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by jdm2212 6y ago
The defense sector is a big source of funding for basic scientific research. That stuff takes a while to pay off -- decades, usually. GPS and the Internet are old because of that; when they were more recent investments, they weren't us
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Definitely agree that there's a feedback loop and strong long-term effect of initial level of natural attractiveness when you're young. One of the advantages of not starting out on the "is attractive -> gets self-esteem fr
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Is it? Oh man, must've been a long time since I enabled it. They should make it the default.
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That's a really neat trick! Worth noting: Chrome actually no longer dies when you fat-finger cmd-w. It shows a "hold cmd-q to quit" overlay and only dies if you keep holding the keys down.
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That's actually the backstory of The Expanse. Earth colonized Mars, Mars eventually rebelled, and the resulting Mars-Earth competition to colonize the rest of the solar system drives much of the story.
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Ignore the studies and anecdata. Attractiveness is substantially a reflection of personality, so it's hard to disentangle them in studies and anecdotes. Being unattractive can be superficial, or point to deeper issues. In general it&#x
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That gets the causality backwards. Your personality is set pretty early in life and determines characteristics like how self-aware you are, how vain you are, whether you care about how you come across to others, and more. Those qualities de
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> But most of it is genetic lottery, not hard work. The luck part isn't primarily about genetics [1], it's about whether you enjoy (or at least don't hate) the routines necessary to be attractive. For instance: my wife sti
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No one who has a full time job and is in good shape, with well-maintained hair, healthy skin, and a nice wardrobe, stays that way by accident. It's a ton of work. It comes more easily to some than others, but an hour at the gym is an
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There's also the simple fact that attractiveness is endogenous. An intelligent, hard-working person will realize that attractive people get treated better and work to make themself attractive.
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> Amazon is a private company Amazon is a public company. > however stated "sometimes when it’s on promotion it may be below cost, yes." Using hardware as a loss leader isn't unusual -- you get a discount on the hardwar
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What in that article specifically makes you not trust Thorn? They seem to me like they're trying to do good work -- preventing child exploitation -- that necessarily involves partnering with organizations whose values won't always
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> Thorn, the non-profit behind Safer, says it spots the content with greater than 99% precision. Sounds like it's claiming 99% precision, so 99% of positives are true positives. Recall probably isn't great, because (a) if it we
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The one time I needed Fi customer service, I only got my issue (which had left my phone unable to make calls) fixed after months by abusing my Google employee privileges and complaining directly to Fi engineers. EDIT: I absolutely love Fi.
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That's actually how addresses are written in Chinese -- most general to most specific. Super disorienting when you're learning it as an English native speaker.
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I'm not aware of any evidence that Amazon sells stuff below cost.
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It shrunk at an annualized rate of 32.9%, which means it actually shrunk about 8%. If it actually shrunk 32.9% in one quarter, we'd not only be way beyond Great Depression territory but actually into full-on collapse of society.
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If the landlord can run the restaurant as profitably as a restaurant operator could, then either the landlord or the restaurant operator was in the wrong business before. Property management and restaurant management are very different busi
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How do they do refactors and dependency upgrades safely? Just a really strong unit testing culture, specialized tooling or <something else>?
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If you're able to share, I'm curious what kinds of systems these are (and also, I guess, how development velocity compared to statically typed projects you've worked on).
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> they do prove that certain classes of errors don't exist in your program That's particularly important when refactoring because you want to assert that you haven't introduced new bugs, and the type system will often let
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by jdm2212 6y ago
You have to know when semantically it's an instance of the enum, and when it's just a string literal (e.g. in JavaScript, where enums are just a pre-defined set of allowed strings). Also, you might assign to it in one place, and t
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If you add a new value to an enum, or a new argument to a method, you have to know all the places where you do switches on the enum or call the method, which is hard to do without static types.
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The study IMHO is reality. Every large, actively maintained system I've ever heard of uses a strongly typed language, or was written in a dynamically typed language but has converted to a gradually typed language. You can't safely
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by jdm2212 6y ago
JS -> TS is usually just a matter of adding types, so I think by "ported" the previous commenter just meant adding types and tweaking as needed to make the type system happy.
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> 4. I am eating healthier Agree with most of these, but man do I ever miss the free and very well provisioned salad bar at the office :( I've eaten more grilled cheese and peanut butter sandwiches during WFH than any self-respectin
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> In SF/Seattle, if they do not add the COL multiplier, your wages are low enough, that you might reject the offer. That's not quite it. In SF/Seattle, you'll have either high-paying opportunities you can take instead
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Always good for a laugh: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
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What do you find lacking in USPS? My experience with other countries is Israel and Russia's postal systems, which are both notoriously bad at actually delivering mail. USPS doesn't ever seem to lose my mail, and stuff gets to wher
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> failing to make this distinction indicates that protobufs are poorly designed The author never offers any evidence that protobufs fail to make this distinction, just that people are lazy and misuse them. You can't control what peo

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