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dymk commented on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4... · Posted by u/brandonb

dotancohen · 5 hours ago

I evolved to eat fish and meat killed. So did all other carnivores. I'm happy to continue eating and shitting and sleeping and having sex, I don't want supplements to replace food and AI to replace intellect and IVF to replace sex. I want to be alive.

dymk · 4 hours ago

You are not living in the body of a carnivore

Eat some berries and nuts

"Paleo" diet doesn't even include that much meat in it

dymk commented on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/randycupertino

the_pwner224 · 21 hours ago

You can do the same in the US, zennioptical.com. You need to measure your PD which is very easy (Most optometry shops are hesitant to tell you your PD. And it's normally measured when you go to order the glasses, not as part of the initial eye exam.)

As for needing a prescription <1 year old, if your vision hasn't changed, just edit the date in the PDF. Same for contact lens prescriptions.

As part of the regular eye exam, they generally use an autorefractor machine on your current glasses and/or eyes to get a baseline before they manually fine tune with the 1/2 on the eye chart test. But yeah, you can't just get the quick prescription from the autorefractor like you talked about in Japan.

dymk · 4 hours ago

You can't do the same in the US. They won't do an eye exam for you. That's the whole problem - glasses in the US are a medical device gated by a doctor, which is absurd.

dymk commented on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/randycupertino

bsimpson · a day ago

In Italy, you can walk into a shop and buy as many contacts as you like.

In the US, if you haven't paid your annual tithing to get a hall pass from an optometrist, the FDA won't let you.

dymk · a day ago

Going to Japan felt like living in the future. I could walk into any glasses store, and for $50 or less buy a pair of frames and lenses. If I didn't know my prescription, included in the price was an automated eye exam machine which'd figure it out in 2 or 3 minutes.

In the US I'm paying $200 just for the exam.

dymk commented on Tiny C Compiler bellard.org/tcc/... · Posted by u/guerrilla

II2II · a day ago

> The professor just really liked tcc for some reason.

Perhaps, or maybe they just got tired of students coming in and claiming that their program worked perfectly on such-and-such compiler.[1] It looks like tcc would run on most systems from the time of its introduction, and perhaps some that are a great deal older. When I took a few computer science courses, they were much more restrictive. All code had to be compiled with a particular compiler on their computers, and tested on their computers. They said it was to prevent cheating but, given how trivial it would have been to cheat with their setup, I suspect it had more to do with shutting down arguments with students who came in to argue over grades.

[1] I was a TA in the physical sciences for a few years. Some students would try to argue anything for a grade, and would persist if you let them.

dymk · a day ago

The prof could have just said "Use GCC <version>" then, which would run on even more systems than TCC. Professor probably just really liked TCC.

dymk commented on My AI Adoption Journey mitchellh.com/writing/my-... · Posted by u/anurag

apetresc · 3 days ago

Honest question, when was the last time you caught it trying to use a command that was going to "nuke your system"?

dymk · 3 days ago

Maybe once a month

dymk commented on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors notepad-plus-plus.org/new... · Posted by u/mysterydip

dymk · 7 days ago

Ukraine and Taiwan are only relevant to Americans, right

dymk commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP

bjt12345 · 11 days ago

Doesn't say it's programmers though but middle management:

> Amazon slashed 14,000 white-collar jobs in late October, with CEO Andy Jassy stressing the need for the company to eliminate *excessive bureaucracy* by trimming operational levels and reducing the number of managers.

dymk · 11 days ago

I woke up to two of my engineer friends telling me they got laid off, so it’s not all middle management

dymk commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP

aprilthird2021 · 11 days ago

Outsourcing happens when the economy forces companies to cut costs. When innovations return substantial growth, most companies don't think much about the costs. We have a rough economy, bad tariff policy, a weakening dollar, and immigration policy that's reducing the overall US population (and with it, spend in the economy). All those factors push companies to need to cut costs

dymk · 11 days ago

Convenient how you absolve Amazon of responsibility. They were forced to do it!

dymk commented on Parametric CAD in Rust campedersen.com/vcad... · Posted by u/ecto

WillAdams · 11 days ago

Usually when one needs constraints one can code it up as a recursive function.

dymk · 11 days ago

That’s certainly not the case for most situations where a constraint solver is useful

dymk commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP

Aurornis · 11 days ago

That person's pinned message shows that he started his campaign for Congress almost 2 months ago. He says he was laid off today. He's been Tweeting non-stop daily and appears to be working hard on his campaign.

I don't think you can separate his active run for Congress from this layoff. Making an actual run for Congress is a huge time commitment and I don't see how it would be compatible with being an L7 manager at Amazon. It's not something you do in your free time.

His campaign platform also appears to be about AI taking jobs, so I'm more than a little suspicious that getting laid off was part of the plan rather than an actual surprise.

The claim that he "built systems" should also be taken in the context of his job title, which was in product management. I've held the Product Manager title for a few years, but I wouldn't claim "I built" during those times, because I was not the one doing the building. This strikes me as a little misleading.

Also that post is full of classic LLM-ism from beginning to end. Note the overuse of the "It's not this, it's that" format and other LLM tells. I might give someone the benefit of the doubt if they were immersed in LLMs so long that they started speaking like an LLM, but given all of the other context surrounding this post I have a high suspicion it was written by AI.

dymk · 11 days ago

7 years at Amazon without being laid off (promoted, in fact) and you blame it on 2 months of what you assume is poor performance