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  1. Comment on Chiropractic isn’t what you think it is in ~health

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    Granted I'm also no expert, but everything I'm seeing about the profession is that they don't focus on evidence based medicine. That's probably the single most important aspect of any specialist...

    Granted I'm also no expert, but everything I'm seeing about the profession is that they don't focus on evidence based medicine.

    That's probably the single most important aspect of any specialist for me... That they have done the research to determine the proper way to treat me, not based on gut intuition or anecdotal happenstance

    25 votes

  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Living vicariously through those that are new is the closest I'll ever be to playing it again. Take your time with it and enjoy it, there's nothing else quite like it

    Living vicariously through those that are new is the closest I'll ever be to playing it again. Take your time with it and enjoy it, there's nothing else quite like it

    5 votes

  3. Comment on How do I keep myself sane while trying to find a WFH job? in ~life

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    Why haven't you been able to finish a any python projects? Be careful talking like this during an interview. As someone who does the hiring for my company, hearing a bunch of skills that you...

    Why haven't you been able to finish a any python projects?

    Be careful talking like this during an interview. As someone who does the hiring for my company, hearing a bunch of skills that you haven't followed through on is worse then just no skills. It comes off as an unwillingness to put effort into something.

    Use the time you have to build a new skill, one that doesn't have a qualifier on it, something you can talk about in detail on the interview and show the interviewer that you understand it. That's one of the most important things in an interview, examples of completed tasks that you clearly understand.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Reading through House of Leaves after the MyHouse.wad phenomenon. It's pretty interesting if not a bit hard to follow at times. I've never read a book quite like it. There's the main story, which...

    Reading through House of Leaves after the MyHouse.wad phenomenon. It's pretty interesting if not a bit hard to follow at times. I've never read a book quite like it. There's the main story, which is about a fictional story, then there's the story the Editor is telling in the footnotes, then there's the story between the lines in the appendixes... But I do love a good "weird unexplained happens" story, so I'm hooked.

    8 votes

  5. Thinning hair suggestions?

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    So I've recently noticed that the hair on the top/back of my head is starting to thin. It's enough now that if my hair isn't brushed perfectly back you can see scalp through the thinner hair. My...

    So I've recently noticed that the hair on the top/back of my head is starting to thin. It's enough now that if my hair isn't brushed perfectly back you can see scalp through the thinner hair.

    My dad went bald, so if I do too so be it -- but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for good shampoo/products to delay and or repair.

    Thanks

    43 votes

  6. Comment on Has anyone unintentionally handicapped themselves while playing a game and liked a game more for it? in ~games

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    I played through all of Shadows of Mordor with the UI completely off. Not seeing the big "PARRY NOW" "YOU HAVE TO DODGE" glowing indicators made combat feel so much more fun. Rather then basically...

    I played through all of Shadows of Mordor with the UI completely off.

    Not seeing the big "PARRY NOW" "YOU HAVE TO DODGE" glowing indicators made combat feel so much more fun. Rather then basically mashing attack and then reacting to big icons, you really have to watch the orcs around you and learn their attacks.

    I'd highly recommend it. I tried to do the same with God of War but it didn't really work as well for whatever reason.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Human operator pleads guilty in first ever US self-driving pedestrian fatality case in ~transport

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    Yes but why are they in prison? Is it for them to learn or for others to learn

    Yes but why are they in prison? Is it for them to learn or for others to learn

    14 votes

  8. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~food

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    I'm not exactly a skinny dude, but 3oz of protein seems pretty little to me. Protein is healthy (depending on the type and prep) and extremely filling. https://images.app.goo.gl/XQbxj6hWxrrFqUwd8...

    I'm not exactly a skinny dude, but 3oz of protein seems pretty little to me. Protein is healthy (depending on the type and prep) and extremely filling.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/XQbxj6hWxrrFqUwd8

    Is that really all the chicken you would eat with a meal?

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Ditching Docker for Local Development in ~comp

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    So long as you are providing versions in your docker/compose file, what causes differences to arise in built images?

    So long as you are providing versions in your docker/compose file, what causes differences to arise in built images?

  10. Comment on Ditching Docker for Local Development in ~comp

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    I didn't really think anyone felt that docker was the best way to develop. It's makes debugging far more complicated and introduced overhead. The reason docker is so heavily used is for...

    I didn't really think anyone felt that docker was the best way to develop. It's makes debugging far more complicated and introduced overhead.

    The reason docker is so heavily used is for deployment. It completely removes the complexity of making sure your dev environment and production environment is exactly the same. Plus it allows you to enforce strong and hard black box interfaces between different components.

