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by jacinda 3y ago
I don't know about Type II but Type I can be extremely limiting. A friend's spouse was diagnosed somewhere between 9 and 12 and it completely ended their dream of becoming a military aviator (also hoped to be an astronaut). They n
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by jacinda 3y ago
Yes, the fact that this is an extremely hard problem seems to be part of our mythology. Obtaining forbidden knowledge are part of many early creation stories (Garden of Eden - Tree of Knowledge, Prometheus and fire, etc.).
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by jacinda 3y ago
The Night Watch: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf > Even as we speak, systems programmers are doing pointer arithmetic so that children and artists can pretend that their x86 chips do
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The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership (2019)(circleci.com)
2 points by jacinda 3y ago|0 comments
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Pursuit of pleasure could doom all intelligent life to a blissful extinction(bigthink.com)
4 points by jacinda 3y ago|0 comments
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Brute Force Development(mattlayman.com)
3 points by jacinda 4y ago|1 comments
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by jacinda 4y ago
I love the Python web framework community and how friendly it is. The first two replies are congratulations from major Django contributors (Jeff Triplett and Andrew Godwin).
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by jacinda 4y ago
We could consider doing the labeling in the other direction where we keep calling calculus, real analysis, algebra, etc. mathematics but treat arithmetic more like we do learning the alphabet (a necessary stepping stone but certainly not th
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by jacinda 4y ago
I think you may be referring to the Roseto effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseto_effect This community had unusually low rates of heart disease despite a large range of traditional risk factors. The general con
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by jacinda 5y ago
Eh, whatever works. Some people like the ease of working anywhere, some people are more motivated by seeing a physical representation of their progress (possibly similar to how people remember chronological events better when read from a p
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by jacinda 5y ago
Less mental overhead and friction in terms of setting it up. 1000s of years of evolution. The experience of people who post on HN and their comfort with digital interaction may not reflect how a majority of people feel. I wonder if there
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by jacinda 5y ago
> I hit a wall when stuff got genuinely difficult or required significant work. This was, to me, the greatest benefit of being put in a gifted program in 3rd grade. I was so used to everything being easy that I cried at home that I had h
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by jacinda 5y ago
Hi Troy! Was happy to see this on the front page this morning!
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by jacinda 5y ago
I hadn't really thought about this before, but your comment made me realize the costs that used to be associated with spam calls in the past. Monetary or social costs were both asymmetrically in favor of the receiver because a long-dis
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by jacinda 5y ago
> But all those data sources are connected to from the same runtime, right? Yes, this is an accurate assessment from what I've seen. > And to run it locally you need access to dev versions of all of them. In my experience, no. If
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by jacinda 5y ago
Australia, much of Southeast Asia, and South Africa and its neighbors also use soccer. - https://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-... - https://www.businessinsider.com/why-americans-call-i
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by jacinda 5y ago
Having gone through it, while it's true you need more calories after the baby is born (I breastfed and pumped exclusively and was told it's about 500 calories per day vs 300 or so extra prior to birth) the strain on your body is l
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by jacinda 5y ago
> this is commonly attributed to the fact that human babies have immature brains that cannot mature due to birth canal constraints, which is constrained by pelvis size which is constrained by the need to walk upright Interestingly, the E
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by jacinda 5y ago
> I guess that confirmation bias is just an efficient way of learning about the world, do not waste time if things seem to fit your current understanding of the world. Interesting observation - in this light, confirmation bias could almo
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by jacinda 5y ago
Other work from the same author (has been a public site for a while): https://bonkersworld.net/
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by jacinda 5y ago
The author implies that going to meetings later if you've already done the reading is an option at Amazon. > If a document is provided early and I have a conflict at the begining of the meeting I can read the document ahead of time
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Yeet. Delete. Repeat(jason.af)
2 points by jacinda 6y ago|0 comments
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by jacinda 6y ago
> plenty of people try it, find it doesn't work for them, and quit. This seems like it would lend itself to selection bias - only people for whom homeschooling is a good fit continue to pursue it.
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by jacinda 6y ago
One alternative is providing candidates with a problem to work on for a few hours on their own (have them bring their own laptop, allow them access to Google and their own development environment), then have them walk you through their solu
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by jacinda 6y ago
Given that women seem to be around twice as likely to suffer from anxiety as men, this is a result I was not at all surprised to see. - https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20160606/women-more-prone-t...
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by jacinda 7y ago
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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by jacinda 7y ago
Yeah, I don't know about that. I definitely have aphantasia but have a strong inner monologue and can (roughly) hear things in my mind. The only reason I have an understanding of what a "mind's eye" might be like is that
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by jacinda 7y ago
As someone who has been pregnant and had a baby, it's much more than feeling kicking "sometimes." It's all sorts of movements, and you can even tell which part of the body is where (depending on the position of the baby)
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A New Luxury Retreat Caters to Elderly Workers in Tech (Ages 30 and Up)(nytimes.com)
21 points by jacinda 8y ago|17 comments
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by jacinda 8y ago
I don't know anything about the 1 -> 6 jump, but the jump to 18 was because they switched to time-based versioning last year (2018). First release of 2019 was 19.0.

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