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> The head start you get from an elite school in the US, in things that have nothing to do with education per se, can not be overstated.

Yes it can be, and you just did.

The people who routinely get the best jobs and keep them into their 30s and beyond are well connected people. It doesn’t matter whether they go to Ivies or other schools.

If connectedness could be controlled for, I think you would find that the most connected people at Ivies, Stanford, UMich, UTexas, NYU, etc. (let’s call it top 10%) are much more similar in terms of steep career trajectory than less connected top graduates (e.g., top 10% in gpa) even from the most prestigious schools. This is doubly true if you control for SES in addition to connectedness.

For folks who are not natively from these well-connected classes of people, it is possible to make a big jump in “opportunities”, but in practice that means socially integrating oneself into the elite class as an outsider (tough to do and rare) or finding work in a handful of places that facilitate social climbing (e.g., Goldman, also relatively rare).

Your median elite school grad will find it slightly easier to end up on the higher end of the SES class that they were already in, although even that is not a guarantee.

This is not nearly as life-changing as you make it out it be.

> All the people I know who went to Stanford got very nice, “cushy” jobs straight out of college. Most of the people I know who went to state schools had to bust their asses for years at much less pleasant work before they worked their way up to the nicer jobs.

I’m pretty sure that there are a large number of SJSU grads (a CSU school, of all things!) who would like to say hello. Plenty of them got and get “cushy” jobs straight out of school, with the folks who were already connected and/or worked on their connections taking the lead.
Rsc cybertruck@date
I have tried to get cfengine working multiple times, but it's just too difficult compared to every other configuration management solution I can think off.
What makes you believe that the fewest parties mathematically possible is meaningfully small?

For example, if the lower bound is hundreds then it's mostly superfluous since that information will eventually leak one way or another.
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Probably you pasted the link without inspect it. I,however, read it and the information of how much such service costs isn't anywhere to find..or could point us out where did you find this information?
I was interested in the 14+ for a family member, but the pricing is awful. I'd rather go up to the 14 Pro or look into the 13 series (same phone for less).
If I remember correctly, his only successful business, before he started the business and investment coaching game was something to do with Velcro wallets.
Just mute it. There's a button and everything.
> For rest of the world, covid seems to be just history.

Is that really true? Or do you mean endemic?

I guess fewer people I know are dying...
Hilarious. A fair few techies like me are on SEs because we either get them from work, or use big screens all day so don’t value a large phone because it’s strictly a functional device. Works perfectLy fine. Anyway, why anyone would ever care about the RAM on an iPhone is beyond me.
WhichKey: Helix's Command Display but in Neovim
"Starship Troopers" is clearly a propaganda film created in a future militaristic society, something like "Why we fight" of their time. Would you like to know more?
There is a difference between free speech and lying to the masses with carefully constructed fake evidence or based on reputation.

Stuff like Russia Today or troll/disinformation armies and bots at work are not amusing. It has nothing to do with free speech, it's just dangerous for democracy, freedom and our children.
I agree they’re not mutually exclusive. But each additional real dollar cost is attributable to one cause or the other. Silver gate seems to only entertain one explanation for all inflation in education, despite very well known alternative hypotheses.

That was my point: not addressing alternative theories, while failing to furnish seemingly readily available supporting evidence, seems on its face dishonest.
Also bonzamate.com.au
How does that work when going downhill?

30km/h at the crest can easily turn into 60+ km/h at the bottom if it's steep.
For others searching for it the short name of this anime is Bofuri. It is one of my favorites and the second season is coming out Jan 2023. Really funny plot showing unintended consequences of the protag accidentally breaking the game design to become op and some fun side scenes of frustrated developers.
A while ago, while repurposing an old laptop into a distraction-free “typewriter” I researched fonts with a typewriter-like aesthetic. Here’s what I found:

Sun Gallant Demi, Solarize, Libertine/Libertinus Mono, Triplicate, Prestige Elite, CMU Typewriter, Latin Modern Mono, MingLiU, sony-misc, Verily Serif Mono, Century Schoolbook Mono BT, UM Typewriter, American Typewriter, Courier, Pitch, TiredOfCourier, Xanh Mono, DSE Typewriter, LTC Remington Typewriter, Bitstream Pica 10 Pitch, Italian Typewriter, Typist Slab, FF Elementa, EF Techno Script, Drafting* Mono, Bodoni Egyptian Mono.

(I don’t remember which one I ended up using, though.)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#By_Gab

>> Part of a series on Antisemitism

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-torba-deactivates-gab-...

yeah, kinda checks out.
Yes, as in working the type of job that the flintstones did where they stop working at a set time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uq7noaMwLfg
This is essentially "land value capture" policy, right?

https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/2022-09-la...
> you'd understand that the line of thinking is "The Metaverse is going to be so awesome!"

