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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I teach part time at the university level (I am not going to say where).

I would love to give you my perspective on this as I see a lot of non-neurotypical students. Some of these students do well in an academic environment; some don't - and to generalize this across schools; some schools have a more regularized population and select for this. Similarly, others accommodate more for these types of things versus schools that do less.

Additionally, it is well recognized that academic success is not necessarily an indicator of how well people "do in life". What academic success is, however, is a door opener for other opportunities. There are other door openers, like being a really good coder.

What you need to do is to figure out what your "superpower" is. It might be coding; it might be math, or something like being able to relate longitudinally to a task over a long period.

Everyone has a superpower, it's just some people are not aware of what it is. Go at figuring that out, and don't let people tell you something about yourself that you do not believe. My sister puts this another, simpler, way "Don't let the turkeys get you down".

Good luck!

Comment · 3 years ago
gonna be worth more down the line, and cooler, as an actual Indy
Comment · 3 years ago
however, given that your 1923 dollars were likely silver dollars which currently trade for $32 (for junk grade) and up ... I made that 8m * 32 = 256m :) - and better if you were sensible and stored un-circulated dollars
Comment · 4 years ago
If I as a small company actually decided to sue a large company, I think that the response would be "hang on, here are 20 of our patents you are infringing on - you actually owe us money". Larger companies treat patents like trading cards, sadly.
Comment · 4 years ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09823 - you can use this to find nearest neighbors to reduce the number of elements you are considering (or maybe not). Then you need: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionality_reduction
Comment · 4 years ago
Usually the software using the interface (pro tools / ableton) has settings to tweak audio latency via buffer size for audio. I have not had issue with this or midi, and I record a fair amount. Motu makes a good cheap audio usb-c interface.
Comment · 4 years ago
It seems based on the two times I saw it that it is mostly delusion. The idea appears to be that you can learn to do something complex on the job with a slight amount of experience and a lookup site, like stackoverflow or rose. I assume this would be sufficient if you assume really non-technical management, incapable of gauging progress.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, I had a candidate turn up for a physical interview who clearly was not the person on the phone screen.
Comment · 4 years ago
Can someone explain to me why it makes more sense to put large, complex pieces of equipment in space where maintaining it is costly, and then beam power though the atmosphere, as opposed to putting simple, easily maintainable tech on the ground, with the input radiation already having traverse the atmosphere? Is there such an advantage power wise that this is worth doing?
Comment · 4 years ago
Cracking local software isn't gonna work in the function is in the cloud.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Property values for tax calculation purposes are not reassessed round here so you pay on whatever the assessed value was when your bought the property. Sounds nice, but what actually happens is that baby boomers, who bought their houses ages ago, pay essentially no tax on houses. Meanwhile, more recent residents get to foot the bill with sky high property taxes. I know people with previously purchased houses of the order or 5 (yes 5) houses that they are renting out for outrageous rents - all with very low property taxes on them. Please make the normal tax rate lower and actually tax everyone.
Comment · 4 years ago
Well, that and the fact that their rendering engine isn't really competitive with Epic, who do get it ....
Comment · 4 years ago
Either nature or nurture, french drivers and amazingly polite and pleasant to share the road with, certainly in comparison to the bay area, in my experience (Provence).

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