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by ucm_edge 5y ago
Related, I also have a hunch that the UC system dropping the SAT is going to promote inequality. I don't want to defend standardized tests as flawless, but the SAT has been around forever, you can go to basically any public library an
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
Math is one of the pure foundations for liberal arts so getting it done early is better. We should be focusing on getting high schools teaching it so well that colleges don't feel the need to rerun it not saying you can do it later.
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
1633, 1633, 1634: Baltic War, 1635: The Eastern Front, 1636: The Saxon Uprising, 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught, 1637: Polish Maelstrom Although honestly I lost interest around the first 1636 book. For me the initial setup of the United State
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
No, some element of the people operation whose job performance is in part judged on getting engineers through the door wanted to hire him. Likely all that person cared about was "This engineer will make it X months", where X is b
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
Very much this. You always want to be asking HR for an accommodation that is protected by law. Then HR enters into the mode of protecting the company by ensuring they don't get in trouble for violating the law. You go in and say &qu
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
I'm very nostalgic for Blackberry again. I feel like on a platform where the whole point was to prevent anyone who wasn't the corporate IT department from being able to access it, this local code execution would have been a massi
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
They partner with police. The revenue play is charging governments access to a feed of events happening just in their jurisdiction (with some cleaning up/grouping of similar reports). Citizen gets the police to pay them for access, t
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
Often times if you change your address to be a CA address, websites will suddenly reveal an online cancel option. I swapped my parents' NYT account to be my CA address and suddenly "click here to cancel" was displayed on the
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
I had a similar experience at Amazon. About midway through the onsite at Amazon I kind of decided "I don't think I'd like working here and I already have other offers, so my brain will be going into neutral now." and ki
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
The candidate me likes cutting out some of the bullshit involved. The hiring manager side of me on the other hand continues to remember that mishires are expensive. I've also very skeptical in that once a month some staffing agency c
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
As a parent my workday has shifted to be 8 am to 6:30 pm and lots of people complain about that kind of shift, but I see that as a plus. I used to be out of the house from 7:30 am to ~6:30 pm depending on commute, so it wasn't like tha
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by ucm_edge 5y ago
I don't think it's a development issue, it's an education issue. There are plenty of masks out there that fit well and are meant to be worn for extended periods of time, be it in a medical environment or a trades environment
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
What happened to voice commands in cars? I have a 2012 model that's about perfect from an ergonomics point. That is tactile buttons got first choice on positioning and every button is easily reachable from my driving position and th
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
Just having that choice though includes a cost. When everyone is forced onto the app store, Apple can censor as you point out, it can demand high percentages on in app transactions, and plenty of other negative things. But it can also dem
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
Well on a macro scale American often tends to neglect the K-12 education, make college inaccessible due to costs and then think that some government retraining program whose duration is measured in months can turn X skilled labor force into
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
I do see some value in Clubhouse. My spouse has been using it to hold open conferences with other professors, but they're seeding the room with a number of pre screened academics, their grad students, postdocs, etc. Then it's op
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
They seem to think there is, although Portal sales would disagree with that. Supposedly the Portal is actually nice hardware wise, but the Facebook association was just toxic for them.
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
Baoshan was supposed to be a pure R&D facility. So they're literally building a production fab for Intel Xe there.
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
The more credible speculation I've seen (although arguably once you're arguing with speculation is more credible, you've already lost) is that Intel is doing a multiyear deal to have TSMC crank out its discrete Xe graphics&#x
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
I also saw numbers saying a 50 mile by 50 mile piece of land could handle all of America's trash for 100 years if used as a landfill. Always struck me as interesting in that you could easily section off a chunk of desert, properly sort
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
Iran just seized a South Korean oil tanker yesterday to give it civilian hostages as leverage in on going negotiations with South Korea, a country that has never engaged in any form of violence against Iran.
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
I've gotten to the point where whenever I setup a Windows machine, I tell it I have no internet connection, because that seems to be the only way to get it shut up about using a Microsoft Account to log in, configuring OneDrive, etc.
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
I like how after every big Crypto scandal you see calls for "Well we should have X to prevent this from happening", and X is something virtually identical to a regulation/monetary policy put in place after some banking scanda
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
That's basically where I am with streaming sites. Exert minimal effort to find version of mediocre quality, let it run for a bit and then decide if I want to actually pay for the content or just stop watching. The other big thing is t
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by ucm_edge 6y ago
Why does Apple want the UAW contracts that come with any of the Big 3? Tesla showed the preferable model (from the corporate perspective). Buy the factory (NUMMI), hire some of the ex-UAW workers, and go from there. They don't need t