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uhvegr | [Duncan Yo Yo's 1976](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqykR14O3Y) | It was a huge fad at our school. I was actually trying to remember if this came before or after the clickety clacks. But for a while everyone had a yoyo.
IIRC, the trick is in the tensioning of the string. The string splits and rejoins around the hub, the center of the yoyo. In normal use, the string twists and g... | 30 | AskOldPeople |
uhy9wd | Theoretically, could I create some sort of program to compile clips of every single time the word “balls” is said on any channel on my cable box for something like 20 years? Resources unlimited. | Not sure if you could monitor every channel with one cable box, but if you found a way to do it then it's entirely possible. | 30 | AskComputerScience |
uhy9wd | Theoretically, could I create some sort of program to compile clips of every single time the word “balls” is said on any channel on my cable box for something like 20 years? Resources unlimited. | Especially if you decode the closed captioning. That would be much less work.
You would get lots of baseball broadcasts. | 30 | AskComputerScience |
ui1ot6 | Let's keep track of latest trends we are seeing in IT. What technologies are folks seeing that are hot or soon to be hot? What skills are in high demand? Which job markets are hot? Are folks seeing a lot of jobs out there?
Let's talk about all of that in this thread! | The floodgates are open. I haven't seen this many non-IT people trying to get into IT since the dot com days. This is creating a weird situation where although there are tons of open jobs, there are even more applicants competing for those jobs. This is primarily impacting the entry-level roles - there are still a lot ... | 340 | ITCareerQuestions |
ui2cjr | I recently turned 20 and I’m going through a thing where I’m not quite sure how I’m perceived. Am I a kid? Am I a grown up you view as a fellow adult? I want to know how you or general society sees someone my age as because I feel like it’s sort of a weird middle stage | You look like something that just hatched—weirdly fragile and clumsy despite obvious physical vitality. | 1,990 | AskOldPeople |
ui2cjr | I recently turned 20 and I’m going through a thing where I’m not quite sure how I’m perceived. Am I a kid? Am I a grown up you view as a fellow adult? I want to know how you or general society sees someone my age as because I feel like it’s sort of a weird middle stage | 20 year olds are baby adults.
Self-sufficient, but still not all the way formed.
I would treat you as an adult, though. | 1,450 | AskOldPeople |
ui2cjr | I recently turned 20 and I’m going through a thing where I’m not quite sure how I’m perceived. Am I a kid? Am I a grown up you view as a fellow adult? I want to know how you or general society sees someone my age as because I feel like it’s sort of a weird middle stage | As somebody that cares how they're perceived.
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I'm too old to care about it any more. | 1,270 | AskOldPeople |
ui4kog | what did people do when they were depressed before SSRIs? | Blamed themselves, denied, tried to suck it up, white knuckled life until it passed. If they were unable to function at all there were antidepressants, the side effect profile just made them very undesirable and a last resort. | 1,270 | AskOldPeople |
ui4kog | what did people do when they were depressed before SSRIs? | Tricyclic antidepressants were the first generation of drugs used to treat depression. They often worked and were a big step forward from ineffective non-drug treatments. But they had side effects including tiredness. weight gain, and the danger of overdose. | 740 | AskOldPeople |
ui4kog | what did people do when they were depressed before SSRIs? | They suffered. Therapy wasn't even a thing most people would consider either (at least not in the Netherlands). That was for 'crazy' people, and I didn't feel crazy. In retrospect, I probably did have depression though. (Not anymore, thank goodness!) | 560 | AskOldPeople |
ui7nyj | With recent supreme court leaks there has been a large number of questions regarding the leak itself and also numerous questions on how the supreme court works, the structure of US government, and the politics surrounding the issues. Because of this we have decided to bring back the US Politics Megathread.
**Post all... | If the supreme court overturns gay marriage is there any actions they can take to making gender affirming procedures and HRT illegal? | 30 | NoStupidQuestions |
ui7nyj | With recent supreme court leaks there has been a large number of questions regarding the leak itself and also numerous questions on how the supreme court works, the structure of US government, and the politics surrounding the issues. Because of this we have decided to bring back the US Politics Megathread.
**Post all... | Can't Biden just pardon anyone who gets an abortion? | 30 | NoStupidQuestions |
uib0kf | im a high school drop out with no math experience and i know its a long road but i really want to learn compsci and i need help knowing what sort of math i should focus on and learn for this job, i hear calc 1,2 and 3 also discrete math but idk where to start and learn. any help is much appreciated thanks! | Compsci is a broad field. Personally I like the architecture and I suggest you this youtube playlist about cpu architecture which can be useful to understand what computer language is. It can help you to get into compsci.
How computers work - Building Scott's CPU: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnAxReCloSeTJc8... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
uicq7b | I’m currently 23 and can’t even imagine myself or what I will be like when I’m in my 70’s/80’s. I’ve heard that at this point time starts really speeding up, and I’m just wondering how true you guys think that is?
Edit: thank you all for your replies. It’s been very insightful | Faster than you can imagine. | 960 | AskOldPeople |
uicq7b | I’m currently 23 and can’t even imagine myself or what I will be like when I’m in my 70’s/80’s. I’ve heard that at this point time starts really speeding up, and I’m just wondering how true you guys think that is?
