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by quacked 9mo ago
Something that I think many students, indeed many people, struggle with is the question "why should I know anything?" For most of us--myself included--once you graduate from college, the answer is: "enough to not get fired&qu
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by quacked 9mo ago
I dug out my dad's Windows 98 era PC that he was running Windows 2000 on that we hadn't turned on since 2011, and it felt lightning-fast compared to W10 and W11. Double-click to open apps and they appear, ready to type in. It felt
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by quacked 10mo ago
For small-to-medium size data sets, you can use Power Query/BI to essentially run a relational database and metrics/dashboards on it inside an Excel spreadsheet plus a web page, minus all the features that a real DB has in terms o
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by quacked 11mo ago
Read The Last Psychiatrist blog. "If you're going to pretend to be someone, why not pretend to be someone who doesn't hit on the cocktail waitress when he's away from his family?" Edit: found the exact quote: > &
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by quacked 11mo ago
I believe this is true for the LED technology compared to the incandescent technology as a whole, but I'm simply turning over bulbs at a far higher rate than I did in the incandescent days. Often the LED bulbs are failing within a year
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by quacked 11mo ago
> We can't even declare total victory with LED bulbs over incandescent. The LED bulbs I have access to (whatever's in the aisles at Home Depot, Costco, etc.) fail much more frequently than the incandescent bulbs I used to buy,
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by quacked 11mo ago
> Airbus prevailed because it was the least European version of a European industrial strategy project ever. It put its customer first, was uninterested in being seen as European, had leadership willing to risk political blowback in the
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by quacked 11mo ago
I tried to in my initial comment draft, but I couldn't really come to a satisfactory answer so I thought I'd just post the observation. I believe the average person today is far more apathetic about the parts of their own civiliza
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by quacked 11mo ago
One thing I noticed while I was reading NASA engineer Allan MacDonald's book about the Challenger accident he tried and failed to prevent was that every time he came into contact with a member of the news media, there was a sense of sk
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by quacked 11mo ago
The global economy is so China-dependent it doesn't even make sense to talk about an individual country's emissions profile unless we look at their imports.
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by quacked 1y ago
I believe the concept for this project is an AI-generated pixel art GIF that went very viral on X a few months ago: https://x.com/de5imulate/status/1947024682118488116 I am not sure this project is capturing the s
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by quacked 1y ago
Bo Burnham put it succinctly, although he was talking about children on apps: "When they go to sleep at night, they have to choose between all of the information ever published in the history of the world, or the back of their eyelids.
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by quacked 1y ago
Original commenter for this chain here--my mental imagery for books is so strong that I can read books two decades later and call up close to the original visual memories that I had when I first read the books. My favorite books are the Lor
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by quacked 1y ago
Can you type out some of your inner monologue? I don't have one. I can't imagine what it would even say.
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by quacked 1y ago
Sure, I'll concede that the common wording of "uncomfortable truth" has been hijacked by podcasters and their ilk. I just meant "the truth, even when it's uncomfortable".
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by quacked 1y ago
I was raised Quaker, and in theory one of the core tenets of Quakerism is that uncomfortable honesty. Trivial example: refusing to swear on the Bible because that would imply that you might not be honest when you hadn't just sworn on a
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by quacked 1y ago
Thanks for the link! Actually, I did struggle with algebra, and also calculus and differential equations. As with most on this site, I fell into an "advanced"/"gifted" cohort, but I was always down at the bottom of
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by quacked 1y ago
What happens when you read descriptions if you can't skip over them?
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by quacked 1y ago
I just learned that term today, but I guess so. I don't know how I generate words, they're just there. I type at about 120 wpm and speak very quickly as well, but as it's coming out I'm just flashing through different im
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by quacked 1y ago
I don't have an "inner monologue" and don't think in words, only in images, but I've never experienced what this author is describing in terms of "nonsense words" or "hand vibrations". I was with
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by quacked 1y ago
There's a certain percentage of "available labor" spending that, if it goes away, causes death directly. Maintaining the power grid and the cold storage network comes to mind, although of course both of those resources are ma
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by quacked 1y ago
Undoubtedly, but productivity does not directly equate to beauty, health, happiness, satisfaction, morality, civic engagement, justice, etc.
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by quacked 1y ago
I agree, but surely with some strict definitions, you could get within 5%. I am intrigued by the same thing you are. How does it all count as economic activity? What percentage of the flower-arranging has to be done to ensure that the medic
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by quacked 1y ago
I often think about how much human labor there is available at any given moment, and how in any minute some percentage of "available labor" is bound up doing something. Back in the day, with billions fewer people, you could stil
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by quacked 1y ago
Your quote: > Every learning method you can think of has been thought of before and all variations have been implemented in classrooms throughout time. It is mostly pseudo-science. This is wrong. Not every "learning method" is
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by quacked 1y ago
Every undergraduate student I met over the age of 22 was much, much better than their young counterparts within the same ability cohort.
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by quacked 1y ago
This isn't true. I put in a great deal of effort in college and struggled to learn. After college I changed the way I interacted with information, and found that I could learn and remember orders of magnitude better by using studying a
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by quacked 1y ago
I've just recently downloaded Explorer++ and am not looking back. It doesn't fix the directory tree, but it at least allows it to be navigated and displayed with more proficiency.
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by quacked 1y ago
Modern UI design is such a colossal nightmare of inconsistent command lists, hidden menus, changing interface behavior, duplicative functionality... My understanding is that many developers now engage in "telemetry-based design" t
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by quacked 1y ago
Isn't the point of OneDrive that you don't lose it, though? Are you talking about a case where I get hacked or banned?

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