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Anecdotally, it is very much different in Elixir land. I occasionally see bugs related to something being unexpectedly `nil` but it's pretty rare IME. I'd love to evidence what I'm…

I read this years ago and I think it's the best one I've read. Thanks for writing it!

I think it's because, without further context, it's so hard to argue against. Pretty much every person in every culture cares deeply about their children. So if you can successfull…

It's fun! I play some chess but I am not a natural at this game. I think I need an AI easier than easy haha

From the conclusion: > The primary trade-off observed is the increased calculation time for OLS and SVD steps. Consequently, the next phase of this work involves implementing these…

Is it? Your reasoning relies on this being true: > [CRQCs] will be slow, expensive, and power hungry for at least a decade How could you know that? What if it was 5 years? 1 year? …

That was also a great read, thanks!

I dabble in "um actually"s myself (especially given that my original comment was one), so no worries :) I don't disagree with your comment exactly. But I primarily wanted to push b…

It's not a tautology because it's not guaranteed. There are plenty of plausible sounding claims that fail to be true. That's why science is needed: to provide _empirical_ evidence …

It's possible to use manufacture whey protein without cows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whey_protein#Microbial_product... It's not theoretical either. You can buy vegan dairy pro…

Ohhh thank you! I thought the same as the parent comment: I expected that button to turn off the animation immediately. I guess the author wanted the yellow background to "melt" th…

Wow fever dream is right! The beginning reminds me of 'Dark City' (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO6ApZlxqo8 Sidenote: is that Clancy Brown doing the voice over on the 'Ho…

I used this recently for my resume and I recommend it. I have the technical background to write Latex and Typst documents but I honestly didn't want the headache. Plus I'm the type…

Yep. I punch literally everyone I meet in the face. I have the power to do it. Why would I not?

> as a code reviewer [you] are only expected to review the code visually and are not provided the resources required to compile the code on your local machine to see the compiler f…

Borgo [1] is basically that. Though I think it's more of a hobby language. The last commit was > 1 year ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211891

The first link is a mistake. It's supposed to be the thing being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170164 . The 2nd link seems reasonable to me? Why does a stu…

Hey it'd be great if you could rank the choices individually rather ranked-choice-style than picking just one first-past-the-post-style. I'm sure you could still compute a score, b…

Sorry off topic but I love the styling of this site.

> Critiquing beyond burgers for their macro breakdown doesn't make sense to me. They're selling a meat replacement. Replacing the meat in my diet with their product does not work f…

Thanks for breaking that down. As someone doing weightlifting, this is the primary reason I don't bother with vegetarian meats. They actually taste pretty good IMO, but they don't …

This particular professor has been teaching for 30 years. I'm not sure I find your explanation all that convincing in light of that, especially since this isn't an isolated opinion…

> as well as the promotion of weird ideologies by the DoE What weird ideologies?

As someone working in a niche area, I can confirm. It's shocking how little tech adoption there is in my industry. Plenty of low hanging fruit. However I still sympathize with the …

I haven't read this yet but I see one of the two authors is George R. R. Martin? That's cool! Does he normally contribute to this kind of thing? I had no idea.