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The cure for cancer is really simple.

Even easier to make it preventable like diabetes but main stream doctor have to go through regulatory bodies.

Funny reminds me working at large companies who explicitly don’t hire doctors anymore because of the associated regulations that come with them.

I’ve seen way too many of “scientists” and “researchers” try their own cures to various problems.

Always shocks me how relatively simple solutions can be with the proper background but none of those would reach mass market due regulatory issues.

Wonder what the policy would be if someone forced experimental medicine on someone without permission. How much do you think the patient should be allowed to sue for?

Re:Nearly 90% of our AI crawler traffic is from ByteDance on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:30PM (#42009918)
It’s relatively simple to detect crawlers writing one from scratch could take a few weeks if the infrastructure was in place.

With salaries though finding an externally managed solution might be cheaper.

Re:Playstation Vita Architecture (Part 1) on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:03PM (#41939185)
The packaging for the Vita was as close as you can get to perfect. Only had a PSP but i check the prices for Vitas every now and then.

Made me feel like I had a Star Trek tricorder growing up. Especially with location based games which worked without GPS. Neet programming hacks was the coolest part of playing with embedded electronics.

Re:We built a new powerful JSON data type for ClickHouse on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @10:37AM (#41925475)
HTTP errors aren’t the most readable, although traditional database errors aren’t too readable most of the time.
Re:Internet Archive: Security breach alert on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:55PM (#41793115)
Security breach, we intended to make this guy homeless so when we stole his ex girlfriend she wouldn’t get jealous. Quickly destroy his career and reputation!!
Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @03:06PM (#41791500)
As someone who has had my computers hacked by what I assumed was a google employee then harassed by numerous other companies, the US should have a panic button.

Bother me or any kids again and whatever organization you work for should be punished. It’s not okay for people to sabotage relationships with autocorrect.

Re:A modest critique of Htmx on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @03:00PM (#41791431)
I know there are other libraries which offer similar features (alpine.js), but none are as simple and focused as HTMX.

It seems like such an elegant solution I’m surprised more people haven’t started using it. It just works.

Re:PEP 760: No more bare excepts on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @02:51PM (#41791318)
Tell that to the people who downvote me which seems unprofessional as hell.

If I want to learn .Net which is more time consuming and more difficult to find employees why would I use it? Makes sense if you are in an area with a lot of windows people, but that’s not the case anywhere other than Texas.

And the compiler enforce typing. Admittedly not as nice as Go since you have to rely on external tools but workable.

People like their curly brackets though. Just not as helpful when dealing with system problems.

Re:PEP 760: No more bare excepts on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @02:17PM (#41790998)
Python offers typing with static compiling. .Net doesn’t really match with startup culture.

I’m on the fence about Go, but maybe that’s my preference to having classes.

But yeah I’m the general case if I was an investor I’d be more careful with purely Python based startups.

Re:PEP 760: No more bare excepts on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:15PM (#41790266)
Disagree, I’m so disappointed in companies who do sprint type development refusing to use Python. It works well with the “Silicon Valley startup ecosystem”.

That being said, as far as workplace differences I’d say Java shops would be the ideal, slower, less long term problems but so much more initial investment.

Re:PEP 760: No more bare excepts on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:52AM (#41789290)
I feel like as a scripting language Python excels. Glad to have this PEP, but it would be more pythonic have except be optional.

The reason I pick up Python for projects is because it grows with the application; opportunities to add typing etc. Who knows maybe in a few years Python will enforce all the types and it will be as verbose as Java. Personally I’d like to see how they handle declaring a method or function throws exceptions.

Pretty narly we have compiled Python apps with poetry, it’s starting to punch out of its weight class.

Re:Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support on Friday October 04, 2024 @09:38PM (#41747076)
A common use case of HTMX is sending fragments when scrolling.

Since http/3 uses udp to send the fragments, duplicate packet information doesn’t have to be sent.

Kind of funny the newer protocol effectively works in the opposite direction of GraphQl.

Re:Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support on Friday October 04, 2024 @07:42PM (#41746525)
http/3 seems to be an excellent opportunity to optimize HTMX or any of the libraries which leverage HTML fragments like JSX. The obvious advantage of http/3 is for gaming.

