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I co-organize a handful of Meetup groups, and we already pay a non-negligible annual fee. There's definitely money to be made. Most people seem happy shelling out $100-200 per year…

That was my initial reaction, too. Or is long distance running much less of a "young person sport" than others?

Are you me? 95% of my diet is broccoli, zucchini, spinah, chicken, beef, walnuts and peanuts. I'll usually indulge in a carb/sugar binge once a week. Any more than that, I feel rub…

I'm amazed at how fresh they've stayed - testament to Matt and Trey I guess. Most comedies are beating dead horses within 5 seasons.

Certificated is definitely a valid word, though perhaps not in "layperson English". In (Commonwealth) legalese, share holdings are referred to as either uncertificated or certifica…

Even the median income comparison is probably too favourable - Wuhan and LA are apples to oranges. I'm sure LA is one of the higher-income cities in the US, and Wuhan is one of the…

> Sorry but remark only reveals lack of knowledge of what Forms, WPF and UWP are capable of, their related tooling and component libraries from the likes of Telerik, DevExpress, Co…

> It's about the value you deliver for the company. Well, yes, but $1 in Malaysia goes a lot further than $1 in SV. So "equal pay" isn't really equal at all. COL-adjusted salaries …

In all fairness, I haven't touched Visual Studio (for either F# or C# dev) in at least 18 months, so you're probably right. That being said, UI isn't a strength on .NET to begin wi…

That's fascinating, and exactly the type of working environment I'm looking to create. Outside the US, I think we (rightly or wrongly) view American working culture as blunt and di…

Yes, this is a recent-ish change. FSI is available under .NET Core 3 Preview, and someone recently mentioned that it's working under 2.2 too.

I think that's not entirely fair. While MS could definitely invest more resources in F#, I wouldn't say it's been neglected (or dying). Just to mention a few developments in recent…

This approach is really appealing to me, it sounds like a good way to cut through all the dancing around egos. In retrospect, though, is this effective?

What makes you say that?

I find the stroke anecdote fairly unconvincing. The man clearly still had the capacity for language - he was miming the action of a tennis racquet. Sign language is still language.…

Curious to know if you're a drug user?

That's not really the point. Your diet works for you - great! Noone's saying it's biologically impossible. But most people won't find it easy to regulate their caloric intake eatin…

It's pretty common to cut 5-10kg in preparation for wrestling/judo competitions. A natural 6kg fluctuation isn't inconceivable. I'm fairly sure I could get there starting dehydrate…

> It's not so easy to binge protein bars, despite companies doing their chemical best to make them taste like candy. Amusing anecdote - for some reason, after a night on the town i…

It does matter what you eat. Not in the sense of "calories in, calories out" - which, as you mentioned, is simple biology. But it is important in the sense of "which diet is easies…

I consider myself a seasoned dieter (meaning I can manipulate my weight +/-10kg fairly easily). Over at least a dozen weight cuts/bulks, the most effective practice I've found is w…

While you're right, I also wonder why anyone cares if a bunch of cash-rich, overconfident private equity funds get fleeced? They're more than capable of taking care of themselves. …

I'm not saying that intelligence and bias are orthogonal. That discussion requires a much deeper consideration of human cognition and psychology :) I'm just saying that model bias …

Fairly limited, but anonymous pipes might fit your use case: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/how-to-u...

I strongly prefer they keep the bias. It shows plainly that these models have zero intelligence, they're just pattern matching over specific datasets. I don't want the appearance o…