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I opted out of "pre-screened" offers years ago, and I think that has helped a lot. I did the "permanent" version, but there is a 10-year one IIRC (at least when I did it). https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
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I generally am in agreement. However there's a complication in my mind. My dad was a police officer and I grew up around police. It's there's one thing to know about police, it is that they are human, and subject to all the e
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Well, most of the time. If the cop feels like it, they can make you have a very bad time. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/7645474002 “An Arkansas woman says she had no safe place to pull over in July 2020 when a state tro
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When I was a grad student at a public university, we were affiliated with a larger union (CWA, Communication Workers of America IIRC). So not unheard of I guess. Exactly what benefits we got I don’t remember, but things got interesting once
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Yes, you have the right idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_binding_energy#Fission...
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I think Ancestry does. I believe there is a lot of innovation happening there, but that is just a feeling. However, it can be a tough problem. Census takers' handwriting can be pretty bad. (I often say doing genealogy will cure people&
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FamilySearch is a free site that allows for searching. I think it requires sign-up, though. I should also mention, for people who are interested in genealogy and family history, that your local library may have subscriptions to resources li
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I run into this all the time in genealogy. The date object in Gramps, for example, has to support lots of uncertainty, as well as time spans with uncertainty on either end ("He joined the army in March 1968 (unknown day), and left some
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I work in scientific software. I tend to view really hard problems as problems where you don't know the solution, and don't even have a blueprint for how could be solved. Writing a package manager is hard in some sense, but you ha
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I am finding that everything is just becoming more and more fragmented. Programming languages, ecosystems, frameworks, blah. I have had ideas for some applications, but can’t do them because the libraries I need are written in different lan
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Just had a friend who was talking about this. Account was hacked or Instagram just decided to make her do this. Tried it twice, and it didn’t work. Couldn’t find any way to contact anyone, so basically got fed up and closed her social media
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It always depends on the product. I have a hypothesis that almost everyone is a "power user" of something , but that something varies from person to person. For me, I am a power user of computers and technology, but I couldn&#x27
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Our neighborhood uses an FB group. There are typically 2-3 posts a week. * lost and found (including pets) * HOA announcements * changes to the trash pickup schedule, special trash collections, etc * other events (Santa parade) * new neighb
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I took a deepish dive into these kinds of issues. My interpretation is that no one uses REST properly (ie, HATEOAS). Fielding has even said so - if you aren’t designing something as big as HTTP itself, then “true” REST isn’t for you. Now th
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I have found lots of static site generators more focused on blogs than a more traditional personal website. While they can be used for non-blog sites (I use Hugo for my own site), I can see how they can be daunting when first approaching th
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They aren’t necessarily advocating learning C so that they can write lots of production code in C. They are advocating learning C to better understand lower layers of programming. The basics of C are easy and illustrative. And given that th
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While “maximizing” is a vague word, truly maximizing contributions to various retirement plans is out of reach for most people. The median individual income in the US is about $36k. Maxing out just a 401k is about $20k.
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No not always. But overall more information is better than no information, especially when spread across an entire medical system.
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You are thinking too literally. It's just a question that opens the door to more discussion. It's another piece of information, not the end of the discussion.
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People who have been woodworking for decades can own very expensive tools so that they can create very complicated things. People who are experts in cars can own very expensive cars and tools to tune them. People who have been working in mu
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It’s worse than exponential, it’s factorial :)
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But the user is not interested in posting (or they would have an account already). They are only creating an account because twitter is making them. Twitter doesn't seem to have an option of a read-only account, where a phone number is
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I sometimes wonder if there is a miscommunication. I’m scratching my head sometimes like “how can rewriting/refactoring an entire 10-20k project take negligible time?” Maybe some people have very small projects compared to what I work
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People who have been coding for a while learn not to repeat their mistakes. Their code contains good-ish abstractions and other “clean code” features because they intuitively know what they are doing. The code they just wrote to get somethi
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Ads are a fundamental problem. They skew the incentives. The search engine could, for example, give semi-poor results, making the person search again, increasing ad impressions. An ad-supported search engine would also prioritize pages with
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Slow to navigate, but amenable to “browsing” and finding related pages and sites. Think of it as a built-in recommendation engine.
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One of my favorite quotes on the topic: "Shaq is rich. The white man that signs his check, is wealthy." [Chris Rock]
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While I kind of agree, I am also sympathetic to the fact that finding study participants that aren't heavily skewed is very difficult, and would probably be prohibitively expensive to do for every single study.
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It’s part of the published article. Behind a paywall of course, but here is a preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/xyast/ A few parts to the study. One had 167 participants and had them label fields as hard or soft given a (
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It’s not about ability, but mindset. Folders are tree structures where each file lives in only one place (in practice, hard links are uncommon, and symlinks are more common but obvious). That abstraction is useful when navigating, looking f

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