Edit: thank you all for your replies. It’s been very insightful | This is what it felt like for me: I blinked my eyes at 23 and I was suddenly 67
It comes so fast it will blow your mind | 460 | AskOldPeople |
uicq7b | I’m currently 23 and can’t even imagine myself or what I will be like when I’m in my 70’s/80’s. I’ve heard that at this point time starts really speeding up, and I’m just wondering how true you guys think that is?
Edit: thank you all for your replies. It’s been very insightful | It's true up to a point due to the fact that it's a matter of perspective. At 10 a week is a pretty significant portion of your life. At 60 it is less so.
Does time speed up? Technically no. But any given portion of time becomes a smaller fraction of your life, so it can easily seem to be passing faster. | 420 | AskOldPeople |
uieq53 | I have a bunch of questions asking me to find the Big-theta bounds for some recurrences (assume that adequate base cases exist for each).
One example is T(n) = T(n-1) + n
Would the answer be Big-Theta(n) or am I missing something else? | Nope. In this case, you can solve for T(n) as an explicit equation: if T(0) = 0, then T(n) is the sum of all integers from 0 to n inclusive, which means T(n) = n*(n+1)/2, which is Θ(n^(2)). | 50 | AskComputerScience |
uij5os | Is it worth it to work through rough patches in a marriage if you’re young? Do older people married many years have many issues they’ve overcome? | Been with my husband for 44 years, married for 39. We have had several occasions when I thought 'I'm done with this nonsense.'
The first time was what I call the second year slump. We'd been married for a little over a year, and he couldn't be bothered to buy me a birthday present, because he 'didn't know what to get'... | 2,290 | AskOldPeople |
uij5os | Is it worth it to work through rough patches in a marriage if you’re young? Do older people married many years have many issues they’ve overcome? | It depends on the issues.
Finances? My husband and I have very different attitudes, but after we implemented a "yours, mine, and ours" system, we were good. We each agreed on what was fair to contribute to shared expenses, and the rest went into our personal accounts to do with as we wished. We have never, ever had a... | 2,020 | AskOldPeople |
uij5os | Is it worth it to work through rough patches in a marriage if you’re young? Do older people married many years have many issues they’ve overcome? | Absolutely x 2! I was married to my first husband for 23 years when he passed away. I've always said making a marriage work is harder than raising children. If you love each other, however, then you SHOULD fight for it. We overcame a lot of crap. I'm now remarried and we both agree that our marriage (2nd for each of u... | 970 | AskOldPeople |
uim5fv | If you are old enough to have witnessed the many tragedies that occurred pre Roe v Wade, can you educate folks on what it was like? | My grandmother had 15 children and I am pretty sure she didn't want more after the first 5. But she had no choice because women could not obtain birth control without the consent of her husband, and were required *by law* to submit to intercourse. As far as the law was concerned, a husband could not rape his wife sin... | 3,230 | AskOldPeople |
uim5fv | If you are old enough to have witnessed the many tragedies that occurred pre Roe v Wade, can you educate folks on what it was like? | My aunt had a miscarriage. The fetus didn't expel from her uterus, though. My aunt was dying, and the hospital -- St. Somebody-or-Other -- refused to do an abortion. My uncle checked her out of the hospital Against Medical Advice, and took her to a doctor he knew. The doctor performed a D&C (dilation and curettage)... | 2,180 | AskOldPeople |
uim5fv | If you are old enough to have witnessed the many tragedies that occurred pre Roe v Wade, can you educate folks on what it was like? | Drug overdoses, poisonings, suicide, bleed to death, coat hangers and other crude objects, an assortment of home remedies including poisons leading to organ failure, abandonment and disowning of pregnant girl by family, pregnancy in poverty, drug addicted and malnourished babies, pregnant girls removed fr school and ... | 1,590 | AskOldPeople |
uiwpen | Hi,
Just wondering if in the Rust community there is a preference/most idiomatic way to assign a string out of these three?
let s1:String = String::from("Rust");
let s2:String = "Rust".to_owned();
let s3:String = "Rust".to_string();
Thanks in advance! | [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37149831/what-is-the-difference-between-these-3-ways-of-declaring-a-string-in-rust) you go | 130 | LearnRust |
uizhbx | I’m still young, but this has been eating up my mind lately.
In other subreddits, it’s always a concern of money and I’ve looked at how much care costs for in-home, independent living, assisted living, etc. As you age, how have you gone about planning for this and how did you plan for your parents? | I'll bet I'm not the only person here whose response would be that as an "old person" I already lost both parents a long time ago. 😞 | 180 | AskOldPeople |
uizhbx | I’m still young, but this has been eating up my mind lately.
In other subreddits, it’s always a concern of money and I’ve looked at how much care costs for in-home, independent living, assisted living, etc. As you age, how have you gone about planning for this and how did you plan for your parents? | I got lucky. My father was as frugal as his parents had been, so when my stepmother needed assisted living, the money was there. I sure as hell didn't have it. He had no choice but to admit her because he was old and didn't have the strength or medical training to provide the level of care she needed. People who say th... | 110 | AskOldPeople |
uizhbx | I’m still young, but this has been eating up my mind lately.
