drewcoo

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by drewcoo 1y ago
As I read this I kept thinking "she seems awfully young to me" and "what did I expect?"
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by drewcoo 1y ago
The article explains systemic problems. You are rewording this systemic problem into a personal problem, blaming individual workers: > Rewarding only crisis response discourages preventive work and sends the wrong signal about what the o
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by drewcoo 1y ago
>> the purpose of a class writing exercise > how many intelligent professionals and academics don't understand this Mastery of a discipline does not imply any pedagogical knowledge, despite anything one of my childhood heroes,
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Everyone thinks their early 20s were the golden age of the place they lived Nope. This person is not terribly insightful. > the more rigid monochronic frame that dominates the rest of the country. In polychronic cultures, time is se
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by drewcoo 1y ago
It's probable that most complainers are optimists. Why complain unless you think it will help somehow? How can you make things better if you have nothing to complain about? If you don't think things can be better, are you really a
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> It really does feel like most tech leaders are having an internal struggle that they externalize and make all of our problems. A lot of times people create problems and can't take responsibility for their own actions, so they blam
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by drewcoo 1y ago
In the Line of Fire
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Video games are a canonical example of using tricks to drive extrinsic motivation, not intrinsic. There's this thing everyone tries to use to make otherwise undesirable tasks addictive . . . gamification.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Talk to a psychologist about it. That research exists.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Can you cure cancer on your own? Cancer is many, many things. It may not even be a thing we can "cure" together, whatever that means. We may as well ask if we can cure Mondays.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> how that experiment ended (not as taught from Texas-approved history books) The Soviets lifted an unprecedented number of people out of poverty. This was unequalled until China in the following century. They would likely have achieved
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by drewcoo 1y ago
In our system, the rich will convince some of the poor that they _could_ be rich. Together, those groups will feed on the rest of the poor. The rich have figured out how to deal with unionists, socialists, and communists. This is not the sa
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Extremes of wealth are caused by hoarding, not by sharing.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
The noble savage myth is patronizing. And wrong. Wherever you go, people turn out to be people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage
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by drewcoo 1y ago
We go to BRICs.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
So better 2 moxen than 4 because 4 is not prime? I haven't played in a while . . .
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Never been to Powell's, then? If B&N or Borders had been run like that, I might have liked them. https://www.powells.com
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I think you're thinking of the legend of DOS and mixing it with this story. https://www.geekwire.com/2012/csi-redmond-forensic-analysis-...
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I had no idea this had (or was worthy of) a name. That's the whole point of coverage diffs. The tough ones are the tests that sometimes fail and give you the same coverage results - the problem is not in the code under test! And the la
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by drewcoo 1y ago
The slogan matters. "Look for the union label" meant a lot to Americans back when there were unions.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Aside: why is all the science against omniscience?
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by drewcoo 1y ago
If there were, it would replace jury selection.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
To every point there is a counterpoint. So what?
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I can't tell from the article. Is this just human nudes based on people today? What about classical art? Full-frontal or butts, too? What about Romulan porn? This is the same state that has nude beaches everywhere, so it seems odd to m
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> I’m not sure why this isn’t just called mock-testing. A mock is a different kind of test double. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_double
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by drewcoo 1y ago
They're dealing with planar graphs, graphs embedded in planes. Faces are not edges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar_graph#Euler's_formula
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Debeaking keeps angry chickens from beaking others.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
And safer is often slower to avoid timing attacks.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Gitmo is a US naval base, thus considered American soil by US authorities. That's the difference. Well . . . a difference. Something like 95% of Gitmo detainees were eventually determined not to be terrorists and were freed. I expect N
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Common sense is what you wish other people knew. Yes, you can teach people your common sense.

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