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by eszed 3y ago
I was fortunate enough to experience death (I got better!) a few years ago. I passed out, and then came back to awareness six or seven days later. It was a piece of piss. Easy. One moment I was there, then I wasn't, then I was again. I
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by eszed 3y ago
I am not sure it's that much different. Back then - when vastly fewer people went to college - the degree itself was the credential for a professional job, but it didn't much matter what you'd studied. That may still apply
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by eszed 3y ago
I've studied (and taught undergraduates) in Britain, and their three year degrees are tightly focused on students' courses of study. They don't (by and large) go in for the General Education courses that take up so much of US
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by eszed 3y ago
Yes, that is the university model, but it's no longer how universities work. "Faculty governance" is dead, and cadres of professional administrators run things. How that has turned out depends on who you ask.
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by eszed 3y ago
I used to (20+ years ago, now) buy a few rolls of dollar coins a week from my bank. Amusingly, they added them to their currency order just for me - the bank manager informally made me promise I'd keep asking for them - that's how
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by eszed 3y ago
I was hoping this would be far more interesting, like how some Ukraine-based tech company was supporting some kind of important dependency whose SLA couldn't be met, but it wasn't a violation, because it was an act of war.... So
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by eszed 3y ago
The final proposal didn't involve beaches: it would spread the silt across the floor of the Java Sea. The calculation I kept waiting for, but never saw, was how many square miles of ocean floor this would take up, and what the damage w
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by eszed 3y ago
Indeed. My circadian rhythm is set later than some of my colleagues, so if I'm working on something between 2200 and 2400, I set emails to be sent at ~0700 - 0800, when I know they'll be starting work. I get no sort of he's-a
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by eszed 3y ago
In regards to your tangent, it's because drinks are not the attraction, so people are relatively price-insensitive to (or price-unaware of) them. People think "I want a burger", price-compare burgers, and choose the place wit
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by eszed 3y ago
Google used to (like, fifteen years ago) go to enormous lengths to break or cripple any kind of SEO - unpredictably revising their algorithm, hand-reviewing sites, and other things that they wouldn't even admit to or hint about (for fe
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by eszed 6y ago
You're right that a lot of the entitled screaming is ridiculous, but I think you're missing some of the very real problems that come with an influx of new money and (especially) second homes. I grew up in a tourist area, and thoug
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by eszed 6y ago
> how few typos (lol) I have had the same experience, though. Looking away from the screen is a good technique. I tend to fold my laptop screen down until I can't quite see it. I find, regardless of the medium in which I'm ta
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by eszed 6y ago
>lauded mainly by professors who can’t stand that their student’s attention can’t be held captive by their awful soapboxing I spent five years as a university professor, and I did not care at all whether my students were taking notes o
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by eszed 6y ago
You're right, but there is value in the community of accountability that churches provide. Fasting, tithing, charity work, and self-examination are objectively worthwhile, but not things I'm likely to muster up the will-power to d
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by eszed 6y ago
There's a brilliant theatrical moment that neither reading nor listening to this play can ever quite re-create. In the final act, while characters from both time-periods are sharing the stage, Augustus/Gus (the younger brother in
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by eszed 6y ago
The bit that usually went "whoosh" over my students' heads was what happened to the Regency characters following the end of the play. You kind of have to put it together from clues dropped throughout: - On the evening of her
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by eszed 6y ago
I had the immense privilege, for a few years, of teaching this play to classes of university students. (I'm still somewhat proud of the lecture I devised, with maths and pictures, illustrating iteration -- and of the gasps it invariabl
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by eszed 8y ago
> the common folk in a town have to pay at least somewhat for the municipal broadband even if they do not use it Keep in mind here that this was the Comcast model, as well. The town was going to pay to expand the infrastructure, then Com
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by eszed 8y ago
Maybe.... Wiring up all the seats wouldn't be trivial, especially in a concrete building, like the National. Also, and I'm speaking from sad experience here, it'd be waaaay easier to persuade a sponsor to underwrite branded g
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by eszed 8y ago
Does anyone know more about the underlying software? QLab[1] is the standard theatre light/sound/video/etc tool, and I can think of a couple of ways you could (in theory) build this in there. Is that what they did, or somethi
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by eszed 12y ago
Because housing instability creates social harm. Tech salaries would (probably!) keep pace with the demand for non-rent controlled San Francisco housing, but teachers, cops, firefighters -- let alone retirees -- incomes won't likewise