academonia

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   by academonia 5y ago

   What's wrong with boring, especially if you have a family? Not everyone is up to writing textbooks and compilers all day.
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   by academonia 5y ago

   That might be more of a Honda/Mazda thing than an old/new one. Hondas have a reputation for being fairly bulletproof and cheap to maintain. Mazdas have a reputation for being fun to drive and occasionally going "bang". Y
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   by academonia 5y ago

   There are plenty of base-model US cars from the mid-90s without airbags. It's not as crazy as it sounds; with the front-impact ones, wearing your seatbelt works about as well, and you don't have to worry about Takata syndrome.
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   by academonia 5y ago

   The "one laptop per child" program put some thought into the connectivity problem. They actually designed their machines around the idea of distributing content via meshing and intermittent "sneakernet" deliveries. Sadly
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   by academonia 5y ago

   Post-graduate education is kind of a raw deal for people with undergrad degrees in computational fields. It might actually be worse than "free labor", if you consider the alternative of going to work after your first degree. In th