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by booboofixer 4y ago
Slightly off topic, but is it just me or do words have a completely different effect on you based on where you are and what you feel in life? As a slightly lost teenager, it was oddly calming to know there was literature out there that wasn
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Im not sure how that impacts the small/large difference in students GPAs.
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Shocking. Here's something to compare it to. It is rumored that engineering courses at University of Toronto never have an average above 70, and if they do everybody gets curved down. Confirmed by my probability professor who showed us
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by booboofixer 4y ago
The big mac index: https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Reading arguments that are so full of wisdom from more than a 100 years ago is one of the very rare things that I truly enjoy these days. If these people were alive today, I would thank them in writing. It's disturbing how arguments in
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Coming from a country where private schools dominate public schools in terms of the quality of education, i assure you this is not great news. Public schools will be left with underprivileged students and the worst teaching/administrat
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by booboofixer 4y ago
This is great news. I have an old iPod touch that i kept because it had no trade-in value. Can't wait for it to be worth something in about a decade or however long it takes for these electronics to become 'vintage'. Also, if
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by booboofixer 4y ago
> “Clerics infiltrate Ahmadi email lists or community WhatsApp groups, then complain to the police,” Apart from this, posting their religious affiliation on Facebook gets people in trouble. Blaming Facebook or whatsapp for this seems lik
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by booboofixer 4y ago
> And Pakistan Sorry to nitpick here but i can't remember any event involving hundreds of deaths in Pakistan that Whatsapp was used for. What are you referring to?
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by booboofixer 4y ago
I think there might be varying levels of nudges. But yes you're right, people are nudged to do the things they want to as well. Maybe the resentment comes from people being nudged to do what they dont want to e.g. give your credit card
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Always thought the 'nudges' often referred to in these experiments would only work if participants were unaware of their existence. If participants become aware of the fact that they're being 'nudged' one way or the
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by booboofixer 4y ago
> shared in a trusting environment I thought this was the key. For the beatles it probably wasn't that hard to do. But for other people taking inspiration, know where and when to share. Had the beatles performed their half-baked son
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by booboofixer 4y ago
There was a comment on HN about a year ago by somebody that grew up in India, and being Pakistani i relate to it a lot as well. Specifically, it mentioned that these 'games' and people choosing one or two games out of a great numb
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Fifa 22 occasionally and nothing else. Anybody interested in learning can get in touch. Disclaimer: i can only teach actual gameplay, not tactics, game glitches etc.
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by booboofixer 4y ago
If you also take into consideration the years it takes to go from junior to senior/experienced in the systems area, salary becomes a much bigger deciding factor. It’s not just 20k a year less for one year, its 20/30/40k less
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by booboofixer 4y ago
I wish all fame could be attributed to somebody doing their job well, or doing anything positive at all for that matter.
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Is there a test that was done for ADHD? Considering taking Adderall improves everyone's performance at work/academics, it's really up to the test to correctly diagnose ADHD and i'm wondering how accurate it is. Edit: Rea
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Computer Networking: A top-down approach The authors seem to be making video lectures for the book now too. http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/online_lectures.htm
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by booboofixer 4y ago
> Maybe people are finally starting to buy local again? I'm sorry i dont know how to read these reports, but do they have numbers for usage of amazon prime? My guess would be people aren't buying local or online, they just aren
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by booboofixer 4y ago
Commenting here because related to your point and i couldn't find the answer in the kickstarter description. How long does the music play for? Does it keep stopping and you have to wave your arms around while on the can to get it to st
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by booboofixer 5y ago
> It doesn't even stop after hitting the jet. It just keeps going right through it. I thought that was the worst part of it too, assuming theres nobody inside the car at the wheel. It keeps going, stops, then moves again and looks t
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by booboofixer 5y ago
Interesting suggestion, thanks.
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by booboofixer 5y ago
I agree, there are many people working on their own open-source operating systems. I would put in the effort to learn and contribute if only I knew what the state of the art was. Maybe linux kernel == S.O.T.A ?
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by booboofixer 5y ago
If i'm understanding this correctly, then the difference between pre-emptive scheduling and the intermediate you described would be that in the pre-emptive scheduling case, a poorly-behaved process would be forced to give up the CPU an
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by booboofixer 5y ago
A well-written article, especially clearly listing out the differences in the forms of communication helped make the point. But sadly, the people most prone to bad-faith communication are also probably least likely to take this criticism an
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by booboofixer 5y ago
> Then college came around I read a lot of such posts by people before i went to university, and boy was i surprised to find the reality can sometimes be very different. If there's any younger folks reading this, YMMV. > Then, af
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by booboofixer 5y ago
It's a skill that needs practice to perfect. I wish somebody offered a service where a professional would bargain on your behalf. Sort of like Leon from Curb Your Enthusiasm showing up to make sure people aren't taken advantage o
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by booboofixer 5y ago
The first casualty of war...
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by booboofixer 5y ago
Ditto. c_e@tuta.io
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by booboofixer 5y ago
From the authors of the book i used to begin to learn about networking with absolutely no prior understanding of the subject. Highly recommended.

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