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by jltsiren 2y ago
I don't have much experience with how education works in California, or in the US in general. But there is one universal issue with special programs for gifted kids: parents. It's hard to distinguish gifted kids from average kids
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Excellent publication record is the baseline. Every serious candidate has it. But if you are not a superstar, research merits alone are not enough. There are enough excellent candidates that universities often use checklists to filter the n
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It would take a couple of years at the scale Finnish forest industry is operating. Large parts of Europe are basically forests that have been temporarily cut down. If you let the land be, the forest will often grow back with minimal effort.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
When I was a postdoc in Cambridge, the problem was that there were too many PhD students and postdocs who wanted to teach. Not because of the compensation but for the experience. A lot of people wanted to try a career in the academia, and t
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The exponential growth has been something like 3-4%/year, or 2x in 20 years. Though it's hard to find useful statistics that take different job titles and changing nature of the industry properly into account. If you had asked me
906.
by jltsiren 2y ago
The number of software developers has maybe doubled in the last 20 years. The number of senior developers has "always" been low, because the field suffers from unusually high attrition. Many people find that software is not for th
907.
by jltsiren 2y ago
You are making the mistake of assuming that ethnicities are disjoint categories that remain immutable over generations. Russification has been going on for 1000+ years. Often organically, and often by forced policies. People abandon their l
908.
by jltsiren 2y ago
I think this is an abuse of terminology. Colonial empires generally maintained a clear separation between the colonizers and the colonized. Russia usually tried to turn the conquered peoples into Russians. It's a different kind of oppr
909.
by jltsiren 2y ago
Those numbers mean disposable household income divided by the square root of household size. American households are unusually large for a developed country, and measures like that overestimate individual incomes relative to countries with
910.
by jltsiren 2y ago
Kindergarten means different things in different countries, and that's probably the source of confusion. In Europe, it usually means a program that gradually transitions from daycare to a proper pre-school as the kids get older. Starti
911.
by jltsiren 2y ago
And some people like me prefer using large fonts, because my vision is not very good. The code pane in the full-screen VSCode window I have open on a 27" display is 145x37. Full-screen mode would add one more line. And those 145-charac
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Computers today are slower than they have ever been. And tomorrow's computers are going to be even slower. In many applications, the amount of data grows at least as quickly as computer performance. If the time complexity of an algorit
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by jltsiren 2y ago
That doesn't match my experience. C++ programmers typically use C++, because using libraries written in C++ from any other language is a miserable experience. It's rare to encounter C++ code with extensive low-level optimizations.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Out of those, Florence and Turkey are proper exonyms. Kiev and Kyiv are direct romanizations of the Russian and Ukrainian names. Other languages have actual exonyms for the city, such as Kiova in Finnish and Kijow in Polish. Peking is a rom
915.
by jltsiren 2y ago
I think the fundamental issue is running a social network as a for-profit business. Every business model people have tried so far has ruined the platform for the people who originally found it valuable. Online services do scale, which is th
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The standard is based on the expectation that you should be able take a definition or a theorem out of its context and it should still make sense. The same symbols are often used for different things in different contexts, while concepts (e
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The real issue is people selecting a license that says something while actually wanting something else. You either develop open source because someone pays for it (in which case it's an ordinary business transaction) or because you fin
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I once knew someone who studied CS and medicine at the same time. According to them, if you didn't understand something in CS after reasonable effort, you should do something else and try again next semester. But if you didn't und
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I think the basic premise is that the rules-based world order is dead, and having nuclear weapons would not make you any more pariah than you already are. If Ukraine is forced to accept an unfavorable peace deal, they would try to build an
920.
by jltsiren 2y ago
The interesting question is how this will affect Tesla. Will Musk continue as the CEO, or will he step down? I would assume that every other major shareholder and leader hopes he will step down. Once you become a top-level politician, that
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by jltsiren 2y ago
External storage is technically viable, but then it's yet another device and yet another cable contributing to the unholy mess on your desk. If there are no functional reasons to have an external device, it's just better to have a
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by jltsiren 2y ago
That approach eventually failed, because the great leaders and experts went on to improve the society for themselves, at the expense of everyone else. Focusing on those who would be successful anyway made sense when the middle class was sti
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by jltsiren 2y ago
This is not about exercise. Extended periods of inactivity are bad for your health, even if you are physically active. If the nature of your job is sedentary, you should interrupt the inactivity often enough. This is something all employers
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I think it's less about deliberate tricks and more about developing habits that ensure some low intensity activity throughout the day. Most things you do on a computer don't actually require being in front of the computer all the
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It goes beyond that. Many languages expect that you use types such as size_t or usize for things that are conceptually collection sizes, array offsets, and similar things. In some applications, it's common that the conceptual collectio
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Russian security doctrine is based on surrounding themselves with buffer states. Those buffer states cannot be fully sovereign, because a fully sovereign state could choose an alliance with another major power. Ideally they should be vassal
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It's not enough to strive for people to be reliable and adequate. You need a system that selects reliably for such people. Being groomed for a job from childhood is not reliable enough. Many people will be good enough for the job, but
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The US was already unstable in 2000. Once courts get involved in determining the outcome of elections, it's a sure sign that the system is no longer functioning properly. Instability does not mean that a collapse is imminent. It means
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It's not a solved problem. Surviving the re-entry in a condition that makes reuse economical was always the biggest challenge for the Starship. It's far from certain that they can achieve it without a fundamental change in the con
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by jltsiren 2y ago
In a stable democracy, whenever there are elections, the losers accept that the elections were fair and they lost. If there are reasons to believe that the elections were not fair, or if the losers refuse to admit that the elections were fa

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