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by atoav 10mo ago
Studying at an university level is about building the skill to aquire new knowledge and methods yourself . Of course you will get guidance by the educators, but with too much guidance you're no longer learning the most essential lesso
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by atoav 10mo ago
As a university level educator I am pretty confident most universities worth their salt do in fact teach you by "actually doing the snowboarding" to stay with your analogy. But it is also true that (1) not all universities (or all
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by atoav 10mo ago
A CD40106 could do the same and would even be more reductionist (and uses less current).
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by atoav 11mo ago
As an electrical engineer: you'd be surprised how many people "discover" long held truths like that you can use the MPN ("Manufacturer Part Number") of a device to find it's documentation and that this document
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by atoav 11mo ago
I am editing my CSS files predominantly in the browsers inspector this has the benefit showing you what it looks like directly, potentially even with mobile preview. I also don't need to hunt down CSS files because I rarely ever got mo
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by atoav 11mo ago
Not only that, read the chapter on counterproductive leadership (toxic leadership). Try to tick the boxes for the current US president. Spoiler alert, he ticks all the boxes.
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by atoav 11mo ago
Jumping between the files? The cascading part means you can always add in a file after and overwrite it. I don't see how this would get better without the cascading part. My point isn't that CSS is perfect. My point is that someon
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by atoav 11mo ago
And all communication problems involve one or more senders and one or more receiver. The issue is you only got to be in control of one side. And even flawless massaging won't save you from incapable or unwilling receivers. As someone w
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by atoav 11mo ago
CSS can be laser-like specific if you want it to. Want to only affect that thing? Use ids, inline styles or learn how to write proper selectors. I am by no means a CSS expert, but 90% of CSS issues I heard complaints about boiled down to
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by atoav 11mo ago
The trick is to get your egoistic interests to align with what is good for the world. Environmentalists also only do what they perceive as doing good (and may as well be objectively good) because not doing so won't jive with their se
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by atoav 11mo ago
> Math uses terms of art like "group", "field", "modulo" and "multiplicative inverse"; and notation like "∑"; because they are short and communicate very specific (and common) things, man
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by atoav 11mo ago
Still a very common problem today and (aside from the need for more output channels or the need for professional mic preamps) the main reason people get USB audio interfaces. As for USB audio interfaces I really love what RME is doing with
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by atoav 11mo ago
What is missing is a definition of RAG. The whole page uses this acronym like it has to be clear what it is. It is not. Not that people can't google it, but it is just friendlier if you answer the question a good chunk of people lookin
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by atoav 11mo ago
A big part of what makes maths hard for non-math-people is math notation. That is like if a well versed python programmer told you it is as simple as: result = [[{"x": x, "y": y, "v": (x+y if (x+y)%2==0 els
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by atoav 11mo ago
The problem I see with microservices is that many realworld problems won't have the clear domain boundaries one would wish for. And the more your problem is one, where every part of the program needs any piece of information occasional
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by atoav 11mo ago
Then they will hopefully refund their customers.
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by atoav 11mo ago
I don't think it has collapsed. If you read early works that expanded the topic from it's original telegraphy/telephony context (e.g. Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener) it is pretty clear that signal and noise was always subjecti
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by atoav 11mo ago
I thought about talking about derivatives but wanted to avoid to mention to many unexplained words, but yes, derivatives are exactly the way you should be thinking about this. In physics/mechanical engineering they have even names for
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by atoav 11mo ago
As someone who modeled surfaces like this for a living: G0 Positional Continuity: The surfaces touch without gap, but there may be a sharp corner. Example: the corners of a cube G1 Tangential Continuity: G0 but additionally the s
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by atoav 11mo ago
People who make these statements may or may not be ego driven. Not: everybody who says one of these sentences is 100% ego driven. There are valid reasons to suggest use or avoidance of a tool, but there are also ego driven reasons. And ever
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by atoav 11mo ago
I actually worked in film audio engineering and Master is not the universally used term and hasn't been used uniformly throughout history. I have an analog Mackie mixer from the 2000s with "Main" as the name of the Main Bus
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by atoav 11mo ago
Exactly, or a piece of wood. If you threaten someone with a 2x4 you may have intended to use it as a weapon even if it was technically just a piece of wood. This can of course lead to problems where the police can turn everything into a wea
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by atoav 11mo ago
In a fundamental level giving someone a drug like this without their knowledge and against their will is an attack on their bodily autonomy. And bodily autonomy is a human right.
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by atoav 11mo ago
And I grew up among median kids till I was 19 and never did adjust to the median (neither did my group of friends foinf to the same school). My younger brother however did. There are kids who will have the tendency to adjust to others and t
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by atoav 11mo ago
> Who would plant a flower next to a sick or hostile one? A gardener who understands that after that short grace period that plant will have to grow amongst those sick and hostile ones essentially and not only that, it will have to form
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by atoav 11mo ago
As another European: Yes? Invasion doesn't have to mean they plan to roll tanks all the way to Paris. Have you realized Russian agents blew up a train in Poland this week, after some weeks prior flying planes and drones into NATO airsp
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by atoav 11mo ago
Coincidentally I thought a class of art students just yesterday how to build oscillators. And it is not hard at all. Take a logic inverter IC (CD40106 Schmitt-Trigger Hexinverter) pick a single gate, connect the output to the input, add a c
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by atoav 11mo ago
Both sides of what? To the European observer the actual number of left leaning politicians in the US is extremely low. Someone like Biden or Harris for example would fit neatly into any of the conservative parties over here, yet if your LLM
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by atoav 11mo ago
The difference is authenticity. If I get sad or angry when a friend tells me a story, this feeling is a expression of my inner state, not a strategic choice I make to get to a certain place. And this inner state usually translates into how
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by atoav 11mo ago
I mean IKEA offers a service where you can pick stuff online and collect a d does even do home deliveries. Meaning if you have to avoid walking it is certainly possible with them.

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