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I was lamenting this exact thing to a friend the other day. Books are just too long for most self-help advice and it ends up being 80% filler.

The worst is when the first three chapters are about how rich/smart/successful you'll become by reading this book! (Except for the first three chapters, of course, because those are just advertisements for the book you already acquired.)

Yes, this bothers me greatly, particularly since in 2018-19 you could throw a pebble in any direction and hit someone who knows JS/jQuery/CSS/HTML. You almost have to go out of your way to find someone who doesn’t. I’m sure this guy is great at other things but students are paying thousands of dollars for this education.

I only remember having one prof who clearly didn’t know the material. He spent most of every class just copying code onto the board by hand, then trying to talk about it a bit. I really didn’t learn much in that class. Unfortunately it was the foundational C++ class at my university and really kind of handicapped me in successive classes that were also taught in C++.

My alma mater? The University of Michigan.

Sure, it is the Ubiolabs Wireless Charging Pad, Model AWC1018. I have an iPhone XR and it works great.

I was of the same opinion until I got a charging pad from Costco for Christmas. I decided to try it out to be polite, and was surprised at how much I like it. I don't have to fish for the cable, I don't have to try to plug it into the speakers a few times in the dark before finding the right port, and if I want to pick up my phone to check something really quick I can just do it without unplugging or having to hover near the cord. Life-changing, no, but certainly worth a few bucks to me.

Sure, but you won’t get a refund for your ticket or your time. And some people might feel compelled to alert their fellow passengers if they felt the airline was planning to put them on a plane they felt was unsafe. These things could lead to anger, hence civil disobedience.

Seems to me like she hired someone to help her pass. They had remote access so they could make it look like she was taking the tests on her own laptop. They'd have to do it during times when she wasn't using it herself.

If she wasn't involved at all, how would she not notice that quizzes were being completed without her taking them? How would she not notice that her grades were improving?

Ham-fisted is right. This is going to kill family vloggers, or even just vloggers who happen to have a family in the background. YouTube is a lot less engaging when you don’t feel like you can interact with the creators or other viewers. I know everyone trots our the “YouTube comments are a toxic cesspool and provide no value” trope, but almost every video I watch on YT 1) has a kid in it somewhere, 2) has worthwhile and positive comments.

It’s like the joke about nuking your house from orbit because you saw a spider. Personally I’m far more concerned about the creepy videos aimed at kids than I am about pedos leaving hobo signs in the comments. As another commenter said, they’ll just move to a separate site to link to videos. You can’t stop them from watching videos and sharing them with other people unless you shut the site down completely.

Even if millions of people from Asia and Australia were interested enough to watch a live stream of it, I don’t believe they can categorically state that the majority of the people on the entire planet watched via live stream.

I’m mostly arguing because I find the idea of everyone watching the eclipse on a video screen kind of sad.

> The so-called “super wolf blood moon” was eagerly watched by millions of people around the world, mostly via live streaming video.

How do they know most people watched via live stream as opposed to just looking out the window or a telescope?

Do you think a single-payer system creates more sick people?

If not, what do you think is currently happening to those people who need mental health care or routine surgery in a non-single-payer system?

It seems unlikely that EVERYONE hated the schedule changes, given that the changes were designed to benefit the majority of them.

We can speculate all day about how people may have felt, but we just don't know. The district should have done polling to see what the overall reaction was before they pulled the plug. And if the counter-arguments amount to "I don't like change" then I think the district has a prerogative to optimize for health, safety, and costs.

The article didn’t present it as “white citizens have an outsized influence” but as “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” A smaller number of VERY upset people makes a bigger impact than a large number of moderately happier people. It seems like the author, the press, the school district etc. overreacted in the face of pressure.

Did you read the article? If you did then you’re being purposely misleading about what you read. The article was about the many non-CIA officers affected. There is plenty of evidence of brain injury, just no evidence of how it happened or what agent(s) caused it. And how about the coincidence that the hard line position of the new US government lines up perfectly with the desires of hard line Cubans, Russia, and China. You insinuate that the new administration is the only group of people in the world interested in scuttling normalization.

