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by dugmartin 1y ago
> You should also remove any students from classrooms whom routinely distract from others' learning. You can't do this without getting sued (at least in Massachusetts). Source: my wife is a long-time elementary school teacher
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by dugmartin 1y ago
The "design for unmaintainability" problem has been around for a while. I remember helping a friend change his plugs on this Ford Ranger in the early 90s. The closest two plugs to the firewall required you to climb into the engi
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by dugmartin 1y ago
If you would like to visually play with a Markov chain model my non-profit research org built a Markov plugin for, CODAP, our data analysis tool: https://codap.concord.org/app/static/dg/en/cert/index
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by dugmartin 1y ago
Confimed. I live in the tiny bit of "moderate" color that is dipping down from Vermont into Western Mass. We are in a drought and the leaves seem to be just drying up and dropping instead of changing colors. I'm hoping the
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by dugmartin 1y ago
As someone that grew up partly in Southern Illinois with lots of relatives in Southern Indiana I can tell you they have a great deal in common. Both regions are very "southern" culturally, with very distinct accents. Illinois is
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by dugmartin 1y ago
In the US, the cook and busboys and other support staff normally also receive tips as part of the "tipping out" system where the servers split part of their tips. It is voluntary but not really - if you, as a server, don't t
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by dugmartin 1y ago
And if you want a solid integrated i3/Sway desktop I'd recommend checking out Regolith ( https://regolith-desktop.com/ ). I've been running it for years and its great.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
I haven't read the book but I've known Lou for probably 20 years and he is a very smart, very pragmatic software engineer who also happens to be a great guy. I look forward to when this is launched so I can buy a copy.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
When I lived in suburbs and worked downtown in the ‘90s they used to sell bottles of beer out of big iced tubs right outside the rail siding down in Union Station. It was usually a fun ride back to Downer’s Grove.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
It shows this 3/4 the way down on their homepage ( https://mathacademy.com/ ): > Math Academy's courses are fully accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
In the US when I was a kid in a '70s most grocery stores and supermarkets had a Brach's candy bin/wall, labelled "Pick-A-Mix", where you could buy candy by weight. The only time we got any was when my grandmother w
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by dugmartin 1y ago
If you live in VS Code there is a notes plugin that lets you create and manage Markdown notes in the sidebar. I usually create one note per repo and then pin the tab in that repo. If you work on a lot of projects it is a great way to segr
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by dugmartin 1y ago
It caused a lot of muscle weakness in the legs for two members of my family. The weakness went away for one of them when they stopped taking it.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
Our 15 year old part Maine Coon that passed away last year was a massive extrovert. He would sit on our front porch waiting for strangers to walk by just so he could run out and flop down on the sidewalk for belly pets. I used to tell him
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by dugmartin 1y ago
If you use something like Antlr ( https://www.antlr.org/ ) it has visualization tools and an online tester ( http://lab.antlr.org/ ). There are also tools for visualizing generic EBNF grammars like this: http
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by dugmartin 1y ago
My dad was a telephone engineer/manager with GTE in the US. As a kid in the mid 1970s he used to take me with him to the local exchange building to deliver donuts to the guys on duty (he was that kind of boss). The security was inter
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by dugmartin 1y ago
For engineers it would make sense to bring them in as warrant officers which is where you put technical experts that don’t lead.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
I do this also. My tweak is to make the syntax error just a sentence of what tiny step needs to be done next. Then the next day I turn that sentence into a comment, do what needs to be done next and then delete the comment. It me the dua
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by dugmartin 1y ago
The are treated with creosote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote
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by dugmartin 1y ago
Our local library is starting up a tool lending section. They also have "fix it" days every few months run by volunteers where you can show up with something to fix and the volunteers will work with you to fix it.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
These still exist in the US but the membership has plummeted. Some examples: - Freemasons - Odd Fellows - Fraternal Order of Eagles - Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks - Loyal Order of Moose We have an Eagle&
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by dugmartin 1y ago
Totally off topic but this is the first time I've seen (or noticed) an ICP license link in a footer. I was curious so I looked it up ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license ) and its been in effect since 2000.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
This can also be done using row group metadata within the parquet file. The row group metadata can include the range values of ordinals so you can "partition" on timestamps without having to have a file per time range.
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by dugmartin 1y ago
fyi, I've done something similar and the cleanest method for leader election is to use the web locks api: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Locks_A... It is supported by all brows
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by dugmartin 1y ago
In the late 90s there was a manager where I worked at the time where you actually felt relieved she they scheduled a meeting for one reason: she scheduled meetings to be 50 minutes long and no matter what she would end them promptly at 50 m
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by dugmartin 1y ago
Yes - they built a huge new library in the town next over as the old one was overflowing with books and then only moved about 1/5 of the books over when it was completed. They disappeared the entire CS section. But it has about 5 unu
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by dugmartin 2y ago
These days I use this VS Code extension and have 1 note pinned as the first tab per repo. It acts as both a temp scratchpad and long term note location. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dionmunk...
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I make the mistake every few years of picking up my battered paperback copy and then end up spending an entire weekend reading the entire thing again. Such a good set of stories. Mike’s reply to the radio operator when they stress test hi
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by dugmartin 2y ago
The one that always bites me is Excel truncating the leading zero in US zip codes (they start with 0 in the Northeast US). I’m wondering if that would have happened if Microsoft was located in Boston instead of Seattle.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I graduated in 1992 with my undergrad in CS - my CS books were $100+ per class back then. I think the Dragon Book was $140.

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