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Footkerchief commented on Why don't people return their shopping carts?   behavioralscientist.org/w... · Posted by u/ohjeez
tidenly · a month ago
Idiotic and completely untrue statement.

You get your waist and height measured as part of your routine health examination every year since you become a worker. Eyes, hearing, etc are also included. Its just your body's "metrics".

Your company CAN look at these (they rarely care to), but they can't fire you for them - you especially aren't fined over it. Japan is an incredibly hard country to fire or penalize workers. They can only check them in the first place because its the company that pays for these screenings in most cases. Free EKG, blood screens, and other basic health marker checks.

I'm so tired of people spreading orientalist crap about this country on the internet.

Footkerchief · a month ago
"Fine your coworkers." Looks true:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/19/japan

Footkerchief commented on Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby   brunosutic.com/blog/ruby-... · Posted by u/brunosutic
drzel · a month ago

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      1.month => {standard: 10, pro: 50, enterprise: 100},
      1.year => {standard: 100, pro: 500, enterprise: 1000}
    }
    
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      details.each do |name, amount|
        Billing::Plan::Factory.find_or_create_by!(name: , interval:, amount:)
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Footkerchief · a month ago
Exactly. Use a fancy expressive structure if you want, but don't try to abstract away the mapping between that and the general-purpose code that it relies on. "Each domain has its own rules"? How would I even know where to look for those?
Footkerchief commented on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death   energyvanguard.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/almuhalil
Footkerchief · 5 months ago
TLDR: you can put tablets of mosquito-killing bacteria in buckets.
Footkerchief commented on Wikipedia editors, unsung heroes, keep it one of the last best places online   theglobeandmail.com/canad... · Posted by u/throw0101d
Footkerchief · 5 months ago
It's probably better for Wikipedia's quality if editors remain unsung, rather than it being status-conferring.
Footkerchief commented on Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/clumsysmurf
bitmasher9 · 5 months ago
Not to be too meta, but it’s kind of boring to point out the obvious limitation of the research method.

“No casual link is proven” could be said about so much science, specifically medical science and other disciplines which limit research methods for ethical or practical constraints. So you end up with this comment in every front page post about an observational medical study. We could be discussing the actual research or its implications, instead of repeating a discussion on limitations of research methodology.

In addition, I find these types of critics to be a little too cynical even for my taste. There’s a whole group of people that feel smart by finding ways to dismiss scientific studies even when there is some actually interesting data being brought up.

Footkerchief · 5 months ago
Yes, these comments are necessary pushback against the habit of these disciplines to push interventions that don't work because their evidentiary standards are bad.
Footkerchief commented on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale   recall.ai/blog/postgres-l... · Posted by u/davidgu
panzi · 5 months ago
So what are your thoughts on constraints then? Foreign keys? Should that only be handled by the application, like Rails does (or did, haven't used in a long time).
Footkerchief · 5 months ago
You still use constraints even if you put all your business logic in stored procedures.
Footkerchief commented on It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)   thehustle.co/why-its-near... · Posted by u/rmason
Footkerchief · 6 months ago
When did clickbait headlines become acceptable here?
Footkerchief commented on Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT   mattweidner.com/2025/05/2... · Posted by u/samwillis
Footkerchief · 7 months ago
Surprised to see no discussion of other data structures like dicts/maps, or arrays of arbitrary type. Hopefully they'd be a straightforward extension. IME, apps need collaborative data structures more often than they need pure collaborative text editing.

The motivating examples (update validation, partial loading, higher-level operations) are interesting, but I don't see a strong case that the reason Yjs etc. lack these features is the underlying CRDT implementation, as opposed to these features being intrinsically difficult to build.

Footkerchief commented on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s   ukrainetoday.org/us-ends-... · Posted by u/ctack
epistasis · 9 months ago
I always thought that the American Empire would be dismantled when it elected a leftist steeped in anti-imperialist ideology who wanted to better the world.

Nope, turns out that the American Empire is being dismantled by something else entirely. A subset of the populace that feels jealous of those with more and scared of social change, reacting to try to hurt their fellow country men? A megalomaniac leader who is somehow completely controlled by Russia? It's hard to get the full picture.

Footkerchief · 9 months ago
Horseshoe theory addresses this.
Footkerchief commented on Object that fell from the skies identified as separation ring from a rocket   nation.africa/kenya/news/... · Posted by u/dltj
jamieplex · a year ago
Approximately 8' diameter (other commenters pointed out a more reasonable size) solid steel ring gear (riveted together from 4 parts). Doesn't look anything like a "separation ring", and certainly isn't large enough. Plus it is solid steel. I am kinda doubting the whole story at this point. No way it is from a rocket (too heavy, too low-tech, no ring gears in rocketry), and doubtful from any commercial aircraft (again, too low-tech and too heavy).
Footkerchief · a year ago
2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in diameter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-V

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