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by mp05 3y ago
> You realise that you are living the cliche of the uninformed but highly opinionated relative at holiday dinners? What the hell are you going on about? If someone offers their unwarranted take they developed using talking points from &q
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by mp05 3y ago
My life at the holiday table has gotten easier when someone inevitably brings up climate change in whatever capacity. I simply state that, until the mainstream consensus is "build the hell out of nuke plants", I don't want to
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by mp05 3y ago
Sounds like a lot of great, high-paying jobs to me.
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by mp05 3y ago
To be fair, some are busy reviewing PRs.
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by mp05 3y ago
I'm no economist but... grabs macroeconomics book from shelf Yeah it's definitely more than just monetary phenomena. I'd argue that bad fiscal policy makes it happen and jiggering the money supply is what we do to fix mista
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by mp05 3y ago
During my first trip to Paris, I was at a patisserie in an admittedly tourist-y part of town and the gentleman behind the counter yelled at me and insist I speak English when ordering. So in Paris stopped attempting to speak to them in Fren
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by mp05 3y ago
Good red wine is one of life's most blessed gifts.
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by mp05 3y ago
The computation in calculus was the hard part... the intuition made complete sense almost all of the time. In stats it seemed the other way around. Interesting that you seem to feel otherwise, but different strokes.
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by mp05 3y ago
Yeah Bayes' Theorem and confidence intervals, population vs sample means, and margins of error are all things any college graduate should understand. When you realize you can bake correlations/associations to imply whatever you wa
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by mp05 3y ago
My first real stats course was a 300-level engineering stats class that kicked my ass pretty well. The class had a calc 3 prereq I found the computation generally the easiest part. Truly grasping the topic takes patience and work but it&#
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PLC Fiddle: build and simulate ladder logic(plcfiddle.com)
2 points by mp05 3y ago|1 comments
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by mp05 3y ago
Just been writing a lot of ladder logic lately and looking for some easier way to mess around. Useful tool and impressive work by its authors. Kudos.
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by mp05 3y ago
You're onto something but it flies in the face of a bit of convention as you're probably not the standard personality that gets into engineering. I think it's a fine career to go to school, get your BS in whatever technical f
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by mp05 3y ago
- creativity and an understanding of humans that, at the least, borders on genuine interest. unless you design chips then who cares I suppose??
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by mp05 3y ago
That's fine and I believe you. But does this negate every other thing he's done that is objectively right? What if he atoned? John Lennon beat his wife (and wrote songs about it!!) but I still see morons with "Imagine" t
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by mp05 3y ago
I thought it was gauche to not be able to separate a man from his art?
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by mp05 3y ago
I enjoy some of the pretentiousness, namely the physical fitness and cycling fanaticism. There are some really, really tremendous athletes there. But Boulder lost me at the rock worshipping yogis that appropriate "brown people cultures
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by mp05 3y ago
My old boss when I worked in Boulder (commuting from Arvada) claimed he hadn't been to Denver proper in at least a decade, not counting DIA or the interstate to it. I believe him. Boulder is definitely its own thing.
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by mp05 3y ago
Boulder is the worst best small town in America. You know what I mean.
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by mp05 3y ago
If you're letting "kids" read this, you're robbing them of their childhood. Minds that have not been fully developed should not be ingesting propaganda.
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by mp05 3y ago
I've heard stories of people taking the Empire Builder from Whitefish, MT to Seattle which leaves at about 10:30pm and gets you to King Street at 11:30am. Pretty niche I realize, but it's an observed phenomenon and I would be inte
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by mp05 3y ago
This is me to a tee when I was frankly abusing Adderall as a young adult. My judgment of how best to use my time goes straight down the toilet when I'm jacked on amphetamines. The physical side effects are not very desirable either.
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by mp05 3y ago
The thing that fascinates me about Von Neumann is his apparently "normal" personality given his savant nature. Dude liked to do earth shattering work in front of the TV and was quite a friendly, if not a bit socially awkward, pers
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by mp05 3y ago
> It's pretty great at reducing the loneliness of solo programming though. Just bouncing ideas and seeing what it says helps a lot. It's not like other people would want to listen. It's really great for this. I've fou
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by mp05 3y ago
Nicotine poisoning is one of the worst feelings imaginable. The headache is stuff of legends and, interestingly, the same headache I had with Covid and for weeks after. I get a bit sick even thinking about it.
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by mp05 3y ago
Thank you, this is precisely what sort of conversation I was trying to elicit. If anything, realizing that Einstein's intellect, while tremendous, is something we can wrap our heads around. He always seemed like a quality, if a bit unf
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by mp05 3y ago
Right, his mind was first rate but in a dog-eat-dog life, so much more goes into it. I find them all very interesting characters and I'd like other people's thoughts on the narrative I've crafted of their lives and interactio
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by mp05 3y ago
> I don't even understand how its possible to think this. Are you intending to come across as so rude? Because I'd say this sounds like your problem. Perhaps English isn't your first language, so I'll forgive your ton
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by mp05 3y ago
Obviously Einstein was a brilliant man but I've gotten the impression he was "2nd tier" when compared to some of his contemporaries like Poincaré and von Neumann. Confirm/deny?
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by mp05 3y ago
I've been a developer for 15 or so years and while I love to build, it's difficult to do anything meaningful in a vacuum. I've also been slowly chipping away at pre-engineering curriculum for the past 10 or so. Once I realize

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