Balgair

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by Balgair 3y ago
> the psychic damage I took from bad students. > the hoards of unappreciative and entitled students who have all the tools in the world to make your life hell. Okay, now I'm more curious about your experiences here and need some
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, I'm not so much of a programmer as a person that can hack together code. Granted, my job is not 'programmer', it's 'R&D'. For example, I had to patch together some excel files the other day. Data in
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by Balgair 3y ago
I've dug into the studies on the co-sleeping risks. It turns out that co-sleeping is a risky thing if you are on drugs or are drunk . If you are 100% sober, then it's perfectly fine. If you are high, or have had a drink, or are o
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, I'm not the lawyer, my brother is. But I'll speculate all the same. I don't think that they are actually doing anything illegal [0]. It seems to be perfectly fine to pilot your boat anywhere you want to. Even if that
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by Balgair 3y ago
Fucking Rocket boat... Okay, story time. So, my brother was a law student in SF. He had a class on maritime law. They took at field trip to the Mare Island DHS office (I think) to learn more about the implementation of all the law they were
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by Balgair 3y ago
I cannot disagree more here. Biology is just astoundingly complicated, especially micro-bio. Lets look at the 'Central Dogma' of biology as a point to focus on a bit. It's the idea of 'information' transfer. DNA get
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by Balgair 3y ago
Just to be clear here, are you talking about the 'left-brain, right-brain' thing? Because I thought that was pretty well debunked. Also, I think you are talking about the corpus callosum for the 'bus' right?
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by Balgair 3y ago
I've worked with Deep Brain Stimulation and other cranial implants before. Mostly on the hardware side and the implantation side. I want to stress that giving a person a few years is a big deal. It's not something to scoff at. E
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by Balgair 3y ago
> They listen to symptoms, make an educated guess at a root cause based on limited information, make an educated guess at what might resolve the situation, and then wait to hear back if that fixed it; if it didn't, the loop continue
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aside: I love these 'Time' discussions on HN. Invariably, there is a thread from someone new to the mess that is 'time' that discovers things like leap-seconds or Japanese Imperial Years and is just blown away at the ins
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by Balgair 3y ago
Yep, most likely coastal ones for my former house. The house was built in the 40s, I know they were doing a lot of logging up the coast back then about that time.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm not a carpenter, but my old house was built out of redwood. Never had a problem with it and redwood keeps most of the pests and bugs out. I think that's due to all the tannin in the wood.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I love how, per the quote, he thinks we're anywhere close to being able to merge with AI. I'm a neuroscientist and, man alive, we're no where close to being able to merge with machines. Like, do you have any idea how many dis
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by Balgair 3y ago
The newbie poster here openly admits to liking to troll people via ragebait. And is also somehow 72 years young. That post is itself ragebait. They are just trolling.
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by Balgair 3y ago
Good article, but I can't help but see that the author is conflating smartness and research-acumen/ivory-tower-living. Being in academia != intelligence. In most of my experiences in the Ivory Tower, the smartest people tended to
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by Balgair 3y ago
I've not seen part 2 yet. But, if they really are making a trilogy and the second part ends on a high note, then classic film-writing tells us that the overall trilogy is bound to be a tragedy not a comedy. The end of the second ac
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by Balgair 3y ago
Another fun aspect here: The Italian growing season is in the winter, not the summer. In July-September, it's really too hot and dry to grow much in the Mediterranean, but it's much cooler and wetter in December-February, hence wh
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by Balgair 3y ago
One issue is the religious aspects. For example Abrahamic religions base their whole calendar on the unending 7 day week. Having a non-weekday smudged in is very sacrilegious to may adherents. It's surprising, in a way, but time is ver
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by Balgair 3y ago
0.4% stillbirths seems like a little number when you write out the percentage. But a 1 in 250 chance of your child dying before birth (?) seems really high when you say it like that.
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by Balgair 3y ago
> At this point you may start noticing a difference in dealer behavior: some of them are more open to negotiation that others. One of the reasons for that is that some of the cars are sitting on the lot for too long and they would like t
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, the Ivies have a pretty darn good track record of 'results' too. Where do you think are places with better 'results'? Not trolling here, I am genuinely curious as to your metric and the places/things that fi
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by Balgair 3y ago
Bret Devereaux of NC State has a good take on the activism part. From a pragmatic point of view, one can view activism as taking and spending from the account of 'good-will'. That's fine, but you also have to fill that accoun
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by Balgair 3y ago
It's so strange. Plato specifically rails against this idea of 'relativism' via Socrates, that all ideas are valid interior to that person (Aristotle then goes on to flesh it out more). I'm no philosopher, by any means,
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by Balgair 3y ago
Hey, best of luck to you both. I've been there with close family members and cancer. It's no fun at all. Easily the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life was just to care and watch. Make sure to grab family and friends
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by Balgair 3y ago
I don't know who in the upper parts of the various guilds in Hollywood saw this demo'd last summer, but they really really took notice. Those strikes went on for a long time, and it seems that holding out and getting the clause in
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by Balgair 3y ago
Now that would be old money. Reminds me of this episode from Archer : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2207833/
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by Balgair 3y ago
Yes, yes, I also understand this. But why are they in units of 1/3(e). Why are down quarks not -0.398390847895...(e) and up quarks not +0.6234098129034809234...(e). Why do they add up so damn neatly?
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by Balgair 3y ago
"A language isn't something you learn so much as something you join." ~Arika Okrent Now, they are talking about a computer language, but I think that the same holds for human languages as well. I've used Duo on and off f
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by Balgair 3y ago
For those without kiddos: Hold a 10lbs weight on your arm for three hours (simulates an infant trying to fall asleep in your arms). Do this for six months, three times a day. Lift a 20lbs bag of rice off the floor to your hips once every 20
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by Balgair 3y ago
4:1 at all times in my state. If you've not had an infant with a cold, let alone a room full of them, even 4:1 is cutting pretty close. Sure, when all are healthy and happy, you can maybe go up in ratio. But when things are going not s

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