dwhitney
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Comment · 1 month ago
Steven Pinker’s “The Language Instinct” is not a bad book for learning grammar. It’s a book about linguistics - not specifically grammar, but it covers diagramming sentences, and grammar falls out from there
Comment · 8 months ago
I feel totally the opposite. I feel like I'm better able to have more work-life balance. Our predictions are more accurate. I'm enjoying working on actual problems rather than boilerplate. These tools are amazing
Comment · 2 years ago
I learned how to diagram sentences in college. It was eye-opening, and I wish I had learned it sooner.
Comment · 2 years ago
oof - this article is pushing bad advice - general disclaimer: use a third party authentication system like Okta or Cognito. It's going to save you so much grief down the road. They pretty much all use the same pattern (OIDC), so you just need to learn it once, and you're good for at least another decade. Authentication is one of the easiest and most important things to take off of your plate. Do it.
Comment · 2 years ago
501108 - never forget
Comment · 2 years ago
Contrarian view - the programs are working. Rates of smoking among teens over the past three decades:
Ever used nicotine: 70.1% in 1991 to 17.8% in 2021; Occasional use of nicotine: 27.5% in 1991 to 3.8% in 2021; Frequent use of nicotine: 12.7% to 0.7%; Daily use of nicotine: 9.8% in 1991 to 0.6% in 2021
https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/teen-cigarette-smoking...
I suspect the same can be said for workplace sexual harassment and outlooks on diversity. I agree that the programs are dumb and the trainings are dumb, but they have an effect.
Comment · 2 years ago
My takeaway: I need the person who wrote the top response on stackexchange to tell me how to run my life.
Comment · 3 years ago
I was under the impression that expressing a sense of humor was not allowed on this site. Can someone clarify :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah that was silly, but aren't all of the new iPhone cameras 3D cameras? People take photos/videos all of the time. Now you can immerse yourself in them. I think it's pretty cool
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah but more importantly the post suggests there are likely terrestrial explanations which obey the laws of physics as we understand them contrary to what's been depicted in the media recently.
I want to believe, but I agree with the author of the post that we need to see some evidence that's outside of the "Low Information Zone"
Comment · 3 years ago
You can elevate others while pushing your ideals - once you truly understand something, you can teach it.
Comment · 3 years ago
As a US citizen, I whole heartedly agree, and I assume our government would do the same.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is the first time I’ve seen humor on this site. If I were you, I’d be afraid
Comment · 5 years ago
The debt to gdp ratio is higher than it’s ever been.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
I don’t see us cutting back spending any time soon, so it doesn’t seem crazy to me that we inflate our way out of this, especially since after this pandemic a lot of countries are in a similar situation, making inflation more politically viable
Comment · 5 years ago
I hope you're wrong. I understand that the technology for the dream that "Google Glasses" was selling isn't quite there, but I hope Apple has a research team moving closer and closer to it.