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I used google sheets but wouldn’t go past big query or firebase these days. You can have connected sheets that read straight from big query and probably firebase too, and they’re so much better and faster and have fewer quirks than sheets

I read this last year after going through some pretty weird oesophageal stuff, and I think if it did work it's almost certainly not because they provided the LES with "resistance training".

A sphincter doesn't provide motility along the oesophagus, it tightens and contracts. The angle at which it does this is irrelevant.

If this was indeed successful, a far more likely explanation is that doing this slowed down their eating and put less pressure on the smooth muscle function of the oesophagus during peristalsis and less pressure on the LES, allowing it some time to rest and perhaps get better at sphinctering.

I've never used an IDE, perhaps it doesn't matter because I don't write Java. I actually find auto complete annoying in places where it can't be turned off like Google Apps Script or the BigQuery console.

Over the past few years I rarely write code anyway I just use ChatGPT and then edit the code.

I tried using the new canvas/project features last night and I think it slowed me down versus a copy/paste workflow. I think those formats could be good but they're not fast and polished enough and I've gotten used to tricks and hacks for working in chat style.

I've never used a LLM that has actual access to the codebase, so I kind of take chunks of code and put them where they need to be. Even if I have like 6 lines of code and I want to change the logic I past that into ChatGPT and say "change this to do XYZ". Even though that sounds dumb I actually gain massive advantage in concurrency. I can be working on lots of tasks at once because ChatGPT kind of toils away and I'll then jump over to something else and come back 90 seconds later and the code is there, I read it over, maybe diff it from a previous version, then I run that to test it and maybe while that's running I go to a different chat and issue another instruction.

Before LLMs I used vim. When I want to find a function definition I ctrl+z find . -name ".whatever" | xargs grep "function whateverThisIs" and things like that.

grep -d skip "thing"

I copy and paste a lot if I'm using function names, I use a clipboard manager I guess as a sort of pseudo auto complete.

"Then why don't you just use an IDE?" I hear you ask!

It's because I write lots of what you might call "glue code" or "microservices". Lots of snippets of SQL and JavaScript functions that are executed on a queue, and API calls to integrate with things and code that runs on different platforms.

I'm almost never working on what you would call "an app" these days, so that's probably why I've never gravitated towards an IDE. Even when I was working on more monolithic web apps I never used anything other than vim with "set nocompatible" turned on so it wouldn't try to do anything IDE like.

I think what I liked about it then was that I could be just as productive using putty from an internet cafe as I could be on my own computer. Like a doomsdray prepper version of coding.

"Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying"

High interest rates are inflationary because they increase government transfer payments.

Read The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton and watch the film Finding the Money to find out how this "debt storm" is neither debt, nor a storm.

Interest paid on treasury bonds is a policy choice. There is no default risk, and the govt could easily implemnet ZIRP forever and run the economy without monetary policy entirely.

Sure, so the guideline should be changed and should not be selectively enforced.

It's HN's stupidest guideline.

Yeah I don't really give a shit but I find the selectiveness with which this guideline is enforced annoying.

Either get rid of the guideline or enforce it all the time.

The removal of "why" and "how" from the start of titles automatically is also fucking stupid.

Title shouild be:

"Welcome to twtxt!"

Title should be:

"NIP-01"

or alternatively:

"NIP-01 Basic protocol flow description"

If one needs to create a page with the correct title, perhaps using this microblogging site that works in order to create such a micro blog would be a good strategy.

Not sure if RFK satire or genuine ancap point of view

People undergo radiation therapy as a cancer treatment and they feel nausea but it's not a lethal dose. ChatGPT seems to think that:

Recovery from Mild Symptoms

At a dose of 0.5–1 Sv, symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, and possibly mild skin reddening may appear within a few hours to a day after exposure.

Recovery is likely within days to weeks as long as there is no further radiation exposure and the total dose does not exceed the body's capacity to repair cellular damage.

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But then it's just a machine so obviously one should consult a nuclear physicist before actually implementing this in a multi-millenia nuclear waste containment site

Hmmm. But if it is part of the same structure that is containing all the radiation in the first place, then discovery of one of the "radioactive tendrils" that gradually increases in intensity the deeper you go should be enough. Like at the surface you should feel ill, and there is a plate. Maybe on the plate, it has a symbol indicating intensity, like a wifi intensity indicator.

If you go deeper you get sicker, and you find there is an intensity indicator with the next level filled in.

Like if the structure itself will be there in 10,000 years, then making part of that structure protrude to the surface with some sort of intensity indicator that changes along its depth, as graduated exposure to radiation increases, should be pretty clear.

Pretty sweet. I wonder if there is a way to store a less harmful dose of radiation close to the surface so that everyone who goes there gets a bit sick and the longer they spend there the more sick they get, and then progressively make the exposure worse the deeper you go until you get to full exposure and die.

> If a upscale steak restaurant is known for using quality meats and then they decide to include something like Beyond Meat but make it hard to tell that's what you're ordering.

That sounds like an analogy worth belabouring!!

I think this is more like if you had an upscale steak restaurant and then they opened up a series of food trucks that used the same branding but sold sausages instead.

Isn't this just like how supermarkets have their "house brands" that compete with name brands? If your consumption of music amounts to "whatever Spotify tells me to listen to" then chances are you were the type of person who used to just have the radio on for background noise anyway.

EDIT: If you think about this "scandal" in reverse, that is that Spotify was started as a background, inert restaurant playlist app that paid session musicians to record 50 songs a day for lo-fi chill ambient jazz playlists, and later tried to expand their reach by allowing musicians to upload their songs, it wouldn't be a scandal at all.

I love it. I use Trello as my 2nd brain but it means that I can't do anything offline. Where I can see loving this is if I write a little converter so I can take a Trello board JSON export, load it into Nullboard and work on it offline, then a thing that goes back the other way and creates a Trello board from my NBX file.

Maybe if I put the original trello card ID at the bottom of each NBX "note" and then synched any text back as a new comment on that card, and the list ID in the title of each list and adding any notes without a Trello card link as new cards to that list, it would be a pretty automated way to get a bunch of edits back into Trello where I could tidy up with copy/paste.

Rock on!! Forked the repo and have my new local version pinned.

I think this is just a semantic quibble based on a narrow interpretation of the word "produce".

Because it also means:

"cause (a particular result or situation) to happen or exist."

Isn't this entire thing what WSDL and SOAP was promising in the early 2000s?

Using regulatory capture to further your own economic interests is still pro government, it's just that it's a government aimed at meeting the needs of a very small number of oligarchs rather than the majority of the population.

The idea that the government is "meddling" is naive and absurd. Government is why you have the ability to post that comment.

I don't like people who refer to government regulation as "nanny state policies".

"to address the concerns of a few"

lol

It's massively hypocritical, even if the people don't realise it right away.

If you take libertarianism to its logical conclusion you wind up with feudalism, which is anything but free.

Whenever libertarians try to take their philosophy through to its logical conclusion in practice they just wind up reinventing government only worse (or reinventing banking only worse in the case of crypto).

I'm not concerned that people are choosing to use it. I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of libertarianism.

I love how libertarians are willing to use a communication network controlled by a billionaire oligarch who bought a presidency to further his business and personal ideological interests, but are worried about government overreach.

I created a website like 10 years ago called birdmine that indexed every link you or one of your followers shared on Twitter, in a Solr search engine so you could search stuff that had been curated to an extent. It was pretty cool, I think I’m the only person that ever used it though.

"Puts data compression in a rear naked chokehold"

Can Mike Judge please stop predicting everything?