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by lcuff 5y ago
I'm guessing that the bureaucracy of such a system would be a significant burden. To avoid having the system badly gamed, you'd need a second evaluation, yes? By a _neutral_ party, (not a doctor working in the same practice, e.g.
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by lcuff 5y ago
In my mind it is not a good system, because if the surgeon is looking at a much-more-difficult than average circumstance, than he could reasonably expect a lower-than-average result, but a result that might be much better than average for a
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by lcuff 5y ago
In my mind it gets worse when the procedure is identified: A difficult shoulder surgery by an orthopedic surgeon gets refused because it might be result in a mediocre outcome and lower his 'success' rate. The patient can't g
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by lcuff 5y ago
(1) I read a book, which helped quite a bit: "Contact, the first 4 minutes" by Leonard Zunin. Still available on Amazon, or perhaps at your local library. Lots of good tips. I (now) have fun interactions with people in (for exam
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by lcuff 5y ago
"non-human animals are widely known to have language". I remember reading years ago about Koko the gorilla being taught sign language, but that Koko was incapable of seeing the sign for 'fire' without having a fear resp
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by lcuff 5y ago
Here is a different quiz about what you know about your local area. Pretty interesting. https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-big-here-quiz/
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by lcuff 5y ago
I wonder how many software engineers, and how many of the GoF (Gang of Four) who wrote the software book that popularized patterns in the software world, actually read and thought about A Pattern Language. I'm sure some, but in my min
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by lcuff 5y ago
Doing good science around this kind of stuff is extremely difficult ... My personal experience with Psychodrama and Gestalt in the late '70s and early '80s was that for someone like myself who was very much 'in my head',
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by lcuff 5y ago
I'm glad it helped your grieving process, and a big yes to the reality of "this is hard to study". I have an intuition that catharsis as part of a grief process might be quite different (more useful) than in situations where
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by lcuff 5y ago
The keyboardio keyboard I'm typing on (A Model 1) puts substantially less stress on my hands and wrists than any other keyboard I've used. As someone who has had repetitive stress pain in my wrists, I consider it - well, not beyon
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by lcuff 5y ago
I worked on an air-defense system upgrade (ground and airborne radar integration) 1981-1986 where we installed 8" floppy drives. At the time they were being installed, they were already obsolete. The backstory on this includes (A) The
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by lcuff 5y ago
There's a despair that overcame me when the data we were processing changed date/time format in the middle of a file. It was a file for one day's data! Data on 5 minute intervals for 3 thousand data sources. Received in an em
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by lcuff 5y ago
I'm a developer who worked for 35 years and never became a manager. I wouldn't say I fit into any of these classifications. I worked in the defense industry for 5 years, then switched to commercial software. I worked with several
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by lcuff 5y ago
I really didn’t say everything I said. -- Yogi Berra
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by lcuff 5y ago
The main thing I was thinking (I don't use Python myself) was that it's super-popular right now, and fits in the realm of 'a scripting language'. I'm loathe to recommend bash for what I hope are obvious reasons, and
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by lcuff 5y ago
I agree, 3 or 4 at a time is probably too much, I may have misremembered (I can't find the recommendation in any Weinberg book at my fingertips). But six months of solid work on 2, then six months of work on another two is an idea.
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by lcuff 5y ago
I highly recommend "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, by Gerald Weinberg. An orthogonal piece of advice that I got from a different book of Gerald Weinbergs' is to learn 3 or 4 Very Different languages simultaneously,
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by lcuff 5y ago
I knew vim well before I read this advice, so didn't need it myself, but think it's worthy: Go through vimtutor, then use the native vim for you platform that also has a GUI, so when you get frustrated you can 'fall back&#x27
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by lcuff 5y ago
Sandy Metz, a Ruby lecturer, also advocates 5 line functions. I'm keen to have functions limited to 24 lines, because as someone with significant vision challenges who uses large fonts, that's as many lines as I can get on a scre
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by lcuff 5y ago
This is kind of an anti-answer, sorry about that. I confess, after 40 years of software development, I was done with the technical world. In the three years I've been retired, I've sailed a lot, done woodworking, made music (gui
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by lcuff 5y ago
"In-depth" interviews and news reports seldom even scratch the surface of complex subjects. Thinking that a man who has spent years working with architecture, even if he's not a licensed architect, can explain his rationale
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by lcuff 5y ago
Well, seeing how the building is going to be when built, and knowing the reasoning for the design is two different things, yes? He may have given an interview, but this is hardly a full explication of the reasoning behind the decisions. We
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by lcuff 5y ago
I've stayed in a couple in the U.S. that had no windows, both built in the modern era, which perhaps accounts for the difference. Both with Jesuit roots.
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by lcuff 5y ago
One of the things that I'm betting is true here is that most of us don't have any _detailed_ information about the building. Charlie Munger says: I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the othe
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by lcuff 5y ago
The place I heard the quote is the opening statement by Hal Abelson in the course he co-taught with Gerald Sussman and is now part of MIT Open courseware. Not quite sure when it was taught, but the text SICP was written in 1985.... He goe
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by lcuff 5y ago
Hmmm ... In 1982 I heard a talk by Edsger Dijkstra given at my company. As he stepped up to the overhead projector he said "I asked for 20 feet of blackboard, and I got this ..." As a (former) presenter, I found myself constantly
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by lcuff 5y ago
Current saw stop units do have an over-ride switch so that if you know you're going to cut questionable wood, you can disable the safety mechanism for a series of cuts. (The safety mechanism comes back on if you power the table saw off
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by lcuff 5y ago
I confess I found it dismal that the first problem was to learn the multiplication tables. If I'm looking for a book to excite anyone, that's not where I start. I get that those operations quickly become important in algebra and
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by lcuff 5y ago
Yup! Same thing with the ridiculous verify-my-identify questions. One I encounter all the time is the local community college, which let me use spaces in my answers on creation, but not at entry time. Grrrr.
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by lcuff 5y ago
Definitely a 'Your Mileage May Vary' moment here. On guitar, I used to 'slog' rather than 'power through' a song. It took weeks before it came close to sounding like music. Now I start with a couple (tough)

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