- huffer parentOh, it will sell! For the very reason it's $230 (remember the "I am Rich" app of olden days?).
- Nice work! How do you verify correctness of the generated exercises and explanations? To me this looks the biggest risk in becoming a user: what if my _teacher_ teaches me subtle nonsense that I cannot easily detect since I'm learning and unfamiliar with the material (even if it's only in the 1-2% of cases)? Human teachers make mistakes too, but an LLM cannot _understand_ that it made one... So.. how do you solve for this issue of trust?
- But indeed, if they had the _option_ to escape from reality from time to time, people like Cypher would be happier (I know I am when I do it :D). Indeed the irony of partaking precisely in the thing that you fight against is there; however, what they actually fight against is the enslavement by it, not the casual enjoyment of it: it's bad to be a medieval serf forced to toil the soil, it's quite another thing to play gardener to take your mind off the day..
They have an unsophisticated, binary view of the world (for plot reasons, I guess) while some nuance and tolerance would have had made a more realistic and_human_take on the situation.
- yeah.. these days you really can't tell; every opinion, its counter-opinion, its meta-counter, its sarcastic spin, its trolling version, its counter-trolling, meta-counter-trolling versions.. everything (in the absence of body language cues etc.) is equally likely, which if I recall correctly is the definition of maximal entropy of information, i.e. random noise
- .. except when manipulating proxy-ed objects, like Spring beans or ORM detached entities. The object you're calling the setter on is not the object (struct) holding the field..
I know, yet another idea thrown into the concepts cocktail.. (not saying these are correct justifications for the getter/setter pollution, just reasons why you find them everywhere in the wild)
- Byte was my first too (and later on NET and Computerworld -- great education deriving from both).
Yeah, LISP was a bit much -- but hey! it also included an article with assembly code examples for the Z-80 Spectrum; I wish I had this magazine back in the day...
A thing I noticed: so many practical examples and code excerpts; I also spotted some math, sporting a Riemann integral no less :) - today's magazines are kindergarten-level by comparison. Of course, today's magazines are not aimed to the technical hobbyist anymore, so it's understandable... Btw: who are today's magazines targeting? Second question: what magazines?!
- Upvoted!
I rarely comment here, but the similarity was so striking that I came back with the express intention to comment on this exact vein. I actually suspect this analogy was the OP's intention all along :)
Also, it is striking how the human nature never changes and the societal mores tend to remain the same; 60 years is not such a long time on that scale, but the buzz, the (less/un-informed) fever and fervour of the general public that Shannon remarked, they all sound eerily familiar.
- Well, Romania as well as Hungary and Bulgaria are fully European cultures. Sure, there are historical influences and economic contexts that made them different than mainstream Western Europe, and one can quote "Balkans" as a different attitude, but in terms of mindsets and value systems EE and WE are in the same category, different than India, China and other geographical regions. Not passing a judgement value here, just pointing out the similarities and the reason why US/WE people can work easier with EE people than with, say, Chinese - just as those Chinese would work better with Vietnamese or Indonesians, etc.
As a particular element to note: say what you want about it, but behind the Iron Curtain education was taken very seriously in sciences and engineering (maybe less so in the so-called humanistic areas because those would risk to come in conflict with the official communist doctrine). The technology and labs in the universities were sometimes lacking, but they surely made up in terms of solid theoretical education. So the foundations were there for competency when the computer age dawned - what generally lacked was (still is) the capital.
- From a different perspective, any physical currency has the disadvantage of exposing its owner/handler to the same old problems: (s)he can be physically (often violently) separated from it, any transaction needs physical encounter between the two parties (which hinders both anonymity and trading at a distance), along with minor problems such as secure storage, forging, authorities controlling it, etc.
That's one of the often overlooked reasons why a cryptocurrency is so radically different (and such a good fit for the XXIst century).
- probably off-topic: you mention 37h/w so I'm guessing (Western) Europe... Do you find it reasonably easy to find consultancy jobs that allow for ~20h/w (and still make enough for sustenance)?
To me it looks like freelancers are generally accepted by companies only if hiring permanent staff is not feasible, and once they decide to pay the (usually higher) daily rate, they would squeeze so much out of that day that half-day jobs would be blasphemy - unless you're very well known for your expertise in your field/niche, of course...
- Completely off-topic: what is this site trigger.io? I cannot access it – apparently it is flagged as suspicious: http://s16.postimage.org/blt1xsb79/triggerio.png It certainly doesn't seem to be a site hosting porn or child abuse content, nor does it sound like a terrorist cell propaganda site – so why would it be blocked? Should I put my paranoid hat on?
Also, does it happen to be any cached/alternative sources for that content that's not hosted there so I can read the article? Normally I could use an anonymous proxy but it seems like too much of a hassle (it's not that easy to find an anonymous one that hasn't been already banned internally as well). Thank you!
- I guess the OP has the MVP right there: start lean with one-two shuttles after midnight and if it works, expand gradually. Having a night-only bus narrows it down sufficiently and I think you can even find interesting marketing twists which can apply for the benefit and fun of both you and your night owls (err... customers).
- I second that! I'm amazed by the fact that half the time people seem to disregard completely this fundamental obstacle in doing a startup: you need to have at least the basics covered, like food and a roof above your head. You shouldn't live like a king but even the modest living costs.
Is it only people in US who think that? I don't think so, US is not particularly known for social security and such -- maybe this comes from people who either are already wealthy or they live with their parents :)
I have worked for 2 years plus to earn and set aside the money that will allow me 6-7 months of freedom to start something up (well, and then I screwed my hard-earned freedom, but that's another story); with this tempo you'd (I'd) need to slave away 8 years to earn 2 years of freedom, the amount I'd deem necessary to start up something serious and see money coming back to you.
So please, always mention how you have your basic needs covered and for how long before preaching bootstrapping to others :)
- A fast overview of the information laid out before you can mean indeed that you can grasp some high-level concepts before you loose your focus within the details. But it can mean no more than a summary, and maybe it can give you the intuition of where to focus more for the details (depending on the context and your personal approach); but this is usually limited to a very small segment of the presented info.
On the other hand, when I meant 'slow' I was not referring to the mechanics of the video, I was referring to the pace of acquiring the information, the meaning behind the spoken words/images succession. I think the fast-paced reception of the information can lead only to an illusion of understanding; pausing the video from time to time in order to look up for more information elsewhere, rewinding some sections, etc. were closer to what I had in mind, not the slowing down of the video, as you apparently understood. I'm sorry I was not clear enough the first time, I hope now I mended my argument a little...
