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by SL61 3y ago
The enrollment numbers are probably for majors, i.e. enrollment count of 5 for the French program means there are 5 students majoring in French. The vast majority of students taking French classes would be taking them for general education
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by SL61 3y ago
I've been on here for a decade. Back in the day, HN really gave off a sense that most users were aspiring entrepreneurs, with a lot more discussion about YC, et al.
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by SL61 3y ago
I'm American, but I know someone who seems to fit the definition of hikikomori (not just NEET), and it's been interesting to talk with him over the years. He lives just down the road from me, but we haven't met in person sinc
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by SL61 3y ago
I've seen this on a site that I built for a freelance client a couple years ago. At first they only indexed the homepage and some sporadic articles. Eventually one specific article was linked on an .edu website, and now that article is
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by SL61 3y ago
I had a similar experienced as a kid in the 2000s, though not quite as strict as yours. My group of school friends would talk in person at school and then hop on a Call of Duty lobby when they got home, or chat on Facebook/SMS. Without
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by SL61 3y ago
The consequential factor isn't whether it's true, but the fact that a lot of people believe it. It's an attitude I hear from most of my peers, in and out of tech. What happens when a lot of the people who keep society running
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by SL61 3y ago
> This is why the DVD service had so many more titles than the streaming service. At least when I was actively using it. It still does. Just think of a movie or show and search for it, and they'll probably have it, although they see
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by SL61 4y ago
I would agree with this if the issue were movies or games, but most people know that you can Google "[book title] pdf" and get a free copy. The small file sizes mean that piracy sites don't need to rely on torrents and can ju
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by SL61 4y ago
We had remedial classes at my university, with the same test-score-based selection system. Everyone had to take two English classes: ENG 101 and ENG 102. Students with very low SAT/ACT scores in reading/writing needed to take ENG
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by SL61 4y ago
In most of my classes, the professors were just happy to get a paper with proper spelling/grammar and some degree of coherence. Strength of argumentation might be the difference between an A- and an A. For context, I graduated in 2020.
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by SL61 4y ago
Based on my experience in a liberal arts program in a state school, yes. Professors can't assume the students learned anything in high school, so it takes a few semesters just to get the students to a college level. A lot of students g
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by SL61 4y ago
It's the same for me: the eureka moment happens when I'm not consciously thinking of the problem at all, and often I'm fully engaged in an unrelated activity. Some places I've experienced sudden insight for a technical p
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by SL61 4y ago
I've found it to be important to optimize your diet for satiation, too. If you eat a lot of junk food, it's going to be a struggle to keep to 1500 calories. A good meal for weight loss, in my experience, is a modest portion of a l
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by SL61 4y ago
Yeah, I live in an area that straddles the line between the midwest and the south, and I haven't seen anything like this. Same for the QR-code-only menus that the internet has been complaining about lately. I'm sure that if one lo
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by SL61 4y ago
The idea is that a search feature leads to harassment or spam. You could, for example, search for your favorite politician's name and hurl insults at anyone who criticizes them. A lot of Mastodon users want Mastodon's #1 priority
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by SL61 4y ago
A while back I thought about making a chat room website that only allows entry if it's between midnight and 5am in the user's time zone. I was a night owl at the time and liked the idea of making the middle of the night a bit less
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by SL61 4y ago
Depending on what you liked about The Secret History, you might enjoy The Goldfinch from the same author. It has the same basic concept of wealthy, pretentious young adults making bad choices, but it's set in NYC and Las Vegas instead
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by SL61 4y ago
I haven't played Victoria 3 yet, so it's possible they've addressed my concerns in it.
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by SL61 4y ago
Are there companies that expect their developers to keep up with the latest developments so aggressively? At my job, things like Remix/Deno/Turbopack make the water-cooler conversations, but we only use established tools for proje
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by SL61 4y ago
As a longtime Paradox player, I have a similar issue with their recent games. They've really shifted in a more game-y direction over the years. I started with Hearts of Iron 2, where the systems were less abstract and mapped closer to
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by SL61 4y ago
Not a senior but I was in your position just last year. (Yes, 9 years after making my HN account...) Pick a specialty like a hobby or field of study and aim most of your projects toward it. Connect with people in that speciality on Twitter
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by SL61 4y ago
Craigslist is basically unusable in my area if you're selling something. 90%+ of the people who respond to you will express interest, chat about the item, set up a time to meet, and then no-show and ghost you. I don't know what th
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by SL61 4y ago
I'm not the person you replied to but: 1. I search for a topic and pick out a video that seems interesting. 2. I remember the names of the few YouTubers I like, and I look them up once in a while. I do actually have a YT account and I&
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by SL61 4y ago
We have a couple production websites on Heroku. One is a decade-old Rails app and the other is a Rails backend for a ~3-year-old site whose frontend is hosted on Vercel. The decade-old app is still running great. We make extensive use of th
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by SL61 4y ago
The thing with Twitter is you need a decent number of mutuals (i.e. they follow you and you follow them) to get a decent amount of high-quality interaction. On a new account with 0 followers, most people won't see you. Even if you repl
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by SL61 5y ago
I don't think OP is the blog author. The post title is just the original title from the blog. If you follow the link and leave a comment on the blog post, the Addict himself will see it and probably respond.
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by SL61 5y ago
I took a few English classes as electives, and it was astonishing to see the number of English students (in a third-year class) who struggled with basic grammar and composition. The majority of the students wrote at what I'd consider e
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by SL61 6y ago
Still works here, using Firefox 84 on Ubuntu. That's pretty cool. Looks like it uses JS to constantly update the favicon so it matches the DOOM screen.
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by SL61 6y ago
Plato’s dialogues are mostly accessible and deal with basic philosophical questions. He was not the first philosopher, but his works are a great starting point to understanding the foundations of western philosophy. I forget the names of ea
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by SL61 6y ago
I never played it, but as a kid in 2009 I would go to the computer lab in the children’s section of the local library, and Roblox was absolutely huge there. I’d be sitting there doing my own thing, surrounded by 20 kids noisily playing Robl

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