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by downut 2y ago
This is the way I taught my math classes at two different universities while I was in grad school. I even used chalk. As I worked through the proof or problem, writing out everything in full meant we could have an interactive flow where i
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by downut 2y ago
I get spam newsletters that I never signed up for from my alma mater, the GaTech ChE school. The tiny unsubscribe button 404s! Into the spam bucket it goes.
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by downut 2y ago
Without meaning to be critical, but just to expand the conversation a bit, what does the word "beef" mean in your comment? Let's broaden the scope, and consider lean and fatty versions of say "grass fed beef" vs. &q
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by downut 2y ago
My kid went through a phase in Middle School where she believed that in order to fit in she had to make sure her grades were not "too good". So she sabotaged herself for a few months. Once we got wind of what was going on there
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by downut 2y ago
I very carefully read through this issue years ago when Christopher Hitchens came to his aid. Yeah, that Christopher Hitchens, the much later Iraq War II fanatic. I'm not going to repeat the exercise but at the time it was a teaching
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by downut 2y ago
I've read most of his books and pretty much bought into a lot of his analysis around "manufacturing consent", corporate power, etc, 35 years ago. I still think it's largely correct . However, I also waded into the Khmer
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by downut 2y ago
This is what I was looking for. Because I learned this from informal situations in the US something like 30 years ago, it stuck. But, surprise, surprise, the pronunciation was just an approximation, and led me astray. Mordida it shall be f
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by downut 2y ago
I would be much obliged if you could say why. I really love to learn these vernacular differences.
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by downut 2y ago
Muchas gracias, I am but a beginner still in Mexican Spanish, however my only slightly engaged over the years gringo brain remembers "mordita" instead of "mordida". google translate says for both: "bite". I ha
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by downut 2y ago
I've driven around a lot of dogs sleeping in the street in Mexico. Everybody else does too, claro que si. Now imagine a child. No one is going to threaten that child. Assholes exist everywhere in the world but I would walk across an
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by downut 2y ago
It doesn't take you 3.
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by downut 2y ago
I'm a gringo and have driven all over NW Mexico: BCS/BCN and Sonora. So cities: Guaymas, Nogales, Puerto Peñasco, Mexicali, Tijuana, Ensenada, La Paz, Cabo, etc. With my wife and occasional daughter, we've city-hiked exten
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by downut 2y ago
None of the US comments are true in the large areas of Georgia and Arizona that I'm familiar with. Sidewalks are very uncommon. One side of street only, if even there. Which is problematic at multilane intersections. Then the kid h
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Situational Awareness(scottaaronson.blog)
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by downut 2y ago
I am unconvinced with this log linear extrapolation argument. But I've got no strong evidence one way or another: it's an extrapolation.
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by downut 2y ago
Why? You proved you're competent to the potential suitor by obtaining an offer. They got some valuable quality candidate interviewing experience which can be difficult to achieve, and you got a rock solid tangible improvement in y
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by downut 2y ago
EDIT: Grrr! This comment meant for the GP, sorry. I think there is an unstated underlying assumption in this comment that "higher performing" implies "drop-in transferable technical/social skills" legible to the ta
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by downut 2y ago
- there is friction for an employee with established systems for dealing with childcare/k-12 school to potentially have to start all over again figuring out those systems. You could subsume all of these points into "moving house i
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by downut 2y ago
I have done[1] my own taxes most years over the last 4 decades, but only in the last few years has the Federal IRS fixed my errors for me and sent me more money[2] than I expected. Pretty cool. I moved house from AZ to GA in 2022 and both
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by downut 2y ago
La Boqueria, La Merced, oh let's see in Paris, Marche Couvert San Quentin, La Libertad in Guadalajara, I could go on and on. What on earth could you do with the stuff you can buy there, but hardly anywhere in the US. I should go out
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by downut 2y ago
With a kitchen and a washer/dryer? I have a stayed in hundreds, maybe into thousands of reputable hotels in many countries over 40 years. It is such a drag when this tired line comes out. 98% of our AirBnB stays have been fantastic, a
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by downut 2y ago
I had this precise MO happen to me in Romania, only I got a "cancellation" message at about midnight the evening before. Plumbing issues. "We have another property that is much better instead." I am not a trusting so
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by downut 2y ago
I made myself learn modern cmake after using archaic cmake and programming hundreds of lines of cmake functions. Aren't the variable scope semantics kind of fun in an admittedly sadomasochistic way? I'm not particularly competen
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by downut 2y ago
In 1993 or so g++ couldn't do it, but I suspect that all c++ compilers today would. Then why would I need anything else? However the point is that when dealing with proprietary hardware devices you occasionally get a situation where
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by downut 2y ago
I think it would be quite mentally difficult to be successful at writing device drivers (any hardware device, many different fields) if a person had the slightest reservation about debugging. I've got past a lot of blockers by creativ
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by downut 2y ago
Gambusia to the rescue! Might need some cover to reduce the predator problem. Experimenting would be part of the fun.
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by downut 2y ago
No problems with Herons? Here in suburban Atlanta I have several different kinds visit our big pond daily, including Great Blue. Fun to watch them fish. Your pond looks lovely.
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by downut 3y ago
"... hardware sales motion meant that you were paying through the teeth for compilers..." For Fortran? My memory is hazy but at NASA NAS a bunch of us were using gcc/g++ starting ~1990. g++ was... an adventure. Building m
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by downut 3y ago
Thank you for this pointer. I have been studying coroutines off and on for a while and my google/ddg foo is weak and did not find this. Or maybe google/ddg are getting weak. Sadness. I was using David Mazières' tutorial[1
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by downut 3y ago
This [1] cured me of Girard. Read that and then read the rest of the comments here. Don't worry, it's very well written and quite funny. Also provides an implicit side view of Silicon Valley culture. [1] https://ar

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