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I think we are mostly on the same page then :)

> Guess what, when teaching only staff is asked to teach 6 courses in an year, they teach the same as a research prof who spends half their time in research and half their time teaching 3 courses.
> ...
> The problem is capitalism, and money-optimizations being the final decision maker rather than quality of teaching or research (which is also much worse than 50 years ago).
> ...
> You need more money from the state to go into education.

Absolutely, agreed on all points. Find people who are passionate about education and give them the time and resources to do it well. Build a culture of learning, mentorship, and open discussion. Let students and teaching faculty mingle as much as possible with research faculty while still keeping priorities straight.

Sure, in an ideal world, every student would get one-on-one tutoring from a brilliant researcher. But this doesn't scale well, and isn't necessarily a great use of the researcher's time. Teaching-only faculty are more than good enough until the student approaches the research level.

> I don't agree at all with lecture recordings. As much as you want people in society learning, you also want a lot of people in society learning to teach.

Oh I agree, perhaps I misrepresented myself. I'm not suggesting we replace traditional lectures with a big movie screen that plays pre-recorded lectures.

However, I think the current way of doing things -- where a professor inherits some slides she didn't create herself and reads them off in front of the class with no preparation whatsoever -- isn't the best either. This just goes back to finding passionate teachers and giving them the resources they need to be successful.

I do think pre-recorded lectures have their place alongside traditional textbooks, lecture notes, etc.. One downside of traditional lectures is that lecturers get very little feedback about their teaching style, and it's difficult to diagnose how students are really doing.

A handful of courses in my undergrad math program were run in an "Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL)" format. Rather than a traditional lecture, the professor breaks the class into small groups and asks a series of leading questions designed to help students discover a new concept on their own. The professor can adjust the pace and offer explanations as needed.

Here's an example [1] of some class handouts from a topology class. I borrowed them from a friend who took the class, and going through all the exercises on my own brought me a sense of clarity that I was never able to achieve from the standard lecture-based topology course I took. My friend felt the same way, and according to surveys done by the department, students overwhelmingly prefer the IBL format to traditional lectures. This format benefits professors, too, who get immediate feedback about their teaching methods and how well students are doing.

[1] https://benrbray.com/static/files/umich_math490_f16_sbray.pd...
ActionScript 3 will always hold a special place in my heart. It's where I learned about OOP and design patterns. That was a fun time!
The problem with your comment is that it's responding to something I didn't say. When there's a mess in a warehouse, it slows the work down and causes mistakes. Somehow people understand that an orderly warehouse means you need less space and lose less time moving things around. This is how ports used to look:

https://drek4537l1klr.cloudfront.net/geewax2/v-10/Figures/ch...
I thought Kona was intentionally not going to ever get close to the commercial K languages due to fear of lawsuit. It is supposed to stay a toy.
"hundreds of terabytes" of actual pure text. I find it extremely unlikely that this is actually the case.
Assuming run rate revenues of around $2.5B, I assume this will be valued around 15x revenues, so $37.5 billion. Just a wild guess.
I'd say it's more "feelings of national inadequacy"
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You too most likely have many single points of failure. Just that it may not have come yet and hopefully never comes.
Thanks to Operation Warp Speed, the first 100m doses are paid for in the US, and at no cost.

https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-sp...
I have worked with Javascript for frontend quite extensively since 2005 and with Typescript since about half a year. In the general case, I don't have strong opinions about strong vs dynamic typing, or getting error during compile- or runtime.

But my gripe with Javascript has always been, that you often don't get any direct errors at all but instead end up with unexpected values in a different place that you then have to tediously backtrack.

A contrived example to illustrate what I'm referring to:

some_obj = {day: 2, ...}
next_day = some_obj.daz + 1 // typo in attribute gives you `undefined`, adding 1 to it results in `NaN`, not a number.
date = Date(2020, 11, next_day) // returns a`Invalid Date` object
console.log('date: '+ date) // outputs "date: Invalid Date"

In Python, every line after the first would raise a runtime exception and is thus in my opinion much easier to debug.

What I particularly like about Typescript is that I can use as much or as little of it as I deem necessary. E.g. I start off a prototype using the `any` type a lot, and only in future iterations, I start tightening the definitions as the requirements for the project become clearer. So far the overhead has been quite minimal.

The one downside so far is, since I learned Typescript by just starting using it, without a deep dive in documentation, books, etc. trying to grok code, well especially type definitions of libraries (which I often prefer over reading documentation) that use the more advanced features has been quite a challenge.
The built in iOS calculator does have exponentiation (in landscape mode), FYI.
It's possible but you're limiting yourself to 2 or 4 UDB drive mirrors. If you just want a zfs storage pool and aren't too picky about anything else, it works, but if your list of expectations goes beyond a place to dump data, you're setting yourself up to be frustrated later.

