btheshoe

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by btheshoe 5y ago
It's short and curt, but it seems to present some good ideas that can be discussed. If COVID is endemic, then it seems mostly pointless to continue COVID restrictions indefinitely. I've never bought the "we need COVID restric
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Maybe the communities you're a part of are different?
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by btheshoe 5y ago
credential stuffing
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by btheshoe 5y ago
I saw some discussion on HN of Lastpass reporting unauthorized logins, so I figured I'd post this here.
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LastPass says no passwords compromised in latest security scare(cnet.com)
11 points by btheshoe 5y ago|6 comments
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by btheshoe 5y ago
I watch my lectures at between 2x(math classes) and 3.5x(business classes) speed. Most professors just talk unconscionably slow, and done kitties focus in material so basic that I don't really have to understand every word.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
I've heard it as MAGMA recently
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Similar things can be said about the textbook and the lecture
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by btheshoe 5y ago
I just turned 19, and I hope. To God that I'm young enough that when this stuff comes to market I won't be so old I can't use it
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Culture warring in America has reached an extreme level of hilarity
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by btheshoe 5y ago
This is my goto for learning any new language. Obviously better resources for each language exist individually (like beej's guide to c) but almost nowhere else on the web is there such a high density of good, solid guides
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by btheshoe 5y ago
VLC is by far the best media player in existence, and I'm extremely thankful for the team behind it. Gives me hope that this whole Foss thing is actually very good for the world.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
AOC is an obvious puppet?
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by btheshoe 5y ago
the moment we figure out how to do that, I'm running off to a bunker in new zealand
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Ask HN: Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills?
165 points by btheshoe 5y ago|176 comments
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by btheshoe 5y ago
The problem isn't the changing in curricular standards. It's the existence of curricular standards.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
It comes with age.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
When I fucked up in middle/high school, it wasn't because I was lazy. It was because I had no idea how to deal with stress/anxiety/deadlines. I had teachers who luckily were empathetic and I grew up eventually. I was luc
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by btheshoe 5y ago
I really dislike articles like these. It's a well known fact that the interview process is deeply flawed; this study isn't really presenting any new material. What's more, the flaw being critiqued - that interviews are bad fo
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Making one of these myself showed me exactly how many hours I was wasting on social media that I could have been spending on something I actually enjoyed.
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by btheshoe 5y ago
It never goes away, does it
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by btheshoe 5y ago
(the problem of destroying which universe is also left as an exercise to the reader)
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by btheshoe 5y ago
The rent for a studio blows through most of 35k
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by btheshoe 5y ago
The best way of doing this is to just use levels.fyi and ask on Blind (which is a toxic place, but a bit of toxicity is needed to maximize tc).
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Part of this is because America is like three or four different countries compressed into a single uncohesive whole
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Zuckerberg is ... kind of right though, and fb's response to the whole scandal seems mostly reasonable. Fb internal research was 1) of poor quality and 2) selectively presented. Scientific literature on the whole is divided wrt impact
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Literature Review of the Impact of Social Media Use on Mental Health(docs.google.com)
1 points by btheshoe 5y ago|0 comments
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The quality of [Facebook's] secret research into mental health is abysmal(unherd.com)
18 points by btheshoe 5y ago|0 comments
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by btheshoe 5y ago
Wow, you are a great writer though. Love your blog!
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by btheshoe 5y ago
That's not how cultural overachievers work though. Group overachievers together and they form a stronger culture of achievement. Split them up and they stop achieving.

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