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2y ago
Wow. I would never guess it was so hard to convince someone of this. “The code I write doesn’t have XSS or SQL injection vulnerabilities,” sure. At least those are plausible things to believe. Client side validation?? How could anybody beli
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2y ago
A lot of commenters seem not to work with very skilled individuals. One (engineer-turned) manager I have in mind: show up at 10am, leave at 4pm, solve a zillion hard problems in the mean time. Are they 10x? If they save me 2 weeks of work w
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2y ago
> [...] buying low now would be nice. Just to be clear, the point of the linked article is that you cannot know that now is the LOW and not the new high.
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2y ago
I tried to find out why I would try gleam, what I would use it for. What I found convinced me it wasn’t for me. 1. Language behavior depends on the back end. Int doesn’t necessarily mean Int. > When running on the Erlang virtual machine
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2y ago
> Worst case you just go through the account recovery process at each institution Well, worst case is your account with Google, which you can kiss goodbye. But as we all know, that’s security. If the account recovery is the weakest link,
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2y ago
Can’t find the message you’re replying to but I think you’re imagining the person sitting up. Imagine them lying down or propped up on their elbows with the book on the floor. Then that distance seems about right.
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2y ago
> I wonder what the research actually says about this sort of homework vs your more standard variety. I have a vivid memory of one of the question on a final being basically “sketch the outline of this important thing we studied”. I coul
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2y ago
> I'm sure there are some corporate superintendents, but I've never seen one Live near a big school district (major metropolitan area), then you will see the corporate and career political types in the CEO office.
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2y ago
> The teacher punched him in the face […] and banned him from the shop Incredible story for another generation. Thank you for sharing!
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2y ago
> it’s not like shop/industrial arts stopped being a thing 40 years ago. Unfortunately, I live near two school districts - one in a major metropolitan area in the US - which have closed down shop classes in the name of preparing stu
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2y ago
Do you apply this logic to DOGE as well? Absurd.
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2y ago
> Gray, Lipner, McDonald, and Vandergrift reported that they are employees of ABIM [American Board of Internal Medicine]. Landon reported receiving consulting fees from ABIM for ongoing work during the conduct of the study. A study that
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2y ago
Of course not. The point is that the cost difference between the two things being compared is huge , right? Same performance, but not the same cost.
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2y ago
I read this as the GHOSTING is the thing that bother them. After a full day of interviews, it sounds like. The failure to be hired doesn't sound like it bothers them to me.
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2y ago
> The site has been bought by Breville At $69/year I’d say it’s pretty clear the direction the site is going.
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2y ago
> WHY you'd want to speed run academia 1. You want or need to be making money instead of spending it. Eg, no family wealth involved; you’re paying for everything yourself 2. You don’t enjoy the high pressure (ish), test-driven envir
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2y ago
> commit that consistent high uptime is a top priority I’m hoping you find SOME leaders who can find a more effective way to convey this priority! Theoretically in our “data driven” leadership you could think of some metrics that would d
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2y ago
Are your cloud backups encrypted? Yes, but the key is backed up too. [1] The regular complaints here about iMessage not having good E2EE is a specific exception written into the security policy. Corrections welcome. [1]: https://
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2y ago
I’m somewhat skeptical of the idea that salary money cannot be shifted around. Grants paying for PhD students- sure, those cannot be shifted to pay for admin; that makes sense. Are administrators line items in the state budget? Then this wo
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2y ago
> I would be wary of being in a room with a pupil without another adult present I think a far greater danger is your club becoming a dumping ground for parents wanting free childcare. But yeah, running a club solo is not likely to be sus
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2y ago
Your comment does not cite any scientific evidence that contradicts the assertions in the article. The study you mention is ongoing and small. For comparison, one of the articles cited involves 280k patients with 35k treated. If you're
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2y ago
At $2000, there is no way this is a “loss-leader”. This is profit and more profit.
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2y ago
> firing and then hiring back who you miss isn’t Once you fire me, I'm not coming back. Being hired into a known-unstable situation needs to involve a lot more cash than a stable-for-decades one. Is the assumption you're making
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2y ago
> And it takes me right to someone's specific website. Which you then have to assess for believability, just like ChatGPT. And read the comments and incorporate their reactions, or know enough to not need them (but then the search i
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2y ago
All those other sites that you mention would have to be BETTER than Amazon to get me to switch. Which isn’t my experience with B&N, at least. I’ll be honest, though, I was surprised to learn that Alibris isn’t an Amazon subsidiary.
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2y ago
Watch for statements from police unions across the country denouncing this type of behavior. The newspaper reporter could reach out to local police unions for comment.
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2y ago
He reportedly made $32k and barely avoided jail time... which does not sound to me like the $10k payout is undervalued.
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2y ago
This ignores tptacek's points in the top-level post. > [...] a bug that Google can kill instantaneously, that has effectively no half-life once discovered, and whose exploitation will generate reliable telemetry from the target. Yo
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2y ago
> it would be easy to mistake the radii as the measured quantity instead of the area Humans perceive the area as the measured quantity even when radius is the intended, so this isn’t going to be a problem.
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2y ago
Short answer: remapping single keys like Control is trivial with Kanata or without. I have no problems with this. It is likely that AHK has some features not in Kanata, so you would have to explain what you do.
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