    Do you feel you've lost any of this in your transition? What about the ease of setting up fully functional third party tools?

    5 votes

  11. Comment on How to choose a Python API framework in ~tech

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    Pretty serious necro, especially for tech. What made you reply to this 2-year old comment? I was so weirded out the way they were talking about Python 3.10/11 was not out yet

    Pretty serious necro, especially for tech. What made you reply to this 2-year old comment? I was so weirded out the way they were talking about Python 3.10/11 was not out yet

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Diablo 4 update nerfs all five classes in ~games

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    So not that I'm defending blizzard, but the idea of the nerfs is to bring the min-max damage more in line with casual damage Casual players don't knowingly stack multiplicative damage, and...

    So not that I'm defending blizzard, but the idea of the nerfs is to bring the min-max damage more in line with casual damage

    Casual players don't knowingly stack multiplicative damage, and blizzard didn't like how much damage the top end players were doing. The heaviest nerfs came to the highest impact damage scalers (e.g., vulnerable and crit damage). If you weren't stacking that anyway your damage probably wasn't hit too noticably.

    Again, I'm not a fan of these changes as I think you should be rewarded for gearing properly instead of randomly, but I think that was the intention and why they felt they had to nerf everything

    10 votes

  13. Comment on I am an extremely light sleeper, and need advice in ~life

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    Agreed, a nice sound machine is fairly cheap anyway and will be much much better then your phone from both a volume and sound quality perspective

    Agreed, a nice sound machine is fairly cheap anyway and will be much much better then your phone from both a volume and sound quality perspective

    1 vote

  14. Comment on How do you stay motivated in work? in ~life

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    I don't hate my job, but I don't think I've ever been excited to start the day. I do what is asked of me, I pay attention to the details to make sure the people above me can count on my products...

    I don't hate my job, but I don't think I've ever been excited to start the day. I do what is asked of me, I pay attention to the details to make sure the people above me can count on my products being good, and I slack off when my deadlines are far away or I'm ahead. I think that's fairly normal.

    17 votes

  15. Comment on The actual danger from AI is mostly not what is getting talked about in ~tech

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    Didn't this happen with the internet at large though? Take programming as an example -- it used to be far more important that you used libraries you had a massive understanding of. Nowadays, that...

    Didn't this happen with the internet at large though? Take programming as an example -- it used to be far more important that you used libraries you had a massive understanding of. Nowadays, that knowledge isn't important. Sure, a good portion of it you will learn over time just through repetition, but the speed that, for example, some lesser used powershell command can be remembered just isn't important anymore and our brainpower is better spent memorizing other things.

    I assume the same will be true for AI? I suppose there is a fear that eventually there will be nothing we ever need to remember, but I think that's a pessimistic viewpoint. People will instead have more mental capacity for things that interest them, and interesting problems they are trying to solve.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Psychologists at the University of Cambridge developed a Misinformation Susceptibility Tests. What's your MIST score? in ~science

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    This doesn't make sense to me. I thought this was supposed to tell me how susceptible to fake news I am? How can they possibly determine that just by looking at headlines? This feels to me more...

    This doesn't make sense to me. I thought this was supposed to tell me how susceptible to fake news I am? How can they possibly determine that just by looking at headlines?

    This feels to me more like a: do you already believe in incorrect information. A better test would be to use news headlines and articles that are all "fake", but where some are sensationalized, make sweeping claims without evidence while others are... you know, written credibly.

    I'm disappointed in these psychologists

    62 votes

  17. Comment on Chocolate chips wouldn't melt? in ~food

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    This is correct. We make a bark style chocolate in the oven and it's always so weird when you pull out the tray. The chocolate chips look completely untouched but then you spread a knife over top...

    This is correct. We make a bark style chocolate in the oven and it's always so weird when you pull out the tray. The chocolate chips look completely untouched but then you spread a knife over top and they smear as if they were chocolate syrup. It's so strange and satisfying

    7 votes

  18. Comment on Questions for SodaStream users in ~food

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    It's definitely not 100 bottles, to depending on how much you put into each one. Id say closer to 30

    It's definitely not 100 bottles, to depending on how much you put into each one. Id say closer to 30

    8 votes

  19. Comment on How The X-Files invented modern television in ~tv

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    No you are right, I just think those are the worst seasons heh

    No you are right, I just think those are the worst seasons heh

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What is the most advanced or creative program you can create using the LOX programming language? in ~comp

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    What do you mean by modularity?

    What do you mean by modularity?

    1 vote