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by timr 1y ago
There’s really no functional difference. The VSC agent mode can do everything you want an agent to do, and you can use Claude if you like. If you want to use the CLI instead, you can use Claude Code (or the GitHub one, or Codex, or Aider, o
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by timr 1y ago
Well, plastics generally require plasticizers. The Bisphenol A kerfuffle has largely resulted in the use of different plasticizers, which has in turn caused the sort of people who are fearful of chemicals to expand their definitions of “h
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by timr 1y ago
So don’t give them your headphones to chew on. Let me just save you the effort of further rounds of responses here: if you chew on plastic, you will be exposed to the chemicals in plastic. If you’re truly worried about this, don’t buy plast
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by timr 1y ago
That article is a classic example of a prevalent error in this line of commentary: indiscriminately taking a "possibly harmful chemical", translating it to a totally different context (say, touching it instead of eating it ), and
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I’m not saying it’s true or false. Hypocrisy is universal to politics, and it’s trivial to find examples throughout US history on all sides of the political spectrum. I’m just saying that the issue of strict interpretation is so fundamental
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by timr 1y ago
No. US courts consider both, to the extent that it’s a bright-line divider between “conservative” judges and “liberal” ones, where the former are far more likely to profess strict adherence to the text of the law (particularly constitutiona
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah, I read the post. Telling me that there's a chrome extension and some apps tells me nothing. Saying that the code is 1/3 tests is...something, but it's not exceptional, by any means. I've got an code base I've
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> You've shown that there's a large misconception about the hospitalization rates of the virus, not its lethality. Hospitalization is upstream of death. You don't just get the virus and fall over dead. More to the point, t
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To the extent that you asserted anything specific at all, it was that "a HUGE amount of the population" in your country don't believe that the virus was "the killer it in fact was". I just showed you that a) there&#
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Yes, well put. And that’s a common failure mode.
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On the contrary, this doesn’t sound impressive at all. It sounds like a cowboy coder working on relatively small projects. 300k LOC is not particularly large, and this person’s writing and thinking (and stated workflow) is so scattered that
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by timr 1y ago
> A HUGE amount of the population in my quickly-regressing country don't believe that COVID was the killer that it in fact was. I don't know what country you're referring to, but there's ample data that it's high
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> We also used to enforce antitrust law. I've been reading the Chernow biography of Rockefeller, and this simply isn't true. We've almost never enforced "anti-trust law", and it's basically never been part
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Or maybe it's something that parents can do with their children , since that's clearly the intent. It's also the convention for "letters to Santa" since...forever. Honestly, it doesn't take much of a good fait
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by timr 1y ago
The first link is not a clinical definition, the second link is not a "meta study" (it's a substack article with absolutely no rigor). Moreover, the first link cites prevalence numbers wildly in conflict with the second link:
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Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning 'Annie Hall' Star, Dies at 79(variety.com)
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> And in our modern world, universities are still the best place for such apprenticeship. I spent a good portion of my life in Universities -- and went as far as one can go in terms of educational credentials and taught at the university
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by timr 1y ago
Me too. I'm not responding specifically to you with the parent comment. That said, "autoscaling", as a concept, didn't really exist prior to AWS AMIs (or Heroku, I guess). My point is that a lot of devs reach to Docker b
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> More than that, I worked for many enterprises that were using Rails but had their own infrastructure conventions and requirements, and were unable or unwilling to explore tools like Capistrano or (later) Heroku. Well, OK, so you rememb
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Yeah, it also wasn’t difficult to do the equivalent without heroku via post-commit hook. Honestly, even setting up autoscaling via AMIs isn’t that hard. Docker is in many ways the DevOps equivalent of the JS front end world: excessive compl
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by timr 1y ago
The parent wasn’t describing an autoscaling deployment system. Rails has a container-based deployment if you actually need that level of complexity.
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by timr 1y ago
> I'm old enough to remember what it was like to deploy a Rails application pre-Docker: rsyncing or dropping a tarball into a fleet of instances and then `touch`ing the requisite file to get the app server to reset. If this is what
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by timr 1y ago
There's an FDA-mandated warning label for every drug. The current label for Finasteride [1] includes depression only as a "postmarketing experience", which is based on the same data you're reading here (self reports),
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by timr 1y ago
> TFA cites eight peer-reviewed studies finding a link. Sounds like decent evidence to me. There have been over 30 randomized controlled trials of this drug, and the author picked only eight papers, none of which were randomized, none
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It isn't a review article, though the difference is more subtle, because a review article is also editorial in nature. The difference here is that this article is someone with an axe to grind (again, see the "dedication", whi
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Indeed. This is why the drug passed phase 1 (safety) trials when it was first approved in 1992 for treatment of prostate enlargement. Moreover, it subsequently passed additional rounds of clinical trials for the hair loss indication in 19
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> These problems are definitely real. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. Proof is required.
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This is not a scientific paper. It is a "narrative review", which is another way of saying "editorial". It superficially looks like science, but doesn't do any of the methods, controls or (correct) statistics that
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> ...is used for a purely cosmetic purpose I know you probably didn't mean it this way, but Finasteride started as a treatment for prostate enlargement, and is still used for that.
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Well, like I said: you can always give up. Sometimes that's the rational thing to do, even when you are engaged in the game. However... > I pretty routinely bail out of the politics of decisions when it's mostly to the company

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