> It's really not

That is an understandable message. My comment is only about how the analogy to A Modest Proposal is not apt. Not with my understanding of the article or any of explanations I am seeing so far in these comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-i9YHzmE
Luckey's suicide device is indeed disturbing, but this scenario is just outlandish sci-fi. Why jump through all the technical hoops when you can pay a goon to pull a trigger? Historically, this has already happened a million times.
Some world leaders have fragile egos and can't bear to admit the American vaccines worked out fine.
no. they shamelessly pan fry pasta. (and rinse them briefly with fresh water to get rid of the starch and stop the cooking for bite. also works just perfect with a low amount of water)
For context, the whole anime touches on this part, and how to see the inventor of the machine.

To spoil a bit, it’s a mixed bag and he isn’t the horrible villain you’d expect. Arguably the main characters have a lot of sympathy for what he created and half forgive his atrocities.

To dig a bit more, I think this ambiguity resonated with many people who would give up their current life if they could live a new (hopefully better) one in a different world (they keyword being “isekai”). Most of the isekai genre is super fluffy fantasy, and SAO sits at the border of somewhat plausible if science could advance at a crazy pace.

For many, even living in a world with well defined rules and somewhat of a fair (albeit deadly) meritocracy would be a lot more bearable than their current situation. I don’t expect Palmer to be in that boat, but he also seems to be more on the tech bro side, so who knows ?

You are right to be uncomfortable, I am too, and it’s I think a pretty important aspect of how some people view the world in this day and age.
well, good thing I added the AFAIK. It's not as simple as I thought.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-lis...

https://www.collegexpress.com/interests/international-studen...

Tax-funded universities are less generous, though.
Anecdotally I just looked up the number of municipal employees for 2 random towns with populations of about 28,000 people. 1500 employees. I believe that's including teachers, police, etc. not just administrators.
And you even get pasta water way more concentrated in starch, which is useful if you're using it to make a sauce
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Would be neat to have ligatures, for example for lowercase i followed by space, to restore column alignment.
Lower carbon emissions with this one weird trick!
Because everybody runs Linux for last like 20 years. Data centers, network appliances, storage appliances, smaller devices of all kinds. It's in the open, the mindshare is colossal, expertise working with kernel and writing drivers is relatively easy to come by.

Everybody runs Linux because it's free, there is no danger of closed private forks gaining any traction, there is no danger of it playing MongoDB. So everyone can safely pick it and invest into it. The pace of progress is very high because of that, and anything broken would be fixed very-very soon.

Because of that ability to rely on Linux being a common thing that nobody can privatize, huge companies like Red Hat and Canonical could form, and entities like IBM, Oracle, Intel, Google, etc could keep investing in the development.

All the above is sort of problematic with FreeBSD. It's too cathedral on one side, and has too few strings attached to hold to it on the other side. So it remains the choice of connoisseurs who need its particular technical brilliance (e.g. the network stack) or its very permissive license (see PlayStation).
An AI ethics team isn't going to catch promotion of violence or genocide in Myanmar, that is a problem that requires local cultural and language expertise and staff performing 24/7 real-time moderation. An AI ethics team is just a PR prop for companies to trot out when something bad happens to show that they care, not an effective solution.
To give people an idea of the subjective difference...

Decades ago, I used to be a bicycle commuter in Somerville, MA (USA). There weren't any usable bike paths, and so cyclists had to use the street and follow traffic rules like any other vehicle—lanes, signaling, etc. Local police enthusiastically enforced the law, and normally expected adult bikes to act as vehicles. Drivers were typical for the Boston area: Aggressive, minimal use of signals, but good awareness.

There was a major 3-lane intersection with roads going (left)/(left+straight)/(straight+right). A safe left turn required moving into and fully occupying the middle lane in traffic, typically sprinting at around 30 km/h. Which is about the top legal speed I've seen for pedal assist. This is not an especially comfortable speed in complex traffic, and I didn't enjoy it. I don't think you'd want lots of unskilled people doing this on ebikes, either. With 30 km/h intersections, you want people to be predictable and to strictly follow all traffic laws. And to be honest, casual cyclists do not reliably follow traffic laws.

On steep, empty roads, I've twice hit about 65 km/h on descents on road bikes. I personally found this unnerving without full motorcycle gear, especially when I encountered poor road conditions on a corner. Never again.

So yeah, an electric moped is a whole different game than a class 1 peddle-assist ebike. 30 km/h accidents can be awful, but 50 km/h accidents can easily turn deadly for the unprotected human body.
Actually since they're using percentage, it doesn't matter
You can't even name yourself "Elon Musk (Parody)" - you'll get suspended. https://twitter.com/xor/status/1589402790732128256
I learned about this sneaking a science stats subject into my arts degree. Fascinating.
50cc is typically about 30mph max. 30-60mph is more the 90-125cc category.
There is no "digital data" in physical reality.

