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It's a Weird Time to Be a Democrat in Silicon Valley(wsj.com)
5 points by apparent 9mo ago|3 comments
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by apparent 9mo ago
How do you do this on a HomePod? I could definitely see Apple limiting this to newer hardware, as a way to bump sales.
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by apparent 9mo ago
There are many people who lament that Siri sucks but would be happy to admit if/when this changes. Even if it goes from super shitty (as evidenced by randomly calling people I have never called/texted when I ask it to call my wife
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by apparent 9mo ago
You do not need an email address to set up an iPhone, and you do not need an email address or phone number to set up an iPad/Mac. If you want to use the App Store on these devices, you do need to have an email address.
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by apparent 9mo ago
Everyone knows that UC still practices AA, though not named as such. And UCSD doesn't just admit students who didn't get into UCLA and UCB. Students who get into the latter also get into UCSD. Some much lower-ranked UCs might not
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by apparent 9mo ago
This would result in lots of schools moving to a rolling admission process with monthly (or even weekly) notification cycles. Students would then apply serially to several schools. Of course, there's no way to get schools to all requir
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by apparent 9mo ago
The current administration is looking to go after AA workarounds. There are probably some smoking guns in email discussions among UC administrators/admissions officials.
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by apparent 9mo ago
Most of the time, no one knows. But if you're from a nice part of LA or SD but you went to a HS in a bad part of town, people might wonder why you went there, or figure it out for themselves. I think in most cases fellow undergrads wou
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by apparent 9mo ago
Sure, there's a community either way. But how does the CC -> UCSD transfer community stack up against either (1) four years at UCSD (which OP would say not to go to without a full ride) or (2) two years at UCI and two years at UCSC
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by apparent 9mo ago
This doesn't describe what UC is doing, however. LCFF is for (1) kids in foster care, (2) English learners, and (3) low income. If you go to a school that has lots of these kids, but you yourself do not have one of these disadvantages,
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by apparent 9mo ago
Many other schools have rolled back their temporary suspensions of SAT-optional/blindness, but UC made a decision that was permanent. And when they made the decision, it was over the objection of the UC faculty recommendation. They mig
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by apparent 9mo ago
Yes, it very much depends on family circumstances. In some families/communities, there is somewhat of a stigma to not attending a 4-year college straight out of high school. That will probably fade over time, but it is a reality for so
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by apparent 9mo ago
The charts that show changes over time reveal that it is not old news. The change has been happening for a couple years, but before the last year or so it would have been impossible to show that it was a trend, not just a blip. And of cours
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by apparent 9mo ago
UC is indeed "test blind" and until this changes, their admissions system will remain fucked.
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by apparent 9mo ago
You seem to be falsely equating private schools with "the wealthy" and public schools with "the working class". Plenty of people are wealthy and send their kids to public schools. They fund them via property taxes rather
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by apparent 9mo ago
UCs don't consider standardized tests.
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by apparent 9mo ago
One of the charts in TFA shows a discontinuity in admissions rate around 75% UPP. This means that if you send your kid to a HS that is underserved when you enroll, but drops below the critical 75% threshold because too many other families a
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by apparent 9mo ago
> Unless you get a full ride you probably should start at community college. You can then transfer later and generally you'll have a better variety to choose from. This does not make sense if you (like most UC students) are in-state
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Why AI Boosts Creativity for Some Employees but Not Others(hbr.org)
4 points by apparent 9mo ago|0 comments
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by apparent 10mo ago
> One does not simply get the camera status on a MacBook. What you need is a sensor right near the green dot that detects whether it's turned on or not. Could use a full-blown camera, but probably a simpler sensor would work too. On
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by apparent 10mo ago
> if you need to be sold on it it’s probably not going to help you much This seems like a red flag because it can be used to justify anything, even being in a cult. I think there probably are benefits to some of these things, but we shou
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by apparent 10mo ago
This used to be an issue for me, but it seems that in Brave it unloads tabs efficiently enough that I can have many hundreds open (on an MBA) without adverse effect. The only time I go in and clear things out, it's when I need to reboo
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by apparent 10mo ago
Indeed, and thanks for flagging the 'disable wrist backlight trigger' in sleep mode as well. I like that Garmin does this. It's nice to use Pebble as a dim light when stumbling around in the dark, but it's easy enough to
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by apparent 10mo ago
I change my Garmin watchface to be something different during nights/weekends, as a reminder that I'm off the clock. I hope that Eric offers a way to automate this in PebbleOS!
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by apparent 10mo ago
Huh interesting, those have new BT guts, so should have as good of performance as any. I guess 30cm thick solid walls are not common enough for BT to be designed to go through them?
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by apparent 10mo ago
When I was traveling in Asia I was sometimes on VPN and sometimes not. I noticed that when I was not on VPN I got a lot more unskippable youtube ads than when I was, even though I was using the same browser and adblockers. Apparently Google
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by apparent 10mo ago
I think a lot of people bought AWs because they seemed like the right thing to get, integrated easily, and were more or less easy to use. But most people I know who have AWs don't use most of the functionalities they provide. If you we
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by apparent 10mo ago
I like Amazfit well enough but I found the UI to be English-second and therefore a bit confusing. Also, I don't trust a company like Amazfit to have my GPS location at all times.
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by apparent 10mo ago
Amazing. I have a 17 year old iMac that still works OK. I don't use it often, but I remember the first time I booted it with an SSD over FW800 and I was like damn, this is a brand new machine.
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by apparent 10mo ago
Is this an old Pebble or a new one?

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