dls2016

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by dls2016 4mo ago
the soupy sales "little green pieces of paper" trick
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by dls2016 11mo ago
I got a job at AWS/EFS from a post here on hacker news. Stayed there almost 2 years until RTO took its toll (left early 2024). If not for that, I'd still be there... and I went in with full knowledge of all the horror stories. Per
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by dls2016 2y ago
I made $10.50/hr washing dishes in 1998 lol it's not a fair wage for anything today, really.
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by dls2016 2y ago
> IOW, they're being underpaid relative to market, in exchange for ownership, expecting to get more later when they sell the shares. So far so good, but how does this look when the business has a rough patch, even one that's no
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by dls2016 2y ago
$4k is a slap in the face for someone who wants to keep their job.
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by dls2016 3y ago
Cobham!
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by dls2016 3y ago
I've been saying this for years: climate science isn't science (in the falsifiable sense), climate is nonlinear and humans don't like to rock the boat. This is especially true with a big, cross-disciplinary project like the I
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by dls2016 3y ago
There was measurable temperature change in the days after 9/11.
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by dls2016 3y ago
I think "transformative use" is the term you're looking for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use
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by dls2016 3y ago
I live in one of four US states where you must be 18 to get married. Most other states have "parental consent" laws that allow you to get married at age 16. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/
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by dls2016 3y ago
Then we can combine AD and numerical solvers like is found in modern weather and climate models. I don't quite understand but it has something to do with sensitivity analysis and improving data assimilation. (Google "4dvar ecmwf&q
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by dls2016 4y ago
This seems to be changing a bit. I have two children in a US public elementary school. The teachers use various apps to have children review mathematics facts. The apps allow children to move at their own pace and also incorporates some spa
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by dls2016 4y ago
Agreed, I've also been waiting to see a system with spaced repetition (to help memorize and retain) + dependency graph (to choose what new topics to present). Not sure what the AI value add would be? I have two children and I was glad
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by dls2016 4y ago
Yeah, the whole aspect of teaching C++ to beginners is fraught with tooling issues. That school is moving to Python (years after main campus switched)... but I'm not sure how I feel about that since I spent a lot of time talking about
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by dls2016 4y ago
I also told them this, to encourage searching. Though I hate Chegg and the like with a passion, since this sort of thing takes a lot of work (over the course of teaching same class a few times) and then w/ Chegg you immediately find th
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by dls2016 4y ago
Thank you for making the point about accreditation, it's sort of a pet peeve of mine. I taught "intro to C++" last year at the Harrisburg campus of PSU. The students were a mix of non-CS majors who didn't know what a fil
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by dls2016 4y ago
Supposed to break 70 tomorrow in central PA. But chaos? Nah... simply an intense frontal system (ie. big temperature gradients).
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by dls2016 4y ago
I don't know, I've worked countless 60-70 hour weeks at a restaurant... some days both opening and closing the place... and food service just doesn't seem comparable. Perhaps fishing or working on a boat is similar, but many
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by dls2016 4y ago
> "The rise of precision scheduled railroading has resulted in resource and staffing cuts; to compensate railroad companies have enacted strict attendance policies for employees. These policies eliminate any free time which workers
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by dls2016 4y ago
> for example software engineers in San Francisco Uhm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by dls2016 4y ago
I can't believe I'm saying this, but it's hard to even watch old episodes of The Simpsons without explaining to my children why the multitude of lazy "gay jokes" aren't funny.
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by dls2016 4y ago
> users get a subscription to binge / burn thru several things in a single month and then cancel their subscription Surprisingly similar to the old days of bugging my parents for the Disney channel (of course, didn't have on-de
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by dls2016 4y ago
> WAY cheaper than games used to be, when you look at inflation. I recall $60 NES games in Toys R Us and a quick google shows that to be correct (for the top tier games). That's $130 these days! And re: cars, they are so much more r
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by dls2016 4y ago
I would disagree that there's a problem here. As mentioned much better in other replies, there's a global supply chain and these are commodity parts. This is on the order of jaywalking or going 2mph the speed limit on the highway.
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by dls2016 4y ago
> Rules are made to cause trouble for the average law-abiding citizen, but have almost no effect on actual criminals. I'll bite, how do you think the justice system should work? Laws and their corresponding punishments are deterre
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by dls2016 4y ago
Big Pharma vs. Big Ag! Fight! Fight! Fight!
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by dls2016 4y ago
Not in the same vein as the link, but I had an Iranian colleague tell me his wife was working occasionally as a babysitter, in technical violation of her visa... but he couldn't think of how to say this in English. He moved his finger
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by dls2016 4y ago
As if the CIA could ever have a "clean slate".
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by dls2016 4y ago
I have to admit, it would take a lot to convince me the CIA wasn't involved.
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by dls2016 4y ago
> In 1920, a newspaper publication or a public speech needed to be really outrageously beyond the frames of the Overton window to end up in mass protests, boycotts, etc. It took a serious effort to coordinate the outrage, so it only happ

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