jknz

Why wouldn't apple allow to remove all animations when switching desktops, without disabling SIP?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/434555/can-you-com...

Native keyboard shortcuts are there for all to use to switch desktops, but the fading in/out animations that last around 1s completely prevent fast desktop switches as is so useful in i3/sway.

jknz

3년 전discuss

Millions of families make this reasoning and spend $30k or more per year and per kid from age 2. Very few of these kids make it to Harvard or other top 4 colleges, maybe 1 will become president.

Sane Western countries have free and decent public education; and parents can't withdraw their future retirement early to fund dreams.

jknz

4년 전discuss

The GP is unclear as to whether the loan happened before or after the friend obtained a job offer. Loaning moving expenses money to someone who just got a high-paying job offer and needs the moving money to start the job does not sound that risky.

jknz

4년 전discuss

A field is more delicate if it needs to be enlarged (into a larger field) for all polynomials with coefficients in the field to have roots. There is rich and intricate structure in the possible successive enlargements.

For the field C of complex numbers, all polynomials already have roots so there is no need to enlarge. In that sense the complex field has much less structure than the smaller ones (Z, Q, R).

jknz

5년 전discuss

Start a jupyterqtconsole and use vim-jupyter.

With vim and the qtconsole side by side you can send lines and selections (or entire cells delimited with #%%) to execute in the qtconsole. Plots appear in the qtconsole.

jknz

5년 전discuss

Mathoverflow is for level research questions.

Homework type questions (anything before PhD student level) are typically asked on https://math.stackexchange.com/

jknz

5년 전discuss

Since Covid, NYC daycares have uniformly updated their sick policy. Child has fever or one diarrhea, has to wait home 3 days before returning. E.g.: Daycare calls the parents to pick up a sick child on Tuesday midday, child can return next Monday at the earliest.

While it used to just barely make sense to send kids to daycare for parents with 2 kids with each parent earning $120,000, it is now simply impossible unless a parent stops working or both parents have extremely flexible jobs where they can put their professional duties on hold for half a week without notice.

jknz

5년 전discuss

> The loss of arts and social sciences would be a catastrophe for the academic world.

But a blessing for most students who need a job to pay their student debts after graduation. Sacrificing art students by taking their tuition knowing no or too few jobs exist is unacceptable. Keeping social sciences and art departments alive should require a source of money that does not create non-dischargeanle student debts and jobless students.

jknz

5년 전discuss

To avoid confrontation in the 48h window, a good squatter strategy is to target summer or weekend houses that have typically other weekend houses next to it so that neighbours aren't there and won't alert the owner.

Then squatters move in in two steps. First they do a small break in and leave, observing whether someone notices and fixes the first break in. If the first break in goes unnoticed, it is probably safe to move in, change the locks and squat there permanently as nobody will confront them in the 48h window.

jknz

5년 전discuss

If you leave the property unattended and squatters move in, after 48h of them being on the property, you cannot have law enforcement kick them out and have to use the courts for months of proceedings.

jknz

5년 전discuss

Super rich people have the same phone as me. They got the same vaccine as me. The same flue as everyone else can knock them down every winter. On average their kids die with the same frequency and for the same reasons as mine.

Once you get a decent salary utity of money decreases badly.

jknz

6년 전discuss

I don't think name calling the EU as bullies advances anything. It is unsubstantiated and sounds like political speak and click-bait.

The problem of unsustainable debts of EU countries is complex. Debts cannot be fully forgotten as this sets an unsustainable precedent. Full austerity isn't sustainable either. Any reasonable solution will be nuanced.

By the way the same issue will arise soon enough to another EU country or to some US state. Will the US feds be bullies by telling states their debts cannot be forgotten?

jknz

6년 전discuss

> Part of the student debt crisis are families making poor economic choices.

I am not sure families are the ones to blame here. Astronomical tuition and loan interests that cannot be forgotten in bankruptcy is a predatory combo.

In the European countries you mention no student start their professional like with $50k-100k in unforgivable debt.

jknz

6년 전discuss

I found the second best definition of the urban dictionary greatly refreshing. Quoting it here:

> beg the question

> Phrase that is now used instead of "raises the question" due to the fact that the true definition is unintelligible to most people, and has little to do with an actual question.

> Best not to use it at all, as you will either sound ignorant to geeks, or geeky to regular people.

[1]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beg%20the%20...

jknz

6년 전discuss

The victim is a real person with a PhD thesis that anyone can read.

Why would someone jeopardize his reputation by using his real name on some kind of staging of a fake account swap? I kindly disagree with your second sentence.

jknz

6년 전discuss

There is some evidence of some kind of takeover though. Searching for site:http://instagram.com/danny in google, the first result is the following:

    Danny (@danny) • Instagram photos and videos
    www.instagram.com › danny
    8690 Followers, 134 Following, 100 Posts - See Instagram 
    photos and videos from Danny (@danny)

This is still in Google's cache. The current instagram profile is very different.

jknz

6년 전discuss

alias rg="rg" might be more flexible as it allows you to specifify a root folder to search in as well as other options.

edit: The previous sentence is a joke. This should not take away the usefulness and polish of kb.

jknz

6년 전discuss

How do you reassure users that someone else won't pick their bags? Are there lockers in the secure storage room?

Do you have insurance for lost/unrecoverable luggage?

jknz

6년 전discuss

> I see it more as hostility to the HR policies in place at some of the companies. A new parent at facebook gets 4 months leave after the birth and then can take another 10 weeks of family leave.

It's not like facebook employees typically have 10 kids. The benefits you mention happen once, twice and rarely three or more times in a lifetime.

This policy also means that younger employees will be able to enjoy the same policy if they become parents in the next 20 years.

jknz

6년 전discuss

Managing remote school sessions plus my work was a mess.

I made my 10 and 12yo kids drop their remote school stuff and work with me instead. The young one is responsible for slack, keeping everyone in the living room updated and replying with text and the occasional gif, he also summarizes with voice important incoming emails. Older one writes python code alongside me and I now mostly check her syntax. She learned git at the beginning of the pandemic and my manager is now impressed that commits from us get pushed while I am on the phone with him.

The kids drafted an email yesterday to ask for a raise and align my compensation with that of 1senior+2juniors SWE. Fingers crossed

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