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Re: Cold Showers

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Hype: Cold showers are good for you (good stress)

Shower: keybored, your shower is not cold enough to induce stress and you are too lazy to modify the showering experience in any way

Caveats: Other people may be anti-lazy enough to modify the showering experience

Notes: Check yourself

Re: Cold Showers

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>Hype: "Static Typing reduces bugs." Oof, that one is a huge can of worms.

This one definitely hits close to home. By empirical measure, static typing reduces bugs, but maybe it's just me. I definitely like the comfort of trusting my types.

My only experience with dynamic typing is really node, which improves a bit with typescript. But I'm still extremely wary of it because it doesn't give you runtime guarantees. It irks me a lot that you can just do JSON.parse, declare any type on it and call it a day. I firmly believe that static typing increases code readability and catches low-hanging fruit, but I'm going to have to sieve through that research it seems.

Re: Cold Showers

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> Hype: "We need big data systems to handle big data."

I do not get this one. It's incorrect by definition: "Big data refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software. "

If you do not need a big data system, then it's not big data.

Re: Cold Showers

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post #6

> Hype: "We need big data systems to handle big data." I do not get this one. It's incorrect by definition: "Big data refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software. " If you do not need a big data system, then it's not big data.

You may have answered your own question.

Re: Cold Showers

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post #3

Hype: Cold showers are good for you (good stress) Shower: keybored, your shower is not cold enough to induce stress and you are too lazy to modify the showering experience in any way Caveats: Other people may be anti-lazy enough to modify the showering experience Notes: Check yourself

Most Times I can't bring myself to get into a cold shower. If I start warm I can cool down from there. Is there a way to start cold and go even colder?

Re: Cold Showers

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I'll admit I didn't read these articles. However, all of these reek of:

Claim! Thing good!

Wait! Thing has downsides!

It's not thorough comparison, it's just showing that everything in life has tradeoffs, which is obvious.

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