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by jrsdav 3y ago
I think the true tragedy of public education in the US is the sentiment of the public itself. The thinking that it's a conveyer belt where we put our children "on-rails" for 6 hours a day and they'll come out the other s
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by jrsdav 3y ago
I'm not a drummer, but the ones that I know (some professional session musicians and audio engineers) seem to agree with you. It all comes down to heads and tension (and the person playing, of course). However, I do wonder about snare
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by jrsdav 3y ago
Distance? I only have young, pre-teen kids, but based on my own relationships with my parents, the closeness we once had has shifted to my "new" immediate family. I expect there will come a time with my own kids where we're j
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by jrsdav 3y ago
> Seems like every Zelda game is described by their fans as the 'Greatest Game of All Time', despite flaws that would be called out if the corporate mascots were not in the game. The first (and only) Zelda game I played was Bre
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by jrsdav 3y ago
Are you familiar with Pinker’s research presented in book The Language Instinct? > language enables intelligence In his research, he argues that it’s the other way around; we have an innate intelligence for acquiring language. To put it
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by jrsdav 4y ago
A lot of talc mining in the the Americas has basically stopped because of these lawsuits, and it seems very unlikely we'll ever see talc-based consumer products return to the shelves. As an aside, this has been a big deal for the ceram
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by jrsdav 5y ago
Thanks for your thoughts! A note on the one about entitlement: Everyone is _entitled_ to have their experience of reality acknowledged (this opens up a can of worms, but bear with me). Someone who is neurodivergent (like OP) experiences rea
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by jrsdav 5y ago
You sound a lot like someone I know. And like someone I know, I gave them lots of advice like the kind you're getting here that never really took with them. Then I realized something. The way you experience the world is different from
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by jrsdav 5y ago
Pre-mortem exercises (opposite to the typical post-mortem, after something has gone wrong) can be a really fun process of discovery and ideation. Unfortunately though, I have yet to run one that actually helped us avoid the exact risks we d
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by jrsdav 5y ago
I am calling out my ignorance here, but are there not reactor types that don't require enriched uranium? Sodium-cooled, Molten Salt, etc. I'm curious about the current state of reactor technology and if it addresses your concern.
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by jrsdav 5y ago
This is really fascinating. Seeing the grave of human remains is one thing, but standing out in the photos is this fragment of pottery (likely a jug or a pitcher), where you can see the throwing rings of the person who crafted it, along wit
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by jrsdav 5y ago
Whenever I see things like this, I'm reminded of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End. spoilers I like to imagine I've been given the device used by the overlords to monitor earth for X years, and I can stand affix
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by jrsdav 5y ago
I'm a bit curious about something that I've never thought about before -- how were telegraph signals routed? Was it just a one way street, or did they have a frequency range to work with?
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by jrsdav 5y ago
> But using cloud APIs directly was great for us This is fine, I've done it extensively myself for some of the bleeding-edge cloud stuff, but the importance of things like tracking state, managing hierarchical resource dependencies,
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by jrsdav 5y ago
Can you point me in the right direction for more info on this? I'm curious about what some of the problems were, and why they needed to be repealed. I'm also curious what you think a sound tax policy would look like as an alternat
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MIT announces “watershed moment” in making fusion technology viable(sciencealert.com)
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by jrsdav 5y ago
I live in a master planned community (Daybreak, Utah), and while you can definitely scoff at the building quality (state of things everywhere right now, it's all done fast and with low quality materials), it's been fantastic, espe
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by jrsdav 5y ago
Have you heard of Flux? It's not a manifest abstraction tool per se (like Helm or Kustomize), but automates the management of your manifests using GitOps. It sounds like it might be what you're looking for. https://flux
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by jrsdav 5y ago
This almost makes me want to give up streaming services and go back to managing a music library! I would have loved to have had this ~10 years ago. And if something like this exists for managing photos...it's a complete mess with Apple
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by jrsdav 5y ago
> all we can do is develop and refine systems of guiding people to experience and understand these things themselves That’s really well put. Thanks for sharing your insight.
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by jrsdav 5y ago
I've found this concept is near impossible to share without sounding, well, like you put it, "a new-age loon". We haven't really developed a system or language that succinctly expresses the nature of self or experience (
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by jrsdav 5y ago
As a former Pluralsight employee, I feel sorry for all the folks at A Cloud Guru who will now have to take Vista's IQ/personality test (as is required for all their portfolio companies) to maintain their employment. Here is a list
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by jrsdav 6y ago
One of the early realizations I had as a parent (more-so after my second) was that it's wrong to assume that I have the authority to "make sure" my kids like something. They are their own person from day one, will like what t
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by jrsdav 6y ago
I've done pretty extensive work in all three major cloud providers. If you were to ask me which one I'd use for a net new project, it would be GCP -- no question. Nearly all of their services I've used have been great with a
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by jrsdav 6y ago
Ditto for my partner. She is constantly doing exactly what you described, and has diagnosed ASD. I wouldn't say her inner dialogue is centered reminiscing or longing, which is what the article mentions in this study about those who are
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by jrsdav 6y ago
The use of pigments and their combination to form a palette, the way he held the brush and moved his body, the amount of force he applied, the viscosity of paint... As someone who works extensively in an art medium (ceramics), I relate to t
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by jrsdav 6y ago
You’re right; if it looks good, it is good. But don’t diminish Pollock’s hard earned technical ability that was necessary for his breakthrough in abstract expressionism. It can be difficult for artists to get past the hurdle of mastering th
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by jrsdav 6y ago
I was having a similar problem, so I turned to blocking on the network level (pihole). The work arounds were annoying enough to finally deter me off the platform, circa 2016. It was such a relief to have those wasted hours of my life back,
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by jrsdav 6y ago
It's ridiculous now, yes; but don't forget that tech progress is cumulative. We likely needed those "fumes" so something better could come along and stand on its shoulders. It's pretty exciting to be living during a
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by jrsdav 6y ago
I wonder how long this deal has actually been in the works, and Trump, seemingly privy to this knowledge, saw a good opportunity to take credit by pre-empting the inevitable announcement of a sell off. Why else would he announce his plans o

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