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Comment #48893840
Awesome, thanks so much for open-sourcing! Will use it to generate my C.V. in Word format.
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Comment #48871235
Finally someone put my thought on this topic into words! (Hopefully the author used a suitably invisible tool to write this.)
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Comment #48548637
Well I've had more mixed experiences with other kinds of professions. Real estate agents have fibbed to me about the condition of the property, recruitment agents have misrepresent…
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Comment #48548566
But it's good that being virtuous is the "easy path" for them. That's how I want it to be. Why would I want to make it difficult or put impediments in the way of my doctors doing t…
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Comment #48540414
Admittedly this is anecdotal, but I've visited many doctors over the years, as a patient, and pretty much all of them treated me well, practiced their jobs professionally and gave …
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Comment #47497982
FWIW, I've been using AI, but instead of "max # of lines/commits", I'm optimising for "min # of pr comments/iterations/bugs". My goal is to end up with less/simpler code and more/b…
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Comment #47286416
Can you provide a link to this app? Or alternately, share a few of the prompts by which you built it? I only ask because, if it's really that easy/simple, I'd like to do the same t…
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Comment #46359963
No, it’s just getting started!
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Comment #46344485
Using LibreOffice with embedded open-source fonts to create a nicely formatted and portable CV
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Comment #42752865
TL;DR: To lose unwanted fat in a healthy, sustainable, frugal and environmentally-friendly way, follow a whole-food plant-based diet and maintain a calorie deficit over a long peri…
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Comment #41262416
I think this skill could save time in a very rushed business environment. A while back I wrote a prompt to build a script that runs git-reflog to get a the list of distinct authors…
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Comment #41262213
If you're looking to maximise employability / pay scale, maybe you can do some small side projects, just enough to showcase curiosity/open-mindedness. Examples: - Build a useful ba…
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Comment #40476464
Why to complain? Seems like heaven to me.
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Comment #40085156
> For most people—who won't solve complex math problems daily at work—the takeaway from learning math is not their mechanical ability at solving math problems. The takeaway is thei…
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Comment #40085141
I know what you mean, in fact I remember earlier on when I started the course, I had wanted to use these kinds of substitution techniques, etc. and thought I could finish the cours…
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Comment #40084405
Ok well thanks for the Algebra book recommendations, will see about working through those first.
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Comment #40083978
> this is one big hurdle in learning math backwards. You discover new missing pieces at every corner. Each missing piece leading to another missing piece. Yes this is exactly what …
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Comment #40083935
> My guess is that most people hit a wall of abstraction at certain point. I don't think it's a limit to their abstraction, I think it's that they didn't work properly on the funda…
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Comment #40083912
It serves a need just not my need! (As someone who's surprisingly bad at math and trying to undertake a Calculus pre-req to get into university!)
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Comment #40083902
> Yep, this is the number one reason people think they aren’t suited for math. Everything is built on everything else, and if you missed anything you’re screwed. It takes a while t…