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Until they do so, I remain deeply skeptical. It’s all too easy to engineer measurements or interpret data to support the outcomes you already want.
If the data is truly so revealing, show it to the world.
One wonders sometimes if that’s the goal.
“ We are working to build a new Consul cluster with 10x the RAM. We aren't yet sure, but believe a routine DNS change might have created a thundering herd problem causing Consul servers to immediately increase RAM usage by 500%. This is not ideal.”
_This is not ideal._
I’m all onboard the accuracy train with you, but I must say that describing any kind of traffic death as “irrelevant” seems very cold. Every person that dies on the road matters.
But it’s a wonderful, powerful tool to have in the toolbox, when used sparingly.
I wonder how much of the pain of monkey patching could be partially explained through the way that large companies maintain (or don’t maintain) their codebases? In my experience code is often hard to maintain because of a lack of continuity, context, and support from an employer to actually do the maintenance. In that world, monkey patching is an extra-special kind of hell.
I wonder sometimes if we might all feel less strongly about monkey patching if we had more time to care for the code we write.
I wonder what the long-term health outcomes would be between two groups: one group that was obese the whole time, and another group whose obesity was delayed by ten years.
I suspect the latter group would end up having fewer negative health outcomes over the course of their life - 10 years of essentially “reduced wear and tear” on different systems in their bodies. That is to say - even if it’s a bandaid, it may still be really useful for public health.
The comment I was replying to was talking about Mounjaro, which is a weekly injectable - and thus no way to do it for only three days a week. In that context, if Mounjaro made it impossible to eat to the degree the commenter described, it would be wildly unsafe (because of how long each shot lasts).
While I’ve know some people experience more severe GI issues or nausea with the drug, this is quite the exaggeration. A drug that made it difficult or impossible to actually consume enough food to survive (more than “two bites”) would be wildly unsafe to prescribe.
If you take the perspective of someone who has struggled with weight loss in the past (especially if prior results were not great and had trouble keeping the weight off anyways) - it’s not so much of a deal with the devil, if the drug actually works.
If you're interested in reading about the kinds of technology that make things like this possible, the CloudKit paper is a really excellent read: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p540-shraer.pdf
That’s the reason you keep hearing the argument: proof-of-work blockchain technology has not yet demonstrated that it provides “orders of magnitude more value.”
I think I'd be more interested to hear _why_ people are chasing [insert thing-to-chase here].
(Especially if you know how well Meryl Streep delivers that monologue in the original: https://youtu.be/Ja2fgquYTCg)
Being gay isn’t a kink. ;)
- Many remarks concern the difficulty of understanding "unless" for those with a first language other than English. It may be interesting to note that Ruby was created in Japan, and that "unless" has been in the language since the very first release. [1]
- Matz has a very interesting and famous quote about the principle of least surprise: "it means the principle of least surprise after you learn Ruby very well." [2]
- Computers don't care how programs are structured. Businesses don't care how systems are architected. The canvas does not care how paint is applied. Software engineering is an art. [3]
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1. You can verify this yourself - check `parse.y`: https://web.archive.org/web/20071109044522/http://eigenclass...
2. The rest of the quote is also wonderful: https://www.artima.com/articles/the-philosophy-of-ruby#part4
3. The article that contains this line has fundamentally altered how I view our profession: https://www.neversaw.us/2022/01/30/the-canvas-cares-not/
Accurate. There’s a strong contingent of folks here that believe “the leftists” are oppressing them and “Twitter silences our voices” is a big part of the conspiracy theory.
Musk is throwing fuel on the fire, because he also just wants to believe.
Why not, though? What makes that a red herring?
But if the choice is between Elixir and Rust for that same CRUD app, it doesn’t seem strange; Elixir would be a far better choice.
I would presume the commenter is more familiar with ecosystems like Elixir, even though it wouldn’t be the most optimal choice. But certainly more optimal than Rust in that case.
“No-one” is a pretty broad claim, yeah?
> including Clinton herself, who has loudly and proudly declared repeatedly that she would/should have been president but for election interference.
The point you make is interesting, but surely there are pretty big differences in those two situations? Are they really identical in any way? I would be curious to know why they are the same thing and can be compared with each other like this - from my point of view, I don’t think I could agree.
I prefer larger screens so that I can increase font sizes and strain my eyes less. I also worry much more about ergonomics, because lots of laptop hacking has started to turn into RSI.
And that all means bigger laptops are better, and they are usually not lighter. I used a netbook in college - I can’t fathom it now.
Or said less opaquely, most people have never truly experienced being ostracized in the way that a cult can. Most people have social ties outside of a group, and maintain those, even if their primary social ties are cut (as you’ve alluded to).
(I know we are arguing the same side of this point, I just wanted to emphasize it)
Truthfully? I find it very difficult to see religion as anything other than traumatic, because what I went through was so bad and different than what most people think of when they think of “religion.” I don’t know if I have any real objectivity in the matter.
I do feel that there is something interesting in that line of thought, however. Perhaps it has to do with the intensely personal nature of religious conviction, and the existential subject matter it deals with?
I’m glad you and your wife were able to get out, too. :)
(Not to mention: a lot of people get really touchy with the idea that religion can be “traumatic” at all.)
But, I grew up in an actual cult. The comments here to the effect of “everything’s a cult” and “startups are cults” and “HN is a cult” - oh gosh. Nothing could be further from the truth. HN is not a cult, folks.
I’m glad people can make those jokes though, because I immediately know they didn’t experience what I did. They have never experienced the ongoing heartbreak of losing your entire world when you leave - your family, your friends, your job, your social life, your religion, your everything. People who get out don’t tend to make light of it.
In any case: know that there are actual cults in operation, and they do tremendous harm. The “everything’s a cult” stuff allows them to operate more freely these days.