Nagyman

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by Nagyman 4mo ago
That feels like a poor statistical evaluation. Why not test along the way with progressive complexity/depth? Using attendance is a carrot to get students to show up, which leads to better learning outcomes overall - which should be the
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by Nagyman 2y ago
Hear, hear. Go back far enough and it's stolen land, insofar as any land can be owned. Entitled folks ranting about "their" property is kinda gross. You were granted that right by society, through ancestral collective agreeme
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by Nagyman 3y ago
A reasonable type could be defined for outside temperature with predefined bounds, for example in ADA: type OutsideTempC is digits 3 range -100.0 .. 70.0; (Edit: others mentioned this)
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by Nagyman 3y ago
I too enjoy colourful and shiny, but adfree does not imply purely functional aesthetics. Can you imagine another possible scenario?
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by Nagyman 3y ago
It seems that so many here think they're above being manipulated by advertising. Don't trust your brain - it's soft and malleable. > Vulnerable people do and always will exist. Hear! Hear! Not to mention that children are
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by Nagyman 3y ago
People will always want free things; that's nothing new! Especially on an Internet that was born free (aside from the cost to connect). The average "Reddit" business is pretty odd; they want: * Paying subscribers _and_ advert
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by Nagyman 3y ago
The media is reporting what scientists are saying, who thoroughly consider all angles. You don't see it mentioned because it's a hypothesis that was rejected (long ago), with reason. Hint: The _rate of change_ is critical. Past cl
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by Nagyman 4y ago
This "article" was written to subtlety advertise Kaspersky's security app. > And, of course, install a security app on your smartphone.
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by Nagyman 4y ago
> Optimizing for a pretty looking git history is probably the most foolish thing to focus on It's not about "pretty"; commits are a form of _communication_. Do we send emails without editing before hitting send? It's
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by Nagyman 4y ago
As always, it depends. Especially for large PRs, I will go through the effort of rebasing to help the code reviewer so they can view key commits rather than a mile long scroll-fest on the GH "Files Changed" tab. It's about be
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by Nagyman 4y ago
Exactly how I'd expect a GPT experiment to reply! ;) We'll hardly be able to tell the difference, if at all. Maybe it doesn't matter as long as the conversation is engaging for the human.
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by Nagyman 4y ago
This is most certainly already happening. I find it kind of annoying not to know with certainty whether or not I'm engaging with a Genuine Human(TM) or not. I'm unsure if it's confirmation bias, but I find myself noticing wei
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by Nagyman 4y ago
Loved Heap (Analytics?). I advocated for it while working at my previous employer :) I think we were early customers. At the time, its automatic tracking of all events was a godsend compared to hooking up specific tracking after the fact us
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by Nagyman 4y ago
The pursuit of knowledge is insanely underrated. > But what you are working on is completely useless for humanity. You simply can't know that. We don't know what we don't know and we are but babies when it comes to underst
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by Nagyman 4y ago
I've heard the idea to zone for one level above the average in an area, to avoid the wild west situation. Doubtful that would fly with some very rich single family neighbourhoods near cities, but perhaps it's too late for the grad
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by Nagyman 4y ago
Sorry, it's in the video, but the oil/coal producers & related polluters who use the apathy to further limit change that affects their profits.
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by Nagyman 4y ago
> This practice makes even less sense when we make PRs that once merged are squashed into one commit Up until the point of merging, other developers reviewing the PR can see your development path, and optionally examine individual commit
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by Nagyman 4y ago
Climate change is a scale, from bad to really really bad, and positive change is already happening. Here's some uplifting news in a well articulated video worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw Apa
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by Nagyman 5y ago
Django has some of my favourite docs, organized incredibly well: * Tutorials * Topic guides * Reference guides * How-to guides https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/#how-the-documentation...
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by Nagyman 5y ago
[citation needed] I don't know many such morally-absent folks. Perhaps the perverse incentives in our system mean a bunch of CEOs are quite sociopathic, but on the whole, people seem rather good intentioned to me. The internet certainl
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by Nagyman 5y ago
You can just submit a blank ballot. https://www.quora.com/As-voting-is-compulsory-in-Australia-a...
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by Nagyman 5y ago
This came to mind for me as well, as it's something I landed on in the past for managing UGC. The primary benefits being a decent api and administrative interface for moderation. It's certainly not perfect, but there's not a
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by Nagyman 5y ago
It is mentioned if you expand the "In case you've never used them, here's a comparison." element.
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by Nagyman 5y ago
It's also a monumental shift for the workforce. Many of the problems people have WFH are because we've WFO for so long! Social culture has incredible momentum - so much so that it took a pandemic to get the ball rolling in the dir
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by Nagyman 5y ago
> then that incentive disappears, and we can start exploring other business models At times it feels like we're stuck in a local maxima. Momentum plays a part and it can take a significant shift (e.g. from privacy abuses and shiftin
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by Nagyman 5y ago
IIRC, it was a permanent change for everyone. This most recent change re-adds the ability to see counts.
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by Nagyman 6y ago
I have a Dell monitor which has a built-in USB-C hub. I experience similar issues when plugging in my MacBook Pro - the monitor part works fine, but the keyboard/mouse usually takes a few attempts at plugging in ("docking").
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by Nagyman 6y ago
Maybe they see the writing on the wall and they are conceding that they don't _need_ website visit tracking at the individual level. Instead, just mapping individuals into _categories_ is sufficient for targeting. They'll categori
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by Nagyman 6y ago
Can we stop attributing technology choices to laziness? Sounds like a _lazy_ evaluation and presumption of someone else's motivations. More seriously, there are far more folks familiar with browser frontend technologies than the myriad
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by Nagyman 6y ago
AFAIK, it's common to use the capital of a country when referencing government decisions in news articles. e.g. Washington, Beijing, Ottawa, Delhi, Brussels, etc.

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