Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
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#2Hillel (the editor of this list) is one of the people in this industry that is going to make a tremendous difference to the world. His ability to make formal verification understandable, and therefore useful in practice, is unparalleled.
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#3Regarding the bare metal issue, there are many more caveats, see for example: https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-...
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#4"Scalability! but at what COST?" Is a very good example on how frustrating it can be.
We are throwing a lot of resources against a problem because we are not able to educate people good enough to understand basic performance optimizations.
You are a Data Scientist/anyone else and you don't understand your tooling? You are doing your job wrong.
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#5There should be a section about the benefits of cold showers.
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#6The first link to the PDF unfortunately doesn't work.
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#7The title doesn't really relate to its content very well; the concept of taking cold showers has some scientific backing ([1] & [2]), and is also slightly hyped. After taking cold showers and getting some (minor) benefits for some years, the term "cold shower" started to get a positive association in my mind.
This article isn't about showers, nor positive results, making the title quite confusing :)
[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325725 [2] https://www.wimhofmethod.com/science
Re: Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
#8There should be a section about the benefits of cold showers.
Is taking cold showers like a machismo SV thing?
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#9The title doesn't really relate to its content very well; the concept of taking cold showers has some scientific backing ([1] & [2]), and is also slightly hyped. After taking cold showers and getting some (minor) benefits for some years, the term "cold shower" started to get a positive association in my mind. This article isn't about showers, nor positive results, making the title quite confusing :) [1] https://www.m…
Only on Hacker News could you find someone taking issue with the widely-used & understood phrase "cold shower".
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#10I wish it would be possible to have better studies for that. I believe that static typing has huge benefits as software scales. I also believe that the type system of TypeScript is actually stronger in practice than the Java or C# one (despite theoretical weaknesses). It has the right tradeoffs (e.g. structural equivalence, being able to type strings, being able to check that all cases are handled, etc.)
It would be nice to have proper studies, but it‘s difficult to control the other variables ...