In other subreddits, it’s always a concern of money and I’ve looked at how much care costs for in-home, independent living, assisted living, etc. As you age, how have you gone about planning for this and how did you plan for your parents? | I'm very lucky. My Mom put herself in a nice continuing care facility back in 1998. She's still there and going strong today, at almost 97. She said she didn't want to be a burden to her children.
Three of us are nearby, so we get to see her regularly. She is the model I want to follow. While I can't afford a plac... | 110 | AskOldPeople |
uizmx2 | I'm trying to create and run an extremely intensive C++ aerodynamics simulator and suspect I would need a cluster to run it effectively. What would be the most cost-effective way to do so? | Universities often have clusters you can get access to... Probably for a fee for non-students. Just learn the tooling for that platform and code your simulation to target it. | 90 | AskComputerScience |
uizmx2 | I'm trying to create and run an extremely intensive C++ aerodynamics simulator and suspect I would need a cluster to run it effectively. What would be the most cost-effective way to do so? | Design your code to run on multiple GPUs and build a machine with as many GPUs as possible. Most motherboards support two GPUs, but there are a few that support four. If single-precision floating point computations are sufficient, use those because consumer-level GPUs are slow with double-precision floats. For more com... | 60 | AskComputerScience |
uizmx2 | I'm trying to create and run an extremely intensive C++ aerodynamics simulator and suspect I would need a cluster to run it effectively. What would be the most cost-effective way to do so? | Use a cloud computing provider. You can rent lots of CPUs, GPUs, and specialized processors like TPU for quite a reasonable price.
Designing your algorithm to efficiently split across many computers is not a simple problem. **However** - many people have solved this problem, and now there are many common libraries you... | 40 | AskComputerScience |
uj07ca | Most of Europe was bombed out by May 1945. But the U. S. wasn't and the Marshall plan helped Europe get back on it's feet.
But Where did that money come from? How was the war profitable? I know they sold war bonds, but how did people suddenly have money to borrow to the state? | Well it mostly can be explained by[ this graph](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/3rdparty/2012/11/debt-and-gdp-main6.png) The highest level of national debt as a proportion of GDP in the history of the US.
There was also some repayment of loans from the Lend/Lease act and reparations from Germany and Japa... | 80 | AskOldPeople |
uj3tl6 | For example, char in C++ is defined as being 8 bits in size. However, depending on the computer architecture, a memory address can hold anywhere from 8-64 bits. So, where exactly is such a variable stored within an address? Similarly, how would a variable whose size is greater than what’s available in a memory address ... | Every modern computer architecture that I'm aware of uses byte-addressable memory.
Or to put it another way, in C++ a byte is *defined* as the smallest addressable unit of memory, and a char is defined as being 1 byte in size. (This allows you to use `char*` to manipulate regions of memory that might actually contain... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
uj4o98 | Hello,
I'm hoping this isn't a stupid question, if it turns out to be, I'll delete the post.
I've recently started working a job where my boss stated that it'd be highly unlikely that I'd advance to management without a computer, electrical, or engineering degree. After researching the different type of degrees, I fo... | I had an undergrad in history and am now doing a grad degree in CS. I had to take several prerequisites before starting the actual grad program. I have been interested in computers my whole life, taught myself programming years ago, and it was still a pretty tough leap to get started. I think you should go for it if... | 110 | AskComputerScience |
uj4o98 | Hello,
I'm hoping this isn't a stupid question, if it turns out to be, I'll delete the post.
I've recently started working a job where my boss stated that it'd be highly unlikely that I'd advance to management without a computer, electrical, or engineering degree. After researching the different type of degrees, I fo... | Lots of people do second bachelor's degrees. There's nothing wrong with it and you're entirely correct that it will likely provide a more gentle introduction to the topic. If you're just looking to check the box with the lowest possible effort, Thomas Edison State University might be worth a look.
That being said, t... | 80 | AskComputerScience |
uj4o98 | Hello,
I'm hoping this isn't a stupid question, if it turns out to be, I'll delete the post.
I've recently started working a job where my boss stated that it'd be highly unlikely that I'd advance to management without a computer, electrical, or engineering degree. After researching the different type of degrees, I fo... | [deleted] | 60 | AskComputerScience |
uj4vmu | Hobbies, activities please. Thank you. | Volunteer. Take part in an organization that contributes to the greater good. | 1,060 | AskOldPeople |
uj4vmu | Hobbies, activities please. Thank you. | Anything that helps others. The simplest way to start is probably volunteering to hold babies at the nearest day care or hospital. All you have to do is sit and rock, and it makes a huge difference. Another easy option is sitting with frightened dogs at the shelter, helping them learn to socialize. | 420 | AskOldPeople |
uj4vmu | Hobbies, activities please. Thank you. | Ask their advice on a topic of interest to them. Chat about their hobbies. Gardening? I’ve asked why my tomatoes had cracks in them. | 260 | AskOldPeople |
uj580c | What is your diet like? | Mostly whiskey and chicken gristle. I eat a carrot every once in a while if I’m double dared. | 260 | AskOldPeople |
uj580c | What is your diet like? | Breakfast is 2 cups of black coffee. Afternoon I'll often have a pot of tea, maybe a tiny bit of milk, no sugar. Drink plenty of water as well.
