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by kenhwang 6y ago
Here's what our government says about it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50972/
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Europe is one of the primary reasons US drug pricing is so messed up. Many European countries negotiate drug pricing on cost to manufacturer (practically nothing) with a negotiated slim profit margin. Then the drug companies just offload th
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by kenhwang 6y ago
It typically costs ~$2B to develop a new drug. Taxpayer contributions are practically negligible.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The irony of that statement is that Nikon is part of the biggest conglomerate family in the world (Mitsubishi), while Canon is mostly still a camera company.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
It's more a convenience thing for the tenant. Landlord can perform maintenance without the tenant being home, and door guards are common otherwise. Plus US laws tend to give landlords more power.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I have a 60hz right next to my 144hz and it doesn't bother me at all. It's just text, 99.99% of the time it doesn't move. But dropping down to 1080p or a smaller monitor is instantly noticeable and very very unpleasant. Every
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by kenhwang 6y ago
1440p144hz seems to be the sweet spot that real world single graphics cards can max out on.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Only benefit I've noticed is it's easier to read text and smooth-scroll at the same time. Otherwise it just makes mouse movements and rapid console vomiting look nice. It's really unnecessary for programming in my opinion, us
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I'm laughing at how true this is, but at the same time, if you're doing this, it's probably the one case go excels at.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Positive vs negative testing. Checking the algorithm is generally positive testing. You still should have negative testing, and in a strong type system language the compiler can be leveraged to do much more of that for you. But yes, there&#
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by kenhwang 6y ago
So many tests it's not even funny. A huge chunk of tests in dynamic/softly typed languages just end up being input/output validations where in a strongly typed language you don't bother since you know the compiler would
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I've always said if you can write Ruby/Scala, you can probably write simple Rust with very similar levels of productivity after you get past the initial learning curve. But apparently there's a sizable population that thinks
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Strangely, I found Go to be one of the least productive languages I've ever used, 2nd only to Java. It just makes the programmer do so much of the work for common tasks, and it's incredibly repetitive and while it generally genera
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The test is absolutely insane and it totally makes sense why EPA estimates can vary so much from real world numbers. It would practically ignore the effects of aerodynamics and I'm not even sure weight plays a role given both of those
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I've heard numbers quoted that it's only about 50% efficient, and it would only capture the potential energy from the weight of the car. You still lose a very significant amount of energy overcoming air/rolling resistance.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I wonder how much of this will translate to real world driving. Teslas have generally significantly underperformed in real world range compared to EPA. This reads very much like they're optimizing more towards a benchmark.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Zoom seems to be optimizing for bandwidth use, and by extension, cost to them. Its typical use case is a shared office internet connection. Discord users are more likely to have a dedicated fast internet connection and doesn't seem to
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Discord targets gaming which absolutely prioritizes low-latency. Zoom has a very noticeable amount of latency which makes it really awkward to have multiple people talking at the same time.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I'm kinda curious what the rational of the net is. If you're determined to jump off the bridge, you can jump off the net too.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Usually it means they merged 'origin/master' with their local 'master'. Git is distributed, so everyone can have their own copy of the same branch.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
You experience pretty much match mine. My boss really wanted to use Elixir. Our CTO said he could only if he could convince 3 senior engineers and one ops person to agree to work on and support it. So he flew a whole team of us to ElixirCon
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by kenhwang 6y ago
It's pretty much how we treat our Python projects. All of us hate it, but data science is done in Python so we still need some percentage of the engineering team fluent enough in it to sustain operations with it (on-call, maintenance,
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by kenhwang 6y ago
To me, this is the sniff test of a good engineer. All the good engineers I've known would've jumped at the opportunity to learn a new technology on company time/money. The engineers that refuse to learn generally don't g
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Our lawyers thought it was a clear cut case and they were willing to defend a lawsuit in favor of the dogs. I think at the end that's what it comes down to: which side the legal team sides with. Odds are in a pro-dog company, they will
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Out of curiosity, I pulled up the ADA guidelines, and it says: > Allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for denying access or refusing service to people using service animals. When a person who is allergic to dog dander and a p
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Airlines have a lot of situations where a service dog and an allergic passenger come into conflict. The dog always stays, and allergic passenger is the one to forced to deplane.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
We make it very clear before the interview that we have service dogs and our office is a dog-friendly environment. Last time we asked HR/legal about it, they said the service dog had more clearly defined protections, while asking for d
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by kenhwang 6y ago
> I'm not sure why Firefox just doesn't build adblocking into the browser as a first class feature - maybe because they rely on the Google funding? They kinda do. They keep building APIs requested by the adblockers so that adbl
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I believe so, but the economic impact isn't well understood yet. The UBI experiments so far have shown that it does have an inflationary effect (which causes COL to go up), and at the same time, incomes decrease as secondary earners op
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I think it's a double edged sword. Encouraging people to minimize their COL and spend the money on underinvested areas of the country is fantastic for decreasing the wealth gap. But the other likely outcome is drastic COL inflation in

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