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by albrewer 3y ago
Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions[0] - I still use it to test whenever I need to implement any kind of fundamental math function that's not built into whatever environment I'm using. Haven't used
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by albrewer 3y ago
They can only ban you if they find 2 copies of the same cart running at the same time. This hardware, for all intents and purposes, looks to the Switch like a physical cartridge.
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by albrewer 3y ago
The aftermath of a hurricane is like nothing you've ever experienced - there's something deeply unsettling about all the trees in a forest being bent uniformly in one direction, or entire neighborhoods completely erased. 285 km&#x
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by albrewer 3y ago
On the other hand, as someone who knows a smattering of words in other languages, I love when I know what a character is shouting in a foreign language. But I don't get that when the subtitles just say "[shouting in foreign langua
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by albrewer 3y ago
The difference between a software engineer and a programmer is similar to the difference between a mechanical designer and a mechanical engineer. After several years doing the same job in a well-established organization, they're not go
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by albrewer 3y ago
The reason they're not working in STEM jobs is due to pay, usually. Journalism famously pays poverty wages.
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by albrewer 3y ago
> It wasn't like that ~20 years ago. I've found that learning entirely new fields of study to be easier as I get older (although I'm "only" 33); I think going to college straight after high school is a disservice
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by albrewer 3y ago
I have a mechanical engineering degree and work as a software developer. I tried for a long time to find a company like this but they all seem to only want people who very narrowly fit a senior engineer role in either specialization, never
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by albrewer 3y ago
I exited a traditional mechanical engineering role because 90% of my job was not engineering. I loved what I covered in undergrad, but most "engineering" jobs were 80% project management / paper shuffling / oversight, wi
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by albrewer 3y ago
I meet all the requirements you listed, but I _also_ need to make a 310 mile trip (1 way) fairly regularly. In a Prius, I can do that on one tank. In an EV, you've added at least 30-60 minutes to each leg of the trip, unless you spring
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by albrewer 3y ago
> peak peek
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by albrewer 3y ago
I worked as a delivery driver for an auto parts store in ~2010. We had the same thing, but the card was tied to the vehicle (the card was literally attached to the vehicle's key) so we didn't have to type in the vehicle ID.
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by albrewer 3y ago
> turn off the forward collision warning so it doesn't scare the shit out of me I was driving a 2018(?) Golf GTI with automatic braking on an extremely hilly road. The car handled fantastically, and was an absolute joy to drive on t
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by albrewer 3y ago
> but I have literally only seen it as “agog with …” I've never seen it used that way; I've only seen it used like "They were all agog at x..."
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by albrewer 3y ago
I read those names correctly and wondered why, when I realized I'd listened the memory of them was from listening to the first episodes of The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps[0] over a decade ago. [0]: https://www.his
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by albrewer 3y ago
> white male, no family/kids, bicycle in the profile picture. Usually they are young My wife with 2 kids that has no twitter account also hates cars. You just don't hear from her because you don't go to the same places she
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by albrewer 3y ago
> - VB(.NET) is terrible for large or complex systems. I can't say I agree with this. My experience has been that developers who write things in VB tend to be self-taught and don't know how to scale up small gadgets into large
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by albrewer 3y ago
I used NetZero, which was an ad-supported dial-up provider. The only cost was the phone call, which was local, so not very expensive.
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by albrewer 3y ago
> universally recognized as a traffic warning Except a real driver can recognize when a cone should and shouldn't be there.
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by albrewer 3y ago
> Employees have realised we are equally as effective working from home and simply do not want to waste 2+ UNPAID hours of every day travelling to a corporate building for the sake of it. I looked into the employment laws long ago about
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by albrewer 3y ago
I'm 24 hours into the story and I have yet to be disappointed by anything the game. Literally my only complaints are 1) the animation sequence for rolling active skill checks (lockpicking, persuasion, intimidation, etc.) is far too lon
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by albrewer 3y ago
I know what area you're talking about - I had my party sneak around that area and come in through the side. I had made some dialog choices earlier where the rest of the goblin area wasn't hostile to my party. Also, I forgot about
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by albrewer 3y ago
> Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder: Kingmaker I nominate adding Torment: Tides of Numeneria to this; I discovered it's a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment (which I never got to play); I had never played a CRPG befor
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by albrewer 3y ago
Tangentially related to tarot, I wanted to get a deck of tarot playing cards to try out some variants of bridge and whist I'd read about and could not find anything that wasn't trying to lean into the spooky/occult side of ta
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by albrewer 3y ago
> They exist to supplement skill deficits in people This take really does not take into account the huge value added of 1) not having to roll your own SPA code and 2) the availability of a large workforce that is all familiar with a comm
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by albrewer 3y ago
> Windows 7 with the Classic theme (which really was just a slight evolution over Win2K) was peak UI/UX I held on to Windows 7 until the EOL date and I was forced to upgrade by my company for this reason. Minimal padding, clear bord
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by albrewer 3y ago
The post you're replying to is a case in point. This time it's cow eggs; what next?
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by albrewer 3y ago
They literally made a movie about this in the 80's called Robocop.
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by albrewer 3y ago
Putting the blame purely on the people being hit sure is a stance.
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by albrewer 3y ago
Pretty sure this is how the human brain works. If we add models that can transform information into updates to existing models, then add a model that can process streams of information and determine which models to update with the informati

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