nineplay

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by nineplay 3mo ago
I never understood P vs NP until I say down with AI and just kept asking for clarification after clarification until it finally clicked. AI, used well, isn't just 'teach me this' its 'teach me this and answer all my dumb
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by nineplay 3mo ago
magpie - extracts book recommendations from reddit threads. I had a bunch of saved threads from 'books' and 'suggestmeabook' and 'printsf' etc., and I realized I could pull them down and do a semantic search.
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by nineplay 4mo ago
I was going though a problem I'm having parents - they are aging, decisions need to be made, that sort of stuff. Writing it out, thinking about it, reflecting further - I probably spent at least and hour just typing in my thoughts as t
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by nineplay 7mo ago
I agree, it's the public attitudes that are most disheartening and probably some of the reason young people are less inclined to have children. All over society people are seeing kids as a kind of personal indulgence that shouldn'
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by nineplay 7mo ago
> lack of time for parenting > helicopter parenting There is a contradiction here which commonly underlies 'problems in modern parenting' discussions and creates a "dammed if you do, damned if you don't" situa
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by nineplay 8mo ago
"Other large tech companies have also begun judging candidates by their abilities instead of their diplomas. Microsoft, Apple, and Cisco are among those dropping degree mandates." Call me skeptical considering they've got hun
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by nineplay 9mo ago
They will also be paying somewhere around 50k a year soon for heath insurance because contractors don't get benefits. Fun!
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by nineplay 9mo ago
I'm currently job hunting and 'no shit'. I had better mental health 6 months ago by any measure. Its a ego destroying process, especially with the market now. I've got my first 'tech' interview coming up and w
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by nineplay 10mo ago
We didn't always have bad actors directly injecting rage-bait into our blood streams.
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by nineplay 10mo ago
I'd go further and say its a global weakness and unbelievably destructive. The bulk of current discourse today is: 1. Read a headline/tweet/instagram. 2. Decide whether or not it fits in your worldview. 3. Move forward with t
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by nineplay 10mo ago
FTA > Think of the Perry and Quebec experiments—two of the most widely cited in the early-education literature—as poles at either end of a spectrum Even The Economist acknowledges that its a single study in a single province which runs c
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by nineplay 10mo ago
The financials of leaving the workforce rarely make sense to me. > There's tradeoffs in terms of career progression There's X years of lost income, lost retirement savings, lost raises and bonuses ( depending on career ), lost
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by nineplay 10mo ago
> Compounding these issues is the omnipresence of cameras and social media, which has made privacy more precarious. Buried in an article about shifts in attitudes towards nudity and porn is the actual cause. As a child of the 70s I&#x2
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by nineplay 11mo ago
Or whoever was working on it said "Wait, this plane isn't ready yet" and the people in charge said "we've waited long enough, get it on the runway".
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by nineplay 11mo ago
If you are talking about voting in the US than you haven't been following all the efforts to manipulate voting in the US. Turns out the party in power has all they tools they need to make sure that the people who don't like them
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by nineplay 11mo ago
I read an article about a similar WWII woman's service and more than anything these women's jobs were to be warm and friendly to a bunch of young scared solders who far from home and wondering if they'd make it back. So they&
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by nineplay 11mo ago
The majority probably didn't want to secede prior to the civil war. Fortunately for those who did want to secede, a massive proportion of the population didn't have the right to vote.
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by nineplay 1y ago
I'm intrigued by the premise - I have my own large burden of health care costs and my own suspicions about where it is going - but does anyone else find their charts unreadable? I'm trying to parse the first one and I keep trying
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by nineplay 1y ago
Looking for The Cause of autism and The Cure for autism is exactly as absurd as looking for The Cause of cancer and The Cure for cancer. I think most people understand that there are many causes of cancer and many treatments that cover a r
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by nineplay 1y ago
I'd be interested to know why you think that is? So far as I can tell all they've done is sprinkle characters here or there that are or might be gay. I haven't seen any shows criticize wealth inequity or champion UBI.
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by nineplay 1y ago
> This very much looks like a hostile take-over of the American mind by a tech billionaire who just overtook Elon Musk to become the world's richest man. People should be talking about whether they want to go through this all over a
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by nineplay 1y ago
How do you end housing as an investment?
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by nineplay 1y ago
My ILs have traveled the world and have a home full of things they've purchased and loved. My FIL's parents passed away about 15 years ago. It took my FIL years to go through all that stuff and figure out what to do with it. The
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by nineplay 1y ago
When my daughter was in middle school we were discussing some concept she learned in Biology that wasn't precisely wrong but wasn't right in all use cases. I told her that a model didn't have to be true to be useful. She sa
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by nineplay 1y ago
My partner has become tiresome about this - even if I was to tell them that I responded to your comment on HN, they'd go "You probably just responded to a bot". Are bots really infiltrating HN and making constructive non-infl
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by nineplay 1y ago
Too late to edit but I meant to say town "sluts". Ah well, a lesson to re-read carefully before posting
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by nineplay 1y ago
I think we're going to find that a large number of people who were shamed as "town sluts" were actually abuse victims. Every so often I see nasty comments that 'she got pregnant at 15' or 'she had two kids bef
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by nineplay 1y ago
Let's not forget it became a business. Gayle Laakmann wrote a book, became a consultant, and I'm sure earned a whole lot of money convincing companies that she'd found the perfect path to hiring great engineers. I think she h
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by nineplay 1y ago
To what end? Companies spend $X on marketing to make $X + $Y. If you force them to reduce $X than assuming they don't come up with creative financial workarounds, you've just made them make less money. What has this accomplish
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by nineplay 1y ago
> When we do trunk-based development, the WIP we commit gets used, before any actual user sees it, by our whole team. I think this is where I'm stuck. I rarely work in projects where my team can 'use' the code in any mean

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