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In my undergrad, coursework did not count towards the grade for the module. But you earned the right to sit for the final exam by passing the courswork.

I agree with this. I would add that the important part of the practice of writing is not the tools, but once you are writing you can try tools that help you continue. For my creative writing (that I do mostly as a hobby) I have a nice notebook with a nice pen that I use to write short stories and world building excercises, and characters, etc. I don't need the nice notebook, I did not get it before starting, but it does feel nice to come home having thought of what to write and have a pleasant notebook and pen.

My job includes writing technical documents but I use latex and emacs because that's what I have always used.

But practice > tools!

As I understand it, Intel's strength was in manufacturing their own design in their exclusive (and most advanced) process. So the advantage was being vertically integrated. State of the art processes are too expensive these days. x86 CPUs alone cannot sustain them. Specially, when AMD builds their CPU also with state of the art processes. So by becoming a foundry, Intel may be able to have state of the art fabs and use it in their own designs of x86 CPUs, GPUs, etc.

I feel the statement "autistic people will never write a poem" may be trivially true, because (I suspect) many people will never write a poem. The implication that this is invalid or wrong is perverse. And the fact that now we have to argue for the dignity of autistic people by saying that there are autistic poets is also non-sensical.

These are all cruel suggestions about people, we should challenge why RFK makes statements like this. Not take them at face value, as if they merit being answered.

Institutional knowledge stays in the institution and builds up after people have moved from those roles even. Consulting companies bring the operational knowledge to help with a specific situation. Sometimes you may need the institutional knowledge (if it aligns with the mission of the organisation) and sometimes it is better to concentrate on your mission and use the consultancy's knowledge to help you. Blanket statements are problematic. Particularly for something as complex of the goverment as a whole.

The argument that it is tested 10 trillion times a day is a fallacy (because it can't be that only the most popular option should be the best forever). And furthermore, in this context "tested" is a bit of an overstatement, I would say "used" many gazillions of times a day.

While I think (as others say) we should not police op's time, I would like to know what is the reasoning the used when choosing between focusing and not having all your eggs in one basket.

I think arguments by people making these choices would be very educational to me (as a person with a bit of a scatterd brain).

and furthermore, "families that are a bit off" are still plenty today, and people still do the best with what they got. I don't see the need to say that was that way then...

The MVP shows if the idea would get traction. But what good is an idea that gets traction if it is unfeasible to scale, or the organisation is not willing to support it. I think this is what google does with many of its products that end up cancelled. They tested the MVP, people bought in, but the organisation already moved on, so there is no will to support and further develop it. We should be responsible and do an MVP only after deciding if the organisation would be able and interested to scale a product and support it. Otherwise, the downsides are a toxic crunch to support the product, customers are unhappy with yet another product dies, etc...

What do you mean? The article is about how they got FDA approval... Isn't that the way to go? As in, it's a much higher bar than having a medical license and insurance no?

I got confused with window’s graphics device interface (GDI). Is this related? It is for windows after all.

It’s the representation of a natural number in the lambda calculus that Church proposed.

And don’t forget the occasional uncomfortable democracy that needs to be crushed (think Allende’s Chile)

Now the question is: would you want to?

but the other part of the definition is also important: "without political institutions or hierarchical government; anarchism". So the typical corporation is not exactly an anarchy according to the definition.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[1], while restricted in scope, takes the approach of having experts write the articles that are then revised and evolve with time. So a different approach is possible, but I think it would be hard for an encyclopedia with the breadth of wikipedia to do it. Maybe there is space for more specialised encyclopedias that take the approach of articles having authors and revisions instead of wikis. But all in all, I think both approaches compliment eachother.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/

Only of poetry. It is a reference to "The road not taken" by Robert Frost. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-ta...

I suspect everyone may know, but some may not and it's a great poem!

In this scenario, the CIA is not protecting against greater evil for the people of the country. They are just protecting the interests of the US. Now, the CIA's mission is to protect the US interests, there is nothing wrong. However, the means they use to do so may have something wrong with that. Installing and protecting dictators that are favorable to the US is unethical. Also the CIA does not furter "American values" in these interventions, for instance when suppressing weak democracies with strong dictators (Think Chile's Pinochet). This kind of intervention can easily go wrong, and will often do go wrong (Chile's case was but one example, the Guatemalan novel discusses another).

I suspect the brain alone cannot do it. At a some point the chemistry needs to happen, and it has to be in the right place (so the physics of moving liquids inside your body is also required).

But there are degrees, also in two days this person has probably close to zero social safety network in Canada. No friends, no colleagues, no acquaintances at other companies. Even 2 or 3 months would have allowed them to start having some friends and do some networking.

It became Mathcad Prime that is still maintained and had a release this year.

I'd argue that at the same time it is easier because you do not need to find valid colour sequences (in wordle you can only enter actual words to explore the solution). I wonder if the result is easier or harder overall?

I think they expect to lose some talented employees who may look to move away. They are offering to help those who want to move to not loose talent. I don’t see anything else. Maybe they are factually wrong and no one wants to move away and the program is worthless, but maybe they are no wrong and they keep employees that otherwise they would need to retrain. I don’t see nannies here.

These are probably different people praising and complaining. It could be that some people use Windows because of it's track record of backwards compatibility and this is an unwelcome change. It is not necessarily brand loyalty, it could simply be brand expectations.

yes, I've been lucky to not get it. But many friends/family got sick. Again, so far I was lucky that they are all ok. But there were scary moments, and a friend (even if somewhat distant one) is in ICU in hospital right now. Covid is very much present in our lives. I did not see those things ont TV, and luck has played a part in the outcome. I don't like pushing my luck for a long time, it hast to run out.

The message says that it is a message that's announced with great sadness, as one says when someone passes away. I do not think that language would be used if the structure was being decommissioned in a controlled way (Note: Spanish is my first language).

I did not use the word oppression. Personally I think it is more lack of imagination.

Given the current state of technology, it is fairly easy to know who is the father of a kid.

Personally, I do not feel the drive to polygamy, in particular because I think it is very emotionally demanding of all the participants and ultimately exhausting and unstable.

I don't know what the "natural forces of nature" are, but of course many, many animal species do not establish monogamous relationships and they still manage to surivive.

I that includes a very narrow form of polygamy. In particular, that men are the only ones allowed to take multiple partners. In a form of polygamy where everyone gets to take multiple partners it is exactly the opposite. Everyone is always available to form bonds with whom they want. This notion of being "taken" in marriage is what breaks polygamy.

perhaps it is a pun on Hardy, who thought it was an uninteresting number?

this is very interesting but I have a question, while the originals can't be under copyright, do the scans have a different copyright as kind of a derived work?