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nsfmc

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About nsfmc

http://nsfmc.tumblr.com and also http://generic.cx

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    you listen to the audio and try to determine if you can either read or understand the audio. it's repeated twice, once formally and once casually, so good for listening practice, b…

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    > For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash. i'll just say, and i understand this is not the point of the article …

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    Comment #43733726

    unless... maybe... https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-pos...

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    Comment #43270626

    my read as a US person is that math academy is optimized towards students who would otherwise be well served by an in-person supplemental math program. at the earlier grades for ma…

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    i suspect that a lot of people applying to a lot of jobs and not hearing back are applying via an inbound webform or even, unknowingly, through an agency or intermediary like Indee…

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    Comment #42113046

    this has happened to me once, appropriately enough with some hauntology tracks. the songs are weirdly enough still available in the ios app to play but not to download via the web.…

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    Comment #41359702

    the unicode angle is great for moving sparklines back into the terminal especially making it into a postgres function, since it makes so much ad-hoc analysis easier at the point of…

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    Comment #39366856

    i think the library's approach to DI is pretty neat (and meets a team where they are which is worth a lot), but i think you're running into an issue where people are saying that in…

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    i'm pretty sure this is allowed as Transformative Use (in the usa) (unless the science fiction book was full of patented inventions still covered by patent law then i think maybe y…

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    i'm not sure if you're serious, but the california public utilities commision's public advocates office (what a mouthful) describes california's rates as generally higher than most…

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    i submitted a few shows to this and included a handful of stills to go along with it, it was an a+ contribution process, but there was still a lot of work i didn't do, so i can app…

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    Comment #38282505

    here's another piece in the issue that addresses your concern https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-consid...

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    i won't speak for gabe, but i (hispanic) had two distinct (and memorable) instances at mit where a classmate told me, to my face, that the only reason i was at mit was because i wa…

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    that site is not really suitable for mass consumption, iirc it used to even have a caveat that said it really only existed to make certain leaf nodes sharable. it's basically a per…

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    Comment #35781273

    that's great context, i started having a flashback to hypepitch around thegrid.io when i started reading the copy.

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    Comment #34904222

    an earlier newsletter shows this distressing graph of teen suicides and, shocker, boys are doing terribly, a suicide rate at least three times more than girls, but the author seems…

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    Comment #30713268

    i believe the slideshow issue is actually a limitation of the apple tv's apis having changed around the time that the aerial screensaver came out and not getting updated to support…

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    Comment #20638581

    great, now you have a native client but now your customers will expect that it works offline, so now you're building a sync system for your app. additionally, if your app has any d…

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    What a Misunderstanding! ?

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    Comment #19813700

    > I can't tell if the author has done a real analysis course before, but if they haven't that's the one they should choose next... I don't see the utility of re-doing calculus or l…

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    Comment #19439436

    i perhaps have diminished standards, but i found steam link over ethernet to be totally serviceable for playing through most of hyper light drifter on a controller. the input lag w…

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    i tried this and found it to be pretty satisfying. i played entirely on a macbook while traveling during my winter vacation. It worked surprisingly well even with mixed wifi, i wou…

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    Comment #18860908

    in california, you can apply to get your first year of community college free ( https://home.cccapply.org/money/california-college-promise-g... ), there's an assembly bill ( http:/…