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by strken 8mo ago
I took a Greyhound a couple of times when I was in the US, and the experience immediately showed me why Americans hate buses and coaches. My first transfer was in Sacramento. The entire bus got held up for over an hour because someone saw a
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by strken 8mo ago
I'm not sure why the snark is necessary. Nobody is suggesting that mice are a terrible animal model or trying to tell researchers how to do their jobs, they're just frustrated by pop science coverage that leaves crucial informatio
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by strken 8mo ago
As a dude who is 6'7" with a 35" waist (34" in brands that do vanity sizing) and an inseam that can handle a 34" even if it's not quite long enough, I agree that it's tough. One of the more annoying proble
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by strken 8mo ago
Depends entirely on your workflow - we squash PRs into a single commit, so breaking a PR into pieces is functionally identical to not doing so for the purposes of the commit history. It does, however, make it easier to follow from the revie
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by strken 8mo ago
I'm okay with long PRs, but please split them up into shorter commits. One big logical unit can nearly always be split into a few smaller units - tests, helpers, preliminary refactoring, handling the happy vs error path, etc. can be se
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by strken 8mo ago
Blameless post-mortems work really well when you use them to fix process issues. In this case, you'd identify issues like "not all quotes are fact checked because our submissions to editorial staff don't require sources and t
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by strken 8mo ago
Losing your house because you couldn't pay the mortgage is violent, or at least backed by the threat of violence: what happens if you refuse to leave? In a looser sense, so are having your utilities cut off, losing your children becaus
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by strken 8mo ago
It has a second definition which means something like "unbelievable in its strangeness/perfection", which can be used to imply that a real thing feels made up. I agree that it's not a good word choice when describing a
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by strken 8mo ago
It is sane but not rational, sometimes factually correct in places, highly offensive, and inflammatory. I don't use Clojure and reading it makes me never want to use Clojure. Everybody is entitled to say (but not dictate) how something
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by strken 8mo ago
Pulling exact quotes out, SHOULD means "there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item" while MAY means "an item is truly optional." I don't think this can be interpreted as si
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by strken 8mo ago
50 years ago was 1976. I would be surprised if large numbers of adults in 1976 in the US were living in the same room as other adults, unless they were romantically involved.
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by strken 8mo ago
I think the point was that if an aspirational minimum wage worker on a borrowed computer wants to put up a PR then it would cost them less than ten minutes of wages to afford $1USD in the US, while the same worker in India would need to put
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by strken 8mo ago
This might be by design. Almost anyone writing software professionally at a level beyond junior is getting paid enough that $1 isn't a significant expense, whether in India or elsewhere. Some projects will be willing to throw collabora
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by strken 8mo ago
LLMs are a threat to the quality of code in a similar - but much more dramatic - way to high level languages and Electron. I am slightly worried about keeping a job if there's a downturn, but I'm much more worried about my job shi
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by strken 8mo ago
None of which is relevant for a $5 box of fibre bars, which fall below the de minimis threshold.
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by strken 8mo ago
The difference is that we've more or less hit a stable Pareto front in education and healthcare. Gains are small and incremental; if you pour more money into one place and less into another, you generally don't end up much better
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by strken 8mo ago
Spending 7am to 7pm next to a homeless encampment isn't the same as sleeping next to it, or letting your wife and kids sleep next to it. Although in this instance I think NIMBYism is less useful than having functioning local government
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by strken 8mo ago
I see a world where developers need to think about REASONABLE scale from day one, with all caps and no parentheses. I've sat in on meetings about adding auth rate limiting, using Redis, to an on-premise electron client/Node.js ser
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by strken 8mo ago
I'm torn between running away to be an electrician or just waiting three years until everyone realises they need engineers who can still read. Sometimes it feels like pre-AI education is going to be like low-background steel for skille
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by strken 8mo ago
I notice that the two most obvious outliers for low GDP high life expectancy countries are North Korea and Syria, and the low GDP low life expectancy outliers are three African petrostates. My interpretation is that this confirms both point
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by strken 8mo ago
It is also true that in the present, many developers are against copyright law, and in the past, many condemned the violation of the same copyright law because it protected artists and smaller companies. Not the same developers, necessarily
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by strken 8mo ago
The lug bowtie and lug knotted styles can be combined to leave an area with almost no pressure on it. It's useful if you find yourself with an injured foot on day two of a long hike.
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by strken 8mo ago
You're entitled to that opinion, but if you give an alternative for how a big multi-storey building for large events and crowds should look then it will move the discussion forward.
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by strken 8mo ago
I don't hate brutalism but I'd much rather have the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exhibition_Building than QPAC, rain or shine.
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by strken 9mo ago
I'm left wondering what happens if you feed people 300g/day of barley, shredded wheat, brown rice, or any other wholegrain. For that matter, what happens if you do the same thing with legumes? The experiment halved energy intake a
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by strken 9mo ago
I would suggest that when there's a possible crime, as there would be in this case, even a clearly guilty murderer caught red-handed holding a knife and screaming "I DID IT" will be an "alleged" perpetrator.
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by strken 9mo ago
Do you mean false positives? A false negative would be "we checked to see whether Alice was in the country illegally, and the computer said no but the actual answer turned out to be yes".
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by strken 9mo ago
> The majority of Red Notices are restricted to law enforcement use only. > Extracts of Red Notices are published at the request of the member country concerned and where the public’s help may be needed to locate an individual or if
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by strken 9mo ago
It's also just a matter of logistics and support. If Aliceville attacks Bobtopia, there are existing military and civilian organisations in Bobtopia that can take foreign aid and use it effectively. The population of Bobtopia are gener
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by strken 9mo ago
Plumbing has certification and industry best practices, and its leaks generally affect a few blocks at most rather than spraying across the entire internet.

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