My home net has several pi3 and pi4 systems that boot off a small SD card and then mounts working storage via iSCSI, which works great for how I use them. There's no reason I couldn't serve that off a pi, but their limited IO and memory makes them a poor choice.
I have a router table and am finding with a small hobby style shop that setup time moving it around (cart with lockable wheels), attaching dust collection, etc. is cumbersome. I bought a battery powered trim router and end up using that. I think I'll give this a try for bigger jobs.

I don't have a planer and this looks like it could also be used to flatten boards that are 10 inch and smaller width by just setting the router depth to knock off a small amount. It would take some labor to pass over an entire board.
I don't know if this is the case in English, but in Spanish the equivalent word "culto" doesn't mean "unimportant", "minor" or "fringe/dangerous". In fact, the Catholic (Abrahamic!) religion is referred to as a "culto", as is the Jewish religion and yes, also the religions of indigenous people. "Freedom of religion" is referred to as "libertad (freedom) de culto".

I read "cult" in the title of this article with this mindset, maybe influenced by my native tongue. Was I wrong?
Here's the actual study.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

The intervention being tested was merely how a RECOMMENDATION to wear a mask (and other advice and a pack of 50 surgical masks) may affect infection rates.

Of the mask wearers, and based on asking them and accepting their answers as truthful, 46% wore the mask as recommended, 47% "predominantly" as recommended, 7% not as recommended. The 7% were excluded from the results.

The infection in the area at the time was 2%. This gives relatively fewer chances for the efficacy of masks to be tested and so it is not surprising that the results are inconclusive. The benefit masks bring in this case is keeping the infection rate low and only actively do their job during the relatively rare times when an infected individual is near a healthy one.

The low infection rate also leads to an inflation of any systematic differences between the two samples. A very small difference applied to the expected 98% healthy subsample can lead to a strong contribution to the the 2% infected subsample. For example, mask wearing at the home was not covered and a few reported covid infections at the home.

Testing in places where infection rates are higher would have a better chance to show an effect. Of course that would be stymied by sample bias (if "random" self-selection of mask-wearers and anti-mask idiots were allowed in the procedures) or it would be faced with unethical practice of forcibly withholding masks from individuals in a non-mask sample.

My personal conclusion is that these results are not conclusive but will be hugely appropriated for whatever sick fantasy the outgoing US administration is orchestrating.
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Hey. I am not anti vaccine. Your comment is uninformed in that you did not read my comment with comprehension and that you don't understand what stupid stuff anti-vaxxers are serving.

My kids are all vaccinated and so am I and I don't suggest to people to not vaccinate.

I am just trying to cool down the too happy thinking that the vaccine is some magical tool that automatically causes problems to go away with no risk.

In particular, we don't yet know how long the effects of vaccine will persist, we don't know of long term side effects (and even very small amount of side effects multiplied by 7B people is a problem) and we don't know WHEN it is going to be feasible to vaccinate everybody. Remember, it is going to be pricey and many people will choose not to vaccinate for financial or other reasons.
Livescience dot com is not academia. I would like to see the atrocious state of science reporting improve, but it's not going to happen there on a web that's dependent on ad impressions.
It also depends on the known safety profile. With AstraZeneca some people already have to take pain medications after taking the vaccine...I wouldn't be comfortable putting using that vaccine without much wider testing. Fortunately I don't need to though, because soon we'll probably have 2 great vaccines to choose from.
I thought that it was accepted that the main benefit was in protecting other people. I wear a mask and a transparent face shield together. I believe that this combination offers me some protection and a lot of protection for people near me, so it seems like an obvious thing to do.

BTW, I find cloth masks not so comfortable, but the plastic face shield is no real additional discomfort at all.
2009-2010 GSK H1N1 - settled by the gov of multiple EU countries
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
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License compatibility. CDDL is a weak, file-based license similar to the MPL. It is generally (though not universally) believed to be incompatible with the GPL. (Which may or may not have been intentional. Again, accounts differ.) In any case, the Linux kernel along with Red Hat for its distributions won't incorporate ZFS code for this reason. The fact that it's Oracle that owns the copyright doubtless doesn't help.

FreeBSD is BSD licensed of course and that's considered compatible with CDDL given that CDDL is file-based.
I somehow completely missed these growing up in the 90s. Maybe they were eclipsed due to the success of Wolfenstein 3D. 12 year old me would have loved this. I still love the aesthetics.
The point could be to make a political point, which is perfectly normal for a work of art. And why shouldn't they?
Oh boy. Tons of upside but I don’t want to risk my retirement.
I think it's slightly different from that. My understanding is that a lot of stuff on there is marked as legitimate brand name goods that aren't what they purport to be at all. The example that stuck out to me are the countless YouTube videos where someone buys what is claimed to be a, e.g. GTX 1080 for $50 that's really some ancient card with the BIOS flashed to _report_ that it's a 1080. Stuff like that seems to be the MO of wish.com.
Nine women can’t make a baby in one month. I think the time dimension matters here.
And the windows equivalent is Windows Storage Space which sucks hard for parity volumes (max write speed 60MB/s whereas the same set of drives in any other software RAID writes close to 1GB/s).

