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by muffinman26 4y ago
The core project for my compilers course in Germany in 2016 was about writing a C compiler in C++. I didn't do my intro courses at that university, but the professor clearly assumed all the students were already familiar with the langu
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I'd argue that you definitely need a push-based model for preventative measures: vaccines, smoke detectors, Personal Protective Equipment to reduce the spread of disease. If you don't know how serious a danger is, you won't s
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Amusingly enough, my German-as-a-foreign-language teacher had a degree in Art History and made great use of it. Of course, the relevant part for her resume was that she had a Art History degree from a German university conducted in German a
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by muffinman26 4y ago
There's an even simpler solution: Prefer physical media that plays on systems that can be repaired. You only have to buy a DVD once. There's no subscription fee. You can easily lend it, (or borrow one from the library). You don&#x
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Most of the people I've heard self-identify as LatinX are queer Hispanic people who grew up in an English-speaking country (ie. second-generation immigrants). Their primary language is English, so any difficulty pronouncing LatinX in S
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Not having a future tense is an advantage, not a disadvantage. There's no reason that something happening in the future needs to be encoded with weird grammar/verb conjugation. It's simpler to denote something happening in th
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If by "many" GP meant "a small but noticeable percentage of the population", I think the claim is reasonable. Buying a home is a process . In additional to the standard search and short personal inspection you'd do
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Oh, I absolutely agree to the need to talk about life-and-death issues when we disagree. I don't want to shut down these conversations, but I want the conversation to be in good faith, and for people to really listen to each other&#x27
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Do you have a different German newspaper you would recommend now? I used to read der Spiegel regularly to keep my German from getting too rusty.
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>> People seem to be increasingly concrete in their judgements about social, economic, and political issues that have nothing to do with them as individuals I'm not discounting your point, I definitely know many people that get e
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This is why I have an initial distrust for home schooling parents. Most of the home schooling parents I've personally encountered were members of various manipulative cults. They home-schooled their children because they wanted to cont
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That's a great recommendation. I'll have to give Effective Altruism a look. Well, yes, helping one's community instead of helping individuals in less well-of areas seems selfish to the point of evil, but at the same time, it&
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by muffinman26 4y ago
Do you know if there are any organizations or websites that do what GiveWell does for more specific issues? Perhaps something like a money-to-impact-in-chosen-field rating? As best as I could tell when I last checked, GiveWell's one
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by muffinman26 4y ago
Sleep apnea often develops during puberty when the voice box changes, which lines up with the high-school timeframe. Being overweight can certainly make it worse, but apparently an above-average number of firefighters have sleep apnea, and
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by muffinman26 5y ago
I was told growing up that migraines were different from headaches, although it looks like now migraines are sometimes called "migraine headaches". The distinction mattered because the treatment for migraines (things that caused b
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by muffinman26 5y ago
I don't think this is necessarily good advice for a new graduates, especially because new graduates don't really have a good handle on how to judge coding smarts (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%8
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In the US where a lot of these stores were (Amazon usually starts its pilot programs near its headquarters), that was maybe true a year and a half ago, but now. Change is no longer hard to find, and the few stores that held on to never acce
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The practice lessons give you back hearts, 1 per practice plus another 1 if you watch a short ad afterwards. Starting a new lesson will sometimes also give you an opportunity to watch another ad for a new heart, so after doing 2-5 practice
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by muffinman26 5y ago
Bimodal still implies that most things fall into one of two categories. Binary implies that they all do. You've basically admitted that the distinction is not binary. Further, we still don't do DNA analysis on the vast majority
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The determination of sex in a biological context is based on chromosomes, hormone levels, and secondary sex characteristics. For a 101 understanding of biology, by far the most common chromosome possibilities are XX and XY, but XXY is possi
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I've seen various "innovation" studies that show more diverse teams come up with more ideas and are more productive, but less diverse teams think they are more productive. A quick internet search turns up https:/&#x2F
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To be super pedantic, because I think it's interesting: At the US the Computer Science major was in the college of Arts and the Computer Engineering major was in the college of engineering, but besides general education electives the m
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> I worry that the more you lower the false positive (accepted to college but uncapable), the greater you raise the false negative (denied college path but capable). Sure, but if you're trying to avoid false negatives the German sys
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The point of the split for Gymnasium is supposed to be to only admit those students who would successfully adapt, though. Attending college also requires passing the Abitur, which shows skill in the areas you are planning to study. A failur
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It actually doesn't work that great in Germany. The college dropout rate is about 28% ( https://researchgate.net/publication/267340378_Student_Drop-... ). The Hauptschule and Realschule routes seem much better desig
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OP is college-age, and most colleges have a variety of seminars, which are a great place to start. The people who attend these seminars usually are interested in talking about the same topics informally afterwards. If you're not in col
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (a CW musical romantic comedy dealing with mental illness, now on Netflix) did this. The final scene of the fourth and final season was part of the initial pitch for the series.
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What you're talking about here is probably an "evening" or "professional" MBA. They definitely exist for fields other than business. My local high-ranking university offers about a dozen Professional Master's,
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For me it's the touchscreen tablet-like control consoles. The Tesla controls are essentially a laptop in the middle of the car. Given what we know about texting while driving, it is absolutely ludicrous to me that those things are even
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I didn't have this problem with emails, but with signing off on phone calls. The only people I spoke to on the phone growing up were family members. Probably confused a few telemarketers.

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