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by strken 11mo ago
In hindsight, this explanation was a bit sparse, so here is the actual text from TFA: > your baby will still be somewhat less fit compared to you and your hopefully-hot friend on average, but now there is variance, so if you cook up seve
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by strken 11mo ago
I don't think it's regression to the mean. It looks more like mutation-selection balance. If it was regression to the mean then it would only apply to parents above the mean. Mutation-selection balance applies equally to everyone[
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by strken 11mo ago
The sale of new Birkin bags is famously invite-only. In that context, to "sell" to "everyone" means making the bag available for sale to everyone. "Anyone" would have been a less ambiguous word choice, but it&#
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by strken 11mo ago
That's exactly what I meant when I wrote "Auto manufacturers are incentivised much more strongly and in the opposite direction to make safe(ish) cars". Out of curiousity, what incentive did you think that sentence meant? Shou
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by strken 11mo ago
Weirdly enough, I went in thinking it would be a deep-dive into the actual process and job of being a pop star. Presumably she's not just being carted between parties, gigs, and the recording studio - how does she spend her time? Who m
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by strken 11mo ago
I think the point was that, yeah, auto manufacturers are incentivised to make unsafe cars...but in real life, they make safe(ish) ones. Pizza restaurants are incentivised to use the cheapest ingredients possible...but in real life, they hav
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by strken 11mo ago
I burst out laughing when I read the following excerpts, one after the other: > The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. > ... > I've
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by strken 11mo ago
I believe the point was the exact opposite: the regulation isn't enforced, which creates these absurd opt-out dialogue trees. If it were to be enforced fully, then anyone without a "reject all" button would be slapped with fi
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by strken 11mo ago
I was under the impression that air ambulances in Victoria are mostly for rural areas - either responding to incidents in the middle of nowhere, or flying patients to Melbourne for urgent specialist care. Most of them aren't even based
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by strken 11mo ago
I'm annoyed by the political stuff. I haven't always worked at 100% left leaning companies and I find it really uncomfortable when someone e.g. calls the centre-left party I voted for a pack of communists. I don't like encour
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by strken 11mo ago
Socialist Alternative is an Australian political org. They're one of the tiny Trotskyist factions that always seem to form any time two or more Trotskyists work together. That's why it's on a laptop next to a bunch of other f
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by strken 11mo ago
Given that Google is both the company generating the bug reports and one of the companies using the buggy library, while most of the ffmpeg maintainers presumably aren't using their libraries to run companies with a $3.52 trillion doll
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by strken 11mo ago
I would be inclined to blame small, obscure, new frameworks glued together in a weird way more than something that's unique to modern software. Godot is nearly 25 years old. I'm sure it was awful back in 2003.
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by strken 11mo ago
Sorry, what? Are you claiming that ENIAC was using microservices? That's a claim that needs some kind of supporting evidence, or at least a better explanation.
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by strken 11mo ago
I get about 6000 daily steps from my commute[0] plus about 2000 from miscellaneous movement around the house and office. The extra 4000 are pretty easy to fill in with a lunchtime walk and some housework. I don't think most people are
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by strken 11mo ago
I find this a bit confusing. If you're doing an hour of HIIT a week and additionally work as a removalist, a picker in a warehouse, or a white-water rafting instructor, you're sedentary? Or is there some middle group that was excl
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by strken 11mo ago
One interesting thing from the arts is that new works are often part of an ongoing generational argument. Two examples which come to mind are Notes from Underground and the hilarious Duchamp urinal. I think this form of critique - active, c
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by strken 11mo ago
This isn't true. Swing voters exist. Moderates exist. Single-issue voters exist. Occasional voters exist. These are observable facts about the world. The four groups exist in large enough numbers that they decide elections. Die-hard pa
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by strken 11mo ago
You can make a vibes- and emotion-based argument that isn't "you are evil."
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by strken 11mo ago
I'm not sure this is the correct perspective on voting. Voters are often passionate about one or two key issues - crime, Israel v Palestine, cost of living, immigration policy, coal towns, Ukraine, military spending, or whatever is mos
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by strken 11mo ago
I'm not sure I see that horizontally scaling necessarily requires a network call between two hosts. If you have an API gateway service, a user auth service, a projects service, and a search service, then some of them will be lightweigh
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by strken 11mo ago
I don't see why it's ridiculous to have an architectural barrier for org reasons. Requiring every component to be behind a network call seems like overkill in nearly all cases, but encapsulating complexity into a library where d
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by strken 1y ago
You can remove intelligence from that hypothesis entirely, and it won't change the meaning. You can substitute almost anything else, too: "Owning a rubber duck without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and
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by strken 1y ago
You could go read the pgmq docs, look at the fifty or so lines of code that make up the thin wrapper around it, and understand it just as well as you understand BullMQ. Or you could use one of the extensive set of pgmq libraries if you aren
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by strken 1y ago
The grid where I live has a target of 89 minutes of unplanned power outages per year for urban customers and somewhere in the high 200s for long rural feeder lines. This is in Australia, where serving outlying customers comes with some geog
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by strken 1y ago
Can you explain how using Postgres for a job queue, ideally using something like pgmq[0], is in "you better know what you're doing" territory, while using Redis isn't, and without talking about performance? Redis is fine
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by strken 1y ago
My experience has been that a SQL database is an easier foundation to build on top of than a distributed event streaming log until you run into performance issues that can't be solved by understanding your database better and/or s
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by strken 1y ago
The problem is that now you use Postgres for 95% of your system, and also Redis or NATS, which means you lose the ability to atomically commit changes to your database and send a message in one transaction. You can work around this, but to
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by strken 1y ago
The problem with taking one step north and leaving the border of Postgres is what you lose, not the direct ops burden. Postgres land is a comfy place filled with transactions across all your data at once, one backup solution that you (hopef
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by strken 1y ago
In the early to mid 2000s we used to do MTG booster drafts at the local game shop. Maybe the experience was different for different people.

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