The servers which run the frameworks have to http/3. In most cases the advantages should be transparent to the developers.

Re:Most gamers prefer single-player games on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:35PM (#41733517)
Quicker games that can be easily put down and picked back up and don’t break the bank. Nintendo catered to their audience as the company grew.
Re:OpenAI Completes Deal That Values Company at $157B on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @07:26PM (#41725877)
The AI hype train is like gasoline for somebody’s car. It’s something people pay for to protect themselves against risk.
Re:A $1k Wheelchair on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:28PM (#41713730)
Anything medical becomes a licensing nightmare. With how expensive power wheelchairs get I’m shocked they don’t come with a flight box.
Could be an organization issue, when I think of a Nintendo Switch it should be organized under Bh not Gh. Especially with an emulator which doesn’t get updates from Nintendo.
Re:Bots, so many bots on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @02:26PM (#41712218)
The type of engagement and audience arguably matters more.
Re:Meta fined $101M for storing passwords in plaintext on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:54PM (#41711819)
Seems like a card to remind people to be careful when developing systems.
Re:Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:28PM (#41711476)
Seems like YC should pair more of these smaller companies together, I honestly don’t know if that would help or not. Most YC funded projects aren’t really profitable to begin with.

It’s like somewhere in between getting grant funding for a university project and real corporate work.

Re:Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:24PM (#41711416)
Terrifying, always afraid to touch unlicensed code. Tried to give most of my public code extremely open licenses because I’d assume some guy crawling the internet for a piece of code probably has enough stress in his life.
Re:California bans legacy admissions at private universities on Monday September 30, 2024 @04:16PM (#41701602)
Always thought legacy admissions were kind of off.
Re:Web Components Are Okay on Sunday September 29, 2024 @12:25PM (#41688443)
Another advantage of web components is the syntax is similar enough to Java (especially with JavaDocs) switching between coding a Java spring backend and a Web component based front end is doesn’t need as much of a mental context switch.
Re:Web Components Are Okay on Sunday September 29, 2024 @12:19PM (#41688396)
If you use web components enough you realize why tools like useState exists then you have to bring in another library like alpine to offer the functionality.

The whole point of web components is the ability to offer class encapsulation within the browser without anything other than a file server.

JSX has much nicer syntax but I’d rather not have to deal with the overhead of launching a node server. Makes developing time quicker when working with smaller codebases.

Crazy people take any advice from people without citing the exact legal clause.
Re:The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity on Monday September 23, 2024 @02:16PM (#41628938)
In America it's more like the wealthy people (typically older people who purchased homes when they were less expensive) disliking the idea of people spending time alone at home possibly deteriorating their mental health and providing mandated "normalization time" to socially adjust to what the office space defines as "normal".

Case example: The weird YouTube parents who likely never spent time with other parents and got into child abuse scandals.

Re:Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB on Monday September 23, 2024 @12:17PM (#41627710)
Exactly how I feel about every new React framework. It’s strictly worse than using any other framework and every recruiter continues to ask for it.

Don’t want to speak too negative in regards to the orgs which use it but definitely wouldn’t be the best choice from an engineering perspective for a new project.

Sorry I am not a front end developer. I am a general software engineer please don’t effectively sabotage my career because Silicon Valley wants to make the entire discipline a group of hamsters learning tools which aren’t used by the largest organizations.

Re:Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel on Friday September 20, 2024 @11:09PM (#41607179)
Sort of, in Northern California there was a lot of office space.

In San Diego most of the land zoned for office space is owned by the Jacob brothers (although not directly connected to Qualcomm anymore). Imagine if Google and Apple had to rent their campuses from Oracle.

Re:Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:57PM (#41605859)
Qualcomm makes lots of their money by holding a monopoly on wireless chip patents. They use lawyers to bully other companies out of the space.

You can compare this with the patent wars of the companies in Silicon Valley which came to halt when the orgs realized they were effectively giving money to lawyers instead of innovating.

Qualcomm doesn’t really have real competition in Southern California. It’s cheaper for them to bully smaller companies with lawyers than employ more engineers (not sure if it’s possible to employ more engineers in the wireless space regardless).

You could also argue Qualcomms success is related to the other companies which reside around them. They have effectively built an “office moat” with their wireless patents.

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