Sileni

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by Sileni 8y ago
Going to specific news sites always ends up with that feeling of being "captured" and hearing my own opinions repeated back to me. I'd rather read a handful of Fox News articles a month and consider if they have any valid poi
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by Sileni 8y ago
[Not op] Salted earth. It does backfire, especially for that relationship. Usually if it goes to that extreme I'm not going to be able to save the relationship. But anyone who witnesses you burning a whole forest down to kill a squirre
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by Sileni 8y ago
Eh, I didnt really need a "peer" to replace reddit. After the redesign I just stopped going for the most part; I'm here or on google news if I'm just killing time. I'll still search reddit if I want to see a discuss
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by Sileni 8y ago
You don't. You try the key on the lock, and if it doesn't work you keep looking for another key. Nietzsche is saying "I FOUND A KEY! Anyone care to try it in their lock?" Eh, that might be a bit more euphemistic than I m
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by Sileni 8y ago
Still? I thought they had spun off their mobile hardware division and were instead mostly focusing on mobile software. Would make some sense for them to try to do the same thing they did with PCs and IBM back in the day, since the OS is alr
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by Sileni 8y ago
I don't even really understand how to hedge my bets anymore. It's not like there's an industry that will be left unaffected by the current economic climate and... well, the climate. What exactly am I supposed to be working on
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by Sileni 8y ago
It's probably different for each person; "identifying as" is a subjective, self-reported marker. That said, I'm sure at one point you tried out being "punk" or "preppy" or whatever label you were attr
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by Sileni 8y ago
But you're ignoring the fact that people are already being priced out of the housing market. The market only continues to gain steam while the next generation can reasonably shoulder the burden being placed on them by the previous. Oth
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by Sileni 8y ago
Most of these look like they're "Unlimited" in the sense that Comcast has "unlimited" data. Which I understand, but it's still a bait and switch that I dislike seeing.
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by Sileni 8y ago
This, right here, is why I love HN. "Oh, you're struggling with implementing a feature? Well, the guy who originally built the concept your feature is based off of is chilling in the back of the room. Maybe you should ask him.&quo
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by Sileni 8y ago
Yep, point for point, you should probably be following this as a dude as well. The one I think is somewhat unique to these types of lists is the enthusiasm one. It's easy to push off hostile people, but it can throw you when someone se
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by Sileni 8y ago
The other commenter pointed out the "inplace" version, but in the event I can't get away with that (or don't want to for some reason), I tend to throw in some numbering scheme on my original variable, and at the end repl
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by Sileni 8y ago
In most cases you have to justify your research already in the form of grant proposals. If we're already vetting the quality of hypotheses, why not rely on that process to support the value of the experiment? Further, I don't have
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by Sileni 8y ago
Would you mind defining a primary use case for this as opposed to PIL, ImageMagick or OpenCV? For the purposes of saving a description with the website.
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by Sileni 8y ago
I always regret writing those lines when I come back to them anyway. Any time I try to refactor them I throw something out of order or drop a function. That said, I don't claim to be a clever man.
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by Sileni 8y ago
It's strange to me that the gate is based on success, and not just a panel of your peers/mentors judging the way you performed the study. After all, negative results are just as valuable as positive results, unless we decide we&#x
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by Sileni 8y ago
Admittedly, I'm in something of a hybrid situation at the moment, and I have the benefit of being a chemist, not a programmer. My lab has a few desks in it, and technically it's "open", but since we're constantly mo
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by Sileni 8y ago
Yeah, more or less what I was getting at but I bit the throwaway bait. Live and learn. Thanks for clarifying.
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by Sileni 8y ago
It's accredited by a specific school, usually a nearby community college or university. If they reject AP credits they probably would have rejected any credits from that school. Some schools also require that your major credits be rece
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by Sileni 8y ago
If you think education funding would be cut year over year the way it has been if the people making those decisions actually had to send their kids to those schools, there's no argument to be had here. You can't really believe tha
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by Sileni 8y ago
I will never work in an open plan building again. It left me absolutely brain dead and begging the clock to go faster because I couldn't think at work anyway.
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by Sileni 8y ago
That doesn't quite convey the full meaning though. It's meant to be a college level introductory class that high school students who get ahead in other classes are allowed to take. Most AP courses also have the option to take a pl
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by Sileni 8y ago
It's classist, which is just the modern socially acceptable version. It's saying "We're aware there's a problem with the public school system, but we can't be bothered to do anything to help. We'd rather w
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by Sileni 8y ago
I hope so. I'm a little worried it'll only ever be appreciated in niche communities that really understand the depth of what he did. Maybe I'm not giving enough credit to fringe artists, but I don't know that it'd b
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by Sileni 8y ago
That's pretty much the worst imaginable way to take what I said. What I meant to express is that something that complex means he could have been working on problems on the world scale. Equivalent accomplishments don't have equival
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by Sileni 8y ago
Yeah, and clearly bright as hell if he could string together something as complicated as TempleOS. Imagine what he could have done if he had been able to direct it towards something more globally useful. RIP dude, hope there's a reward
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by Sileni 8y ago
How: Primarily through product advertisements on their accounts. Why:On the order of a few thousand a year for a big account, why is that surprising? It's not a career, even for most of the people making money off of the platform. It&#
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by Sileni 8y ago
I was born on the west side of Chicago, grew up in Englewood. I got my first job at 14 at the grocery store my mother worked at as a clerk. I worked there for two years before I convinced the owner to let me look at their inventory system.
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by Sileni 8y ago
That last paragraph was what I was expecting this article to be about. Anecdotal, but I've seen fewer and fewer really intelligent kids going to college right after highschool. The ones that are able to pick up coding early just don&#x
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by Sileni 8y ago
Considering humans are the demonstrated reason for climate change, I'd argue some anti-human sentiment is a bit overdue. Nature's going to be fine. Life will recover once we're gone. It's us humans that are going to suff

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