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by lacker 5y ago
I tried iPad Scratch, to me it really seems like a desktop app that was directly ported to iPad, awkward to use. Also I could be wrong it seems like it is not really designed to engage kids directly, as much as it is to be used as a tool to
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by lacker 5y ago
It's important, I just mean that the law isn't obvious here, so we shouldn't jump from "Lambda made a false statement about the California law" to "Lambda is maliciously trying to mislead students".
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by lacker 5y ago
Well compare to mathematics for example, you could wait until kids are good at using a pencil and paper to start teaching them mathematics. But there's really no need, with modern iPad apps you can teach addition, subtraction, multipli
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by lacker 5y ago
You were caught putting deceptive language in your contracts. Honestly, the California website claims this was "deceptive" but to me that seems like an exaggeration. Lambda claimed this thing wasn't dischargeable in bankrup
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by lacker 5y ago
Just based on my experience teaching elementary-school kids things, I think kids would be most helped by making an iPad-native environment for programming. Things like using a cursor in a multi-line text input are not natural for kids in ea
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by lacker 5y ago
It's interesting that Match.com acquired OkCupid shortly after this post. OkCupid deleted this post, and there was some minor controversy about whether they were forced to delete it or what. https://web.archive.org/web&
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by lacker 5y ago
I mean we don't need it, society can survive without free CI, but it is nice. I'm happy to get free CI for an open source project in return for the CI company marketing to me a bit about how great their product is.
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by lacker 5y ago
To me, all of this seems like a distraction from the fact that the EU is trying to pay something like $3 for each vaccine, and accepting late and unreliable delivery, when the correct move would have been what Israel did, to pay much more i
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by lacker 5y ago
This is a very “political” map. Many of these routes are only in there so that every state is included. (Except South Dakota who complained about being left out!) A lot of parts, like the route from Minnesota west to Washington, only really
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by lacker 5y ago
It seems reasonable to scan whatever high-resolution images we have of the surface of Mars or the Moon with some sort of anomaly detection. You wouldn’t expect to see features such as exact rectangles, for example, unless it’s something unn
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by lacker 5y ago
To me the great irony is, this is superficially an attack on people like Elon Musk, saying "hey why don't you help Earth instead of trying to get to Mars". But if you look at what SpaceX is actually doing ... the vast majori
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by lacker 5y ago
At least here in California, when someone selling fish says that it is "sushi-grade" they just mean it's okay to eat raw. Usually I think that means it was flash-frozen to kill parasites, maybe with this sort of fish producti
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by lacker 5y ago
The headline is pretty misleading... there has definitely been progress, but even the raw numbers don't indicate "halfway to zero". Emissions went from about 2.5 million tons per year to 1.5. More importantly, most of these e
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by lacker 5y ago
I mean it's just so far off. Check levels.fyi, Google/Airbnb/Coinbase will be paying $300k+ for software engineers with 4+ years of experience.
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by lacker 5y ago
I think articles like these miss that the appropriate amount of testing is very different for different sorts of applications. If you're building a low-level infrastructure component, like the storage engine for a database, or an encry
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by lacker 5y ago
The salaries seem really low. The absolute highest paying job listed on their site is a 110,000 euro salary, but you can get more than that with zero experience in California. I wonder if it would be better for software engineers in Germany
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by lacker 5y ago
I don't understand the hate. Look at what exactly DreamWorld is claiming on their Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playdreamworld/dreamwor... * The infinite open world MMO * Sculpt the world
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by lacker 5y ago
On the contrary, it would be the easy, lazy way out for a maintainer to say “well this incident was a shame now let’s forget about it.” The extra work the kernel devs are putting in here should be commended. In general, it is the wrong atti
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by lacker 5y ago
Patreon or Kickstarter does seem better for things like a short story. NFTs might make more sense for ultra-short fiction, like something the length of a single funny tweet. Because you can't really sell that on a Patreon, but maybe yo
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by lacker 5y ago
The fact you want to "properly review them at a later point in time" seems to suggest a lack of confidence in the kernel review process. Basically, yes . The kernel review process does not catch 100% of intentionally introduced
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by lacker 5y ago
To me the most promising area of blockchains in publishing is NFTs. The author only spends a couple sentences on them: NFTs, or something similar implemented without blockchain, may be an interesting niche market, but I don’t see how it co
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by lacker 5y ago
AI was first proposed many decades ago, but it's still an experimental technology, because its applications in business are still being developed. I would consider a technology no longer experimental when no startup has raised funds ba
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by lacker 5y ago
I would prefer to see research on the known incidents where things like this have happened in the wild. AFAICT the most common route for maliciously introducing vulnerabilities is through dependencies. Old npm libraries getting taken over b
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by lacker 5y ago
We didn't have Earthlink, we would dial the other person's modem directly and play Doom 1v1.
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by lacker 5y ago
Too hard to get a ride on a random weekday night before any of us could drive :D
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by lacker 5y ago
I thought the way Chomsky means it, "ubiquitous" and "universal" are the same thing. He isn't saying it's impossible for some aliens to develop a different sort of language. He's just claiming that all hum
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by lacker 5y ago
okay oldie... when I was in high school if you wanted to talk to your friends while playing games with them you both needed a second phone line, so your 56k modems could use the other line to play Doom
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by lacker 5y ago
I could add in Pytorch, VSCode, and Swift too. But yeah it's reasonable to worry a bit. It's great that competitors to Java and MySQL arose, and pretty much everything listed except Android (kind of a weird case) has a strong open
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by lacker 5y ago
Debugging Kubernetes does often feel like a dystopian nightmare, but you aren't forced to use it. I think it's a really good thing that this open software is available. As frustrating as Kubernetes is, for companies with medium-
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by lacker 5y ago
Space stations like the ISS might be like the space shuttle or hydrogen dirigibles - a really cool technological achievement that seemed promising for a while, but in the end not the best way to achieve any sort of practical goal, so not so

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