There is "analog data that is within a threshold of the bit that we decided".

Hard drive or CD doesn't read "1" or "0", it reads say (after normalization) 0.823V. Or 0.654V. Or 0.983V. The way circuit is designed decides that above some value its "1", below that is "0", but physical deterioration and material variance will change that value and it will differ bit by bit too.

It's all good when signal is strong and say all the 1's are > 0.8, all the 0's are < 0.2 but when it starts to blur (again, bad media, degradation etc.) you get bits that can be 1 one read, 0 another. And having "tri state" input that can say "ok, it's between 0.4-0.6, we can't tell whetehr that's 0 or 1" is generally rare.
just start the timer at 80°C and get the pasta below 80°C once Al dented, either by adding ingredients or by briefly rinsing with fresh water, e.g. to on fry the pasta afterwards.
I thought the world needs an event (another one maybe?) aggregator:) If you agree please show some support:)
> saying "signed overflow is completely undefined" simply means that you are not allowed to do that

No, saying "signed overflow is a compile-time error" means you're not allowed to do that. Saying "signed overflow is completely undefined" means you are allowed to do that, but it will blow up in your face (or, more likely, your users' faces) with no warning, potentially long after the original erroneous code change that introduced it.

> As it would work just fine for some cases (or when certain optimizations are applied or not, or when you use a certain compiler version or Linux distro) but then it would completely break in a slightly different configuration or if you slightly changed the code.

That sentence is literally indistinguishable from a verbatim quote about the problems with undefined behaviour. Narrowing the scope of possible consequences of signed overflow from "anything whatsoever" to "the kind of problems that are kind of reasonable to have as a result of optimization" is a strict improvement.

> And it would prevent tools like UBSan from working

> bug-detection tools couldn't flag signed overflows as invalid

The standard says `if(x = 5)` is well-defined, but that doesn't stop every competently-designed (non-minimal, correctly configured[0]) compiler from spitting out something to the effect of "error: assignment used as truth value".

0: Arguably a fully competently designed compiler would require you to actually ask for -Wno-error rather than having it be the default, but backward compatibility prevents changing that after the fact, and it would require configuring -Wall-v1.2.3 (so build scripts didn't break) anyway.
Yeah, what Docker (and the ecosystem around it) got right is the user experience, it's just second to none. It just doesn't matter that Illumos zones or BSD jails might be technically better when the user experience of Docker is so much better.

On the smaller end of the scale, docker-compose is fantastic for managing apps if you only have a few systems.
The issue is there has been no one at Google with that kind of pull AND that kind of vision for a long time - if ever.
when the physics of making sound in the real world gets monstrous this is where a computer synthesizer can shine, you can go as low as you want (even below 20hz) with ease. playing the notes is no problem with a MIDI keyboard.
Duplicate from here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33460650
In your dreams. In practice our lives are routinely traded for money. Simple example - government would pay for so many heart surgeries per year. Did not fit in current quota - wait. If you die meanwhile - nobody gives a shit. Corporate example - Google "ford pinto trading lives for money".
> My experience teaching comes from tutoring accelerated high school students in a 1 on 1 environment at home or at the library, and I have been doing that for some 8+ years.

Oh, sure, I never have problems with students using devices one on one, either. With a motivated student, social pressure from authority is completely on the teacher's side in such a situation.

If there's 18 students in the room, though... the chance of getting caught is lower. The student may have seen someone else just check a message in front of them before, normalizing the behavior. And the student may feel that they don't personally need to hear the second, alternate explanation the instructor is offering, and can check just for a second. (The big problem is the "just for a second" almost never is).

Re: calculators: lots of students are now using TI nSpire CAS or HP Prime (the latter is way better).

We have a fair bit of CS sequence beyond APCSA/APCSP, too. I'm not really teaching CS, though; I tend to take on bizarre, wildly-out-of-level things for the electives I teach-- teaching middle school students basics of controls or computer architecture or analysis of analog circuits, and high school students stuff that's usually graduate level material. All paced slower, and without telling them what they're doing is supposed to be hard. ;)

> Desmos is such a great tool, I haven't played with this specific feature too much but I am so impressed by the animation feature.

I love Desmos. I like the animate feature, but the regressions tool was the one I learned the most from. There's something magical about being able to see how much an outlier point is affecting the line of best fit by changing it on the fly and seeing the line/curve instantly update (which offers a degree of intuition beyond what you get from squinting at residuals).
Writing programs by manipulating text is the actual limitation of the technology here, alignment is just a minor detail by comparison.
I'm really curious what you think is so hard about Twitter.

As far as I can tell it is basically a CRUD app with some real time analytics to surface some trends.

