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It's worth nothing that all of the studies you linked were performed only on children. It is entirely plausible that DXM is effective in adults but not children because of the diff…

> This article uses the trick where you pick studies that support your argument and ignore all of the studies that disagree with it. It's even worse than that, they appear not to h…

I don't know if OP changed their link but the one currently in their post ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37232330/ ) did find DXM to be effective: "Using objective and subject a…

> Most studies have found that dextromethorphan performs the same as a placebo The citation linked does not support this claim. In fact it suggests the opposite: "Dextromethorphan …

Even if you replace ORM generated queries with hand generated queries or LLM generated queries you're still missing a huge chunk of functionality provided by an ORM. For my project…

I mean there are plenty of projects that don't fit this description, where the database is just a persistence layer for your objects and the database should be subservient to appli…

> Even when you had to do this manually, it was a very minor effort. A one time thing. Maybe if you’re fetching data from a single table… once you start joining across multiple tab…

Your comment comes across like saying "why would I use an impact driver when my screwdriver does everything I need?" If you don't actually need those features then obviously an ORM…

Which ORMs are you basing this comment on exactly? (1) and (3) are not really problems with an ORM that gets out of your way and lets you drop down to raw SQL when necessary, but s…

Most of what you've listed I do on my computer not my phone. And some of your items do require internet for useful purposes (at the very least backup and syncing for notes/password…

I don't normally order Ubers or scan boarding passes from my computer, no. I do take photos on my phone but I want them automatically backed up to the cloud so I don't lose them if…

People have been making these same arguments for decades and at this point I'm convinced they are all based on the same strawman: That ORM's absolve you from having to learn SQL. O…

> most apps don't have any need to access the internet in the first place Citation needed. Looking through my phone the vast majority of third party apps I have installed obviously…

And how exactly are you going to make good coffee if you don't know how to dial in a shot? If you don't know what you're doing your espresso is most likely going to come out sour o…

Except it's not so easy to get your hands on one these days. They are constantly out of stock. (IIRC they are basically now hand made by a guy out of the UK). I get the appeal of m…

This seems like an overly cynical take. Is there no value in empirically confirming an assumption? Especially in the exercise world where other long held assumptions ended up being…

Not necessarily. For starters, small companies are paying 15%, not 30%. I'm also not sure where a small company can find a payment processor that will only charge 1%. Stripe charge…

I think the author of the article really misses the point here. While "true multitasking" might be a neat technical feature, it's not something that the end user really cares about…

I once did something similar with a recipe from a cookbook where the recipe started at the bottom of one page and continued onto the next page. It correctly identified the first fe…

> If I try to do an UPDATE ... SET x = x + 1, that will always increment correctly in SQL. But if read x from an ORM object and write back x + 1, that looks like I'm just writing a…

Yes I suspect a lot of the ORM hate comes 1) from people using poorly designed ones or 2) from people working on projects that don't really require the features I mentioned. Like i…

I've never understood the ORM hate because a good ORM will get out of the way and let you write raw SQL when necessary while still offering all of the benefits you get out of an OR…

For what purpose do they make these calls?

> If you keep losing data to power losses or crashes, perhaps fix the cause of that? I keep telling my users to make sure to plug their phones in before the battery dies, but for s…

Before becoming too overconfident in SQLite note that Rebello et al. ( https://ramalagappan.github.io/pdfs/papers/cuttlefs.pdf ) tested SQLite (along with Redis, LMDB, LevelDB, and…