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by pjmorris 4y ago
Hi throwayayes, I wonder if someone who is both on HN and local to you has a spare laptop. Can you say where you are located, e.g country and city?
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I'm here nicknaming 'Little Pantry' as a parallel to the 'Little Library' book boxes you see distributed here and there. I've got three examples, two personal and one aspirational for me. Do you ever waver abou
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Seconded. A lot of success in the game depends on the luck of the draw in where your units are placed and the cards you get, but the games are varied and quick (~45 minutes or so for the first scenarios.) It's not too unusual to play t
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I came here to say essentially the same thing. It seems like this helps students learn programming, and, in some sense, we're all students of whatever new piece of code we're working with today. Some teachers have worked out a fai
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Here's a shot at an answer, lifted from 'The Mythical Man Month', Fred Brooks: "Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other human construct, because no two parts are alike (at least above the
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Big fan of big desks. I just moved down to a 57 inch desk. Fifteen years ago I needed a temporary desk solution and bought the cheapest bare wood door at Home Depot and laid it across two filing cabinets. That turned out to work great for
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Aftershokz Aeropex bone-conducting headphones. I could walk, hike, drive listening to music or phone calls while hearing the environment around me and without exposing anyone else to my taste in music :)
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In the early 70's my local park had a flight circle for these. I could only envy the gas engine flyers, but had a good time flying my Guillows balsa wood gliders and rubber band planes.
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We did our toy shopping at thrift stores in the early 70's and the old Gilbert sets I had as a 10-12 year old were much better (for dangerous values of better) than what's available today.
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If you take humans to be the Mark 1 self aware computer, I would argue that they are not commercially useless. Why would Mark 2 be useless?
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Isn't every 'public company' an entity created by 'modern government' regulation?
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> They can use the extra credit to buy more assets like houses, or even take personal loans to 'yolo' into crypto to $TSLA. I'd agree that this is the case and argue that it is what has been happening since the aftermath o
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> There's a crucial distinction here to make, you are naming the correct effect, and it has the correct effect, but it happens somewhere different, so your proposed solutions would be adverse. Can you spell out the adverse effects y
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Hear, hear, agree wholeheartedly. I, too, survived the dot com crash, and, too, benefited from and serve as part of the kind of network described above. When it comes to job hunting, my two favorite career stats are having helped a friend g
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I feel like I've heard "In 10 years, I expect programming languages will be mostly obsolete, since computers will be able to translate natural language into machine instructions with 100% effectiveness." every decade for the
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Find people to read and critique your work. The time I spent in 'reading group' in grad school helped me curb some bad writing habits and develop other good ones. My mom used to participate in 'writers groups', in-person
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Topographical Risk!
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Jerry Weinberg had an expression "Cucumbers get pickled more than brine gets cucumbered" to express the influence environment has on individuals.
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FTA, problem-solving angle tangential to Sanskrit: > Mr Rajpopat said he had "a eureka moment in Cambridge" after spending nine months "getting nowhere". > "I closed the books for a month and just enjoyed the
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For me, this discussion brings up a question I've had: How well do the HN remote batches work compared to the in-person batches? My hunch (and it's only a hunch) is that there's something essential about in-person learning th
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Exactly. I was wondering if someone had done a study comparing readability of static vs. dynamic typing.
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It hurt me a little bit to read what she had to say, but I don't think she detracts from your sentiment at all. Retaining a childlike playfulness has helped me through career, marriage, parenting, a PhD (in roughly that order.) I joke
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I enjoyed the Le Guin quote... until I searched for its source and found her even better blog post where she demolishes it, 'The Inner Child and the Nude Politician' [0]. Every once in awhile I'm reminded that she blogged and
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Dr. Casey Fiesler recently tweeted > The @huggingface GPT detector works very well on ChatGPT-created text. I ran 5 student essays and 5 ChatGPT essays for the same prompt through it, and it was correct every time with >99.9% confiden
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You appear to think I meant to take 1/4 of the defense budget. That was only to illustrate the magnitude. You could cherry-pick your favorite US budgetary item instead and spare history.
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> UBI would bankrupt the nation, so would a large scale job guarantee program as described. > When asked to put a dollar value on a program the overeducated go on bleeting about higher order non-sense. Being overeducated, I'll ta
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I think there's room for distinguishing between full employment and job guarantees: providing a job for anyone who wants one doesn't have to be the same as requiring everyone to work.
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Job guarantees make more sense to me than UBI; the government only has to pay for those who aren't employed elsewhere while it still sets a floor for the entire economy about how bad a job can be, squeezing out jobs that are worse than
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It was this comment that got me to go read the article. I agree with your sentiment about Dickens, and am now contemplating hanging this other quote over my bookcases: > the Pessoa quote, “The buyers of useless things are wiser than is c
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by pjmorris 4y ago
> 400-500 might be closer to accurate. 200-300 years ago Probably more an issue with my memory than with Hillis' analogy.

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