found a mostly minimal toolset was sufficient when I did my PhD: actively used repositories to make sure I never lost my work (private repos so I didn’t have to care what I put in them), plain old emacs fo
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by hvocode 5y ago
I don’t get it. Why would you sign in with any personal information on a work device? Just create a free account and use it for work. I have zero sympathy for people who use personal accounts on work devices : just because they let you t
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by hvocode 5y ago
That’s not that hard in an FP language. I routinely write code with multiple structures referring to the same thing. My usual solution is to have an identifier for the thing that indexes into an array or map, and then the other structures
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by hvocode 5y ago
I think the point is that yes, they have always had the power to do these things - but they haven't thus far. We rely on entities with power (companies, governments, people) to exercise restraint in how they exercise it. Those that D
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by hvocode 5y ago
I’ve seen the same thing occurring in central Oregon in spots that usually are busy in the summer. You see places closing early or not opening due to staffing issues, right in the middle of the busy season when people are over there vacatio
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by hvocode 5y ago
I think others addressed the "why proof not empirical data" question well, but one additional point. A logical proof is only as solid as its weakest component. In mathematics any result that has been proven may be used in a comp
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by hvocode 5y ago
This is very important. I personally like old technologies and languages where the designers considered users who had limited technical skills, and most importantly, assumed that those users had no interest or need to improve their technic
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by hvocode 5y ago
Exactly. These are restrictions that have been viewed as favorable for security purposes for decades. It’s nice to see a mainstream OS actually implementing them. The resistance to them seems to be largely due to lazy developers: it wou
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by hvocode 5y ago
It’s an easier mode for me when standing and holding the iPad with one hand and the stylus in the other. The keyboard is nice when sitting and using both hands for sure. Same was true when using my old thinkpad tablet in the same way.
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by hvocode 5y ago
I write comments based on what I expect I will need to know if I close the editor and don’t look at the code again for a couple years and will need to jump back into it as quickly as possible. That usually means I don’t want to waste the t
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by hvocode 5y ago
It seems like broadly speaking everyone has just been stressed here for a few years. Not stressed about work? How about healthcare? Or the economy? Or one of many social topics? Maybe political disagreements with your family members?
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by hvocode 5y ago
I'm sure somewhere in the big pile of comments someone else is saying this, but as another voice saying it: 1. The pandemic was weird, and likely a time when people didn't want to change jobs due to a need for stability. It seems
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by hvocode 5y ago
I've had more than one intern or young engineer that I've had to teach to resist the urge to put witty comments and jokes in project docs, comments, or errors. Especially in error messages or things that can be exposed to users&#
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by hvocode 5y ago
I'm all for significantly limiting the "data economy", but I suspect too many people have become too used to getting free stuff. I see this all over the place - there are products and services that are quite expensive to bui
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by hvocode 5y ago
I wish it were only leaders who are desperate to get back to the office, but it seems like the other force pushing for return to office time is the cohort of people where work IS their social circle. I can't relate to that crowd - eve
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by hvocode 5y ago
I’m not seeing what’s new here compared to github, figshare, zenodo, overleaf, authorea, etc. Github is actively used for scientific papers and code development. Heck, there are open journals that are based on github for both the paper su
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by hvocode 5y ago
100% agree as a maintainer of a substantial modeling and simulation project that uses Python. We use it simply because most of the people contributing ONLY know Python. If I was to rewrite large portions of the code in another language, i
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by hvocode 5y ago
It’s a shame the WFH experiment is blended with the pandemic. It’s hard to decouple the “effectiveness of WFH” from the “pervasive impact of a global pandemic on all aspects of daily life”. I think a lot of people got a negative taste for
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by hvocode 5y ago
This would be useful as part of the new repo creation workflow on GitHub too. Instead of just getting an empty readme, pick the sections you want and start with one that just needs to be filled in. Could autopopulate some sections too (eg
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by hvocode 5y ago
While there is likely some truth to it, the first survey is hardly unbiased: it’s a survey showing lots of people are looking for jobs conducted by a company focused on job searching. That would be like WebMD doing a survey of people on it
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by hvocode 5y ago
That’s a good observation: I think you’ve observed not a change in programming itself, but a shift in the kinds of things large numbers of programmers are building that get talked about on sites like this. Other forums that I track still t

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