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by csa 2y ago
Is that a referral link on HN? If so, please remove the referral part. The title is The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ .
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by csa 2y ago
> It can be impossible to get PTO until you build up hours again. You have to either quit, negotiate LWOP (often seen as a performance adverse metric on your record), or work. I’m not sure if this is your actual experience, or if you’re
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by csa 2y ago
While I agree with some of your points regarding salary, this is all just wrong: > They have expensive health benefits Hmm… maybe more expensive when compared to private tech industry jobs, but cheap compared to owning your own business.
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by csa 2y ago
> Maybe you haven’t had reasons to come across such research before No op, but I’ve “come across” a lot of education research. By “come across”, I mean I’ve read so much that it makes my eyes bleed. There is some good research that yield
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by csa 2y ago
> Just out of curiosity, what's the human lawyer baseline on that? Largely depends on how much money the client has.
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by csa 2y ago
Agree with your main sentiment. For accuracy: > quite a number of languages, such as Chinese and Japanese (and I think Korean too), are written without space between words or characters. Correct with Japanese and Chinese. Modern Korean (
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by csa 2y ago
> How many companies need people to build things from the ground up vs maintainers/janitors of complex systems? In my experience, a good growth company will have at least the three following stages that can yield a healthy ROI with
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by csa 2y ago
> Many more people know how to invert a binary tree than know how to go from an empty text file to a non-trivial mobile app distributed in an App Store. As someone who can do both but values the latter skills much more, I wonder about wh
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by csa 2y ago
Oh, fond memories. I learned BASIC programming when I was 11 in 1981 (I think that’s right) at a summer computer camp on an Apple II. I made a simplified version of lunar lander… it was ridiculously fun to make and play. One of my cohort ma
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by csa 2y ago
> If they could increase profitability by raising their prices before the tax, why wouldn’t they have already done it? Because now they have an external reason they can point to, similar to “inflation”… even if the extra charges end up b
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by csa 2y ago
> the first thing they mentioned was french language content Based on the quote above, the first thing they mentioned was “local news on radio and television”.
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by csa 2y ago
I use Firefox Focus for iOS. Is that a wrapped Apple WebKit? Also, to the downvoters to my original reply, the question I answered was about “browsers” not “browser engines”. I guess I missed the sub context.
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by csa 2y ago
Already exists in US.
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by csa 2y ago
> Higher-end restaurants make their humans even more visible and push a hibachi/omakase model… I agree with all of your points, but… These Japanese words seem to have taken on vastly new meanings in the US. 1. Hibachi is a charcoal
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by csa 2y ago
> if tuition was $0 https://sfs.mit.edu/undergraduate-students/the-cost-of-atten... I couldn’t find the number quickly, but tuition is not a big funding source for the university. They are quite generous with tuitio
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by csa 2y ago
> Believe it or not, elite universities are reaching similar heights. MIT is at roughly $20M endowment per faculty member. If you ran MIT, what do you think a good endowment amount per faculty member would be? I’m not sure $20m is far of
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by csa 2y ago
> but the papers are still in peer review Probably p-hacking with results that can’t be replicated. /s Apologies… cynical former researcher… I had to.
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by csa 2y ago
> City centers or good locations remain the same and don't magically expand or spawn out of blue Tokyo would like to say hello. IIRC, it’s the only place in Japan with a net population growth, largely due to people moving in for wor
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by csa 2y ago
> For the first three years of ownership you were stuck with the touchscreen. Tap end of left stick and hit setting on bottom left of screen (in US) with peripheral vision or a tiny fraction of a second of a glance. I mean, none of this
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by csa 2y ago
> Using a touch screen to control wiper speed seems insane. Honestly, I think that this is overblown. Tap the end of the left stick and then use left scroll wheel to adjust. Or use the voice command (e.g., “turn on wipers” or “increase w
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by csa 2y ago
> Is it common to hang laundry outside in Japan even in cities? Yes. In fact, the minami-muki (south-facing) places garner a premium precisely for this purpose — much more of direct sun.
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by csa 2y ago
Most stuff not easy to describe in a few blurbs, imho. Here’s an article (gift link, so no paywall) that describes the whole situation: https://wapo.st/4dNEf0z Good interview with Jon Stewart: https://www.youtube
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by csa 2y ago
> Their schooling is vastly different from the "Sit still, do what you're told" model that was used to train the an upcoming generation of factory workers. Not op, but this is an area I know a bit about. 1. You’re right th
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by csa 2y ago
> Knowledge work and trades couldn't be further from what public school prepares you for. Amen! K-12 in the US needs a massive overhaul, but there are (at least) two problems: 1. Deeply entrenched administrators. 2. Parents who put
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by csa 2y ago
> kids from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds have fewer opportunities to volunteer and to pursue expensive sports This is very much factored in during admissions at elite schools.
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by csa 2y ago
> The advantage is the network / badge that comes with it. Vastly overrated except for a very small number of people who didn’t already have a network and do the right kind of hustle to develop it. It happens, but it’s rare. Most of
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by csa 2y ago
> This is the root cause of the madness. Colleges insist on weighing these activities heavily in admissions decisions, so parents have no choice but to force their kids to jump through the hoops. This matters pretty much only at elite sc
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by csa 2y ago
1. Date is 2022. 2. The article seems to be Tesla-hate clickbait to me. 3. It seems like the battery got wet, and the dude seems surprised that his battery stopped working. 4. Dude bought a car in an early production run from a new manufact
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by csa 2y ago
> the network effects are largely detrimental to minority groups “… detrimental to low socioeconomic status groups, within which minorities are over-represented”. FTFY, not to be a pedant, but to highlight the fact that many white people
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by csa 2y ago
> They don’t really eat those tv nugget trash quickies meals you put in the microwave or air frier There is an ample variety of absolute shit food in Japan. It just tends to be eaten in smaller quantities. There are also a truckload of J

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