albrewer

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by albrewer 5y ago
Don't forget circular saws, nail guns, and your neighbor's project car that hasn't had a muffler in 3 years.
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by albrewer 5y ago
So if I access it with a non-compliant browser that, say, doesn't run validation javascript when I submit a form, it's abuse? I think even the most tech illiterate judge would agree that, if I fill out a paper form and give it to
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by albrewer 5y ago
If I submit a form stating I'd like to pay $10 a month for service and AT&T accepts that, how is that fraud?
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by albrewer 5y ago
Anecdata: I recently visited Amsterdam with my wife. On the less active days, just leaving our room 3x a day for food and weed put us way over 10k steps every day. We were hitting 30k on our really touristy days. Now I'm back at my hou
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by albrewer 5y ago
> The cost in time to derive basic facts that would have been instantly available had they been memorized also harmed the ability, especially on tests, to get to the end within the time available I can relate to this amazingly well. I&#x
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by albrewer 5y ago
Have you come across a system or language that handles units and their combinations / conversions well? I have a project I want to undertake but I feel like every time I start to deal with units in the way I feel is "proper"
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by albrewer 5y ago
That seems like a very self-defeating attitude; sure, maybe your pay isn't at FAANG levels, but maybe something else about your company (less demanding hours, better benefits, generous vacation, tuition assistance, better business prac
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by albrewer 5y ago
This eliminates everyone currently employed but looking for another job from your hiring process. Seems like you're severely limiting yourselves with this tactic.
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by albrewer 5y ago
I learned this the hard way. Now I wrap interactions with system time in a container class so that, if need be, I can finely control time inside my app in unit tests and debugging.
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by albrewer 5y ago
Paul Dawkins has combined his 25 years of experience of teaching and turned his daily lecture plans into textbooks on the subjects he teaches (Algebra, Calc 1, 2, 3, and differential equations). These are the most approachable math texts I&
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by albrewer 5y ago
> Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching, which is where having large sets of questions and answers to study is useful, does not work; it isn't mathematics. You're right, but you need to know the basic
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by albrewer 5y ago
Negative numbers show up in nature all the time - they represent how much smaller a particular set of things is than what was defined as the 0 set. Sure, you can't have -5 rocks, but if you're counting how many more rocks you have
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by albrewer 5y ago
In my experience there's a difference between smart and clever, at least when it comes to writing code. Clever people implement solutions nobody else can - they know the tools they're using inside and out and can do amazing things
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by albrewer 5y ago
> The US is still far more culturally homogenous than the EU U.S. cities, maybe. But get gather natives from the rural parts of any state and you'll find a ton of cultural variation. Saying rural Louisiana and rural Oregon are cultu
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by albrewer 5y ago
If I can sideload apps on an Apple device, what's stopping me from buying a bunch of them, sideloading my special apps, and reselling them at a markup? Or, if the bootloader becomes unlocked, wiping iOS off of the device and installing
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by albrewer 5y ago
> theft is taking someone's property with the intent of depriving them of it permanently I don't disagree with you here, but in this case the asset was freely given. The giving was a mistake, but from what I understand if some
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by albrewer 5y ago
Maybe? PTFE (Teflon) has a melting point around 325 °C; this plastic could be higher. The point of my comment was to qualify what the person above me stated.
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by albrewer 5y ago
> steel can work perpetually with deformations under a certain threshold[*] [*] Within a temperature range of about ~-30 °C to ~400 °C. Below that and the toughness goes way down so that it's prone to cracking. Above that and carbon
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by albrewer 5y ago
Nah, kb means kibbibytes, not kilobytes :)
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by albrewer 5y ago
Most of those home generators that run on natural gas have to be serviced extremely frequently. My grandmother has one for her house that was built 2 years ago and the service interval is something like every 100 hours. If she could bridge
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by albrewer 5y ago
I don't see how you can make this claim. An example is meant to be understandable after a cursory introduction and communicate an idea to the reader. If it takes me a day to understand the "example", it's not useful as a
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by albrewer 5y ago
> "how many meters of fence does Farmer Bob need to keep the sheep inside the pen" is not inspiration -- it's drivel I recently had to do a line integral to figure out how much coiled pipe I could fit inside a trench of a
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by albrewer 5y ago
There's a sugar that most animals produce but humans don't[0]. These pigs have been genetically modified to not produce that sugar, the thought being that that's what's responsible for the xenotransplantation rejections[
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by albrewer 5y ago
The guy would have died pretty soon without the procedure. If the choice is between dying for sure in a few weeks, or maybe dying in a few weeks but maybe not dying for another few years.... I'll take the 2nd option.
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by albrewer 5y ago
> Windows 95 was the apex of UX for desktop operating systems I somewhat agree in that the paradigm established and adhered to until it was broken in Vista was the correct way to do it. When drop shadows and thick window borders went awa
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by albrewer 5y ago
I really want to be a teacher. I cannot, in good faith to my family, lower their standard of living to the point where we could afford for me to be one. A 1st year teacher where I am makes about 60% of my current salary, and that was true e
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by albrewer 5y ago
This is in the event handler for the tap: this.score = this.score + (tapInterval < 500 ? 5 : tapInterval < 1000 ? 2 : 1);
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by albrewer 5y ago
I agree, but (at least circa late '00's when I was in high school) career prep consisted of taking a few career aptitude tests. Oh, and the military's ASVAB. Those of us that scored in the 95th percentile and above were singl
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by albrewer 5y ago
Python has bindings to TCL/Tk in its stdlib. But citing Python is cheating, imo.
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by albrewer 5y ago
It's crazy to expect an 18-22 year old to know the market fit for their major when they've never had a job anywhere near that field. I researched my choice of major using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' data before I gradua

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