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by ocschwar 2y ago
Some of my favorite novels are David Lodge's campus novels, and an element in them is the never-ending lure of American academia for British scholars. Now it's the EU's turn. Computer science is already becoming very, very Fr
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Michigan relies on fast trade with Ontario. Anything that interrupts it hits Michigan hard.
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What we're witnessing is active malice against two populations: people who are dysphoric and would like help to be comfortable in their own bodies, and people who are perfectly comfortable as they are and would like the rest of us to a
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There are two problems at play here. One is that the science involved pertains to mental health care, which means psychiatrists. Meaning the same specialty that tried psychotherapy and blaming "cold" mothers for autism, and then h
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Most of the statues we're talking about were installed during the Civil Rights era as an explicit flex meant to intimidate African Americans.
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I was told there would be cake.
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For my first full time job, I was a junior sysadmin. My toolset had to include LOAF floppies, one FREEDOS floppy, and a bent paper clip. I had an office. My office. With a door. Since then, every advance in my career raised my skill level,
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Roberts will go down in history as a worse Justice than Taney for this.
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Reach out to the developer behind 91-DIVOC. That won't cover red states that go dark when and if they do, but it was invaluable to me during the covid pandemic.
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The president has access to information that I do not. It's wasted on him. You know this as well as I.
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A narcissist like Trump doesn't have better information than I do. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
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Trump wasn't confident in the theory. He is not confident in anything. He does not care about the truth or falsity of anything he says. He only cares about it serving his interests.
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That pardon means that person is available for subpoena and cannot decline to answer any question.
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It's not like we will ever have a chance to do a useful reassessment of what happened in Wuhan when everyone involved is scared of being designated the scapegoat and executed. And I do mean executed. If the CCP feels that it's use
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Good! Academia is done growing. For every full professor, there will be ONE spot for a full professor when he retires. That's a lot of grad students and postdocs who need to find something else to do with their education. Most postdoc
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by ocschwar 2y ago
I once asked ChatGPT: It is possible to map parallels between the act of worshipping God and the process of using an agile methodology. Weekly services are akin to the regular standup meeting. God is the ultimate product owner, and His repr
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Many of the cities in the region have Carthaginian names. It's a little surreal to see them when you speak Hebrew: Cadiz: "boundary" - the city that guarded access to Britain. Malaga: "Queen City". Cartagena. Barc
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by ocschwar 2y ago
For my first full time job, I was a junior sysadmin. My toolset had to include LOAF floppies, one FREEDOS floppy, and a bent paper clip. I had an office. My office. With a door. Since then, every advance in my career raised my skill level,
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by ocschwar 2y ago
The Phoenician alphabet started as the Proto-Sinaitic script. For context, if you're trying to write things down in the Sinai, you're logging the wares carried by caravans going back and forth from Egypt to the Phoenician heartlan
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by ocschwar 2y ago
I'll put it this way: if it were easy and efficient to take a train from Chicago to Bloomington, Dubuque, Rockford, Ft. Wayne, every one of these places would make the effort to make it worthwhile to ride that train. Instead we just ac
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by ocschwar 2y ago
In the 90's at MIT they solved the problem by having the civil engineering department teach a C coding class to the non-CS engineers. There was no pretense that it was even remotely appropriate as a CS class.
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I have to admit I kind of inflicted this on my own child. She has her paper diaries, which are sacred, not to be touched, and a box for putting any artifacts she doesn't want me to see. But for any interaction with electronic devices,
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by ocschwar 2y ago
I don't want to stoke panic about violence, but the fact is anything that you do that's prepper-adjacent is something you should do anyway: 1. prep your residence in can't you can't leave for days on end - something you
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by ocschwar 2y ago
> Practically, why are there not militia groups with Navy SEAL/Delta-level tactical abilities? Because SEAL/Delta units are made up of statistical outliers who can keep their cortisol levels low under conditions that 99% of us
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The US isn't one country. When you read things like this, compare the EU to the US, not Ireland to the US. The Southern US is an archipelago of police states that regularly throw black and poor white citizens into jail on flimsy pretex
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I had a surreal experience riding a Greyhound bus where I was the only passenger who hadn't just gotten out of prison. They were comparing conditions in various prisons the way you and I might compare coffee shops.
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I'm honestly surprised that after 20 years of the Internet "never forgetting" things like this, we haven't gotten a lot better about forgiving them instead.
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Right now I'm using my work Mac, which I can't install Minecraft on. My personal Mac is not in my hands, and the kid using it is the one I want to surprise with a Minecraft level of the area. If anyone could post a zip file of M
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by ocschwar 2y ago
I kind of envy Germany's large array of possible corporate charters for non-profits, for-profits and kinda-sorta-nonprofits. I wish America had the same menu to pick fro.
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I think disabling the firmware in circumstances that are clearly defined but not disclosed to the customer is very much outside existing IEEE ethical rules. And making a Professional Engineer sign on to the software release before the relea

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