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this is so true. I go even further - for the browser level tests, avoid using “testid” or css classes or anything that is “implementation”, but rely in your test on solely things that the user can read / interact with. So don’t “Press
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An angry neighbor rings on our “apartment turned office” door - we were an early stage startup. The guy is red faced, shouting profusely how someone had parked at his designated spot AGAIN. This goes on a while, until I understand what’s go
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Of course they did, I’m kinda surprised this is news. However the ongoing invasion of ukraine kinda showed everybody that western nations are not just “duped” into following USA, they actually want it - its an alinement of values not of con
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While some languages “compress” information into less syllables, sometimes redundancy can be a feature. For example I feel like languages like spanish have longer words, but since the intonation doesn’t vary too much, fluent speakers can sp
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To be fair I personally believe this is not a case of “rich/educated people have fewer children”, more the case that the way society is structured in those rich/educated places, having children is a bad deal. It used to be if you
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Wouldn’t it be the other way around? Now, since the effects of our prejudice, inequality etc, are usually borne way after we die, we don’t get to see the effects of our decisions. If we get to live a lot longer, we’ll be wiser in making bet
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> In the previous news about the expansion FFF-367, we declared that the content will be technically a mod taking advantage of the updated engine. What this means is that a lot of the improvements will be for all players, regardless of t
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Hmm, wouldn’t things have ended up the same inconsistent state if you had it all built as a single service in the first place? E.g. you still can miss a failure condition on the insurance side and end up with a committed transaction? Why wa
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When electronic voting was introduced in my country - Bulgaria, immediately the results were quite different than previous elections - with as much as 10% diff. It was largely attributed to the fact that incumbents did not know how to “hack
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I think it's the rise of transported from afar cheap vegetables. Since they are more sturdy, they are cheaper, it's more lucrative (and budget friendly when cooking at home) to get bland supermarket tomatoes and make a salad with
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I really enjoyed the whole trilogy, and highly recommend it to my friends. But its more for the different perspective of a chinese writer talking about western events, and the general outlook of how events progress - the downplay of individ
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Sure, great thing though is that bad choices other people are making don’t affect your body too much. You’re free to fast a few weeks a year / intermittently regardless of how much everyone else is eating. Also west =/= usa, europ
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Not sure the satire at play here? Is it because he gets mentioned a lot when people refer to outdated science about aging, or that he himself is quite active in the media?
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Maybe you’ve missed the longevity science developments in the last 5-10 years. We’ve mostly understood exactly what “aging” is, and are now on our way of nudging it in various directions with very promising results in mice. The lifespan pod
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Hah strange that people are downvoting this answer, I think the parent referred to skipping a meal rather than not eating for the rest of (now short) life. I’ve been skipping a meal for 5 years now, with just having lunch and dinner, and fo
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It took me awhile to go from thinking tech companies rely on their machines and algos, and the best way to change / better them is to present a good technical solutions, to the idea that organizations are made of people, and tech can o
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The other essential talk I usually recommend is “beyond PEP8” by Raymond Hettinger. Its was one of those things that was always on my mind, but couldn’t express it well to my peers, before encountering this talk. Plus its about both python
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The last 10 (20?) years I noticed a notable shift in public consciousness about scientific progress and that we as a species are moving in an upward trajectory towards a brighter feature. One of my favorite movies of all time is “Contact” m
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From what I’ve read I think the japanese strategy, from the very beginning was to bleed the americans. They new they couldn’t compete with the US industrial strength, even before perl harbor. The idea was that if they killed enough soldiers
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A side not I always wondered why don't we have refrigerator models that are "split system" as we have with ACs. As it stands now it's a heat pump that pumps the heat from your refrigerator into your home. Wouldn't i
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Can you point to the studies please? Would be curious to check them out. I have experimented quite a lot during the years and sugar (sucrose) for me definitely has positive effect. I’ve tried tea, other things to eat, even gluten stuff, and
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Genes definitely play a role. I have some russian genes in me and up till the age of 30 I could drink at least twice the amount of alcohol than all of my bulgarian friends. And Bulgaria has quite the drinking culture itself, so they were no
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A lot of the time when I crave sweet things its not for the sweet taste itself that I’m after, but for the sugar itself - e.g. after / during a long day with lots of learning new things / making decisions / tough algorithmic
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I’ve experienced something akin to the isolation you experienced in a relatively mid sized (about 300 devs) org. While team isolation made it possible to move fast, there was a lot of chaos and duplicated effort all over the place, lessons
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Hah I would call “good” beer one that I can drink 4+ (2L) get intoxicated (so 5% or more) and still be OK next morning. Different beers affect me differently, sometimes I would feel bad next day from just 2 beers. While it does depend a lot
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VR games are immersive and exhausting, you kinda have to be “in the mood” for one, and it kinda works mostly if you’re living alone, as its just very socially awkward to do your vr thing while someone else is in the room. I think that’s mos
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The thing I was trying to say is that models can be useful without being accurate, in fact you might argue none of our models are accurate, if you drill down enough. Was newtonian physics a bad model? Yes it was inaccurate but it lead to
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As the saying goes, “all models are wrong, some models are useful” While the astrology “model” is obviously wrong, it must have been useful to someone at sometime for it to have gained such a popularity. Like the “flat earth model” is actua
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While the movie was to my reading relatively accurate, what struck me most was how little was devoted to the context of the pacific war and why it was desperate to build that bomb, despite that Germany was (or almost) defeated. The horror
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Well sure people fail to maintain exercise schedules cause gym is freaking boring. Most people that manage find some way to get endorphins out of it - like if they get fit and like how they body looks, they can use that as a source of happi

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