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by jimbob45 2y ago
IQ tests are administration-sensitive and have changed dramatically since the beginning of such a Flynn effect study. The population makeup of many countries has changed in recent years to include many immigrants for whom the study would ma
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by jimbob45 2y ago
I’ve come to the same conclusion after years of feeling like the idiot for not being able to sit through books. If people aren’t making it through your book, they might have a short attention span but your book also might just be bloated,
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Myst and Riven are surely the poster children for this. They’re practically ASMR and you can just chill on any screen and enjoy it without fear of anything happening.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
People acknowledge that America is bigger than their country with challenging geographical features. They also stop comparing their best country (UK) with America’s worst state or, even worse, the entire US landmass.
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Yep. Same dilemma as Star Citizen. If both just threw their hands up and said, "Done!", today then everyone would agree that a great product had been released and everyone would be mostly pleased. Instead, development has dragged
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by jimbob45 2y ago
There’s also no reason for anyone not to make coffee at home with what affordable modern coffee machines can do but Starbucks remains in business, against all odds.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Came to say this. No respectable CTO would ever push a Google product to their superiors knowing Google will kill it in 1-3 years and they’ll look foolish for having pushed it.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Because if Hamas isn’t victimizing themselves as hard as possible, everyone will remember that they abducted, raped, and maimed 1500 people at a concert. And then refused to apologize. And took hostages. And still have the hostages. I guess
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This is how you lose your comfortable market monopoly like Skype did. Recall that Skype had better P2P tech than Discord did and would still be the market leader if MS had chosen to update anything at all besides the logo bi-yearly.
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College is the first time so many get exposed to things that are critical: the classics, high level math, statistics, etc. Are you saying Americans don’t take stats, calc, or English lit in high school?
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I don’t disagree which is why I encourage comparing the EU to the US as a whole.
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This weird demoralization has to stop. We went to the moon in less than 10 years from beginning the Apollo program. It’s less than 10 years to build a nuclear power plant on average. We deployed the COVID vaccine worldwide in less than one
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by jimbob45 2y ago
We have to dispense with the silliness of comparing the US with countries a tenth its size. If you want to compare Britain to the US, pick a state of comparable size and do so. Otherwise you’re comparing apples to much larger apples.
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https://youtu.be/qpKekNpziAk?si=Umk8nm0pYCYCEfsc There was a remake in the pipes for a while using the Anniversary/Legend/Underworld engine but it was a one-man effort and seems to have been abandoned. Shame becau
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by jimbob45 2y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24690055 Both US political parties were doing this decades ago to the German Chancellor. There is no escalation beyond her. If you're willing to tap her, you're willing
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Anecdotal but my friends don’t try at all anymore or they don’t put in any effort and pretend that’s not their problem (read: you need to shower daily). It’s stupid because the combination of singles mixers, tinder, and community events mak
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I’m scared they’re going to kill it off. Every good idea they’ve had in the last 20 years has been killed off. Even Fuchsia/Zircon, which should have supplanted Android a full decade ago.
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The left has spent the last decade proudly bullying everyone for wrongthink, including going after employment and family members. It should come as no surprise then that corporations wouldn’t participate above the bare minimum on a predomin
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Deloitte and Accenture would be considered the worst US companies if Monsanto/Bayer and Nestlé didn’t exist. Their work is always waste.
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Harris was the only option for the DNC unless major election laws would have been changed very late in the cycle (moving funds raised to another candidate - highly improbable). There’s a strong argument that the DNC was at fault for not pre
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by jimbob45 2y ago
I refuse to believe a country as isolated as NK is pumping out genius hackers better than any other country. They speak one of the few languages isolates in the world. They don’t attract high-quality foreigners, if any at all. They don’t ge
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by jimbob45 2y ago
It says STEM undergrad students are the primary beneficiaries of LLMs but Wolfram Alpha was already able to do the lion's share of most undergrad STEM homework 15 years ago.
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What’s your marathon PR though? (Fudge the numbers if you’re willing to share them or someone might be able to doxx you)
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MS only really wants runaway successes, not modest successes, particularly at the salaries required for the types of engineers to pull such a thing off. Clojure hasn’t attained runaway success in the corporate world and that’s even with the
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A first-class IDE that doesn’t take six hours of fiddling and days of research to cobble together. Robust and well-maintained libraries for sockets, I/O, threading, and more. A corporate sponsor for corporations to be able to rely on w
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Heavyweight support for corporate usecases is exactly what Lisp is missing right now. I would love for MS to pump out a Visual Scheme or TypeLisp. It’s the perfect scripting language for embedding in CLR Managed Code. Rather than bringing i
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The best programmers I’ve known have all been deficient at spelling. I don’t know why it so uniformly appears among them.
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That makes more sense then. The US probably has around that number too and you’re right that we do mostly work up from the bottom. The most common method of avoiding the ladder is through military service but that’s basically a parallel lad
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So you have to work your way up from the bottom? Surely there’s a mathematical impossibility to get to the presidency here unless you’re making astronomical progress year over year?
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Are they food insecure? You'll have been quoted on thirty different subreddits by the end of the week. This is hilariously tone deaf to the hardships many are facing.

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