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by dqpb 5y ago
If you monitor everything but still require exams, you’re doing something wrong.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Here's my question: For an interior windowless room, what's the expected CO2 concentration after someone's been in there for 8 hours? I'd bet $1000 their HVAC system will be inadequate.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I've had two System 76 laptops in the last 3 years. With the first one, I found PopOS! to be very glitchy, and battery life was less than 1 hour. About a year in the hardware failed. I then got a second newer System76 laptop and with t
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by dqpb 5y ago
On the flip side, it's amazing how many minds you can change with a small demo captured in a simple slide deck.
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by dqpb 5y ago
All solutions to all problems were at some point just 3 years away.
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by dqpb 5y ago
This dialog isn't really about Mathematica.
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Ask HN: How do you choose the license for your open source project?
5 points by dqpb 5y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why do AMP pages frequently fail to load?
5 points by dqpb 5y ago|2 comments
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by dqpb 5y ago
Before iPhones, humans had a rather impressive ability to create a mental map of a city. Upon seeing or hearing an address, they could rapidly plan a path to the location with nothing more than their own mind!
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by dqpb 5y ago
Munger Hall, more like Munger Hell! I feel claustrophobic even if I’m in windowed room where the windows don’t open. You basically have to cross your fingers and pray that the HVAC system is superb and will remain superb indefinitely and wi
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by dqpb 5y ago
Lyrics Your wants desires Needs and wishes Will be duly noted Processed filed and cataloged Labeled and encoded Turned into sitcom dialog And advertising slogans We've got a box to put in your brain
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Hard Wired by Tracy Chapman(youtube.com)
3 points by dqpb 5y ago|1 comments
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by dqpb 5y ago
What do you mean by self-written?
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by dqpb 5y ago
> An “economic problem” is one which requires the allocation of limited resources in order to solve a problem. That’s not an “economic problem”, that’s a resource allocation problem. Economics is the study of the statistical, game theore
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by dqpb 5y ago
As a counterpoint, I upvoted and favorited this post before seeing your comment.
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by dqpb 5y ago
With about $100b net worth each, I’m going to guess they feel just fine.
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by dqpb 5y ago
But the complexity of the network can result in emergent properties that are at a different layer of abstraction than fitting pipes together.
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by dqpb 5y ago
It depends on the scale though right? Plumbing a city has different problems than plumbing a bathroom.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I don't care about your degree, I care if you can solve problems. If you can't solve a simple leetcode problem, why should I expect you to solve anything else?
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by dqpb 5y ago
> anybody who can game the leetcode exam The best CS class I ever took made all previous exams available to us. They also assured us that our exams would only include questions that have appeared before. The only way to game that was to
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by dqpb 5y ago
It’s an open source library, not a service. So if you fork it, it can’t be killed off.
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by dqpb 5y ago
My recommendation is to make your choice based on the merits of the options, rather than trying to keep up with the latest trend. It's more satisfying to choose something with less mindshare for your own reason, than something with mor
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by dqpb 5y ago
Tell that to China’s 100 years of shame.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Isn’t that true for many drugs?
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by dqpb 5y ago
Also quite sad to see all those k9’s dying of heat stroke.
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by dqpb 5y ago
You can simply look at the prevalence of religion and faith-based thinking to see utterly confused everyone is. When the majority population believes in omniscient cosmic puppeteers, how much logic can you really expect?
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by dqpb 5y ago
But good actors can also have words/actions taken out of context, no?
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by dqpb 5y ago
It depends on what they represent.
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by dqpb 5y ago
The best thing you can do to increase cognitive performance is to learn to think abstractly.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Think about how difficult systems engineering is. Then realize that everything is systems engineering. But, very few people making decisions are systems engineers. Ad-hoc heuristic decision making + political in-fighting can get you off the

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