trentmb

Less energy loss?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...

Fill every room with Peace lilys or Florist's chrysanthemum.

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

My comments were in bad faith, parodying anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Thank you for being patient enough to post the level headed comment you did.

Not sure why I got downvoted- why shouldn't these people be denied access to a certain geographical area and all its splendors before undergoing some, say, "naturalization" process?

> It's not so much gatekeeping as ensuring people who want to experience that beauty have to put in the work - read terribly-designed websites, meet actual people and gain their trust, or even take a backcountry travel class which hopefully instills a healthy respect for the environment you're enjoying.

Or we could build more walls.

It should read "free" "two-day" shipping.

At some point, I was waiting a week for my Prime packages to arrive. So I cancelled my subscription.

Now I wait a week for my packages to arrive.

I dont have hobbies. I stare at a screen 40 hours a week then go home and sleep a lot.

My undergrad was in mathematics. I routinely failed midterms, but would ace the final exams.

I generally felt that, by the end of the term, I understood the material and simply had more time during the final exam than the midterms.

A particular years GDP isn't a per year unit, is it?

Everybody poops.

Because in a capitalist dystopia or an anarchist commune, I need other people to want to help me.

> but I also believe that humanities should master at least basic calculus.

I always manage to astound people by mentioning that Marx independently developed foundations of differential calculus[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_manuscripts_of_Ka...

Facebook isnt a user facing CRUD app with business analytics for advertisers?

Or climate change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-earth-warms-th...

> This will be my last year of Prime.

The refunded me the pro-rated balance of my subscription when I cancelled a year or two ago.

  Location: Western Illinois, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: PHP7, jQuery flavored JavaScript
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O93oOyRU_jElqQqiink2yDGDfUh9HlZ2/view
  Email: trentbradley (at) gmail.com

Looking for entry level/junior positions, preferably as a back end developer (in something other than PHP), but feel up to full stack.

Not gonna lie- I don't think I understand the difference. Every explanation seems to bounce off and over my thick skull.

Yeah, I was a student at math.illinois.edu, but did a CS minor- man, that major had the highest proportion of fuckheads I've ever encountered.

> One thing that struck me is how much he reads. He had a list of suggested books to read in the back page, and there were probably hundreds

Here's the list, from the ebook I have at least:

  - Abrahams, Peter: A Perfect Crime
  - Abrahams, Peter: Lights Out
  - Abrahams, Peter: Pressure Drop
  - Abrahams, Peter: Revolution #9
  - Agee, James: A Death in the Family
  - Bakis, Kirsten: Lives of the Monster Dogs
  - Barker, Pat: Regeneration
  - Barker, Pat: The Eye in the Door
  - Barker, Pat: The Ghost Road
  - Bausch, Richard: In the Night Season
  - Blauner, Peter: The Intruder
  - Bowles, Paul: The Sheltering Sky
  - Boyle, T. Coraghessan: The Tortilla Curtain
  - Bryson, Bill: A Walk in the Woods
  - Buckley, Christopher: Thank You for Smoking
  - Carver, Raymond: Where I’m Calling From
  - Chabon, Michael: Werewolves in Their Youth
  - Chorlton, Windsor: Latitude Zero
  - Connelly, Michael: The Poet
  - Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
  - Constantine, K. C.: Family Values
  - DeLillo, Don: Underworld
  - DeMille, Nelson: Cathedral
  - DeMille, Nelson: The Gold Coast
  - Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist
  - Dobyns, Stephen: Common Carnage
  - Dobyns, Stephen: The Church of Dead Girls
  - Doyle, Roddy: The Woman Who Walked into Doors
  - Elkin, Stanley: The Dick Gibson Show
  - Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
  - Garland, Alex: The Beach
  - George, Elizabeth: Deception on His Mind
  - Gerritsen, Tess: Gravity
  - Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
  - Gray, Muriel: Furnace
  - Greene, Graham: A Gun for Sale (aka This Gun for Hire)
  - Greene, Graham: Our Man in Havana
  - Halberstam, David: The Fifties
  - Hamill, Pete: Why Sinatra Matters
  - Harris, Thomas: Hannibal
  - Haruf, Kent: Plainsong
  - Hoeg, Peter: Smilla’s Sense of Snow
  - Hunter, Stephen: Dirty White Boys
  - Ignatius, David: A Firing Offense
  - Irving, John: A Widow for One Year
  - Joyce, Graham: The Tooth Fairy
  - Judd, Alan: The Devil’s Own Work
  - Kahn, Roger: Good Enough to Dream
  - Karr, Mary: The Liars’ Club
  - Ketchum, Jack: Right to Life
  - King, Tabitha: Survivor
  - King, Tabitha: The Sky in the Water (unpublished)
  - Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
  - Krakauer, Jon: Into Thin Air
  - Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
  - Lefkowitz, Bernard: Our Guys
  - Little, Bentley: The Ignored
  - Maclean, Norman: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
  - Maugham, W. Somerset: The Moon and Sixpence
  - McCarthy, Cormac: Cities of the Plain
  - McCarthy, Cormac: The Crossing
  - McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes
  - McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy
  - McDevitt, Jack: Ancient Shores
  - McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love
  - McEwan, Ian: The Cement Garden
  - McMurtry, Larry: Dead Man’s Walk
  - McMurtry, Larry, and Diana Ossana: Zeke and Ned
  - Miller, Walter M.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
  - Oates, Joyce Carol: Zombie
  - O’Brien, Tim: In the Lake of the Woods
  - O’Nan, Stewart: The Speed Queen
  - Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient
  - Patterson, Richard North: No Safe Place
  - Price, Richard: Freedomland
  - Proulx, Annie: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
  - Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News
  - Quindlen, Anna: One True Thing
  - Rendell, Ruth: A Sight for Sore Eyes
  - Robinson, Frank M.: Waiting
  - Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  - Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban
  - Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
  - Russo, Richard: Mohawk
  - Schwartz, John Burnham: Reservation Road
  - Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy
  - Shaw, Irwin: The Young Lions
  - Slotkin, Richard: The Crater
  - Smith, Dinitia: The Illusionist
  - Spencer, Scott: Men in Black
  - Stegner, Wallace: Joe Hill
  - Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
  - Tyler, Anne: A Patchwork Planet
  - Vonnegut, Kurt: Hocus Pocus
  - Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
  - Westlake, Donald E.: The Ax

Thats the plan, up until last week ive been without a personal computer though.

I feel like im in the authors worst case scenario, as a PHP dev coming up on three years experience, im having a hard time even getting interviews at java/.net shops.

I've lost track of the times ive heard "you have a math degree? Not CS?"

No.

> Is this something that actually happens, in large?

No, but it lets mediocre people feel good about themselves.

Maybe you do business with someone that does have a footprint in the EU? They can put the screws to them I guess.

I imagine visiting an EU member would be unwise as well.

Patrice O'Neal had an amusing bit about receipts as well.

Who's hiring? At the junior/entry level?

I wish I had the discipline to read more. Even when I finally get myself to sit down with a book I always find myself zoning out.

> If you got into the drivers seat at 0.07 you are doing something wrong.

Then change the law so .07 instead of .08.

Shoveling data into an ML library is relatively straightforward compared to understanding what that library is doing and why.