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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "how would my life be if i spent that time coding/reverse engineering/learning the internals of OS, reading books, or generally developing my interests instead of playing wow and mindlessly scrolling on SM?" Most co
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Microsoft is in a tough place in that respect, because its user base is so broad by design (as a default program in Windows 11 now). It can never be fully optimized for professionals in formal environments, nor professionals who prefer more
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Hypothetically, I wonder how Discord would pull off a shift to enterprise. A big differentiator is that Discord is more for casual conversation. By changing the current successful product, it won't stand out versus Slack/Teams. Ho
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Yeah, even if file uploads are disabled and limited to sharing links (e.g. from Google Drive), screenshots will be very useful for communication, for a long while.
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "I wonder how often people succeed with these sorts of business models, which seem to be summarizable as "copy something extremely successful exactly, wait for them to fuck up sufficiently badly, and make sure migrating is re
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by insightcheck 4y ago
It's a normal, universal human response to protest when something you're used to is no longer there. Even though I don't share the outrage, there's nothing 'current year'/particularly contemporary about it
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The fandoms for indie games (e.g. Papers, Please [0] and several others for less popular games) remain active, though not particularly curated. It's still nice to find some for particularly niche games, as some information (even if too
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The more fragile presence of the information is actually a feature to some. If messages are more permanent and accessible, people can be more likely to stop and think before replying for more substantive discussion, instead of having a free
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by insightcheck 4y ago
It depends on the user. You could argue that many users in technical roles would see a professional interface, as one with less white space that allows for more information on the screen at once. However, many users in non-technical roles a
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by insightcheck 4y ago
An interesting partial solution to an older, niche Discord community I've found was the creation and sharing of a "lore document" of important insights and parts of the community's history. I generally agree that knowled
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The main advantage that Slack has, especially for many people in non-technical roles, is the just-professional-enough user interface over the casual look of Discord. I've been in Discord servers for volunteer work, and while it general
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by insightcheck 4y ago
My initial reaction to Slack's change was that it's not a big deal. In the small communities I've worked with through Slack, we generally assumed that Slack messages are temporary, and we'd hit the former 10,000 message
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The academic paper that the article reports on is at (PDF): https://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai22-591... A caveat is that the results apply to elementary students taking a math course. A qu
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The Paradox of ‘Good’ Teaching(hechingerreport.org)
2 points by insightcheck 4y ago|2 comments
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Thanks, that makes much more sense. I was visualizing the problem vehicle as a stick shift with the neutral in any of position but the center (aka in an "in gear" position), which in hindsight wouldn't work.
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Yelchin's case looks like a consequence of an unconventional user design for the gearstick, rather than a consequence of manual cars in general. From The Washington Post [0]: "The parents of Anton Yelchin, the “Star Trek” actor wh
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I can see it both ways. I initially thought the employer was already nice enough to give the applicant a chance, instead of denying at the outset. But then I remembered my own experiences of putting in a lot of work to apply for an opportun
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Eh, the McMurry textbook is fine and credible. At least several universities with top undergraduate chemistry programs still use it for assigned reading for their introductory courses. > "It has nothing to do with students - it is a
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by insightcheck 4y ago
[SPOILERS] If you click "Present" lots of times, there are other variations too: "These are the best iPhones we've ever created." "Wow, what an amazing day!" "This is a big upgrade!"
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Out of curiosity, why would you move the power button to the top? I remember this was the configuration for the old iPod Touch, but with the power button along the side, it's easier to press the power button with your thumb in one-hand
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The mechanism of becoming open access via a legal loophole was quite interesting. From the article: “The author of a popular organic chemistry textbook is making it freely available to students after learning about a loophole in his copyrig
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Best-selling organic chemistry textbook becomes open access(chemistryworld.com)
41 points by insightcheck 4y ago|4 comments
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Haha. I was thinking along similar lines as kuboble, but then I'm someone in the process of trying to learn C. I agree, upon further thought, that at least an error message would be better for the user (e.g. "Maximum timer duratio
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "If I was a creative writer then I think the AI could help me with plot outlines or get over writing blocks. But otherwise I'm not grasping why this is going to automate some huge number of jobs." Writing definitely look
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I was curious and looked up reviews for Sceptre, but according to some discussions on Reddit, they have build quality issues. One of the threads [0] had a discussion on picture quality and build quality issues. Another subreddit [1] even ha
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by insightcheck 4y ago
It's a valid option, but an alternative is to stay in the country and try to lobby and advocate for change within the country. There is a certain point where lobbying and advocacy can be futile, and emigration is a stronger option. For
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "if he wrote/called each one of them, would he get a better response?" Honestly, yes. From the social media post in the article, it's quite easy to interpret the question "How come I can’t find something simila
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Alternatively, one can think critically on a case-by-case basis, instead of either trusting nothing at all or giving uncritical trust based on a source.
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The scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market (2018)(theguardian.com)
3 points by insightcheck 4y ago|0 comments
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I'm not the same user, but this HN thread from 2018 covers the "brain drain" of Canadian technical workers to the US due to much higher salaries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16996420 The general idea

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