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by benrbray 5y ago
Some universities are already accepting more students than they can afford. When I was a fully funded grad student at Georgia Tech, I earned a $2.4k/mo stipend but had to pay surprise "student fees" to the tune of $1.5k&#x2F
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by benrbray 5y ago
Zotero is the open source [1] alternative, to Elsevier's Mendeley. [1] https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/source_code
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by benrbray 5y ago
You've never been to Atlanta!
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by benrbray 5y ago
Why even bother changing countries then?!?!
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by benrbray 5y ago
Homosexuality is still illegal, isn't it? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Singapore > In June 2019, at the Smart Nation Summit, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reiterated that Singapore would ke
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by benrbray 5y ago
Singapore is pretty awful for LGBTQ rights, no? OP didn't mention it but it's the reason I would never consider living there despite having heard nice things.
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by benrbray 5y ago
Atlanta is second to maybe only LA in terms of how bad the traffic gets. Neighborhood streets backed up with highway traffic bad. Definitely not the place to look if cars stress you out like they do for me. On the bright side living the
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by benrbray 5y ago
What techniques are used to estimate trajectories? Would something like a Gaussian Process perform better?
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by benrbray 5y ago
> Why not ePUB ePUB is notoriously bad at displaying mathematics. It also takes away the author's control of the page layout. To me there is nothing more satisfying than a well-crafted PDF.
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by benrbray 5y ago
fwiw I just quit my first full-time job out of school in part because remote work has really held back my productivity + career growth. I started in May 2020 and have only met my coworkers a handful of times, and it's depressing. Amo
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by benrbray 5y ago
However much Flash was abused on the web, it was an absolute joy to create games and animations with. There aren't any tools I know of today that allow for the same rapid art+animation+code workflows. I've tried using Canvas2D+J
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by benrbray 5y ago
I'm not saying that parents don't matter, just that teachers _do_ matter. Both play an important role in setting expectations. Someone with bad parents and bad teachers is likely to have a rough start in life. Having good teach
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by benrbray 5y ago
Surely in your own life you've had teachers that really stood out? Ones that made learning especially fun or effortless? Who are good at showing you how the knowledge can be useful in the real world? A lot of people seem to have this
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by benrbray 5y ago
I agree with your point about not blaming teachers for factors beyond their control, but let's not forget that when students spend most of their lives at school, teachers can play a big role in fostering a positive learning culture. A
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by benrbray 5y ago
I recently had to choose between two job offers, and language was among the most important (although not the only) factors. I ended up choosing the job that lets me write functional Scala, rather than continue writing Python, which has bee
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by benrbray 5y ago
Most of the advice on that page is about using the correct semantic HTML elements as well as aria annotations, which is what I had in mind. Basically the appearance should stay the same, but I can definitely see how fixing up the HTML coul
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by benrbray 5y ago
I'm saying we shouldn't make things substantially worse for 95% of people just to make things marginally better for 5%. Usually "accessibility" on the web means adding 1em padding around everything so that I can only se
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by benrbray 5y ago
HN is one of the best designed websites I use daily. The information density is unmatched on the "modern" web.
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by benrbray 5y ago
> Has anyone here even written to their senator? Can anyone point to a change or sacrifice a senator has made to their beliefs after receiving a letter? I'm guessing a check would be more persuasive.
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by benrbray 5y ago
You might be interested to learn that in languages like Coq with dependent types , the difference between type-level and value-level languages (almost) disappears! Check out the Software Foundations book [1]. [1] https://softwa
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by benrbray 5y ago
Something intersting about MathOverflow is that it started as an independent site, with the creators eventually agreeing to make it part of the StackExchange network. I believe part of the agreement allows the owners of MathOverflow to bre
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by benrbray 5y ago
Has this "Web3 is DRM" argument been written up in more detail somewhere? The idea already seems silly to me as just crypto hype, but I haven't considered that there might be more sinister intentions behind it.
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by benrbray 5y ago
Companies don't seem to treat it like an important document. I can't tell you how many times an interviewer seemed to be reading my resume for the very first time during the interview itself...
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by benrbray 5y ago
Can anyone more familiar with control theory recommend some simple projects / applications / simulations that might help learn more about this field? I've been interested in control theory for a while and I have a rough unde
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by benrbray 5y ago
As an example, I recently wanted to watch The West Wing. I pay for Netflix and Hulu already, but the show is only on HBO Max. OK, fine, I guess I'll pay for a month of HBO like I've done before to watch Game of Thrones. Ok, uh,
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by benrbray 5y ago
Newgrounds created Ruffle [1], which is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Now that Flash is disabled by default, they use it to keep some (but not all) of their archive of Flash movies and games running. [1] https://githu
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by benrbray 5y ago
Do you remember any interesting papers / articles on the topic? Googling brings me back to this comment!
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by benrbray 5y ago
For me, typesetting my handwritten notes was part of the learning process. Usually one textbook is not enough for me, I always reference multiple sources (textbook, lecture notes, blog posts, homework problems) when learning so it's h
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by benrbray 5y ago
Tries are also perfect for solving games of Boggle! I have a demo here: https://benrbray.com/projects/unboggler
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by benrbray 5y ago
> Didn’t you still have to stamp the actual lease contract ? Not a big deal, it plays the same role as signatures do in the US. Only very recently did we stop having to sign credit card receipts here!

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