waffle_ss
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Comment · 2 years ago
I can't speak to the physics but I've done cold water dives, and if you prime your wetsuit with a thermos of hot water, that envelope of hot water stays in your suit for a surprising amount of time
Comment · 2 years ago
I wrote a Ruby gem to address this problem of hiding sequential primary keys that uses a Feistel network to effectively shuffle int64 IDs: https://github.com/abevoelker/gfc64
So instead of
/customers/1
/customers/2
/customers/4552956331295818987
/customers/3833777695217202560
Comment · 3 years ago
It's really an indictment of how far HN has fallen to Redditification* that you see this kind of low-brow ignorance so prevalently and so often.
Yes, the greedy doctors who are lucky to get a couple hours of medical coding training when they start practicing and get needled constantly by their billing department for underbilling actually have "years of learning" in how to screw over their patients.
Maybe they mean the man-years of time wasted arguing with insurance companies, shuffling around medications and care plans to please them, evenings and weekends spent in the EHR finishing up patient notes (because there's no time to get them done during the working day with 20 minute visits) and correcting and signing off on patient care for the PAs and NPs (cold-heartedly taking 100% of the malpractice risk burden for the nurses who actually care about "healing").
I'd encourage people this far gone on the deep end of visualizing physicians as hand-rubbing greed machines to spend a day actually shadowing one. Because you are very ignorant about how they spend their time and the amount of effort they put into caring for patients in spite of continual soul-crushing roadblocks put in their path.
* Yeah I know it's against site rules to say but I don't care it's true
Comment · 3 years ago
No they'll instead ruin your life for posting a Trump wrestling GIF on Reddit
Comment · 3 years ago
Not all companies. Only corporations are required to have boards. LLCs are not - their structure is dictated entirely by articles of organization.
Comment · 3 years ago
There is no board of directors. Twitter isn't a publicly-traded company any more; it's private and it's owned by Musk.
Comment · 4 years ago
Another one was Murfie (now defunct): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murfie
Comment · 4 years ago
The common ancestor from which all of today's Homo sapiens can trace a shared lineage to (i.e. the oldest branch point) is thought to be only 5,000 to 15,000 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ancestors_point#Of_H...
Comment · 4 years ago
He seems to do an annual "update" video from wherever he's at, about minutiae of whatever he's working on at the time. It used to be QuakeCon keynotes[1] when he was at id.
[1]: https://archive.org/details/john-carmack-quakecon-keynotes
Comment · 4 years ago
Take heart, even if you weren't shadowbanned, with a young, low karma account your first comments on most subreddits would get automatically modded as spam by Reddit's dumpy spam filter anyway.
Comment · 4 years ago
As a primarily Ruby dev I'd prefer the AI/ML ecosystem not be split-brained between two languages that are semantically 90% the same thing. Just learn Python and integrate the models into your Rails (or whatever) apps.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just using the file system is inadequate for some reasons that TFA mentions. For instance, returning gzip or Brotli compressed versions of resources, or returning HTTP 301/302 redirects for certain requests.
Also if you use CloudFront be aware you'll be paying for bandwidth, so if one of your pieces goes viral (or you're just a popular writer) the cost can be surprisingly high (over $50/mo).
Comment · 4 years ago
It's far more real than the so-called "Steele dossier" that the media made hay with for years, unsuppressed by the professional-managerial class.
If you're in favor of suppressing your political opponents' speech rights that's fine I guess, just don't lecture me about "our democracy."