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by corrral 4y ago
Absolute numbers. Which means we should be able to add even more capacity, faster than they did then, by a large multiple over a similar time period, thanks to productivity increases. Which, again, might be needed because demand is far high
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by corrral 4y ago
Password managers plus biometric auth mean I almost never even need to copy-paste a password, let alone type one. I just hit "fill" and it fills it in. For most of the services I use these days, I've never typed or manually
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by corrral 4y ago
People employed in manufacturing in the US—not productivity, employees—is about the same as in 1941 just before Pearl Harbor. We had worse tech then, about the same number of people working in manufacturing, and our factories produced a t
634.
by corrral 4y ago
US manufacturing has roughly doubled in inflation-adjusted dollar terms, while dropping by 30-something percent as a share of GDP (because GDP was rising much faster than that, over the same time span) since 1997. Our factories are much mor
635.
by corrral 4y ago
I think that era's ending. I guess the benefit, if there is one, is that expensive ICE cars make electric cars look less crazy-expensive than they did before.
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by corrral 4y ago
> If we see significant wage increases and Real Estate decreases, the millenial generation might start to procreate to a reasonable extent. The leading edge of millennials are already way out of their best reproduction years. Middle&#x
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by corrral 4y ago
I'd prefer they cut hours over cutting days. 7+ hours in classrooms with hardly any breaks is brutal . Keep them for childcare purposes if you must, but cut the instruction hours. More free time or recess, and wholly-optional, casual
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by corrral 4y ago
Most of the US pays at most half of what a handful of (mainly) California and New York companies do.
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by corrral 4y ago
Basically every low-wage service worker puts up with it. Not suits, but often-ugly required work uniforms. At least suits and dresses look good.
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by corrral 4y ago
The trad thing is that your old clothes become your casual clothes, mostly. Except athletic clothes—but half those are dress or business-casual now, anyway, like OCBDs and polos—most of our modern athletic clothes counted as underwear, befo
641.
by corrral 4y ago
A lot of what people complain about in white-collar offices have been problems people've complained about effectively since such offices started to become common (the 1950s). Including how little actual work is required for most compan
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by corrral 4y ago
I hate— hate —when I'm trying to find something in Slack and right where I'm pretty sure it should be I see a marker indicating that a call took place there, often without any surrounding indication of WTF it was about. Fucking ha
643.
by corrral 4y ago
Cheetah qualifies, too. The last step is like 95% of the work.
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by corrral 4y ago
Then maybe, past the very basics, it should mostly be taught alongside science, at least for the vast majority of students. Not a flippant suggestion—I actually think that might improve the value most students get out of their later math cl
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by corrral 4y ago
Agreed, the motivation doesn't necessarily have to be an application, though that's probably one area worth emphasizing way more than it currently is, especially in secondary education—lower elementary, in particular, doesn&#x27
646.
by corrral 4y ago
Yes, lots of the memorization-heavy math from 6th grade and earlier is often useful to most people. Nowhere near as constantly in use as reading, but at least a little is used by most people almost every day. Basic arithmetic, trivial calcu
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by corrral 4y ago
> Do you ever have a set of facts and reason about what you can conclude from them? That's math. > Do you ever play board games and try to come up with the best strategy? That's math. If zero people who aren't math majo
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by corrral 4y ago
That and butterflies have gone from ho-hum because you're guaranteed to see hundreds every year even if you don't try, to "holy shit, I see one, everybody come look!"
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by corrral 4y ago
> If anything needs to change it's the teaching of mathematics primarily as a language to describe everyday life more accurately. The question every grade school child asks, "why do I need this", requires an irrefutable an
650.
by corrral 4y ago
I think math suffers from a motivation problem, especially past early arithmetic education. Reading? Now I have access to all these stories! And it's plainly useful in every single other class, pretty much constantly (even math class—g
651.
by corrral 4y ago
I've been programming since I was 14, and getting paid to do it since I was 15 (I know, not impressively young compared to some folks, but still). Approaching 40 now. It's never felt like math to me. If it did, I probably wouldn
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by corrral 4y ago
It's a fundamental piece of functionality that you target with a release, if you're using webviews, and a ton of apps do. It's possible to argue that it shouldn't be, but it is, and that does come with some real bene
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by corrral 4y ago
The "coupled with" was important. They hit a spot on the performance/responsiveness/power-use graph that others don't, and a lot of that's due to software, not just hardware. It's easy to get incredible ba
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by corrral 4y ago
Having seen it in the wild I agree that it's more trouble than it's worth, and we'd be better off if the whole feature was ditched until/unless it can get a serious re-think. I'd be very surprised if the ratio of un
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by corrral 4y ago
Meanwhile some other developer is really glad their software, that only supports iOS [previous-version] and hasn't been updated for the latest Safari, isn't generating shitloads of bug reports because some of their users updated t
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by corrral 4y ago
Their Roku and AndroidTV apps are also good. I'm not sure I've ever even used the service on a piece of Apple hardware, and it's never been a problem.
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by corrral 4y ago
My claim is that macOS and iOS have far better power management than Linux or Windows, or Android, respectively. Possibly that's directly due to their BSD heritage, but I doubt it.
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by corrral 4y ago
That'd mean Linux VMs, too. There's no "allowing" docker without Linux, and if you can run Linux there's no need for them to "allow" anything further.
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by corrral 4y ago
Damn, that's the single feature I want them to add most. Literally only for porn—I doubt I'd ever have noticed the feature was missing, otherwise—but still.
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by corrral 4y ago
Keeping Mobile Safari releases in step with OS releases is helpful for developers who use webviews in their apps—which is lots of them.

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