musicale

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by musicale 1y ago
The idea of "weeding out" students implies that many students are "weeds" who need to be uprooted and thrown away rather than grown. A teacher who thinks this way is probably in the wrong profession. A university that op
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by musicale 1y ago
I was wondering how long laptop computers have existed. The Epson HX-20 (1981) and Grid Compass (1982) seem like good early examples - the latter introducing the clamshell design used in many subsequent laptops such as ThinkPads.
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by musicale 1y ago
I don't want a community - I want a programming language. Preferably one that doesn't throw away billions of lines of existing code just because.
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by musicale 1y ago
> Learning Chinese with a phonetic alphabet (bopomofo) is pretty common as far as I know, maybe just in Taiwan though. I suppose China mostly uses pinyin for this now. I have also seen this in learning materials: 1. Putting the phonetic
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by musicale 1y ago
4:3 did nothing wrong.
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by musicale 1y ago
"years to come"
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by musicale 1y ago
Future PLC seems to be gradually shutting down all of its activities, one publication or site at a time. It's a shame because many of them had been publishing for decades. Were they really completely unsustainable? The ads in magazines
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by musicale 1y ago
I think I would find it hard to stomach implementing many commonly seen dark patterns in software. But someone must be implementing them.
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by musicale 1y ago
It's the trajectory of automation for the past few decades. Automate many jobs out of existence, and add a much smaller set of higher-skill jobs.
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by musicale 1y ago
The trick is that he has thick callouses and/or has burned the nerves in his fingers.
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by musicale 1y ago
> “I write research papers and I talk to students. Would you like to do those things?” That sounds great actually ... but you didn't mention the constant grant-writing and chasing funding, which is what universities actually value.
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by musicale 1y ago
OP is asking questions related to opening a coffeehouse , an establishment that focuses on coffee and where you can order a wide range of coffee drinks. OP's friend might very well want to open a coffee shop , a small diner where you
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by musicale 1y ago
Games and game-like systems provide many benefits: Simulations are particularly valuable because they allow you to test out strategies for risky activities (wars, investments or business ventures, gambling, etc.) without actual risk. Twi
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by musicale 1y ago
Should any enterprising vendor other than Lexar/Longsys figure out how to deliver 1TB MicroSD Express cards, a million rabid switch 2 owners are waiting to pounce...
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by musicale 1y ago
Seems like ACM has finally caught up with where USENIX has been for years. Though I'm not a fan of charging exorbitant open access fees. Arxiv charges exactly how much? Still waiting for IEEE though.
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by musicale 1y ago
M1-class performance/power efficiency/cost would be impressive. I guess we'll see when/if it actually happens.
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by musicale 1y ago
Companies - even apparently successful companies - still love to destroy productivity with a constant stream of interruptions (email, teams, slack, etc.) which must be responded to immediately in order to maintain employment.
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by musicale 1y ago
> They were just raising their hands because it was the socially desirable thing to do; they just wanted to please the teacher When I read this sort of thing it reminds me of how some adults didn't seem to take children seriously. M
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by musicale 1y ago
There is software maintenance when you are building on quicksand, as you frequently are if you are writing web apps, mobile apps, etc. The continuous technical churn of the underlying platform (which you typically have to accept because it
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by musicale 1y ago
Complexity is the enemy. Adding layers of indirection and abstraction can solve all problems – except for the fatal problem of complexity and bloat resulting from having too many layers of indirection and abstraction.
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by musicale 1y ago
What intel (et al.) giveth, Microsoft (et al.) taketh away.
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by musicale 1y ago
> How do you square these “growing wages” against the zeitgeist which says more and more people are living hand-to-mouth? Both can be true if the distribution has changed, which seems to be the case: "Over the last four decades, the
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by musicale 1y ago
> I think it's a bit of a waste of humanity to put so much importance on putting balls into goals, holes, hoops or elsewhere Sports can be seen as something of an improvement over more lethal forms of inter-group conflict. Fortunat
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*anymore ; edit timeout
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How do CZ gemstones compare to diamond gemstones visually/in person? It looks like CZ has a lower refraction index but higher color dispersion vs. diamond, so that seems like it would still result in an attractive gemstone. The main di
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by musicale 1y ago
Cool. I wonder if some enterprising students (or others) might put together a physical hardware console that you could connect to a raspberry pi or fpga implementation?
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by musicale 1y ago
How surprising. https://killedbygoogle.com
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by musicale 1y ago
Delaying the vote until age 30 is probably a non-starter.
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by musicale 1y ago
Are you arguing for or against restricting voting to landowners?
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by musicale 1y ago
s/fighting in a war/in an attack by militants/

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