t-writescode

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by t-writescode 27d ago
Eeeh, Leetcode is older. I’m a millenial and it was popular when I was going through - 10ish years earlier.
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by t-writescode 27d ago
I haven’t read the study, but I’ve read the comments so far. I wonder if this mechanism is the same mechanism that impacts, say, swipe-focused dating websites, as well? And Twitter feeds with super-short messages. A lot of the most viral mo
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by t-writescode 29d ago
Healthcare being tired to employment and related lacks of safety net are the only reason the most abusive companies (call centers, common retail experiences) have employees. We would do well to improve safety nets so that everyone benefits.
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by t-writescode 29d ago
I’m glad that’s worked out for you. Not everyone has good plans.
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by t-writescode 29d ago
Profitably-for-the-fabs*
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by t-writescode 29d ago
Then perhaps we’re seeing one of the downsides of that. When 0->1 is prohibitively expensive, existing players can continue to raise prices *very* high because cost-of-entry is extreme, until it’s not sufficiently extreme. And then we ha
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
When I’m having a heart attack, or when I’m in anaphylactic shock - you know, some of the most expensive procedures that happen - I’ll make sure to confirm the ambulance is in network, the hospital, the specific first ER doctor, the special
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Citation needed (per capita please). Given that people constantly, literally AVOID care because they can’t pay for it until it’s such an absurd problem that it’s very, very expensive, I struggle to believe this, at all. And money amount doe
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
No. For a lot of people it very much doesn’t. And the cost is very prohibitive for people getting any care at all when insurance doesn’t cover it, so they end up not getting necessary care and then ending up on disability for life. A health
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
The last time we got similar results in the data (but not the text) was a Koch-backed study that a bunch of economists reviewed and went “so you’re saying we’d save 2 Trillion over 10 years relative the alternative?” https://pnhp
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Is this quality improvements including or ignoring the 30-ish percent rejection rate of the most popular healthcare system, including such gems as insulin and pre-authorizations refusing surgery for necrotic tissue when “maybe they could PT
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Honestly. They’re already performing miracles with RoR. How many non Ruby apps and all the databases and systems behind could climb their traffic 14x when they probably only perf-tested for a sustained 2-3x and, and paid for a profitable
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Indeed. If you’re going to have an essay on top of a function or anywhere in code, earn the essay. That code better be operating on a ton of assumptions or using some creative logic to get to how it is that a simple reading doesn’t make sen
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
I mean, sometimes I don’t know how I want to write something until I’m finished. Huge refactors are often like this. So, just like you said, rewrite the whole thing, THEN break it apart into bite size chunks that tell the story and feed i
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
How? If one PR builds off another, won’t either: PR 1 is size 400 PR 2 is size 400 + 400 new PR 3 is size 800 + 400 new If they’re truly disjoint, would it be so bad to get them as unique? Because otherwise, when PRs depend on ea
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
AI passed the Turing Test empirically long ago. Further and more practically, they consistently convince millions of people that they are a real person with real intentions all the time, every day. They are so convincing that an emergent pr
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Good point, I suppose conservative is the right word there. Its broader meaning has been a bit louder lately, so I didn’t think of it the right way there.
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Why? They went to medical school and passed all the exams. Maybe they just like art.
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Cringe is too powerful of an anti-motivator. Reminds me of when people wouldn’t listen to others because they had tattoos.
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Is it obvious? Those existing APIs have known performance characteristics and deep integration into several other libraries. The moment you custom-roll your own root library, you break integration with all existing other libraries that depe
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
How many times have existing APIs made by experts in their fields had bugs. How many of those are you willing to let your own services and your customers’ data be hit by whole classes of bugs that battle-hardened APIs have already fixed? Yo
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
That’s definitely not true, and I’ll give two incredibly common examples: 1: arraylist. A library will probably do better than you. It’s already written and common. 2: webservers. Sure, you can write one yourself with sockets and a bunch of
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
It’s not about conservative vs progressive but about “safe, battle-tested, stable” vs “could be amazing future-tech”; and the idea of having a small number of innovative technologies, in particular where they matter, is about allowing yours
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
They already have a system for “prepaying”, but it can’t be used to put more credits into your account, they just sit there, waiting to be used by a future subscription.
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
That is an option for sure, but a very disappointing one. And it comes with a meaningful danger of ending up with 2 subscriptions: one yearly and one monthly. They really, really need to finish their “pay as you go” system. I don’t know why
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
Kagi does have AI too, for what it’s worth. I found it pretty damn good, but I wish I could give them more money. I have a year subscription so I’m stuck without being able to give them *anything* until it’s done.
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
No argument here.
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
If we cared enough to be effective, we would be subsidizing / encouraging local manufacture of all of those at a competitive, non-luxury price.
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
I guess I’m weird. I like refactoring ugly mud and doing performance improvements. I like working on the slow, intentional, process-driven flow of actually migrating services between versions safely. I don’t hate those and hope I get to kee
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by t-writescode 1mo ago
But then you end up in a state, 2 years down the line, where every single person that works in that code base haaaates it and adding any new functionality takes weeks or months. Compare that to clean, organized code where patterns and exten

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