InsaneOstrich
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1 year ago
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on: Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules
I mean, most of those people could just exercise or change their diets instead of relying on expensive drugs with unknown long term side effects
InsaneOstrich
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3 years ago
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on: The End of Programming
It's still a definite conflict of interest; the author is making an argument that they have a financial interest to advance regardless of how true it is
InsaneOstrich
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3 years ago
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on: The End of Programming
I took that article a lot less seriously after seeing that the author just founded an AI startup
InsaneOstrich
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3 years ago
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on: The Email Caste's Last Stand
I've always thought that "Silicon Valley" was just a broad term that described tech companies anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.
InsaneOstrich
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3 years ago
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on: Hyperparasite
thanks, I needed a good chuckle today
InsaneOstrich
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3 years ago
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on: Angular without SSR is faster than Next.js with SSR
It's very opinionated compared to the alternatives and it has a "batteries included" kind of approach. There's a "right" way to do things and you don't need to pull in a lot of third party libraries for basic functionality. The native typescript support is really nice too.
InsaneOstrich
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3 years ago
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on: A new day for Insteon
Good for them. I don't use any of their products, but I'm rooting for them
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: Success and Failure at Pebble
RIP Pebble. I still wear my Pebble Time Steel every day
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: Mutagen – Cloud-based development using your local tools
I've been using Mutagen for years to offload running docker containers during local development from my Mac to a Linux machine and it works great. I'm glad to see more people talking about it.
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: We can do better than “same, but electric”
What use does China have for icebreakers?
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: First chicken-free egg white product reaches US markets
This kind of research seems promising because it's not even a substitute, it claims to be the exact same product, only derived from a different source. A lot of people don't want weird plant based alternatives to animal products because of the taste or nutritional content.
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
Isn't this fraud?
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: Kotlin for JavaScript
Gradle also has the ability to skip things it has already done. It won't recompile code that hasn't changed, won't run tests that haven't changed, etc
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: Kotlin for JavaScript
Yeah, I have no idea what that person is talking about. I'm in the same situation as you; we can compile hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code in dozens of different jars in less time than it takes for one of our frontend javascript builds to run.
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: Kotlin for JavaScript
Gradle and Maven are both a million times better than whatever constantly changing collection of random stuff you have to use to build a contemporary node project.
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: Vitalik Buterin is worried about crypto's future
It's nice to see truth in journalism every once in awhile
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
Ukraine is a democracy. It's not up to us or anyone else to "ensure their neutrality" if that's not what they want. We already refused to allow them into NATO under the guise of "ensuring their neutrality" and look how that turned out.
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
What's the alternative? Doing nothing while Russia invades countries in Eastern Europe one after the other?
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: The Effects of Finland's Possible NATO Membership (2016) [pdf]
That's not entirely true; Allied forces fought against North Korea under the banner of UN
InsaneOstrich
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4 years ago
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on: The Effects of Finland's Possible NATO Membership (2016) [pdf]
You seem to be completely ignoring the lack of legitimacy and popular support that the authoritarian regimes in both Iraq and Afghanistan had, as well as the human rights violations that were commonplace while they were in power.
The war in Afghanistan was obviously a complete and total failure given that the Taliban are now back in charge, but it's hard to argue that after all this time that the Iraqis aren't better off living in an (albeit flawed) democracy than under the rule of Saddam Hussain.
