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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Automated deployments would have allowed you to review the deployment before it happened. A failed deployment could be configured to allow automatic rollbacks. Automated deployments should also handle experiment flags, which could have been toggled to reduce impact. There are a bunch of places where it could have intervened and mitigated/prevented this whole situation.

moeris

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Well, if someone goes to prison for a relatively harmless drug, they're more likely to turn to hard drugs.

For hard drugs it can probably help centers do things like safe injection sites. Legalization also means you can regulate. That can help in a lot of ways: making drugs safer, mandating that done portion of proceeds gives towards prevention, etc. Addicts will be less afraid of seeking medical treatment if they know they won't be in legal trouble. (They wouldn't anyway, but I've heard a lot of people are paranoid about this.)

Anyway, I don't have any facts or figures. But it seems reasonable to me that legalization could, in some cases, help.

moeris

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> Imagine not being yelled at or ridiculed or told to figure it out if what you're asked to do is ambiguous or makes no sense.

I think maybe you just worked at a terrible business. You experience contacting sounds more like my experience at my current job.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> This is just bad journalism.

It's possible you just have poor taste. Personally, I think the reasons for the repair cost aren't relevant, same is pretty obvious. It's an unconventional car that had limited production. I'm sure they're adding in the cost of parts (they'll likely have to buy another insurance of this car to rip the parts out of, or they'll have to fabricate it themselves. Which could require hiring an engineer to make sure they don't get sued if the car bursts into flames) and labor that comes with learning how to repair a complete unknown for them, plus a good helping of uncertainty.

The most relevant part of this story is that there's a guy who bought into a new tech, and who is being unreasonable when it didn't work for as long as he had hoped. And that comes through fine in the article.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> While most Lyme disease patients who are diagnosed and treated early can fully recover, 10 to 20 percent suffer from persistent symptoms, some seriously disabling.

There's no evidence that chronic Lyme exists:

> There is no evidence to suggest that “chronic Lyme” exists, or that long-term antibiotics are required to treat it.

(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/avoid-prolonged-antibiotics...)

It's pseudoscientific and pretty dangerous nonsense at that.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

One advantage here is for well-lit areas, like if you have a window seat. More light makes the kaleido display sharper, rather than making it frustrating. It can change how you lay out your office, and make things like adjusting blinds less necessary.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Just to add to other things people have mentioned, reports of ghosts could very easily be the result of false memories, as well. Finding a dead body in a creepy location, then sitting on it for two years is plenty of time and fuel for false memories. (Which are notoriously easy to form.)

Another thing I think is the most likely is [pareidolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia). Our minds evolved to be sensitive to seeing faces/hearing voices, and so we tend to see these things where they don't actually exist. (Think faces in toast, or listening for satanic messages when playing music backwards.)

moeris

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

It seems like "artifact provenance" or something would have been a better term. Is this related to SLSA?

moeris

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Users of kakoune, like myself. What I don't understand is why this is seem as such a big deal. You spend most of your workday in your editor of choice. It's not that big a deal to spend a day or two getting used to the (IMO better) keybindings. I still up using vim for some things, like vimdiff, and I don't find it difficult to move between the two. Then again, I also use Dvorak, so maybe I'm just used to changing between layouts.

moeris

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Why wouldn't they be able to? A milk is just a consumable suspension. Look to milk of magnesia, milk of the poppy, etc. It has a long history of being used in a general sense.

moeris

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Well, it's good I didn't imply that, then. People can miss things in articles, ignore them, or just not understand. All are valid reasons for missing/ignoring that part. My point is that the article doesn't mention it was easier to breastfeed back in the day, despite that being a kind of obvious point to make. So it's possible that they couldn't make the point because we don't know if breastfeeding was difficult back then.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Most of the comments here are implying that there is some environmental change which has caused breastfeeding to become harder or less efficient. The article doesn't seem to say that, though. I didn't see any implication that breastfeeding was better back in prehistory.

It's possible that it's always been hard. Being in a social group large enough that there are other mothers would solve the issue, largely.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I never get all the Apple fanboy love for their trackpads. They're okay, but ultimately they are still trackpads. They still erroneously track input when you brush against them the wrong way. I prefer the Thinkpad trackpoint by far. (And an actual mouse is even better.)

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

At least part of it is trying to save people work, I imagine. "That's a cool tool, but there's an existing, well-supported one that already solves those problem."

Of course, the problem here is that Nix may be similar to this language, but they solve different problems. So I imagine the writer is just mistaken, and it comes off as one-upsmanship.

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Not when it's referentially transparent. In that case, there's no need to run the tests if a function or its children haven't changed. Of course, in that's the case, the tests are probably fast enough that running then won't matter much.

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Many of us pay for government services we will never use, though. As a man, for example, I'll never be a recipient of WIC. By your logic, I should never have to pay for these benefits. However, that seems wrong. Even if I never use WIC, Social security, government housing, addiction recovery programs, etc. I should still pay for them because it's good for society as a whole.

Plus, there's the fact that even if you're not living in the US doesn't mean you're not benefiting from citizenship. You still enjoy the privilege of American consulates, being able to travel to certain countries, and certain limited protections and privileges. So it's not like it's _nothing_.

moeris

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

> knowing is harder to get adequate nutrition

It's really not, though. Not any harder than in a meat eating diet. Maybe if you're following a vegan diet. Or if you have specific health concerns (like low iron absorption). But then, you should probably have to be careful if you're eating meat, as well.

moeris

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Mastodon is written in Rails, I think. What makes you say that it will be an instance written in Django?

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

> intelligence is needed for safe driving... won't get when something unexpected arises as it always will in time

I don't think that's true. While unexpected situations do arise, I don't think people use much "intelligence" to handle them. When an elephant falls out of the semi truck in front of you, your response is to hit the breaks. You don't spend a minute thinking about the likelihood of the event, or question whether allowing the elephant to hit your car might improve the likelihood of it surviving (and whether that justifies sacrificing yourself.)

The fact is that most accidents aren't very atypical. They're everyday things that happen, and people aren't paying attention, or they make a mistake. Handling just these scenarios will result in net saved lives. In other words, autonomous driving doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.