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931.
by ghaff 11mo ago
I don't disagree. There are a lot of subtle things that people notice and react to even if not consciously--and even if tech folks don't want to admit to.
932.
by ghaff 11mo ago
A lot of standard SUVs don't have particularly great ground clearance relative to Jeep Wranglers and the like. Though that doesn't really matter unless you're going off-road in Death Valley and the like. The current Toyota Si
933.
by ghaff 11mo ago
I absolutely use the capacity of my mid-size SUV quite often for a variety of purposes. Don't need anything bigger or the towing capacity of a full-size truck. And, given where I live, renting for a weekend would be very inconvenient.
934.
by ghaff 11mo ago
At the salaries they want at the salaries that employers are willing to pay for them.
935.
by ghaff 11mo ago
You probably need to be more granular. I got lucky, but in 2000 anything tech-related was nuclear winter. A lot of people just left the industry. 2008 was more broad-based and, while it wasn't a great market for tech (I held off making
936.
by ghaff 11mo ago
As a body copy font, sans serif is generally seen as "friendlier" and more casual--which is one reason you see more of it than you used to in marketing copy and many other uses. Friendly and casual are generally not things I'
937.
by ghaff 11mo ago
I do think designers can go over the top. I could tell you stories. On the other hand, there is some line between design doesn't matter and "can't you see the difference between the two shades of black in this poster?" (
938.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Not sure how. The people I know with minivans have roof racks.
939.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Or they just don't live in cities which not everyone in Europe does either so they can't just walk a few blocks to grab supplies for a day or two.
940.
by ghaff 11mo ago
It varies a lot in my local experience from no self-checkout, to a mix, to mostly self-checkout with one or two backed-up lanes of cashiers. Whether it's good or bad for me personally depends on the type of merchandise and how much I h
941.
by ghaff 11mo ago
No conflict of interest there. It did take a few years after 2007 before it became obvious to pretty much everyone that the iPhone was going to be a huge hit but took a little while before some oddities in the original software were correct
942.
by ghaff 11mo ago
A number of my whitewater paddling friends really like their minivans. There are still at least a couple of models available but they have largely gone out of fashion. Personally I have a mid-size SUV but if you regularly need to transport
943.
by ghaff 11mo ago
The details matter but just doesn't buy you a lot, especially if you have a second vehicle to drive a handful of miles a week. Per sibling comment, a couple of fillups a week really is a fair bit of driving.
944.
by ghaff 11mo ago
>But even if the $/mile were equal, never needing to visit a gas station again is itself the biggest perk. I maybe fuel up once a month unless I'm doing a road trip. It isn't that big a deal.
945.
by ghaff 11mo ago
I do know someone who bought a Tesla after debating it for a long time. And it was only after getting comfortable with the range for a mostly weekly drive into the country.
946.
by ghaff 11mo ago
I'm guessing you're often either towing or you're doing a bunch of shortish drives for construction, etc. purposes--neither of which are a great match for electric.
947.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Not sure of your point. Pass/Fail was intended to ease freshmen in. (Most people didn't fail.) Yes, poor grades were often a shock to people accustomed to being straight A students in high school. Though most made it through or en
948.
by ghaff 11mo ago
I think that assumes a base level of programming knowledge in the generic which may be a reasonable assumption in this day and age if you're applying to MIT/Stanford/etc. It wasn't going back a decade or two but may be t
949.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Most? Probably. Not sure how common at what are considered top schools without looking at course catalogs. I expect if you're really new to programming, jumping into a CS program at an elite school could be a bumpy ride given 90% of th
950.
by ghaff 11mo ago
I didn't care about sales :-) It was free and I did a couple of book-signings at sponsored conferences that other people paid for. A lot of the historical content remained accurate but the going-forward trajectory shifted a lot. The wa
951.
by ghaff 11mo ago
The whole container universe is pretty different even if the process/threads/etc. foundations aren't that changed. Certainly <umm> a book I wrote about the state of computing in the early 2010s--largely derived from thi
952.
by ghaff 11mo ago
>A lot of prestigious schools market themselves as research institutions Out of one side of their mouth maybe. Out of the other, they absolutely are not telling potential undergrads that they may tolerate them but they're really f
953.
by ghaff 11mo ago
There are probably books out there that probably do a better job than most discrete courses I can think of--i.e. an accounting course is probably too in the weeds for most people--but I agree that some sort of business/marketing/f
954.
by ghaff 11mo ago
>study groups before that allowing group completion (or, cheating, in your view) Totally dependent on school/department/professor policy. Some are very strict. Others allow working together on assignments. (And then there are s
955.
by ghaff 11mo ago
>It's nice that someone at MIT is recognizing this and putting together this material. The name and about page suggest though it's not something the department has long recognized and uncontroversially integrated into the progr
956.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Project courses were pretty notorious. I had a few. 2.70 (which I think is a different number now) in mechanical engineering was a HUGE time sink. [For others: was a design challenge competition with a live context.] Did another all-terrain
957.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Probably one of those thoughts you should self-filter (and the alumni association sure wishes you would). But it's also the case that (only half-joking) a lot of faculty at research universities regard most undergrads as an inconvenien
958.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Personal experience? I had basically a machine shop course in mechanical engineering in college. OK, it was a bit more than that but I had no "shop" in high school. Certainly nothing in high school anything that would have really
959.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Discrete tools are fairly easy. On the other hand, I think a lot of people here would laugh at the "text book" for the introductory FORTRAN course I took at said school. Of course, you were struggling with fairly primitive tools a
960.
by ghaff 11mo ago
No idea how similar it was to what's taught in the classroom. Of course you have access to TAs and other students IRL. And I have no doubt that assumptions about prior exposure and skills have changed over time. I can only report that,

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