Slow, expensive, complex, immature.
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So every single early computer innovation then?
Readit Newssmokey_circles commented on My Day Away from Reddit unsupervision.com/my-day-... · Posted by u/shevis
smokey_circles commented on I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years blog.slimjim.xyz/posts/st... · Posted by u/that_james
Interesting take.
Feels cleaner to me, and while I want to argue about the opinionated payload bit, I suppose that's something that should be clearly defined in the contract anyway.
Maybe I've been abusing status codes too...
smokey_circles commented on How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2014) themarginalian.org/2014/1... · Posted by u/fbn79
> Even better, do these things with someone else
Sure but that's missing the point of the book.
People are not meant to alone. If the book is advising to do things alone, I advise not reading the book
smokey_circles commented on I should have loved biology jsomers.net/i-should-have... · Posted by u/h2odragon
I have always wanted to learn medicine slowly - over years.
So I read medical text books slowly over years.
I find it amazing that we give so much agency to doctors over our health while we know relatively very little about our own bodies and health.
And biology is a big part of that learning.
I now study medical books on my soare time.
Would recommend “Clinical Methods” as your first foray. You will understand your doctor and the biology is immediately applicable in your Daily life. Ie how to deal with fevers in your kids.
After that learn about your skeletal system and biomechanics.
Next Neuro degenerative disease and the brain.
Once you’ve caught the learning bug, you can go into 1st year Med School curricula and then the rest from there.
Some big parts of medicine is relatively useless - psychology for example.
Would recommend learning meditation ina real way and reading “Right Concentration.”. Learning about jhanas and mental states.
I remember as a kid when they asked me what I wanted to do, I never understood why I couldn’t do all of the above.
> psychology for example
while I'm pretty despondent with the replication crisis in psychology, medicine isn't much better.
but to dismiss it outright is pretty ignorant. curious how you explain the state of America if your assertion is psychology and mental health are "relatively useless" fields
FYI, openai has eased the rule on realistic face generation. Now you can generate and publish Photorealistic faces. They will internally filter those to make sure they don't match famous faces.
I had the weirdest reaction to that last sentence.
As an engineer, the first thing that went through my head was "lots of photos of their faces available, easy filter. My face specifically: hard filter"
But as a person it was "ok wow, f_ck you too then?"
smokey_circles commented on Boeing 737 Max mid-air emergencies revealed abc.net.au/news/2022-06-2... · Posted by u/dlcmh
assume you werent around when dc-10s were still active then ?
I did not know the DC-10 had bit of dodgy record and oh hey, it's McDonnell Douglas. Again! What a coinky dink
Please see related TLA+ thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31956018
I've been seriously turned off from go (after dedicating years of my life to it :(). It is fundamentally flawed IMHO, a house of cards built on quicksand.
I wonder what we'll think of GO in 5, 10, 25 years. Within 50 years I kinda doubt many humans will give a crap about it at all.
I've never had an issue with data race conditions in go. Can I ask what you did to lose faith?
The answer, for me, is always channels. What you put around the channels is the challenging part.
Channels are built to pass information between goroutines. If you are doing this via any other signaling, just don't. You can loop over channels for long running sequential reads, you can test them to see if they're ready to read or ready to write.
Honorable mention to context as well, extremely useful structure.
This opinion is just gross. Always do your required reading kids.
- nobody uses semi colons, that's a huge red flag because the tooling will literally remove these symbols from your code, did you even run any go code? clearly not
- goroutines are not threads and galloping past that obvious chasm is also telling: you're not really sure what these magical things are but, somehow, you know they're bad. this is a flawed line of reasoning that was never going to convince me
- because you don't know how goroutines and the userspace scheduler work, you skip over all the benefits they provide and thusly nurseries give me nothing than a hand holding experience less effective than the existing tools I have. Thank you for wasting my time because I was genuinely holding out for _any_ kind of empirical reasoning. My mistake.
- As proof of the author's research negligence: Not a single mention of channels. Not one. Homework was clearly not completed
I'm all for debating a language's efficacy and tradeoffs, but not when the opposing side has no idea how anything works. Then it's not a debate, it's just the ignorant proclaiming a need to interfere with others. Go away, please.
smokey_circles commented on The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld tuxphones.com/mnt-pocketr... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Trivial nitpick: In the photograph, the phone is displaying the message, "... and repairable by yourself."
If your goal is to use traditionally correct grammar, use "you" rather than "yourself".
More info here [0].
[0] https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-xpm-2012-09-05-...
English Grammar is arbitrary and there is really no such thing as a "correct" form, only a formal one. Which is kind of elitist and disparaging imo.
Ain't is my favorite example. It was considered proper English until the lower class started using it [0]
I'm not against formal grammar but to grammar nazi everyday language is to be nothing more than an elitist pedant who presumes form to be more correct than function (which is only true in creative writing imo)
Someone should cancel Torvalds for building git on a blockchain. Clearly a scam!