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tl;dr in 2 quotes from the decision. Wild shit that the NCAA got this far

The NCAA does not contest that its re-straints affect interstate trade and commerce and are thus subject to the Sherman Act.

With this much agreed it is unclear exactly what the NCAA seeks. To the extent it means to propose a sort of judicially ordained immunity from the terms of the Sherman Act for its restraints of trade—that we should overlook its restrictions because they happen to fall at the intersection of higher education, sports, and money—we cannot agree.

I'm a big Hey fan. Have been using it since launch. The screener feature is great, and I like being able to organize my feeds. They've also done a good amount of iteration in the ~9 months I've had it so I'm hopeful for a consistent release of features.

I do with it had better calendar integration, or maybe it's own calendar. I'm not sure, but that's the big thing that Gmail has that I really miss

Yea idk what he’s talking about. I thought Mank was incredible. The costume and set designs were great. Gary Oldman, like usual, gave an Oscar worthy performance. Amanda Seyfrieds portrayal of Marion Davies will probably get overlooked but I think it was one of her best performances. Great film, especially if you’ve seen Kane recently. Definitely recommended

I think I disagree with this. I think the short-term harm of this kind of tech debt is more substantial than you're leading on. "Causing myself problems for the future" might be true, but that future could be in a week when you need to pivot because of user testing, a shift in the market, product market fit etc.

I think the mistake you're making is conflating "getting code written now" with expediency. Adding/removing features and shifting when necessary are "expediency." That's the value of a thorough test suite.

The machine-learning method achieves 100 percent accurate classification of the COVID-19 sequences and more importantly, discovers the most relevant relationships among more than 5,000 viral genomes again within minutes.

I only have a basic understanding of ML but isn't 100% accuracy this early on (limited dataset) an indicator of overfitting?

I think you're right that the level of abstraction is the same but the language ergonomics are drastically different. Go was designed so that anyone coming out of school could read/understand/write it very quickly. I'm not a Go expert and I can reason about code pretty well and even write some stuff.

That's absolutely NOT true of Haskell. It's a much more nuanced language and while I'm sure it's great once you learn it, the learning curve is steep. Because of that I think it's much easier to hire Go developers than Haskell developers too

I appreciate the consolidated information - but at a time where people are trying to help / donate resources for COVID-19, putting this behind a paywall seems out of place. A donation button might be easier? I'll make a website for you for free if it opens up that information, feel free to shoot me a DM.

Also I'm not sure this is covered in the book, but HHS has relaxed some of it's HIPAA rules because of COVID-19. Specifically telehealth providers (think Google Hangouts) are going to have some leeway as we get through this pandemic. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/e...

I've been using NOW for ~6 months now and it's incredible. Are you going to get 144hz 4k gaming performance? No for sure but I've been using it for a couple of reasons:

1) Games that aren't available on my Macbook. Simple things like Legends of Runeterra and Magic Arena and Magic Online. Not super graphically intensive Geforce Now has worked better than Wine/VM solutions

2) Games that my Macbook just can't play like F1 2019. Good enough for both single and multiplayer.

Gonna miss it being free but easily worth $5.

A Sad Day for Rust 7 years ago

The problem here was not that there was criticism, it's the TYPE of criticism (anger, hate etc).

And you know what's a good form of criticism? An issue with an attached PR

I typically like having less apps on my phone rather than more. This feels like when Facebook spun off Messenger, I just stopped using it on my phone

Isn't the Google codebase infamously a monorepo with billions of loc? That seems like it fits "scale of codebase complexity" as well as "web scale"

Different philosophies. I think the biggest difference is that Rails has a much bigger ecosystem and more developers than Django does. There are gem's out there that support almost everything you want to do and if there's not there are resources from people who have had to solve similar problems.

This is rad. I usually like to put up a PR early and add a WIP label. This lets my teammates take a look at the early direction of whatever I'm doing and I can make changes as necessary. This is a small but really impactful feature!

Hmmm. I'm not sure I agree with this. That's like saying that people use a screw driver to screw in a nail because it's a much lower investment and not everyone has the energy to use a drill.

The premise of the article is that the VIM is better enough than alternatives that it's worth the learning curve. Just like a drill is better enough than a screwdriver to learn ho to use it. If you want to contest that, that's a different discussion.

If your argument is, "some people don't have the energy to use the best tool for the job"... idk how to respond to that.

CSS grid garden 8 years ago

A combination of both is really ideal. CSS Grid seems great for full screen things and FlexBox is really great at laying out small components.