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For algorithms, sure. For this class, it had worked great when I took it 20 years ago. The class didn’t expect us to solve the problems, just understand them enough to apply them in our daily thinking for software.

But it isn't. There's a rule. The rule is that multiple adjectives are always ranked accordingly: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/senten...

My daughter had the same diagnosis at 24 months. We caught on to something at 18 months when we saw all she was doing was either running back and forth across the room (making the same verbal sound), or pressing a light up toy's button again and again for an hour, without any other interest.

We ended up finding a behavioral specialist who worked with her on a weekly basis. From age 2 to 3, and through some of the pandemic. The day she said "I don't think your daughter needs me anymore" was one of the happiest days of our lives. I still say "Thank God for <specialist's name>" every time the topic comes up with my wife, or friends.

She challenged her, got her to come out of her shell and talk to her, and my daughter is about to start kindergarten this year. She still has verbal tics, and loves to stim by running back and forth, but she's also interacting with all her friends, loves to play imaginary games with herself and her brother, and if you didn't know her past, you wouldn't ever assume it about her.

So, yeah, find someone to help. It's worth it.

They don’t have enough workers they can exploit

Read: 2/3 of men do not resolve their childhood trauma before picking a partner, and find comfort in the same.

Isn't it all Steven Wilson playing the mellotron on Opeth records? Damnation is one of those albums where if you hear a song from it, the whole thing is getting played.

My son has been playing various Mario games since age 5. He can hold his own on Mario Party and has finished Odyssey. When we were kids, I was playing GTA, Mortal Kombat etc, so my childhood wasn't necessarily a good example.

That being said, his reading and math abilities are quite good and we attribute that to videogames, and a healthy dose of Mo Willems books.

I am completely with you on this. We were able to buy a house years ago at %3.75 rate and our mortgage is less than most people's rent now. I hear a lot of laments from other parent friends about how they are 'wasting' their money on rent. And these people aren't usually in tech.

The self comparison is supposed to make me feel grateful and happy about my situation, and yet I feel guilty for having the freedom and flexibility of my tech job with it's pay and all other benefits. Doubly so when I look at my son's kindergarten teacher and everything she deals with. I volunteer at the classroom to help as much as I can, which helps both me feel better about what I have, and helps the teacher and the kids.

But that cognitive dissonance / guilt is always there in the back.

They are super happy to pay that lip service while saying "look, we're the reasonable ones here, can't do anything cause of the other guys!" and reap the profits.

I have done the mail switch with fastmail. Now my gmail account is a catch all for websites I don't care about.

Sadly when it comes to videogames, customer good will means nothing and enough people still buy these games just for the FOMO.

Your landing page title has a typo in it "They way ..."

People that can officially call it insider trading are the ones doing it.

Loss of purpose, lack of fair recognition and the need to preserve work–life balance seem to be the main motives of the younger generations for quiet quitting.

The fact that the author is not even recognizing "how much less money earned is worth" summarizes the entire problem. I wish you could pluck these people from the castle they have built for themselves and throw them back into the real world as a fresh 20 year old and tell them to do everything they did the same, and see how it turns out for them.

But it is functional. Grandparent post is suggesting that all the currently used functionality should have tests written for it. It makes sense, as that way they can gather the requirements of a rewrite at the same time.

The beauty of science is that you don't "blindly believe" in it.

After a week of adjustment and constant tweaking of the layout (Wally is so nice), I have to say my Moonlander fixed most of my shoulder, forearm and wrist issues.

When people asked about the price, I told them some days I spend more time on my keyboard than on my bed.

I just wish I could put a trackpoint right between YUHJ buttons and never use my mouse again.

Every game has their fair share of whales. People with so much money that it doesn't matter to them how much they spend on lootboxes.

One example I can give is Post Malone in Apex Legends, I think people estimated that he spent $1,600, he buys every heirloom skin as soon as it comes out.

There are a lot of streamers out there who will spend at least $100 a month on skins just to keep their content fresh. Or they buy battle pass levels second it comes out so they can show them off. It's a huge revenue stream for AAA studios.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/t0m44q/post_ma...

My therapist has given me this worksheet, which helped me immensely in my relationships with friends and my wife.

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_college_of_liber...

Is there a The Onion equivalent for programming and engineering related news?

That’s exactly what i do as well, i just gave up on the bottom inch of my top monitor with the webcam in the way

Should at least be an option for private leader boards then. I run the one for my company, and I want people of all time zones to comfortably compete

I am hoping someone can educate me. I do enjoy Jeff's articles and videos, but I fail to see what these could be used for. I concede that this is entirely due to my ignorance.

I wish private leaderboards allowed for people to "start" solving when they send the first request to the problem page. I know it can be abused, but if it's just for private leaderboards, it will level the time zone problems.

I recommend using a runner like https://github.com/caderek/aocrunner, so you can focus on coding, rather than project set up.

I work for a big company (F500), and one thing that always bothers me is the out of nowhere Slack messages that are three paragraphs long, by someone I have never met within the company. If I start helping them right away, they are happy to keep me online for the next hour while my flow is gone, god knows where.

I am trying to find the nicest way to say: "This should be an e-mail conversation, please send email.", but I wish I could somehow start an email draft that is saved and shows up in some to-do list somewhere.

You're acting in bad faith and you know it. You can't just say "lockdowns/masks/vaccines should have stopped covid, but they didn't", when you know that a lot of people out there refused to mask up, refused to quarantine and refused to get the vaccine.

People with your thinking are the reason we're still in this pandemic.

Thank you for all your work on Merlin. I heavily use that app when I go backpacking, and in fact just last night it helped me identify a red crossbill in Deschutes National Forest.

It would be amazing if BirdNet eventually supported offline.

The front camera is also used for video conferencing, which is great cause this would help with eye contact.

I have really enjoyed CODE as well, and I recently started reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Completely different subject, taught in a way it builds up.