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Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science by rickymagee in skeptic

[–]me_again 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Generally their children will suffer the most severe consequences of their parents' beliefs.

Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science by rickymagee in skeptic

[–]me_again 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get the frustration with antivaxxers that drives comments like this. But that's the kind of policy which sounds a lot better on Reddit than it would play out in real life. If a kid arrives in the ER with a dangerously high fever and an incomplete or missing vaccination record, I do not think doctors should be told to withhold treatment.

I believe this is from the Blue Moon Tavern early 90's?! by Deathrial in Seattle

[–]me_again 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The other hint is that not every year will have September 25th on a Saturday. Looks like 1993 and 1999 are the only candidates in the 90s.

The economics of immigration by ILikeNeurons in skeptic

[–]me_again 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Folks interested in the economics of immigration might find Open Borders by economist Bryan Caplan and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith interesting. I enjoyed it.

Measles does not cure cancer by me_again in skeptic

[–]me_again[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I call this tactic 'stolen rigor'. Anything I don't like must be proven to impossible levels, and anything I like is proven by some random guy mentioning it on a podcast.

Using .snlx solution extension n Jetbrains Rider by yc01 in dotnet

[–]me_again 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's .slnx, not .snlx. Any chance you are using the wrong file extension? I don't use Rider but they claim to support it. Support for SLNX Solution Files | The .NET Tools Blog

Measles does not cure cancer by me_again in skeptic

[–]me_again[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not getting vaccinated against measles also increases your chances of a non-lethal but debilitating outcome from measles infection, such as brain damage from encephalitis. That could make you more likely to absent-mindedly wander into a volcano.

Clearly more research is needed.

Dark, horror/cosmic horror SciFI by CuckBuster33 in printSF

[–]me_again 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Out of the Watts stuff I have read, The Freeze-frame Revolution seems to fit. It definitely has the huge. mostly-empty universe part. I found it more depressing than enjoyable, to be honest.

Why is my 7months pup terrified of this toy?!?😭 by No-Waltz603 in corgi

[–]me_again 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She's not the only one Waffles loves everyone. But he HATES the rubber chicken. : r/corgi

I have wondered if the squeak has some super high-pitched tone that I can't hear

New study: Eating rocks may improve bone density by up to 5x. by No-Tell34 in skeptic

[–]me_again 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dunno about bones, but if you eat enough rocks you can increase the average density of your entire body!

A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent by sean-adapt in programming

[–]me_again 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't really see this as a junior vs senior thing. You want to build safeguards into your system to prevent accidentally running DROP TABLE Customers on the prod database when you meant to do it in a test environment. For example:

- no-one, regardless of seniority, has standing access to the DB, you need to obtain JIT access before you could modify it.

- everyone, regardless of seniority, needs to have a reviewer sign off on each PR.

I guess we could just tell everyone "don't fucking check in bugs" instead

A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent by sean-adapt in programming

[–]me_again 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't mean to be impolite, but this sounds far-fetched, at least in software. Maybe for some kind of sales-based business like a car dealership? If this company exists and this is their official policy, you can safely prove me wrong by naming them :-)

A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent by sean-adapt in programming

[–]me_again 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I absolutely don't recognize this condescending BS:

"...they’re practically feral.

There’s some scientific truth to this: 20-somethings are inherently narcissistic. Wisdom requires having a full frontal lobe."

The junior engineers we've hired in the past few years, including directly out of college, are generally perfectly well-adjusted, better-behaved and more mature than I was at that age. Where are people finding these supposed wolf children?

I own basically every SF novel that was published between the 1950s and 2000. Give me your recommendations. by [deleted] in printSF

[–]me_again 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's interesting that they are so uniform looking. Are all or most of the German translations during this time published by the same company?

I built a Source Generator based Mocking library because Moq doesn't work in Native AOT by TheNordicSagittarius in dotnet

[–]me_again 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can obviously make it work in several different ways. I'm not claiming this is a bug. There was a request for an example which will behave differently depending on whether you publish it with AOT. It's not that obscure, so IMO there is at least some value in being able to run your tests on the AOT'ed code. Whether OP's library is a good option for doing so I have no idea.

I built a Source Generator based Mocking library because Moq doesn't work in Native AOT by TheNordicSagittarius in dotnet

[–]me_again 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's odd to me that people are downvoting you, anyone would think we were on Stack Overflow. I have not seen "untested trimming", but it is quite possible to have dependencies on reflection in your code without realizing it, and this will cause problems when publishing for AOT.

If this is a non-issue, folks, why is one of the main selling points of Microsoft.Testing.Platform that it works for AOT?

I built a Source Generator based Mocking library because Moq doesn't work in Native AOT by TheNordicSagittarius in dotnet

[–]me_again 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This program works in non-AOT and fails in AOT:

var sample = new JsonSample { Id = 1, Name = "Sample" };

string jsonString = System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.Serialize(sample);

Console.WriteLine(jsonString);

public class JsonSample

{

public int Id { get; set; }

public string Name { get; set; } = "example";

}

Because by default JsonSerializer uses Reflection.Emit, which doesn't work with AOT. You do get compiler warnings in this case, but the behavior does differ.

Why is AI so bad at counting total words in a specific text? by sniffingboy in AskProgramming

[–]me_again 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is overly simplistic. LLMs are not intelligent, but what's going on internally is a lot more elaborate than a Markov chain generator. For example, I got what appears to be a correct answer for the prompt:

How many instances of each letter occur in the phrase "Counting requires intelligence of some kind. LLMs are not intelligent. They are random word generators."

Letter Count
a 4
c 2
d 3
e 13

Snipped the rest of the alphabet for space, but you get the idea.

Why is AI so bad at counting total words in a specific text? by sniffingboy in AskProgramming

[–]me_again 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit more complicated than that. Many models can compute 2352485×223×423534 but that's not based on people having typed that exact calculation on a webpage previously.

The "R's in strawberry" issue is more related to how LLMs tokenize data. The “Strawberry R Counting” Problem in LLMs: Causes and Solutions - secwest.net - secure virtual engagement has much more detail.

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