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by m_fayer 2y ago
Why is it too much to ask for doctors to take sufficient interest in their patients to clock just how sophisticated they are, and react accordingly.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I think the instant pot is too imprecise a tool for cooking by recipe, it’s for speed and convenience. I’ll improvise a curry with what’s on hand, sometimes the result is fine and sometimes it’s great :)
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I really wish we would retire this chestnut already. As if there’s a reasonable grownup option here and everything else is playing with matches. No it’s not the best thing to do to brave huge waiting lists, call a hundred providers none of
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I’ve done plenty of grinding it out in my life with no energy or time to spare. Even in that place you can do better than ground beef. Get an instant pot and invest in some rudimentary cooking skills. I’ve spent a whole year making variatio
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Similarly, ambitious and difficult experiments that don’t pan out should also be richly rewarded. You just did all of science the service of clearly marking that tempting path with a big “don’t bother” sign, thus saving resources and pointi
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Berlin here, I’m both in medtech and the occasional consumer of medicine. It’s been a nosedive since covid. No availability, no time, providers rushing you through the playbook. I will rely on my 600/mo insurance for minor injuries and
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I waited for the buzz with excitement. Then it came out and the details, and price were... an insult. Do they really want to restrict their consumer buyers to (questionably) fashion-forward rich hipsters? How far from their roots they'
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The least interesting .NET version in years [video](youtube.com)
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Go one step further. The programming model behind Blazor server is criminally under appreciated. Spa-style interactivity without a need for an API is great. Optional shared state between clients and effortless push-to-client is… basically m
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I rely on LLMs extensively for my work, but only a part of that is with copilots. I have copilot suggestions bound to an easy hotkey to turn them on or off. If I’m writing code that’s entirely new to the code base, I toggle the suggestions
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Agreed, I don’t know why people are so down on ai as a coding assistant here. I concur with everything you said, and will add that now I also have a service that will produce, on-demand, the exact documentation that I need at the exact leve
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Asking people to sacrifice for the greater good requires that they trust their leaders and systems to do everything possible to maximize the benefits and ameliorate the harms. Absent that, it’s every man for themselves.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Thanks for the input! Did you need to ship your own binaries of sqlite that include fts5 or does skip do that for you?
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by m_fayer 2y ago
How’d it go?
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Has anyone tried this out on mobile? I have a list of app ideas that all center around shipping a big database to a device and allowing complex querying while offline.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I have those relatives too and I know others in their 60s and 70s who are very much living in this moment. The difference is curiosity and motivation and the humility to recognize that what’s new and alien might just have something to offer
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Skipped right over the bulletproof bugs…
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Some of those things are terrible and dangerous to others. But parents need to be so much more measured in their responses. Yes, you find out your kid was throwing stuff off bridges or being a vile bully, you come down like a pile of bricks
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Right now, the ideal political-economic platform will de-emphasize inflation, inequality, etc. all in favor of the five horsemen: housing, education, childcare, eldercare, healthcare. It doesn't matter how cheap iPads and gasoline are
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I used to be disappointed when encountering elderly people that were petty and shortsighted and self involved. Eventually I realized that simply getting through the bulk of your life is not necessarily associated with learning and growth. T
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Considering that I’m in a social bubble of considerate people all of whom wouldn’t leave a single bottle cap in a car, this makes me despair at how people must be outside of my bubble.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
My solution was similar but less extreme: candles or warm low output LEDs that are not ceiling-mounted. Electronics are allowed until the last hour before bed, but after 7pm or so only with a blue light filter and minimum brightness, and o
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I think of movies as the equivalent of short stories and serialized series as novels. That distinction also seems to hold when it comes to adaptations.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Funny the last 3 are also among my highlights, but I would venture that they’re specifically good examples of Chiang’s ability to do character work. In various ways, they give a marvelously detailed and lyrical picture of people evolving ov
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Recently I was in the accounting office of my mom’s large senior-oriented NYC coop. Around a thousand apartments total. It was out of an old movie. Folders and coffee cups absolutely everywhere. Walls of well-used filing cabinets. The direc
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Things falling off planes just as we’re starting to forget the terror rollercoasters to which they subjected hundreds of people before their death. Organic indeed.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Indeed. Here in Germany EVs are taking a beating and it seems that the political right wants to spin that as a wholesale rejection of the whole concept. Whereas the reality is that the country’s proud megabrand (VW) has launched a ridiculou
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Amen. All the economic and cultural and political upheaval, not to mention war that’s happened since, we seem to assume that the pandemic stressed a bunch of systems and that’s the causality. I feel like we don’t sufficiently acknowledge th
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by m_fayer 2y ago
The crickets disagree with you.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Thanks for saying that, I’ll try to remember for when it’s me in your place.

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