I would have thought this was a long solved problem. Kind of like chat applications.
^ this but also try out Rust. Swift and Rust have a lot of ideas in common but Rust has a better backend story for the foreseeable future.

However I really can't speak more highly of Kotlin, it's the most productive language I have used in large part because of access to the massive JVM ecosystem but with a modern, highly expressive language with amazing tooling (IntelliJ, YourKit, lightRecorder) and excellent performance.
Yes they sell very low-end stuff. That’s their market.
You realize that the premise of this series is that, in a distopian near future, scientists unlock the ability for people to access their genetic memories and inhabit the bodies of their ancestors, who were guided by alien forces and augmented with powerful technological relics.

The AC series really never asks you to take it very seriously. To the extent that actual history is present, it's almost like fan service.
Mainly a force of habit. But I agree that for equalities a split sign would be clearer for most people.

I won't be going around and trying to convince people to use or not use ligatures though. I feel that it is a very personal preference much like the choice of syntax colouring theme.
Lynx gives proper results.

A markdown converter could also do the job depending on what you need.
> the mask group were only told to wear a mask

They were asked if and how they followed instructions and the 7% that said they did not were removed from the analysis. Only half of the remaining said they followed instructions. I also doubt the veracity of the replies. This is a weak point of the procedure.
I think the main value of preserving such material is sociological -- a lot of interesting conclusions could be drawn by having such a historical record. It gives future generations insights of what did the current society do wrong and what did it do well.

I don't mean the entirety of all social networks, of course... they follow roughly the same pattern so no use keeping 50 zettabytes of that; like 10-20 terabytes would be quite enough.

But the general point stands. If we want to evolve as a civilization, we should try and extract lessons from our past.
> > Inspired by historical events and characters, this work of fiction was designed, developed, and produced by a multicultural team of various beliefs, sexual orientations and gender identities.

> This statement is making ... implicit [claims] (our diverse team means this game was produced in a careful, sensitive way)

For everyone who isn't aware of the history of this statement, it was a way for the game to include a scene of beating up the pope without (pardon the pun) getting crucified.
If it's the same as all of them then should we expect the same consequences as the N1H1 vaccine in 2009/2010?

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
Perhaps because the Chinese company "Fosun Pharmaceutical", as the other sponsor[1] of this vaccine, is the one which has the right to distribute it in China?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNT162b2#Funding
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>I think what people are missing is that this is a work of fiction. Any work of fiction is entitled to do whatever it wants really.

I think you may want to qualify that statement a little bit. The author covers this point as well: "Imagine the equivalent of a game set in the American South or the Caribbean pre-1865 in which slavery was simply not present at all"

Would you have any issues with AC:Confederacy game, where slavery is not a thing? Where the North is seen as evil, while South is seen as kind, gentle and chivalrous? That's the scale of what AC:Valhalla did to their portrayal of invading Vikings vs the Anglo-Saxon populations.

>Whenever I played Civilization as a kid and had “Mongolians build the pyramids” I never thought thats a historical fact

Did you read the article? The author points out a few historical inaccuracies (like the lack of mail armor being worn) but also mentions that those are not a big deal because he understands that this isn't a historical simulation. That's not a problem with the game, although it is nice and appreciated when the artist takes care to cover even the small details.
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I know what you mean. I know several people who died or were seriously injured by cars. I don't go near them anymore.
Bad documentation SUCKS. My experience with open source software is that the projects that are most successful are those with great documentation. Documentation greatly lowers the barrier to using a tool and makes people spend less time getting the hang of it.
I like to separate storage from the rest. Had various models of synology for nearly 10 years now and it’s the ideal solution for stopping to think and worry about it (combined with UPS). Running VMs, etc, I’d rather do that on a different box. You need to reboot frequently, make some experimental changes, modify the hardware, etc. Better to do that away from your data.
Yeah, when I think of wish.com, I usually think of "fuel filters" or auto switches. Not exactly a reputation for quality.
I started using Nouveau IBM a few months ago[0]. Unlike the int10h fonts that protoman3000 mentions, this is reconstructed using vectors; it doesn't emulate individual pixels in the font.

To pile on the nostalgia, I also changed my default terminal text color to monochrome amber (#FFB000) [1], even though I've never used monochrome terminals.