Lunch is either 1) fresh whole fruit, 2) eggs and bacon, or 3) leftover veggies in scrambled eggs.
Dinner is either 1) a big salad with fat and protein added, or 2) roasted v... | 130 | AskOldPeople |
uj580c | What is your diet like? | Lots of vegetables, fruit, nuts, some dairy, meat and the odd alcoholic beverage. I don't eat fast food anymore and basically cook everything myself. Mass produced convenience food isn't something I eat anymore. | 130 | AskOldPeople |
uja7z2 | Computer engineers seem unanimous in regarding 2-valued logic as having a privileged position: privileged, not just in the sense of corresponding to the way we do speak, but in the sense of having no serious rival for logical reasons.
If the foregoing analysis is correct, this is a prejudice of the same kind as the fa... | Sure. Some kinds of [ternary computers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer) have been tried in the past, at least in the Soviet Union.
I don't know if they'd have practical advantages over binary, though. The logic circuitry would probably become more complex, and although it may sound like a three-state l... | 100 | AskComputerScience |
uja7z2 | Computer engineers seem unanimous in regarding 2-valued logic as having a privileged position: privileged, not just in the sense of corresponding to the way we do speak, but in the sense of having no serious rival for logical reasons.
If the foregoing analysis is correct, this is a prejudice of the same kind as the fa... | Binary logic doesn't actually have any particular advantage over other forms (it's less efficient actually). It's simply easier to construct a machine with only two states which makes scaling and error reduction very easy. | 60 | AskComputerScience |
uja7z2 | Computer engineers seem unanimous in regarding 2-valued logic as having a privileged position: privileged, not just in the sense of corresponding to the way we do speak, but in the sense of having no serious rival for logical reasons.
If the foregoing analysis is correct, this is a prejudice of the same kind as the fa... | At the electrical level it’s a mess. You need to have a “noise margin” between acceptable voltages, and a single trivalent wire now needs two noise margins in the voltage range.
It is used in Ethernet cables. It’s more like you are allowing two steps rather than two voltages.
The concept also applies to binary divi... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
ujamta | I'm looking to build a Beowulf cluster, likely of many identical older PCs due to budget constraints. I'll be using CPUs for my easily parallelizable computations. Do you have a recommendation for a specific one to allow a cost-effective, powerful cluster (preferably with Infiniband support), or at least the list I am ... | There's no way running your own cluster is going to be more cost-effective than the alternatives.
>I'll be using CPUs for my easily parallelizable computations.
Why not GPU? "Easily parallelizable computations" is exactly what they are designed to do and are going to be cheaper than running second-hand enterprise... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
ujba2w | Have you ever had to scold your kids as adults and rightfully so? | Once my children reached adulthood to me they were adults and i treated them as such. I will work to guide, but never scold. | 250 | AskOldPeople |
ujba2w | Have you ever had to scold your kids as adults and rightfully so? | Yes, sometimes it’s necessary. When you’re in a committed relationship, you don’t flirt with your exes. It’s hurtful. Watch your drinking. Moral & legal are two different things. Stuff like that. My love is unconditional for them, but we aren’t religious and I feel an obligation to be somewhat of a moral compass, e... | 210 | AskOldPeople |
ujba2w | Have you ever had to scold your kids as adults and rightfully so? | No kids, but I did have to scold my own father.
I was still working, he was retired, and it was the second year in a row that he hadn't gotten a cost of living increase on his Social Security. He was outraged.
Bear in mind that this is a man with two pensions, a nice inheritance, and (at the time) four paid-in-full ... | 110 | AskOldPeople |
ujehg9 | Old people of Reddit who were in the Troubled Teen Industry, what was it like back then? Was it worse than today's Troubled Teen Industry or was it the same? | Back in my day it was called 'joining the military'. Many men that were convicted of misdemeanors or low level felonies were given the choice of jail or joining the armed forces. Led to unspeakable crimes committed in Viet Nam by our own soldiers, and drug trafficking went through the roof. Families with unruly teen... | 400 | AskOldPeople |
ujehg9 | Old people of Reddit who were in the Troubled Teen Industry, what was it like back then? Was it worse than today's Troubled Teen Industry or was it the same? | What is a "Troubled Teen Industry"? | 280 | AskOldPeople |
ujehg9 | Old people of Reddit who were in the Troubled Teen Industry, what was it like back then? Was it worse than today's Troubled Teen Industry or was it the same? | Currently, much of the troubled teen industry appears to be privatized prisons.
