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hajile commented on The RAM shortage comes for us all jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx

bullen · 11 days ago

Yes, DDR3 is the lowest CAS latency and lasts ALOT longer.

Just like SSDs from 2010 have 100.000 writes per bit instead of below 10.000.

CPUs might even follow the same durability pattern but that remains to be seen.

Keep your old machines alive and backed up!

hajile · 11 days ago

CAS latency doesn't matter so much as ns of total random-access latency and the raw clockspeed of the individual RAM cells. If you are accessing the same cell repeatedly, RAM hasn't gotten faster in years (around DDR2 IIRC).

hajile commented on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) javascript.tm/letter... · Posted by u/pavelai

giancarlostoro · 11 days ago

I am going to sound crazy, but, if Microsoft would free up TypeScript and every browser added native TypeScript features to JavaScript… and then we all just started calling it TypeScript. Maybe? Then you would see native ts files. Oracle will never give up JS. The funny thing is the number of people who confuse Java and JS.

hajile · 11 days ago

Only if you change TS to have actually sound types and it enables good performance instead of enabling you to craft extraordinarily convoluted types for stuff that you should have never written in the first place.

Put another way, I'm fine with the TS syntax (and use TS because there aren't other choices), but the TS semantics aren't a good long-term solution.

hajile commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

FatherOfCurses · 21 days ago

Our ability to diagnose mental illnesses are improving.

50 years ago many people with mental illness would go undiagnosed. They would instead self-medicate through alcohol, illicit drugs, or risky behavior and die far too young after leading miserable lives.

hajile · 21 days ago

This is an assertion, but there’s no supporting evidence and many indicators you are incorrect.

50 years ago was 1975. It wasn’t the dark ages and the worst cases were already being moved to asylums for at least 150 years before that.

Suicide in particular is hard to hide any suicide rates are going up despite treatment. If mental illness rates are the same as 50 years ago and more people are getting effective treatment, we’d expect per capita rates to decrease.

Impoverished third world countries where people have nothing but problems almost universally have higher reported happiness and less suicide.

Severe mental health issues don’t just go away because you drink and if alcohol could suppress the problems, we’d never have made treatments to begin with.

In terms of “self medicating” with drugs, we’re hitting an all-time high (pun intended). Risky and self destructive behavior is also way up as evidence with our prison systems overflowing.

Nothing indicates to me that mental health is improving and everything seems to indicate it getting worse despite all the attempted interventions.

hajile commented on Racket v9.0 blog.racket-lang.org/2025... · Posted by u/Fice

ModernMech · 22 days ago

Maybe I just have a different working definition of these words. To me "mature" means "fully developed" and "polished" means "achieved a high level of refinement". To me, rewriting it all to introduce a major feature that fills in a longstanding hole in the language doesn't say "mature and polished". Because often times many bugs are introduced into a codebase on a major rewrite despite extensive test suites, especially at the interfaces between features. Typically people might prefer a mature codebase to one that's just been rewritten precisely because it hasn't been vetted over years. "mature rewrite" sounds like an oxymoron to me, and I guess no one else agrees but I find it strange. That is all.

hajile · 21 days ago

Nobody would consider Chrome or Firefox to be immature or lacking polish because they have replaced entire compilers several times over the past few years? I don't have an exact count, but they probably do this every 3-5 years which puts them way ahead of Racket.

I'd also note that Chez Scheme was a commercial implementation bought and open-sourced by Cisco. It wasn't something they threw together. Because it is a complete scheme v6 implementation they are building on instead of rolling their own implementation in C. Coding against a stable Scheme API has to be easier and less buggy than what they had before (not to mention Chez being much faster at a lot of stuff).

hajile commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

fragrom · 24 days ago

This is what my psychiatrist more or less warned me about when I went on medication; that a lot of people who are suicidal lack the energy and ability to plan their suicide, and medications can sometimes undo those particular symptoms and people manage to end themselves.

