mnl

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by mnl 3y ago
I'm very adaptable nowadays. It's just that I think I know which things should work, but I'm not fighting society, particularly not on this. The thing with giving the public what they want and being too much of a pragmatist i
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by mnl 3y ago
I mentioned peer learning, collaboration is that. I think everyone should be capable of working alone as well, and that has been the general assumption around as far as I've noticed. Of course collaboration is usually way more producti
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by mnl 3y ago
A textbook should be provided for reference. Copying its contents on a blackboard isn't teaching. You still have to design your course. There's goals to meet, you have to evaluate where your students come from and your job is gett
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by mnl 3y ago
The idea is becoming intellectually independent, arriving in the stage of self-pedagogy if you like. Peer learning when there's the chance. You can't realistically expect that there will always be someone up the ladder to explain
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by mnl 3y ago
I learnt a lot of physics from Marion's 2nd edition (not SR there though). An older and completely forgotten fine textbook is W. Hauser's Introduction to the Principles of Mechanics . Then you jump into Goldstein (the 1980 one, a
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by mnl 3y ago
I almost wrote above that, to my knowledge and IMVHO, no one has succeeded at writing a book on Thermodynamics yet. I self-censored because that would be too flippant, wouldn't it? Lmao
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by mnl 3y ago
There are excellent textbooks on Classical Mechanics, probably because it's a crystal clear subject and you can give a detailed account of the essentials in a single volume without handwaving. Of course everything can be improved, but
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by mnl 3y ago
What's the problem with a good book, age? Baby Rudin's first edition is 70 and the latest one is from 1976. It's still widely used and will be for a while. Honestly your problem was that you didn't know any Classical Mec
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by mnl 3y ago
You can absolutely delude yourself with the wrong design and materials that have going for them that they're what you can afford and call it innovation and whatnot. It still is wrong design and materials. I didn't pay attention to
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by mnl 3y ago
Yes, I own fields. No, the ROI isn't there so parishioners keep them for sentimental value mostly. It isn't worth it, it was but it's been decades that it's not. Of course there's a "we". We depend on supp
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by mnl 3y ago
Yes, but the thing is we have increased productivity tremendously because that's what our species does. So first we didn't need everyone working in the fields, after that we didn't need everyone working in the factories, and
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by mnl 3y ago
They used these things: https://125px.com/docs/unsorted/kodak/tg2044_1_02mar99.pdf It was an automatic process and colours were consistent. I find that reading theories about what might have happened 20 years
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by mnl 4y ago
This is obvious, but for some reason some people want to believe that magically a conceptual framework emerges because animal intelligence has to be something like that anyway. I don't know how animal intelligence works, I just notice
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by mnl 4y ago
Look at the binding energy curve: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/NucEne/nucbin.htm...
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by mnl 4y ago
There's excellent rubber domes and people have been typing properly on them for 30 years. You don't need mechanical switches, you just like them. I keep a few nice 90s' ones from HP and IBM. Sun's sucked yet people typed
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by mnl 4y ago
Yep, we're getting too impatient and that's not helpful when it comes to think deeply about what we've been taught. Yet that's the most important part of any job IMO. I'll check it out, maybe you're right and h
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by mnl 4y ago
So that's the best appraisal you can give of David Deutsch: "Just an old man seeking attention"? Well, leaving aside the usual embarrassment I feel when it comes to the impromptu nonsense a fair share of HN commentators think
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by mnl 4y ago
I think you have opinions, on the other hand judgements need argumentation. You've simply stated that you object "to people who freely talk about negative experiences" because some other people you like a lot don't do th
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by mnl 5y ago
[Deleted this as it was obviously unnecessary]
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by mnl 5y ago
I honestly can't remember about such details, but with IDE drives and 95A you were limited to PIO. You could enable DMA in 95B, it wasn't by default. It was in W98. That should make a drastic difference.
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by mnl 5y ago
May I suggest joining Ubuntu Advantage and getting ESM? That's free for personal use and you'd get support until April 2024. I'm keeping a 16.04 box like that simply because I'm too lazy to redo stuff that works and with
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by mnl 5y ago
I don't know, I've mentioned tenure though. I know that Peter Higgs has published IIRC 11? papers and that he's talked about his former status at his departament and not being productive enough for the modern academic system.
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by mnl 5y ago
Well, it's not that. Output is quantifiable and expected, try to survive doing your thing before tenure (at least and don't). Alas, the Republic of Letters is long gone. Kind of an ought-is problem.
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by mnl 5y ago
We tend to romanticise it, but in the end it's just another job. It shouldn't, because selling you doing science is not the same as doing science, but on the other hand social expectations are that you must have a job, so what kin
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by mnl 5y ago
I always have to look up the switches, there's quite a few. If you paste an URL it does one thing, it can do many others.
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by mnl 5y ago
In Spain's Spanish we ended up with "new" feminine forms for professionals. Now it's commonplace but some of them sounded pretty strange back then. For instance you talked about female doctors using " la médico &quo
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by mnl 5y ago
You can look up such details before buying in https://psref.lenovo.com . Then usually the hardware maintenance manual is available in support, that's the main reason why I end up getting their laptops, although their obnoxio
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by mnl 5y ago
Exactly, it could have happened anywhere but this is Jobs in 2008. If he's bought you already, leaving the details to Eddy, and you basically announce that Eddy won't cut it you're asking for a reality check right there. Then
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by mnl 5y ago
I find it striking that a decent modern laptop would have been a supercomputer 20 years ago, when people used Office 97 that was feature complete already IMO. I can't help this constant cognitive dissonance with modern software; do we
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by mnl 5y ago
No, it's actually more expensive because you don't get anything done. Precision equipment either works or it doesn't. Commercial software development practices might be relevant where you can fix things overnight, but this is

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