Like many of the organizations in the long past, it is far from perfect... or legitimate. Read the [wiki article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal) about it. Pennsylvania judge was receiving kickbacks for every Juvenile... | 140 | AskOldPeople |
ujgi9w | So, from my understanding, the terms are often interchangeable, but not always. All computers have a video card (my guess is it's located on the motherboard?) but not all computers have a graphics card. Would it be correct to say that all graphics cards are video cards but not all video cards are graphics cards? And si... | Video cards and graphics card (Graphics Processing Unit or GPU) are the same thing. What you might be confused about is an integrated GPU and an external GPU. Integrated GPUs are small that are often on the same chip as the CPU (example: Intel series chips without the "F" suffix, like i5-12400K, or AMD chips with the "... | 90 | AskComputerScience |
ujgi9w | So, from my understanding, the terms are often interchangeable, but not always. All computers have a video card (my guess is it's located on the motherboard?) but not all computers have a graphics card. Would it be correct to say that all graphics cards are video cards but not all video cards are graphics cards? And si... | So, neither of those terms is really exact with an absolute meaning, but both practically mean the same thing. There are no distinct meanings.
What *may*, in principle, mean two different things are video cards and GPUs, or graphics processing units. Understanding that distinction might be helped by a brief look into ... | 40 | AskComputerScience |
uji4hi | I'm writing a wallpaper browser. It would fech images from wallhaven.cc via their api and display them in a row, and then the user would click on one and it would be downloaded and have another program applied to it. I can't figure out, how to fetch the image preview in the app itself. I have a prototype in electronJS,... | Displaying heavily depends on what UI toolkit are you using.
But to download the image you can use `reqwest` crate. And then probably convert it to raw bytes (from e. g. jpeg) using `image` crate. | 90 | LearnRust |
uji4hi | I'm writing a wallpaper browser. It would fech images from wallhaven.cc via their api and display them in a row, and then the user would click on one and it would be downloaded and have another program applied to it. I can't figure out, how to fetch the image preview in the app itself. I have a prototype in electronJS,... | Well, how you get a preview depends on the API of whatever website you are using, and how you display it depends on the GUI framework that you are using. So not really a Rust question | 30 | LearnRust |
ujklqq | I hear so many different stories like ppl saying they didn’t even know the f word existed till they got older. Edit btw can you guys mention what decade you grew up in and also I don’t mean the curse words you heard in your household since nowadays it’s also true parents might not curse around their kids but like at sc... | The main curse words we know today were all well known. Anyone telling you they didn't know about the word fuck is fucking lying. | 180 | AskOldPeople |
ujklqq | I hear so many different stories like ppl saying they didn’t even know the f word existed till they got older. Edit btw can you guys mention what decade you grew up in and also I don’t mean the curse words you heard in your household since nowadays it’s also true parents might not curse around their kids but like at sc... | The curse words are exactly the same. Some racial slurs and insulting names have changed or fallen out of favor. | 90 | AskOldPeople |
ujklqq | I hear so many different stories like ppl saying they didn’t even know the f word existed till they got older. Edit btw can you guys mention what decade you grew up in and also I don’t mean the curse words you heard in your household since nowadays it’s also true parents might not curse around their kids but like at sc... | I had a shirt in 1978 that said "Disco Sucks" and remember how much shit I got for it, since at the time it was the social equivalent of "Cunts for Jesus"
Swears have become WAY more common than they were and WAY less shocking. I'm a fan. | 60 | AskOldPeople |
ujl1nh | Does drinking lots of water prevent the negative side effects of a high sodium diet (eg. increased blood pressure) ? | A high sodium diet is dangerous for some individuals *because* of the resulting excess fluid intake. As you intake fluid to quench your resulting thirst, you increase the volume of fluid within your circulatory system. This increases your blood pressure.
Your kidneys respond by working harder to remove more of the fl... | 34,340 | AskScience |
ujl1nh | Does drinking lots of water prevent the negative side effects of a high sodium diet (eg. increased blood pressure) ? | [removed] | 5,920 | AskScience |
ujl1nh | Does drinking lots of water prevent the negative side effects of a high sodium diet (eg. increased blood pressure) ? | It takes a lot of salt to make even a small difference in blood pressure for most people.
Eg reducing sodium by 4.4g per day (abour 12g salt, more than daily allowance) only reduces systolic bp by 4mm Hg, and diastolic by 2mm.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23558162/
Maybe bigger effects in people with high BP. | 5,300 | AskScience |
ujl3lb | bro, i need help quick, i accidentally uninstall the whole wifi driver until the windows can't detect the wifi, help me because This is my brother laptop, and he uses it for work, he will be angry if he finds out that I did all that | You're looking for /r/techsupport | 30 | AskComputerScience |
ujo2vd | What was the analog process for converting photos to halftone before digital desktop publishing? | **Really old version:** You took the photo into an enlarger of sorts (a machine with a photo light and a lens with photo-reactive material under it) and scale it up or down to the size you needed. Then used a screen (a piece of mylar with a dot pattern in it where the dots were clear and the rest was black) on top of t... | 130 | AskOldPeople |
ujoeqf | I have an 8 month old son and it’s going by fast. I wanted to ask if you had a favorite era or age range with your children. I know some people LOVE the newborn era and some get along much better once the kids have grown.
Thank you in advance if you take the time to answer! | “Every age” is the wise answer, but here’s the honest one: about 5 to 9 yo. No more tantrums, interesting observations, no cynicism, great senses of humor, less constant threat of self-injury, etc. I was able to start sharing my nerdery with my kid and bonding over it. It’s just a great age.
