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> the scholastic benefits of it can be gotten through other means

Where else will you get the direct access to expertise in all those fields, guiding you in what works/experiments/skills/etc to read/learn/acquire, answering questions personally, the massive labs and libraries, the students to study with.

As someone who has tried to study on my own at a serious level, I would say the opposite: Studying on my own is nothing like it. I am very jealous of those in college. I don't know which books and papers to read, how to contextualize them, what they have and lack; I have nobody to ask (Reddit and Stack Exchange being very poor substitutes); I lack access to resources that are far too expensive, JSTOR being a simple example, making much study very time-consuming or impossible. I regularly run into things, years later, that would have been introduced in the first day of class by an expert - I have an unknown but large quantity of blind spots.
WSL is a threat to open software. At best a gateway. Anyone who believes Microsoft has changed is at best naive and at worst a fool. We have decades of evidence to show that Microsoft doesn’t change. The sooner you move to a new platform the better. And don’t bring Microsoft with you.
I don't know if it's on par with SM, but Git Fork has a system for custom commands which result in custom context menu entries in most cases.

It uses categories like per-commit or per-branch commands.
1. If it’s his job at being able to predict, he seems to be doing a bad job by being wrong so many times.

2. There’s so many better ways to spark an interesting conversation than throw bs predictions out on Twitter. If his opinion was informed with facts, he could write a blog or (heavens forbid) a Twitter thread detailing what lead him to the conclusion.
Well its between financial comfort (making 400-500k), and a life of wage slavery. If I make enough, I can retire and do what I want in life. If I dont make enough, I will live the only time I have alive a slave
When you do a search on craigslist you pick the section of the site you want to search (i.e. "Furniture", "Computers", "Cars/Trucks", "Free", etc...). Based on my experience, the "Free" section is almost always not worth the effort. Either the items are low quality or they are impossible to get due to craigslist "flippers".

So I could see a situation where most buyers with actual intent to purchase are only searching in the "Furniture" section. And the chairs in question might not have been nice enough to attract interest from the "flippers" in the free section.
I watched the video from start till end without rewinding - what is unusual - and I was disappointed only by lack of following parts. I wish, I could shot flies with drops of washing liquid in similar way.
They could invite every patron to a Workspace org. It'd just be a terrible (and expensive) way to do it.
The greatest cross-platform toolkit is Qt that abstracts away all platforms including mobile and embedded systems. Qt also works on top framebuffer on embedded Linux and on other RTOS operating systems. The disadvantage of Qt is that is a C++ library with a lack of C ABI or C api (extern "C") that would allow Qt to be called from other programming languages than C++. That is the reason why Gtk has far more bindings than Qt, although they are unstable due to Gnone breaking changes and lack of backward compatibility.

Most applications just pick Windows win32 API or MacOSX and forgets about everything else and are never released for Linux or other Unices, unless the application uses electron, Qt with C++, Qt with Python or Java SWING like JetBrains IDEA IDE family. The main problem of Linux desktop is the lack of a high level graphics library toolkit with a stable API, ABI and a C interface that does not introduce breaking changes on every release. Unlike Gtk, Qt is more stable, but it lacks a C API and C++ has a fragile ABI not friendly to foreign-function interface or cross-language linking.
> If we want to train people for specific jobs - create institutions that do that. If the upper class want someplace to send their kids to read poetry and binge drink for 4 years before they get a jr. associate position at their Dad's investment bank, create a separate institution for that.

Well, part of the value of an institution like Harvard is that it connects those two groups of people. Wickliffe IV gets to meet Noah or Kumar or Xiao who got 1600s on their SAT and recommends them to his dad for positions at his investment bank.
You failed to understand what I wrote - notwithstanding the reference I provided, and which you haven't.
this is a cathartic, beautifully worded comment. there is an incredible tolerance for charlatanery here so long as the charlatan is rich. it drives me insane
This looks to me like the semantics are good but the implementation details are broken. 1 * time.Second * time.Second semantically reads to me as 1 second. If time.Second is some numeric value, that’s obviously wrong everwhere unless the type system reflects and enforces the unit conversion.
> it severely hampers a superscalar or out of order processor, as it can't work out very easily which instructions can be run in parallel or out of order

This is an old myth, endlessly parroted. On current x86, the status register is renamed just like other registers, as could easily have been done in a better RISC-V design. Lack of status flags will be RISC-V's equivalent of delay slots, that once felt like an optimization but has already aged badly.

The unreliable presence of POPCNT and ROT instructions was a worse failing, apparently mitigated lately.
> Turns out minorities are only minorities if they underperform.

I guess it depends on how you classify a minority - e.g. population, education, gender, wealth, income, etc.

