This article has been shared at least 10 times before on HN over the last decade. Amazing to see people organically find it over the years.
Including this one, 34 times :')
Readit Newsnanodeath commented on Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999) bikeshed.com/... · Posted by u/program
nanodeath commented on Paxlovid: You'd have expected more science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/helloworld
My experience was odd. And this is just a description with no science.
I was vaccinated, got COVID. At no point were my symptoms serious. Because of age and past heart issues I was given paxlovid. Two weeks after the paxlovid (or something like that) I became sick again, more seriously. With COVID. The symptoms I experienced were much worse but not life threatening and I recovered fully. However, it was odd that the COVID came roaring back. My conjecture is that the paxlovid suppressed COVID, but that caused my body to falter in terms of building immunity. So when the paxlovid wore off, I was actually worse off. In the same situation I would NOT take the paxlovid again unless it was clear I had serious symptoms - like I was going to end up hospitialized. I acknowledge there is no science here, but on the other hand none of the doctors were able to suggest why I had a second episode so quickly and why it was more severe.
My conclusion is that there was a lot of guessing, placebo, reassuring, best guessing going on. I think that is the take away if we face such a thing again.
To add to the anecdata here, I had covid for a week (bedridden but otherwise not that bad), then had a single day in which I tested negative, and then it rebounded for a week, due to Paxlovid. Sounded like it was pretty common. So that was a waste of 15 days. On the plus side, my second week was much the same as the first week as far as symptoms go.
The HTML source is pretty good too. A doctype that's half HTML5, half XHTML. A pre-IE7 script tag thing. A meta-keywords tag. Lists that don't actually use any list tags. Raw PHP tags being dumped into the HTML output. No closing body or html tags. This joke has _layers_, man.
I'm questioning this advantage:
> Improved type safety: Currying can help improve type safety by ensuring that each curried function takes exactly one argument of the correct type. This can help catch errors at compile time and make your code more robust.
Why would non-curried functions have worse type safety?
I _think_ what they're saying is a specialized/curried function that takes a single argument is better than the method it's replacing that takes three strings or whatever. That is, `foo.a("a").b("b").c("c")` is better than `foo.a("a", "b", "c")`. Which...sure, but 1. if you're really passing 2-3 parameters in with identical types, maybe use inline value classes instead? Or at least type aliases?, and 2. if you can't or don't want to do that, named arguments help.
nanodeath commented on Why is Excalidraw so good? offbyone.us/posts/why-is-... · Posted by u/zekenie
"You know how I know Berner-Lee's dream is dead? When I read a long blog post about how fantastic a tool is, and there is NOT ONE SINGLE HYPERLINK TO THE GODDAMN TOOL."
"Oh, just google it"
"Yes, but google was not present in the WWW design, was it? And then you have to worry about fakes, clones, phishing sites... The new generations turned the web into an interactive newspaper with more ads."
Isn't the first word of the article a link to the tool? Maybe it was added after your comment.
nanodeath commented on 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach bigthink.com/starts-with-... · Posted by u/ScottMann
Kurzgesagt has a video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkD5SeuwzM
nanodeath commented on Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect engineering.kablamo.com.a... · Posted by u/kelseyfrog
> If the value was in your L1 cache the difference in access time is 100 ns vs 1 ms which is an order of magnitude faster.
I see this mistake all the time, even in print! It's millis -> micros -> nanos, so...that's a lot more than a single order of magnitude.
nanodeath commented on Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk reuters.com/lifestyle/fat... · Posted by u/geox
One of my favorite movies "Edge of Tomorrow" has dope exoskeletons, and while its a movie - thats where this is heading...
I am surprised Boston Dynamics hasnt made one! If you converted the agility of Atlas into an exoskeleton, that would be pretty interesting...
Similarly I thought of Death Stranding :)
Though I guess exoskeletons are not uncommon in sci-fi.