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by asoneth 4y ago
This assumption (that there are minimal tradeoffs when optimizing for repairability) has not been my experience in industrial design. Every single product has tradeoffs between size, weight, cost, ruggedness, ease of repair, etc. I believe
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by asoneth 4y ago
The HDMI drain surprised me, so I looked up more information, and you seem to be correct: https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/tekihq/expansion... https://community.frame.work/t&#x
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by asoneth 4y ago
Would it be reasonable to test the waters with a survey or some form of group buy campaign? For example, if at least ~5k people preorder an ortholinear input cover for ~$200 you will produce one. (Or whatever numbers are required for you to
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by asoneth 4y ago
I've heard the same, but the story was apocryphal. Specifically that when they needed to decide which paste style should be the default "Paste" operation it was a combination of user research and a bias towards novice-friendl
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by asoneth 4y ago
Commuting time may not be officially factored into working hours but companies already pay for it in domains like tech where they must compete against each other for employees. Given the number of companies that offer fully remote or hybrid
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by asoneth 4y ago
Note that this number only includes fatalities. Injuries are typically a couple orders of magnitude more common than fatalities (both for bystanders and occupants) but they are harder to count as they are not tracked as consistently. Beside
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by asoneth 4y ago
I mostly agree. The majority of neighborhoods in the US are designed to support enormous vehicles driving as fast as they can and are therefore an unnecessarily hostile environment for everyone else. I would not choose to risk my children w
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by asoneth 5y ago
Motor-vehicle crashes account for 20%[1] of child and adolescent deaths in the US. I'm not nearly as terrified of strangers or homeless drug users as the legion of SUV drivers scrolling on their cell phones. Distracted drivers are seve
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by asoneth 5y ago
I've never observed a person getting mad at a child for staring at them. In my experience people seem to smile, wave, or make funny faces. (A teenager or adult is different, but the story above was a kid small enough for their mother t
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by asoneth 5y ago
That's not particularly relevant to this discussion because walking under the influence is not a major contributor when children are hit or killed by drivers. Children also have different risk factors, for example many trucks and SUV d
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by asoneth 5y ago
This part seems unnecessarily entitled: > "...when I see developers’ time and effort spent on endlessly redesigning and rewriting core apps, I wonder: is that really necessary? How about working on these major issues instead? One of
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by asoneth 5y ago
Same. Given our requirements and price range we would not be living within walking distance of the city museums or cultural amenities anyway, and we would be about as far a walk from the closest supermarket or cafe as we are now. I think th
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by asoneth 5y ago
My partner and I were looking for a walkable urban neighborhood but ultimately ended up in a small town with a pub, market, cafe, store... and a train to the big city. Couldn't be happier, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone wh
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by asoneth 5y ago
Another datapoint for getting it in writing: I attended and then later worked at a graduate program in a high-demand niche of computer science. When I was a student a company rescinded an offer that had been signed months before and left on
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by asoneth 5y ago
By "Good For Me" I don't just mean productivity-wise, I mean a positive and rewarding experience. And frankly I do not know whether I would enjoy using Emacs. (I similarly don't know whether I would enjoy playing music.)
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by asoneth 5y ago
I aspired to learn Emacs but gave up a number of times. It's in that category of things that I believe would be Good For Me but that have such high activation energy that it never becomes a high enough priority. It's like the docu
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by asoneth 5y ago
To be fair, it's not just investor greed that does it. Plenty of good managers and engineers just want more money too. Once the hyper-growth stalls, many early employees cash out their lottery ticket and leave to take higher-paying job
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by asoneth 5y ago
Definitely agreed, but it's worth pointing out that they're not mutually exclusive. There are a lot of tools on the Terminal that integrate Twitter sources and can track and analyze commentary.
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by asoneth 5y ago
Note that the terminal typically shows news headlines and stories before they are posted to the public internet. As long as Bloomberg publishes their own articles that "move markets" there will be value in being able to see those
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by asoneth 5y ago
When people say something is a "Bloomberg Killer" they're usually only referring to a proper subset of what the terminal offers: Data -- It's not just exchange data but breaking news, earnings calls, shipping data, and a
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by asoneth 5y ago
As others have mentioned, the chat client (Instant Bloomberg, or IB) is used for a significant amount of financial trading and information exchange. It went down for a couple hours at one point which had ramifications on financial markets.
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by asoneth 5y ago
That must have been disappointing. I've also heard of the reverse part of that problem in which half of the students in intro-level CS classes end up feeling discouraged because half the class already has substantial programming experi
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by asoneth 5y ago
Yes, what you describe is how civilized countries typically process their taxes for the reasons you describe. My understanding is that the US does not do it this way for a couple reasons: 1) lobbying from tax preparation companies and 2) an
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by asoneth 5y ago
If a student is a fast learner and can understand the material more quickly than their classmates for the first test it is reasonable to assume that the same would be true for the final test as well. In practice I've found that many of
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by asoneth 5y ago
If you want to measure improvement in addition to mastery that is yet another good argument for focusing more on the final scores than in the earlier grades. One student gets 30%, 60%, 90%, and 100% on a series of four cumulative projects t
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by asoneth 5y ago
> Conversely, if someone was a math wiz, they could use the extra time not spent studying math to study literature, or whatever else. If a math wiz can ace their math class without studying I'd question why they're not taking a
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by asoneth 5y ago
The argument is not that we need to neutralize a student's head start. The argument is that students should be evaluated based on their mastery of the content at the end of the course. Giving too much weight to early grades and tests r
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by asoneth 5y ago
The argument is that giving weight to the grades earned throughout the course may under-value students who made significant improvements. For example, take two students: Student A comes in barely meeting the prerequisites and struggles with
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by asoneth 5y ago
With respect to contributing to documentation, it sounds like at least a few "Big Tech" companies do contribute some funding for MDN content: "Open Web Docs receives donations from companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Coi
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by asoneth 5y ago
If you're interested in solely contributing to the documentation rather than Mozilla, perhaps consider a donation to Open Web Docs? "Open Web Docs receives donations from companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Coil and others, a

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