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by reshlo 2y ago
> There wouldn’t be earthquake insurance across much of California if the state didn’t provide it. That’s fine. If it’s not possible to buy insurance for a particular house at a price that you can afford, don’t live in that house. The st
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by reshlo 2y ago
> It’s not like a bachelor’s because many MD programs start out with or require a BSc In many countries, the degree you must obtain to qualify as an MD is indeed a bachelor’s degree, the “Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery” (often
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by reshlo 2y ago
> If your signup form has an optional field for middle name which I don’t fill, it can absolutely be because I don’t have a middle name. The fact that some NULLs are indeed undefined doesn’t contradict my point that it would be inaccur
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by reshlo 2y ago
At the vast majority of companies, if you said to your colleagues “just fork the dependency”, they would look at you like you must be high.
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by reshlo 2y ago
UNDEFINED would not be accurate. If your signup form has an optional field for a full name which I don’t fill in, I still have a name. Just because a value is not known by your database doesn’t mean it isn’t defined. E. F. Codd thought abou
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by reshlo 2y ago
Especially considering that even the unreliable narrator himself admits he was one of the first ones to be fired - why would you fire the best employee first if it wasn’t for cause?
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by reshlo 2y ago
Because your potential dependencies will require 5.x as a peer dependency, so you have to use 5.x. Because your current dependencies will fix bugs or introduce features that you need in versions that upgrade their peer dependency to 5.x, so
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by reshlo 2y ago
The point is he did not read the scripts verbatim as you claimed.
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by reshlo 2y ago
> despite reading the sales scripts verbatim both before and after his attitude adjustment The article states that he was fired because he did not read the script he was required to read.
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by reshlo 2y ago
> In general I think it's very easy to _not understand_ people i.e. "how could you". The interesting part for me is when I do understand: "oh this is how". “How could you” is a rhetorical question to which the as
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by reshlo 2y ago
Isn’t the point being made in that passage that the better you are at sales, the more you treat your loved ones as customers you can transactionally extract value from by leveraging your sales tactics, rather than just… loving them? I don’t
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by reshlo 2y ago
Is this trumpet player better than that painter? Is this sculptor better than that beat poet?
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by reshlo 2y ago
> national performers/artists Who is in this group?
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by reshlo 2y ago
That’s a lot of words to say “companies sometimes blatantly lie in public statements”.
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by reshlo 2y ago
How did you just argue both that companies need backup plans to keep wages low in a supply shortage and also that immigration, which solves supply shortages, does not keep wages low; and not see that those claims are contradictory?
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by reshlo 2y ago
> Normally, time-based UUIDs from this document will be monotonic due to an embedded timestamp; however, implementations can guarantee additional monotonicity via the concepts covered in this section. “Normally, I am at home because I do
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by reshlo 2y ago
Probably a combination of the devices being old enough and the battery not being large enough that a lot of people would not find 80% of the already-degraded capacity of their device reasonable, and not wanting to have to explain to custome
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by reshlo 2y ago
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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by reshlo 2y ago
Yes. > To change your charging option with iPhone 15 models and later, go to Settings > Battery > Charging and choose an option. You can choose a charge limit between 80 percent and 100 percent in 5 percent increments. https:&#x2F
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by reshlo 2y ago
In this case it’s probably “this is a silly question”.
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by reshlo 2y ago
> Hydrogen escape on Earth occurs at ~500 km altitude at the exobase (the lower border of the exosphere) where gases are collisionless. Hydrogen atoms at the exobase exceeding the escape velocity escape to space without colliding into an
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by reshlo 2y ago
> That's the equivalent to what we are asking the model to do. Why? What does it mean to give a model a calculator? What do you mean “let it show its working”? If I ask an LLM to do a calculation, I never said it can’t express the a
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by reshlo 2y ago
> A complete stranger who has nothing whatsoever to do with you, who has never tried to do anything for you, nor has been expected to, has never disappointed you. They've also never failed to disappoint you, because they have not fa
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by reshlo 2y ago
> can have the meaning “never disappoints” How?
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by reshlo 2y ago
Citation needed.
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by reshlo 2y ago
Nobody said you have to do it in your head.
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by reshlo 2y ago
Not in a way that matters here. As alluded to by the source in my last comment, formaldehyde is produced in a variety of ways inside the human body, including literally inside our cells, in the mitochondria. It is also used as an input in o
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by reshlo 2y ago
Two minutes of research would have saved you the embarrassment of making that comment. > Formaldehyde is essential in human metabolism and is required for the synthesis of DNA and amino acids (the building blocks of protein). Therefore,
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by reshlo 2y ago
Yes, I agree. Especially about Saint Pierre and Miquelon.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41758856#41785534
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by reshlo 2y ago
> People take meth and coke and go on se, gambling binges. Something that moderates and manages dopamine in a way that breaks the hold gambling and social media has on people's brains would be very different. Simplifying a lot here,

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