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by rhelz 2y ago
Alas, the writer of this pop-sci article got it wrong---see my edited OP which contains a quote from the original nature article.
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by rhelz 2y ago
This is a very profound point. I suppose it's kind of like what the olympics are supposed to do: how about we all fight each other in a ritualized game, instead of with sticks and stones, strikes and drones.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Mr./Ms. greenheart, whoever you are, life is too short to have hostile conversations. As far as a condescending attitude---I did say they were underpaid and overworked, didn't I? When you are overworked don't you start to m
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by rhelz 2y ago
chuckle computer programs are the incantations we do to make computers do what we want. Quite a bit like shamans did incantations to get the world to do what they want. Only ours actually works. Or, it does if we can debug them.
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by rhelz 2y ago
You have to go look up the Nature article which this po-sci article was written from.
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by rhelz 2y ago
I read the original Nature article, not the one written by an underpaid and overworked english major who wrote the popular article.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Kinda sad that the ritual was a way to curse somebody. 12,000 years of hurting each other. Side Node: computer programing is kinda cool. It is a set of incantations which actually does work. EDIT: Hello, all you down-voters and people
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by rhelz 2y ago
No. Its when we create people.
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by rhelz 2y ago
For software engineering? It depends on how metaphorically you take "scientific method." I mean, a program is....a big binary number. It is a mathematical object. It seems strange to be talking about investigating mathematical
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When we are having coitus?
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by rhelz 2y ago
Sure. But the layoffs have not stopped...so next year, people will accept an even lower salary level....etc etc. Lowering the salaries at all during a time of record profits is a violation of the social contract, and should not be accept
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by rhelz 2y ago
That's a bit...uncharitable. They got through college because they were smart, and the professors treated the students like humans. Minkowski was Einstein's professor. He gave Einstein a very good education--and very bad grade
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by rhelz 2y ago
Believe me, nobody will blame you for quitting Amazon. My biggest mistakes in life were always hanging on for too long. I worked harder than anything I've ever worked on to keep my first marriage together. I did more work on my firs
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by rhelz 2y ago
// You will not be open to lawsuits or criminal prosecution PSA: Don't take legal advice from an engineer :-) PSA: Don't commit vandalism of any kind. PSA: Especially after you talked about doing it on a public forum....
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by rhelz 2y ago
If the world wasn't such a prison, it wouldn't need cages to keep us in it.
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by rhelz 2y ago
The author totally mischaracterizes what's going on now. The far right are not in any rebellion against government or institutions: they actually want MORE government and institutions and MORE intrusions into your life: they want th
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by rhelz 2y ago
// I’d add that BS (behavioral science) without creativity—indeed BS without a tiny little whiff of BS (meaning bullshit)—may be actually suboptimal. And we wonder why there's such a reproducibility crisis in behavioral scien
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by rhelz 2y ago
Is the boom over? I don't see a lot of companies posting declining revenue. Seems to me most everybody is still breaking new records every quarter.
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chuckle I can certainly understand the urge to introduce bugs (I've been sorely tempted to do far worse), but for the sake of humanity don't open yourself up to lawsuits or criminal prosecution. Even if your bosses are the inc
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by rhelz 2y ago
I was a victim of this. Endless gaslighting. Impossible deliverables. A slow, grinding of the human spirit into dust. Employers, sack up already. If you are going to fire someone, fire them.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Alas, this is not really a solution: A company can happily pay a programmer way less than the value of that programmer to them---and at the same time, be paying them far more than they could earn anyplace else. The "worth of a program
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by rhelz 2y ago
I'm going to assume you are not recommending we just grab our ankles. If unions isn't the answer, what is?
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by rhelz 2y ago
Well, can you give me something a bit more specific and less tautological than "Market actors respond to market forces" What, exactly was the "market force" they are reacting to here? Is it even a market responding to
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by rhelz 2y ago
> We called it the ‘Great Reshuffling,’ because we kept seeing that people would land those jobs so quickly, even in the Bay Area,” Ratliff said. “... The jobs were still being available. They just weren’t paying as lucratively as we saw
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by rhelz 2y ago
As I recall, there's a russian word for it too.
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chuckle maybe for the jaded frequent flyer, but if I go up in a rocket I wanna experience everything, even a blow up if it happens.
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by rhelz 2y ago
The less risky an investment is, the lower the interest rate will be. Trying to argue otherwise is like bragging about building a perpetual motion machine. Even if you were willing to take the financial risk, would you be willing to take
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Baby steps. Don't let the ideal be the enemy of the real.
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> behaviors which are clearly incorrect, but which are internally consistent. For mathematical objects, what other considerations are there than consistency? I mean, physics has given us all manner of counterintuitive things. At what
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by rhelz 2y ago
Good standards are good. Bad standards are bad. The current standards are more towards the good end of the spectrum, at least IMHO. But they do have the side effect of keeping public school teachers from using bottom-up, student-directed

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