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by cauthon 4y ago
> it just feels like you’re reading a reference manual. From other threads here and on r/rust, this seems to be a common opinion. I've seen multiple recommendations to pair it with another, more exercise- or project-oriented bo
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by cauthon 4y ago
how/where do y’all suggest hosting a shared SQLite db?
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by cauthon 4y ago
Ok, technically true, but not super helpful. I haven’t used kindle in a few years, but last I checked, “page” numbers were relative to the device you were on (and its screen size).
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by cauthon 4y ago
Seeing attacks and tactics _is_ playing chess. That's like saying more FPS games need to offer aimbots because low-level casual games are destroyed by missing headshots. Both chess.com and lichess allow you to view attacks in the analy
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by cauthon 4y ago
> 1 and 2 should be daily/biweekly/weekly check-ins either via a stand up or by a message/email, they do not warrant a 1-on-1 and wastes people's time to make managers feel better Some people communicate or receive fe
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by cauthon 4y ago
That’s a good example of how this could be written ambiguously, thank you!
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by cauthon 4y ago
Is it a standard retail practice to agree to a sale quantity but not a price?
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by cauthon 4y ago
How do these compare to Rectangle?
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by cauthon 4y ago
Not sure how you’re defining major cities, but starting salaries in the top 5 CoL cities are definitely not near $100k Boston $60k https://btu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Salary-Grids.pdf Seattle $65k
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by cauthon 4y ago
Even simpler, but less likely to be popular. Pay teachers competitive (six figure) salaries, put a cap on student:teacher ratio (20:1, or even less?), and get rid of tenure.
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by cauthon 4y ago
A contributing factor may be lack of a major sponsor bootstrapping the user base. Go had Google, Rust had Mozilla, Nim was/is largely indie.
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by cauthon 4y ago
> What I have read is that a lot of the moderation requests at the behest of the FBI were favorable to biden and democrats in general. It sounds like you’re interpreting this as “the FBI colluded with twitter to influence the election,”
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by cauthon 4y ago
Question about how public domain works in the US, specifically with regards to this comment in the original post: > Here are just a few of the works that will be in the US public domain in 2023. 2 They were supposed to go into the publi
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by cauthon 4y ago
He has no first-author publications that aren't op-eds [1], and no publications whatsoever from his time at UC Davis. Since dropping out afaict he's done no relevant academic or industry work. I'm skeptical of his qualificati
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by cauthon 4y ago
A much better lay-accessible introduction to epigenetics would be Ewan Birney's tweetorial from earlier this year [1] or his Guardian column from a few years ago [2]. Rabiz Khan lacks formal training in medicine or genetics, and I perc
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by cauthon 4y ago
I don’t know who that is, but the “universal basic outcome” is already poverty
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by cauthon 4y ago
The forever relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1831/
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by cauthon 4y ago
I’ve seen some members of the science twitter community set up accounts over there too, though most seem to be hedging their bets with mastodon accounts as well. Will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.
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by cauthon 4y ago
Yes, highly recommend this setup. Displaying inferred type + compiler errors has been amazing while learning Rust.
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by cauthon 4y ago
> My attacks on you are consequence culture. Your attacks on me are stochastic terrorism. Let's not group mean tweets and mass shootings under the same umbrella
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by cauthon 4y ago
> I didn't realize registrars let you buy for 10 years. The best I have seen are discounted pricing for 2-years. I only have experience with Namecheap. They typically only offer discounted pricing for the first year, but you can pre
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by cauthon 4y ago
alias nb=“jupyter notebook”
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by cauthon 4y ago
Are you too young to remember “I Am Rich“? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
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by cauthon 4y ago
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout is good reading
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by cauthon 4y ago
The primary source of your "further reading" article is Tucker Carlson. Not saying the claim is incorrect, but are there any trustworthy sources supporting it?
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by cauthon 4y ago
Are they AI experts? The authors of the paper you linked are philosophers, not CS. Yudkowsky doesn’t have even a high school education, and I’ve never seen any programming or ML work by him. Frankly, the “research” in this area all appears
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by cauthon 4y ago
> Setting aside this article, where's all the hate for giving to charity coming from? Nobody hates giving to charity. Some people are skeptical about the utility of donating millions of dollars to an anti-skynet foundation founded b
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by cauthon 4y ago
Hutch/SCCA?
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by cauthon 4y ago
Absolutely agree, I miss the staff picks and forums more than I miss the tracker.
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by cauthon 4y ago
I largely agree, but what does dim sum have to do with any of this

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