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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • The problem is that it is still relatively rare for someone to have the patience and attention to detail to be able to tell the computer exactly what they want from it. The fraction of people that have that kind of natural ability hasn’t changed that much, and it’s not really something you can train.

    So while the schools are pumping out more grads, the average quality of those entry level junior engineers is going down, down, down.

    This heartens me that there will still be a place those who can produce quality software. But the current situation is not going to do any favours for average software quality any time soon.

    Edit: I want to clarify something. I think anyone can be trained to write computer programs. The natural ability I’m talking about is actually the ability to tolerate programming day in and day out, as an occupation.


  • mkwt@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSomething's not adding up
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    1 month ago

    It’s actually because the thing that makes you make those faces is the acceleration, not the speed.

    All three reference frames shown are accelerated, non inertial frames. But the first two have “fictitious” centrifugal accelerations somewhere around 0.5-2.5 g. The third frame has a detectable centrifugal acceleration, but it’s like 0.003 g or something, and can be lumped in with gravity for many types of problems.










  • mkwt@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlEnd Monopoly & Restart
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    3 months ago

    Most games I’ve seen, nobody ever horse trades for color groups.

    Complex deals and negotiations, land swaps, leveraged buyouts, and free rent passes, are all supposed to be part of the game. Getting a color group solely by landing on the spaces first and buying them for list price is indeed rare, by design.

    This leads to my other pet peeve… You’re not supposed to have enough money to go around the board the first time and buy every space you land on at the list price. You’re supposed to be forced to make strategic decisions from the beginning of the game about what you go for, and what you bid in the auctions.

    Most of the made up “house rules” are really about circulating more money into the game than is supposed to be there.


  • You should also know that because of jail and various other teleports, the orange group is the most popular group on the board. It’s something like 1.8 times the average to land on those spaces, because two of them are 6 and 8 spaces from jail. Jail is a very popular space because Go To Jail also counts as Jail.

    Boardwalk has very high rents, but it’s also pretty unpopular to land on.

    The worst rent-to-popularity values are yellow and green.