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ByersReason | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Did Anyone Else Here Simply Not Do Well at School?

I teach part time at the university level (I am not going to say where).

I would love to give you my perspective on this as I see a lot of non-neurotypical students. Some of these students do well in an academic environment; some don't - and to generalize this across schools; some schools have a more regularized population and select for this. Similarly, others accommodate more for these types of things versus schools that do less.

Additionally, it is well recognized that academic success is not necessarily an indicator of how well people "do in life". What academic success is, however, is a door opener for other opportunities. There are other door openers, like being a really good coder.

What you need to do is to figure out what your "superpower" is. It might be coding; it might be math, or something like being able to relate longitudinally to a task over a long period.

Everyone has a superpower, it's just some people are not aware of what it is. Go at figuring that out, and don't let people tell you something about yourself that you do not believe. My sister puts this another, simpler, way "Don't let the turkeys get you down".

Good luck!

ByersReason | 3 years ago | on: Stock market charts you never saw (2021)

however, given that your 1923 dollars were likely silver dollars which currently trade for $32 (for junk grade) and up ... I made that 8m * 32 = 256m :) - and better if you were sensible and stored un-circulated dollars

ByersReason | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards?

Usually the software using the interface (pro tools / ableton) has settings to tweak audio latency via buffer size for audio. I have not had issue with this or midi, and I record a fair amount. Motu makes a good cheap audio usb-c interface.

ByersReason | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

It seems based on the two times I saw it that it is mostly delusion. The idea appears to be that you can learn to do something complex on the job with a slight amount of experience and a lookup site, like stackoverflow or rose. I assume this would be sufficient if you assume really non-technical management, incapable of gauging progress.

ByersReason | 3 years ago | on: Europe Is Getting Serious About Making Space-Based Solar Power a Reality

Can someone explain to me why it makes more sense to put large, complex pieces of equipment in space where maintaining it is costly, and then beam power though the atmosphere, as opposed to putting simple, easily maintainable tech on the ground, with the input radiation already having traverse the atmosphere? Is there such an advantage power wise that this is worth doing?

ByersReason | 3 years ago | on: High property taxes are good

Property values for tax calculation purposes are not reassessed round here so you pay on whatever the assessed value was when your bought the property. Sounds nice, but what actually happens is that baby boomers, who bought their houses ages ago, pay essentially no tax on houses. Meanwhile, more recent residents get to foot the bill with sky high property taxes. I know people with previously purchased houses of the order or 5 (yes 5) houses that they are renting out for outrageous rents - all with very low property taxes on them. Please make the normal tax rate lower and actually tax everyone.

ByersReason | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What should I do and not do when starting my first full time job?

Be nice. And helpful. Generally when someone asks you for help on something, or when you are assigned to a project, that means they need help! Take the time to understand how it works, reason correctly about what needs to get done, be self-starting, and get the stuff done. Clearly communicate with others in your team and don't be afraid to use your supervisor to resolve problems that keep moving things forward. Be the guy that can get given something and sort it out - or start something new. Any work environment is very different from school - much to learn about the way things work.

ByersReason | 3 years ago | on: An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser

Totally happens even with insects. The biotech industry started using BT genes (a fungus which takes care of corn ear worm) in GMO corn. Previously, BT was an organically approved pesticide, carefully applied by growers according to guidelines which made sure the target pest did not develop resistance. But with the genes making the nasties continually = BT all the time = excellent evolutionary driver = cases of resistant corn ear worm appearing. Biotech reaction: "we will just think of something new and keep doing it!" ref: https://entomologytoday.org/2018/10/23/problems-driving-resi...

ByersReason | 3 years ago | on: Home Buying Is Becoming ‘Unaffordable for Most Americans’

Quite right. And also I know multiple people from the (now) older generation who are sitting on large amounts of property and renting it out for correspondingly huge amounts of income. Once into one property .. it was possible for a person to essentially chain from one mortgage to another (using the proceeds from the previous rental as collateral). The person in question now owns 5 houses -all accomplished bootstrapped on a school salary, starting in the early 70's. Utterly impossible now IMO, unless you win at the tech work lottery :) - it is of course impressively entrepreneurial, but also she wonders why her daughter has not settled down and purchased a house ..
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