Asian-Americans are certainly one of the smallest demographic groups in the US, and even smaller if you split them further by the ethnicity they most identify with (Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Korean-Americans, etc.), but as far as UC's student population goes, they do represent the majority of students by a long shot at 40%. The next largest group is the Latino students at 30% of the population and then "white" students at 20%.
Is no one going to mention the grandfather in the corner, BBedit?
Overall educational outcomes in the US have been on an upward trend for all groups, with the percentage of test takers achieving a perfect score on the SAT or the ACT steadily increasing year over year. People who went to school decades ago were dumber than people who went to school recently, and it isn't even close.
Frink's units definition file is a great read:
https://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt

I use Frink very regularly as a calculator. I've got a keybinding in emacs to bring it up in comint-mode, which works very well.

It's also a general-purpose programming language, at least in theory. I actually tried using it for that purpose once, with I think a few thousand lines of Frink code in total. It was not a pleasant experience. It's fine if you want to write a short script that's dimensionally aware, but for modelling of a complex physical system there are much better tools, such as Modelica.
Sorry for the tangent, but I followed the thread, and something that confused me was this:

> Power outages, well there's not much you can do about that, again I don't know where you live, but those are pretty rare where I am. Maybe once a year for a few hours.

Once a year, a few hours. That’s not pretty rare, that’s close to frequent. I’ve had two outages in 17 years, only one of those was longer than a few minutes.
Getting paid today (or a payment plan starting today) is probably worth a discount over getting paid after a lengthy court process; even if you'll get compensated for legal fees and time value of money.

How much of a discount that's worth depends on the likelyhood of collecting after the legal process as well as how much of a reputational hit going through the process would be.

I wouldn't negotiate with most things after the service was performed (unless it wasn't to my satisfaction), but most services will have a firm quote before the service (sometimes that's legally required). A mechanic can keep your car until you've paid, but a hospital can't refuse to discharge you until you've paid, so they don't have the leverage to get immediate payment.
Waldsterben, but it's traditionally connected specifically to acid rain.
Is this really a thing in 2022? There's already a whole bunch of OTAs furiously competing on price, effectively doing the negotiation for me, and with most all chains now doing "best rate guarantee" as well, it's unlikely they will beat the price on the official website.

The one situation where I have had a lot of luck "negotiating" with 5-star hotel chains is when I'm already staying there and need to extend. In this case walking up to the front desk is more easier and far more likely to get you a good rate then enduring the hell that is trying to change your reservation online (Marriott, I'm looking at you).
It's all about contrast to everything else. If my house roof is leaking and instead of fixing that I put a limited amount of resources I have into repainting my office and installing a fancy new European faucet, and then go and tell everyone about it - that says a lot about my priorities.

Yes, I am fully aware of the fact that different teams do different things at a big company, but funnily enough when asked about high-priority issues the answer is almost universally "We don't have enough time and/or developers to tackle this right now." But there is magically time for MSN toolbars and Notepad tweaks.
Yes, thank you for the precisions, this just make my point stronger: int64/float are very ill-suited to represent such values.

And it's especially true for time units.

For example, "how many seconds is one month?" does not make sense, but "how many seconds is january/february/march?" does make sense. The unit "month" does not really exist, each calendar month is its own unit.

And "february" is not even a "stable" unit because sometimes it's 28 days, sometimes it's 29 days. Even a minute can some rare times be 61 seconds.

This is why in physics, we use seconds multiplied by powers of 10 and nothing else.

To my knowledge, there is not a single programming language that differentiate a "scalar" and a "quantity" (scalar, unit, error).
I don't know about the second paragraph. I went to the University of Edinburgh, and being Scottish, the government paid around $2.5k per year for me to attend. Around half of students in my course (CS) there were from outside of Europe, and were paying $50k per year to attend. Was the debt really avoided in my case, or was it just transferred to others?
Hey, Rauno! I’ve been following your projects for a while and noticed that your Twitter profile links all 404. That’s gotta be hurting your conversions on your sales pages!

Did you change Twitter handle or is the account gone?
Wearing a seatbelt is inconvenient and restricts movement, yet anyone I know wears one. Why aren’t masks seen the same way? No one questions seatbelts anymore and they provably and dramatically improve your odds in a crash.
In negotiation theory, this is known as your BATNA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
Excellent introduction to vim.
The preface is a bit too long, IMO. But great job.
I honestly believe that parents have somewhat of a duty to work whatever job will provide their children the best outcome in life. I worked at some evil companies (ultimately left, eventually) that paid amazingly, and the workers (parents) who worked their asses off there? Can't blame them one bit.
Eventually - Google is pushing this with Flutter and Microsoft is pushing this with Blazor.
He and others like him really need to just get off Twitter. Get someone to build a VC only Twitter clone, put their garbage opinions there and satisfy the need to post.
I use Remote Play regularly (bed-bound lots due to medical issues) and never had a problem, but have found it’s finicky on your setup. Eg it never really worked on my ISP-provided modem/router but once I got a UDM (for unrelated reasons) it worked flawlessly and has ever since.

