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by ativzzz 5y ago
> The pace of change is faster than the average person can keep up with and still be competent. The pace of change is faster than the average person can keep up with each change, but because more and more new technologies and niches are
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Women with four children will most likely be full time moms for the majority of their productive lives so that's a pointless benefit, unless this policy manages to somehow reverse gender roles as well.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Langdon Winner [1] argues that nuclear power is authoritarian in nature due to factors like requiring long-term, centralized planning to realize and is infeasible in democratic governments. He argues that solar power is more democratized an
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by ativzzz 5y ago
When you're optimizing for a metric like lines of code written, then abbreviations make sense. If you're optimizing for readability you could do something like (I'm not a C programmer so IDK if this is syntactically correct C
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Photographers have absolutely not gone away, at least not in the wedding industry.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
What I worry about is how non-technical people will deal with this for just getting basic life tasks done. My parents are in their late 50s and despite my dad being a software dev for forever, he struggles with some newer technology and the
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Sure, unfortunately as a solo developer unless your app is a unicorn or you make several of these apps, pay once use forever doesn't pay your bills a year from now.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Don't cryptocurrencies just centralize the power for whatever groups own the most miners? Sure one group won't have a dictatorship, but it's essentially an oligopoly. It's like if you claim the U.S. congress is decentral
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I would imagine more because those features are probably easier to reverse engineer. Plus traditional CV is weaker in generalized scenarios and is pretty easy to trick or throw off.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance talks about this topic in depth.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Anyone know how this compares to Andrew Ng's course on coursera? (set of multiple courses really) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning
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by ativzzz 5y ago
The right way to do it is to not install work slack on any of your non-work devices. Barring emergencies, which should be directed to dedicated on-call staff, or extenuating circumstances like prearranged projects with tight deadlines, ther
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by ativzzz 5y ago
It's probably because they had a team of experienced iOS/Android engineers, who are significantly more productive in their respective platforms.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> It's also indistinguishable from their on-campus MS in CS This isn't exactly true. Only a fraction of all classes are available for the online program. The computational perception & robotics specialization for instance h
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> People are so functionally blind they can’t even imagine any other way. Surely, you must have cars. At this point, depending where you live, you must have cars. I lived in the big Texas cities, and outside of a few places close to the
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by ativzzz 5y ago
From the article > Beauty. What is beauty? Beauty is that which gives aesthetic pleasure. Beauty is both subjective and objective—subjective because it is “in the eye of the beholder” but objective in that “pleasure” is something you eit
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I recommend checking out EndeavourOS. It's an Arch based OS that sets you up with a friendly installer and a desktop environment out of the box, then gets out of your way. You don't get the fun experience of installing arch from s
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by ativzzz 5y ago
While their mission of connecting people sounds nice on paper, they have shown over and over that they place profit first, which is not necessarily wrong for a corporation, but this incentives engagement over connection. We've seen tha
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Turns out we dedicate tons of resources to advanced technology when we are at war (WW2/cold war). Sounds like we need another good war with a power who is actually a threat to rapidly innovate.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Unfortunately in the U.S, it's not really an option if you want to have a high quality of life unless you have rich parents. I've noticed that the majority of maintainers of a couple of high profile Linux distros are all European;
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> Why then would these programs continue to survive? Because the government provides no questions asked loans to anyone willing to attend these programs, and many people don't do their research or simply don't even consider the
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Something the article doesn't take into is how the ROI would be exponentially increased by interest and investments. Not everyone invests, but for those who do, raw dollar values will translate to even greater earnings on interest, and
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I mean that for dev shops that specialize in python, it would make sense to create web apps using Django/Flask to enable easier hiring and transfer of skillsets between projects.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Telling people to reduce their quality of life in order to combat climate change is a fruitless endeavor. It will simply not happen unless a crisis forces us to. I would consider anything short of new tech that allows us to continue increas
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by ativzzz 5y ago
In dev shops where python is needed for other tasks like data science or ML
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Thanks!
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Thank you!
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Expert Excel proficiency is mostly useful in data heavy roles such as finance, which is just one subset of MBAs. For other roles, it's useful to be able to calculate simple sums/averages/vlookups but going beyond that is outs
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by ativzzz 5y ago
What are some ways I can increase my knowledge in this domain that the OP is very skilled at, meaning low level OS development? I've taken an intro to OS class and am currently going through Linux From Scratch [1], which is interesting
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by ativzzz 5y ago
A lot of fraternities/clubs buy into this through hazing, but this is getting chomped down upon by many universities.

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