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by shard 3y ago
> this seems to be purely a thing in the english speaking cultures This is a major thing in many East Asian cultures as well, China/Taiwan/Japan/Korea. Korea had to pass a law saying that private academies have to close at
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by shard 3y ago
I remember reading an article which talks about the difference between games and these interactive demos: games have objectives and goals, and for the demos without such, they're better to be called as "toys".
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by shard 3y ago
I think you mean "if you live in most parts of the world."
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by shard 3y ago
Likely a matter of the parents in richer neighborhoods being able to donate more time and money to the local school than in poorer neighborhoods. The buildings are better, there are more resources available to teachers, more extra-curricula
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by shard 3y ago
Every chance I get I try to promote the Cahill-Keys projection. Not only does it better preserve area and reminds you that the earth is a sphere, it is also one of the more esthetically pleasing projections out there. https://en.
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by shard 3y ago
The billions of people in poorer countries are able to have access to the world's knowledge due to smart phones are better served by those cheap smartphone than something they can never afford.
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by shard 3y ago
It matters when, in a world with only Apple, most of the world would still be using feature phones.
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by shard 3y ago
Don't forget Just Dance. Just Dance 2 was the best selling 3rd party title for the Wii. Just Dance 3 was the 2nd best selling title of 2011, behind Call of Duty. As of 2013, Just Dance is Ubisoft's 2nd biggest franchise, behind A
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by shard 3y ago
Maybe your eyes are better than mine, but I have a real hard time working on a 13" screen. Trying to do Excel work on a tiny screen drives me up the wall. Either I'm sitting too close squinting at tiny text, or have to enlarge eve
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by shard 3y ago
In a previous job, the owner of the company would do all the fun parts of the engineering -- the brainstorming, the rough specs, the prototypes -- and leave the details and grunt work to everyone else. He was having a ball.
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by shard 3y ago
> Yes, 100%, Boomers are the parent generation of Millennials. They spent our whole childhoods giving us participation trophies, and our whole young adulthood criticizing us for having received them. I don't mean as a cohort, I mean
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by shard 3y ago
Capacitors can die, for example. Anything with a battery backup, the battery can leak and damage components. Electronics are more prone to ESD and water damage than mechanical parts. Going into the realm of unlikely scenarios, electronics
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by shard 3y ago
> They've been criticizing my generation for receiving the "participation trophies" they gave us as kids Are you sure that the people doing the criticizing are the same people giving out the trophies? > so I definitely
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by shard 3y ago
Baby Boomer generation is 1946-1964, which would make them 59-77. I expect only the younger range is likely to still be middle managers. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the use of "boomer" as a derogative to be reductioni
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by shard 3y ago
The positive tradeoff to the system is that the employee who prefers to WFH is happier and less stressed, which leads to increased productivity and retention. Now whether this offsets the decreased productivity from not being there in perso
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by shard 3y ago
Absolutely. I personally found myself less likely to ping someone over Teams to ask them a small question versus leaning over to the next seat to ask. I was assigned a work-buddy when I was on-boarded, but I think I asked him a total of 3 q
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by shard 3y ago
This is similar to saying that you are just justifying your preference for board shorts and flip flops. Although I am a huge proponent of WFH, I had found it very hard to build relationships during the beginning years of the pandemic, and i
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by shard 3y ago
Could you pass on the results of your research? I don't think I found a dashcam at that price range, and I was actually looking to use an old smartphone as my dashcam, but it didn't seem like a good solution as 1. I would have to
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First Wood Transistor Chops Out at 1 Hz(tomshardware.com)
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by shard 3y ago
This reminds me of the 1st electronics company I worked at. We didn't have any ESD equipment, so I built a circuit which took power from a wall socket and pumped the voltage up to 2kV using diodes and caps, and sent that through a simp
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by shard 3y ago
I am responding to your comment that oral communication is impossible because of homonyms. I am not covering the difference between oral and written communication.
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by shard 3y ago
Korea still uses pyeong (same as ping in Taiwan). England still uses stones.
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by shard 3y ago
Too bad non pictographic languages weren't paired with simple orthogonal grammars and consistent spelling rules. Learning different languages always feel like choosing whether I want to beat myself up with my left fist, my right fist,
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by shard 3y ago
> Note that it immediately implies that oral communication in English and Japanese is impossible. Only if people communicate without context. A large amount of ambiguity can be removed by understanding the context of the conversation.
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by shard 3y ago
I don't think there is any language which can represent all the phonetic sounds of other languages.
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by shard 3y ago
I don't think that's right. One example would be the words with the same spelling which are pronounced differently depending on meaning (e.g. dragonfly and sleeping spot), you have to know what you are saying to pronounce it corre
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by shard 3y ago
Languages have different dimensions, including spelling, pronunciation, conjugation, grammar. English is moderately easy in spelling and pronunciation, but with exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions, it is harder than say Korean. Mand
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by shard 3y ago
I believe if the incremental cost is small, the mental load would mostly fade into the background, just as I am aware that there is a cost every time I turn on the lights or the faucet, but it doesn't have a large impact on my usage ex
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by shard 4y ago
[Rick builds a robot] Rick: Pass the butter. [Robot brings the butter] Robot: What is my purpose? Rick: You pass the butter. Robot: Oh, my God. Rick: Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.
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by shard 4y ago
I've been in tech for decades, and I don't know how computers work. I can describe it from transistor level up to moderately complex logic circuits (basic memory cells, multipliers) but have a blank spot from there to Harvard arch

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