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by nitrogen 5y ago
How many have been given the opportunity to do so? Could a pure apprenticeship model without universities (but still with lots of theory) work for engineering professions?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This advice is a testimony that there's indeed a problem upfront Indeed, and the problem is that IDEs have encouraged developers to write convoluted code and to forget how to navigate a filesystem. Reading code and commit history is
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by nitrogen 5y ago
And don't forget the option of just calling into pry at the line in question and typing ls and show-doc . Also ripgrep is incredibly useful for navigating new codebases.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Ars also went downhill after the Condé Nast acquisition. The titles are more clickbait, there are more sponsored stories, the comments section was redesigned to amplify controversy and railroading, there are more virtue stories, ... They e
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you don't know dead cold where the trauma center is, you should be calling 911 (or equivalent), not trying to decide where to drive. Given the cost of an ambulance, most people I know will drive themselves to the ER for anything w
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There was a problem with early night vision camcorders, in that they could kind of see through beachwear. So maybe that's part of the reason.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I think it's more that they were suggesting that an aggressive response to COVID19 would have appeared to be an anti-China move, and thus further jeopardize the US relationship with China.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This comment has an interesting solution to that problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270854
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It seems likely that a given municipality will only have the political energy to change voting systems once. Given that, it would be preferable to move to something that isn't RCV/IRV in the first place.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It looks like nobody's linked to this older visualization yet, so I will: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ The non-monotonicity shown there for instant runoff voting seems to be more undesirable than any downsides
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There's less fear than normal right now, as measured by what the market is doing. How broad is the market relative to society? Could say 3% of people investing tons of money, while 97% are not, create the same result we are seeing t
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Do the letters in Jam stand for anything like they do in e.g. LAMP? There was no acronym expansion or mention of the name's origin on jamstack.org's top-level page. Edit: eventually found an original definition on Wikipedia: &q
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Tone mapping is very much a subjective process. There's no one "HDR" algorithm. At best the camera could convert everything to linear or logarithmic light and save in OpenEXR or something like that.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
That right there is the textbook definition of guilt tripping. This line can be applied to literally every side of every argument. It has no content, no explanatory power, it's just another excuse for attempted manipulation.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Tell me, how did Microsoft "suppress" Java? One way to suppress something is by diluting it or distracting from it with a bunch of slightly different options. Kind of like the spoiler effect in first-past-the-post elections.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
They were extremely late to the transition to GUIs. By the time they had Windows versions, the world had already switched. In the case of WordPerfect, what I recall reading was that this was in small part because WP kept writing everythin
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I just go left to right, top to bottom I doubt this is how most people's eyes actually scan a visual field. I expect there's a lot more randomness going on subconsciously, and that face-like features cause a higher subconscious
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by nitrogen 5y ago
most people's annoyance with perceived "preachy" vegans comes from cognitive dissonance Let's consider other "preachy" sources to see if this argument holds weight. Consider replacing "vegans" in th
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you can get "kosher salt," IIRC that should be non-iodized.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm sure most of those "science for kids" book authors never tried a single one of their experiments. They should at least recommend distilled water because tap water impurities vary greatly from place to place.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
All of those efforts failed miserably. The grandparent comment is right on the money with "You're assuming the goal of these things was to replace the product, when the goal was to destroy the competitor." MS bought at le
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by nitrogen 5y ago
C# was part of what survived all of that, but I mean MS's original forays into Java. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun's_litigatio...
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by nitrogen 5y ago
None of those examples have anything to do with "embrace, extend, extinguish"? They all do. IE is eee of HTML and the web. MS Java and VisualJ or whatever it was called was eee of Sun Java. ActiveX was eee of the web browse
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by nitrogen 5y ago
To be honest, it's very poorly written and the story isn't particular believable. I kind of agree with that assessment, but I still found some interesting ideas in it.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you haven't already read it, one of the "two views of humanity's future" in Manna is a post-scarcity utopia, and the other is a dystopia: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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by nitrogen 5y ago
My experience has been that that's true of the city too, just from the other side.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I've had wifi at the hotel/motel/lodge but no cell service before.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This goes back to the distinction between web pages/documents (deliver immutable server-side content once, up front) and web apps (lots of back and forth with mutable data on the server). A news website should never be anything ex
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm totally unfamiliar with the geography there; are peripheral cities and towns around Vancouver as unaffected as Vancouver itself? I can imagine it happening in some places I've lived, where the central city is humming along ju
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The V in that equation is for voltage drop along the cable, though, not total system voltage relative to ground. And that voltage drop is proportional to total system current, but not total system voltage.

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