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by mwattsun 5y ago
I think parent is thinking of .NET Core 3 and doesn't realize that v5 and 6 add back many missing features and .NET Core is now just called .NET again.
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“fishpilled” means take in the wisdom of the late Mark Fisher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher
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Dolly Parton’s Dollywood to pay full tuition for employees pursuing college https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/10/dolly-parton-d...
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https://archive.is/NhF1F
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I can't imagine trying unknown drugs on myself. That's so risky. But people did it and found out the hard way like with Bromo-DragonFLY: subjective effects have been described as “like being dragged to hell and back again. Many t
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Even they admit the study is flawed: “Another caveat is that many people in our study broke blind and they figured out what condition they were assigned to,” van Elk added. “This is a more generic problem for this type of research: the eff
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> By choosing this path though, I’d be giving up on my dreams in machine learning and not living up to my potential. If I were you I'd reconsider this statement, which I've probably internalized so It's never challenged. I
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https://archive.is/3GH5e
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The New Post-60 Career Paths(wsj.com)
14 points by mwattsun 5y ago|1 comments
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If I couldn't go more than 10 seconds without checking I'd think I had a severe addiction and seek treatment
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Ok, thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense.
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I don't recall a company ever the size of Meta dropping 20% in one day of trading. That's immense. People must think the company is broken in some way, or I might be over-reacting.
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Paul Krugman recently said essentially the same thing and got roasted for being elitist. I can see both points of view and well, buyer beware... How Crypto Became the New Subprime https://archive.is/1SMIy
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I thought the same thing after I had time to think about the light rail comment. I certainly don't want to downplay the technical achievements. I am really excited about the progress. I think myself and others just want these companies
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I want to be surprised, but after all the hype by FSD boosters, I'm prepared to be disappointed. I'm skeptical because San Francisco is probably the worst city in North America to do this. I could believe this in San Jose with it&
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Seems to me that this accelerates the trend towards a more declarative style of programming where you tell the computer what you want to do, not how to do it
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Where was I speculating? I expressed skepticism and said I'd have to see some evidence. You provided some and I'm still not convinced from this. Those are fairly mild hills on wider streets in bright sunshine. But now I know where
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radar doesn't see around corners. At any rate, would have to see some evidence that it can handle the worst of The City before I took a ride, like the incessant construction, steel plates on the road covering new holes, taped off lane
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Well, that's surprising. I've driven San Francisco as an Uber/Lyft driver and it's a nightmare. I'm really curious how it checks for side traffic when it's nose is pointed at the sky at a stop sign on a steep h
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> Today we are opening up our driverless cars in San Francisco to the public I doubt that means what they hope we think it means. So your employees have been taking your carefully designed ride and now you've let a couple of non-emp
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hot cloth covered rubber insulation and dust smoldering with heat, mixed with the scent of warm wood oil
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This documentary by PBS claims William Shockley was an ego maniac who stole a lot of the credit for the transistor from his subordinates John Bardeen and Walter Brattain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4XknGqr3Bo
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Smells Like Back of Old Hot Radio – Edward Ruscha(wikiart.org)
6 points by mwattsun 5y ago|5 comments
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I started watching Adam Curtis' Century of the Self [1] recently, then decided to fact check [2]. Curtis makes out Sigmund Freuds nephew Edward Louis Bernays as the inventor of modern advertising, but he exaggerates for effect as usua
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My thinking is not original and probably out dated - posted for those who haven't heard this before Inside the Bureaucracy That Crippled Microsoft https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07&#x
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I'm looking at it from a programmer's point of view, not a users. Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure — Melv
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Everyone has to start somewhere. Most people have to make a commitment to the work and do it before they get to the place that is underneath thoughts and feelings. It takes time.
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You are right, I didn't even get involved in the corruption argument. If you think I said something about it, I didn't. It's not interesting to me. You say it's well reasoned but I have no opinion it. The commenter is pr
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I was really impressed by "AlphaGo - The Movie", despite not knowing much about Go, because the way they told the story, people from the Asian countries were so sure their champion would win a Go tournament against a computer, th
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by mwattsun 5y ago
I saw a really good video documentary about this but forgot how to find it. The Wikipedia is fascinating enough in itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard Edit: My mistake, it was about another du

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