I've been a financial advisor, business professor, and now I work as a Python programmer in finance and CS professor.
linkedin.com/in/aaronchall
I've been active on Stack Overflow for more than a couple of years, and now have my Python gold badge and am in the top 0.1% of all time by reputation, and consistently in the top 100 (.05%) for recent measures by month/quarter/year, and they say I've reached about 150 million people.
I'm now an elected moderator on Stack Overflow, and I try to consistently do the right thing for all users.
stackoverflow.com/users/541136
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Nix – Packaging Lib60870 with CMake – Jon Ringer, Jan 30, 2022
youtube.com
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Amazon Engineer Sues for Work from Home Costs
inc.com
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Wave of layoffs sweeping the US – firms announced cuts from Carvana to Netflix
businessinsider.com
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Why Shipping Container homeless shelters FAIL
youtube.com
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Celebrating South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut’s Soundtrack (2016)
denofgeek.com
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VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case, 2017
reuters.com
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Laziness Impatience Hubris
wiki.c2.com
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Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Targeting Couple
justice.gov
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Cool URIs Don't Change
w3.org
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A Highway (Used to) Run Through It
strongtowns.org
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Linux Foundation publicly announces ban of conference registrant on social media
twitter.com
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An Update to Our Community and an Apology
meta.stackexchange.com
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Firing mods and stealing content: Stack Exchange cooperating with community?
meta.stackexchange.com
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‘Virtue Signalling’ may annoy us but civilization would be impossible without it
quillette.com
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin
gutenberg.org
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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
fs.blog
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A Haskell Implementation of Conway's Game of Life, Viewable on the Console
I'm sure the day after Russia withdraws from Ukraine they're going to demand the pipeline from Russia be restored and everyone they suspect involved involved in the Nord Stream blasts extradited too.
I clicked through hoping you were wrong, saw the first page, and thought, ah, this is legible... then I got to the code blocks and was completely blinded.
I'm not sure what to tell authors of such pages...
Have you not read his very consistent and personally defended party platform? He also said that the communists were close enough in ideology to join his party.
The idea that the communists were the opposite of the Nazis and fascists was an idea spread by the communists to create confusion and try to improve their own image.
Ok, then for this you need minimum of two bits - one for kingside Rook and one for the queenside Rook, both would be set if you move the King. You also need to count moves since the last exchange or pawn move for the 50 move rule.
Castling requires no prior moves by either piece (King or Rook). Move the King once and back early on, and later, although the board looks set for castling, the King may not.
On these sites the idea is that answers belong in the top-level answer posts where they can be voted up and down for the purpose of sorting the competing ideas and forms of responses to the primary question post. Criticisms should remain in the comments until they are integrated and addressed in the answers, at which point they are obsolete and can be removed. Therefore chats belong elsewhere, and are helpfully moved into chat rooms, which you can click through to and read if you're interested.
I agree we should probably say "licenses" and not "medallions" when talking about policies all over the world, it's just that medallions are known as the worst example of corruption and regulatory capture, protecting incumbents while incredibly claiming this helped stranded people who need to get home when no taxis can be found.
At the peak these licenses were going for a million dollars each.
I think Uber, Lyft, and others are serving a great good in substituting for taxis in filling the need for road travelers. Taxi drivers may argue that the drivers are being abused, but we can't all have (nor do we all want) jobs with lots of protections.
Being a driver should be a job anyone could take while on the road to reaching their dreams in life, and not restricted to a lucky few who demanded the government give them a monopoly on the gig.
- No commute to middle school, which returned me an hour of my day right there.
- No bullying from the soon-to-be dropouts.
- No gross school lunches or having to tote around a smelly lunchbag/box/cooler.
- No carrying a pile of books everywhere because the administration banned bookbags (drugs or weapons or something like that...), and no dealing with the worst students who always had their hands free because they didn't care if they had their books.
- I went as fast as I wanted through my Algebra textbook (doing up to 8 lessons a day.)
- Went to a science class taught every Friday in the next city over with demonstrations of chemistry and physics.
- Played my trombone the homeschool band, we performed at Disney World and local recitals too.
- Made some friends in the homeschool group.
- I disliked the English and History exercises but I did them in weekly batches to get them done. And I read lots of books from the big city's library which was far superior to the school or local city's library that I would have to use later when high school let out.
If I had stuck with the homeschooling system I could have finished my BS at the same time I finished high school by taking all my classes at the local university - but I would have probably not double-majored.
My experience with home-schooling gave me a big insight to my high school experience. I asked for privileges such as staying in classrooms during lunch or pep-rallies to play chess or read, and I usually got them because I was well-behaved, respectful, and demonstrated I could be trusted.
But I also resented the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the public school administration's dictates built around maintaining order due to worst behaving students (for example, I couldn't wear a ball-cap on a bad hair day because the resource officer caught kids hiding drugs in caps - knocking a cap off would start brutal fighting). Compared to that system, homeschooling was a kind of utopia to me.
The only downside was not being around the friends that I grew up with. Fewer birthday parties and such. But there was more hanging out with a much smaller set of friends who were all homeschooling, and making new friends in the local homeschool resource group. I went back to high school in 9th grade on the theory that I missed my friends and wanted to be involved in student government and other clubs. But they weren't as friendly as I remembered, and student government and the other clubs did basically nothing. So I spent my 12th grade year at the local university full time, which gave me the freedom I sorely missed from 8th grade. My only regret was not doing it sooner.
This is what I use, and it works really well on a simple site like this one.
In Chrome, go to chrome://flags and search for Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents and select "Enabled" (or a similar option, I prefer "Enabled with increased text contrast" sometimes.)
That said, it shouldn't be hard for the site to add a bit of css like:
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
...
and thus respect the preferences of the users without having to resort to using a specific browser, plugins (whose code may or may not have vulnerabilities), or whatever user hacks we can come up with. (@dang, what do you think?)
linkedin.com/in/aaronchall
I've been active on Stack Overflow for more than a couple of years, and now have my Python gold badge and am in the top 0.1% of all time by reputation, and consistently in the top 100 (.05%) for recent measures by month/quarter/year, and they say I've reached about 150 million people.
I'm now an elected moderator on Stack Overflow, and I try to consistently do the right thing for all users.
stackoverflow.com/users/541136