The fact I can lie in bed with laptop plugged into bedroom TV and use a PS4 controller to play games running on my gaming PC in another room is truly awesome.
Also, a lot of times we may not even know what to look for.

The woman who could smell Parkinson's inspired a new path of diagnosis research: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/8202745...
There should be a test looking for duplicate phrases. (I'm laughing with you not at you :))
LoRa gets part of its efficiency from fairly brutal sleeping, to the point where the radio would only get turned on to transmit when sensor data meaningfully changed or some (weeks) timeout comes up to say "yes, I'm still alive".

Also, it's range being longer than normal mobile phone cellular radio allows getting away with sparingly-positioned gateways.

Also it's not truly star, but rather gateways vs. nodes (at least with the popular LoRaWAN stuff). All gateways that pick up a node's transmission will report it to central servers.
For git repositories in particular, I find Fork's [0] built-in diff tool to be pretty useful.

[0] https://git-fork.com
I did this a few years ago with the same mindset, thinking I’d still regularly boot into Windows, but I haven’t done so in probably over a year. I was surprised at how little I missed the games that don’t run (well or at all) on Linux—probably because there are so many good options these days.

At this point I’m thinking of deleting my Windows partition altogether.
I think a modification to the rules would fix this: you don't have to make all your bids sum to $100. You bid what a room is worth to you, in your case capped at $15. If, after rooms are assigned, the grand total is less than total rent, the lot of you are too broke to afford the place, and you'll have to look for a cheaper alternative.
Game of Thrones pro tip: the Iron Price is even cheaper.

https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_price
Look how many people have taken this same approach - purposely miscontrue the discussion into a personal attack and respond. Perhaps people who did go to college can also take discussion personally and get mad about others saying they wasted their time and money. Then we'll have an even better discussion!

Yes, I'm saying that you personally - and your dog too - are an ignorant, uneducated, menial worker, who can't count higher than 10 without your toes, while I can count to 1024.

With that out of the way, can we actually talk about something valuable? I see lots of people trying to shut down a reasoned discussion that challenges the orthodoxy (which currently on HN is, college is a waste of time).
Reminds you of another npm author going rouge: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-...
Possibly a mix of cosmetic and functional. Maybe they identified that dust buildup can cause static issues. Maybe the plastic addresses some solder filament problems. It might also increase the device’s tolerance to vibration, or performs sound dampening.
US was already majority urban by 1930, though not by much. But yes, you are correct that life was harder back then, which made people tougher.
The trademark issue probably was resolved with "shut down and don't release source, and we won't sue you for your past violations"
I think it's negative for every major codec thus far, except maybe VP9 (did any videoconferencing apps use VP9?)

H.263, H.264, VP8, HEVC, and AV1 certainly were all used by various videoconferencing apps before hardware blocks reached consumer devices.
No it’s ludicrous.

Much of the point of the manhattan project was devising mechanisms to bring fissile materials together fast enough and precisely enough that they could reach criticality for long enough to produce an effective weapon. To propose that you could get comparable effects via nuclear materials burning through their containment vessel melted in a pool is absurd and just extraordinarily unlikely.

That quote is about “testimony” of a Soviet physicist… who knows what political or other motivations were at work to justify that statement. I can’t imagine any modern physicist saying that was reasonable and it seems the writer couldn’t make that happen… it just seems like a fishing expedition for the most impressive quote that found someone saying something ridiculous and used that as a source of truth ignoring everything else which wasn’t as “fun”.
OK, no evidence. Got it.
> Most modern historians deny that the Roman empire suffered a brutal "collapse".

Who is claiming this?
What we are seeing, society-scale, is the human ability to adapt to changing conditions.
When we have a 'normal' status in society and stable processes which have been fairly unchanged for decades, humans seem smart, since repetition is what we learn best. But when society is struck by something that forces everyone to adapt, the true human ability shines through, and it's nowhere near the one refined through times.
Note that Apple doesn’t have PMs.
Sure should they - but once not once per person thinking about the same thing. I think a huge problem is availability bias - these projects are/were reported on often because of the delays. The projects that work just fine get a whole lot less of attention.
> Why is this all the sudden a thing?

It (Long COVID) is not suddenly "a thing." It's been talked about for quite some time. I remember first hearing about it in 2020. If you think it's just now a thing, it's because you haven't been paying attention to this.
STEM jobs don’t put people in that income range, a small subset of STEM jobs do. The majority of STEM careers don’t make 6 figures outside of management.
Math, medicine and law don't become any easier no matter how much you avoid testing. At some point they got to know the subjects.
I'm for free college at public universities, but I think that if the government wasn't backing student loans at all, there would be an incentive for more affordable private colleges.