My kid is a teen now and ... | 3,270 | AskOldPeople |
ujoeqf | I have an 8 month old son and it’s going by fast. I wanted to ask if you had a favorite era or age range with your children. I know some people LOVE the newborn era and some get along much better once the kids have grown.
Thank you in advance if you take the time to answer! | Not the answer you probably want to hear, but them as adults (35,37,39) because I’m not responsible for raising them anymore, we have a lot more things in common to discuss like politics, raising their own kids, etc and #1 they all have college educations (which I paid for), good jobs and SOs with good jobs so no more ... | 890 | AskOldPeople |
ujoeqf | I have an 8 month old son and it’s going by fast. I wanted to ask if you had a favorite era or age range with your children. I know some people LOVE the newborn era and some get along much better once the kids have grown.
Thank you in advance if you take the time to answer! | [deleted] | 860 | AskOldPeople |
ujomal | How to become a better programmer/computer engineer?
I know this question may sound simple (considering that I could ask Google directly).
But I would like to know/read some advice from real people and their experience, about what things I can do to become a better programmer and computer engineer (career I study).
... | I think the simple answer that most people say is, program, just something small and program it,
make a little console app that maybe asks for some some info, age , store that in memory, then maybe to a file, either txt or JSON
Then read from them files and sort the data
Keep adding to your programs and you’ll learn... | 80 | AskComputerScience |
ujomal | How to become a better programmer/computer engineer?
I know this question may sound simple (considering that I could ask Google directly).
But I would like to know/read some advice from real people and their experience, about what things I can do to become a better programmer and computer engineer (career I study).
... | It's something that you learn by doing. There's no getting around that. Early on especially, it's quite likely to be a struggle; things that I can write in 15 minutes today took 8 hours of tearing out my hair when I started. Nothing was immediate. Everything was struggle and frustration.
I wrote my first bits of code... | 70 | AskComputerScience |
ujomal | How to become a better programmer/computer engineer?
I know this question may sound simple (considering that I could ask Google directly).
But I would like to know/read some advice from real people and their experience, about what things I can do to become a better programmer and computer engineer (career I study).
... | Most crafts are learned by doing them. Painters paint, singers sing, sculptors sculpt. Coders code. IOW, practice. Find problems, invent them if you have to, and then solve them. Study other people's code to learn how it works, modify it to do something different. | 30 | AskComputerScience |
ujpuct | Old folks of Reddit what was it like during the USSR era?? Was it hard??? | The thing I remember most was when someone would defect and make their way to the US. The news would interview them and they’d talk about how bad it was, poverty, bread lines, crime, no fuel, etc,
Many of them commented on how they thought they were being tricked when they first got to the US. They’d see new cars and... | 210 | AskOldPeople |
ujpuct | Old folks of Reddit what was it like during the USSR era?? Was it hard??? | Not me, but a good friend grew up in Moscow int he 70's and 80's.
The school system built up a cult of personality around Leonid Brezhnev. The USA was the great enemy and only Leonid Brezhnev could protect the USSR and all the children from an invasion from America.
When Brezhnev unexpectedly died in 1982, my frien... | 90 | AskOldPeople |
ujpuct | Old folks of Reddit what was it like during the USSR era?? Was it hard??? | In some ways it was scary. Knowing any minute it could all melt away in a giant flash of light and radiation.
OTOH, there was a great comfort knowing who the good guys and bad guys were. In particular, society was so busy being united behind defeating them - most years there was barely even a culture war | 80 | AskOldPeople |
ujs34p | What is the craziest/interesting/unlikely event you have ever personally witnessed? | Just as the Sun was setting in the West over the open ocean I saw a green flash on the horizon line.
The last section of the Sun's disc was disappearing and the yellow turned to a bright, almost neon green color for a fraction of a second. Don't know how rare the optical phenomenon is to observe, but I never saw it ... | 230 | AskOldPeople |
ujs34p | What is the craziest/interesting/unlikely event you have ever personally witnessed? | Trump getting elected President of the United States in 2016 | 230 | AskOldPeople |
ujs34p | What is the craziest/interesting/unlikely event you have ever personally witnessed? | When I was eight or nine, I was with the neighborhood kids on the street. For reasons I can’t recall, one of the kids Darrel B. got into a disagreement with Roy W., the oldest of the family that lived across from me and my brothers. Darrel B. Lived directly across from Roy’s family.
Darrel who was 14 or so at the tim... | 200 | AskOldPeople |
ujsz70 | Many people use cloud storage nowadays. What would happen if the server your data is on breaks down? Do you lose the data or is there a backup? Is it possible for this to happen? | Any reputable service (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud) has multiple copies of data such that any single server failure wouldn't matter. | 230 | AskComputerScience |
ujsz70 | Many people use cloud storage nowadays. What would happen if the server your data is on breaks down? Do you lose the data or is there a backup? Is it possible for this to happen? | Any reputable cloud storage provider will have backups, yes. Depending on the service you can even select how paranoid you want to be. Iron Mountain, for instance, will also create magnetic tape backups of the entire history of changes to the data you store. This is usually not for backup purposes but for companies tha... | 70 | AskComputerScience |
ujsz70 | Many people use cloud storage nowadays. What would happen if the server your data is on breaks down? Do you lose the data or is there a backup? Is it possible for this to happen? | me: worked on distributed file systems / cloud storage and map-reduce infrastructure.