Another breathless article about l33t hacking where the method is just stumbling across passwords.

It’s like a bank leaving its doors and vault open, and whoever walks in and grabs the money being lauded for his bank robbing prowess.

Also, they are very much at fault for knowingly using someone else’s credentials. It doesn’t matter how easily they obtained them.

I’ve tried Honeycrisps a few times and I just don’t understand why they’re so loved. They have a super crisp skin with a mealy interior, and I swear the flavor has a hint of tomato. It’s so off-putting.

Also, by the time you show any symptoms, you’re as good as dead. So you have to anticipate whether the animal that bit you might have had rabies or not. Many people are reluctant to seek treatment when they feel fine, especially given the cost of healthcare in the U.S.

Right? "Voters need to wait until all the choices have populated before making a selection." Absolute BS. Software design 101.

This is a well-known phenomenon called the cascade of intervention: http://www.childbirthconnection.org/maternity-care/cascade-o...

The same problems could cause lethal over/under-doses with much more reasonable numbers of pills, i.e. accidentally ordering 2 pills instead of 1.

The fact that 38 pills were ordered shows how crazy the problems can get, but a crazy number of pills like that should also be pretty trivial for a nurse to catch. How do you pour 38 pills down an 85-pound child's throat without considering that the consequence may be death?

I had to read this in middle school (ages ago) and it has really stuck with me. Whenever I read about some “strange” practice of another culture, I think of this study and it quickly rearranges my perspective.

The Peter Principle is about being promoted to a job that demands different skills. Athletes are promoted to jobs with the same skills, so the principle doesn't apply.

> Another question you could answer would be “if I start on a road trip at 6PM, what time would it be when I get to my destination 16 hours later?”. That would be 6 + 16 mod 12 which is 10.

So many things wrong here. Why would you represent 6PM as "6"? And then you mod 12, which will only give the correct response between 12AM and 11AM. If you'd said 18 hours later you'd think you were arriving at midnight. It's a bad example anyway; why would you care what hour you arrive but not which day?

I think plenty of people would have still written in but almost certainly the tone of the letters would have been different.

Also, more people probably would have second-guessed their intuition, at least for a moment, and perhaps there would have been a few less letters.

Exactly. I have no problem debugging or creating a small-ish feature in an open office. When it's a bigger feature that touches a lot of places in the code, or when refactoring, it's a major struggle. If it's a big enough change, it's impossible, and I have to work on it at night at home.

For me, the part of coding that is art simply does not happen in an open office.

All my favorite working arrangements have involved sitting in small teams, either in a room or in individual cubicles (such that you're only in really close proximity to a few other people). I've had my own office before; it's seriously lonely.

I'm skeptical of people who say that being in an open office doesn't affect their productivity at all. Really? How can you be sure?

Are you saying that:

* No website or app should ever call out to any third party API

* Every single piece of functionality a website or app has should be developed in-house

* The functionality third party APIs provide would often take "a few days" to reproduce in-house

> They told us that it was to stagger the buses and give high schoolers time to work part-time jobs

One additional reason is so that the older kids get home before the younger kids so they can supervise.

It's all perfectly rational. Unfortunately, ensuring students are rested and alert is far down on the list of priorities for education scheduling.

My kids' elementary school doesn't start until 9:00, and both of us work. We've had to get morning childcare just for 30 minutes before school. It's expensive and stressful for all of us.

So he should have either hoped that corporations would feel charitable, or submitted himself as a guinea pig to a system that doesn't exist. Got it.

I have roundabouts in my neighborhood. They have the exact same problem. If you don't come to a full stop and/or look around your A pillar deliberately, you may never see the car or bike hidden behind it.

I've also had the same problem turning onto a crossroad without coming to a complete stop at the stop sign first.

I believe the only real solution is driver training.