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by geebee 6y ago
I've worked with a lot of research code. I agree with you that tangled code is somewhat intrinsic to the kind of code written for research. Here's the thing. Sometimes, there's no code - I mean, they'll find something, b
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by geebee 6y ago
incidentally in my country these are called "American" stops Might amuse you to know that in the US, they're often called "California" stops, and in California, they're often called "Hollywood" stop
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by geebee 6y ago
This looks very promising! I will look into it. When I want a tabular view, I currently either used the pandas read_sql_query method or the PandaSQL module. That does work, and I often do want to use pandas and sql together (often back and
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by geebee 6y ago
Huh. Do you mean me personally? I figure it was clear from memo my post that trust in them has taken a hit. I’m not quite as certain there was a deliberate intent to mislead as some but I can’t rule it out to a degree.
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by geebee 6y ago
Ah, whataboutism. It's not a magical word. You can't say "wingardium whatabousa", wave your wand, and make all your own hypocricies disappear. To me - and this is my own standard, not a set of rules - whataboutism a fal
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by geebee 6y ago
Medical personnel wear masks for more than just protection from Covid. Surgical and N95 mask availability is critical to the day-to-day operation of a medical facility, is it not? Yes... this is exactly what I meant when I wrote "one
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by geebee 6y ago
That second quote is the really devastating one. That supports (though I would say doesn't entirely prove) the claim that Fauci decided to claim masks were ineffective because they were effective and he wanted to make sure people weren
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by geebee 6y ago
Would you post a link to the WaPo article that has Fauci saying that the reason he said masks are ineffective was to preserve the supply for medical staff? I would be ok with Fauci saying masks weren't effective because the best scienc
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by geebee 6y ago
I disagree that it contains a kernel of truth, though I would agree that it truthfully identifies a malign surface growth that occasionally metastizes and, left unchecked, destroys the kernel. I certainly agree that there are people who tea
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by geebee 6y ago
I often watch French language tv shows or movies to keep up my language skills. I recently watched "Call my agent." Way better than "Versailles" ;) Thing is, it's very difficult for me to understand. But I realized
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by geebee 6y ago
I know someone who was in that situation. She had a remarkable knack for accents (and recreating sounds generally) and did pick up French more quickly than I could. I wonder if this counts as a kind of "uncanny valley", because my
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by geebee 6y ago
I think you are underestimating University of Texas at Austin as a research powerhouse, particularly in engineering. It's not quite Berkeley or Stanford, but I absolutely would put it on a part with anything just outside that very top
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by geebee 6y ago
I think you've refuted something other than what caymanjim said here. I personally agree that "the vast majority" of software engineering does not require deep knowledge of computer science, and I also believe there are plent
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by geebee 6y ago
That's an interesting observation, though I think you've missed the effect of scale. Keep in mind, a one block town would be 100% accessible by a public transportation system consisting of a horse drawn carriage on permanent loop.
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by geebee 6y ago
"Pretty hard to like a city where a non-trivial portion of the residents are hating on you and blaming you and others like you for many problems of their own doing." Fair enough! Though, ahem, that might describe the feeling of Ca
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by geebee 6y ago
I have family in Wisconsin, and I enjoy visiting. I like parts of Milwaukee, and I've gotten out into the countryside. It's really nice. This is all subjective, of course, but what can I say? I've been in restaurant and bars
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by geebee 6y ago
Yes, that's what I meant. Agassi accuses Tarango of doing this as a junior in "Open".
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by geebee 6y ago
Not bad! Yeah, wouldn't be surprised if those are part of the detection algorithm. I would take longer to detect a cheater who is a bit more sly and only cheats on 5% of moves or less (the odds that someone would match a particular eng
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by geebee 6y ago
Are cheaters really detected and banned? My guess is that there's a lot of lower grade cheating. Here are a few ways that would be difficult to detect: Run a position analyzer only to alert you to the existence of a strong move that yo
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by geebee 6y ago
I'm definitely down that rabbit hole now. Online chess has cut into the time I used to spend reading and playing music, but I'm an amateur at all those things. Plus, I've started playing more with my kids in the evening. I&#x
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by geebee 6y ago
Did your buddy take an 80% salary cut? If that’s the case, I’d guess that he was either extremely well paid before, or he’s got huge savings and could afford to not to work anymore. That said I work for below market because I value the work
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by geebee 6y ago
I hear you. San Franciscans historically had an extremely obnoxious tendency to only see the negative side of LA. Seems like it's fading a bit, though, partly because SF's are too severe to stay smug, and partly because LA keeps g
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by geebee 6y ago
Portland is really nice, I've enjoyed my trips up there. I was positing an answer to the somewhat open question of why someone wouldn't leave SF for Portland. I think there are compelling reasons why someone would prefer to stay i
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by geebee 6y ago
no... but neither is having a problem with street addiction and mental illness. SF has it bad, no doubt, but on recent (<5 years) to Seattle, Portland, Nashville, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee, I did see the extent to which this isn't
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by geebee 6y ago
That's a fair question, and the answer will depend on what people emphasize in life. I'll venture a firm answer for SF: Though SF is no New York, it is notably more urban than Portland. San Francisco is physically more strikingly
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by geebee 6y ago
Wow. That's an incredible story. I wonder if this thread might have gone differently if I'd used dentists or physicians as an example. Still plenty of corruption and cartel building in the AMA. My point about lawyers is that when
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by geebee 6y ago
Honestly, I'm not sure they do a whole lot of good.
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by geebee 6y ago
I agree with what you're encouraging people to do, and I admire people who do the right thing, even when there's a cost. However, I believe that you're calling on engineers to act as professionals without the professional sta
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by geebee 6y ago
I've quit (as in, delete, not suspend) my Facebook account twice. Deleted it, signed up again years later, deleted it again. I hope it's for good. The reason really was politics. I've never learned anything new from these pos
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by geebee 6y ago
I think it should matter, as a point of discussion. I don't think it should be definitive. I certainly don't think the goal of US immigration policy (or student visa policy) should be to exceed a dismal policy somewhere else by a

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