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by omegaham 5y ago
A nice compromise that I've appreciated in the classes that I've taken - have strict deadlines, but offer X days (say, 2) of a no-questions-asked extension. It creates the clear expectation that work be turned in on time, but offe
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by omegaham 5y ago
1400 is huge. It's common at large state universities for the introductory classes to have somewhere between 200 and 300 students. The professor lectures in a large auditorium, and grading (and questions!) are delegated to a staff of T
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by omegaham 5y ago
My wife is in a similar position here in Oregon. Two of her direct reports are Ukrainian, and one just took a leave of absence that wasn't explicitly "I'm off to defend my homeland," but it wasn't explicitly not t
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by omegaham 5y ago
> nail sizes in the US are still typically given in pence Reminds me of the Primus song. "Seen 'em down in SoCo pounding sixteen-penny nails."
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by omegaham 5y ago
My alma mater (Portland State) also used xv6 for its OS class, and it was excellent.
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by omegaham 5y ago
Yep. If you're looking for a musical explanation, the 1975 Hoyt Axton song "Speed Trap" explains it pretty well. It's been going on forever. The only solution is for the state government to pass laws that force ticket re
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by omegaham 5y ago
> Among the first entries was a reference to an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology authored by Splatt and Weedon. I love it when we all acknowledge that everyone has an internal 4-year-old who finds this kind of th
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by omegaham 5y ago
This applies to poker, too - a game where you really can get a consistent advantage over other players with sufficient study and make a living. Once you strip everything else away about the game, you're sitting in a casino for many hou
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by omegaham 5y ago
There have always been stupid memes and injokes on the Internet. Usenet had them in spades, forums had them, and now Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook all have them. They weren't always in image format, as image hosting wasn't as easy
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by omegaham 5y ago
Just piling on, the big thing that I note is that it's not just stuff for the poorer people in society. It's their livelihood. If you screw up someone's car, you are taking away their ability to get to work, to drive their
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by omegaham 5y ago
I have a vivid memory of this. I got free tickets to a country music concert, and basically treated it as a party with a twangy soundtrack. It was fun, and I enjoyed myself. While waiting for my ride, I got to talking with a woman who got r
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by omegaham 5y ago
For those who like text, his series of blog entries is also extremely good. https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
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by omegaham 5y ago
I was loudly corrected on this subject (that is, I had used "it," and he asserted that I was wrong) by a drill instructor in Marine Corps basic training a little more than a decade ago. I'm not quite sure how much credence to
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by omegaham 5y ago
Bored suburban cops. They have bait packages and everything around here. They caught the woman who stole the passports out of our mailbox, so they seem to be doing some good. Amusingly enough, my wife's response to the website in the O
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by omegaham 5y ago
The book qualifies this by giving everyone a perfect memory of every moment of their lives. > I found I could recall every detail of my life; every event ever experienced I could remember with perfect clarity. I could remember every word
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by omegaham 5y ago
I thought that the best levels were the first three - Jungle Japes, Angry Aztec, and Frantic Factory. Fungi Forest and Crystal Caves are okay, but have way too much switching between characters. Gloomy Galleon and Creepy Castle are tedious
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by omegaham 5y ago
Similarly, you can play on difficulty settings that forbid reverts, but most people just want to build rockets and try again if they fail rather than meticulously engineer every aspect of the mission. I joke that the Revert button is the
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by omegaham 5y ago
In towns whose livelihood depends on a feast-or-famine industry like oil, yes. In cities with strong, diversified economies, it's just people spending disposable income on stuff they want.
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by omegaham 5y ago
The issue with American football is the "line in the sand" nature of yardage. In rugby, as long as you wrap up the ball carrier and bring him down, it's fine if he gets another couple yards. In contrast, letting a running bac
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by omegaham 5y ago
I was going to say, 40,000 Americans die every year in car accidents. People get into their cars when they're drunk and when they're so tired that they're nodding off at the wheel. People eat tacos, apply makeup, and text the
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by omegaham 5y ago
If you don't do that, the areas will be absolutely ruined by people just doing whatever they want. There are literally tens of thousands of other campsites and trails to hit if you want to avoid that kind of thing. Hell, even in the mo
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by omegaham 5y ago
It's really easy to look for trades before significant stock jumps. In this case, he made profitable trades before 11 straight earnings announcements. I'm sure their analysis flagged his trades, and then when they found out that h
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by omegaham 5y ago
From personal experience learning the language - despite its syntax, Rust inherits a lot of its concepts from OCaml and Haskell rather than C++ and Java. If you program stuff in Rust the same way that you would program it in C++, you'r
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by omegaham 5y ago
If they ever kill old.reddit.com, I'm outta there. The redesign was awful.
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by omegaham 6y ago
This is correct. The simplification being made is that the original orbit was circular, so if you increase the debris' velocity, the current point is now the low point of the new orbit.
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by omegaham 6y ago
The 2100 Stack Overflow question queue is, of course, filled with vast numbers of downvoted "how do i redwash my instance" duplicates.
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by omegaham 6y ago
I work at Intel right now. My laptop is serviceable but not the best, and it's loaded down with a bunch of spyware crap. Luckily, I just need it to SSH (either through VSCode or PuTTY) into my servers, which are nice and powerful. I
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by omegaham 6y ago
> Whatever happened to those Dreamliners? They're still being made, they work great, etc. The biggest issue for Boeing is that they've hit really steep production costs on them. The idea is that the first planes start out reall
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by omegaham 7y ago
The faces are just "Zoomer" and "Boomer," respectively. Depending on which group the creator is trying to make look ineffectual and clueless, one typically looks smug and amused while the other is losing his shit.
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by omegaham 7y ago
This is the old way to play Angband, and consensus on the forums is that it's incorrect (not to mention extremely boring). Rather, you want to dive as deep as possible, pick your battles very carefully, and get loot off the ground or f

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