I mean, look at coding bootcamps and all of these online learning platforms, the market found a niche. I think the same would happen with colleges without the gravy train of student loans.

Have a 3 tiered system of free public, cheap private, and expensive private would serve everyone I think.
A while back I made a units and dimensions library where I worked. Everything was built into the type system, with a required SI conversion for each unit of a certain dimension.

This did the job really well, but it was incomplete. Being able to create new types dynamically, when multiplying/dividing was something that was always missing. I guess now you could probably do this with macro programming, but back then I don’t think my language had it.
Maybe employers should stop to try to interfere with the medical procedures that employees are taking, like it used to be in 2019?
That is what I am doing - calling myself a 'Senior Software Engineer' in my current job. As someone who has been a "Senior software engineer" in the past couple of jobs, it would definitely look odd to say that I am a "Software Engineer - 2" in my current job as that would look like a stepdown in level.
I prefer the use of Unix timestamps. Easier to filter with standard Unix tools, and if I really need formatted date+time in my output, I can always use awk.
I use Python, but miss being able to just a .php file in a dir and have it work.

Now to make some small site, I instead end up setting up some WSGI server and doing nginx config to get it visible, upstart config to make it start at boot, and then invariably forget how it’s set up after a few months pass.
Built-in unit types are underrated. F# has them. Other languages should seriously consider adding them, despite the fact that feature bloat is a serious language problem and they're relatively niche: they are that useful, and I honestly don't think they would interfere much with other features.

Something like:

unit type Meters = m
unit type Seconds = s

function sleep(time: Int[s]): void

val speed = 5.4 m/s // Type = Float[m/s]
val distance = parseFloat(prompt('enter time')) * 1 m // Convert unitless to meters just by multiplying
val time = distance / speed // Type = Float[s]
print("${time}") // Prints "# s"
print("${time / 1 s} seconds") // Prints "# seconds"

val complexUnit = 7 * 1 lbf/in2 // 7 lbf/in2
// != 7 psi (too hard to infer) but you can write a converter function
function toPsi<N : Numeral>(value: N[lbf/in2]): N[psi] {
return value * 1 psi*in2/lbf
}

It requires extending number parsing, type parsing (if the brackets aren't already part e.g. in TypeScript), and extending types to support units of measurement at least if they are statically known to be subtypes of `Numeral`.

Naming variables with their units doesn't solve the issue of mis-casting and using units incorrectly, and newtypes are too inconvenient (and sometimes impossible without affecting performance) so nobody uses them. Even as a very software-focused programmer I encounter units like seconds, bytes, pixels, etc. all the time, they are almost never newtypes, and I get bugs from forgetting to convert or converting incorrectly.
How often are you doing the conversion manually? It seems like the sort of thing that should happen in the presentation layer so people never see the actual Kelvin amount. If you have a system where you always use SI then it's strange the have a single exception for temperature.
These days not having Copilot is a pretty big productivity hit to me. The other day Copilot somehow stopped offering completions for maybe an hour, and I was pretty shocked to realize how much I've grown to rely on just hitting tab to complete the whole line. (I was writing Go at the time which is on the boilerplatey side among the mainstream languages, so Copilot is particularly effective there. Auto-completion from gopls — the language server — is no match.) I'm officially spoiled.

I'm afraid small independent code editors are increasingly fighting uphill battles as the big ones roll out support for more and more productivity boosts like LSP and Copilot integration.
For the kinds of jobs that were available in 1930s, the employers today will in fact hire just about anyone, as the labor shortage is enormous. The sort of jobs you are thinking about, employers do typically require a college degree, but that’s just a self-licking ice cream cone: if only few people had college degrees, employers couldn’t really require them from all candidates.
I think the example problem has many issues with it which confuse the issue. There is a pervading assumption that more slices is better. What if Alice only wants 5 slices? Then her fall back is quite close to what she needs but also she doesn't mind how the pie is divided so long as she gets one slice.

It's not clear what everyone's utility function is. If a sales person is nearing a quarterly target, their utility function might have a giant kink in it, or if they're at the start of a period it might be very linear. The marginal pie, more often than not, has multiple dimensions which different agents care different amounts for.

Thankfully I've never been in a negotiation without a decent BATNA and so just chat about it until either we decide it's not going to work out, or we are both happy. People who negotiate too hard by playing stupid games and trying to max out themselves without any quarter given are tiring and push me to the first option. Why would I want to work with you if you're a pain to deal with before we even start?
> Our education was built around testing because if our school got bad testing, then the school would lose funding.

> Getting rid of SATs from my perspective sounds like a fantastic idea.

There are two types of standardized tests. The first kind you reference measures the school. They are not used for college admissions. They can affect school funding.

The second type of test measures the student. Sometimes a school will report those numbers. But they do not affect the funding a school gets.

Getting rid of the SAT would have zero effect on contingent funding for schools.