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by sevensor 2y ago
The rural United States suffers another cut from the deregulatory knife. No grocer. No rail service. No bus service. No retail. No health care. And now no telecommunications. What’s next, electric?
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by sevensor 2y ago
It does, but better scheduling will only go so far at an institution that underinvests in classroom space. Between “looks fancy” and “meets instructional needs,” donors prefer to have their names on “looks fancy” every time.
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by sevensor 2y ago
It really helps to have a hard problem to solve in the first place. Try scheduling all the classes in a university timetable into available classrooms, subject to constraints like maximum seating and not double booking an instructor. Now tr
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by sevensor 2y ago
That’s the obvious answer, surely, and one I’m disposed to agree with. But given that we’ve introduced a lot of new chemistry to our bodies over the last century or so, I’m suggesting that it may not be the only answer. This is not to say
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by sevensor 2y ago
I sometimes wonder how much of the youth mental health crisis I keep hearing about is actually the result of poisoning. Lead, plasticizers, dioxin, formaldehyde, PFAS, aromatic hydrocarbons, heavy metals. How much of this is a necessary res
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by sevensor 2y ago
How do you build 1 and 2? It seems so simple: talk relentlessly about what you’re trying to do as a company, and then figure out how to assign your people most effectively to do that. I’ve seen a number of leaders figure out the messaging a
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by sevensor 2y ago
“Feynman Bro” is a great label for a real, observable phenomenon. Occasionally charming, vicious when his intellectual superiority is threatened, misogynistic, generally a jerk when he’s drunk, Feynman Bro shows up in physics departments an
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by sevensor 2y ago
Personally I think the head of Vecna https://www.rpglibrary.org/articles/storytelling/headofvecna... is the ultimate head transplant story.
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by sevensor 2y ago
It’s super weird to find out that my old camera sitting in a drawer, the cheap one everybody had, is now an object of desire for people who weren’t even born yet when it was manufactured. However silly I think the motivations are though, I
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’ve worked adjacent to data science for natural gas well services. You’re on the right track to be thinking about this as a problem; it’s easy in O&G to get sucked into solving a problem right this minute , and to hell with the long t
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by sevensor 2y ago
See the recent threads about Heaviside and Category Theory for interesting perspectives on practice informing theory (Heaviside) and theory informing practice (Category Theory naturally).
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by sevensor 2y ago
Would it make sense to think of this as a compact syntax for numpy? When it comes to array operations, are there differences that go deeper than the syntax?
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by sevensor 2y ago
This comment pairs very well with the recent thread on Heaviside’s operator calculus. He got ahead of theory, did groundbreaking work, and was ultimately superseded by more principled approaches. I think this illustrates a kind of intellect
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by sevensor 2y ago
Competence can put you in a lonely place. In the best case, you get talented junior developers to train, and then you lose them because they’re too good to be concentrated with you in one part of the organization, or because they realize ho
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by sevensor 2y ago
A great variety that we can get in season where I live in the US. I think they don’t keep or transport well, and they’re mostly only available at farm stands around here.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I know lots of mid career nuke Es. They have great jobs. Programming, industrial automation, carpentry, middle management. Not, you know, reactor design or operation, as those aren’t jobs that exist.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Foucault’s Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco. A novel about how easy it is to build meaning around the meaningless. The Last of the Wine (1956) by Mary Renault. Athens on its way to losing the war with Sparta. You know what’s coming for At
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by sevensor 2y ago
As a heavy user of Python’s type annotations, I’m very happy with them, but I would like for them to be first class at runtime, so I can do useful and interesting things with them. The status quo is that a type annotation can be a class, a
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by sevensor 2y ago
Indeed; I’m still enjoying games from 1994. They haven’t stopped being fun simply because they’re old. They also represent a significant learning effort over the years. One of the things that makes a game enjoyable is having learned how to
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by sevensor 2y ago
That’s entirely reasonable; I switched in part because I was using visual mode so much. That being said, if you want a more vi-like experience in kakoune, you can always pipe your whole buffer through sed :)
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by sevensor 2y ago
As a schismatic from the Church of Vim, I’m compelled to recommend kakoune here. Unless you’re running in a peculiar legacy platform like Windows or Amiga, the selection oriented editing and smooth Unix integration are a delight.
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Fano's Inequality(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’m surprised they don’t want kids who broke bones when they were younger. Seems like that’s exactly the kid you want under arms.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Interesting, but I’m a bit overwhelmed by the presentation of three different languages at once. Suppose I have a scheduling problem; could I use fleng to obtain feasible schedules, and would it be the right tool for the job?
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by sevensor 2y ago
I think the emacs rants are fairly well known. Here’s an example: http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_manual_problem_example....
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by sevensor 2y ago
> The title is a little inflammatory. Xah Lee is not exactly known for moderation. If you’re not familiar, browsing the site may be worth your while. It’s full of inflammatory and sometimes bizarre takes, but I’d be hard pressed to argue
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by sevensor 2y ago
> But...like, do you think management actually thinks in these terms? Sure. Lots of talk by executives about reining in the “sense of entitlement” in the post Covid era. Worked in middle management, heard it endlessly. I’m glad to hear i
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by sevensor 2y ago
There’s what I view as a common misperception embedded in the article. RTO isn’t about empty real estate, or not mostly. Leases can be broken, everything is subject to negotiation. Sure, there’s a cost, but it could be paid. It’s not about
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by sevensor 2y ago
Article is from 1980 and mentions the USSR in the present tense. Surveiller et Punir is from the late 1970s; that’s not exactly a long time for its influence to percolate into the pages of History Today in 1980. This is pretty much what
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by sevensor 2y ago
I had an interviewee say this was his career goal. We did not extend an offer.

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