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811.
by strken 2y ago
Broccoli is perfectly fine boiled. It's just that it takes literally 2 minutes to get brilliant green and slightly crunchy broccoli, while some home cooks put it on for 20 minutes. It's nice lightly salted with a bit of fresh lemo
812.
by strken 2y ago
This is a tangent and I'm not trying to win an argument, but I read the manuals for databases I use, along with many other bits of documentation like language specs. If anyone reading this is thinking of doing so then I highly recommen
813.
by strken 2y ago
Is that 10ms of network latency? I remember Postgres being pretty low latency if you run it on the same host, although the point about maintenance makes complete sense.
814.
by strken 2y ago
I'm frustrated by someone reaching the conclusion that there can ever be a "best database". I spent several hours today writing a bash script that jammed CSV files into sqlite3 and ran some queries on them. Using postgres for
815.
by strken 2y ago
Right, so if I drink straight-up HFCS it'll be fine provided I also stick trace quantities of antioxidants and pollen fibre into it? But if I don't do that, it'll be terrible for me?
816.
by strken 2y ago
In response to the first point, honey is predominantly fructose, glucose, and water. If you think sugar hydrolysed by bees is better for you than HFCS hydrolysed by humans, why? Is it the glucose? In response to the second, do you agree wit
817.
by strken 2y ago
Being distracted by your phone and not seeing a drowning child is different from paying close attention to a low-res 2D image and not seeing a drowning child. You can't fully train for one by practising the other.
818.
by strken 2y ago
The Hadza get 15 to 20% of their calories from honey: https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/what-can-hunter-gatherers...
819.
by strken 2y ago
Diminishing in an absolute sense, a per-capita sense, or in terms of its share of the pie? The first and second seem quite debatable.
820.
by strken 2y ago
I would be very happy if as much developer documentation as possible was actually executed as part of the code. For example, a diagram of how different services interact can go out of date. It would be better if there was a config file desc
821.
by strken 2y ago
In my experience of people who claim to be servant leaders within smaller orgs, it works pretty well. Explaining to your team what the business needs, getting them to align on a direction together, and then listening to their complaints and
822.
by strken 2y ago
Mine was great. It had a normal amount of homework, a smaller class size (which was a happy but unintentional accident), and accelerated four years into three. We shared electives with the rest of the school and socialised widely. I was bul
823.
by strken 2y ago
"I'll make sure my work is just passable" is a very strange interpretation of the original statement, which was "if more time makes your work more professional, then take more time." You are not being paid enough to
824.
by strken 2y ago
This makes him sound like a serial killer rather than a soldier or a writer. I don't think he gave a damn about killing any individual private or corporal on the fascist side except in pursuit of fighting their ideology, and so far as
825.
by strken 2y ago
It's pretty easy to avoid large quantities of refined or concentrated sugar on most days of your life, and that's the part that would be a big improvement to every diet that doesn't belong to an athlete.
826.
by strken 2y ago
Kids who aren't capable of learning to program well aren't going to be inclined to spend time on it, so I'm not sure how this tells us anything.
827.
by strken 2y ago
In Australia I mostly see razor wire as "this is infrastructure". Ports, substations, machinery yards, dams, smelters, oil refineries, the back of police stations, hospitals, and that sort of thing. Barbed wire isn't widely u
828.
by strken 2y ago
If that's the point, then in the context of bootcamps preparing people to be professional programmers it's a bit...well, pointless. Writing a program of any sort is something anyone who can use a keyboard to write "print(10
829.
by strken 2y ago
"Most people" as in "most people jayd16 interacts with", "most people who hold a white-collar job", "most people who hold any job at all", "most working-age adults", or "if you randomly
830.
by strken 2y ago
If I had 3-4 services and a bunch of databases, I would look at them and ask "why do we need to introduce network calls into our architecture?" and "how come we're using MySQL and Postgres and MongoDB and a Cassand
831.
by strken 2y ago
My grandmother put them in the fridge in hot weather, because she and I live in a place that routinely reaches over 40C in summer, easily hits human body temperature inside the house, and turns any watery vegetable into a Petri dish.
832.
by strken 2y ago
It originally meant "acting like a crackhead". The root word "base" comes from freebasing cocaine. It's undergone significant evolution since then, obviously, but its spike in popularity amongst the far right was ju
833.
by strken 2y ago
Is saying "our prices will increase in July; anyone who pays for a full year before then will be grandfathered onto the lower cost plan until 2027" a breach of trust? To me it feels like it makes me trust the company more.
834.
by strken 2y ago
Yeah my bad, I meant that glacial and interglacial periods happen in a cycle that can take up to 100k years before it repeats, but phrased it in a way that's outright wrong as well as misleading. I think the overall point still stands
835.
by strken 2y ago
I think there's a good argument that either or both factors contributed. We tend to blame people because they have agency and the natural world does not, and that's not a bad way to understand things. My main point was that I don&
836.
by strken 2y ago
This is an uncharitable interpretation of the facts. The thing about climate change in prehistory is that it drives changes to human life. Archaeologists put glacial maxima on their timelines because it's such an important factor when
837.
by strken 2y ago
I think the point is that a regular body weight routine is harder than using weights. If you're sedentary, doing a push-up is like starting out with bench presses that are more than half your bodyweight, finding an inclined surface to
838.
by strken 2y ago
This goes back to the "ADHD-ish attitude". I've had entire weeks where I didn't commit anything, because I was doing discovery or documentation or some other useful task with an outcome that wasn't code. Should I ha
839.
by strken 2y ago
I don't think she "deserves attention", and in fact that's a very strange way to look at what she's doing, but odds are she's sharing her washer collection with other people because she enjoys collecting and ta
840.
by strken 2y ago
There are a lot of great self-study resources for computer science. I've seen https://github.com/ossu/computer-science before and thought it looked like a good way to slowly make your way though a typical CS curri

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