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by jawns 3y ago
There's definitely value in providing this functionality for photographs taken in the present. But I think the real value -- and this is definitely in Google's favor -- is providing this functionality for photos you have taken in
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by jawns 3y ago
Is that generalizable, though? Most people I know who are working under 30 hours a week do not qualify for important benefits such as health insurance. Are you benefiting from a partner's income and health plan, or are you able to sust
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by jawns 3y ago
I've never worked for Google, but have written a lot of Closure code. Unfortunately, my opinions about Closure are colored by how it was used within my org -- which was far from ideal. We should have taken the best of Closure (the com
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by jawns 3y ago
On the other hand, insurance companies are more likely to pay for treatment if the condition has a name, which is why sometimes patients receive "sympathetic diagnoses," where they're diagnosed with a condition that has a clo
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by jawns 3y ago
ME/CFS doesn't seem to fit the symptoms she's describing, either. The fact that she can work fine in remote settings, and that symptoms only appear when stress is elevated, is inconsistent with ME/CFS.
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The term "stress intolerance disorder" is not a recognized clinical classification in the field of psychiatry or psychology. The closest things I could find are Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Adjustment Disorder, Acute Stress Disor
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by jawns 3y ago
What's up with the overloaded operators? `I >>` and `>= keep` might be terse, but they're hard to reason about unless you're already familiar with the library. This probably isn't the kind of stuff you want to e
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by jawns 3y ago
I've often wondered how they measure the efficacy of the tests. Is there some sort of telemetry on the phones that reports back that the user received and viewed the alert? Is there a sample group of test users who have agreed to repor
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by jawns 3y ago
Note to anyone who is unfamiliar: Technically, this approach does not avoid passing the genetic mutation to the children you conceive. Each embryo still has a 50/50 chance of inheriting it. Instead, the embryos that have the genetic m
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by jawns 3y ago
My family has been affected by another devastating disease with a clear genetic marker, Huntington's Disease. If a parent has the genetic mutation that causes the disease, each of their children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting t
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Ask HN: How did you become the Belgian Waffle person?
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by jawns 3y ago
I was gifted a Yubikey about a month ago, and I planned to use it as 2FA instead of having to open up Google Authenticator 10-20 times a day and copy 6-digit codes. It took a little effort to set up, but now it's working as intended.
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by jawns 3y ago
I laughed out loud when I read about the lobbyists who are trying to keep phenylephrine from being taken off store shelves. In one article about the FDA panel vote, a lobbyist said that most consumers hate the alternatives -- nasal sprays b
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by jawns 3y ago
I agree. I love the idea of Librivox, but the volunteers vary widely in quality. Some are non-native English speakers, some have lisps or other articulation problems, some have other marks of fluency deficiencies, some have under- or over-
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JSONata: JSON Query and Transformation Language(jsonata.org)
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by jawns 3y ago
> Add up your SaaS subscriptions last year. You should own that shit by now. I know a lot of companies are adopting a more irreverent marketing approach, using words that 20 years ago would have been bleeped out. The swear word itself do
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by jawns 3y ago
As a manager, when I get a high-performing engineer, I get out of their way. And then I get other things out of their way. When I talk with these engineers about what they actually want, it's not time to goof off and play ping-pong or
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by jawns 3y ago
Disney Coding Adventures is a series of physical books that present coding basics like functions and loops, but it sounds like your 8 year old may have progressed beyond that.
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I thought it would be amusing to see if anyone could guess it.
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I think it's for the same reason that "It was all just a dream" is such a terrible plot device. There is a meaninglessness inherent in the retelling of a dream. You know at the outset that it didn't actually happen, so w
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by jawns 3y ago
I like to think of dreams as our brains' leisure time, an opportunity for them to do whatever they want to do, unencumbered by the demands of sensory processing or conscious thought. However, that doesn't mean our brains necessari
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by jawns 3y ago
One area where I expect this digital rot to have significant effects is with obituaries. It will likely frustrate the next few generations of genealogists hunting for records of early 21st century ancestors. Obituaries that appeared in pri
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by jawns 3y ago
If you're going to use models, why not models all the way through? In other words, rather than using them merely to identify words to abbreviate and suggested abbreviations, why not use an LLM that can take a bunch of abbreviated text
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by jawns 3y ago
I would love to see sabbaticals become more the norm, but I see a few problems with this particular plan and other problems with how they are generally implemented. For this specific plan, it asks a 35-year-old to agree to work an additiona
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by jawns 3y ago
There were a few things that led to us recognizing and adjusting our biases. But what led us to homeschool ourselves was pretty straightforward. My wife was a teacher in private schools for about 7 years, and once our oldest was ready for k
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That argument held sway with me for a long time, but not anymore. Our kids get a decent amount of socialization through all the activities they're involved in, and when other kids find out they're homeschooled, their response is m
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by jawns 3y ago
We are in our ninth year of homeschooling. My wife and I attended private and public schools and grew up with typical biases against homeschooling, e.g. they lack social skills. When we got married, we always assumed we'd send our ki
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by jawns 3y ago
This feels like a "mythical man month" fallacy. Say you're working a standard 9-to-5. Sure, you can submit applications during the evenings, but once you get your foot in the door, you're constrained by the business hou
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by jawns 3y ago
> Preparation and leverage means doing the work to make sure that you have multiple offers, that all your offers come in at the same time, and that you don’t tip your hand too early. Laying this foundation is 80% of the work. You’ll need
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by jawns 3y ago
I love my Pebble Time watch, and for the first several years I used all the bells and whistles: the sleep tracking, the Bluetooth alerts, even the mini games (like Tetris) from the Pebble Store. But after about 6 years of ownership, I notic

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