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May 26 05:46

@GlennWillen You're vibe detector is pretty on mark, there's certainly precedent of that in academia.

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Apr 7 16:09

Of all the people I know of, math majors have by far the lowest self-esteem when in fact they're more or less considered geniuses by everyone else. Being able to synthesize a new proof for a theorem is exceedingly non-trivial, a guestimate says 99.9% of the world's population won't even understand what the theorem is about, let alone being able to write a paper on it. Your goals and interests aside, stop questioning your aptitude.

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Jun 20, 2024 16:47

I'm curious, Joel talked about how programmers hated testing (and probably aren't that good anyways) more than 20 years ago and emphasized the need for specialized testers. What do you think about that?

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Mar 18, 2024 13:38

@Mavrik "And outside academia", but it is in academia, with its own cultural norms and practices. A workplace depends on you (and pays you) to deliver work. A lecture most definitely does not.

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Mar 6, 2024 20:04

I'm misunderstanding what you're saying apparently. I think I do now though. You define naturalist as the belief that everything has an underlying explanation, leading to endless regress. You then define anything without further explanations as God or god-like. Therefore you see the naturalist position as contradictory. Is that correct?

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Mar 6, 2024 20:04

@DavidGudeman I think you're twisting words to mean whatever fits your argument, but be that as it may, here's my brand new model for the universe: it's the standard model except before the big bang gravity existed. What then?

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Mar 6, 2024 20:04

"God was not created; he did not come into being, so why do we need an explanation for something that never happened?" you're... explaining god. And that's an useless explanation as it's just your belief, I can equally claim "Gravity was not created; it did not come into being, so why do we need an explanation for something that never happened?" Also, yes, the number 2 needs explanation.

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Feb 1, 2023 09:35

Can you cite some rationale on the standard? Particularly the part where "It was sufficiently mind numbingly obvious to everyone"?

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Jan 10, 2023 19:42

@user166593 To be frank, I believe most people here don't care what Kendi said or didn't said. If what you want is approval of your "explicit allyship", then you won't get it here. We care about students getting high quality education. Now, do you?

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May 17, 2022 14:15

@user253751 Not even if you have a perfect grammar checker, no. Syntax, tools and programming practices/paradigms are central topics in programming. You don't start a history class with writing a one line essay to teach you English grammar. You do that with programming to teach you syntax.

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May 9, 2022 13:38

@DikranMarsupial Programming errors have a very special place in programming. Much of programming is about mitigating errors. It's a lesson in programming that you need to systematically check your program with tools (e.g. the compiler).

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Jun 30, 2021 16:50

Anyone is also capable of telling the difference between healthy and haven't slept in three days. Does it make any difference for the sake of my performance if it's because I have insomnia or because my neighbor blew up their house in the middle of the night? No it doesn't, and you don't need to draw the line of one being a mental disorder to call in sick.

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Jun 30, 2021 16:45

@Voo There is a larger spectrum between perfectly healthy and crippled by mental diseases, just as there is one with physical health. Your argument follows the lines of: if I don't go to the doctor for a mild cold, I'm not taking my health seriously.
No?
It means I make a judgment of when things are bad enough to go to the doctor. It's... puzzling how you drew that conclusion.

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Jun 30, 2021 14:04

@Voo I'm sure people don't see a doctor for every cold they had, just to make sure they really have a cold without a fever. You can tell you're pretty much out of it, even without a fever. Likewise, if you're a pianist and can't play in any reasonable capacity because your hand is sore from tripping over yesterday, you can probably tell without a doctor.

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Jun 30, 2021 11:08

@Voo A fever is easy to quantify because temperature has become a ubiquitous marker. How would you tell if you don't have a fever? Or how do you tell your hand is broken enough to call in sick?

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Jun 30, 2021 09:23

@Voo Yet you can always self-diagnose a cold?

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Jun 30, 2021 06:02

@Donald You do realize there's people with sleeping disorders? Even if it's by happenstance, you would be equally ill and unable to function.

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Jun 30, 2021 06:02

There seems to be some misunderstanding how bad insufficient sleep can get. You don't "drink some caffeine" with 6 hours of sleep in 3 days, and it definitely qualifies as being ill.

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Apr 15, 2021 12:11

I was thinking the design choice wasn't obvious, until I realized this is just dependency injection.

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Nov 17, 2017 02:53

This doesn't explain why there wouldn't be a mix of both. There is just some tasks that just makes way more sense as a GUI, such as stackexchanging :). I'm thinking if they are doing cryogenics interstellar travel, touch control or some other form of input that isn't effected as much in unstable environments is somewhat within their technological prowess.