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by desine 5y ago
Thanks. For the record I meant nothing negative by it, sometimes I'm just in a mental state that's a bit more antagonistic, as I switch over from other, less professional websites ;-).
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by desine 5y ago
No, my entire post was that I wasn't confident about anything, getting just one viewpoint. I rather dislike the implication you're making here. I'm not going to crucify Felleisen over a single blog post, even from a source
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by desine 5y ago
Yes, agreed, for the most part, but it's also kind of painting with broad strokes. Those of us on the spectrum do not approach social interactions with the same mental framework as people without ASD. But from that rather large group
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by desine 5y ago
Yeah I just started picking up Lisp with SICP during the lockdown. AFAIK this is the first time it's hit the front of HN or any other pages I follow
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by desine 5y ago
>Matthias behaves this way consistently, is unapologetic for it, and when pressed will explain that his "challenging behavior" (i.e. abuse) is some kind of test of your ideas, your willpower, or your capacity for success. This
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by desine 5y ago
Ah, you're right, thank you. That does change the context a bit.
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by desine 5y ago
Beautiful Racket was one of the sites that helped me learn the language/toolset, along with HTDP, by Felleisen. This is troubling, but the lack of detail and context is also troubling. I would wager most of us in the CS community hav
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by desine 5y ago
The article seems to potray Holden as surprisingly competent despite lack of training, and aside from the tail drag, perfectly executed. But it was just meant as a little internet humor snark rather than a direct attack for a rather innocuo
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by desine 5y ago
I too like to compare myself to the most elite of "flying by the seat of my pants" examples of expertise in the record of human history. I just usually save my hubris for my performance reviews rather than shitposting on the web
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by desine 5y ago
I absolutely love the platypus and what it represents. It seems often that in education (of any level, of any area of study), students are taught some basic rules and forms. Then, as an exercise, they are given a challenge to those rules a
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by desine 5y ago
I don't think you're an expert of expertise so therefore I reject your analysis of expertism
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by desine 5y ago
>Unless you're an expert in a field, you are not scientifically literate in that field. Really? There's nothing in between expert level and being able to judge if data was shoehorned or was a natural fit? Only an expert in a
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by desine 5y ago
Did kids wear masks while socializing before we invented school?
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by desine 5y ago
It’s been a religion from day 1. PCR tests being run at too high of a cycle count was a conspiracy theory until it wasn’t. Hospitals being incentivized to mark any possible patients as COVID cases for extra government money was a conspirac
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by desine 5y ago
Call me a backwards traditionalist but I prefer to keep social skill development that has worked for millennia.
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by desine 5y ago
I would never ask my kids that and I would try to find a school that does not enforce a mask policy. Especially with children, learning non verbal communication is very important.
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by desine 5y ago
Thanks, I had not heard of this, but will definitely give it a read. Zen definitely does go a bit into lofty metaphysics, enough to lose some of the more casual readers. Shop Class as Soulcraft is very much in the physical world. I think
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by desine 5y ago
This is one of my favorite books. Changed the way I looked at work and what I wanted to do with my life (always keeping a tangible output for my efforts). Along with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the pair are wonderful motorc
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by desine 5y ago
With no disrespect (especially with children, I know their destructive tendencies well enough), this sounds like a shunning of responsibility, and irks me. Our cheap, disposable consumer goods are ending up in landfills, our plastic waste
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by desine 6y ago
* It wasn't a teacher that said that, it was the creator of Common Core. Please, take the time to see the link in my first post. * I didn't say education was a zero sum game, I said that forcing this pedagogical style was harming
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by desine 6y ago
As a West Coast native, I wasn't familiar with this rather significant piece of American Natural History, until I started reading The Overstory, by Richard Powers. I highly recommend the book, it features several heartfelt narratives
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by desine 6y ago
>I'd prefer if you kept HN conversations civil even if you disagree with the person you're communicating with. Same, which is why I will continue to walk away from straw man arguments.
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by desine 6y ago
No, again. It's not the helping less priveleged students that's the issue. The issue is forcing successful students to use a new system, regardless of their comprehension. I'm not sure how familiar you are with common core,
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by desine 6y ago
Nowhere did I imply education was a zero sum game. What I did mention was that students who were able to comprehend mathematics using the traditional arithmetic techniques were not getting credit for their work, because the education syste
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by desine 6y ago
https://youtu.be/LQ8Nr3_2724 Often the war on white privilege manifests itself as preventing white success rather than helping PoC. Families that help their children with math homework have been irritated that students ofte
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by desine 6y ago
They’re related but not competitors. Ink is a generalized story tool, handling a lot of the organization and management of different storylines, and is meant to be embedded into a larger project. IF languages tend to incorporate more of the
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by desine 6y ago
>No, this is completely impossible and noone has ever done it. Pedantic devil's advocate - nobody has claimed to do it. When dealing with international espionage and possibly the DoD or DHS examining the drive, I wouldn't bet
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by desine 6y ago
I have a few HDs with bullet holes in them, and the platters are still intact. I've messed around with a lot of drives and never shattered a disk like glass. I've heard that there's labs that specialize in reading disks wit
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by desine 6y ago
The file is still there. A regular delete just tells the disk that the segments of memory are available to be overwritten. Zeroing out (or /dev/urandom) the memory is an option, but even that is not 100% safe, especially when it
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by desine 6y ago
which is likely a common operation in flight control software ;-)

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