jozvolskyef's comments

A simple way to "map" the keys to use both hands, two arrows each.

I second this, started around the same time.

Personal experiences with physical mail:

- Post office clerk offered to fill in cheque details for me. Recipient didn't receive the payment and sued the broke 18 year-old me. The clerk likely pocketed the money. This was over a decade ago, but coincidentally a Czech post office clerk was sentenced this week for pocketing ~$140k over a 2-year period.

- The recipient's lawsuit letter didn't reach me in time and was automatically considered delivered, causing further complications.

- DVLA refused to send mail to non-royal mail PO boxes even if the address is the official business address (UK), preventing international travel with the vehicle.

- On a separate occasion, striking Royal Mail workers prevented me from travelling internationally by delaying the delivery of my driving license.

- I used to live in an apartment with an awkwardly positioned letter box. My mail would end up in random places, usually the neighbours' more easily accessible letter box.

- Every now and then my mailbox contains mail addressed to adjacent buildings.

I also help manage a small B2C family business that is on its third address at the moment. We're renting a small section of a larger shop that is within a commercial estate. We don't have access to mail delivered to the official address. It could probably done, but it may be complicated.

> What else am I missing?

Royal Mail is one of the largest employers in the UK.

Physical mail, too, is a source of gatekeeping and bureaucracy. It is labour-intensive, expensive, and you are trading your false positive rate of digital impostors for a false negative rate of legitimate businesses struggling with unreliable mail delivery.

This accent is common among Czech people who learnt English by reading without much exposure to English audio. Some of Danyk's apparent pronunciation idiosyncrasies used to be common among English teachers in Czechia. I presume they learnt English pronunciation from written descriptions of it. It is fairly rare today thanks to internet streaming. Danyk's blog is older than YouTube.

To my native Czech ear, this sounds like the English accent of a native Czech speaker who learnt English primarily by reading, back when English audio wasn't readily available.

The side-by-side comparisons are not a good signal because the models vary across multiple dimensions, but the user isn't given the option to indicate the dimension on which they're scoring the model.

The recent side-by-side comparisons presented a more accurate model that communicates poorly vs a less accurate model with slightly better communication.

I don't have much experience with the police, but almost every drug dealer gets excited the instant we make eye contact.

I appreciate the simplicity of a system that allows you to provide your own API key. All the complexity of authentication, rate limiting, cost capping, scaling, is offloaded to someone else, and you can just focus on the essence of the thing that you're building.

Your thesis is contradicted by almost every open source distributed system written in Go, including Kubernetes.

One day, I will be working with someone who will have read this article when they were learning Go, and we will disagree about these three points. I was hoping someone would add their own opinion about these, so that when it happens, I can go back to this thread and have enough information to decide whether to change my mind or not.

I would vote this down if I could for the following reasons:

- I prefer state-based TDD as opposed to interaction-based (see https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html).

- I've used both testcontainers and dockertest, and from my experience dockertest is more robust.

- The capital T for the outer argument comes across as being hypercorrect. Why would one consider the shadowing of this argument bad?

Gemini being confused by distinct concepts that share the same word is akin to people being offended by and trying to prohibit the use of certain technical terms. The machine is mimicking its moderators and their flaws.

I mean these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Interdental-Original-0-4-1-5mm-effe... The problem is that when they encounter a sharp edge, they get torn or cut off. I doubt there has been any research on the ingestion of nylon cuttings, which is why I would prefer to find something as effective but known to be safe.

It would apply to all to some extent, but when you make the wrong move with an interdental toothbrush it can lose a quarter of its bristles in one session.

A conversation with my friend who was a dentistry student, ~2013.

  > [The friend, let's call her L, trying to dissuade me from drinking some fizzy drink]
  > J: But I won't get a cavity if the liquid doesn't touch my teeth.
  > L: Cavities are caused by the ensuing low ph environment, not by contact with teeth
  > J: Does that mean I can drink as much of it as I want as long as I rinse my mouth with water afterwards?
  > L, with a hint of defeat in her voice: yes.

After this conversation, I started the practice of rinsing my mouth with water after eating anything sugary or associated with tooth decay, as well as using interdental toothbrushes. My rate of cavities dropped from one on most years to zero - I haven't had a cavity since. Even the one noticed by my dentist at the time and left untreated for being too small hasn't developed yet, and that was ~ten years ago.

On a sidenote, I have yet to find interdental toothbrushes whose use doesn't lead to ingesting nylon.

I don't know what exactly happened there. The two of us conducting the interview advised against this candidate in our report. About a month later the candidate was introduced as a new hire on a different team and I never saw them again in a company of <100 people.

I once concluded an interview with a candidate who was rather conspicuously engaged in clandestine typing, subsequently rectifying their previously incorrect answers. I suspected they were resorting to Google, given this was before ChatGPT came out. Much to my surprise, they ended up landing the job.

And yet widely believed, even by recent MD graduates*.

* n=1 MD graduate, 3rd Faculty of Medicine UK

The Banana Equivalent Dose is a misleading and incorrect because it has an implicit "over a lifetime" in its definition where instead it should be "until potassium level returns to normal". It is the lifetime dose one would be exposed to if the body didn't replace old material with new and instead stored the banana forever.