Which language are we talking here? Cpp? Because typeof hasn't ever seemed useful to me in how I use cpp or how I have ever really used a language. I also remember it being criticized in java class more than 20 years ago when OOP was solely preached, even for scientific people like me.
It's just modeling humans. I was only a lab TA for two semesters, and I caught so many fake data sets.
Ok. I'm also not crazy.
My hairline has started receding very rapidly. There's there's these fine hairs all over my desk, and I see the photo I took when joining directly before turning on my camera every meeting.
I do. I also have a PhD from a medical school. That's why I know if eating less milk were the best solution for this individual, they would have said that.
Managing parents' anxieties is a major part of being a pediatrician. You don't suggest things that might scare parents when they are not necessary.
Be nice.
Jesus Christ. Just be nice.
Why is no one on Lemmy nice.
Again, who is saying that? I don't find janitorial duty shameful neither do I find sanitation engineer shameful. That's you
I guess you'd also rather be called butcher or barber than surgeon?
After all, rebranding implies you're ashamed.
Tell me about it...
I left my more mature company for a startup.
I feel like Tyler Durden sometimes.
A more standard definition in my tenure in academia is that scientists solve problems because they want to know the answer. Engineers solve problems because they want the problem to be solved.
In any case, the difference is just, heh, academic.
I'm very much the latter.
Who is saying that?
There's too much virtue signaling here. No engineer thinks poorly of the trades. That's the point of the conversation.
I just made a joke about how burger flippers can be called engineers, and I have a PhD.
Agreed.
I might also argue that those people are all still engineers.
Engineer just means "problem solver". Everyone gets paid for solving problems.
The real question in my head is how far does this go?
Sometimes the problem is that these burgers need flipping. Protein disk translocation engineers? I'm cool with that.
The doctor is unable to stop them from their behavior.
Imagine yourself as a doctor. The patient has the plague. You say, "Take this antibiotic. It will go away." They say, "We prefer quarantine and chicken noodle soup".
Do you say ok? Or do you admonish them and risk they get angry and do nothing? Or do you say, that is better than nothing. It is their body.
The only ethical behavior for a physician in this situation is to say, "sure, try dietary modifications".
They were trying to prevent long term brain development issues by resolving the anemia the fastest evidence-based way, but the patient refused expert advice.
I always thought about going to be a farmer. Then I watched some videos from farmers and realized they are also engineers.
A large faction of engineers, especially software-type engineers, have these types of hobbies.
I'm sitting here right beside the heirloom quality (compared to most furniture) coffee table I made in my garage with my nearly complete wood shop.
I make stuff in two ways in my day job. I design something and someone else makes it, or it's just some idea as software.
Engineers are a type. We're just wired differently from most other people.
I mean, I would've thought that story was false, but this makes me rethink that.
Every denial from him is a confession.
Not only do we know from early on that trump has as small penis but that he's insecure about it.
Can you imagine it? The president of the United States, arguably the most powerful and effectual person in the whole world, is so mentally unwell that he is insecure about the size of his penis?
That is what I said. The doctor would only have suggested meds if it were necessary.
It's getting to be soup season. What are your favorite soups?
It's split pea or ham and potato for me.
In my mind, soup is just a technique that's really about the stock. This is just me suggesting that you all should adopt traditional French cooking technique.
For me, it's saving old chicken scraps and certain veggies and then cooking them until they are mush in water. Grocery store rotisserie chicken skin, bones, and juice; carrots, onions, celery, garlic. Anything getting past it's prime. No brassicas though. I'll throw a t bone in there, but while really good beef broth is amazing, good beef bones cost as much as real beef.
Clam juice or shrimp/crab/lobster shells sauteed in butter with water (or the aforementioned stock...) Is also awesome.
Once you've got that, just put anything in it. That's good soup.
Make sure that you put the correct amount of salt in it. If there's no salt, stock tastes terrible.
"Fair" coin flips appear to not be all that fair
The paper shows some significant evidence that human coin flips are not as fair as I would have expected (plus probably a bunch of people would agree with me). There's always some probability that this happened by chance, but this is pretty low.
Of course, we should be able to build a really accurate coin flipping machine, but I never would have expected such a bias for human flippers.
This is why science is awesome and challenging your ideas is important.
Edit: hopefully this is not too wrong a place, but Lemmy is small, and I didn't know where else I could share such an exciting finding.
Mummified worm snake
Found this in the remnants of a bag a grass seed from last year. It seems completely desiccated.
My best guess is that this is what we call a worm snake. I can't imagine how it got there unless it came with the bag. The bag has been in my garage since I bought it.
We've got a lot of these worm snakes on my property. They're smaller than a lot of earthworms I find (that's engineering paper, 5 squares per inch).
This is one of the many reasons I want pet dinosaurs
I've got ducks. They are cute and hilarious and lay the most delicious eggs, but they aren't this kind of fun-monster.
Still technically dinosaurs.
Why does Dana Scully not believe in aliens or any of the other weirdness in the x-files?
Every week there's a new monster (MOTW) where all the evidence for outsiders disappears, or there's the mythology where the government is covering it up.
I'm a huge skeptic in almost everything, but if I saw what she saw, I would clearly believe. That's plenty of evidence for me, and I'm an actual scientist (well PhD engineer. I definitely did real science in school though)
The shit's clearly real in their universe.
(Sorry, just been watching the first season of the x-files for the past few weeks)
How do I best donate to my child's school?
My child just started kindergarten. As far as I can tell, it's wonderful and is the best place for him.
We're just... people of means. We've saved a lot of money compared to the private schools we were considering.
I just don't want this to be inappropriate. We'll give to all the standard pta / school fundraisers and already do the wishlist and extra school supplies requests.
I'm still selfish. I do want plenty of it to benefit my child. Appropriately though.
I just also want to make sure that the (kindergarten) teachers can get pizza and beer or whatever without it seeming like bribery.
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Pizza used to be delivered in 30 minutes or less or it was free
also, no delivery fees or upcharges. just the tip.
How do i moderate my lemmy community?
i just wanted a lemmy version of reddit's /r/fuckimold. now it appears to be deleted by creator and I've yet to find any mod controls
If you ask for "tea" at a restaurant, what happens and where do you live?
In the South East, they bring you sweetened (usually far too sweetened for my tastes) iced tea. This is amazingly universal.
I live in NC and have been probing the border for years.
For "nicer" restaurants, the universal sweet tea boundary seems to be precisely at the NC/VA border.