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721.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
These programs pop up from time to time but they never seem to spread.
722.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
They can also protect penguins https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35039105
723.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I thought sheep were the problem. what kind of vegetation did CA have before?
724.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
From personal experience I believe they prefer T-shirts and wallets :-)
725.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I don't have the grit or ability to learn differential equations or linear algebra by myself. Learning programming is easy compared to learning math or thermodynamics for example. For example, I like to read about stuff like quantum m
726.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am a self taught programmer but my mechanical engineering degree definitely helps me understanding a lot of math and just with the general approach to problem solving. The stuff I learned and had to understand in thermodynamics helps me w
727.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Pimsleur really hammers the language into you until it becomes instinctive.
728.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
From my experience most language learning products get boring once you advance. Happened to me with Pimsleur and also Duolingo. At some point you are ready for real conversation with people and the constant repetition that is necessary for
729.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think what will happen is that a few people at the top will manage the machines and benefit from them while they will be trying to make the other humans second class. I think a scenario like “Elysium” is very possible. That is until there
730.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I have spent weeks on an algorithm that would recreate words and paragraphs from letter rectangles and the space in between. Fun, fun, fun. Tables are even better. Page headers and footers then complete the insanity nicely.
731.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
The unneeded departments are also quite powerful and want to survive. We call them “deep healthcare”....
732.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Yep. There are a lot of people making good money off the current system. They see no need for change unless it makes them even more money.
733.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
“This is changing slowly but the putting public tabular data in pdfs has probably cost the economy billions.” Or you could says it has created a ton of jobs :)
734.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Let’s not make this into another stupid polarized fight. Sanders is a pragmatic guy who I am pretty sure would entertain other thoughts if they really addressed the real problems unlike most republican proposals.
735.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Can’t argue about that!
736.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Good to know!
737.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
No. It’s the worst bad :). It’s only good for printing.
738.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Exactly. I have written software for legal document search. Most of what they get is in PDF and it’s a major PITA to get data out of them. Forget about tables. Just try to extract text without some garbled characters and you will lose your
739.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
are you saying that if your employer offers a high deductible plan without HSA you can open one for yourself? I don’t think many people know that.
740.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s the problem. It was never meant as what it’s used for now. It’s bad for manuals, it’s bad for data, it’s bad for mobile devices, it’s bad for versioning. It’s only good for printing. But somehow it’s used for all of these.
741.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Probably.
742.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
After spending time extracting data and text from PDF I would also say it’s the worst file format. We have perfectly fine structured documents, convert them to PDF to lose half of the information and then we spend insane effort to get the d
743.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s the insanity of employer health insurance. Things like this should never be a decision of the employer. It’s the same stupidity with 401k.
744.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
In my company the HSA premiums are not much lower.
745.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Totally agree. All “innovations” like HSA and 401k are designed to make life easier for employers but are sold as benefit for employees.
746.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
From my experience it’s close to impossible to have a 100% bullet proof contract. If you try that you end up with the typical government contracting style where you spend a lot of time with specs and requirements upfront but it falls apart
747.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
It's probably the same as with tech companies where only a very small percentage does cutting edge work.
748.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
"Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser" for the Germans here :-)
749.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
“A lot of oldtimer MS devs I knew say that now they got a genuine fear of every new tech coming from MS almost customarily becoming an abandonware in 2-3 years term.” That’s how I have been feeling from around the time WPF came out... And t
750.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
“It's funny that 15 years back I was so anti MS and pro Google and now I think it's the other way!” Stay skeptical of all of them. No need to be fan of one of the big techs. In the end they are all greedy organizations that want t

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