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by nsfmc 2mo ago
you listen to the audio and try to determine if you can either read or understand the audio. it's repeated twice, once formally and once casually, so good for listening practice, but also good for adding new words/phrases into you
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by nsfmc 6mo ago
> For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash. i'll just say, and i understand this is not the point of the article at all, but for all its faults, if you got in on fla
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by nsfmc 1y ago
unless... maybe... https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-pos...
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by nsfmc 2y ago
my read as a US person is that math academy is optimized towards students who would otherwise be well served by an in-person supplemental math program. at the earlier grades for math academy (grades 4-5 etc) the main competition i've e
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by nsfmc 2y ago
i suspect that a lot of people applying to a lot of jobs and not hearing back are applying via an inbound webform or even, unknowingly, through an agency or intermediary like Indeed. my experience (on both sides of the hiring process) is th
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by nsfmc 2y ago
this has happened to me once, appropriately enough with some hauntology tracks. the songs are weirdly enough still available in the ios app to play but not to download via the web. presumably they're still somewhere in bandcamp behind
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by nsfmc 2y ago
the unicode angle is great for moving sparklines back into the terminal especially making it into a postgres function, since it makes so much ad-hoc analysis easier at the point of query. it also solves the problem where sparklines feel use
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by nsfmc 3y ago
i think the library's approach to DI is pretty neat (and meets a team where they are which is worth a lot), but i think you're running into an issue where people are saying that instead of working around the realities of your code
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by nsfmc 3y ago
i'm pretty sure this is allowed as Transformative Use (in the usa) (unless the science fiction book was full of patented inventions still covered by patent law then i think maybe you're no longer in the clear.) https://
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by nsfmc 3y ago
oooooph
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by nsfmc 3y ago
i'm not sure if you're serious, but the california public utilities commision's public advocates office (what a mouthful) describes california's rates as generally higher than most of the nation[0], with southern califor
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by nsfmc 3y ago
i submitted a few shows to this and included a handful of stills to go along with it, it was an a+ contribution process, but there was still a lot of work i didn't do, so i can appreciate why there's a backlog. great project!
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by nsfmc 3y ago
here's another piece in the issue that addresses your concern https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-consid...
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by nsfmc 3y ago
i won't speak for gabe, but i (hispanic) had two distinct (and memorable) instances at mit where a classmate told me, to my face, that the only reason i was at mit was because i was hispanic. one passed it off as common knowledge in a
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by nsfmc 3y ago
that site is not really suitable for mass consumption, iirc it used to even have a caveat that said it really only existed to make certain leaf nodes sharable. it's basically a personal zettelkasten, but this update was also sent to hi
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by nsfmc 3y ago
that's great context, i started having a flashback to hypepitch around thegrid.io when i started reading the copy.
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by nsfmc 4y ago
an earlier newsletter shows this distressing graph of teen suicides and, shocker, boys are doing terribly, a suicide rate at least three times more than girls, but the author seems to find the 34% delta less distressing. the data is unsettl
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by nsfmc 5y ago
i believe the slideshow issue is actually a limitation of the apple tv's apis having changed around the time that the aerial screensaver came out and not getting updated to support the old screensaver functionality
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by nsfmc 7y ago
great, now you have a native client but now your customers will expect that it works offline, so now you're building a sync system for your app. additionally, if your app has any design/layout issues, now you need to hire for peop
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by nsfmc 7y ago
What a Misunderstanding! ?
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by nsfmc 7y ago
> I can't tell if the author has done a real analysis course before, but if they haven't that's the one they should choose next... I don't see the utility of re-doing calculus or linear algebra if the author is alread
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by nsfmc 8y ago
i perhaps have diminished standards, but i found steam link over ethernet to be totally serviceable for playing through most of hyper light drifter on a controller. the input lag was fairly minimal and the computer was already quite long in
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by nsfmc 8y ago
i tried this and found it to be pretty satisfying. i played entirely on a macbook while traveling during my winter vacation. It worked surprisingly well even with mixed wifi, i would compare it to the experience you get from using PS4 Remot
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SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript(script-8.github.io)
219 points by nsfmc 8y ago|60 comments
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by nsfmc 8y ago
in california, you can apply to get your first year of community college free ( https://home.cccapply.org/money/california-college-promise-g... ), there's an assembly bill ( http://leginfo.legislature.c
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by nsfmc 8y ago
ok, i love that series, but i am not sure i would necessarily recommend it as a starting point (plus i felt like i had maxed out on recs) but i strongly endorse it as a great series!
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by nsfmc 8y ago
Adam Curtis' short "Oh Dearism" ( https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism/ ) 12 minute mini-documentary is a good ramp up to his longer movies and is a critique of the failings of television news media in the
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by nsfmc 8y ago
around 2005-6 i considered switching over to dvorak, but trying it out, doing tutorials, etc, never had much of an effect. i would say i was a pretty fast qwerty typer, but i hadn't learned to properly touch type. instead, i was fast e
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by nsfmc 8y ago
curious why you are scraping instagram for this purpose and not something like flickr which has a reasonable public api and tagged creative commons licensed images that are suitable for your ML purposes. at the very least, it's worth i
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by nsfmc 9y ago
i think the point is that all react-likes were (with high probability) infringing on at least one of facebook's patents. People were free to move to vue or whatever, but licensing wouldn't have mattered because they would still

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