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Millions of families make this reasoning and spend $30k or more per year and per kid from age 2. Very few of these kids make it to Harvard or other top 4 colleges, maybe 1 will become president.

Sane Western countries have free and decent public education; and parents can't withdraw their future retirement early to fund dreams.

A field is more delicate if it needs to be enlarged (into a larger field) for all polynomials with coefficients in the field to have roots. There is rich and intricate structure in the possible successive enlargements.

For the field C of complex numbers, all polynomials already have roots so there is no need to enlarge. In that sense the complex field has much less structure than the smaller ones (Z, Q, R).

IPython 8.0 5 years ago

Start a jupyterqtconsole and use vim-jupyter.

With vim and the qtconsole side by side you can send lines and selections (or entire cells delimited with #%%) to execute in the qtconsole. Plots appear in the qtconsole.

Since Covid, NYC daycares have uniformly updated their sick policy. Child has fever or one diarrhea, has to wait home 3 days before returning. E.g.: Daycare calls the parents to pick up a sick child on Tuesday midday, child can return next Monday at the earliest.

While it used to just barely make sense to send kids to daycare for parents with 2 kids with each parent earning $120,000, it is now simply impossible unless a parent stops working or both parents have extremely flexible jobs where they can put their professional duties on hold for half a week without notice.

The loss of arts and social sciences would be a catastrophe for the academic world.

But a blessing for most students who need a job to pay their student debts after graduation. Sacrificing art students by taking their tuition knowing no or too few jobs exist is unacceptable. Keeping social sciences and art departments alive should require a source of money that does not create non-dischargeanle student debts and jobless students.

To avoid confrontation in the 48h window, a good squatter strategy is to target summer or weekend houses that have typically other weekend houses next to it so that neighbours aren't there and won't alert the owner.

Then squatters move in in two steps. First they do a small break in and leave, observing whether someone notices and fixes the first break in. If the first break in goes unnoticed, it is probably safe to move in, change the locks and squat there permanently as nobody will confront them in the 48h window.

I don't think name calling the EU as bullies advances anything. It is unsubstantiated and sounds like political speak and click-bait.

The problem of unsustainable debts of EU countries is complex. Debts cannot be fully forgotten as this sets an unsustainable precedent. Full austerity isn't sustainable either. Any reasonable solution will be nuanced.

By the way the same issue will arise soon enough to another EU country or to some US state. Will the US feds be bullies by telling states their debts cannot be forgotten?

Part of the student debt crisis are families making poor economic choices.

I am not sure families are the ones to blame here. Astronomical tuition and loan interests that cannot be forgotten in bankruptcy is a predatory combo.

In the European countries you mention no student start their professional like with $50k-100k in unforgivable debt.

Beg the Question 6 years ago

I found the second best definition of the urban dictionary greatly refreshing. Quoting it here:

beg the question

Phrase that is now used instead of "raises the question" due to the fact that the true definition is unintelligible to most people, and has little to do with an actual question.

Best not to use it at all, as you will either sound ignorant to geeks, or geeky to regular people.

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beg%20the%20...

The victim is a real person with a PhD thesis that anyone can read.

Why would someone jeopardize his reputation by using his real name on some kind of staging of a fake account swap? I kindly disagree with your second sentence.

There is some evidence of some kind of takeover though. Searching for site:http://instagram.com/danny in google, the first result is the following:

    Danny (@danny) • Instagram photos and videos
    www.instagram.com › danny
    8690 Followers, 134 Following, 100 Posts - See Instagram 
    photos and videos from Danny (@danny)

This is still in Google's cache. The current instagram profile is very different.

I see it more as hostility to the HR policies in place at some of the companies. A new parent at facebook gets 4 months leave after the birth and then can take another 10 weeks of family leave.

It's not like facebook employees typically have 10 kids. The benefits you mention happen once, twice and rarely three or more times in a lifetime.

This policy also means that younger employees will be able to enjoy the same policy if they become parents in the next 20 years.

Managing remote school sessions plus my work was a mess.

I made my 10 and 12yo kids drop their remote school stuff and work with me instead. The young one is responsible for slack, keeping everyone in the living room updated and replying with text and the occasional gif, he also summarizes with voice important incoming emails. Older one writes python code alongside me and I now mostly check her syntax. She learned git at the beginning of the pandemic and my manager is now impressed that commits from us get pushed while I am on the phone with him.

The kids drafted an email yesterday to ask for a raise and align my compensation with that of 1senior+2juniors SWE. Fingers crossed

Truancy: the action of staying away from school without good reason; absenteeism. (Had to google it! Thanks for a new word)

Truancy can be dealt with by providing food to the kid at the end of the school day, food meant to be brought home.

There are of course arguments against this, e.g., school are not meant for this. Well, schools are not meant to operate with absent students and whatever can fix should be considered.

Firefox 79 6 years ago

I would hope the key presses required to use the native search among opened tabs had changed.

- Ctrl-L to go to the address bar

- release Ctrl (otherwise, the next keypress fail)

- Shift-6 to type "%" in the address bar

- space

- [your query and hit tab/enter to navigate results]

The last bullet is a close to ideal, native search among open tabs and make it so smooth to find an opened tab among dozens. But the key presses necessary to get there? Who can use that without weekly hospital stays for finger RSIs?

I love firefox. If someone, somewhere reads this, please please please think of simpler key presses to use this nice, already built functionality.

(I know non-native extensions provide similar feature. But native would be so cool and stable, especially that it's already built).

A funny one: I am locked out of a former Gmail that forwards every email to my currently active address. This "forward everything" is not throughout IMAP/Pop but some Gmail feature.

One day I couldn't login anymore to the old account (maybe I typed the wrong password 3 times or maybe it was deemed inactive because I would never login?)

I try the recovery process once in a while with everything (code by SMS, code by recovery email, etc). Never works.

But I still receive every email sent to that account through the "forward everything" setup from XX years ago.

Criticism of interview practices is very common. However, I can't imagine that large companies that hire in the hundreds/1000s every year (say, FANG) don't have enough data to have optimized their interview practices.

These companies know in the last 10-20 years who interviewed who and the performance of everyone after hiring. With enough data you can:

- A/B test which interview questions better predict future performance

- how much each interviewer's feedback is correlated with future performance of the interviewee. Some interviewer's are likely terrible and they should not interview. Some interviewers at good at predicting future performance and they should interview much more if not full time.

- which interviewer provides biased feedback (women, minorities, etc)

Either these companies are not analysing this data and the interview practices may indeed be garbage. Or FAANG companies are analysing this data and otpimizing their interview practices accordingly and the process/results are actually as fair and good as it can be.

Dividend is 123456 and divisor is 37.

37>1, 37>12 but 37*3<=123.

Write down 3 (meant for 3000) and start again with 123456-37x3000 as the new dividend.

I wish the algorithm was taught by writing the full 3000 instead of only the digit 3; this appears to be a source of major confusion and to hide the underlying additions/multiplications.

I am as happy as I could get with Firefox except for the native tab-switching Among opened tabs.

Tab search is done by typing % in the address bar followed by a keyword to search among opened tabs.

- Ctr+L to get in the address bar

- Shift+6 to type %

- space,

- type your keywords.

My fingers, especially the pinky just cannot do this, particularly switching between Ctrl and Shift. Also, you have to release Shift otherwise the space doesn’t get typed.

Please, please come up with an easier finger gymnastics to use this native feature.