gliese1337

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by gliese1337 6y ago
I separate my identity from my job, and my "work product" from my personal projects. If I get paid to make something for somebody else, it belongs to the person or organization who paid for it, and they can do what they want with
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by gliese1337 6y ago
True, but the point is not to produce a direct analogy--merely an existence proof.
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by gliese1337 6y ago
The existence of quines is a nice proof that biology isn't magic. Consider an alternate history in which computer science develops before organic chemistry. Prior to the development of organic chemistry, some common beliefs about life
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by gliese1337 6y ago
What, just because a feature got cancelled? Heck, that's every single day at my last job. North of 50% of the code I ever worked on because a C-O insisted it was top priority got thrown in the trash. C-O screwed up, feature won't
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Maybe it should, but there is no indication that they have actually made a purposeful choice to go that route.
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by gliese1337 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that is in fact the same way of thinking about it. A 2D space with extra 2D spaces attached at every point is a 4D space.
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by gliese1337 6y ago
If they were to implement a new test, I can pretty much guarantee applications would drop like a rock; it would have the essential effect of limiting the applicant pool to Californians who don't want to go out-of-state for college--&
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by gliese1337 6y ago
To me it just seems that you're arguing semantics... The most important type of argument to have. If you don't agree on semantics, no other discussion is worth having, as you will never know if the other party actually a
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by gliese1337 6y ago
There is a difference between "running out of stack memory" and "running out of memory used to store stack-structured data". Any recursive algorithm can be mechanically transformed into an equivalent iterative algorithm
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Well... yeah? Duh? I definitely have different responses to my kids when my wife is around. I would be very surprised if the same was not true for her. Does anyone not ?
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Ditto. My solution so far has been to simply ignore the problem of modelling interesting objects--the only objects are components of the environment made of simple geometric shapes, and the game challenges are all related to navigation. I&#
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Why do you think I underestimate the diversity of places where I or other members of my family have lived, where we have gone to school, and where most of my parents generation have been school teachers? I know there is plenty of diversity
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by gliese1337 6y ago
In my experience, the worst possible outcomes in each case tip the other direction: I have never heard of a homeschool kid committing suicide because they were so unprepared for Burger King, but public school kids commit suicide because of
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Is an online class with a diverse crowd a sufficient replacement for actually going out, interacting, and being next to people of various racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds? Probably not, but like I said, that&#x2
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by gliese1337 6y ago
If you’re home-schooled, then how do you make childhood friends? How do you meet that dreamy girl, that you remember after all these years, just because she did something nice for you once. You meet kids in your co-op. Or in your
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by gliese1337 6y ago
It's something that can and does happen in many cases, depending pretty much entirely on the attitude of the parents. Or, in other words, it's not actually the homeschooling that is the problem. It's the attitudes o
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Exactly. There are certainly socially-stunted homeschoolers. But in those case, it is not the homeschooling that is the problem.
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by gliese1337 6y ago
And I have no reason to doubt you. Homeschooling definitely isn't for everyone... but that is not the same as saying that homeschooling is across-the-board inferior to public schooling. Public schooling also isn't for everyone.
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Homeschooling typically involves very little sitting at home, doing traditional schoolwork. As others have noted, and my extended family's experience supports, it only takes maybe 4 hours max to get through the basic curriculum--usuall
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Do you have any concerns about the social development of kids who go to traditional schools, where they interact solely with other kids close to their own age or teachers who are much older than them and whose interactions are rigid and art
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by gliese1337 6y ago
The amount of time you experience is directly related to the length of your worldline--the path you trace out in 4D spacetime as you move through space and simultaneously move forward in time. It should be easy to see that a non-acceleratin
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Because space and time are just two aspects of the same thing. Your velocity isn't a 3-dimensional vector--it's actually a 4-dimensional unit vector, and the direction in which it points is what you consider to be the future. Th
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by gliese1337 6y ago
That's not even a lies-to-children explanation--it's just straight-up wrong , a result of generations of "science journalists" misunderstanding stuff and spreading their misunderstandings around. Hawking radiation does
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by gliese1337 6y ago
That is, in fact, true. Planes can fly with symmetrical wings, including flat wings, and even with upside-down wings, as is easily demonstrated by observing stunt planes actually flying upside-down--in all cases, as long as they are appro
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by gliese1337 6y ago
> There is a very clear heritage of the ideas of those Ancient Greek thinkers which have moved and influence world history. Yes, there is. But that is a very different thing from having very clear evidence that those ideas originated uni
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Nothing. I am not saying they weren't geniuses. I am merely pointing out that there is insufficient evidence for a definite conclusion either way. Cf. Shakespeare. Yes, he was a genius, but not nearly so much of a genius as many pe
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by gliese1337 6y ago
From works written down by four or five Greek guys, or by other guys who cited those Greek guys as the source. The fact that our surviving records all happen to funnel through those guys is not proof that it all originated with those guys.
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Yup. While I do enjoy Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, anything I like that I can afford to buy a physical copy of, I do.
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by gliese1337 6y ago
Making my own local copies of things I like has been my standard operating procedure pretty much forever. Not just because it might get taken down for copyright reasons, but just because stuff disappears from the internet all the time, for

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