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by JadeNB 1y ago
> i wish i could say this looked interesting to me but it doesnt :( Then, not to be snarky, why say anything?
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> Even if they couldn’t identify a universally understood icon, an existing user can recognize a familiar symbol faster than text, and symbols at least provide some clue that isn’t dependent on English comprehension. Of course any such d
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> Hadn't realised that wasn't a global system, but not sure this article has really explained what the problem with it is. It is—the first I is 'International'! I just checked in the US that *#06# will pull up the IM
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> It’s very easy. Insects are annoying. Nobody wants them near. Insects are an enormous class. (Well, I had to look that up, and maybe insects are just part of the class Insecta? Anyway, they're an enormous whatever they are.) I&
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> They can’t be fired, but if they stop bringing in grants, they can face steep pay cuts and lab closure. This describes the situation of tenured faculty (who are definitely who I had in mind when I referred to splashy big names), but un
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> I agree. It sounds like lack of documented processes and leadership oversight have made that corner of the organization a kind of personal fiefdom of the administrative staff. There are lots of problems with the way universities are se
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I'm not sure this is a reliable guide. I'm in academia, and the people who really can't be replaced are the administrative staff with hard-won institutional knowledge and connections--but they're valued far less than spl
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Isn't "not valued" at odds with "reasonable job security?"
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> In that construct, a computer program would never be conscious because it's a simulation, it doesn't have the constituent consciousness property. A computer program is the result of electrical and mechanical interactions that
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Thank you!
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> the Springer group theory book I am skeptical that this uniquely identifies a book (unless you mean the book "Linear Algebraic Groups" by the author called Springer, rather than the publisher called Springer, in which case it
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> People employed in a decision making capacity are safe, whether that's managing people or building a bridge from a collection of parts and construction equipment. Surely the modern history of decision making has been to move as mu
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> Robotics seems harder, though, and has been around for longer than LLMs. Robotic automation can replace blue collar factory workers, but I struggle to imagine it replacing a plumber who comes to your house and fixes your pipes, or a wa
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Could you explain what's going on here, and why it's mistreating the user? I don't doubt it, but don't understand.
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I know it's at best not quite off topic, but, if you like meta and you haven't already read it, then you will be delighted by "This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself" ( htt
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> Also, when the pause between two adjacent sentence is awkwardly inadequate, try writing a dot above the comma. Ah, you missed the chance to refer euphoniously instead to the pause between clauses!
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> So don't accredit universities that want to turn into degree mills. This is way outside the scope of something that a faculty member who is, as the article says, trying to teach has any hope of implementing within a reasonable tim
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> I saying that people are responsible for their actions. > In western society (democratic) laws are implemented by people put in a position of authority by the very people those laws apply to. Right (although I think that the latter
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> And the second goes for the people affected by the muddled laws too, who have way more discretion than the police. Are you arguing that the fault for being on the wrong side of the powerful lies with the people who could have just deci
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> > Why introduce two layers of macro indirection > TeX already has more than enough layers of macro indirection :/ Sure, I should have said "another layer of macro indirection" instead of just two! > Try debuggin
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> Y’all should try espanso for your latex needs. I definitely understand why macro-expander programs can be useful, but I'm always a bit puzzled about the idea of combining them with a macro language like (La)TeX. Why introduce two
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> You’re discounting familiarity as being stupid. The real path is “it was weird but once I spent some time with it, it made perfect sense.” I don't think either of your parent's paths say that: > There are two paths: "
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Without knocking this tool, which I haven't tried, there seems to be something about the inability of a package manager to stay simple—MacPorts was the simple (or at least "it just works") replacement for Fink, Homebrew was t
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> is it splitting hairs though? they're going to prison for refusing to engage with the justice system, which is a very normal thing to go to prison for the world over. what the original offence was isn't really relevant It is
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> The greatest trick machines ever pulled was making us believe they haven’t done anything to us. While "guns don't kill people, people kill people" is a cliché, I think there's still considerable meaning behind it, a
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> Today I bump into limitations of machines that were put there by manufacturers who are trying to assert ownership of the device after the purchase. In the "before times" limitations were either a fact of the hardware (i.e. yo
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Couldn't agree more about history. I was a good student who couldn't stand history (called "social studies" in my school), did the minimum to get through it wth good grades, then never took a college history course that
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> I kinda like this angle. While Slack makes an effort to work basically everywhere with low effort, I wonder what would follow if it wasn't the case. This idea of respecting user preference is not the way, though. For example, bac
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> That is about within a factor of 1000 of the number of atoms in the universe. So divide the universe into 1000 compartments of equal atom count, and there is about 1 year left for each atom in there. This sounds tedious, but it might h
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> No. The CMBR of the current universe gives a nice comforting grey. Upgrade today for VantaBlack cosmos, guaranteed no EM at all! Offer not available for Stuart Semple. (Incidentally, if you don't know about this wonderful feud, it

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