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by dagw 1y ago
If Tesla never rose, the world EV market outside of Tesla would have seen precisely the same rise. would have seen the same rise _eventually_. I know from a friend that worked R&D at a major car company that Tesla really lit a fire un
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by dagw 1y ago
Are ISO standard American football fields defined as 100 or 120 yards?
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by dagw 1y ago
Having camera at home/yard is no issue Only if the camera is angled in such a way that it only sees your property. A door bell camera that can also see the public road in front your house for example is technically not allowed, even
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by dagw 1y ago
The big problem is that universities basically never hire or promote based on a persons teaching ability. One of the best lecturers I had at university was a postdoc who didn't get hired and ended up teaching at a 'third rate&#x27
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by dagw 1y ago
Pop in to publish your article, return to whatever else you had been doing after. Nothing is stopping you. I've published papers and presented at academic conferences while working in industry. Both in collaboration with academics an
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by dagw 1y ago
Hiring someone else do the homework/exams on their behalf! We definitely should allow that for MBA students, since that will most closely mirror what they'll be doing once they get into the work force.
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by dagw 1y ago
The working is the bulk of available exam marks but the calculator only gives answers Knowing what the answer is supposed to be makes it much easier to reverse engineer the workings, and it lets you double check that your workings are cor
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by dagw 1y ago
if one looks at completion rates of any online courses (Udemy/Coursera - under 4%) As someone with a 96+% 'failure' rate on Udemy/Coursera I honestly don't see the relevance of this statistic. Most people going to
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by dagw 1y ago
I think it's unreasonable for any app to be so slow to launch that this matters. That doesn't change the fact that very many apps are in fact that slow that it does matter.
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by dagw 1y ago
Is there a lot of programming in civil engineering? Most civil engineers don't do a lot of programming, but virtually all civil engineering companies have people on staff that program. Mostly for developing custom and project specifi
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by dagw 1y ago
Civil engineering uses a lot of C#, mainly since it is the main language for writing plugins and extension for most of the big software packages. Python is probably a close second. For what it's worth I know several people in various
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by dagw 1y ago
My core memory of SGI workstations was not that they necessarily were super fast when it came to pure flops (especially towards the end of their life), but how smooth and solid they were. Even if our Nvidia/Wintel machines were faster
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by dagw 1y ago
I wonder where this graph gets it's data from They've apparently written their own web crawler that attempts to infer what language is used based on a bunch of, unspecified, heuristics. I wonder if at least some of the problem
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by dagw 1y ago
Which countries are you thinking about? Honestly haven't seen a company in the EU self hosting email for probably 15 years, and I used to run the email server at a company.
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by dagw 1y ago
I've just launched the application Honestly even this is questionable. If a running app gets focus between me asking for the new app to launch and that app actually launching, I probably want the existing app that has focus to keep f
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by dagw 1y ago
attacked people driving the cars Did this happen? And if so in what number. Dealerships got attacked and cars got vandalised, but are there any records of the people driving Teslas being physically attacked?
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by dagw 1y ago
Most countries don't have this advanced classes thing. UK, Norway, Sweden, Germany and France are the systems I'm aware of and they all have different levels of maths you can study at high school. I'd be surprised to learn
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by dagw 1y ago
So you're agreeing that Algebra I is viewed as an "advanced" class No, I'd say Algebra I isn't an advanced class, but rather the "gatekeeper" class you have to pass to get into the actual "advanced&
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by dagw 1y ago
Who is pro-GIL Nobody is pro-GIL per se. But a lot of people were pro-No-Single-Threaded-Performance-Desegregation. The first GIL-removal patch was submitted all the way back against python 1.4, and regular attempts have been made ever si
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by dagw 1y ago
3dfx never really competed with SGI since they were never compatible with the commercial and scientific software that people bought SGI machines for. Nvidia on the other hand (mostly) was. I worked at a small animation studio at the time a
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by dagw 1y ago
who is doing super shady appearing online gambling? At a guess, mostly people who for various reasons aren't allowed to gamble on more 'legit' sites, either because of their age or other local laws and jurisdictions. If you
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by dagw 1y ago
In most cases if you want to machine harvest you have to design your field around that. A vineyard, for example, that is designed to be machine harvested looks very different from one that is designed to be hand harvested. So if you want to
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by dagw 1y ago
Its a simple language It really isn't, and that is why the install and setup tools are so problematic. They have to hide and overcome a lot of complexity.
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by dagw 1y ago
Sure, but so will SO. On most questions it seems that at least a third of the answers are just wrong in one way or another. At least with an LLM you can just tell it's wrong and have a new, hopefully better, answers 30 seconds later, a
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by dagw 1y ago
It's fairly unusual to strictly enforce it on foreigners. Every place I've been with a no tattoos policy generally overlook tourists with smaller unassuming tattoos.
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by dagw 1y ago
The right way to do it is to setup a regular lifestyle in the place of your choosing Sure, but that's just emigrating. The whole point of the digital nomad lifestyle is to be able to move around on a whim.
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by dagw 1y ago
Disclaimer. Last time I seriously used Java, I was using Java 8, and I've only used Kotlin for screwing around with Android development on my own time. So what follows might be way off. Kotlin provides a lot of 'clever' synta
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by dagw 1y ago
Crawling up the abstraction ladder and 'forgetting' everything below has been the driving trend in programming since at least the 60s and probably before. We for example have a whole generation of programmers who have no idea what
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by dagw 1y ago
How can I visit this fantasy world of yours... Wait 20 years.
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by dagw 1y ago
Is this the educational standard in America? Even if it is, Google is itself is very international and multilingual, including the literal head of YouTube. They obviously know what the world looks like, and decided to do this anyway.

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