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by iak8god 10y ago
Right. Administrative metastasis is the main cause of increasing costs, absolutely not increased spending on faculty salaries: "Interestingly, increased spending has not been going into the pockets of the typical professor. Salaries
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> The Gimp project has been quite abrasive to the graphics research and software development communities for many years. The Gimp team 'knows better' then the highly qualified and experienced graphics programmers who offered to
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In a meeting today someone noted with amusement that I was both the youngest person in the room and the only one taking notes on paper instead of a laptop. This is why: I can't always trust myself to stay focused when I'm on the l
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> There are lots of feature phones with cameras. I'd love to find one with a decent camera. I have a fairly nice and compact point-and-shoot that I bought a couple of years ago, but it doesn't have a lot of the software-assis
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All good tips. I've been using QualityTime (Android only, I think: http://www.qualitytimeapp.com/ ) to measure and track usage daily. Seeing it quantified was a bit of a shock even though I thought I was doing a good jo
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I think we pretty much agree here. For me the best way to remain aware is to periodically abstain, and the effects on my awareness persist after the abstinence.
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I've been seriously considering this lately. The camera and a location-based game that gets me out walking around periodically throughout the day are the two things I'm not sure I can give up at this point.
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The "impulse issues" are reinforced by the phone. I've very often noticed when I've set aside my phone for a few hours (the rest of the evening until bed or whatever) that I have to literally set it aside at some dista
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by iak8god 10y ago
Good to know. Thanks!
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Ah, right, TAs! Got any info for the lazy on the existence of a thesis track?
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> And everyone who's been exposed to both says it's the same courses and rigor as the on-campus version. I am curious: who in the world would do both? A more serious question, since you're going through it now: is there a
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by iak8god 10y ago
Oh. Well, no, that's not what depression is. That's what sometimes causes people who are not clinically depressed to say "I'm depressed about X," but that's not what depression is.
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> If everything was going well (including your own health), you would not be depressed. This is tautological, and hence true, but an uninteresting point. Just pretend it says "... Depression is when you feel down even when all is go
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The table saw at the maker space / shared woodworking shop near me has a SawStop, which is a pretty good idea given the varied experience levels of users in a community space. If that's really what's keeping you from pursuing
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You're right of course that not everyone watches the same TV shows (etc), but the major cultural divide is urban/rural, not state-by-state or region-to-region. There was an interesting discussion of this and related topics here
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> Each state / region has vastly different cultures and standards of living. The culture in the US varies some from region to region (midwest vs northwest vs south etc), but it's absolutely false to say that the differences are
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I just assume, unless they super-duper promise to truly purge it, that Google is hanging on to every bit.
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But they do have recordings of everything said to Alexa ("Alexa, how fast will a body decompose in a hot tub?"), and potentially other recordings following false positives for "Alexa", as the article mentions: "..
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CCA is spending about a million dollars on lobbying per year lately. That's down from a few years back when they were at 2-4M. If you're up for it, you can dig around and try to figure out what/who they're buying here:
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It is available on sci-hub http://sci-hub.bz/10.1038/nnano.2016.137
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I've never seen/heard a non-derogatory use of "brogrammer" -- maybe gkilmain will enlighten us with some use I'm not aware of (has it already been reclaimed by brogrammers making in-group use of the term?), but the
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I definitely came away from Tinco's original comment with the icky feeling that a) Tinco's a little too thrilled with how super interesting and intellectual he is, and b) Tinco doesn't have much respect for his girlfriend&#x2
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Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.
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> why would anyone even bother publishing this garbage? If by "this garbage" you mean this goofy blog post, then that's a good question. But note that goofy blog posts abound. The article published in Royal Society Open Sc
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> I am unlikely to [go back to Common Lisp] because there is so much code in Java, Python, etc. that I rely on I'm very late to this thread, but just wanted to suggest that you might explore using Armed Bear Common Lisp[1] to writ
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Thank you. I do think many of those things are themselves caused by Western meddling in the region, but mostly before the US got into the game.
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> There are probably about a dozen major causes of the problems in Syria, of which US/western involvement is only one. Can we get a few examples?
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I've done the adjunct thing, and I'm sympathetic to your point. The current state of post-tenure higher ed is just not sustainable. What exactly is the point of having an overworked person (pulling 60 hours weeks at below minimum
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In this case, and for 95% of the browsing I do, it allows me to see the content just fine. For the rest "temporarily allow" does the trick.
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This fails to mentions some of the best "hooks" they've got: tools to reduce lecture prep time, assignment prep, and grading. I've seen textbooks whose online content for instructors include a full deck of (extremely uni

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