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How to Make the Drone Panic So Much Worse(nytimes.com)
2 points by zzzeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
sorta mind blowing to look at what's there now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City_Park#/medi...
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by zzzeek 2y ago
I think conditions are pretty good for another one quite soon
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by zzzeek 2y ago
this is an ongoing ploy to get older, more experienced and therefore much more expensive and less manipulable workers to just quit, so they can replace with cheap, young and easily manipulated new hires. this is the oldest play in corpora
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Mysterious drone night flights leave N.J. residents on edge(nj.com)
4 points by zzzeek 2y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
I dont think the poster was suggesting social skill/emotional control are an exclusive requirement, more that these are a prerequisite for any other skills even being fairly useful. at the very least, emotional control gives one t
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by zzzeek 2y ago
it's not at all the primary point i was making and the army of HN pedants to argue about a particular poorly chosen adjective to pretend somehow that the more important point I made is moot is as usual very tiresome, I edited the post
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Airplane Turbulence Can Start Earlier Than You Expect(nytimes.com)
1 points by zzzeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Opinion polls arent the same as elections and the people voted in favor of expansion of Medicare Advantage whether that's their preference or not. Considering no Republican president has won the popular vote in 20 years, the relatively
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by zzzeek 2y ago
um, that's kind of....the diametric opposite of what a majority, somewhat historic in the context that no Republican president has won the popular vote in 20 years, of Americans just voted for. Look forward to alarming levels of health
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Elon Musk is sending DOGE after high-speed rail(disconnect.blog)
7 points by zzzeek 2y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Elon Musk's current play is that he is attempting to literally occupy the federal government and the actual White House as some kind of "co-president" role he's been making for himself. Intrinsic in this position are a
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Sam Altman sure hopes someone figures out how not to destroy humanity(cnn.com)
5 points by zzzeek 2y ago|5 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
i think the importance of the study is that it shows that when misinformation is spread via outrage, countering it with accurate information has little to no effect. new ways to counter this kind of spread would need to be devised
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Editor’s summary Misinformation remains a major threat to US democratic integrity, national security, and public health. However, social media platforms struggle to curtail the spread of the harmful but engaging content. Across platforms, M
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Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online(science.org)
12 points by zzzeek 2y ago|3 comments
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Treating eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and COPD with benralizumab (ABRA)(thelancet.com)
1 points by zzzeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
that just spoils it
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> This study supports the inclusion of sleep regularity in public health guidelines and clinical practice as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Great here comes Uncle Nanny State yet again telling us to get a good night's sle
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What Going 'Wild on Health' Looks Like(theatlantic.com)
2 points by zzzeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
can folks share some tech starter packs here that are preferably not all LLMs? python / web stuff / databases / systems design / hardware etc?
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by zzzeek 2y ago
in the woke hellscape of NYC you will see ten year olds riding the subway home from school all the time (the MTA explicitly recommends age 8 as the cutoff age for riding alone, although 12 is the more in-practice age).
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by zzzeek 2y ago
ORMs do not require SQL builders. Textual, hand constructed SQL to rows based on tables mapped to objects and you get objects back. "Why don't people learn SQL?" as a retort for ORMs is incorrect.
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by zzzeek 2y ago
OK dual citizenship lucky dude, enjoy
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> In the sense that in Java (almost) everything is an object, no, this is misleading. There are different kinds of objects. if you use JDBC to run a query you get back something like a Row object (sorry I havent done JDBC since the
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by zzzeek 2y ago
object relational mapping
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by zzzeek 2y ago
those are ORMs
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by zzzeek 2y ago
I dont usually buy the argument "make this code no longer state the intent that would normally be understood by people who know the programming language, so that it's more readable for people who don't know the programming la
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by zzzeek 2y ago
small writes, which is still a dramatically larger pause than simply copying a few files to a directory and not pausing anything. if the website update is hundreds of large files, then the SQLite write is going to be large also. it then
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> When updating an app, since there could be lots of files being updated, using a database would allow all changes to be done atomically in a transaction. This would prevent broken web pages from being served during a version change. but

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