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by tekla 9mo ago
> Does HN spread Fake News? Yes?
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I have never been in a calculus class where a calculator would be anything other than a paperweight
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> algorithmic feeds It does have these
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She was hardly overlooked, she won many honours for her work during her time. > This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
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I'm not sure the Quantum Theory revolution as well as the nuclear revolution can be called "science" (ironically using the quotes) The Solvay Conference happened in 1927
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It directly lead to Magnus to fall and commit heresy
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> techies assume they know things because they read something from a blog
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You know, this is why I hate it when techies assume they know things because they read something from a blog. The engine did not explode. It suffered an engine failure when the fan blades failed and separated but was a contained failure.
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How does Boeing being involved in engine design involve an aging airframe on a major Carrier?
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I don't think I've ever experienced an exam that rewarded recall in college. All my engineering exams were open book, open notes, and still >50% failed out by senior year.
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As far as I'm aware no 777-200 mounted engine has ever exploded
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Its an authorized secondary term. It still the DoD
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School is good for people who care to care. American students do pretty decently on international standard exams. It's that we have a culture of not giving a fuck, and thus we have adults who can't read something that is over a 6t
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> Ok, then why can't kids test out of it most of the time Because they can't read or write, and neither can most adults, including developers.
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https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr... > Officers from 37 police forces made 12,183 arrests in 2023, the equivalent of about 33 per day. This marks an almost 58 per cent rise in ar
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Bands are composed of people who like to eat. Its a shame visa laws make it hard for European bands to come to the US
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Nah, you wake up in the pearly gates of Christian heaven.
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Nothing. Its performance is kinda meh.
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by tekla 11mo ago
I'm going to guess that you don't work on safety engineering. All safety designs have tradeoffs. Airbags can kill you but we still use them because the probable benefits outweigh the risks.
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HN is tries (and mostly succeeds) to discourage controversial topics.
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Man, some people really want humanity to be banging rocks against rocks to scare off the Jaguars again.
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The jocks at my school (Championship Winners) were also simultaneously the smartest kids at it. Most went to Ivy Leagues on academic scholarships. I know a few of them were the first engineers on several well known unicorns.
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ZFS will eat up as much RAM as you give it as it caches files in memory as accessed.
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by tekla 11mo ago
I've read lots of Zizek as a high schooler. This doesn't even come close to how dense some of his writing can be, I'm sitting here drunk on a few beers and it was a simple read. I think lots of people are actually illiterate.
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Its a decent feed for articles. The culture is fucking terrible
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I've done it and it wasn't too bad? The auto migrate worked pretty well for 99% of stuff (hundreds of dashboards). Though I won't say I loved doing it.
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Both my parents came to America with less than $20 and nothing else but what they wore. I constantly think of how hard they worked to let me live such a leisurely life.
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The more entertaining answer from a scifi book. Aliens that developed earlier decided to become isolationist and wanted to stop young civilizations from blasting radio waves at them, so once a civilization became semi-industrialized, they c
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It's just humans being humans. NYC has the same thing during rush hour for certain stations. A train might be 3mins away but people crush themselves into a subway car while I just wait for the next train which is pretty empty.
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If a group of workers create a Union, should the Union be allowed free speech?

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