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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Right, which is why it quickly led to the detection of dark matter...hmm. I think a better analogy would be "that approach is exactly how we explain failing to find planets like Vulcan; we hypothesize that they are made of as-yet-unkno
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
No. At most a dozen people have died over Trump v. Harris, and possible no one has. That's exactly the hyperbolic conflation of the present petty squabble with the grand march of civilization, as if they were the same or even closely
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
100% agree. Which is why it's sad to see all that trivialized in the hyperbole surrounding the present election. Both sides would have you believe that the other side's pompous windbag is a threat to western civilization, and onl
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
We have got to stop acting like politics matters more than anything else. Yeah, it's kind of important. But so is having friends and family that you can talk to, and recognizing that they may not agree with you but...so what. People
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Those graphs are incredible. Literally. As in impossible to credit. What sort of other things would we have to conclude if we took them seriously? Insulin causes AD, starting the day you get the prescription? The mind (assuming it'
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Personal anecdote only, but I'd suggest lack of sleep. Every time a kid is born, the total amount of quality sleep extant adults get drops. (Kids, if you ever see this, I'm not saying it wasn't worth it. But seriously, 2AM
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
The "Doctors have messy handwriting" trope derives from the fact that prescriptions often contain a large fraction of Latin terms, chemical names, abbreviations and acronyms that don't parse (and thus seem sloppy/illegib
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
This technical term for this is "false".
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
> There is no wrong use of language Thy can'n't sirus be. language works only farso as withbreathings we follow, Leading paths through gardens means fail, and bloom'st chaos wear not!
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Not quite. They can be _represented_ that way (but not uniquely, e.g. c=(a+bi) vs abs(c)=r, arg(c)=Θ) or they can be treated as fundamental (defined by axioms), or as a sub-field of the quaternions, etc. If this seems counterintuitive, th
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
And yet they and their ilk dominate (and thus drive most of the progress in) their respective areas. It's almost like not pre-deciding you're doomed and instead just getting on with it is the secret to getting anywhere.
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
1) Not clear how lit review published in 2021 casts doubt on a study published in 2024 2) The lit review does not say the data is controversial, only that the claim of life extension is, and then goes on to say "However, via its abilit
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Yikes!
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
As a teen, I thought Catch-22 had a sad ending, and Slaughter House Five had an upbeat ending. Then rereading in my late twenties, I thought the opposite. In the following decades, I've gone through all the possible permutations.
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
IIRC they were roughly contemporaneous (forth was around longer, but mostly as something Chuck played with and most people didn't learn about until much later). In those days you couldn't just google for alternatives or hop on so
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
CSS may still be broken. At least, I'm getting some really obnoxious color combinations (magenta on salmon, etc.)
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
GP didn't "forget" it; that 10x improvement in efficiency is the reason we can use 10W bulbs to do the job that used to require a 100W bulb. Looking at energy conversion to lumens isn't "pedantic," it's &
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
The heck with camels. All these places are still within a few meters of the Earth's surface. If you want remote, you've got to think outside the biosphere!
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Ouch. I love it when people say what they mean and don't beat around the bush.
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Which would be relevant if either side respected it. In practice, compilers frequently have bugs and programmers even more frequently make use of "what the compiler actually does" rather than adhering to the language specification
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
> The goto scientific SEO process hasn't really changed in centuries. > You submit your article to some exclusive groups of researchers, > anonymous peer review is arranged, and if deemed acceptable the > article is include
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Aaron Swartz would have liked some of those principles. This is a small, "better late than never" step for most of us, but for Aaron...it's more like "too little, too late."
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
That's...wrong? Recently (in the last few years), I've seen it used 1) to argue against misinformation bans (specifically anti-vax nonsense), 2) to argue in favor of allowing equal time to political opponents, 3) as a defense of p
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Percentages may be "de-humanizing" but they are much better for understanding the relevance and severity of layoffs. If your local bakery lets 20 people go it's much more likely to be a sign of significant issues with the bu
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
CrowdStrike definitely has the chops when it comes to taking sites down, I'll give them that.
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Ah, yeah. The "you didn't know you were an exhibitionist, did you?" specials.
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
So to avoid the risk of someone wardriving your neighborhood and hacking into your camera, it's better to...send all the data to China and trust them to protect it?
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
I mostly agree with you, but since you ask... :) I think one weak spot is the assumption that the physical hardware for speech (e.g. lips & vocal chords) are to some extent necessary and sufficient for language. I think we know with p
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
So..."I know you're wrong but I can't/won't say what about, how or why I know it, or otherwise back up my claim"? This sounds like just another way of saying "I don't like your conclusions, but I can&
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by MarkusQ 2y ago
Yeah. You tell 'em! Real programmers write the code themselves. By hand. In a hex editor. All these new-fangled code generating tool chains like compilers and AI coding assistance are a bunch of coder coddling toad tinkle. Now get

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