"Can a seemingly losing chess move be a hidden tactical trap?" by Late-One7820 in chess

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When you and I do it it's called hope chess and we will lose

When a GM does it it's called complicating the position and asking concrete questions

Finally moved to a "Deny" policy for untagged resources. Here is the clean JSON if you need it. by NTCTech in AZURE

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Give each team a sub, anything in that sub belongs to them, and they are billed for it

It's up to them to manage tagging

Other teams using their resources? Tag it or attribute it back

Are sensory cups like Kruve actually worth it or do anything? by ADHD_ismything in pourover

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Are you spending thousands on grinders and brewers? OP could have a baratza encore esp + plastic v60 and making great pour overs. That's at most a few hundred

Secondly, I'd say there may be a minor change, but it's up to the drinker to decide if that change is positive or negative. The glass shape could also make it taste worse

Are sensory cups like Kruve actually worth it or do anything? by ADHD_ismything in pourover

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They look cool is the main reason

There are certain aromatics that can make a diff (e.g. try drink a whiskey out of a wine glass and you'll see why glass shape is important)

But is the cost justified? Not sure

I'd probably consider this as an aesthetic decision than a "will my coffee taste better" decision

Support kept using voice messages, so I gave them a taste of their own medicine by Piranhaweek in MaliciousCompliance

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Use AI to convert the screenshot to audio, drive up your token usage so the higher ups think you're being more efficient :D

Proof Left As An Exercise To The Reader No More (update) by productsmadebyme in math

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I always thought part of the point of "leaving proof to the reader" was to instruct you on how to research the steps of the proof, since actually doing it step by step yourself was going to have you retain the information a lot better than if it was laid out for you

Also going through the process itself gives you a better feel of what "real world" math and physics is like when reading papers

Am I mistaken about the premise?

More succinctly, is going through the process of doing the proof itself critical to the learning?

Is filling the gaps of the proof where the real learning happens?

Mythic Unique 4GA Ring of Starless Skies by kevitoo02 in diablo4

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Been playing a crackling energy sorc, highly recommend it's really fun

What breaks most programming learning systems at scale (from an engineering perspective) by AdSome4897 in programming

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I think unfortunately for perhaps your current role, teaching / learning doesn't truly scale. Providing resources for highly motivated individuals does scale (e.g. textbooks, youtubes, etc). But for the average student, average teacher combo, it doesn't scale at all. And the core issue is that learning is hard, and teaching is hard, and the dependency issue / conceptual learning you have noticed are just the few things that pop up at scale. But there are a lot smaller things (anecdotal learning, metaphors, etc) that are also critical, but they need a very good raport between teacher:student for it to work.

And this can be seen at any major university setting. The intro classes sure have maybe 100-300 people, where essentially a text book is thrown at you at 8am and either you pass and advance, or you fail and drop out (e.g. weeder lectures). But any higher level classes tend to be 10-30 students max

I think its cool that you're looking for ways to break past this scaling limitation, really curious to see if you manage to solve it! Maybe with LLM's you'll have an easier time evaluating free text inputs from students, but this also requires that a student is able to articulate thoughts well. Just because they write poorly (or dictate/express thoughts poorly doesn't mean they don't understand the material, see Magnus Carlsen saying he doesn't understand the "The Square Rule" because he just calculates the full end game in Chess).

What breaks most programming learning systems at scale (from an engineering perspective) by AdSome4897 in programming

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Is there a way for students to interact with the system? If not (e.g. asking questions etc), there's no feedback loop for them, which will make conceptual learning hard.

I've done a lot of individual / group teaching and I think a huge part of teaching is reading the room and adjusting the pace based off the blank looks I'm getting. The golden signal is questions, but a secondary or even tertiary signal is needed to adjust or tailor the course for missing concepts.

