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   by forkandwait 8y ago

   There should be an international Learn SQL day, with free all day workshops by volunteers, etc. Maybe on the date of one of the first big Codd papers or something...
2. 62.▲
   by forkandwait 8y ago

   Slightly on topic: when giving unsolicited tech career advice, my favorite trope is "learn sql". Don't have any computer background? Start with SQL. Already write compilers for living but don't know SQL? Of course you sh
3. 63.▲
   by forkandwait 8y ago

   So why not pure SQL, which everyone knows already?
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   by forkandwait 8y ago

   I taught myself atmega328 C programming in a breadboard blinking led context last year and thought that was a wonderful learning experience. I sort of knew C, and didn't get much pointer practice, but it was great nevertheless. Also, S
5. 65.▲
   by forkandwait 8y ago

   I think there is a ton of consensus on how the equations predict lab results, however, and I would be very happy with that.
6. 66.▲
   by forkandwait 8y ago

   I would love to get a lab manual to accompany Griffith's book on QM. I actually find it bizarre how little information there is, and I have looked. My gut tells me someone with an M.A. in physics, $5,000, and a lot of time could set
7. 67.▲
   by forkandwait 8y ago

   How about we spend enough time and money to give all citizens the same "intellectual tools" that upper middle class parents provide for their children?
8. 68.▲
   by forkandwait 8y ago

   >The only thing that doesn't appear to function well now is education, which appears to be stuck in the post-WW2 mentality of a job for life. I would say education is stuck in a pre 1980s paradigm of prepping 80% of the population t
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   Nuclear power in France(en.wikipedia.org)

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10. 70.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    Or fucked because you were born to poor uneducated parents in the right spot...
11. 71.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    Perhaps poverty, access to healthcare, or education is a bigger factor? Do you have evidence race is the "real problem"? In Washington state, the counties with the worst mortality are 95% white, with 5% native (Grays Harbor and Ok
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    by forkandwait 8y ago

    I was shy once. I took a couple of theater classes at the community college and read Dale Carnegie. After that social situations are easy ( I can still get anxious for what I think are good reasons : like big socioeconomic differences or it
13. 73.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    Has a similar, very cool, reverse engineering analysis been done with peripheral heavy microcontrollers?
14. 74.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    Can someone recommend a book on chip fabrication?
15. 75.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    So that gun is... What? Besides losing the next election, of course.
16. 76.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    What prevents the elected city officials from voting No on the package once it is accepted by Amazon and revealed? Anything with legal teeth or just public pressure?
17. 77.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    I gotmy PhD because grad school was more fun than a real job, and I made about 40,000 a year because I can program. The prospect of being a junior professor at a middling university gives me nightmares (think about the faculty meetings...),
18. 78.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    If anyone can make octonions cool it would that physicist
19. 79.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    In a toy model, the ether and Aristotlean mechanics worked ok too. I am not saying we should give up the notion altogether, but that causality as we intuit it may not be the best way to understand the universe.
20. 80.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    I bet someday we realize that "causality" is about as real as the ether or force at the subatomic level. That is, something that seems fundamental and obvious but is really just wrong.
21. 81.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    > Running with two feet through a forest is pretty easy for us. Easy for a twelve year old who has practicing motor skills for their entire life. And who would still be spastic on some assembly lines
22. 82.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    Are there any roguelikes designed specifically for story generation? DCSS is probably the most playable but with the least interesting stories, DF may be the inverse.
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    by forkandwait 8y ago

    Even if they have a point, this type of strident editorializing makes Harper's impossible for me to read. "mausoleums for trump supporters"? WTF? (Ignoring the dominance of progressive politics in Seattle as well...) I think
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    by forkandwait 8y ago

    Science avoids the "cesspool of rigid dogma" by experimentation not by a priori argumentation. This point seems to be lost on a bunch of physicists these days who wallow in their derivations and forget that the fundamental revolut
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    by forkandwait 8y ago

    I think even if there were convergent evolution in phenotype, the DNA and underlying proteins would likely be very different.
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    by forkandwait 8y ago

    I would still like to look at the plans (though it's charming you thought I might try to build it...)
27. 87.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    So... Are plans available anywhere?
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    by forkandwait 8y ago

    Can anyone more knowledgeable than I comment on how this affects FreeBSD?
29. 89.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
30. 90.▲
    by forkandwait 8y ago

    speaking of "other meaningless activities"