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by lcuff 3y ago
In the Incredible Secret Money Machine, one of his tips was to cut off the power cord to your TV. (Pre Internet era!) The solid advice to not let yourself get distracted is invaluable. And harder than ever in today's world. He also
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by lcuff 3y ago
This article matches my own life experience: Rather than what have you changed your mind about in the past decade, I use 'in your whole life'. Speaking personally, there are only two big things I've changed my mind about. I&
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by lcuff 3y ago
After you read far enough in the book or tutorial to find that command.
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by lcuff 3y ago
One of the main points of the article that I totally agree with is that recipe authors fudge times by massive amounts to make the total time for a recipe "acceptable". A favorite recipe from years ago in Cuisine magazine for a way
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by lcuff 3y ago
Well, I'm thinking more of a web site Hello World than a C++ Hello World. The original point of Hello World (per Kernighan and Ritchie) was to ensure that all the tools were installed (the compiler itself wasn't a given) and in y
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by lcuff 3y ago
Well, I haven't used either of those, so I can't comment on a comparison ... but the point is less 'powered by an ai' and more the fact that I'm using English, not the jargon of create-react-app or dotnet new or the
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by lcuff 3y ago
I suspect as things evolve with the Large Language Models, there will be integration with existing computer languages and frameworks. That the ability to say "Create a web site using language X with framework Y" will become a rea
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by lcuff 3y ago
For some definition of useless, I suppose. Without trying to be contrary, most of what I (we) know is 'useless' in terms of whether my knowing it has a "useful" impact on my life. Knowing that there's an equation g
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by lcuff 3y ago
As a generalization I have to disagree, at least in America for high-school subjects. I looked at both the math and biology texts from recent years. The math texts were written by people who didn't understand math, and the biology tex
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by lcuff 3y ago
I'm curious about what topics you have knowledge of where it's failed. Does it seem like there's a pattern to the failures? I've been using GPT for coding help, and it it is very helpful in ruby and bash, though it oft
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by lcuff 3y ago
A 'recommended option'? Eek. Recommended by who? I don't believe any country in the world condones suicide, and I doubt that any will any time soon. I had some friends who were in serious financial difficulties a number of
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by lcuff 4y ago
I think the mention of exactly where is useful to this audience. Other people using the same open-source library might realize --- oh, we've run into that bug but never realized it. Low probability, sure, but nonetheless.
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by lcuff 4y ago
> Standardized tests are much easier to prep for than GPA and extracurriculars. Based on comments so far, I'm curious what you mean by this. My own take is that you are correct because standardized tests are 'easier to prep f
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by lcuff 4y ago
I believe YouTube would need to hand select such videos. According to Tubefilter 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. (2019 data) It's hard for me to see how YouTube can be held responsible for _anything_ that is
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by lcuff 4y ago
Yeah, I spent a lot of time banging my head against the wall of Zork, and in the end felt it was a "guess what I'm thinking" pastime that was not worth my time.
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by lcuff 4y ago
Please add "SPOILER ALERT" when you give hints.
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by lcuff 4y ago
Any given change to a car might by itself fail to seem radical - I agree, yet in the decades since 1909, how cars (and trucks) are used in our world has changed radically, and radically changed our world. Paved roads and freeways, gasoline
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by lcuff 4y ago
A favorite of mine from an earlier era: "That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." - Scie
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by lcuff 4y ago
Yes. Chelsea Sullenberger ("Sully") made the same point in an interview. He said in the early days of the airlines, the CEO was always a pilot, and error margins were set much higher than legally required. Now that CEOs tend NOT
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by lcuff 4y ago
Not an expert, but here's my best guess. When I learned to fly a small plane, you pulled back the yoke at a specific speed. This is called 'rotation' and lifts the nose of the plane off the ground, (wheels are still on the gr
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by lcuff 4y ago
I agree that it's hard to see from the outside how calculating weight figures for an airplane could be software load-dependent. But this all smacks of the point that Brooks makes in 'The Mythical Man Month' all those years ag
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by lcuff 4y ago
Perhaps. She did know how to use a calculator, and generally she does better at arithmetic things than I do (balancing the checkbook, eg.) because she knows she's not good, whereas I know I'm good, so I'm more careless. Als
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by lcuff 4y ago
I agree with this, and someone has already pointed to the Paul Graham essay "Do things that don't scale". I will say, you need to build to accommodate some growth, but in my head at the startups I've been at, I always f
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by lcuff 4y ago
Which for some, (like me), is ludicrous. My own take is that children learn best (or for some, learn at all) when their interest in something is piqued or they are inspired by a teacher. (I only did homework for teachers I liked throughout
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by lcuff 4y ago
Several people who have mentioned "How to Solve It" by George Polya. It's been decades since I've looked at it, but a favorite Polya quote of mine is " "The open secret of real success is to throw your whole p
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by lcuff 4y ago
My basic complaint about ORM is that it is such a massively leaky abstraction. That the (sometimes, but not always-made) claim that it 'abstracts away the sql' is just plain false. An understanding of SQL is typically necessary.
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by lcuff 4y ago
Not mentioned so far: Paying attention to dreams recalled from sleep. In order to remember them, a journal and pen by the bedside is necessary, as the dreams get forgotten within minutes. A simple DIY technique for working with dreams is t
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by lcuff 4y ago
Sexy idea, but as someone who started using vi in 1987, a software solution seems way better. I map the seldom-otherwise-used key sequence jk to <ESC>. If I were doing it over, kj would be slightly better, for times when I am Just K
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by lcuff 4y ago
Donald Knuth once said (or wrote) that sometimes it's very useful to dig deeply in a very narrow place if a subject is both broad and deep. He wrote a book on bible verses this way: (3:16, Bible texts illuminated). He also said he ha
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by lcuff 4y ago
Yes, these are good examples of ... well, 'useful' scalping. The scenario I had in mind was when big scalping outfits have a modus operandi of buying huge quantities of tickets for re-sale. Aided and abetted by the technology of

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