cynicalcoder's comments

On: Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

[cynicalcoder]

That’s dishonest. Ivermectin is widely prescribed to people too. That’s like calling Ibuprofen a horse anti-inflammatory drug. That doesn’t mean it was an effective covid treatment though. The information from the third world that made it appear like it was seems to have been that it was treating preexisting parasites in covid patients, eliminating a comorbidity and thereby improving covid survival rates. But undiagnosed parasites are rare in the US, so that wouldn’t have worked here.

On: `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)

[cynicalcoder]

>And even though I consider myself okay at TypeScript, the gap with the more skilled of my colleagues is still impressively huge.

Maybe they're smart, but the even smarter dev would avoid unnecessary complexity in the first place.