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by dimes 4d ago
“Just suck it up” coming from a person who doesn’t have to deal with the consequences has to be the least convincing take on the situation I’ve heard by far. So congrats on that. To offer a perspective from someone in the field: I built my
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by dimes 10d ago
I recently read Dungeon Crawler Carl. It’s pretty much interesting from the very beginning. On the other hand, Blind Assassin was extremely boring to me until the very last page, but that last page blew my mind.
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Keeping "Engineering" in "Software Engineering"(blog.maxgale.co)
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by dimes 2mo ago
An assertion without conclusive evidence is an assumption.
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by dimes 2mo ago
Don’t organizations solve this problem?
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by dimes 2mo ago
Looks cool! After signing up, “today’s stranger” was written is Arabic, so I wasn’t able to read it.
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by dimes 2mo ago
Couldn’t you say the same thing about time zones? Why adjust the clock when you can adjust all aspects of society instead?
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by dimes 2mo ago
Multiplexing would have a number of benefits. As you say, each client would only need a single connection regardless of the number of queries being sent. Resulting in: On the client side, there is usually a local connection pool. When a bur
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by dimes 2mo ago
While a thread-per-connection seems like an improvement, do you have any plans to allow query multiplexing over a single connection? That would be a huge improvement IMO.
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by dimes 3mo ago
https://www.cdc.gov/folic-acid/data-research/mthfr/index.htm... > You may have heard that if you have an MTHFR variant, you should avoid folic acid and should take other types of folate, such as 5-MTHF. Ho
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by dimes 3mo ago
Folic acid
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by dimes 4mo ago
Linking to a huge list of supplement guidelines, most of which cover labeling of nutrient content is not helpful. I did try to dig in, however, and found this: > A qualified health claim is supported by less scientific evidence than an a
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by dimes 4mo ago
“Real GDP” accounts for inflation already.
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by dimes 4mo ago
Agreed. You might as well play candy land.
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by dimes 4mo ago
1984 is a much better book. The writing is beautiful and the story is gripping. For that reason alone, it occupies a larger part of society’s psyche. I agree that many aspects of Brave New World were prescient, but 1984 isn’t entirely inacc
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by dimes 4mo ago
Without spoiling anything, I wouldn’t say anything “goes wrong” in Brave New World, at least as far as procreation is concerned.
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by dimes 4mo ago
I have a similar, Unicode-related “favorite bug”. We were expanding our product to a new language that used non-ASCII code points. Part of the system involved invoking binaries using text as input. Locally, everything worked great. Once dep
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by dimes 4mo ago
I’m not going to pretend to be an expert here, but I remember a study that found gut bacteria composition predicted whether or not an individual was chocolate-craving or not in individuals eating identical diets: https://pubmed.n
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by dimes 4mo ago
Just to play devil’s advocate, isn’t it also possible that the preference for a monotonous diet is driven by gut makeup?
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by dimes 4mo ago
I don’t mean that expect should be used. But flags like —no-interactive are unnecessary. CLIs can just check `isatty == false` instead of requiring an explicit flag.
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by dimes 4mo ago
CLIs should check isatty and, if it returns false, disable any interactive functionality because it won’t work.
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by dimes 5mo ago
Isn’t this the exact sentiment used by those who oppose vaccinations?
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by dimes 5mo ago
I also built a canvas-based, multiplayer product during the pandemic (ohyay). The product was social-event focused (classes, festivals, etc.) so we focused on multiplayer audio-video experiences rather than general purpose browsing. One of
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by dimes 5mo ago
> Doesn't feel particularly different to me > The effort required to adapt them has dropped AI is an entirely different situation because the effort required to copy has dropped by multiple orders of magnitude. You used to be a
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by dimes 5mo ago
Correlation doesn’t imply causation. The US has one of the most relaxed opiate policies imaginable until about 10 years ago. You could walk into many doctors and walk out with an opiate script. It didn’t end well.
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by dimes 5mo ago
It’s not a fear. It’s reality. It’s literally happening on HN right now. Take this game, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698455 Within an hour, someone had cloned the game with addition mechanics that mu
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by dimes 5mo ago
The private equity company that scooped up her music rights, most likely.
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by dimes 5mo ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think the initial Go implementation was a C transpiler. It was written in C, but it did its own compilation.
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by dimes 4y ago
I wrote Dihedral, a compile-time dependency injection framework for Go [0]. It was inspired by the Java framework Dagger. It worked pretty well, but was a little clunky with Go's syntax. Ultimately, decided it wasn't worth it give
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by dimes 5y ago
Yes, totally agree. Any code that has complicated logic with few / no dependencies benefits from unit testing.

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