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Don’t know. I heard it as “they can be replaced”. 🤷🏻♂️
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...is very economist and also very meh if the piece is trying to do anything other than emit ~1k words just cuz it's VD.
Also, why is marriage the only non-single situation considered or even mentioned? What century is this? (Don't answer.) 3/3
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That part, at the end, has several claims but no cites, and the claimed bads are "negative externalities" with "may"s and "perhaps"s doing a lot of work. Too many assumptions, IMHO.
It ends with the question of "whether a societal stigma can be calibrated just so," which... 2/3
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I guess I’m feeling this topic because yesterday my ORM forced me to use SQL instead of its nifty ORM-ness. Not sure if it was the problem or if the problem was me, but I couldn’t make it reference a CTE in place of an ORM entity. (Which is stupid easy in SQL)
*sigh* ORMs
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On balance and in general, I think their benefits usually outweigh their negatives, at least with recent vintage ORMs. But DB work of any substance can get tricky, and ORMs can’t fix that. 3/4
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ORMs help less a) the more the complexity or constraints of the work increase and b) the more the ORM insists on One Right Way to approach relational DBs. Dev time is probably required to overcome the ORM in such cases. 2/4
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Too tired to think deeply, but yes, I think ORMs often have hidden costs while still being net positive.
SQL and relational DBs are so powerful and flexible that an ORM’s approach will usually foreclose or complicate something. I think ORMs make the DB basics easier and faster for devs, but… 1/4
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This person claims that the media mischaracterized the study: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/us-fluorid...
I’ll need to reread the Ars article (later) to decide if I agree.
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Still the best take I’ve seen on the story.
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You wrote “Tesla continues to push new updates and features to Autopilot, including a suite of features that it says will evolve into a Level 5 “Full Self-Driving” system sometime next year[.]”
That was 2019.
Did Tesla’s FSD claims need a permanent eye-roll emoji? They certainly do now.
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Also “feedback” is too often “unsolicited advice.”
Also also, it seems like many advice-givers offer advice rooted in the giver’s world view, situation, and history, which is great if asked for. Otherwise, the advice risks uselessness or maybe even harm.
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As a debate kid who wasn’t very good at it, I should have been a theater kid.