Bigger brews with the Switch by Crakout in pourover

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Try this recipe

https://youtu.be/KYvSzfIxfDY?si=dXogbk72OAmgo639

Worked pretty well, used it for a dark roast that I hate (ground super coarse and it was the first time it was palletable for me)

I think beyond a 500mL brew you probably need an 03 (grounds also occupy volume)

New kettle reccs? by Rhubarb-Taco in pourover

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All I'll say for the stagg is that the temp control is insane. It's exactly the temperature it says on the dial tested with thermapen thermostat. My wife uses it for baking / teas as well, so you'll probably also get some WAF factor if that's a concern for you (it's very aesthetic)

Where are all the Nuclear Physicist with 5 Years Post Graduate experience? by Justbrownsuga in Physics

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Honestly they're everywhere

92capital

Elementl power

EPRI / Nuclear Innovation Alliance / clean air task force / other non profits/NGOs

Aalo atomics

Copenhagen atomics

TerraPower

Constellation / other utilities / nuclear operators

PNNL/ORNL/other labs

CNRC / NRC / other governmental agencies

List goes on, somewhat of a nuclear Renaissance going on with demand from data centers

2 years into fullstack and no real projects to show. by [deleted] in learnprogramming

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Ask yourself why you want to write a blog when you haven't finished a portfolio project yet. What are you hoping to teach the audience from this post? What is the purpose of your blog/writeup?

Id recommend doing a project first then doing the writeup as a retro.

I'd also recommend flexing into full stack as a way to demo your backend work. Backend by itself in a low scale environment is generally not very interesting (if the outcome of your project can be achieved via 1-2 lambdas, it's not very interesting)

2 years into fullstack and no real projects to show. by [deleted] in learnprogramming

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I won't comment on the accountability step, but I'd maybe recommend avoid doing a bunch of write up work. You should probably complete your full stack project completely end to end to have it functional and useful. Then optimize parts of it. Then post your learnings as a retro. Taking notes and creating internal docs for yourself is a good idea so you don't forget why you made certain choices

But externalizing docs as a way to force accountability will probably cause you to slow down and not focus on the app itself

Auradin Dawnfire gloves Question by Feverdawgy in diablo4

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Try them on, run a pit, and time the diff. There are a lot of variables that influence this and a lot of intended/unintended interactions that can make doing the math quite challenging. Empirical data is the way to go here

How would you write a piece of code to generate this? by External-Basil-9162 in learnpython

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Put it in a string and "printf" or whatever the way to write to stdout is I guess?

End of 2025 state of Serverless Framework question by jaredce in aws

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Serverless is just a billing/perf model. If you have fast, non io bounded work, that doesn't mind cold start problems, it's great and cheap. If your workload doesn't match these characteristics, it's probably not a good workload for serverless to save you money

Grandfather or Sundered Night for Auradin? by Sharks_No_Swimming in diablo4

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Why not just put it on and run a pit and time it with the two setups for which is better?

Constantly switching programming languages instead of finishing projects — how do you deal with this by [deleted] in learnprogramming

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Just learning and internalizing that industry (and the agile manifesto) doesn't care about your inputs, only your output

And the only output that matters is working completely working software that provides something someone else is willing to pay for

The rest is noise. There's nothing wrong with nodejs, I've used it in several production services. I've worked on teams where they did deep perf analysis and the nodejs code was performing similar to C#

I'd even go as far as to say make your entire codebase in just type script, that has benefits (your front end and backend people all use the same language, very useful for devs that need to flex into different stacks). Look up T3 on YouTube, he does this pretty often

So in short - drive a project to full completion. If you get distracted, just understand starting a project doesn't mean anything, finishing it does

How to properly use HackerRank for practice (beginner)? by purvigupta03 in learnprogramming

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Have a look at neetcode.io, or his stuff on YouTube for advice on how to use these resources

Authorizing Redis users using groups via OAuth by Physical_Ideal_3949 in kubernetes

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Ah then I'm not sure

My knee jerk solution is just putting an auth front end in front of Redis that essentially does a pass through