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by _dain_ 3y ago
Have you read this? It's one of the few I've come across that has the appropriate degree of empathy for the confused newcomer + actionable advice: https://death.andgravity.com/same-arguments And it doesn't fa
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by _dain_ 3y ago
what about "got a normal job but it still wasn't enough for the rent" that seems like it's way more common
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Yes, have you never read a math paper before? Bold = vector is a common convention, for example.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
is there any way for blind people to read UML diagrams? they don't seem very accessible.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
I'm not familiar with how IT works in Germany. What's different about it? Got any stories?
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by _dain_ 3y ago
> Curious why swimming is considered a required skill for people to have in Iceland, and why swimming lessons until age 14 are compulsory, as the article says. The fishing industry is one of Iceland's biggest employers, having eve
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Would have thought teaching everyone to swim would be a matter of national disaster preparedness for the Dutch ...
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by _dain_ 3y ago
n=1 but I know at least one non-american who has stayed up late so that the submission coincides with this peak time
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by _dain_ 3y ago
> I remember several lunch conversations at FB about whether or not we even could restart the site with totally cold caches so you're saying, we just have to knock it out once , and it'll be gone forever? that makes things e
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Investors must be pretty cheesed off that they couldn't deliver. Everyone wanted a slice of the low-rate environment pie, but now it's cooled down and doesn't taste so good anymore. But maybe some hungry folks will buy the di
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by _dain_ 3y ago
It's used in the same sense as "up to". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to
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by _dain_ 3y ago
they're dying sooner because of diseases of ... affluence. and we can expect the new weight loss drugs to make a noticeable dent in that (at the cost of who-knows-what side effects, but they can't be as big a killer as obesity)
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by _dain_ 3y ago
every country has an underclass. there is no rigorously defensible way to say that americans are poorer than europeans. none whatsoever.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
the poorest american state is still richer in per capita terms than france or germany. europe is poor and getting poorer, relative to america.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
not even close. USA GDP: $26.8 trillion EU GDP: $17.1 trillion
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by _dain_ 3y ago
fuck i got all the way to the bottom expanding them one by one and then tabbed over and read this. is it some practical joke? why not just label it
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by _dain_ 3y ago
china is the world's factory, arabs have oil. what does europe make? the way things are going, there will eventually be an american company with a market cap greater than the GDP of France or Germany. at that point, they'll be mak
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by _dain_ 3y ago
a beautiful retirement home is still a retirement home. you either grow your own economy or become a vassal to someone else who does. if europe keeps stagnating and america keeps posting 4% gdp growth, a day will come when the EU can pass a
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Does the type system let you express that a class shouldn't be subclassed? I remember this possibility was mentioned in a PEP and got deferred. It would be really useful with the new match/case pattern matching feature, because th
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by _dain_ 3y ago
You're not wrong exactly, but this mentality gets the causation backwards and induces a kind of helplessness -- "we can't have better transport until we have higher density". But you can build good transport infrastructu
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by _dain_ 3y ago
You can sometimes get a temperature inversion where the air near the ground is colder than the air further up, and then the rain doesn't have time to freeze before it hits the ground. Also surfaces can be sub-zero but the air above the
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>It was a big win health-wise --- when I had to get an annual check-up to get a reduction in my insurance rates the doctor's comment was quite flattering, "I have patients who are half your age, twice your weight, and not one-
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>Your first argument is that "boomers dont know / want to use excel properly". What is not really an argument. it's the other side of the coin for "last democratic thing that allows non-programmers to build thi
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>The people who answer to you dont know much about Excel. What makes me wonder how much they know about programming. I'm one of the other commenters you called "amateur hour". I know about all of those things you mention
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>No one is going to force him to buy one. Smartphones didn't exist 20 years ago, now you're forced to use one to participate in society.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Unfortunately, nothing beats Excel for "agility" and smoothness of the learning curve. You can whip up something that kinda-sorta-works, very quickly, without any software training. Another thing to consider: we are conditioned to
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by _dain_ 3y ago
I used to work for a UK government ministry that has a budget in the tens of billions of pounds per year. I can tell you with confidence: no, there really is no linting, typing, automated testing, version control, nor any other tooling that
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>A famous one is that floating point math in excel can give you different answers for "is this the same as that" depending on how you write the equation, for example. Is this specific to Excel? Floating point math can do that
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Alright well I guess this is an object lesson in why infix notation is bad -- nobody can remember all the precedence rules once you get beyond +-*/^.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Nobody said it had to be Common Lisp. I'm going by the notation the grandparent commenter used. My point was that indentation can clarify the structure of nested sexps vs putting them on one line. And that is actually what people do. &

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