turbojet1321

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by turbojet1321 2y ago
> In some cases it's a confusion be correlation and causality. I wouldn't say confusion. If you read Ramsey Dukes for example, a magician focusing on correlation rather than causation is the whole point. The belief is that a) t
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
That says if they can work, not if they can't .
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I never meant to imply that athletics wasn't a serious pursuit. I agree that physical capability is part of being a well-rounded person. It's certainly common here (Aus) for schools and universities to have sports teams and to str
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I was more thinking that there's not a particularly natural overlap between sports and academic ability. You'd think that by tying the two together, you'd get both worse sporting and academic performance than if they were unr
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I'd never considered that a sports program could be revenue producing. That's quite interesting. Although it seems weird that higher education and (almost-professional) sports are so tightly coupled.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
The head coach of football gets paid $4mil a year (4x the president) and is the highest payed employee. The top 7 staff are all sports related. Is this, like, common in the US? It seems batshit insane to an outsider.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I've found this is only a short-term solution. It's much more effective IME to force the priority call onto the person making the demand. I've done this as a team lead/scrum master. You want to add something to the sprin
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
The quote from the article is incorrect, though. We have a C# backend and a TS front end, with the shared types generated for TS using nswag. I'm sure there are many other variations on this, too.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
The thing is, you have to implicitly understand the "types" of javascript objects anyway, otherwise you can't use them. All the type system does is make that implicit knowledge explicit, and a long the way, stops you from doi
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
IME the differentiator is not a technical background; it's whether they care more about ladder climbing/appeasing their own managers or doing something useful.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
If everything is an emergency, nothing is an emergency. I don't understand why so many managers fail to grasp this. It's the same with prioritization. I've literally had conversations that go: Manager: I need you to drop ever
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
It's minimal if you want to integrate with anything that understands HTTP status codes.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I can understand how people might look at all the full list status codes and think it's all too hard, but yes, once you realize that there are only a handful you need most of the time it all becomes pretty simple.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I'm sympathetic, but this can have issues if you want your API to be used by anything other than your own client, including stuff like logging middleware. A lot of tools inherently support/understand HTTP status codes, so building
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
This seems less like a defense of pre-tax prices and more like an indictment of a thoroughly ridiculous tax system.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Needs a [2014] - the author, Roger Scruton, died in 2020.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
If I dress up as a cop and start pulling people over, I'm not a fictional depiction of a cop; I'm impersonating a cop. They are very, very different things.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
It seems to me that fictional depictions of violence are on quite a different level to a chatbot explicitly encouraging specific, real-world actions.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
You don't have to "truly" correct for the room for EQ/calibration to be worthwhile - you just have to make it sound better than it did. I've used the built-in calibration in my WIIM Pro and it subjectively made a ma
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Sorry, I meant in an actual corporate (ie, Windows) environment, not conceptually.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
> If your company has multiple things you need to log in to, its doing something wrong. How does that work for privileged accounts?
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Perhaps you're right. I suppose my annoyance is that by choosing sitting/standing as their variable, they gave the impression that they were telling a new and/or interesting narrative, when really they were presenting somethi
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Ha - my dad, a plumber, couldn't fathom that people would shower in the morning and not of a night. Which, when you spend your day covered in dirt and excrement, makes a ton of sense. (Despite being solidly white collar, I still shower
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
My point is that it isn't really a different slice, though. The vast majority of the "sitting" occupations are white collar; the vast majority of the "standing" ones blue collar.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I agree, it was bit of a bait and switch and (also as a non-American) the racial twist took me by surprise. The actual data would still have made as much (or more) sense if it was white vs blue collar, but I suppose no one would be surprise
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
This seems like a great demonstration of basing arguments on a dependent variable. Every slide I've seen so far would be better explained by white collar vs blue collar rather than sitter vs stander.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
That's really interesting; thanks. I didn't realize the loudness wars had "ended", though I suppose with a lot of streaming services normalizing levels across playlists, there's less benefit. On the physical aspect
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
If the general consensus is that vinyl sounds better, and the improvement is largely from rolling off highs and mono-ing lows - why don't the digital masters use the same technique? ie, why isn't there only a vinyl-ready master?
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Marketplace is literally the only reason I still have a facebook account. Unfortunately the alternatives here get nowhere near the same number of buyers.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
You have to remember, Australia as a nation is young, and has an interesting history - forced migration of convicts, high levels of immigration (IIRC 25% of the population are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants), and of course the difficulty

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