You said some stuff about Events bubbling, like if I Retweet something you seem to think there's a lot of complexity there. But as far as I can figure all that does is create a new row in a database somewhere and when someone who follows me fetches their feed, my new retweet gets included in there.

Aside from the scale, what's hard about it? Am I completely missing something?
Sorry, none of our frontend is built for or meant to be used on mobile yet, so if that was what you were planning on doing then I would agree it isn't quite there yet.
iMessage is e2e as long as neither party backs up to iCloud. So the point is somewhat disingenuous
* by buying our device that wasted a bunch of CO2 to produce

* also it isn't actually 80% when you do the math correctly
The Singapore line is designed to handle 1 million daily riders. It is in not comparable to the rinky-dink Muni project.
Effective and timely payments in trucking industry can be possible with the use of Trucking management software and helps get quality work.
Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many? (2021)
Back in the day, when homosexuality was discussed in fora not frequented by distinguished intellectuals, one of the points presented by "traditionalists" against the social acceptance and spread of homosexuality was that if everyone were homosexual, the human species would come to an end. But we have seen that people continue to have heterogeneous sexual desires, and our science and technology have both advanced. It is very rare that there is a need, in the "discourse" or in the practice, for a "but what if everyone did this" gotcha.

I think the call to vote because otherwise this wins, that loses, is similar in spirit to the fallacious attempt to use some sort of big-society framework to "stop homosexuality."

I think the act of voting is one of the ways in which someone can contribute to society. Other ways are, for example, offering a smile, money or physical help, depending on the situation, to others in a time of need; it is perhaps contributing to the education of the disadvantaged; it is being a good citizen; and many other contributions are possible. It is not necessary to do everything all the time.
That's the perfect word for it!

On one hand small actions can lead to big change. On the other hand, no matter how many small actions are taken, this problem isn't going to be solved with government intervention.
For musicians who are on Bandcamp you can buy a CD and get a FLAC download. (Ofc there's no telling what happens to your access when Bandcamp folds, so that sort of defeats the point.)
What's "disingenuous" is Apple's marketing. Since 90%+ of people use iCloud Backup, it's almost but not quite a lie.
IMHO often the purpose of these projects isn’t to deliver transportation, it’s to keep people employed in the project.

That means draw it out, maximize the budget, spend every penny, etc., whereas the actual infrastructure is the excuse to keep it going.

Put another way, conflicts of interest tend to arise from the bureaucracy inherent in these projects. The researcher here identifies the symptoms of this but seems to see this more as an accident.
We know that Steve Jobs still knew many many people inside Apple when he returned and had ongoing business relations with them. Yet, he didn’t skip the step of understanding from the people directly once he was CEO.
> Obamacare also has a huge positive impact besides just access to healthcare.

<rant-on>

Sure. On my back, and that of countless others. It's fucking highway robbery.

Before Obamacare we had excellent health insurance with excellent coverage, doctors and low deductibles for $650 per month.

When we were shoved into Obamacare, our rate TRIPLED to $1,800 per month. Today we are paying nearly $2,300 per month. This is equivalent to a mortgage payment or non-trivial savings either for personal use or to help your kids with college.

There is no other way to put it: We are being robbed.

Put some numbers to it for context:

Over ten years the increase amounts to about TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. Money taken from us, by law. This doesn't even include a calculation of what this would be if invested in a low risk mutual fund or real estate.

The concept that a family has to pay so much PER MONTH for health insurance should make everyone take pause. This kind of thing is why I have always had a strong negative reaction to anything government-driven. It never ends well.

Even worse, Obama lied to all of us. His promise to the nation, easily found on countless videos, was that families would save in the order of $2,500 per year on health insurance. Right.

How do these people get a free pass on shit like that? Why?

I don't know if this is even possible. I wish someone could organize a massive class action lawsuit against all who forced this on us. I am happy for those for whom things improved. I truly am. However, doing it by causing serious financial harm to likely millions of families is not right, at all.

We (my family) are burning --quite literally-- tens of thousands of dollars per year on healthcare because of Obamacare. The other part people don't understand is that deductibles have gone up and insurance does not trigger until you spent a certain amount per person per year. In our case my entire family would have to be run over by a semi truck before we actually start to see significant benefits. In other words, the cost isn't just the premiums, but the expenses we have to incur before benefits actually kick in.

Here's an example: One of my kids ended-up in the hospital with myocarditis due to the Covid vaccine. That cost us over TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, cash.

Needless to say, every time I see Obama, Pelosi and the bunch I have to try very hard not to launch into projectile vomiting. I know many people idolize them. Sorry, you have chosen to admire liars and criminals.

<rant-off>
This winter might be especially bad for covid in China. It's 1-2 years behind the rest of the world.