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by jgwil2 4y ago
>> Candidates at lower-tier schools generally can't pick up concepts fast enough to keep up with our work. Most CS programs around the country outside the top tier are diploma mills, and it's hard to even trust those student
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by jgwil2 4y ago
One thing I do find mildly annoying about the whitespace is that you can't jump to the end of a block with e.g. % in Vi (goes to the matching bracket). Not a huge deal but something I notice.
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Might be a lifetime of tuning out ICE vehicles is partially to blame?
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To Tip, or Not to Tip?(nytimes.com)
2 points by jgwil2 5y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I would assume the first two. Guns flow from the States to Mexico, not the other way around.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
This one? https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/ HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19448678
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Vocabulary is the part of learning a language that causes by far the least problems. Strongly disagree. Memorizing vocabulary is a huge barrier to learning a foreign language. You need something like 5000 words just to have basic con
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The Sat Isn't What's Unfair(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jgwil2 5y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I imagine it could be significantly worse than what most people experience when you throw lifetime appointments into the mix.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I always thought the white one looked cooler when it was fresh but aged much more poorly than the black one. Same with white sneakers, too much work to keep them icy white.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I understand that, but the reason that you get grades on assignments throughout the semester is so that you can get an understanding of where your level is and how you should expect to be evaluated at the end. If you get a bunch of subjecti
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Very cool concept, but doesn't the institution still require you to evaluate students in the end?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> it's not that products are renamed to stoke anti-X sentiment, but rather that anti-X sentiment makes it necessary to rename products. It may not even be that there is a demonstrable of anti-X sentiment on product sales; the fear o
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by jgwil2 5y ago
If you're a car passenger and you see danger you can assist the driver in avoiding it. You likely know how to drive and are familiar with the procedures. In a plane you are completely disconnected from those in control, and unless you&
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I got some chrysanthemums as a gift last fall that came in a plastic, jack-o-lantern shaped pot. The text on the bottom read, "Made in China. Designed in USA."
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> That would've been an awesome statement. Statement of what, exactly?
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As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’(nytimes.com)
2 points by jgwil2 5y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> I've been informed that before this conflict started, there was nothing offensive about this linguistic difference (between saying "Ukraine" vs. "the Ukraine" in Russian) The Russian and Ukrainian languages don
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Since apparently no one likes changing the time but no one can agree whether we should go with standard or daylight time, why don't we just split it right down the middle and have an extra 30 minutes added to our UTC offset like in Ind
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Folks with winter depression sometimes struggle more here than they did in Indiana Presumably this has more to do with the total hours of light in winter being lower, not what time of the clock they correspond to.
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Life as a Trucker Has Devolved into a Dystopian Nightmare(nytimes.com)
4 points by jgwil2 5y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 5y ago
After WWI Germany's government was overhauled and yet the allies still forced them to pay punitive reparations, so it's not exactly the same. But presumably Russia would negotiate some easing of sanctions before they withdraw; t
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Could be referring to onerous zoning laws that keep density down.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> I think you may have an incorrect understanding of the meaning of "so-called". Read my original comment as, "don't exist as a category." > Beyond that, "Bantu" is a colonial term, coined by German
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> so-called "Bantu" languages Are you implying that Bantu languages don't exist?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Is your 30 amp wire at home? Do you have a 30 amp circuit breaker as well? An electrician told me that if there is a mismatch between the current and the circuit breaker amperage it can cause the software to think that something is wrong (n
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by jgwil2 5y ago
AOC is famously not a mainstream Democrat (she is to the left of almost the whole party), nor is she a senator. And even if she were either of those things, the single line you quote, out of context and without citation, does not show tha
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> try to de-legitimize election results through "Russia-Gate" conspiracies US intelligence confirmed that Russia tried to swing an election, so this isn't a "conspiracy." As for the rest of your points, those pos
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How the Finns Deter Russian Invasion(theatlantic.com)
13 points by jgwil2 5y ago|1 comments
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Six Days Afloat in the Everglades(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 5y ago|0 comments

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