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by flatline 6y ago
Our state (NM) has proposed mask wearing, social distancing, isolation by classroom, and alternating schedules to achieve 50% capacity. Yet still they may not open. At the same time, teachers don’t generally get much support financial or ot
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by flatline 6y ago
My experience with lay practitioners (such as myself) is that you may have to try a few different things to find something that works while living a regular life. The Mind Illuminated, the Sedona Method, Louise Hay, the work of the stoics,
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by flatline 6y ago
I'd say that's a false dichotomy. Lots of kids won't have access to a safe environment during the day without school. There will be no visibility for those suffering abuse. Physical abuse will be worse with a kid at home with
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by flatline 6y ago
The complaint is that he was being dismissive of racism in the field by saying it's just the training data. Technically correct, but missing the larger picture - who is generating this training data? Doesn't his comment subtly att
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by flatline 6y ago
We have a prominent AI researcher being ostracized for a tweet (and presumably a more general attitude we don't see out of context) that marginalizes people of color, reflecting a larger problem of systemic racism, particularly in acad
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by flatline 6y ago
I would say, there is some complexity in reading (and writing) the thing. But there is probably not as much complexity in using it. And you are explicitly codifying the complexity in one place, that would presumably still exist in a dynamic
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by flatline 6y ago
It is not the most feature-rich generic system but it's come a long way since the earliest revisions and does have some niceties: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....
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by flatline 6y ago
What is unnecessarily complex about TypeScript? It's JavaScript, with static typing plus type inference, and pretty nice generics. The ecosystem of modern JS surrounding it is horribly complex but TypeScript itself seems like a fairly
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by flatline 6y ago
Indian land was taken over the course of hundreds of years of false promises and violated treaties. European settlers were predominately the ones drawing the maps, and consistently taking what was not only not theirs to begin with, but what
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by flatline 6y ago
> unnecessary expenses and every growing administrative bloat This is a problem, and yet, I’m unsure how “unnecessary” that administrative overhead really is. If you went to college in the 70s you didn’t have all that. But college wasn’t
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by flatline 6y ago
I worked for a company that put stuff like this on people’s systems. Small software shop, I think one of the owners was just a control freak. The business was successful and otherwise seemingly well run, I’ve certainly worked at worse place
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by flatline 6y ago
If you want to read best sellers from five years ago they are great. If you are willing to work the queue you can get new stuff, just not on your time table. If you are into anything the least bit esoteric and/or aren’t organized with
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by flatline 6y ago
And yet I have seen other code bases become true unmaintainable messes after so long a time, even by their creators. DF works remarkably well. I know he has gone through a few large refactorings in the past out of necessity. I doubt the cod
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by flatline 6y ago
This is more free market capitalism than democracy per se. Facebook is not state run media and Verizon is deciding where to spend it’s money - or in this case, not. I’m not sure what “the people” really have to do with it, except that Veriz
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by flatline 6y ago
Yes - I really like his writing pre-Ulysses. I have tried to read that book for years. There are parts of it I enjoyed, it was just too much effort for the reward to tackle the whole thing.
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by flatline 6y ago
> Your last two works have been more amusing and exciting to write than they will ever be to read. That pretty well sums up my experience with Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake as well, though to be fair I have never given the latter much of a
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by flatline 6y ago
From your previous comment: > I'm looking at the generation of white males in their 30 and it is just sad. What was done to their dreams and opportunities was a crime. Does the same not apply to all the black males, females, etc., w
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by flatline 6y ago
The operator of the first private prison in the US came to speak at a class of mine back in the 90s. They provided a minimum-security facility in an old hotel in Denver. The owner was very sincere, they honestly believed that they could pro
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by flatline 6y ago
The number of daily cases nationwide, as well as the number of deaths, has been steadily dropping since the peak: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona... That being said we know practi
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by flatline 6y ago
Meditation has similar effects - some people will have a single mind-blowing experience and a lot of their problems go away at once. Others practice for years and slowly whittle away at the sharper corners of their mind. The problem is, you
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by flatline 6y ago
Except all retail and restaurants have not closed. I live in a state that has had one of the most aggressive and successful responses to the virus, and people are still out and about in nice weather. The big box stores and groceries were op
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by flatline 6y ago
> Why in the world would you get a completely different answer to a very simple question based solely on which device answers your question? Because the phone has location services enabled and the pod does not? Just a guess but they are
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by flatline 6y ago
Open competition among standards is the way adoption has mostly happened at least since the VHS/Betamax days. Otherwise it’s decision by committee and/or fiat which can sometimes be a net benefit but more often than not standardiz
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by flatline 6y ago
It is currently the leasing cause of death in the US, I feel like there is legitimate reason for concern, if not alarm. No, it’s not going to kill 5% of the population, especially not if hospitals remain at or below capacity. But give it ti
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by flatline 6y ago
I drew a person and it just said a bunch of stuff about freedom of expression and started erasing it. Then I started just drawing loops and it said I was drawing a hurricane.
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by flatline 6y ago
In my 20+ year career I only recall working at one place that provided paid sick leave, and that company only provided two weeks of annual vacation. Even if everyone worked from home the full 2-3 weeks they were feeling the least bit off fr
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by flatline 6y ago
For a well-organized team with top of the line collab tools? Perhaps, if everyone is comfortable with working from home, but I'm still skeptical. Finding myself in a management position, coordinating the efforts of a medium-size develo
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by flatline 6y ago
Assuming it’s about as bad as the flu, fine, but we have herd immunity to the flu via vaccines and antibodies, plus people with the flu are symptomatic relatively quickly. Infect the entire US population with covid-19 and you lose ca. 0.5%
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by flatline 6y ago
I have a six and nine year old. We are both working full time and even with a sitter the kids only get a couple hours of “school” in per day, tops. The six year old really not so much. If one of our jobs goes away we may actually be able to
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by flatline 6y ago
My experience with common core has been pretty awesome FWIW. I didn’t see some of the stuff our daughter did in first and second grade till the end of high school and college. No more rote arithmetic applications, it presses for actual comp

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