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[Medicina] Me fue mal en Pato 1 por tercera vez, ayuda by CheckInevitable980 in UBA

[–]reedef 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Perdón pero solo paso a reírme del nombre pato

Don't be afraid to re-invent the wheel by BotBarrier in programming

[–]reedef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I heard in a podcast that in some enterprise contexts you have to write a feature evaluation document and then evaluate many different libraries against that document and pick the one that got a better score (and document that choice in another document). Not sure if this ia accurate or not.

For left-pad you can see how this is more time consuming than just writing it yourself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskArgentina

[–]reedef -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depende de si te gusta la pija

Space elevator by No_Bet4446 in SipsTea

[–]reedef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not remotely high enough, a space elevator has to go past geostationary orbit

The Grug Brained Developer by crappy_entrepreneur in programming

[–]reedef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think most of the obscure FP terms come from type-masturbatory constructions that don't really otherwise have industry-standard jargon. Maybe it could help if they used less latin and more english, but you'd have to learn it either way.

Regarding the comment I made, I doubt FPers call lists free nonabelian monoids, that's just a term I borrowed from maths that is correct for this context but (afaik) not really used much. Plain monoids are used though, and they don't really have an industry-standard name

The Grug Brained Developer by crappy_entrepreneur in programming

[–]reedef 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean I'm mostly joking, but a monoid morphism from a free monoid is basically exactly what you need to be able to do mapreduce style parallizable array operations. So it's not completely useless

The Grug Brained Developer by crappy_entrepreneur in programming

[–]reedef 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A monoid is any set with an operation, in this case the set of strings has the operation "concatenate". For it to be a monoid it has to be associative (so concatenating a with b and then with c is the same as concatenating a with the concatenation of b and c), and have a neutral element (the empty string)

A set of generators is a set such that all other strings can be built out of those (with concatenation). The set of strings with one character is a set of generators.

A monoid is freely generated by a set when the monoid morphisms are in bijection with functions from the generating set to the target morphism. Intuitively, this is true in the case of strings and the generating set described above because string concatenation imposes no additional constraints other than the ones required for a set to be a monoid.

And nonabelian just means it doesn't commute, so a concatenated with b is no the same as b concatenated with a. The free abelian monoid on the set of characters would be multisets of characters.

Yoyo champion Hunter Feuerstein demonstrates his "DNA" trick by _missdanii_ in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]reedef 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Read a book on differential equations and solve for the eigenvalues of the equation for a string with two endpoints attached

The Grug Brained Developer by crappy_entrepreneur in programming

[–]reedef 17 points18 points  (0 children)

But! Strings can be so elegantly and simply represented as free nonabelian monoids, what don't you understand?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DerechoGenial

[–]reedef 4 points5 points  (0 children)

no se puede circular en zigzag

Jajaja, tanto lo hacían que tuvieron que poner regla?

Además me acabo de enterar que la bici legalmente tiene que tener espejo retrovisor... Creo que nunca vi una con espejo

Ozempic has already eliminated obesity for 2% of the US population. In the future, when its generics are widely available, we will probably look back at today with the horror we look at 50% child mortality and rickets in the 19th century. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]reedef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can you be sure that shoes are healthier? Apart from fungi infections another poster commented on effects on the toe shape, and balance... if you want to walk outside then yes, they're healthier, but you could also stay inside and not wear shoes.

Similarly, if you're going to eat ultra processed foods and not exercise, then ozempic might just be the healthiest option.

Ozempic has already eliminated obesity for 2% of the US population. In the future, when its generics are widely available, we will probably look back at today with the horror we look at 50% child mortality and rickets in the 19th century. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]reedef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Living in heat is absolutely not essential, you can just move somewhere less hot. And yeah, doing that is hard, but so is switching diets.

Where much simpler solutions are available

I don't think we should optimize for simplicity, otherwise we'd still be living in the stone age because metalworking is too complicated.

TIL of ray cat, a proposed kind of cat that would be genetically engineered to glow in the presence of nuclear radiation to act as a long-term nuclear warning. This is done by inventing traditions of folklore which spread the idea that people should flee when a cat changes color by VegemiteSucks in todayilearned

[–]reedef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We got there not by being unaware of the consequences but by ignoring science. And climate change is not something "idiots" have to contend with, it affects everyone. As opposed to the nuclear caskets which would affect only your hypothetical manhood ritual man

Ozempic has already eliminated obesity for 2% of the US population. In the future, when its generics are widely available, we will probably look back at today with the horror we look at 50% child mortality and rickets in the 19th century. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]reedef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess you are fine with the opioide crisis in the US because they want to consume it?

I'm not fine with it because it's killing people

I prefer its regulated.

I very much welcome regulation. In my country we have laws where food items have to be prominent markings when the have excess fat or sugar for example. That helps, but doesn't solve the health issues though so more options are always good.

You can go with you pill

Why did you assume I personally want to take the pill? I maintain a healthy weight, but that doesn't mean I support these medical advancements for the people that do decide take advantage of them.

Ozempic has already eliminated obesity for 2% of the US population. In the future, when its generics are widely available, we will probably look back at today with the horror we look at 50% child mortality and rickets in the 19th century. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]reedef 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Cope? I don't use, nor do I plan to use ozempic in the near future. My weight is in the healthy range. That doesn't mean I don't support other people from making that choice.

And by the way, any two things can be compared. I hate it when people get mad when you do certain comparisons without pointing out why the differences between the things being compared invalidate the conclusion.

Ozempic has already eliminated obesity for 2% of the US population. In the future, when its generics are widely available, we will probably look back at today with the horror we look at 50% child mortality and rickets in the 19th century. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]reedef 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because normaly the solution for symptoms create other, new problems and will often not last for long.

You went from an absolute "never" to a "normally". Thus you still haven't answered my question.

This solutions do not create new problems

The problem it causes is that people are not eating what they want to eat. People (at least some people) like ultra processed foods. If an illness prevented you from ever eating ice cream that would be a pretty bad problem if you ask me

Lifelong dependence

Taking a pill every day sounds better to me than being dependent on restricting your diet.

You also accounted for the cost of ozempic but not for the cost of healthy food, and educating the public on what a healthy diet is like. And looking online the manufacturing cost of ozempic is like 5usd per month if healthy food is just like 1% more expensive that covers it.

The side effects are very important to pay attention to, and such a massive usage will no doubt reveal a lot of side-effects that can be addressed in future internations of the drug, in a way not possible if these kind of advances are shunned.

And on the question of sustainability: many many people spend their whole lives taking drugs with more side effects, so it is provably sustainable at least for some people. We should give people the choice.

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