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by lovecg 5y ago
Unless you’re 50 with a mortgage, then it’s not much of a “choice”.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I believe some countries do recognize it (Germany maybe?)
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by lovecg 5y ago
Viruses that evade the PCR test for Covid would be a different species almost by definition, and with enough mutations that could happen. These tests don’t detect other common cold causing coronaviruses for example.
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by lovecg 5y ago
But has this been true in practice? Was any variant successfully stopped with lockdowns? I suppose hypothetically if there’s a new strain with like a 10% fatality rate there will be new extreme measures where that could be the case, but it
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by lovecg 5y ago
It’s funny that your list spans languages from about 20 to all of 30 years old (and less than that if we start counting from the mainstream adoption). In a typical 40 year career, many people would think of these as hot new technology - kin
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by lovecg 5y ago
That might be true of some complete rewrites, but refactoring - when done right - improves all the good stuff like composability, readability, and simplicity, without changing any logic (unless you count fixing bugs which it will likely unc
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by lovecg 5y ago
My contrarian take: I prefer to work from a small laptop, with a non-fullscreen terminal window, and no IDE. This forces me to understand the code I’m working on better - since I can’t see a lot of things at a glance, I got really good at j
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by lovecg 5y ago
And hey, some of us use HN in the same way!
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by lovecg 5y ago
Contractors can and do work at multiple places. Full time employees cannot, sort of by definition. It’s an interesting discussion why most developers end up being full time employees.
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by lovecg 5y ago
> That said, there is a level of seniority at which "their problem" is "your problem.” I’ve long decided that unless I have the significant stock options to show for it it’s delusional. It’s what the company wants you to t
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by lovecg 5y ago
How do salaries in France compare to the US?
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by lovecg 5y ago
I’ve read The Pragmatic Programmer. It’s not a bad book - I was nodding along the whole way. And that’s sort of the problem with the books of this genre. The thing is, I recognize that these are good techniques because I already spent lots
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by lovecg 5y ago
A conference room at WHO headquarters, November 2021 A: “… Ok so we agree - ‘Nu’ creates all sorts of confusion so we will skip this letter” B: “Sounds good. What do we have next in the alphabet - ‘Xi’. Oh.” Pause. Exchange of glance
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by lovecg 5y ago
And seems reasonable to skip Xi because reasons.
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by lovecg 5y ago
…and sadly those humans still won’t be able to describe their experiences in any way we would understand. “It’s just its own color that’s separate from all the others. You know, the color the black lights are”.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Modern plumbing and sanitation is one of those things that’s nearly invisible and taken for granted, but is almost miraculous how well it works most of the time. If I had to choose, I’d rather have a weeklong electric outage than a weeklong
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by lovecg 5y ago
There’s some research behind this though. It’s the act of thinking of something to be grateful for that’s useful - it strengthens your “gratitude muscles”. It was surprisingly hard for me to come up with three new things day after day initi
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by lovecg 5y ago
That just begs the question, authority to do what? If there are no specific incidents on which they disagree today, then is this just an attempt to position themselves better should any such incidents occur in the future? If there’s no prob
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by lovecg 5y ago
Why does a language need a “moderation team”? C++ seems to do fine without one.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Curious how the US didn’t deny its involvement in this one.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I think you’re being hung up on the literal meaning of the words a little bit. It seems reasonable to have more severe consequences for someone attacking someone else with a rock compared to somebody just using their fists. We decided to ca
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by lovecg 5y ago
I’m curious what were the dietary sources of salt say earlier than 10 thousand years ago. There’s the argument that goes “people never ate salt in modern quantities so evolutionary speaking this is a new shock to the system”. Do we actually
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by lovecg 5y ago
It absolutely is :) But so is complaining about Pinterest ruining photo search!
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by lovecg 5y ago
> There are financial instruments like loans where you can for a fee get money which you can use now and pay back later. If you’re poor your credit history is likely shot. Good luck getting good terms on that loan. > Yes. I don't
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by lovecg 5y ago
I mean “wiki <search>“ works on Google too. But I don’t want to type anything extra. My problem here is if we assume the search engine should be good at predicting what I actually want to see for a given term, Google is failing at tha
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by lovecg 5y ago
Speaking of Wikipedia, nearly 100% of the time when I Google something medical related I want to get the Wikipedia page for it. Not WebMD or Mayo clinic or whatever. But Google never includes the Wikipedia link (at least on the first page o
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by lovecg 5y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, I was under the impression that Section 230 means most lawsuits are summarily dismissed. Without it you have the first amendment which as you say means you probably eventually win but it’s a much bigger hassle.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Generally you don’t have a right to drive in any way you want on a public road. There are tons of restrictions on your personal liberty that you agree to when you get behind the wheel, including free expression (try to install a red/bl
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by lovecg 5y ago
I guess you can follow up with something like “what are some reasons it looks like it to you” and then follow that trail.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Ugh, one more thing to worry about! I quickly checked the brand we use (Oatly) and it’s certified by this organization which also lists other products, a lot of major brands are there: https://detoxproject.org/certification&

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