tash9

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by tash9 4mo ago
As a parent of a kid that has special needs (at a minor level), there really is a separate set of skills needed to teach to these kids, as well as needing a better student teacher ratio. It made a huge difference for my kid.
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by tash9 1y ago
Correct but the point is that the salaries of the developers are not treated as an expense to net out, they are treated as an asset that depreciates over some period of time. (Even though some "developer" work might be day to day
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by tash9 2y ago
How the hell is Sour Cream and Onion not on there
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by tash9 2y ago
- How do they take a business problem and model it into code - How do they debug their own code - Is their code easy to read - Do they name their variables/fields/methods/classes in easy to understand and consistent ways or a
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by tash9 2y ago
True but there has been a movement towards replicating these high profile findings in the soft sciences. Hopefully that will gain more traction as a lot of the "newsworthy" studies are forced to get retracted after failing to repl
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by tash9 3y ago
Or... you could change it to something funnier, like "Pumpkin Body Butter"
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by tash9 3y ago
My hot take: this is actually really good (and would be fantastic if all the big tech followed suit). Why? Imagine a world where big tech was cool with remote workers. They would be able to out-pay and acquire all the best talent, everywher
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by tash9 3y ago
If you're talking about small scale phenomena (less than 1km), then this wouldn't help other than to be able to signal when the conditions are such that these phenomena are more likely to happen.
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by tash9 3y ago
It's been a while since I was a grad student but I think the raw station/radiosonde data is interpolated into a grid format before it's put into the standard models.
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by tash9 3y ago
One piece of context to note here is that models like ECMWF are used by forecasters as a tool to make predictions - they aren't taken as gospel, just another input. The global models tend to consistently miss in places that have local
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by tash9 3y ago
I would think heavy metals would be a much bigger issue wrt water contamination from a health point of view. Not that the anaerobic sludge is great, but I would rather see a bigger push to recycle used electronics. As far as methane, am in
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by tash9 3y ago
But the volume of compostable material is small compared to the overall trash volume, right? Aren't we talking about a negligible quantity relative to amount of effort and (potentially) negative sentiment amongst swing voters?
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by tash9 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but I've never understood the point of composting. - It's a hassle. - You can buy good compost for very little at the hardware store that's produced at industrial scales - Landfill space is no
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by tash9 3y ago
I wondered too, until I read the part about her being from Tacoma
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by tash9 4y ago
Whatever, now we know your password is "Miffy.Biffy.Boffy"
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by tash9 4y ago
I heard it can make your kids listen to jazz and hang out with black people!
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by tash9 4y ago
Maybe. What sound did it make?
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by tash9 4y ago
Giannis Antetokounmpo. He's been great for almost a decade and everybody still loves him. Growing up dirt poor for most of his life probably helps w/ being a great guy, though.
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by tash9 4y ago
I think what he's trying to say is that a human has limited time to analyze variations, so they would typically analyze the "best" move for a given situation. But if you make a suboptimal move, then you are going down a path
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by tash9 4y ago
It's not that much better than the normal network of AMS sensors. For one, it doesn't give you wind speeds at various levels (critical for predicting weather). Second, it doesn't give you any additional readings over oceans,
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by tash9 4y ago
Well it's not like we're gonna run out of undergraduates, just do the experiment again.
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by tash9 7y ago
Yeah, that's why prop 13 passed in the first place... "Oh how am I going to retire if my property taxes keep going up on my small 2br apartment in the Castro?"