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by zenithd 4y ago
the reason for the weirdness is that it doesn’t look like a recession in the labor market. Layoffs have been almost exclusively limited to tech, and within tech pre-profit or highly speculative (cryptoshovels) companies. This is important b
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by zenithd 4y ago
Twitter influence is now a not-insignificant leg up in faculty hiring and academic politics. It’s becoming really hard to take academic science seriously.
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by zenithd 4y ago
> and not being able to get much stronger with training Actually, the problem is the opposite. Their muscles get too strong too quickly and then they blow a pulley because their tendons aren't strong enough for the forces that the
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by zenithd 4y ago
Ashima Shiraishi was arguably the strongest female climber in the world when she was 13, Tommy Caldwell won a climbing competition against some world-class talent at 16, and it's not uncommon to see 10 year olds climb hard at gyms wi
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by zenithd 5y ago
GP said “and out of the way”.
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by zenithd 5y ago
This is only kind of true. If you are asked "why is X true?" and you go on critique the epistemological basis for saying that something of type X could be true or not, you may be giving an in-depth and intelligent answer that is r
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by zenithd 5y ago
> it is force of law that prevents large scale arbitrage of the form in this article. This is actually exactly analogous; many people don't realize that the status quo of "multiple denominations" have ancestral ties to
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by zenithd 5y ago
I'll give some examples in the most strong-man way possible: by choosing the standard library of a famously verbose language (Java). Here are a few examples, with increasing levels of abstraction mapping onto increasing use of single-v
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by zenithd 5y ago
> Why is it that software engineers in a few decades have come to the conclusion that proper variable naming is important and abuse of sigils a bad idea but mathematics don't feel the same way? If yo read code in standard librarie
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by zenithd 5y ago
It's not the income share agreement per se. It's the request for his banking info. They weren't asking for a routing and account number, they were asking for enough access to track direct deposits . There's no way in he
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by zenithd 5y ago
This book's browser supports JavaScript but the book itself skips over it because the browser just uses DuckPy. Which is a reasonable pedagogical choice. Building even a moderately "realistic" JavaScript interpreter would be
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by zenithd 5y ago
> math from 65 years ago Calculus and linear algebra are a tad older than that. > isn't relevant today as determined by the community itself? Which community? NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/et al.? That's only a subset
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by zenithd 5y ago
I think this is probably spot-on. Anyone who has taught introductory CS courses at an average public college/university (so, not a huge R1 state flagship) can tell you that getting into programming is not easy . Plenty of students w
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by zenithd 5y ago
In the United States SSNs are treated as secret. I shouldn't have t care if other people know my DOB or SSN, but I have to care because tons of companies and government offices use these as proof of ID.
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by zenithd 5y ago
It's the stroller airline. If you have kids it's a good deal.
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by zenithd 5y ago
Except you don't have to trust the experts on this one. Either the experts are presenting an incredibly reasonable and almost certainly true description of precipitating causes, or else NOAA, FAA, and everyone who collects their real-t
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by zenithd 5y ago
I don't think I can remember taking a flight in the last 5 years where I didn't receive a survey email during/after the flight. And I used to fly a lot . That includes cancelled flights, which I had a lot of because I used t
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by zenithd 5y ago
The pilot's union is on the list I gave. Aside from the union: because Southwest employs 8,500 pilots and they're not exactly all on linkedin or something.
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by zenithd 5y ago
> Sure it could have just been "one dude" but a walkout by one pilot is still a walkout and not a weather event. That's not a walkout. That's one dude calling in. > One pilot can delay a whole airline if they o
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by zenithd 5y ago
...right, because of southwest's routes and the location of their planes when airspace became unavailable. Which, again, is a claim that you don't need to take the CEO's word on. The data can be scraped for free or purchased
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by zenithd 5y ago
> after their "weather events" that came out of nowhere. Yeah complex systems running on a razor's edge NEVER fail! NOAA and all the other weather forecast/data providers are all in on the conspiracy! /s But se
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by zenithd 5y ago
> We trust the CEO on his word, but a Gadsden flag hanging out of a window must be either a fake rendering or someone else must have snuck onto an airport runway and hung it there in an unrelated event and waited for this event to post
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by zenithd 5y ago
Yeah it happened but only at exactly one airline and for exactly one day AND ended without any capitulation and also no one who walked off made any public demands! Because that's how labor strikes work... Jesus, dude. Think.
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by zenithd 5y ago
I can't see your original comment because it's flagged, but I'll assume it's some sort of anti-vax flag hanging from a Southwest plane. So... so what? The explanation from Southwest's CEO makes sense and matches up
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by zenithd 5y ago
The union says there's no strike, the airline says there's no strike, no other airlines experienced similar failures despite similar mandates, and there's an alternative explanation that fits all of the available the evidence
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by zenithd 5y ago
You're correct, but presumably in the wrong direction given your comment history. Any time a complex system fails, smart folks dig into precipitating and root causes while ideological idiots dream of conspiracy. I've actually seen
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by zenithd 5y ago
Same story but with putty. My own child will never use a school-issued laptop or school wifi.
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by zenithd 5y ago
This strategy can be sub-optimal from the employer's perspective. Consider yourself as an employer and assume your employees have perceived switching cost C > 0. Your employee will approach you with bids b_1, ..., b_n all of which a
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by zenithd 5y ago
Places like HN and Reddit (or /. back in the day) are fantastic resources for learning "pointed haired boss 101".
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by zenithd 5y ago
> The biggest differences are generally between rural and urban districts. Huh. I would characterize this more like "suburban vs. everything else, with some urban exceptions". City schools have extreme bifurcations depending

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