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But your mentor can just be your coworker! That's how many professions have worked for a long time. I don't get where this idea that academia has a monopoly on difficult skills and knowledge comes from.

A year or two is enough time to get your foot in the door with web dev. For more advanced stuff, sure, it's an ongoing process.

On the other hand, I question the utility of most university CS curriculums. There are usually only one or two classes covering the core "algorithms" knowledge that autodidacts might not have, given how many people squeak through these classes by copying HW, I'm not convinced that anything really sticks.

Pretty sure the kids paying 60k a year to learn CS at Swarthmore are more elite.

This article is credentialism at its worst.

The best programmers I know are self-taught, because they have a passion for it. I know people working at minimum wage, never enrolled in college, who got decent programming jobs after a year or two learning CS on their own.

These people will always (I hope) form the core of the profession.

I've been meaning to bypass this racket for a while. Can anyone recommend a good chinese/indian seller for eyeglasses?

> Some things I have inculcated as a part of my children's education:

> 1. Lots of peer interaction and physical playtime

Also known as being a normal human being...

This was my main complaint with OSX until I tried nix. When I ditched homebrew and reinstalled the same packages with nix, I don't think a single one had problems. The CLI has some stupid pitfalls though..

My dealbreaker with linux is the keyboard shortcuts.

On mac, ^A and ^E work in every text field. Also, you can press cmd with your thumb, which is much more ergonomic than mashing ctrl with your pinky. OSX also has more well thought-out shortcuts than linux in general.

You can try to configure these things on linux, but it's tedious and never works perfectly.

> My kids need to be prepared for anything.

If by "anything" you mean "any upper middle class knowledge work career."

Let them hang out with some poor kids and get into fights, then they'll really be prepared for anything.

> For example, software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down, connect you with your friends, give you personalized tips for sleeping and eating better, and help you use your time more efficiently.

I'm sorry, I can't let you do that Dave.

Hey now... don't drag Signal into this.

Huh? Big bend is nowhere near sea level..

>Here's how it worked. The East India Company began collecting taxes in India, and then cleverly used a portion of those revenues (about a third) to fund the purchase of Indian goods for British use. In other words, instead of paying for Indian goods out of their own pocket, British traders acquired them for free, "buying" from peasants and weavers using money that had just been taken from them.

> It was a scam - theft on a grand scale. Yet most Indians were unaware of what was going on because the agent who collected the taxes was not the same as the one who showed up to buy their goods. Had it been the same person, they surely would have smelled a rat.

This sounds needlessly circuitous. Money is fungible, so how is this different from saying the British overtaxing them?

The actual book this article refers to doesn't seem to push such a weird argument (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dispossession-deprivation-and-...).

My answer to most of these questions is either "No, that's not what universities are for" or "yes, and they've been doing that for decades."

"ddg.gg" is quite awkward if you ask me... or am I the only one who finds repeated letters harder to type than alternating ones?

> When it comes to direct evidence of an industrial civilization—things like cities, factories, and roads—the geologic record doesn’t go back past what’s called the Quaternary period 2.6 million years ago.

What a nonsense argument, unless they managed to build an industrial civilization without iron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation). It would be glaringly obvious if these ores had already been mined.

I tried to enjoy this, but as writing it kind of flaunts "show don't tell." The author could have written half of this without ever setting foot on the boat. Like, it feels like she came in with her burns prepared beforehand, and only paid cursory attention to the people.

This explanation sounds nice until you start thinking about other countries which experienced famine in the last century and don’t look anything like china...

I have to agree. There’s something about the way this is written, maybe the 2nd person voice, that makes it feel confusing and disjointed.

> b) they're making really solid machines that last longer. The MacBook Pro that I'm typing this on is closer to a decade old

Erm... We can certainly conclude that a decade ago, they made long-lasting machines. The newer MBP are apparently defeated by a grain of sand.

> For example you assume that we are currently at the maximum number of available slots. If we aren't, then it may well be true that adding more people is possible without disadvantaging existing people.

Yes, they could "possibly" do that, but they aren't, so why the hell is this relevant?

Harvard admitted 2,200 undergrads in 1988. In 2018 it admitted 2,000. It took me 30 seconds of googling to find this.

I found out about battlecode (https://battlecode.org/#/) which was lots of fun for many years.

Extracting a particularly tone-deaf or questionable quote from an article is useful in itself.

"Nonsense" is all it deserves.

It’s an observation, not a prescription. Is it “discriminatory” to suggest that gymnastics is a young person’s game?

This is just re-inventing sieve theory with physics jargon.

I for one was glad to see this WaPo article linked. Good reminder.

> Earth = eggs in one basket. A super volcano like Yellowstone could easily kill 90%+ of our species in the first year after an eruption and most of the other animal (and plant) life. Big rocks have smashed into Earth before and will again. A pandemic could easily spread across the planet in months decimating population and launching us back into the stone age.

And none of those things would affect an antarctic colony.

My point was that high blood sugar damages the kidneys, so if TiO2 in kidneys is an effect rather than cause of diabetes, we would see it in both type I and type II.

My first thought -- diabetes affects kidney function. The question is whether the same is found in type I diabetics.