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epylar··on After weight-loss surgery, a year of joys and disappointments (2016)
There is a form of semaglutide that is not off-label for weight loss called Wegovy.
epylar··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
The overwhelming majority of men can't get pregnant.
epylar··on Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
Are you talking about Pandemrix? https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps... says there was a lot of follow up on that and no link to narcolepsy was found
epylar··on Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use?
Maybe. These particular ones were never properly decoupled.
epylar··on Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use?
I have seen a team be forced to use microservices for things still running on the same machine years later, with absolutely no benefit other than the powerpoint architecture slides looking fancier.
epylar··on Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%
in this case there was no standard of care
epylar··on TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage
What estimate puts it at 1TW? I'm seeing an estimate of 148.77 TWh per year, which is about 17GW.
epylar··on The mutation that helps Delta spread
Source for 1/1000000 death risk for children infected by covid-19 delta variant?
epylar··on The mutation that helps Delta spread
Relying on QALY results in some very strange decisions, unless you allow for negative QALY. E.g., to maximize total QALY you'd want a very large population.
epylar··on Fsspec: Filesystem Interfaces for Python
If there is an in-memory filesystem library for this, it could be useful for unit testing things that want to write files.
epylar··on Limiting Work in Progress (2020)
This is one of those changes that needs to be supported at the highest level to work.
epylar··on Printstack – Python package that adds stack trace links to the print function
Could you add a LICENSE?
epylar··on Work from Home: Tech Companies Cut Pay of Workers Moving Out of Big Cities
At this point they may as well split out food/shelter/clothing (variable) and keep the rest fixed.
epylar··on College students are learning hard lessons about anti-cheating software
If you're lucky you get a manager who doesn't want to rock the boat and just assigns someone competent to 'help' you constantly.
epylar··on Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
Does this sort of thing show up on an MRI? (nerve inflammation/mobility)
epylar··on Charisma: Now You’ve Got It, Now You Don’t
I used to believe in raw merit/good ideas. I still believe they're good, but not that they're particularly effective in dealing with most people.
epylar··on Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
$2 million in retirement savings puts him above 90th percentile for retirements savings for any age. The maximum 90th percentile I can find is $619,000.00 at ages 60-64. https://dqydj.com/retirement-savings-by-age-united-states/

If he's broke, then at least 90% of retirees are broke.

epylar··on Factorio 1.0
https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/i9hwx9/factorio_s...
epylar··on Teachers Are Panicking About Schools Reopening in the Fall
The article starts by confusing cases with infections in a recently published study. The study says 8% of children who are infected get admitted to the ICU; the linked study says 8% of children studied were admitted to the ICU, all of whom were known cases. This potentially ignores a large number of children who were infected and not symptomatic enough to get tested.
epylar··on Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconstitutional (2000)
Surely you could use a random number generator to do this?
epylar··on Ask HN: Is your employer paying for your new office space, your home?
Yep, I'm getting up to $50 total for office supplies.
epylar··on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
The thing is, if more people are remote, the market includes people -outside- of SV.
epylar··on Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
I ordered some things from UberEats early on in the quarantine. The restaurants made several errors and eventually UberEats said they wouldn't refund because I was having too many issues with my food, and it was 'unlikely' that a person would have that many issues. So I don't use them any more.
epylar··on Mileage runs are last-minute dashes for airline status
I thought the post-911 thing was just not being allowed to check baggage without flying on the flight. If you don't show up at all you're good, right?
epylar··on Working asynchronously
Pen and engineering paper, chronological with bullet points. When the paper is full, I copy any items that are not already checked off or canceled to the next piece of paper (or to a note taking application--still looking for a good one, trying out cherrytree). Any item that gets copied gets a line through it. Canceling an item is putting an X in front of it instead of checking it off. Old pages go into a 3 ring binder.

Items don't have to be tasks. They can be ideas or general notes.

epylar··on Working asynchronously
I've learned to take a lot of notes, make frequent checkpoints (e.g., git commits), and break things down into small pieces, just to deal with interruption--minute to minute (people asking me questions), day to day (fire drills, bugs), and week to week (constantly changing priorities).
epylar··on Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3
Yep, you can use // to get python2 behavior unless the object redefines __truediv__ but not __floordiv__
epylar··on Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3
Some disabilities are not black and white--you may be able to drive a car only 20 minutes at a time due to a disability, but with say adaptive cruise control/lane keeping you could drive it 60 minutes at a time.
epylar··on California Approves Statewide Rent Control
Yikes, 31% (1.04^4 - 1) instead of 25%.
epylar··on There are no adults in the room
Even more scary, the people who running things who -think- they know everything and convince other people they do.
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