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throwaway8689··on Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better
So I need to use more profanity at work, then ask for a raise?

(But I concede that effort and productivity are not the same thing.)

throwaway8689··on Open source hospital price database
If you are curious to compare with a foreign single payer system, England's NHS tariff is published at

https://www.england.nhs.uk/pay-syst/national-tariff/national...

throwaway8689··on Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
Assuming you are not being disingenuous: there is a trade off with a lot of uncertainty - other things are also implicated in stomach cancer, and at the same time untreated dental disease causes other health problems too.

But I prefer to rely on brushing my own teeth and avoiding certain foods to maintain my own health, rather than have a medication added to my water supply because the guy next door does not take care of his health.

throwaway8689··on Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
This study looked solely at impact on dental health. Other studies tell us it is associated with stomach cancer and infertility.
throwaway8689··on Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians
Axis of Awesome took those lemons and made lemonade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

throwaway8689··on Amazon Tried Not to Pay a Woman After Driver Totaled Her Car
I've had longer delays in the UK. My car was damaged by another driver. I sent my dash cam recording to my insurer and then both insurers dithered for months until I threatened to get the government ombudsman involved.
throwaway8689··on Show HN: I built a database GUI with ChatGPT integration
There have been a few products like this announced recently and they all have intro level examples on the home page. Can yours deal with things like entity-attribute-value model tables?
throwaway8689··on Everything Is Interpolated: Music’s Nostalgia-Industrial Complex
For the listener I don't think much would change. There is already more music released than any one person has time to listen to.

Edit: or maybe I would be disappointed if I liked an 'artist' but it was an ai so live events would be weird.

throwaway8689··on Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
You have no information on how I approached using chat gpt, what prompts I used, how close its replies came to being correct/useful or not, but you decided to regale us with an irrelevant car metaphor anyway.
throwaway8689··on Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
I tried chat gpt for the first time today. I asked it to write me a script to fetch some data from an API. It didn't succeed, and this kind of common task from a well-documented API should (I thought) be a slam dunk.
throwaway8689··on People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
Thanks for mentioning this. There are a lot of people who are homeless solely for economic reasons and are mostly unnoticed.
throwaway8689··on People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
Involuntary admission is not automatically inhumane, but you do need to be admitting people to well-run hospitals and have a system in place to protect everyone from malicious admission. Both of those things cost money.
throwaway8689··on The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
I once hypothetically saved a few dozen colleagues from dying in a fire. All of these people had at least a degree and many were educated to PhD.

The fire alarm sounded and at the bottom of a stairwell the exit door would not release until someone operated the emergency release break-glass panel. But none of these educated people grasped that. Worse still, none of them thought to use a nearby heavy steel trolley as a battering ram. One guy is trying to phone for help, which was pointless as the alarm sound makes conversation impossible.

I'm one of the last down the stairs. I look at the people, the closed door, the steel trolley, and the emergency door release panel. Realising I'm not going to have the fun of trashing the doors, I operate the release panel and we all leave.

throwaway8689··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
Other income comes from inheritance, investments, gifts. None of those should be assumed to be incentives to get the recepient to work.
throwaway8689··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
A lot of people have to work two jobs just to afford food and shelter. Granted there are also people trying to live a Champaign lifestyle on a lemonade budget, but how do you address the first group?
throwaway8689··on Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum
Only time I'm more miserable is if I'm told to work on something I know is going to get canned.
throwaway8689··on Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum
Imagine the opportunities for 'insider' trading in the painting and decorating business.
throwaway8689··on DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application (2021)
Who report over 10,000 downloads last week. I used this years ago but can't see much use for it now.
throwaway8689··on Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?
That's fair enough if your job is in front end or whatever and you just need to use a table or view that someone else built for you.

I comment I read somewhere was that SQL goes from basic to advanced with nothing in between. It's a slippery slope of course: you start writing your own query and then you figure a more sophisticated query would be helpful and pretty soon you're having to care about optimisation and indexes.

throwaway8689··on The Undeniable Street View
Can you address the 'unprovoked' part? Reading comprehension here involves reading a whole paragraph.
throwaway8689··on The Undeniable Street View
Lots of societies around the world have a tradition of 'blood money' in the sense of financial compensation for killing or other serious harm. It's not surprising to find that kind of thinking in America since it is a society comprised of migrants from all over the world.
throwaway8689··on Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?
But what do you call a query? I've seen joins described as 'advanced' in some places.
throwaway8689··on Inconvenient EU piracy study kept hidden for years (2017)
Agree. I'd go to Blockbuster for block busters and the library or an independent video rental store for art house and foreign language films.
throwaway8689··on Inconvenient EU piracy study kept hidden for years (2017)
We can all debate the quality of Netflix or Prime but the cost is about the same as renting a VHS tape from Blockbuster once a week 20 years ago. Not even adjusting for inflation.
throwaway8689··on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Spread Through Employee Mobility (2022)
Need to do this study across a couple of economic cycles because the last few years have been atypical for both stress and hiring patterns.

It reads like Denmark has linked employment and health data so I guess they can do so for as far back as the records go.

throwaway8689··on Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning
Shouldn't be a bureaucrat. With an elected official, at least I have the option to vote against them.
throwaway8689··on Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning
Simpler financial motive: residual payments on their old movies.
throwaway8689··on Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning
Piracy may have been displaced into Netflix password sharing, or diminished and replaced by bona fide streaming subscriptions (why pirate if you can get what you want at a low price). But falling real incomes and Netflix tightening up on 'free' users could see more pirating.
throwaway8689··on Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning
I agree about the cost, but it is common to seize computers during raids police raids.
throwaway8689··on Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning
What's the certification fee looking like?
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