I'm not sure what kinds of studies have been done about it, but I've had a few therapists same similar ideas. If it's not a studied phenomenon, then it has folks that believe it exists.

hajile · 22 days ago

This theory is a science-free zone. It seems far more likely that the drug induced sudden, overwhelming suicidal thoughts than someone said "I feel the best I've ever felt and life is looking up. I think I'll kill myself and make all the good feelings go away".

Furthermore, if the latter were true, it would be an indication that depression was a symptom rather than a cause and the psychiatrist misdiagnosed and improperly treated the patient.

hajile commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

undeveloper · 23 days ago

right which is why they are treating the depression (which leads to suicidal tendencies) which is a symptom of depression, with prozac. that's what the prozac is for. to prevent death

hajile · 22 days ago

Prozac and other SSRIs are proven to cause MORE suicidal tendencies in children.

hajile commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

ksenzee · 23 days ago

Note that the black box warning has nothing to do with long-term effects of the medication. It was added specifically because kids were killing themselves within weeks of starting the medication.

> This is one of the most shocking things I have ever read.

Good grief. I hope you're exaggerating for effect.

hajile · 22 days ago

> Note that the black box warning has nothing to do with long-term effects of the medication

What are the long-term effects of suicide?

A 7-year-old kid doesn't understand what suicide really means. Putting them on something that encourages a behavior that they don't understand and has completely catastrophic results isn't a risk I would take with my children.

hajile commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

robertakarobin · 24 days ago

We had/have a lot of reservations about it too, and discussed it at length with our pediatrician over months of observation. We decided what was more horrifying was hearing a 7-year-old — who has supportive family and friends, good health, no traumatic events, no major life changes going on, never worries where food/shelter is coming from — say he feels like "he shouldn't be on Earth anymore" and suddenly react with extreme physical anxiety to almost everything. It was bad enough that he couldn't really implement any of the coping skills he learned in therapy. His therapist hoped that medication would bring him to a baseline where he was able to benefit more from therapy. My family's historical success with Prozac also made the decision more palatable since depression appears to be hereditary.

There has been a phenomenal positive shift in his behavior since he started medication. All that said, another commenter pointed out that the study specifically says that Prozac is no better than placebo for depression, which is similar to but distinct from anxiety, which is what my son is being treated for. My mom and I were both diagnosed with depression, but anxiety may be more accurate -- I'm not sure.

hajile · 22 days ago

The solution for suicidal thoughts is a drug known to induce suicidal thoughts?

You said elsewhere that there were "no known long-term side effects". Aside from that not being universally true for any drug I've ever personally researched, no side effect is more long-term than suicide.

hajile commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

crowbahr · 23 days ago

That's your opinion, that is not the general opinion of the professionals in the field.

I trust a cohort of scientists significantly more than anonymous strangers online, and you should too.

hajile · 22 days ago

The data is very clear that the rate of mental illnesses is increasing. Rates of severe mental illnesses like Schizophrenia are also increasing.

NONE of the current theories being experimented with on patients have a concrete, proven scientific basis with some such as the decades-long SSRI scam have actively harmed patients and created physical dependence/addiction and actively causing harm to patients and their families (eg, SSRI-induced suicides).

I trust science, but I don't trust scientists any more than I trust any other human with their money, career, and reputation on the line. I trust the FDA and pharmaceutical company ethics even less (eg, Bayer knowingly selling HIV-infested drugs to hemophiliacs, saying Oxycotin is non-addictive, or the revolving door that allows non-working SSRIs to be released and marketed as working despite all evidence to the contrary).

hajile commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

crowbahr · 23 days ago

> Because the problem's not a "neurochemistry issue" (that theory's been debunked and the "chemicals" in play have never been known), and the solution is "no better than placebo."

It most certainly has not been debunked and mind altering chemicals most certainly do work.

SSRIs have _questionable_ efficacy but that's not the same as proven to have none, which is an exceptionally high bar.

This is close minded dogma no better a religion.

hajile · 23 days ago

If you don't have a serious model for what you are treating, then you are experimenting on your patients and hoping it works for unknown reasons. Not too different from folk remedies. Even worse, patients are essentially never informed that the doctor is throwing things at the wall hoping something sticks.