Just because it’s an edge case doesn’t mean 30% of your userbase won’t encounter it!

I work at a company whose entire business model is providing QA to other companies. I work directly with some very large, public companies, and some smaller ones. Almost all of them have some form of dedicated in-house QA, which we supplement.

I hope everyone who was taking this drug and the insurance companies that were backing them collectively sues this company, because as far as the article covers, there’s not even any mention of the fact that some number of ALS patients are out potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars which they probably wouldn’t have been had it not been for this company’s claims that the drug did what it was supposed to…

Patients already taking the medication who wish to continue taking it will be able to do so through a free drug program, the company said. It is no longer available to new patients, effective Thursday.

If you fell for our bogus study showing that this drug worked, and would now like to continue taking it despite the fact that it’s been shown to not work, we won’t charge you anymore!

Edit: From the article linked to in the article posted here, they note:

The F.D.A. decided to greenlight the drug instead of waiting until 2024 for results of a large clinical trial partly because the treatment is considered to be safe. The agency said that although the evidence of effectiveness was uncertain, “given the serious and life-threatening nature of A.L.S. and the substantial unmet need, this level of uncertainty is acceptable in this instance.”

and

Amylyx officials predicted that most patients would pay little or nothing for the treatment because the company expects insurers, both private and public, to cover it. Amylyx plans to provide it free to uninsured patients experiencing financial hardship.

So maybe it’s not as bad but it’s still pretty fucking bad.

catch (Exception e) {
    Exception.autofix(e);
}

Done!

I take this to mean you aren’t familiar with this fad, so allow me to blow your mind:

Car exhaust, unless I’m mistaken, contains carbon monoxide, not carbon dioxide. CO is painless; CO2 building up in your blood is what triggers the panicked breath reflex we associate with asphyxiation.

Carbon dioxide is not the answer.

When you can’t breathe, the panicked feeling and the discomfort you feel aren’t from a lack of oxygen, but rather from an excess build up of carbon dioxide. There are plenty of other gasses that just make you feel light headed and fall unconscious without your body recognizing what’s happening, but CO2 is not one of them.

I’d assume it’s because you see yourself whenever you look in a mirror, and that image matches what a picture of you looks like. However when you talk, what you hear doesn’t match what other people hear, so hearing a recording of the ‘external’ sound of your voice sounds more foreign, and that can lead to discomfort.

Sure, but they don’t consciously choose to do it. Fungus doesn’t decide that it’s going to make life miserable for the plant it’s growing on, a tall shade tree doesn’t decide to starve the smaller plants beneath it of sunlight. We’re unique in our capacity to see a possible course of action, do an in-depth analysis of the effects that it will have, see every foreseeable shitty outcome, and decide, consciously, to do it anyway.

“Animals don’t behave like men,’ he said. ‘If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don’t sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.” ― Richard Adams, Watership Down

That book does a really good job of presenting just how shitty humans are pretty much throughout, without coming across as being preachy or sanctimonious, and I like that.

I had that job in high school. When I first started, someone who’d been doing it for years was showing me the ropes, and he pointed out that sometimes people who live nearby the store would just walk to the store, then walk home with the cart, and leave it at the apartment complex, so he would (and thereby I should) periodically walk down there to collect them.

I initially thought this was complete BS and I hated that I was being asked to do it. After the first week or so, I realized what was actually up: He was inviting me to take paid breaks every hour or two, during which I got to take a leisurely 20 minute walk down the street and back, and not have to deal with customers or managers or anyone else, and he’d managed to sell this to management as a benefit to the company. He was an awesome co worker.

We do this, too. Really convenient.

Now I’m imagining UK having a National Acid Association that lobbies the government and promotes acid ownership.

The (perhaps misleading) headline makes it seem like thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing Ukraine to avoid dying for Ukraine’s sovereignty

That’s exactly what it’s about.

The cods of war!

If you modify the thought experiment slightly, it becomes an interesting trolley problem.

Let’s assume the spell you’re using is all or nothing - either it cures everyone, or no one. What if some subset of people explicitly do not consent? How many people would it have to be, or what percentage, before you would consider not doing it? Obviously if only 1 person doesn’t want it, who cares, greater good, but what if it was 99% of people? Where’s the line?

It’s right in the Rules sidebar:

Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below

Man, I remember seeing that BeOS demonstration that had a spinning cube with a different video playing on each face, and being absolutely dumbfounded. Thanks for reminding me of that.

A good office chair (not necessarily one of those expensive as fuck mesh ones - I hate those… But something quality).

Man, I get they’re not for everyone, but after having a mesh chair, I will never go back. Currently on my second one in about 8 years, so it’s not exactly BIFL material but the first one lasted longer than a ‘normal’ chair ever did, and neither were particularly expensive, as quality chairs go (I paid ~$150 for the first and ~$225 for the second, got both during sales, so I’m not sure what the regular price would have been but I’d guess $300 or so).

The main issue is that to make code human-readable, we include a lot of conventions that computers don’t need. We use specific formatting, name conventions, code structure, comments, etc. to help someone look at the code and understand its function.

Let’s say I write code, and I have a function named ‘findUserName’ that takes a variable ‘text’ and checks it against a global variable ‘userName’, to see if the user name is contained in the text, and returns ‘true’ if so. If I compile and decompile that, the result will be (for example) a function named ‘function_002’ that takes a variable ‘var_local_000’ and checks it against ‘var_global_115’. Also, my comments will be gone, and finding where the function was called from will be difficult. Yes, you could look at that code and figure out that it’s comparing the contents of two variables, but you wouldn’t know that var_global_115 is a username, so you’d have to go find where that variable was set and try to puzzle out where it was coming from, and follow that rabbit hole backwards until you eventually find a request for user input which you’d have to use context clues to determine the purpose of. You also wouldn’t have the context around what ‘var_local_000’ represented unless you found where the function was called, and followed a similar line backwards to find the origin of that variable.

It’s not that the code you get back from a decompiler is incorrect or inefficient, it’s that it’s very much not human-readable without a lot of extra investigatory work.