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Not just lanes! We have entire routes exclusive to bicycles and use bicycle lanes only as a fallback where there are none
Except with bicycles you very well can find a plane to jump out with no ground to be seen.

Your analogy is car brained and bad.

I live in germany and have an extremely safe bike commute.

I would not commute by bike in the US tho

Re:Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure on Friday November 08, 2024 @07:44AM (#42086423)
Thats why we recommend obese people to walk first, even if they think they would enjoy running.
Re:Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:00AM (#42057970)
I'd say the electronic frontier foundation is the best candidate. They have been exclusively doing advocacy since forever
Re:Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @08:15AM (#42051240)
hundrets is a bit bold unless you include phytonutrients and subtypes per mineral.

twenty to thirty would be exhaustive.

5 minerals and 5 vitamins would be a good start

Re:Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @08:08AM (#42051203)
what if the plant is long dead?
Re:Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @08:05AM (#42051187)
Not really.

You could create several cohort with different co-controlled fixes for each: more calories, more protein, more fiber, more nutrients.

Then evaluate the percentage of successfully treated patients in each cohort.

It's of course a difficult study, since someone with a bad diet will lack practically everything, so more things will work than not. I'd also be curious to see how you would design a real food diet high in micronutrients without accidentally adding a bunch of fiber in the process

Re:Project Euler on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @06:48AM (#41857620)
Imo DS/Algs to an extent are a good prerequisite. Once you know them in one language that knowledge is portable enough to get you up-to-speed in $lang. Then, and no earlier will I start worrying about doing real things in my programs and the "idiosyncracies"
Re:Project Euler on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @03:30AM (#41845862)
Most of these wouldn't qualify as "puzzles", would they?

I find it nice to learn new languages via data structure puzzles, because to me the data structures of a language feel like the grammar and once I have that down everything else falls into place

And I'd rather have a child escape to the interwebs than needing to bear the suffering of a less-than-average childhood bluntly
Bad internet habit, just asssume that "you" refers to the hypothetical person made of nothing but that one expressed opinion
Re:Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:26AM (#41796442)
Additionally I am bothered by the insistence of these outlets to forego connecting the brain and the mind, as well as hormones and feelings.

Like cortisol and dopamine or whatever are just chemical representations of feelings, are they not? And large areas of the brain are just a physical representation of the mind, right?

It's like they pretend the brain is just some other organ, like our liver or kneecap, and not the irreducable self.

Maybe that's relatable too

This is the root cause. "AI and Bots" are just two of the many symptoms
I should add this works best if you hire with some diversity, such as one Junior with a preference for security topics.

If you go up to the counter and yell "10 React devs please", don't be surprised

Also no review or planning anywhere in that process.

I'm semi-confident that if a Junior were to talk to another Junior before starting about things to look out for, and then the code was reviewed by say a third Junior, they would not have this bug.

Call me naive, but I don't think Juniors are as oblivious as they are made out to be

Re:Nobody Cares About Security on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @03:26AM (#41498108)
It's about the same level of solved as moon landings and supersonic flight...

If we could now find out how to do security in an economical, non-annoying way, that would be great

Re:Nobody Cares About Security on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @03:23AM (#41498078)
This is a bit of a stretch, but I'm willing to entertain the idea if you could toss me a link or two to more in-depth write ups on the topic
Re:Reclaim the Stack on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:27AM (#41486220)
> simple bash scripts for bootstrapping/monitoring/scaling

Damn, that's the dream right there

Re:The Fennel Programming Language on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:12AM (#41486138)
Great website
Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:52AM (#41463576)
While the conclusion that engineers leave because they aren't paid enough does hold some truth, I'm much more compelled to cite the old "People quit managers, not jobs" saying.
Re:Clojure 1.12.0 is now available on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:43AM (#41463520)
> But I hope it doesn't end up like a hairball a few releases down from increase of pace or something.

Rich Hickey and the rest of the Clojure Team are very careful designers. I wouldn't worry too much

Re:Clojure 1.12.0 is now available on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:42AM (#41463501)
I'll second this. Many people are happily complacent with mainstream languages. A minority ventures out in $lang of the day for the fun of it, with functional languages being an even smaller minority.

At a minimum, build some strong clojure skills first, such that when you introduce it to anyone else, you can do so with confidence

Re:Clojure 1.12.0 is now available on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:39AM (#41463485)
left-right-thingy makes me chuckle every time I watch "Maybe Not"
Re:What's functional programming all about? (2017) on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:00AM (#41454255)
No, as in zero, (side) effects means no program for most domains.

For me, the essence of FP is the minimization of global state

Re:Why bother with argv[0]? on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @03:07AM (#41442702)
L Take
Re:The Art of Finishing on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @07:11AM (#41433643)
Then stay away from it if you can. GTD is great if you're a manager with a wive and kids and maybe a foundation to run on the side.

If you don't usually forget tasks/events or freeze up because of analysis paralysis, you can get by just fine without it.

GTD definitely brings an overhead that doesn't pay off in a reasonably simple life

Re:Greppability is an underrated code metric on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @04:51AM (#41432765)
I routinely spot 3-line prints with the string on its own line in our code. Even for cases where the string + print don't even reach the 80 character "limit"
Re:Linear Algebra Done Right [pdf] on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:42AM (#41424573)
3B1Bs Essence of Linear Algebra is great, whatever this pdf is is not
Because he founded ycombinator, he should be allowed at least a little more leniency.

Of course if he goes around directly and explicitly bashing all sorts of minorities or doxxes some other users or commits any other actual big nono, sure remove him.

This is not what happened. GvR was impolite at worst, and impolite your founder shall be allowed to be

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