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daviddavis

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About daviddavis

I wrote a program in C once.

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    This is exactly why I’ve started only buying smart devices that work with Home Assistant and don’t rely on cloud services.

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    Comment #43298637

    It’s a study with Walter Willett and Frank Hu, who are probably the most highly regarded nutritional researchers working in the field. Here’s a great video about how these research…

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    Comment #43152378

    Have you tried uv? I switched to it from poetry a couple months ago. It’s not perfect but I’m enjoying it a lot more than poetry.

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    > the US essentially subsidizes the entire drug research industry This isn’t entirely true. The US does pay more for drugs but a lot of this money isn’t spent on research. In fact …

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    Comment #34383209

    Nutritional studies are notoriously difficult to conduct. You either have to isolate subjects and monitor everything they eat and when. Or you have to rely on self reported data an…

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    Comment #30495118

    I see. Thanks for the response! Great article too.

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    Comment #30495076

    With the way that Apple prevents you from reusing Apple IDs, does it mean that if my Apple ID is blah@mydomainname.com and I migrate mydomainname.com (currently using G Suite free)…

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    Ask HN: How many bytes are in a kilobyte?

    This topic came up recently at work and I had always considered a kilobyte to be 1,024 bytes. However, SI seems to differentiate between a kilobyte and kibibyte (the latter being 1…

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    Comment #27737014

    There are a bunch of mypy configuration options to disallow certain things like --disallow-untyped-defs. There’s also --strict which forces typing on everything.

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    Comment #26567583

    And don't pronounce PyPI as pie-pie. It's pie-P-I.

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    Comment #26522413

    I was considering upgrading to an iPhone 12 mini. Does it have these issues too?

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    Comment #21363332

    Does your roof generate electricity though? A solar roof is a roof + solar panels.

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    Comment #20815668

    Just out of curiosity, what happens to the engineers that work on these projects that get shutdown by Google? Do they get laid off?

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    Comment #20358542

    No ‘Night of the Living Dead’?