It's very, very unlikely for you to lose your data stored in the cloud. Typically it is substantially less likely than losing it due to a problem on your computer such as hard disk corruption, disk crash, hardware failure, etc.
Why?... | 60 | AskComputerScience |
ujtwto | Diseases like Ebola and Rabies are much more fatal in humans than in their host species. Are there any diseases that are relatively safe in humans, but are lethal in animals? | Bluetongue is fairly hard to catch and has mild symptoms in humans, but is deadly for sheep. It is a very serious disease for African pastoralists that is vectored by tiny biting sand flies.
Animals that can carry a disease that harms other animals, but has little or no ill effects for itself is called a reservoir spe... | 5,150 | AskScience |
ujtwto | Diseases like Ebola and Rabies are much more fatal in humans than in their host species. Are there any diseases that are relatively safe in humans, but are lethal in animals? | People probably think about disease, infections, and pathogens in ways that are too binary. It's not like you have zero viruses, then one gets on you and bam you're infected. An infection is really when a microbe starts causing problems for your body. And it's not like bacteria and virus are good or bad. They're just d... | 1,930 | AskScience |
ujtwto | Diseases like Ebola and Rabies are much more fatal in humans than in their host species. Are there any diseases that are relatively safe in humans, but are lethal in animals? | [removed] | 1,140 | AskScience |
ujuqux | Am 67. What comes to mind is Leisure Seeker, Still Alice, and On Golden Pond. | Grumpy Old Men | 150 | AskOldPeople |
ujuqux | Am 67. What comes to mind is Leisure Seeker, Still Alice, and On Golden Pond. | "Older people" is one of those generalizations. We're all over the map. I'll send you off to see "Harold and Maude," if you haven't already, about a young person acting old, and an old person who's very young. I've known a Maude or two, though not in that way. ;-) | 130 | AskOldPeople |
ujuqux | Am 67. What comes to mind is Leisure Seeker, Still Alice, and On Golden Pond. | Older people are still individuals. I'm afraid this question is only going to yield answers that reinforce stereotypes. | 80 | AskOldPeople |
ujwvla | Noob question but why are deployment environments named like this?
I mean what do they mean by "production"? Shouldn't it be something like "global" (it would make sense since the first one is "local")
And what does the word "staging" mean?
It's a bit counterintuitive to remember each of these since the names (seemi... | I kind of thought of it in terms of a theatre performance metaphor.
Production is the live site. It's the site the public visits. Like a theatre or music "production". It's the "live show" that everyone actually watches, so to speak.
Staging is the final practice grounds. Where everything is finally rehearsed just be... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
ujwvla | Noob question but why are deployment environments named like this?
I mean what do they mean by "production"? Shouldn't it be something like "global" (it would make sense since the first one is "local")
And what does the word "staging" mean?
It's a bit counterintuitive to remember each of these since the names (seemi... | I don't know where the names actually originate, but I always assumed "production" was inspired by something like a factory. "Putting something into production" means you've finished testing your prototypes, and now you're firing up the assembly lines to make the final products that will actually be shipped to real cus... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
uk2ahs | Similar to reddit, there's a constant stream of new user generated content going to my server, plus visits to the content when players share and play it. I'd like a fast way to show the most popular ones today, this week, this month, and this year. I'm not even sure what this category of algorithm is called. I've tried... | I'd describe this problem as a "top-k query over a sliding window". Maybe that search term will give you better results?
There are fancy algorithms to try to solve this problem incrementally and/or approximately, but unless you're talking about a huge amount of data, it probably makes sense to just periodically comput... | 120 | AskComputerScience |
uk2ahs | Similar to reddit, there's a constant stream of new user generated content going to my server, plus visits to the content when players share and play it. I'd like a fast way to show the most popular ones today, this week, this month, and this year. I'm not even sure what this category of algorithm is called. I've tried... | My intuition, having never written something like that before, is to go with a 'brute force' database implementation until you know you need something better. Shove everything into an SQL database and do a `SELECT * WHERE DATE = whatever ORDER BY 'score' LIMIT 10;` esque query. If/when you outgrow this, I'd go with s... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
uk3p5u | So was learning the data types part of the Rust book and saw this -
When you’re compiling in release mode with the
--release
flag, Rust does *not* include checks for integer overflow that cause panics. Instead, if overflow occurs, Rust performs *two’s complement wrapping*. In short, values greater than the maxim... | This is one of the few places where Rust chose a small speed increase over a fairly important safety issue. See [Issue #47739](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/47739) for a discussion. This 2016 [blog post](https://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about-integer-overflow-in-rust/) on the topic is q... | 230 | LearnRust |
uk3p5u | So was learning the data types part of the Rust book and saw this -
When you’re compiling in release mode with the
--release
flag, Rust does *not* include checks for integer overflow that cause panics. Instead, if overflow occurs, Rust performs *two’s complement wrapping*. In short, values greater than the maxim... | I think wraping is just faster. You don't need to do anything to wrap but to panic you need to check for overflow every time. | 160 | LearnRust |
uk3p5u | So was learning the data types part of the Rust book and saw this -
When you’re compiling in release mode with the
--release
flag, Rust does *not* include checks for integer overflow that cause panics. Instead, if overflow occurs, Rust performs *two’s complement wrapping*. In short, values greater than the maxim... | ELI5. A computer uses a fixed size for it's number types. So every number is basically like a mileage indicator (odometer) in your car. Let's assume just for fun that your car has a milage indicator with four digits.
