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by pfranz 7y ago
After watching a lot of MOOC courses, people get a lot better writing with a mouse with practice. I think a much better solution is a Wacom or a tablet. I just dusted off an old Wacom for my wife to scribble personal notes now that she&#x
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by pfranz 7y ago
"Eat yogurt for breakfast and you will be a successful lawyer" is survivorship bias, which I think is fine to call out an ignore. "Reach out to all of your rich friends and family" is privilege, which I think is also fin
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by pfranz 7y ago
I first want to say I think companies should be paid for their services. Everybody's first complaint is that history isn't preserved with Slack's free tier, but in practice it tends to enforce that those things should be in s
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by pfranz 7y ago
Any option to install it onto a VM or a separate drive for dual boot? Windows 10 VMs are active for a few weeks (or edu discounts are often pretty steep). If it was in a VM you otherwise use you can snapshot and revert back after taking t
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by pfranz 7y ago
Hopefully, we'll see articles like the recent articles talking about how closing schools during the 1918 flu saved lives. Specifically, closing schools before there were any identified cases were much more effective than waiting until
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by pfranz 7y ago
There are shortages in the supply chain; hand sanitizer, masks, and tests for coronavirus in addition to overwhelming hospitals by sick people. If there aren't open beds or staff (ideally who aren't overworked), people who otherw
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by pfranz 7y ago
At least for Northshore, which has decided to close, they're reaching out to parents who need backup childcare, rely on a meal plan, lack the equipment at home to access online. They said 15% of their staff were high risk and 20% of s
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by pfranz 7y ago
It could be a matter of funding, preparedness, and scale. Northshore seems to be aware of the things you mentioned and are trying to address them. They sent out a survey to asses the scale of the need. * they've offered childcare for
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm surprised how many people can compare it to the flu and be dismissive. If it was possible to catch "the flu" early and never have to deal with it, how much would that be worth? 30,000-60,000 people die every year just i
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by pfranz 7y ago
The article doesn't mention the school district has closed down for two weeks. Prior to closing the school, the absentee rate for students was 20%. So it's a mix of institutions closing and people self-quarantining.
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by pfranz 7y ago
From reading about these redesigns in the past it sounds like most of that money goes to surveying and considering all of the places a logo is used; letterheads, physically on the cars, web graphics, sides of buildings, making sure it doesn
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by pfranz 7y ago
I really think "You should always have 18 months of expenses saved" (assuming this is in savings) isn't universal. If you're fairly young, single and have a new source of disposable income then a few months savings seem
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by pfranz 7y ago
:shrug: I've done that quite a bit. This randomly selected popular Python library does it, too[1]. The example for `os.walk` literally has `from os.path import join, getsize`[2]. The docs seem to back this up[3]: "Remember, the
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by pfranz 7y ago
Do you use store bought lard or do you render it yourself? I picked up store bought lard one time and felt it was as bland as Crisco. I figured it was just modern processing techniques or low quality sourcing. The stuff I rendered myself
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by pfranz 7y ago
Technically, number (a quantity) vs numbers (a series of numbers) would suffice. "Numeric" (as an input mode vs a number type) makes sense, too. I think it's just an evolution of our education, preferred input devices, and s
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm kind of ignoring the "human factors" but these companies are pulling out because spreading the infection would be a big PR hit for them and opens them up to law suits. I imagine discounting tickets, or any official way o
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by pfranz 7y ago
> There are a lot of anecdotes like that, but the statistics I've seen has clear correlation between performance on algorithm interviews and performance on the job. I can only claim to have personal anecdotes, but the critiques I he
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by pfranz 7y ago
If memory serves, it was shortly after they got acquired (in 2011 by Match.com owners?) they started scrubbing their blog. The most noticeable was old posts with criticisms of their new owners and the poor incentives around subscription da
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by pfranz 7y ago
I don't think looking at mainstream, consumer OSes really say much of anything other than maybe W.I.M.P. paradigm has turned out to be easily teachable and scalable. Are GUIs better because more people use them instead of CLI (I'
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by pfranz 7y ago
I've never implemented it, but their examples show expedited shipping and it looks pretty straightforward. https://applepaydemo.apple.com Unfortunately, their docs are explicit about discount codes, "Do not ask the use
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by pfranz 7y ago
I just started diving into i3 a few weeks ago. This is using a VMWare Fusion VM and Fedora 31. So I'm not fully evaluating things like volume, brightness, but battery/charging indicators work. Most of the instructions I followe
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by pfranz 7y ago
A modern example of English aristocracy speaking French is that English uses Anglo-Saxon words for animals, but French words for prepared food--which was very expensive. cow/beef pig/pork sheep/mutton https://en.w
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by pfranz 7y ago
The universal downsizes I was talking about were dealing with obnoxious riders, having to stand during rush hour, and not always running as late as you need it to. I completely agree with your points. The big thing I notice is that where t
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by pfranz 7y ago
It's just anecdotal, but I often saw it done in LA; weekly to monthly. Since I would get stuck in them I'd often seem them start or end them. I never once saw any correlation to road debris or emergency services. Any staging for
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by pfranz 7y ago
10 years ago they had GPS maps on the bus showing your current location, but afaik you couldn't access that when waiting for the bus. There were covered bus stops, just none of the ones I used were. They were only "ok" at m
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by pfranz 7y ago
I lived on the east side and my job offered a free transit pass. It was a 15m drive for me or a single bus. My car broke down fairly often and I tried to give public transit a shot. The single bus took an hour and arrived every 30m. I w
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by pfranz 7y ago
Most of the article is behind a paywall so I couldn't read the whole thing. I hate the argument I often hear that "more lanes were added, time spent in traffic hasn't changed." As long as ridership is up, throughput in
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by pfranz 7y ago
I missed out on a formal CS education. I found my way, but I always saw it as all of those things you never had time to research deeply. Otherwise, it's just a trade school. For example, you've implemented a few basic sorting a
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by pfranz 7y ago
> Yeah, most of that comes from the verbose process needed to invoke a process, right? I think it's more incongruence between the languages. os.system() will technically call a command. subprocess is a big step up from popen2, but
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by pfranz 7y ago
I've primarily used Python 2 for 10+ years and I often find cases where shell scripts are preferable. The major differentiator is usually "shelling out" in Python kind of sucks. It's verbose, output collection and error

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