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by mathgeek 6mo ago
Only the ones not containing the NASA logo or the astronauts are public domain.
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by mathgeek 6mo ago
The word "may" does a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
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by mathgeek 6mo ago
For many kids, they have one device and it’s a phone or tablet. They may have access to a computer, but not on demand. Much like when many of us were growing up and had one computer.
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by mathgeek 6mo ago
Of all the things I have cooked on my induction cooktops over the years, boiling water fast is what I miss when I travel and have to use electric coils.
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by mathgeek 6mo ago
“First glimpse of the dark side of the moon” rather than “the whole dark side of the moon”. Title is pretty accurate for my understanding.
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by mathgeek 6mo ago
Not in the book directly, but she did accuse them of securities fraud prior to publication: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/whistl...
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by mathgeek 6mo ago
Legally, your "slavery" distinction is not the same thing as agreeing not to speak a certain way about a company. Slavery implies that you can be forced to do things that you do not want to do, as it is inclusive of future decisio
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by mathgeek 6mo ago
Reading through this reminded me of just how engulfed in acronyms and lingo MS engineers must be. Much like AWS engineers with an acronym for every service that gets thrown around with the assumption of understanding, I felt like I needed a
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by mathgeek 6mo ago
If you're looking for programs where mistakes were not made, Apollo is not the program to choose. I highly recommend visiting Kennedy Space Center some time where they go in-depth on how close it came to never happening after Apollo I.
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by mathgeek 7mo ago
> That leads to a harsh conclusion: human beings aren't that valuable as individuals. We are in fact very disposable and replaceable. Wait until you get to the part of philosophy that hinges on this being an invention of our own ma
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by mathgeek 7mo ago
More likely that they spend a lot of time getting Apple devices to work just right, and not nearly as much on the rest. Same result, but less malicious.
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by mathgeek 7mo ago
> Can you quantify the quality of a p90 or p10 developer? Of course not, you have switched “quality” in this statement to modify the developer instead of their work. Regarding the work, each project, as you agree with me on from your rep
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by mathgeek 7mo ago
Slot machines are popular for a reason. Most folks playing them don’t know or care about the odds.
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by mathgeek 7mo ago
We should qualify that kind of statement, as it’s valuable to define just what percentile of “professional developers” the quality falls into. It will likely never replace p90 developers for example, but it’s better than somewhere between t
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by mathgeek 7mo ago
Hopefully these can still be blocked by adguard et al: https://old.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/116144l/is_there_a...
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by mathgeek 7mo ago
Survivorship bias in action. We cannot see what didn’t happen.
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by mathgeek 7mo ago
Not the GP nor claiming anything , but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran is what you are asking for.
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
> I feel like most good programmers are like good chess players. A specific type or area of developers, I'd say. There are many types and not all of them require understanding sizeable code bases to do their work well.
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
Oh for sure, love it. I just hadn’t seen the above before and thought maybe a new source!
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
> It is hard to express in more definitive terms on which side of that liberty-versus-security trade-off the U.S. was intended to fall. While I agree with Henry, and intend for _my_ life and social impact to fall there, "where the U
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
Not to sound pedantic (I believe this is a very important distinction), but as far as I'm aware most slaves were not _given_ last names by their slavers. They often had (if taken into slavery) or were given (if born in slavery) their o
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
Where is your source for that? Would love to read anything and everything BTS on B5.
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
Oddly enough, this is just the American Dream under exponential growth. "Someday you'll be rich as well" is just weaponized hope, and folks that follow GP's advice gobble it up because it's aspirational.
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
My goodness, it's scary how much I reminisce about long summer days doing nothing but playing War2 over Kali before the days of Battle.net.
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
How dare you call Weird Al hype?
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
It's almost as if categorization is often an oversimplification.
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
Perhaps sometimes and in an ideal state, but most folks who code learn a lot and make a lot of design decisions while producing software.
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
Yes, but that is part of the point: a chair being built is mostly distinct from a chair being designed (there is of course a small amount of design that is done while building). Software is designed at a much higher percentage while being c
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by mathgeek 8mo ago
Having also inferred "board games" to mean something I'd play on an average game night these days, it did cause me to reflect on making sure I think a bit before jumping to conclusions. The modern world has certainly trained
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by mathgeek 9mo ago
Waste is subjective or, at best, hard to define. It's the classic "get rid of all the humans and nothing would be wasted" aphorism.

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