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by sbov 7y ago
I ran into a similarly infuriating issue with a hospital. We have insurance. But we knew the procedure wasn't covered by insurance. So we would get the list price. We asked about the cash price. But they said we couldn't get t
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by sbov 7y ago
Note that your article cites at least 1 other study that says 5-6% or even as high as 10%. It would be interesting to see a breakdown here - does this include prescription medication? It seems like if you're talking about provider re
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by sbov 7y ago
I got an estimate once. After a total of about 20 hours on the phone. The day I arrived they told me it didn't include a bunch of stuff. They said it didn't matter though because insurance covered it. But they were wrong.
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by sbov 7y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Oil_Point_seep_field 100 to 150 barrels worth of liquid petroleum per day. 36,500 to 54,750 per year. It leaks about as much as the 1969 oil spill every 2 years. Or about as mu
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by sbov 7y ago
> * A Zero W hooked up to a PM2.5 to do air quality monitoring in the house. Just bought a couple more sensors for it (VOC, eCO2, etc), but haven't hooked them up yet. We have neighbors that smoke, and sometimes based upon wind patt
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by sbov 7y ago
I've never used the "buy used" option if that's what you mean.
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by sbov 7y ago
I always get a bit sad when a chunk of land that was once used to produce something (e.g. an old research plant), gets converted into something to consume something (e.g. a mini mall). Several of the vestiges that existed when I was a kid
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by sbov 7y ago
It doesn't matter how good your abstraction is, if someone needs to know the details it is at that point indirection. And there will always be some cases where someone needs to know the details. The better your abstraction, the less
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by sbov 7y ago
It really depends. If you repeat this a lot, you might have a domain concept. If you can come up with a name that makes sense for your domain then you should probably take that domain concept and realize it within your code in the form of
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by sbov 7y ago
I might just have bad luck, but I've bought many electronics products from Amazon, and more often than not it's unsatisfactory in some major way: obviously opened box with broken/missing items or fake. If this hit rate is nor
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by sbov 7y ago
So what you're saying is Science publishes studies they know are garbage? Good to know, I'll link your comment anytime someone sends me one of their articles.
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by sbov 7y ago
For non-electronics, I bought a huge umbrella online once. It was missing a thin metal rod that helped form a hinge in the umbrella. I told the company this, they sent me a new one and told me to throw the old one away. Because throwing i
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by sbov 7y ago
Nevermind that your average household probably has at least 10 things hooked into their electrical system. A 1% failure rate for all of them would be rather insane.
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by sbov 7y ago
Given their requirements, I'm not sure they could figure out a way to do this that would satisfy you. The syntax choices Rust made don't seem any stranger than e.g. Go. Rust just has more concepts because of what it's trying
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by sbov 7y ago
I'm curious what esoteric syntax utilizing various non-alphabetical characters you're talking about in Rust? I recently started learning it and nothing jumps out to me as particularly egregious.
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by sbov 7y ago
When it comes to performance, Go is more comparable to Java than Rust.
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by sbov 7y ago
To be more specific, paying them a better wage resulted in less turnover which meant less time searching for employees, less time training, and more experienced workers - resulting in an overall more efficient production line.
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by sbov 7y ago
> such is politics. Attempting to get people fired is just politics?
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by sbov 7y ago
Many people consider module-level tests to be unit tests. Integration tests would mix multiple modules. Depending upon the specifics of your application, unit tests at a lower level than the module level may be suitable. E.g. complicated a
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by sbov 7y ago
The equivalent expression in Java would actually be this: actualSet.stream().anyMatch(x -> !superSet.contains(x));
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by sbov 7y ago
Java 8 made it an "okay" language for me to use. It's a lot better nowadays, but historically the biggest problem with Java has been the 3rd party libraries. They tended to be written with extensibility in mind at the expens
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by sbov 7y ago
The way some technical interviews test technical skills would be like testing communication skills by asking candidates to give a public speech. Then talk about how you "dodged a bad one" because they couldn't say a single s
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by sbov 7y ago
So Google knows that you know that they paid, would be my guess.
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by sbov 7y ago
There's plenty of ways to do it non-snarkily. Interviews go both ways. If you have a problem simply saying something like "nah, these are just screening problems, it's hard to come up with good ones" then it sounds like
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by sbov 7y ago
Then companies should stop talking about this shortage of qualified software engineers.
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by sbov 7y ago
> So USA laws don't apply to him, unless he is in the USA and has committed a crime or offense of some kind Physical presence is an odd requirement. So if I pay people to deliver bombs to people in the USA, but I'm not in the
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by sbov 7y ago
Finding something "unsatisfactory" is an incredibly vague term and does not necessarily mean someone did a substandard job.
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by sbov 7y ago
> More specific benchmarks, such as compiling a standard set of real software packages, can give a clearer picture of performance for those more specific use cases. Is there a good place to go for this? I've tried to find software
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by sbov 7y ago
Although it's a "consumer" chip, at a pricetag of $750 its kind of a weird hybrid.
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by sbov 7y ago
Unfortunately there's no news of threadripper for Zen 2 yet. Hopefully we'll hear something about it sometime next year. The assumption is they're using all their initial production capacity for consumer-grade (Ryzen) and

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