MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 9mo ago
There is in fact a method, and it got us quite far until we abandoned it for the peer review plus publish or perish death spiral in the mid 1900s. It's quite simple: 1) Anyone publishes anything they want, whenever they want, as much
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by MarkusQ 9mo ago
It's as close to on-topic as most of the other comments. "The internet isn't secure enough to trust for voting" could be generalized to "The internet isn't secure enough to trust for _____" just a reasonab
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by MarkusQ 9mo ago
> But it's not really a question of style if you misspell certain words. Sure it is. Flagging vernacular, phonetic spelling for accents, punning, signalling a character's use of a word they are unfamiliar with, and so on and s
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by MarkusQ 9mo ago
I could use some more detailed guidance on step 2. I managed it once, almost by accident, but have not been able to replicate since.
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by MarkusQ 9mo ago
Would you like to bet on that? :)
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by MarkusQ 9mo ago
No. En-dash doesn't work "just as well" as an em-dash, anymore than a comma works as an apostrophe. They are different punctuation marks. Also, I was a curmudgeon with strong opinions about punctuation before ChatGPT—heck,
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by MarkusQ 9mo ago
Use it to train an "AI"? :) Probably not the OPs intent though. I suspect there are a lot of ways to destroy the system.
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by MarkusQ 9mo ago
Cool idea but I'm not buying the justification. There are many cases where the correct response to "but law enforcement needs a way in" is "we have a system for that, it's called a warrant." Further, while st
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
The context free specificity of these articles is really annoying. Pick one instance from one company and drill down, ignoring the fact that such risks are the norm and already accounted for. It's like having a headline "Wendy&#
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
Not the OP, but I'll try to unpack it for you. Reading online, listing to public discourse, etc. these days is like taking the Tide Pod challenge; people feeding you inedible or even toxic garbage that superficially looks like candy.
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
The innovation here isn't the generation of ridiculously small micro-currents from raindrops (we've seen that before) but the use of expensive carbon fiber materials (that don't rust) to do it.
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
"Instantaneously" in this instance meaning "for a fraction of a second" -- specifically, the time between the drop hitting and it bouncing/reforming into a bead. Probably (back of the envelope) for on the order of
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
If we're talking "proper math terms", if it "returns a random number" it isn't a function. In math, the value of a function can't change unless the arguments change. If you evaluate it repeatedly with th
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
It wasn't always this way. Comedy has deep, deep roots as a channel for speaking truth to power. Only in recent decades does it seem we've discovered that you can flip the parity on both aspects and run it in reverse. Totally ag
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
I'm going to steal that line. Brilliant!
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
> Evolution does not work maximizing individual success. Yes it does. In fact, unless you want to get nit-picky about intra-gene, inter-allele selection, that is _exactly_ what it does.
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
That's called a constant.
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
I know. It still grates on my nerves.
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
Argggh! Seeing “tell—tale sign” when it should be “tell-tale sign” is even worse! The point isn't to use punctuation, it's to use punctuation properly!
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
Because... that's how communication works? Managing the understanding that readers will take away from what you've written is a pretty central definition of the author's job.
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
> both its rotation and orbit are about 8 hours on the sameish axis. So > it's still spinning pretty dang fast, enough that the gas doesn't have > to settle into hot and cold sides. Except that by spinning on the same axi
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
Why highlight seniors then? The same factors apply to younger patients. The only explanation that makes sense is that "seniors" is a valuable ad word for the market this clickbait gibberish (or rather, "tossed factoid salad
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
Right, that's what I'm objecting to. With tidal forces that strong, there should be no rotation parallel to the axis of tidal stretching. In the two-body reference frame the axis of rotation should be identical to the axis of ro
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
> Medicare covered it for treating Type 2 diabetes but not for weight loss > [...] to Bucklew’s surprise, her Medicare Advantage plan covered it even > though she wasn’t diabetic, charging just a $25 monthly copay. > [...] Then
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
Sadly, that seems to be the gist of the article. I was really hoping for something a little more, but the whole tone struck me as "millions of people are putting uncontrolled amounts of sugar, honey, and who knows what other sweetener
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
I have, in fact, personally made fake feathers for a friend's Halloween costume (respecting their preference to not wear or consume any animal product). It made it much more expensive and labor intensive, but since a costume is essent
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
The artist's conception, with Jupiter-like bands running at an angle through the principle tidal axis really bugs me. If there's some bizarre mechanism that makes this even remotely plausible, it ought to have been explained. If
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
If we don't force critical systems to be resilient to an internet shutdown, we'll be doing the meme. Specifically: Weinberg’s 2nd Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
A search engine can tell you what some people mean by the acronym. It can't tell you what this particular author meant. It's like asking an LLM where you left your car keys, or asking Google what your spouse wants for dinner.
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by MarkusQ 10mo ago
It may be insane, but it's also true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

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