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by xigency 2y ago
Doesn't take very much searching to find this pretty nifty palindrome prime: 3,212,123 (the 333rd palindrome prime) Interestingly, there are no four digit palindrome primes because they would be divisible by 11. This is obvious in retr
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by xigency 2y ago
Well, that's a bit problematic when considering the origins of the book, but I think I better dip out of this conversation here and now. If anyone is curious what resources led me to this conclusion, I would recommend reading "Jes
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by xigency 2y ago
True, and that's why I wish there was a greater focus on preventative care in the US. Takes a lot of motivation to get a physical when things are mostly fine. I'm working on the habits I have most direct control over: healthy eati
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by xigency 2y ago
I'm coming to terms with the fact that if I want to leave any inheritance at all I will need to be voluntarily turning down medical care at some point in my life. I'm only 30 and I know for certain that lifespan is not the paramet
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by xigency 2y ago
This is actually one of the great uses of transformer models. Pick your favorite A.I. and you can ask it to capitalize the text.
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by xigency 2y ago
Worse. We have plastics in our blood from drinking gatorade.
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by xigency 2y ago
Bit of a non-sequitor here but the classic example of yelling 'Fire' in a theater has me thinking about public safety. Obviously there have been many crowd-crush related injuries and fatalities throughout history. But we've a
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by xigency 2y ago
I'm just saying reading the entire comment chain went from an optimistic statement to...well at least you have the bare minimum benefits that society offers (if you are an avid negotiator).
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by xigency 2y ago
This is great advice I hope GP follows, but this also highlights something that I wish the original article addressed: not caring is contagious. The reason corporate interests push a façade of not caring is so that many customers will also
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by xigency 2y ago
The flight is long and expensive, the exchange rate fluctuates, and people like to be near their families. Also the language thing is kind of tough without consistent practice and it can be harder to remember over time. I say this as someon
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by xigency 2y ago
Well, we live in a punitive culture that ascribes great social value to appearances. To your example, if I tell my friends that I had a tough day at work because the old code was broken I will get more sympathy then if I say I wrote some sh
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by xigency 2y ago
I think you missed a bit of nuance. Psychologically, people are more likely to pursue a malpractice case against an incompetent physician who has poor bedside manner rather than an incompetent physician who has excellent bedside manner. So
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by xigency 2y ago
Good on you for sticking to your guns. I hope karma rewards it somehow.
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by xigency 2y ago
By the same argument, if stealing is illegal then that just means a few greedy people will have all the money. There is a kind of techie trope where the logical thinking of computer science is applied to the law in a more creative way. And
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by xigency 2y ago
I heartily agree. The icing on the cake is that you have to pay to read the standards document.
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by xigency 2y ago
You have to remember that it is we the people of society that give corporations permission to exist. A band of criminals has no protection over their enterprise. They all go to jail. And why we have these conversations: to build consensus o
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by xigency 2y ago
Microsoft used to give every computer programmer their own office. Even with levels.fyi types of salary there's been a significant erosion to the social/political capital of our field.
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by xigency 2y ago
So to reiterate, if we feel we are a hot commodity we may be entitled to unemployment insurance. That's a big yikes.
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by xigency 2y ago
It's evident and obvious in any of these explanations that the equations and properties of math are taken as true a priori, not grounded on observation (in their invocation). If I write a partial differential equation that I came up wi
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by xigency 2y ago
If you're going to say that you need to study math exclusively for many years to understand your formulas then you are not using abstraction well.
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by xigency 2y ago
That's cool but I have crippling debt and I was just laid off. I'm considering signing up for disability or going to debtor's prison. I'm in my early 30s and I've spent way more than 10,000 hours programming and now
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by xigency 2y ago
There definitely seems to be a modern trend of over complication in physics along with the voodoo-like worship of math. Humbly enough, people have only come to understand the equations for an apple falling out of a tree within the last 500
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by xigency 2y ago
Sure. This is a great model to adopt if you believe corporations exist to destroy people. If a construction site was sending formerly qualified people away no longer able to work we would definitely investigate their practices. Tech deserve
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by xigency 2y ago
Well that's an improvement. I hate when companies gamify their firings.
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by xigency 2y ago
I think it's more likely people think their companies are /mostly evil/ and intend to improve them in some fashion.
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by xigency 2y ago
Of course you can always make things so entirely vague as to be completely meaningless while still asserting that you are constantly improving by adopting a slogan like "raising the bar."
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by xigency 2y ago
This is somehow better than exploring ways to improve your existing employees' performance?
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by xigency 2y ago
Someone who works as a game programmer. I've been paid about that much working alongside visa holders.
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by xigency 2y ago
I don't get the downvotes. It's hard to read any fraction of this article without wanting to take a walk away from the computer.
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by xigency 2y ago
Not to be rude, but one divorce could wipe out all that you had saved. Then burnout might be a better option for your kids when it comes time to filling out FAFSA. I'm knocking on wood. I don't want what happened to me to happen t

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