kedean

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by kedean 7y ago
Odd that they would try to skip straight to remote instruction, or odd that they would be reprimanded for it?
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by kedean 7y ago
> On the other hand, I was talking yesterday with a family member in another state where they have been doing online school almost since the first day It's highly likely they aren't supposed to doing that. A lot of school distr
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by kedean 7y ago
> undeserved rural areas Was this just a really unfortunate typo for underserved?
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by kedean 7y ago
Right, I'm not trying to claim that everyone can be good at math, or should be. There is some level of talent involved, and of course certain brain configurations that help or hurt (like discalcula or photographic memory). However, i
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by kedean 7y ago
Pedantic but I think important clarification: McIlroy proposed the concept of linking programs together in a pipeline. Ken Thompson created the notation and implementation we all know.
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by kedean 7y ago
Counter-example: mathematics. I can't count how many times I've encountered people who "just aren't good at math". Besides those few with a condition to justify it, those people aren't good at math because they
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by kedean 7y ago
Sort of. It doesn't have to be a traditional file or anything, so it helps to think of it as a unique URL being accessed instead of a different pixel. What makes it work is the client automatically loading all images, which means the u
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by kedean 7y ago
> A lot of the high-performers left shortly after that The article specified that "two senior Gravity employees also resigned in protest". Do you have a source for "a lot of the high performers" outside of those two?
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by kedean 7y ago
I think you can argue these are sides of the same coin. Seeing the new pattern emerge happens because you are repeatedly seeing the same event over again by searching prior experiences, it just happens that the experiences were quite recent
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by kedean 7y ago
I'll concede Tarantino films are a good example. I think maybe the difference is that Hateful Eight, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, and Django aren't comedies, and it tends to be a lot less casual. I recall most cases in Django being
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by kedean 7y ago
I understand that its a mockery, but the word carries a lot more weight now than it did. Even just rewatching it with someone who knows nothing about it is really weird, because I have to genuinely worry if they're getting the sarcasm
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by kedean 7y ago
Well, to start, the number of n-bombs they drop is super uncomfortable these days, even with satire in mind. I love the movie, but that aspect just feels off now, even though I understand the intent.
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by kedean 7y ago
> Also "engagement" is not the same as addiction. People who follow more close friends are more engaged on FB, but they are not addicted. That's debatable. I think people who spend hours pouring through pictures from thous
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by kedean 7y ago
There's a middle ground where part of the bank wants to do things right, and the other half wants customers happy now. As a pure hypothetical situation, if the old system was terrible and, say, stored things in plaintext and did case-i
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by kedean 7y ago
> In fact, considering anything other than someone’s skill seems somehow anti-hacker. The term hacker was never about pure skill or knowledge, it's about ethos and mentality. A fast implementation is nothing if it doesn't carry
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by kedean 7y ago
I feel like I fit that grouping too. I didn't fit in most places as a kid (I never really figured out why, which still scares me), but I had a pretty good group of friends in elementary school who bonded over that fact. Unfortunately o
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by kedean 7y ago
It does violate the contract of 4xx errors though, that a 4xx indicates a client error. If the store hasn't paid up, that's not the clients fault nor can they fix it. It should be some kind of 5xx for customers.
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by kedean 7y ago
If I try to do it right now, I can only really generate a sort of average tone that I associate with them, or maybe a phrase they say commonly. I can't really synthesize a new sentence though, so there's something in there relatin
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by kedean 7y ago
That's what I always thought originally, but from when I've spoken with other people about it, it's not the normal way of 'visualizing'. In particular, not being able to do things like imagine a persons face is pret
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by kedean 7y ago
I think in a very spatial way. I can roughly imagine objects or scenes as something like a 3d graph of connected points. I can imagine the facade of my house if I close my eyes only by sort of tracing its shape, in which case I can feel my
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by kedean 7y ago
Man I can't even imagine. I realize a while back that I don't actually hear music in my head when I have an earworm, instead I hear a representation of it made entirely of what would be vocalized sounds. So if I'm hearing the
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by kedean 7y ago
I won't claim to be very knowledgeable about ring, but I'd imagine that the difference comes down to Alexa's claim to only listen for its name, rather than sending all audio in range up to Amazon for processing (regardless of
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by kedean 7y ago
The post is worded like they were in college at the time. College students can register to vote in either their home state or the state they attend school in, just not both.
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by kedean 7y ago
Similarly, the sheer number of auxiliary jobs. Kids are rarely told about the less prestigious jobs that surround and support doctor/lawyer/vet/etc, and if they are it's often as a fallback. This leads to a lot of high s
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by kedean 7y ago
I think the requirement of fitting things onto 'pages', which PDF's have to follow as a "document" format thats intended to map to printed pages, is a huge detriment. It's a physical limitation of print that sh
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by kedean 7y ago
I disagree. Some kind of new system that isn't first-past-the-post is definitely necessary, but it won't solve partisanship right here and now. The state we are in has a huge portion of people literally hating the guts of anyone w
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by kedean 7y ago
I just finished Kleppman last week. It took me since August since I was mostly reading during working hours, but I highly recommend it, especially as a companion piece if you already have a lot of familiarity with database technologies.
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by kedean 7y ago
Yuck. When my company started pushing for more "agility" and my team moved to a sprint structure, I was lucky enough to have personal leverage as a senior team member. Early on I made it clear that tickets and sprints exclusively
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by kedean 7y ago
There's no hard and fast rules. No, a company will never retroactively pay for you learning, but yes a number of companies will reimburse you if you attend graduate programs while employed with them. It's a balancing act. If a com
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by kedean 7y ago
I think it's a pretty natural idea. According to Brian Kernighan's memoir, the original vision for pipes was more like a mesh than the omnidirectional flow we ended up with: "Doug wanted to allow arbitrary connections in a so

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