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by 2devnull 2y ago
Hacker news is a place for intellectual curiosity, not ideological cliche.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
“The only lasting fix for technical debt is for management to empower the IT side of an organization to start saying no to all the requests for shiny new things, and focus on making what an organization already has more robust, more secure
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Who funds public libraries? That’s who I will get video from when google dies. They have already solved the last mile problem.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
I’m finding twitter (now x) is rapidly replacing YouTube in direct proportion to YouTube’s increasing suckifucation. At least for new content. Mostly I use YouTube for old content that is or should be in the public domain, and for music, mo
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by 2devnull 2y ago
From the anecdotes I hear, it seems dubious from an ethical standpoint because the assertion is almost always that a person cannot think clearly due to add, so they need meds. But how can they consent to taking those meds if they can’t thin
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Who pays people to drink coffee and chat about Netflix? Not successful businesses or businesses with any sort of audit requirements. Or are you hoping the employees do that “small talk” off the clock? Lastly, open office layouts suck. That’
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Actual paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.01789.pdf
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Yep, many “just-so” stories have some aspect of truth. I feel like people citing the Peter principle as a cliche explanation for many things that are likely to be overdetermined probably correlates with intelligence, as it takes greater int
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Thanks. Yeah I guess I was thinking more about the content/research/advocacy that they themselves produce. The article you link is their news aggregator (kff health news) reposting a Sacramento Bee news article. Anyway, I apprecia
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Yes, heard it before. Find anyplace that KFF is critical of Kaiser the HMO. I can’t, but would love to be proven wrong.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Is this satire?
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Seems ironic that Kaiser is banging on about the horrors of healthcare monopolies. Are they not themselves a giant healthcare monopoly that just happens to operate in a wealthier geographic area?
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Condom removal? Edit: I see the law is catching up there: https://apnews.com/article/health-crime-california-gavin-new...
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Arrow going back and forth between r/python can be a catch too iirc.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
You can use excel as the lingua franca. Also give them a row/col counts. Most problems solved in two easy steps.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Moreover, I myself like being able to open broken csv files in a text editor, to find nulls and other problematic junk.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
“the use case where people often reach for CSV, parquet is easily my favorite” My use case is that other people can’t or won’t read anything but plain text.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Spending money excessively is a pretty classic symptom. Mania looks like adhd, but accomplishes much more.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
“Forms that were submitted by encrypting them into a zip, and then sending zip+password in an email…?” I suspect that’s not too uncommon.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
NPD? bipolar mania? The altercations with city council are suggestive.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Sinusitis has odontogenic origins like 20% of the time iirc. I suspect a lot of heart disease results from the bifurcation of dental from general practice, eg periodontal disease being seen as a dental problem not a cardiovascular risk fact
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Oh I think most people who complain are upset by the attitude of medical workers and overall hubris inherent in the profession. It’s very correlated with wealth of the patient. Wealthy people can afford well paid happy doctors and nurses, n
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by 2devnull 2y ago
I wonder if the 23% were largely bots? If so that may be why the experience feels better despite the metrics? (The people I follow, Paul Graham and others, seem as active now as before. Maybe daily active users isn’t a thing to maximize?)
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Thank you very much for the data point. I don’t think $150 is very much given the impact of chronic insomnia. And most of that is going to back into taxes anyway, so it’s socially beneficial. Have you worried about dependence— an issue with
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by 2devnull 2y ago
Quetiapine isn’t typically on the menu for mere insomnia. At least that’s what I’ve been told when I’ve asked various doctors about it. Trazodone acts an antihistamine at lower dosages as I’ve been told. My experience is that it’s much mor
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by 2devnull 2y ago
What sort of edibles and how much does such a regimen cost? I assume it’s not covered by insurance? Is your prescribed med one of the z drugs (ambien, lunesta, sonata)?
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by 2devnull 2y ago
The problem is labels, and beyond that political parties. Politicians like labels because the parties depend on labels for branding. They want to use rhetoric to group people, like “poor” or “rich” and the second you do that you create the
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by 2devnull 2y ago
That was one of my first uh oh moments with gpt. Getting code that clearly had untestable/unreadable regexen, which given the source must have meant the regex were gpt generated. So much is going to go wrong, and soon.
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by 2devnull 2y ago
There’s a handy cliche: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. In concrete terms a zero is different from a missing value.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
The language changes, but more importantly students backgrounds and facility with the English language changes. Not that dumbing down the text or replacing old timey words should cost much, but cost disease and all that.

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