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by btilly 11mo ago
It was only years later that I went back and tried to understand the intake process. I was blown away by what I realized. The key to it is this. These kids absolutely HATE the experience of lacking executive control, in a classroom. Teacher
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You do you. If you believe that you are helpless in the face of the temptation of advertising, you should avoid advertising. But it would be nice if you worked on your listening skills as well. You gave a list of major evils that consuming
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The theory is simple. When the thought of should comes reinforced by want, desire reinforces executive control, and makes you more likely to do that thing. This causes executive control, which actually issues those shoulds, to become more e
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My preferences are based on my understanding of myself. I do not have those problem addictions. Of course I am going to comparison shop for any large purchases. I am good enough about controlling spending that excess junk isn't one of
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It depends on what you consider "more useful". First, anything that you can do with recursion, you can do without. This is trivially obvious to anyone who knows that any Turing complete language can simulate any other, and therefo
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Perhaps you missed that I am willing to deal with ads in general? I am perfectly willing to put up with the annoyance, and like knowing that I am bringing money to the channel that I'm watching. I only want specific advertisers turned
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I don't mind advertisers knowing more about me. If they can display ads that are relevant to me, this is a better experience on both sides. Unfortunately there is no way to tell advertisers, "No, I'm not interested in your pr
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No, very much not. It was an article about how shocked the Iraqis were that the US tanks were able to disappear into the desert, organize, and then assault where and when they wanted to. Looking back at the history, the tanks began to go in
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Huh. I remember the capability coming as a surprise in 1990, but you're right that Reagan announced that civilian access would happen back in 1983. Now I don't know if I was misremembering, or if Iraq was simply unaware of the tec
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This was also my experience. I found it bizarre that my son was being diagnosed with ADHD when I knew perfectly well how much he focused on his projects. When my sister (who learned about it when HER son was diagnosed) explained why hyperfo
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The way that I used to put this was, "If I put on my shoes before my socks, I'll get a different result than if it I put on my socks before my shoes. Order of operations matters."
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GPS was built by the US military. Its existence was first revealed in Desert Storm back in 1990 when the US military used it to drive tanks into the desert, then come out where and when they wanted. The Iraqis were quite surprised, since th
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Actually it would have never been passed. Nixon started it as a way to put blacks in their place.
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A lot of the "centrists" that I know are economically right and socially left. Like the old joke, "I can't be a Democrat because I want to spend my own money. I can't be a Republican because of what I want to spend
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The reason that selective enforcement exists is that it is very hard to avoid having rules selectively enforced. But the history of selective enforcement strongly suggests that it does not usually lead to just results. It is often instead s
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They are mostly not convincing the people who have to do the work. Instead they convince decision makers higher up, who in turn tell some group to go do the work. For that, it helps to have good sounding ideas, some existing successes that
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Thank you for the history. I gave the short version in addition to voting you up because it is memorable, and I thought that someone out there might wonder why it sounded familiar.
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Oh wow! I remember you! I hope that life is treating you well. My life since COVID has been a nightmare.
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I am perfectly OK with having contempt for powerful pedophiles. The opportunity for laughter is a bonus. I just hope that the fallout doesn't begin and end with Prince Andrew and Larry Summers.
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You're welcome. I should have also mentioned that I was tilly on Perlmonks. For a long time I was the top rated poster, on the dominant question and answer site for Perl questions.
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I absolutely see the correlation myself, but which way does causation go? I can make a case for how engaging with short form video can be bad for mental health. I certainly saw evidence of that first hand in one of my children who engaged h
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Disclaimer. Perl was my first real language. I have several contributions to Perl, including a complete rewrite of Carp.pm. For a number of years I was also on the Perl 5 Grant Committee. I completely discount the basic syntax as an issue.
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It isn't amazing when you see how it tends to work out for those who succeed in a corporate context. There is a natural competition to become an "idea person" in an organization. If the project goes well, the idea person gets
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This is usually shortened to: If the facts are with you, pound on the facts. Else if the law is with you, pound on the law. If neither is with you, pound on the table.
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Even if people are reading something into your post that you don't intend, they are reading it for good reason. Which is that your post sounds exactly like an attack on any technically competent person that runs an open source project.
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Yes. And if you read his other books, you'll see that he was trying to create positive change in programming over and over again, but steadily climbed what part of the organizational ladder he was trying to address. That book, being th
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The OP's interpretation is an inaccurate summary of the philosophy. But it is an excellent summary of the trap that people who try to follow EA can easily fall into. Any attempt to rationally evaluate charity work, can instead wind up
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What makes it absurd? If I want to give $100 to charity, some of the places that I can donate it to will do less good for the world. For example Make a Wish and Kids Wish Foundation sound very similar. But a significantly higher portion
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It is worth noting that this is an ad. It is a law firm that is advertising their expertise in this field. And the product that they want people to buy is revealed in this passage: Freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis therefore remains critic
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Code Complete is my favorite, hands down. The Psychology of Computer Programming was also very much worth the read.

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