[0] https://www.dafont.com/nouveau-ibm.font

[1] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12835/exa...
Not sure if you're looking in the USA, but

* In Colorado, Boulder is minutes from fantastic climbing. It's about 45 minutes from alright skiing (Eldora) and 2 hours from great skiing in Summit county. Golden is closer to Summit county, and still close to climbing, but the climbing isn't as good/diverse.
* In Utah, you can do some river stuff (not traditional surfing) in Moab and the climbing is darn good. You can also live in SLC and you are 30-60 minutes from climbing and 15 minutes from Alta (depending where in the city you live) which I hear is world class.

Boulder, Denver, and SLC all have great SWE job markets.

I don't know any place in the USA that has all three. Maybe Hawaii (not sure about the climbing, but I've heard of folks skiing in the morning and surfing in the afternoon)? Maybe southern California?
These are all short-term studies. Given that this is a completely new type of vaccine, a certain amount of scepticism about its long-term effects is warranted in my opinion. Personally I fail to see what benefits non-vulnerable people have from immediately being vaccinated.
I agree with the author on adding ligatures where they are not needed, but one of the comments used in their justification is not quite right:

> Unicode [...] identifies each character uniquely. This way, software programs don’t have to worry that things like the fi ligature might be stashed in some special place in the font. Instead, Unicode designates a unique name and number for each character, known as a code point. If you have an fi ligature in your font, you identify it with its designated Unicode code point, which is 0xFB01.

This is true for the Roman script, but for many other scripts, Unicode does not provide dedicated code points for common ligatures. They would instead have to be denoted by two characters with a zero-width joiner in the middle (much like emojis).
I think this is not sad, they are free to demand whatever they want, like you are free to accept that.

In fact, it is not a very good idea to accept that. You will be labeled instantly as "provider", not as a "lover".

Most women that have "providers" also have "lovers" and usually it is not the same person.

That is a lesson that I learned long time ago, when I met a very successful with women man, that actually treated them very badly. He had the mentality that it were women the ones that should prove their value to him.

Over the years I met other people with the same mindset, and even started applying it somewhat myself. I am physically attractive and educated, but I also was for some time too much polite with women, putting them on a pedestal for being successful with them.

The most attractive thing for women is character strength. Also things like being a world traveler helps a lot. You can be penniless, if you have those two things, attracting all the women you want is no problem.
Out of interest, roughly what proportion of students do come to the office hours?
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Finally, an upgrade path for lava lamp entropy generation.

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Not at all. My point isn't that you must include diverse characters, but that you cannot say "I really wanted to included more diverse characters in my werewolf samurai game, but couldn't because of historical accuracy". You should be honest and say something like "I didn't add South American warriors to my samurai werewolf game because it honestly never crossed my mind to do so, and even if it had I wouldn't do it because it goes against the feel and aesthetic I was going for."
This is really counter productive and snarky. How does this advance science?

There have been multiple studies on this, and it has been a mixed bag. This one is positive:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32418114/

There are others that are positive, and still others that are negative.
In the category of dev fonts, I'll throw out JuliaMono: https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-07-26-JuliaMono/ (I am not the author)

Besides various stylistic choices (most-but-not-all positive, in my opinion), JuliaMono differs from other dev fonts by having _way_ more unicode coverage. (And from other high unicode coverage fonts by being monospaced.)
Taking OTC pain relief medicines after a vaccine is not that unusual, either for pain or fever. Ask any parent who has gone through a vaccine series with their kid.

And I can remember getting my tetanus booster in secondary school and when I rolled over in my sleep waking up because my shoulder was so swollen and painful.

I'm not dismissing the fact that the vaccines might cause serious side effects. In fact, it's expected that some very small percentage will. But for the vast majority of patients, the Pfizer vaccine has a similar safety profile to other approved vaccines.
I fully expect that once it is widely available (major caveat), many workplaces and schools will require it absent medical exceptions. Certainly, most schools require vaccinations today and I don't expect there will be a lot of sympathy for those that want to hold off.
No direct consumer-facing cost.

> HHS announced up to $1.95 billion in funds to Pfizer for the large-scale manufacturing and nationwide distribution of 100 million doses of their vaccine candidate.

It's a sensible use of taxpayer funds, for sure, but Pfizer isn't doing it as a charitable work.
Is Roblox a kind of Minecraft + modding with better meshes and physics?

Honestly I'd find a "realistic looking by default" Roblox with good animations and lighting much more appealing.

Unreal engine is already almost there, gamify the UI, invest a few millions in creating good quality assets and you have it.
Of course a favorite font is very subjective but to me the perfect monospaced font already exists: Monaco. It’s great for the terminal and IDEs and beautiful enough to use outside of coding.
I don’t know what I expected. I just feel that the timeline is unprecedented.