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by qzw 6y ago
What I've learned from a misspent youth watching way too many kung fu movies is that all Asian art forms boil down to who has the best kung fu.
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by qzw 6y ago
I guess that makes me half the man you are, good sir. Six daughters, lord have mercy...
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by qzw 6y ago
The procedure seems to have all kinds of benefits, but I think the name could've really used some of the good ol' marketingspeak. I bet a lot more people would be open to getting something like a "digestive microbiome transfe
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by qzw 6y ago
I don’t know if this attitude is a cause or an effect of the failures in the American education system. In many other countries, especially in Asia, teachers are respected if not outright revered. Their status is often comparable to medical
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by qzw 6y ago
I would be very wary of giving even more power to those who already have plenty of power. Also, there's no constitutional right to an audience. Everyone that gets kicked off of Twitter can continue to say anything they like, but they d
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by qzw 6y ago
Checks and balances. Power must be distributed as widely as possible because concentration of power will always eventually lead to abuses. The problem in the US is that for decades, the executive branch of the government has been getting to
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by qzw 6y ago
Darn, I thought it was that dance video that sealed the deal.
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by qzw 6y ago
This is very astute. Some of history’s “best” leaders have been humanity’s greatest villains.
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by qzw 6y ago
Annecdatum: I know someone with an MS in public health who is working as an epidemiologist for the state government.
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by qzw 6y ago
So, death by a thousand cuts instead of by a single blow?
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by qzw 6y ago
This is why nerds don’t get invited to parties. :)
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by qzw 6y ago
Did you forget the link or am I missing a joke about D’s spellchecker?
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by qzw 6y ago
The T14s is great, but just needs a 16:10 screen. The new X1 Nano has that and is my ideal form factor, but it’s still Intel only.
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by qzw 6y ago
CS is a young discipline compared to, say, physics. And that immaturity is reflected in how much CS curricula can differ from school to school. Just looking at the titles of the courses he took and comparing to my own experience, there&#x27
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by qzw 6y ago
Nah, the IMO gold medal on his resume alone puts him into a different category. Unless the hiring company is completely clueless, he’d get special treatment from the start. People like him are not like you and me.
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by qzw 6y ago
> Holderied says it could be possible to make materials ‘10 times more efficient at absorbing sounds than what we are using in our homes and offices’. Think sound-absorbing wallpaper, not panels, he adds. I would love to have something l
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by qzw 6y ago
Man, I would love it if this could be integrated into Steam or GoG along with a curated collection of great flash games.
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by qzw 6y ago
Another recent example was when the pandemic team of the National Security Council was disbanded, and the reason given was that the president doesn’t like to have people “just sitting around.”
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by qzw 6y ago
Right, but then Thunderbird regularly prompts you to update to 78.x, and I’ve almost clicked ok several times already. I assume there’s probably a setting one can toggle in the config editor to turn off the prompt, but there should really b
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by qzw 6y ago
Sure, but doesn’t make it a (completely) false statement.
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by qzw 6y ago
Wait for actions instead of reporting whatever they self-proclaim? But that would take longer and lose the “newsworthiness”.
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by qzw 6y ago
For any other company, the notch probably would've been viewed as a design misstep. For Apple, it became a distinctive feature that was actively imitated by phones that didn't even need to have such a large cutout. That's wha
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by qzw 6y ago
Small in units shipped, but dominant in design, aesthetics, and, most importantly, profit margin.
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by qzw 6y ago
I know, right? That was the silver lining of the Intel stagnation era. You could buy a CPU and not feel like you're missing out for the next 3-4 generations.
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by qzw 6y ago
VisualBasic, back in the day.
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by qzw 6y ago
I choose to believe the late Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk fame put in a word with the right automotive deities to help make this happen.
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by qzw 6y ago
Editor looks pretty cool, but I really admire how optimized the headline is for reaching the top of the front page. I mean, it's practically an HN bingo card in a single line: Text editor! Rust! Terminal! Fast! All that's missing
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by qzw 6y ago
And it's totally okay! Because nobody died, we all get a nice laugh, and the AI will be tweaked to make it better. It's the kind of move-fast-and-break-things that I can get behind.
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by qzw 6y ago
Exactly. The article makes both statements in different places, and they are contradictory. Kind of gives an impression of sloppiness.
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by qzw 6y ago
There's a lot of good advice in this thread, and I've read your responses to many of them. I want to bring up the possibility that your feeling of impending doom in your professional capacity is actually more a reflection of the s

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