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by mcguire 5y ago
Old Unix guy here: That is my understanding as well. But then the question becomes, why not get rid of /usr?
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Review from Brian Castner: Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia”(wrath-bearingtree.com)
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by mcguire 5y ago
The last I heard, there was a US destroyer undeployable because the Captain refused to get vaccinated and (so far) has successfully sued to prevent his being transferred to another position.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Every vet I know about has some disability payments. (Part of that may speak to a lack of safety culture, but they don't fight too hard to prevent anyone from getting them.)
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by mcguire 5y ago
Does that subsidy depend on what state you live in? AFAICT, it doesn't apply here in scenic Alabama.
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Obamacare created new gaps that absolutely sucked - made over 58k and self employed? No subsidies for you and paying a skyrocketing premium higher than any reasonable home mortgage with a 10k deductible. Completely unrealistic. And t
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by mcguire 5y ago
https://www.military.com/education/gi-bill/new-post-911-gi-b... " The GI Bill can pay up to the full resident tuition at any public school, if you are qualified to receive benefits at the 100% rate based on y
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by mcguire 5y ago
" This is ‘mission command’ and violating it and micromanaging my Yeomen is a real taboo. " In 1912, a guy by the name of Frank Schofield gave a lecture to the US Naval War College that was later published as a booklet called The
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by mcguire 5y ago
That's kind of an odd statement for an astronomer.
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by mcguire 5y ago
If I understand the parent correctly, he's referring to the specific idea that base 60 math leads directly to the "right" answer, that solves the unsolved problems. I don't remember who was promulgating that idea, but th
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by mcguire 5y ago
I don't think that article says what you think it says. The D-K effect is: " The Dunning-Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability. &
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by mcguire 5y ago
https://timecube.2enp.com/
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by mcguire 5y ago
Further, there's the other half of the psychological stew: them as regard education in general and the attempt to untangle and think critically about wild theories as at best a waste of time and at worst a personal attack. I personally
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by mcguire 5y ago
As a computer scientist, I've only encountered this once. My grad school advisor pointed the guy to me, who insisted on having phone conversations. He was interested in compiler technology; I suggested the Dragon Book, EOPL, and a few
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by mcguire 5y ago
By the same Dr Sarah Taber: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/150780888453416961...
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by mcguire 5y ago
" ...a better marketer... " Oh, my lord, everything about this article screams shallow internet marketing. " ...a small town book store in rural Texas... " Bastrop is a (rather distant) suburb of Austin. "Rural Texa
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by mcguire 5y ago
Crypto is "supposed" to do 27 different, contradictory things. What it does do is provide a speculative bubble with no backing assets.
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by mcguire 5y ago
And even fewer ML proggies.
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Newton was afraid to even tell anyone about calculus because he was worried about being mocked. " He was more worried about being scooped. And he was the president of the Royal Society when that argument broke out. Would Einstei
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by mcguire 5y ago
I'm not particularly impressed with the quality of the article. The first question that comes to my mind that the article doesn't address is, how many geniuses did humanity miss because education was very, very limited. Second tho
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by mcguire 5y ago
I have a thought that comes up every time the "super-intelligent AI" discussion appears: Maybe there are decreasing returns to increasing smartitude. As a weak form of argument, being three standard deviations better than the aver
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by mcguire 5y ago
The human population isn't really important to that chart. " Below, we can see the number of acclaimed scientists (in blue) and artists (in red), divided by the effective population (total human population with the education and a
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Here’s a chart from Cold Takes’ “Where’s Today’s Beethoven?” Below, we can see the number of acclaimed scientists (in blue) and artists (in red), divided by the effective population (total human population with the education and acce
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by mcguire 5y ago
The person doing the specification has been "contaminated" by the original's documentation and product; it's possible to argue that they carried over knowledge directly from the original product. The lawyer in the middle
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by mcguire 5y ago
Hey! Some of us remember the microbus fondly! :-)
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by mcguire 5y ago
This is how you wind up spending many, many $ remediating a building. And getting those weird questions like, "Inventory says we have 500ml of X, anyone know where it is?"
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by mcguire 5y ago
Nuclear saber rattling has been the norm for a very long time; it's just that after the fall of the Soviet Union there wasn't much need for it. Things have returned to their more traditional state.
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by mcguire 5y ago
The real fun starts when somebody starts using techniques like this that overcome the weaknesses of known chemical weapons and provide specific advantages. It's also kind of hard to monitor computational chemical research. It's my
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by mcguire 5y ago
Do you mean real "family values" or is that the code-word version?
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by mcguire 5y ago
Is food the only thing you need to survive?

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