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by _tom_ 4y ago
People who can introspect as you are doing here are rarely the problem. It's the people who never think about other people's mental models (or even their own!) that are frequently hard to communicate with.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Apple notes and Elasticsearch. Apple notes for things I type quickly. Elasticsearch for larger things like transcripts of classes I teach or take.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
There have been a few products that record everything you see on the web, so you don't have this problem. Obviously analogous to recording everything you hear. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-about-seruku-search
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Clickbait. Please provide a title that says who and what material. "Scientists synthesize material that may replace rare earth magnets" ("who" was two universities, so didn't fit a title).
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by _tom_ 4y ago
I would think that electric assisted biking would be covered by the laws for vehicles, not human powered bicycles. Is that not correct?
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by _tom_ 4y ago
> We just take for granted that cars will blast through stop signs at a pretty high speed (maybe 10 - 20 km/h?) No, we don't. This doesn't happen, at least where I live. This sounds like a made up statistic, to justify bad
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Another comment says this is based on the donor. So, if you can self donate, or find one matching donor, you should be able to get a match every time. Obviously, custom tailored stuff is likely to take longer to develop, but it seems feasib
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by _tom_ 4y ago
If we can grow it with whatever factor James Harrison had, that would be another huge benefit. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-d...
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by _tom_ 4y ago
People literally ALWAYS say this when a new disruptive technology comes up. I'm not sure why, maybe people like the idea of stability? "Digital will never replace film" "Landlines will always be the majority of calls&quo
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by _tom_ 4y ago
"Something very useful isn't perfect. We must stop." No, we shouldn't. Conference videos are great. The only alternative that is likely to happen is no videos. Clearly worse. Not a useful article.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
> Lots of folks are good at doing the job but bad at interviewing for jobs. Interview prep is a massive industry. Thanks to interview prep, lots of people are good at interviewing, and terrible at their jobs.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Yeah, I've signed that. I hate it, but I understand. If the employee can't be reached, they can still finish the patent. If the employee won't cooperate, they can get the patent. They better be paying for this upfront.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Most starting salaries in tech are over $100k, at least in high COL areas. That's why the limit.
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Yes. They aren't common, but I e seen maybe half a dozen. Typically high level employees. Never a normal engineer.
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Figuring out the limits of the law is definitely AGI! Most humans can't do it.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
It was fun to look for hints of actual episodes in the episode suggestions. "Mirror" and "Charlie" for examples, and many others.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
I skip any show that has only one central mystery. If they solve it, the show is over, so you know from day one it will be never be solved. Lost was obviously in this category. A five year mission is a much better premise.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
> unwarrented flip-flops every episode of people being loyal, betraying, hating someone then in love with them etc. This is what I hate about most TV series these days, the writers value conflict over character. This basically prevents a
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by _tom_ 4y ago
One difference I recall is you had to read manuals first. Now, you just code, and when you get stuck: google or stack overflow. But with no good search engines, you couldn't search books like that, so your chance of finding an answer b
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by _tom_ 4y ago
> specifically focusing on lower-level "build blocks" practice This has been my experience with teaching math and CS. The biggest causes of failure is not identifying and teaching prerequisite skills. The key point is prerequis
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by _tom_ 4y ago
I find thinking about my future self motivating. Why wouldn't I want to do something nice for me? Much more effective than thinking about what I "should" do.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Displays nothing but garbage on mac/firefox. I did briefly see something that looked like a map, but then it smeared into an abstract art looking blob.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Apple notes. It gives a hierarchy, so todos, meeting notes, etc., can be organized. Search is reasonable. Not perfect, but better than one large word doc, which I had been Using before.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
The Fermi paradox relies on a false assumption. Intelligence is not binary. It's a continuum that we are likely very low on. You can communicate with civilizations only at almost exactly your level. Us, a thousand years ago, could not
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Best practice for shell scripting: don't.
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Hunter gather doesn't work so well in a paved city of a million. The Amish would likely be fine. Farmers with land and skill would likely survive, but would be able to provide crops for large numbers of people. People in cities would d
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It used to be snappy for the whole system, then it took a horrible regression.
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> No one expects a computer to work exactly the same way as a phone or tablet. I don't expect there to be any difference soon. There no point for a laptop when it is just a screen plus a keyboard, which you can do with a pad. There
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And that's assuming it is random. I still want it to be aliens trying to reach us about our extended warrantee!
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The problem with subsets is everyone wants a different subset. It's my popular software almost always bloats. Everyone wants some different features.

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