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by jjmarr 1y ago
Yes. It works pretty well.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Drugs aren't considered healthcare for whatever reason. If I got an ADHD pill in a hospital that's free, but if I wanted to get the same at an outpatient pharmacy it'll cost money in most cases. Ditto for dental. So while the
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by jjmarr 1y ago
CAMH and other hospitals provide free outpatient mental health services from psychiatrists to the underemployed/poor. As you acknowledge, if you end up so badly that you are committed, you can get a referral. They might be underfunded
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Jurassic Park fits into the TvTrope of "Seinfeld Is Unfunny".[1] CGI dinosaurs are awesome when you see them for the first time in 1993, when Reboot was cutting edge.[2] Now it's a basic requirement to have photorealistic CGI
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I live in Canada and it's illegal to take private insurance if you also take public insurance. The private healthcare system is virtually nonexistent and is dominated by scammers. The public healthcare system still has months-long wait
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). I only had a 90% in HS and didn't get into good CS/ECE programs (thanks grade inflation, my marks went up in uni). If you're not in Waterloo/UBC/UofT th
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Assuming you're just some random person and not the govt, why would you care? Everyone will switch to one-time pads if you released it publicly. And you'd have to be very patriotic to give it secretly to the government.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
We do basic C, basic-medium Java, Python for signals analysis, and somewhat advanced design patterns. Tons of UML. The misses remind me of technical debt vs shiny features. I wrote embedded assembly and did a bunch of labs on them. But due
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by jjmarr 1y ago
"larger than merely stealing some Bitcoin" It's US$2 billion. I can't imagine a better way of monetizing such an exploit than to convert it into cash by using Bitcoin. The US govt can't pay you US$2 billion without
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I can design a simple op-amp circuit and deploy to a Kubernetes cluster because Canada has a "Computer Engineering" degree that's a hybrid between CS/Electrical Engineering. It doesn't work in practice. CS graduates
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Not necessary, Uganda has been levying social media taxes on end-users since 2018 by automatically adding it to your cell phone bill if you access a social media website. About 2.7¢ per day of usage.[1] Virtually everyone gets their interne
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by jjmarr 1y ago
This is a great task for LLMs, honestly.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
> is it common for weird architectures to exist? > yes, unless you're using a common one.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
According to Plato, Socrates said this on the invention of writing: > And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Most countries do not mandate accessibility in public accomodations to the extent the United States does. Since the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, any disabled person can sue a business and get statutory penalties for a lack of accom
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Don't use inheritance and you won't have to find out.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Kids enjoy having their head and feet at different levels of gravity. When was the last time you spun yourself around in a desk chair?
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by jjmarr 1y ago
The distinction matters because i.e. implies English is the only non-phonetic language in existence.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I can read Chinese and still cannot process that image as Latin script. They've turned every letter into a Chinese character component. It makes my head hurt.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Lottery tickets still have value.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Can this be solved by setting p=0.50? Make your expectations explicit instead of implicit. 0.05 is completely arbitrary. If you are comfortable with a 50/50 chance of being right, make your threshold less rigorous.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
It was deprecated because it was the personal blog of Max Blumenthal more than any specific false stories. The Wikipedia discussion is public: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not...
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by jjmarr 1y ago
You should safely shoot yourself in the foot with `friend`, which is a core language feature for accessing private members/functions/etc. https://www.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/friend.html Rede
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by jjmarr 1y ago
They need money to pay for oversight. Any time prisoners talk to someone on the outside, it's a potential conduit for contraband or organized crime.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
It's existed for a while. Partial clones and LFS. https://git-scm.com/docs/partial-clone
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Is it even a push notification if you have to fetch them from a server?
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I was wondering why Americans purchased MRI gift cards.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Legal English isn't natural English.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Yes. I'm in one of those "other countries" and talented people aim for American companies with local offices. They pay more and hire more.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Let's say I'm in a large company. Someone on some other team decided to rely on my implementation internals for a key revenue driver, and snuck it through code review. I can't break their app without them complaining to my bo

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