Excellent article. In this vein, are there any books, articles, or other media that we can learn more of these sorts of principles from?
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necessary commented on Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/andsoitis
Generally, it is true that writing by hand is better for recall and memory. However, teachers often use this as a justification to force students to handwrite everything, which can be very counterproductive for a subset of students.
I am currently in high school and have taken 17 AP classes. I have tried taking notes time and time again and have consistently found that they do not help me at all. I have a 3.99 GPA, 1570/1600 SAT, and have received 5s on all of my AP Exams. I know how to study and know what works best for me. I am not a notes person, and when teachers force their "scientific" teaching methods upon me, it does nothing but harm my learning and waste time.
I love the idea of science being incorporated into learning but we need to make sure students are allowed to discover what works best for them.
That’s quite impressive, care to share what does work for you?
necessary commented on I started a little math club in Bangalore teachyourselfmath.app/clu... · Posted by u/viveknathani_
Nice to see adults (re)learning math. It's one of the rare subjects that are guaranteed to provide "knowledge buzz" and also widely applicable.
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Thanks for posting these - these books look like exactly what I have been looking for recently! I'm someone who procrastinated and crammed my way through high school and undergrad level maths and then promptly forgot all of it once I finished schooling. I plan on working through them soon. Hopefully this isn't an annoying question, but do you still intend to publish a guide to statistics?
necessary commented on On loyalty to your employer (2018) medium.com/hackernoon/on-... · Posted by u/Peroni
very strong antiwork sentiment these days. It's sad. The employers are taking a risk by hiring you and paying you, and you should work as hard as you can during business hours. That ethic is very rare in tech but is somewhat common in every other industry I've worked in.
Why must employees put in 100% effort? Where does that expectation come from? I’d be surprised if most companies put in 100% effort to support each employee.
Isn’t it all about expectations in the end? The company expects you to meet some set of goals. Conversely, you expect the company to give you benefits and payment.
Can you illuminate the legitimate reasoning behind the OP then? If you have a claim that people have the wrong idea about Trump, then why not provide some of your own evidence?
necessary commented on A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate bitecode.dev/p/a-year-of-... · Posted by u/bertdb
Like so many other articles that make some offhand remarks about conda, this article raves about a bunch of "new" features that conda has had for years.
> Being independent from Python bootstrapping
Yep, conda.
> Being capable of installing and running Python in one unified congruent way across all situations and platforms.
Yep, conda.
> Having a very strong dependency resolver.
Yep, conda (or mamba).
The main thing conda doesn't seem to have which uv has is all the "project management" stuff. Which is fine, it's clear people want that. But it's weird to me to see these articles that are so excited about being able to install Python easily when that's been doable with conda for ages. (And conda has additional features not present in uv or other tools.)
The pro and con of tools like uv is that they layer over the base-level tools like pip. The pro of that is that they interoperate well with pip. The con is that they inherit the limitations of that packaging model (notably the inability to distribute non-Python dependencies separately).
That's not to say uv is bad. It seems like a cool tool and I'm intrigued to see where it goes.
The killer feature of uv for me is much faster uv pip install -r requirements.txt.
necessary commented on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO tomshardware.com/laptops/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Then post a corrected example that proves your point?
necessary commented on Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers uchu.style... · Posted by u/NetOpWibby
Who exactly is hurt by the naming of this project?
necessary commented on Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia github.com/hoppscotch/hop... · Posted by u/the_arun
> Plenty of the software I use on a daily basis is open source software where you could argue that the economics shouldn’t have been there.
Me too. But the problem with "the economics just aren't there" means that if I cannot get, just from word-of-mouth (say, a Show HN post) 100 users @ $10 once-off lifetime purchase, then this is not a product that is in demand anyway. An open-source/free product that is exactly the same would similarly receive no love from users.
IOW, if not enough users exist for this product at $10, not enough users exist for this product at $0. Your passion product will still result in the dev burning out on the fact that no one wants their passion enough.
Doesn’t that depend on the buyer? I can think of several products that I would only use if free, and would go without if it was $1, $5, or $10. E.g. todo list apps, time tracker apps, budgeting apps.
I think you can argue that, if you have enough demand at $10, that you’ll have enough at $0, but I don’t see how not having demand at $10 implies that you won’t have demand at $0, since usually making something cheaper can change buyer’s minds.