sathomasga

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by sathomasga 5mo ago
Well, that "different universe" includes the tech company that employs me. I like my universe better.
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by sathomasga 5mo ago
Closing the barn door well after the horses are long gone.
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by sathomasga 9mo ago
Follow up in 2015 with essentially the same conclusions: "Acetylsalicylic Acid Daily vs Acetylsalicylic Acid Every 3 Days in Healthy Volunteers: Effect on Platelet Aggregation, Gastric Mucosa, and Prostaglandin E2 Synthesis" http
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by sathomasga 9mo ago
Nor do most folks using it. Which isn't totally novel: I have almost no idea how an internal combustion engine works. But I do know enough to realize that it's not appropriate to drive my car on a bike path.
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by sathomasga 11mo ago
Same use case (math-heavy, no-javascript blog), but I ended up with a _slightly_ different approach: instead of converting to SVG, convert to MathML. Browser support is pretty robust, and the output is much nicer (e.g. preserves fonts). ht
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by sathomasga 1y ago
Survey from a company that's in the business of AI coding and thus has a monetary interest in promoting the technology. No details on who conducted the survey (the company itself?) or how the 609 respondents were selected. If limited t
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by sathomasga 1y ago
I dunno, it kind of accurately reflects the view that in capitalist firms employees are resources, e.g. to be exploited. I'd vote for the old terminology: Personnel Department.
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by sathomasga 1y ago
I think Cory Doctorow described said eng manager as a "human crumple zone" that serves to absorb the blame for failures.
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by sathomasga 2y ago
Apple Keynote.
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by sathomasga 2y ago
If the ads that Apple shows me in the App Store, Apple News, etc. are supposed to be personalized, then Apple is really, _really,_ *really* bad at personalization. They're clearly not extracting any meaningul private information (or pu
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by sathomasga 4y ago
It doesn’t. After a response, you can ask it for its sources, but it will just make stuff up. Out of curiosity I asked it a microbiology question. It gave a reasonable but rather anodyne response. When I asked for the sources, it provided t
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by sathomasga 4y ago
Well, it’s been more than 24 hours without a peep from Twitter. Seems like a legitimate bug/failure would have at least been acknowledged by now.
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by sathomasga 4y ago
> I've been on HN for a loooong time. And you’re asking random users for investment advice?
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by sathomasga 4y ago
Definitely! In my home state of Georgia, the slate of electors pledged to Donald Trump and Mike Pence on the 2020 presidential election was: Joseph Brennan, Ken Carroll, Vikki Consiglio, Carolyn Fisher, Patrick Gartland, Gloria Godwin, Davi
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by sathomasga 4y ago
As an EE undergrad 40 years ago, the title made me think of the programming languages taught in my courses at the time. - FORTRAN (no surprise here, I was an EE major not CS) - Pascal (this was the new kid on campus at the time, only the CS
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by sathomasga 4y ago
The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com
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by sathomasga 4y ago
As someone who's more likely to cycle somewhere than to drive, I wish there was as much attention paid every time a human-piloted car did something like this. It happens much more frequently than most folks realize. I used to follow &q
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by sathomasga 4y ago
Marginal Revolution
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by sathomasga 4y ago
To be fair, it's just one legislator in North Carolina, not the whole state.
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by sathomasga 4y ago
Don't give it WiFi credentials. (I've got a 5-year-old Samsung that's never connected to any network and it works fine.)
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by sathomasga 4y ago
I merely cited this as one example of a confusing UI, but this response makes my point even stronger. For most applications, the normal user flow is from general (what the app calls Repository Manager, I guess) to specific (a particular rep
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by sathomasga 4y ago
Same reaction. My Tower subscription is up for renewal next month, so I'm primed to give this a try. A cursory look, however, and I find the user interface to be baffling. As one example, on loading the app presents a list of repositor
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by sathomasga 4y ago
Although I would also recommend Apple's first-party apps, if you use iCloud sync, then your data is stored on Apple's servers.
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by sathomasga 4y ago
> But that’s easier said than done for a lot of people. It's also very easy for some people, myself as an example. I took the standard career path, eventually serving as VP of Engineering and CTO for several startups. (None successf
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by sathomasga 5y ago
For folks interested in the topic, the best resource I've found that thoroughly covers the latest science is [How Not to Diet]( https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-diet/ ) by Michael Greger. Very, very c
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by sathomasga 5y ago
It's interesting to see how quickly a discussion of US "evangelicals" turns into a discussion of US "white evangelicals." As if they are the only ones that count.
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by sathomasga 5y ago
Note that the law does *not* apply to other types of insurance. Life insurance, for example
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by sathomasga 5y ago
[Roka]( https://www.roka.com )
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by sathomasga 5y ago
[Varier Wing]( https://varierfurniture.com/en_us/collection/wing ) I had to special order it in the U.S., and it cost a heck of a lot, but worth every penny.
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by sathomasga 5y ago
Not quite open source, but SwissMicros provides more evidence of the utility of stand-alone calculators. I love my DM42 https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42

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