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by fatbird 5y ago
Staffing is a pipeline problem: a good ratio might not help a particular issue, but you'll never be able to address those issues without it.
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by fatbird 5y ago
Below, you say but at the school level what can they do? Lots, actually, but it's very resource constrained, so once again, the relationship between money-poor schools and bad students plays out. There are a variety of diversion prog
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by fatbird 5y ago
Any teacher in a school considered "inner city" (i.e., poor, relatively high crime) will tell you that there is often an anti-achievement culture present (and it's not correlated with race or ethnic background). My wife teac
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by fatbird 5y ago
I will never forget: "Hey, how much does that satphone cost?" "Who gives a shit?"
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by fatbird 5y ago
I see you.
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by fatbird 5y ago
People here keep citing the wargames with retired Gen. Riper, who sank the USN repeatedly from the perspective of a non-peer adversary using non-technological methods to organize, and disposable, low value swarming assets to overwhelm Ameri
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by fatbird 5y ago
IIRC, the embarassment of the Swedish incident was that US attack subs didn't catch the Swedish sub, which lay dormant on the seafloor until it could pop up and blast the carrier in the props.
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by fatbird 5y ago
People that like power for power's sake becoming anal about the people they have control over, under the guise of "consistency" and "order" It's easy to say this if you've never been on one, where you se
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by fatbird 5y ago
Because they're the greatest peacetime weapons system ever invented. Until hot war breaks out, which seems increasingly unlikely under the umbrella of nuclear weapons and MAD, they are the premier force projection tool around--in es
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by fatbird 5y ago
Can't wait for Gruber to start NFTing each of his Daring Fireball blog posts. He's done extremely well selling a single tasteful banner ad for, last I checked, $6,000/week on his site. Blog posts by popular authors are actu
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by fatbird 5y ago
A very fair point. It was my impression that the bloating of the court eunech population was considered a sign of imperial decline. If the empire wasn't expanding, advancement was mostly available through court intrigue, and drama wa
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by fatbird 5y ago
I'm starting to think historians will look back at our age and say "it was the MBAs who doomed them", much the same way that historians look at China's history and point to an excess of court eunechs as the reason this o
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by fatbird 5y ago
one central piece of management: having very hard conversations with people while still treating them with respect and dignity. I'd like to highlight this. I'd like to frame it and tape it to the head of every founder and entre
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by fatbird 5y ago
Isn't that Ajuc's point? In the 50s only Russia and the US had nukes; North Korea was a client state of Russia and China, and had just recently been in war with the US. If a nuke went off in NK in the 50s, everyone would assume,
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by fatbird 5y ago
None of the "it was all their secret plan!" explanations make sense because whatever the plan, it could have been done more directly and easily (and probably more cheaply), and without all the drama and negative publicity. If it w
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by fatbird 6y ago
Ironically, UML diagrams are still very useful for their immediate purpose, whatever that is. I frequently use timing diagrams just for my own sake because having to articulate something always adds clarity, showing you where you were hand
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by fatbird 6y ago
I lived and worked in the area for four years, working in Pleasant Prairie, living in Kenosha and then Oak Creak. Parent is right, it's a strange place because of the mixture of so many influences: the proximity of Chicago and Milwauk
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by fatbird 6y ago
All of these, plus not being guaranteed that an error will actually be thrown to be caught rather than just hanging the process. In our case, we have a variety of tasks to carry out repeatedly on a set of entities, and the only reliable wa
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by fatbird 6y ago
I'm using it for a major system in the industrial process control segment--our piece is a dashboard displaying timestream data and KPIs based on it, and detecting alert conditions and notifying people. Were I to do it over again, I pro
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by fatbird 6y ago
A couple tips on public speaking: 1. You're not speaking to a group, you're speaking to each individual in a group. Your voice should be pitched as if you're in a one-on-one conversation with someone, and in a group, you can
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by fatbird 6y ago
Yes, they're an expansionist rising power and a repressive authoritarian religious dictatorship. So what? No one at the State Dep't thinks otherwise, or is shamed by Iranian propaganda, except insofar as that propaganda is effec
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by fatbird 6y ago
One is not an apologist for a repressive regime when one dispassionately analyzes the realpolitik of their circumstances. It's not a defense of the Ayatollahs to observe that, from the perspective of the Iranian gov't., the U.S
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by fatbird 6y ago
Pakistan, India, and China have all had nukes for decades, and are all mortal enemies, and there've even been multiple border skirmishes between pairs, without it ever escalating to open war, let alone nukes. No matter how belligerent
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by fatbird 6y ago
Because treaties like JCPOA aren't based on trust, they're based on verification. Trust, in the sense you're describing it (the way a person might trust another based on their past behaviour) doesn't really exist betwee
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by fatbird 6y ago
I thought this as well but didn't want to get sidetracked on a specific. Perl was one of my first languages and regexes were one of the big tools I started using, while I was processing text files. Once parsing lines of ASCII stopped
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by fatbird 6y ago
His example: $ SOME_ENVVAR=... some_command <args> Is wrong. SOME_ENVVAR is set only for the invocation some_command; at the next prompt, the value of SOME_ENVVAR is what it was before the invocation. To persist the setting o
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by fatbird 6y ago
Arguably, that's good design, at least in terms of actual success. Where is Ruby relative to Python? "Dumbed down" means good pedagogical language--it's always had an advantage there as well in scientific computing. A
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by fatbird 6y ago
In my experience those sigils fell into the same trap that Hungarian notation discovered. A few sigils work well because they provide immediate comprehension, but there's a tipping point where they become noise and a barrier because t
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by fatbird 6y ago
The fact that PHP was, in the era of shared hosting accounts, the default scripting language was like a slingshot maneuver around the sun. It's hard to understate the incredible momentum that surge of casual users brought to it that n
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by fatbird 6y ago
Several of the PMs and UX people at the digital services agency where I work have compsci degrees or some experience as developers. Transitioning into developer-adjacent roles is a kind of graceful exit from development where your experie

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