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by lumb63 3y ago
Many comments here say the key to maintaining a fair free market economy is regulation. I’m curious how that works for other countries. From a US perspective, regulation is next to useless. The FDA and USDA are captured by Monsanto et. al.
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by lumb63 3y ago
Agreed on the dismay regarding type annotations. My opinion is that potentially misleading code which gives a sense of safety when none exists is worse than dangerous code. It lowers the programmer’s guards, which can lead to more bugs. Int
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by lumb63 3y ago
> There is nothing predictable about C except that you’ll eventually get screwed … This has been the exact opposite of my experience. I’ve been writing C for 10 years and have yet to find a piece of code where I was surprised at what it
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by lumb63 3y ago
Many commenters have remarked that this is “grim” or “depressing”. I couldn’t disagree more. It is the limited amount of time we have here that gives every day value. This is a reminder to make the most of every day, because our days are nu
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by lumb63 3y ago
I don’t think this is the right way of looking at the result. Imagine you have cardiovascular disease. If you take vitamin D, the study suggests that you will on average a 9% reduction in risk. There is a ~97% chance that it provides you so
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by lumb63 3y ago
That’s a neat idea. Have you considered expanding to other applications, like home heating? It occurs to me that there are a lot of systems that produce heat as a byproduct, and a lot of other places which want heat, and bringing the two to
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by lumb63 3y ago
I see this ending with ads increasing ad infinitum. As more ads get added, the value of the free version will decrease and more users will be pushed to either stop using the site or pay for subscriptions. We should fast forward to that end
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by lumb63 3y ago
The hype around AI coding assistants has recently inspired me to improve my efficiency in writing code. I started using NeoVim instead of vim to get access to LSP, for autocomplete. I’ve found it actually slows me down because I can type ne
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by lumb63 3y ago
It’s possible you’re not getting enough precursors to allow for sunlight to greatly increase vitamin D production. How much fat do you eat in a day? Skin tone is an additional factor as well. Also, an aside, it’s humorous to me that you des
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by lumb63 3y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, since I’m not an expert in this area, but I think lowering inflammation is not really the goal? Inflammation as I understand it is just a marker for stress (in the broadest sense of the word). I understand that infl
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by lumb63 3y ago
Have you ever considered a different portion of the tech sector? I work in embedded systems and this couldn’t be further from the truth. Things rarely change (because it took someone smart banging their head against a wall for a week to mak
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by lumb63 3y ago
I’m strongly considering buying a Framework 16 when they come out. But with all the hype they’re generating, I feel certain that I and many others have to be disappointed. It can’t live up to it.
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by lumb63 3y ago
Have you ever found yourself humming a jingle from a company whose product you have no interest in, and will never have interest in? I can recite the entire Burger King “Whopper song” and I will never step foot inside a Burger King for as l
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by lumb63 3y ago
There are a lot of operations in vim that I don’t need or want to see the selection. Sometimes it would be useful, and if I think so, I use visual mode instead.
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by lumb63 3y ago
Hopefully there is some requirement. The idea of unwittingly eating “chicken” doesn’t sit well with me.
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by lumb63 3y ago
The important part of any best practices guide is the “why”. Those “best” practices should be aiming to solve some problem(s), and it should state which one(s). If someone finds themselves with the same problem, they can leverage those solu
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by lumb63 3y ago
Those volunteers took the wrong approach, since they didn’t ask the people they were trying to help, what help they actually needed. But in my experience, the group they were targeting is very difficult to productively converse about their
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by lumb63 3y ago
I think you two are collectively very close to describing “science”. It’s good to acknowledge what we don’t definitively know, but generating testable hypothesis or theories based on experiences and known phenomena is an important step. The
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by lumb63 3y ago
I’d be interested to see napping compared to getting more sleep at night. My guess is napping is beneficial to the average person because the average person does not get enough sleep. My personal belief is if someone needs an alarm to wake
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by lumb63 3y ago
Devil’s advocate here. Nobody else should have the option to prefer Apple devices as they are today because… you’d prefer them differently? If Apple stays the same as it is today, there is nobody making you buy an Apple device. Don’t get me
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by lumb63 3y ago
I’m not going to argue that reaching traditional life milestones isn’t harder for a lot of young folks today, but that isn’t really the focus of the article in my opinion. A lot of the folks mentioned are from one or two generations prior,
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by lumb63 3y ago
Neat, but in the time I spent playing, Hitler surpassed curiosity and bread, to hit number one.
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by lumb63 3y ago
It doesn’t help that the term is hugely overloaded. Nix might mean the package manager, the shell, the operating system. There are so many valid permutations of letters; why they chose to reuse Nix for everything is a mystery to me. The oth
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by lumb63 3y ago
This is cool, but why? What’s the business use case or problem they’re trying to solve? I would have liked to hear about that. Without that critical piece, it sounds like Netflix engineers spent a lot of time and effort just to migrate to a
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by lumb63 3y ago
I wonder what areas this impacts most. Since the dating market is highly local (most people don’t consider “the whole nation” their dating pool), areas with more ideological divide are more likely to be impacted, but the authors don’t seem
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by lumb63 3y ago
Not GP so I can’t comment on what they’re referring to. The point you make is one I’ve thought about over the last year and I’m curious to hear other theories and thoughts on why Democratic legislatures haven’t passed any federal-level abor
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by lumb63 3y ago
Wow, 64 KB of RAM. That’s incredibly tiny for all that the device needs to do.
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GitHub CEO says Copilot will write 80% of code(freethink.com)
3 points by lumb63 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Fitbit
4 points by lumb63 3y ago|2 comments
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by lumb63 3y ago
Not to mention, a comment like this in a discussion about a profession where single people regularly make multiples more than the average household . I’m so tired of the crowd of software engineers (or any profession of similar income) tha

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