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Definitely useful for IFR procedures and such, but so much of basic skill is VFR, looking outside. Last I tried a sim on screens, it was like watching a movie through a keyhole. I guess VR goggles are finally an option now, but even then, you don't get bodily feedback. Can you really learn turn coordination without having felt it in the seat of your pants?

> Worst case scenario it creates expensive pee.

Well, that's one thing you don't need to worry about. Vitamin D is fat-soluble, so any excess isn't excreted in urine (hence the arguments over effective vs. excessive dosage).

> allowed any number of letters in a variable name... but only the first two were recognised as unique.

That was a well-known Microsoft BASIC feature that got passed down licensed descendants like TRS-80 and Commodore BASIC, and lasted through earlier 6502 BASIC implementations.

She can make those packs go a LONG way, given enough rising time, with superior flavor to boot. E.g. the pizza dough with poolish in Ken Forkish's book "Flour Water Salt Yeast" uses 0.4g dry yeast per 1kg of flour.

Can firewall punching work without proxying all traffic over the server?

Reminds me of a seemingly smart and reasonable doctor I once saw for an annual check. Upon hearing that I'd been taking 3,000 IU, the guy completely Lost. His. Shit. I got a lecture about not going against FDA recommendations, which is 400 IU. The "outdated brainbase" phenomenon with doctors is too real.

At one job (porting a colossal legacy UI to Windows), I deleted thousands of LOC every day for months. Coworkers called me "the decoder." 25 years later I'm probably still net negative.

> Trivium: WJR is the author of "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo".

You're off by a couple of buffalo :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

It made me discover that you can select a range in Chrome history by Shift-clicking the end.

I was no particular fan of children or parenting before, but eventually I decided that raising children is such a significant part of the human experience, I'd be opting out on a huge chunk of what this life has to offer. Sure, it has major downsides and risks, but is also unmatched in its potential emotional and existential rewards. Going without may be perfectly rational for a given person, but for me, the opportunity cost tradeoff weighed in favor. That said, I became a father in my 40s after having had a pretty good run already, and that's definitely not something I would do any differently.

TL;DR: YOLO/FOMO.

Wow, she managed to type "^Zkill %1"?

And powerlifters lift more weight than weightlifters.

Not to defend the system, the incentives are clearly not well-aligned, but I also just went through this process had an unexpectedly great experience with my buyer's agent, whom I found through a referral.

He was professional, ethical, and actually took his fiduciary duty seriously. He didn't claim to find listings that I wouldn't have myself, but guided my search a bit based on my criteria, gave candid feedback on them and what to look for, and bargained on the price with the seller harder than I would have, saving me more than his commission. When I discovered a potential issue with the property and had second thoughts pre-close, he didn't try to discourage me one bit from letting a done deal fall through, and was ready to support my decision. And he set up the many appointments with the seller's agents, handled the literal ream of closing paperwork, dotted the i's and crossed the t's, and made this whole convoluted process go smoothly. From my end, he more than deserved his commission he got out of the deal, and he will certainly have my future business buying or selling.

Same thing with F-2 holders (spouses of F-1 student visas). In contrast, J-2 holders (spouses of J-1 exchange students) are allowed to work.

I am a scientist/engineer/mathematician who studied the hell out of abstract mathematics at an extremely rigorous undergrad program. In the 20 years since, not once has that knowledge been useful in my academic or industrial work, not even remotely. I am all for studying theory for its own sake, for the career theoretician and the interested hobbyist, but as an investment I regret those four years of my life as a colossal waste of time.

You are conflating two separate things. Stalls in the aerodynamic sense (angle-of-attack above critical) have nothing to do with the engine "stalling" (engine-out) which is a mechanical failure.

It's easy to fool the audience, but for the pianist it's still night and day. And I don't mean just emulating the control input, though that's not easy either, but more the subtle haptic feedback from the entire instrument- that makes you feel like it's not only you playing the piano, but also the piano is playing you.

C. Elegans can develop tumors, but only in the germ line (gamete-producing) cells, which are the only stem cells. There are no adult somatic stem cells, i.e. no ability for repair, so no mechanism for cancer growth in the body.

That said, many of the pathways that are central to mammalian cancers are there in C. Elegans, which still makes it a valuable model organism for cancer research.

Not unless the program happens to use the common subset between the two BASIC dialects, which probably rules out any graphics and sound. A text adventure game, maybe.

> The Berklee "Jazz Improvisation" class taught by Gary Burton. [...] On the down side, skill levels of the students varied widely, so peer review was more miss than hit.

100% miss for me. The main thing I learned from that course is that a "MOOC" relying on peer review for feedback is a colossal waste of time, and should have stayed as a video lecture series.

Nice, and apparently you're not the only one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

"The bus factor is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, from the phrase 'in case they get hit by a bus'. It is also known as the lottery factor, ..."

The article is about the Middle Ages in Europe, and points out that syphilis didn't appear in Europe until the very end of the 15th century.

Crimean Tatar national dish, through the diaspora in Turkey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebureki

> I'm a third-year Computer Science student

Make sure you take, as soon as possible, all the AI & ML courses your department offers. If prerequisites are holding you back, try to negotiate or audit. (Some of my key insights date back to graduate-level AI classes they humored me to sit in on when I was a freshman.)

MOOCs are great for people who don't have that option, but you have the opportunity to ask questions, get course credit for your work, bolster your GPA, show it on your transcript, network with classmates, etc.

Use seq_len(n) instead of 1:n to get an empty vector for n=0.

There's also seq_along(x) instead of 1:length(x).

Some years ago I spent a few weeks trying to develop absolute pitch, and I made enough progress to see that it was possible, but that it would also take a lot of time and effort better spent improving other aspects of musicianship. To have absolute pitch early and effortlessly is a huge help no doubt, but it would add little value for an already proficient musician with strong relative pitch.

FWIW, I've been very satisfied with mine for three years now. It's a much firmer foam than memory foam, and gives me just the right amount of support for side sleeping.

Back in my day, people met their partners in the course of normal social interaction. Weird, right? Like, you'd meet a friend of a friend, or be someplace fun and meet other people having fun. Super weird. Sure, online dating casts a much wider net, and there's something to be said for moving your thumb to make attractive strangers appear at your door, but the old way was efficient. More information up front meant fewer false starts and less time wasted. It was essentially speed-dating without the handholding. It wasn't that hard; you just had to get out and go somewhere, and you know, socialize.

Now with a whole new generation too averse to even talking on their phone over texting, it's probably becoming another lost art. We have managed to hack a process evolved over human civilization, only to replace it with a mildly less inconvenient but overall poorer and addictive substitute.

Ha! I remember discovering this as a teenager, that I didn't have to actually tidy up my room/desk to avoid getting yelled at, as long as I aligned everything in place at right angles. It's always good to put a name on the phenomenon.

Wow. How is that possible with non-local bandwidth and latency?