If your car shows 9997 miles and you add six miles your car will show 3 miles (0003).
In your compute... | 110 | LearnRust |
uk481c | Hi everyone!
So just recently, I got into the habit of devouring research papers about Software Engineering. I read on IEEE or ResearchGate; specifically on the topic of SDLC, Code Smells, Documenting Code, Security, and the like.
After some time, I feel like doing and writing my own research too. However, the recom... | You can find theses created at my school. Perhaps that's of interest to you?
https://findit.dtu.dk/en/catalog?availability%5B%5D=electronic&availability%5B%5D=printed&q=type%3Athesis&type=thesis_bachelor&utf8=%E2%9C%93 | 50 | AskComputerScience |
uk481c | Hi everyone!
So just recently, I got into the habit of devouring research papers about Software Engineering. I read on IEEE or ResearchGate; specifically on the topic of SDLC, Code Smells, Documenting Code, Security, and the like.
After some time, I feel like doing and writing my own research too. However, the recom... | Usually, undergrads are doing research under their professors and it’s rare to see a paper published by an undergrad as a first name, even rarer to see a paper published by an undergrad themself.
But really, the research process and writing doesn’t change whether you’re a PhD, undergrad, tenured professor or industry... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
uk481c | Hi everyone!
So just recently, I got into the habit of devouring research papers about Software Engineering. I read on IEEE or ResearchGate; specifically on the topic of SDLC, Code Smells, Documenting Code, Security, and the like.
After some time, I feel like doing and writing my own research too. However, the recom... | plural of thesis is theses. | 30 | AskComputerScience |
uk4jnr | Boomer here. I was in my 20s in 1980s Southern California. I have zero memories of adolescent boys sporting bowl-over-the-head haircuts in the 1980s like many of the male leads in the TV show “Stranger Things”. I do distinctly remember them exclusively on clueless middle-aged men, in what seemed to me to be some kind... | I thought they were trying to look like Moe Howard. | 30 | AskOldPeople |
uk4jnr | Boomer here. I was in my 20s in 1980s Southern California. I have zero memories of adolescent boys sporting bowl-over-the-head haircuts in the 1980s like many of the male leads in the TV show “Stranger Things”. I do distinctly remember them exclusively on clueless middle-aged men, in what seemed to me to be some kind... | I was in elementary school in the 1980s in coastal Southern California and about half the boys in my class had that exact haircut. | 30 | AskOldPeople |
uk4jnr | Boomer here. I was in my 20s in 1980s Southern California. I have zero memories of adolescent boys sporting bowl-over-the-head haircuts in the 1980s like many of the male leads in the TV show “Stranger Things”. I do distinctly remember them exclusively on clueless middle-aged men, in what seemed to me to be some kind... | In my kindergarden pics (1974, Australia) I have what I call the [Nicholas Bradford](https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/photos/nicholas-bradford) haircut.
It was a popular look in the second half of the 1970s up to around 1981 - mainly for little boys.
[Older guys had a similar cut](https://www.tvflashback.com.au/peter-... | 30 | AskOldPeople |
uk880b | Just saw a post here about which movies portrayed old people best; was wondering what people here thought of “Up.” It came out when I was a kid, so I’m wondering in what ways watching it from an older perspective would be from a younger perspective. | My husband passed away just after I turned 50, so those first few minutes were completely accurate. It happens just that fast. Suddenly, your happy-ever-after is gone, and you're facing your last twenty years all by yourself. The rest of the movie is the moral of the story -- you find something to live for, or you sit ... | 1,520 | AskOldPeople |
uk880b | Just saw a post here about which movies portrayed old people best; was wondering what people here thought of “Up.” It came out when I was a kid, so I’m wondering in what ways watching it from an older perspective would be from a younger perspective. | One of the best 10 minutes of any movie ever. I cried like a baby. After the first 10 minutes I was emotionally spent. Could have gone home and still felt it was one of the best movies I’d seen. | 1,380 | AskOldPeople |
uk880b | Just saw a post here about which movies portrayed old people best; was wondering what people here thought of “Up.” It came out when I was a kid, so I’m wondering in what ways watching it from an older perspective would be from a younger perspective. | >It came out when I was a kid,
Okay, reading that I did a double take. Somehow in my head, that would have been just a few years ago, not the thirteen years it actually was. Fuck, I'm old. | 700 | AskOldPeople |
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