virgilp

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by virgilp 8y ago
This. I pour 5-6 glasses of wine from a bottle, and I don't feel that they're "small" in any way. Putting a third of a bottle at once in the glass is far too much - at that quantity, swirling the wine becomes nearly impo
902.
by virgilp 8y ago
Ingesting too large amounts of caffeine is almost certainly bad for you. It's a stimulant that increases your blood pressure and heart rate. You don't want to overdo that. It's also diuretic, if you substitute water for coffe
903.
by virgilp 8y ago
I don't know enough about smoking or heroin to know whether they produce actual damage to your health, if done in small enough dosages. I guess 5 cigarettes per week (one per day) might not be that bad? But maybe I'm wrong. Anywa
904.
by virgilp 8y ago
Depends on the quantity I guess, but... why is drinking 4-5 times a week not ok? Something like a glass of wine or a small beer should be fine, right? In some countries (e.g. France) it's a wide-spread habit to drink a glass of wine at
905.
by virgilp 8y ago
You're contradicting yourself with your examples. If we didn't manage to fly by imitating birds - why do you care that AI doesn't work the brain does? That should be a _good_ sign, if we trust the analogy - right?
906.
by virgilp 8y ago
Right, he doesn't have to believe what he stated - "lie" was one of the possibilities I listed. But you can't claim the gesture is meaningless.
907.
by virgilp 8y ago
It is, according to him. The world may not believe him, but that's the statement he made. And he stands to lose up to $10 if he lied or misjudged it.
908.
by virgilp 8y ago
I do find it somewhat rich that on a forum where the overwhelming advice for entrepreneurs is "Charge more. Charge more still. Go on.", people complain about pricing. I guess it's different when you're on the other end :
909.
by virgilp 8y ago
How's that different than "lean startup" ?
910.
by virgilp 8y ago
I think all Adobe tools can save .png, except for Audition maybe. Just talk to the designer and ask for .png?
911.
by virgilp 8y ago
> a little delusional about XD. By "sometimes better" I meant "some aspects", not necessarily that it's overall better right now (and especially not for everybody - it might never be "better for everybody&qu
912.
by virgilp 8y ago
Adobe is serious about XD, though. There were some decisions which in hindsight might've been suboptimal, let's say. So XD didn't move as fast as many expected. But I feel it's picking up speed. Did you use it recently
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by virgilp 8y ago
Right, but that's very different from "Adobe XD is free". You wouldn't call AWS "free", would you? (ok, this is an extreme difference, but for all we know, it's only a matter of time until the non-free ver
914.
by virgilp 8y ago
It is a nice PR article, but if i was working at Bohemian, I wouldn't get overly confident. Sketch indeed did a nice job, and they carved out a market segment, but in doing so they caught Adobe's attention and it now responded by
915.
by virgilp 8y ago
Adobe XD is not free - it was free while in beta, now it is a launched product that costs money. https://www.adobe.com/products/xd/compare-plans.html
916.
by virgilp 8y ago
That actually makes it worse.
917.
by virgilp 8y ago
I have it, and didn't intentionally install it. Maybe got installed after logged in with my AppleId? I'm not sure how it got there, but it did.
918.
by virgilp 8y ago
> That's a strawman It wasn't intended to be; yes that's what I meant; don't check full output, check the relevant sub-section. Plus, don't check for order in the output when order doesn't matter, accept sl
919.
by virgilp 8y ago
400 is an arbitrary number, but it's what sometimes (often?) happens with exact-match tests; take the second example with the PDF-to-HTML converter, an exact match tests would test too much, and thus your SVG tests will fail when nothi
920.
by virgilp 8y ago
I respectfully disagree. A test should fail, ideally, only when behavior change is undesirable (i.e. contracts are broken). Optimizations, new features etc. should not break existing tests, unless old functionality was affected. And then th
921.
by virgilp 8y ago
I'm not a real proponent of TDD, but... try writing some tests first, when you develop a new feature. Or at least, write them sooner - before your implementation is "done"; write them when you think you figured out the design
922.
by virgilp 8y ago
That makes it sound like they're betting the company on "deep learning" ("Alpha").
923.
by virgilp 8y ago
That's an equally bad heuristic for rejecting someone.
924.
by virgilp 8y ago
No, that would still suck - but at least I guess you could disable it. I thought the worst thing about touchbar would be "no feedback on the ESC key". That's bad, but boy was I wrong. Turns out that the far worse thing for me
925.
by virgilp 8y ago
I've seen it even within teams in the same corporation: some are used to working distributed, for whatever reasons (e.g. working on truly open-source projects/ with external collaborators); others highlight the "efficiency&q
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by virgilp 8y ago
For me, "the point of medium" is entirely different. I don't blog regularly... I hardly ever write anything. When I do, medium offers me a large audience. I don't feel pressured to write periodic posts in order to mainta
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by virgilp 8y ago
I had a 2015MBP at work, upgraded it now... oh man, does the new one suck. I mean, the touchbar is such a spectacularly bad idea, I'm honestly surprised they kept it for so long. I thought my concerns were overblown, but as it turns ou
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by virgilp 8y ago
I have tried to maintain a generalist role[1]. It's worked very well for me so far - and there's some peace of mind in knowing that if needed, you can switch areas reasonably easy. And I harbor the hope that at some point (when ki
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by virgilp 8y ago
I don't know about that. There's also the nocebo effect [1] that is rather well known. You make it sound like "placebo" is purely a bias thing, but AFAIK both placebo & nocebo effects, though presumably psychogenic,
930.
by virgilp 8y ago
You're downvoted, but I think you were just pointing out the reverse causality in the parent post, right? I.e. even if our brains are Bayesian, it's not that "they use a process discovered by them", it's just that t

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