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by istjohn 5y ago
Unless you know something we don't, it sounds like you are extrapolating an awful lot about some folks based on extremely little actual information.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Seems to me mutual respect and such niceties of civil society as being kind, respecting pronoun preferences, avoiding derogatory language, etc. are essential to making HN a worthwhile place to be.
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by istjohn 5y ago
News articles are not typically written like formulaic school essays where you state a thesis, support the thesis, and then conclude. They are instead written as if the reader could be whisked away at any moment and so the most important in
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by istjohn 5y ago
I just spent the weekend banging my head against the wall trying to record and upload audio in Safari. Chrome and FF were relatively easy. Know of any good open source examples or documentation on how to do this? It really is sad that somet
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by istjohn 5y ago
Every one of those companies is or has been under antitrust scrutiny.
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by istjohn 5y ago
The unemployment rate, by definition, wouldn't capture people who are quitting the labor force entirely.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Did you reset your neuronetwork after each round?
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by istjohn 5y ago
That was an interesting read. Turns out they do use UPnP, but it's just one of many tools they turn to when other techniques fail.
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VR Goggles on Cows to Get More Milk(interestingengineering.com)
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by istjohn 5y ago
There is a truly excellent series of lectures on YouTube from a college course on the Python interpreter internals. But I can't for the life of me find it. One resource I can recommend though is pythontutor.com. It's a tool that w
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by istjohn 5y ago
I have to imagine the defendants who opt for a bench trial have reasons for making that choice that don't necessarily apply to the defendants who choose a jury trial.
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by istjohn 5y ago
It's my impression that there's a larger variety of accents in the UK, maybe that's why British people are more familiar with IPA? We do have IPA in our dictionaries, though.
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by istjohn 5y ago
I just want to say that I think it's awesome that you are sharing your personal experience with ADHD here. The stigma around mental health does no one any good, and too often when ADHD comes up on HN, the loudest voices are people dism
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by istjohn 5y ago
I read you to be dismissing tests outright. If you merely want to stipulate that the test scores are subjected to rigorous statistical analyses that "properly measure its error bars" we are in total agreement.
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by istjohn 5y ago
You keep turning the discussion to teachers, but frankly, that's not germain to the initial comment in this thread, which simply stated that the costs of this pandemic to children may be much higher than we realize. No one has even arg
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by istjohn 5y ago
Replace "teachers" with "schools." There is no reason we can't appropiately resource schools to provide these services. We should be paying teachers enough for them to be eager to come in to work every day. Telling
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by istjohn 5y ago
And water is pennies a gallon while gold is $1,800/oz
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by istjohn 5y ago
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Why shouldn't we have socialized childcare? Our economy needs parents to be able to work 40 hours per week while raising children. If anything, we need to provide better support to families
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by istjohn 5y ago
Politically, we're deadlocked as always.
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by istjohn 5y ago
I agree 100% that US public schools have been failing our kids for years, but I'm curious what these primary sources are that you refer to.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Obviously tests are imperfect, but it's silly to dismiss them as useless. Standardized tests are the best tool we have to ensure our schools are providing all children quality educations regardless of economic or racial background or d
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by istjohn 5y ago
5500 lines of bash. Wow.
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by istjohn 5y ago
It wasn't just a gimmick either. Mapping workspaces on to a physical cube makes navigating between workspaces more intuitive and natural. It provides a useful spatial metaphor to latch onto.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Lay people indicate the month with an ordinal all the time since it's how dates are standardized (12/30/2021). People don't often indicate the day of the week with a number, they use "Monday" or "Tuesday&q
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by istjohn 5y ago
I'm intrigued, but this episode is from April 2019.
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by istjohn 5y ago
YC should take steps to ensure the businesses they invest in operate ethically. Of course, the first step would be to acknowledge that something went terribly wrong here.
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by istjohn 5y ago
> Student loans (which are much lower interest rate and nothing like these loans) can’t be discharged in bankruptcy but even those are open to modification or discharge in the event of hardship. Student loans are not so easily discharged
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by istjohn 5y ago
I've yet to try a BSD, but FreeBSD's wholehearted embrace of the ZFS filesystem makes it very attractive to me. Now I have another reason to look at it.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Evangelical Christians have enormous political power. That's why the last three appointees to the Supreme Court were vetted by pro-Life organizations and Roe v. Wade is in imminent danger.
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by istjohn 5y ago
> The Israeli boycott isn't simply saying you don't agree with their government, it's actively boycotting companies run by Israeli Jews and not hiring Israeli Jews . That's simply not true. The Texas law does not s

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