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691.
by adamc 4y ago
Had a friend in grad school who was 15 when he entered... had his doctorate by 21.
692.
by adamc 4y ago
My parents both started college in 1939 at the age of 16. Being promoted to grades beyond your age cohort was apparently not so uncommon then.
693.
by adamc 4y ago
I'm older, and before they were big I think I had moved out of the area.
694.
by adamc 4y ago
I'm from the Chicago area. Thin crust? He's a heretic.
695.
by adamc 4y ago
What are "lower case numbers"?
696.
by adamc 4y ago
While I think this is a good point, a lot of the answers cannot be determined by the generator of the exception. Your SQL library cannot know what the implications of an error are -- is this a minor part of the system for which the error ca
697.
by adamc 4y ago
The issue linked seems to cover it.
698.
by adamc 4y ago
Doesn't seem to cover much of pylint's ground, though. Pylint is slow but I've found a lot of errors using it.
699.
by adamc 4y ago
Certainly there are alternatives. The Congress could make it impossible to patent seeds or other organisms. They haven't, for reasons involving philosophy, money, and perhaps the deep corruption Citizens United has spawned. They proba
700.
by adamc 4y ago
Everytime I read something Kareem has written I am reminded how poised and intelligent he was/is. I wish more people in the public spotlight would aim for that.
701.
by adamc 4y ago
Boo.
702.
by adamc 4y ago
I dunno. Where my kid went to high school, "asian" usually meant people of Indian heritage. An anecdote only, but. What pops into my mind is that the US is closer to what you would call east Asia than it is to India, and, of cours
703.
by adamc 4y ago
Sometimes. And that's fine, for values of "production" that are "occasionally we need to run this to understand/debug this other code".
704.
by adamc 4y ago
Yes, but their implementation can be sculpted without as much protocol (interfaces et cetera).
705.
by adamc 4y ago
While this is all true, some things are much easier in Python because it is a fairly high level language. We had an in-house language for web pages (history) whose runtime we had upgraded to Java (originally, C++). Trying to write tools tha
706.
by adamc 4y ago
When I click the header link I get redirected to google?
707.
by adamc 4y ago
It's a show PT Barnum would recognize.
708.
by adamc 4y ago
Unfortunately, for many people that ruins their night out. It is often more practical to pay it and never return.
709.
by adamc 4y ago
Their only power is to leave. I don't like sticking them either, but it's true that they are complicit.
710.
by adamc 4y ago
This is evil. All this crap where we dump the costs of imprisoning people on their families is gross and wrong.
711.
by adamc 4y ago
Title?
712.
by adamc 4y ago
It isn't right, but also... in the US, parties are institutionally weak. People do not (cannot) vote for parties, but for individual representatives. Ergo, different Democrats (or Republicans) run on issues perceived to have saliency
713.
by adamc 4y ago
If you live in a metro area, look for hospitals that run CBT/DBT/group therapy sessions. That's another way to get started. If you have insurance, that helps. If you don't have insurance, consider looking at your backgr
714.
by adamc 4y ago
I've had several. The best one I had was a life coach without all the standard creds. The next-best one was in a hospital (outpatient) group therapy program that taught CBT. Keep an open mind, but... it takes looking. I've had the
715.
by adamc 4y ago
I got divorced (not my choice) around age 55, after 30 years of marriage. Our one child (now an adult) wouldn't even talk to me afterwards... I don't even know why . I do have a good job, and thank God for that... for a number of
716.
by adamc 4y ago
The one I remember best was "The Spy Who Loved Me", where the plot of the novel is about a woman in a cabin or something and the relation to the movie is... Zero. But it wasn't the plots that I thought were worse, but the wr
717.
by adamc 4y ago
Nice references. Chandler was a pretty good writer.
718.
by adamc 4y ago
Well, I haven't read all the books, but I read several in my youth (because they were around), and they were much, much worse than the movies.
719.
by adamc 4y ago
Nothing against his piece but Fleming was a dreadful writer. Aim higher, at Eric Ambler or John le Carré.
720.
by adamc 4y ago
As someone who's been through depression and has an estranged son (for reasons that were never even articulated)... being angry doesn't help. Their choices may be no more free than our own. Sometimes the universe gives us tough ch

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