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by TillE 3y ago
Indeed, DEA-listed chemicals don't even require a DEA license, it's just a bit of paperwork for new buyers, so the DEA can later come and ask uncomfortable questions if they suspect your usage is not legitimate.
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by TillE 3y ago
It's funny to look back at all the chat circa 2010 about how tablets were going to replace personal computers. It just hasn't happened. For most people they're a third device after a smartphone and a laptop, or a device for k
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by TillE 3y ago
Nintendo is a massively successful company that is still somehow selling tons of Switches even though it's an ancient device. They're not going anywhere, nobody's going to buy them.
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by TillE 3y ago
Alas, no Lord Vetinari stamp seems like a real missed opportunity. I was surprised at how much I liked "Going Postal", it's a different tone from the earlier Discworld stuff, but still great.
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by TillE 3y ago
> And despite the changes to improve the logged-out experience, I’ve still seen the annoying pop-up on mobile web asking if I want to view content in the Reddit app or in Safari. Very silly, but maybe that'll get changed too. It mak
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by TillE 3y ago
One of the coolest things about BG3 is the Twitch extension, which lets viewers freely browse through the player's character sheet, inventory, quests, etc. And, for fun, also lets viewers vote on dialogue options. It's a fantastic
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah, it's a constant annoyance that iOS app settings are randomly splattered across somewhere in the app and maybe in system settings.
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by TillE 3y ago
Exactly. There are too many unknowns to draw any kind of real conclusions, but everything so far still supports a position of cautious optimism. What we know is that LK-99 looks pretty interesting. Is it a room-temperature superconductor? M
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by TillE 3y ago
Both are anthropomorphizations, implying some kind of "thought" process which doesn't exist. The generated text is wrong, false, inaccurate. I don't think we really need a jargon-y term for it.
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by TillE 3y ago
That's just std::optional<> vs std::string, isn't it?
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by TillE 3y ago
Because unless all current replication attempts fail, it would be totally pointless. I know we're all eager for news, but there's no urgent need to verify the claims. That's not how science works. Give it a couple weeks.
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by TillE 3y ago
"However, substitution on the other Pb(2) does not appear to have such sought-after properties, despite being the lower-energy substitution site. This result hints to the synthesis challenge in obtaining Cu substituted on the appropria
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by TillE 3y ago
They mention the possibility of a mistake when measuring resistivity, which has already been discussed. But yeah, the partial levitation is not a mistake. Their abstract suggests LK-99 is a "highly insulating diamagnet", but they
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by TillE 3y ago
I guess there's Reddit, but I've generally found poor results (ie, few responses) for such questions. These days I'd generally start with "awesome" lists on GitHub, use number of stars as a coarse filter to exclude
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by TillE 3y ago
The recent unscientific moral panic about "skunk" has been bizarre to watch. Even conservative Germany is on track to legalize cannabis in the very near future (usage and cultivation, though perhaps not sales quite yet), and in th
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by TillE 3y ago
Assuming that replications fail but they really do have samples of a superconductor that can be thoroughly examined, this is still fantastic. Once we know the exact structure, the problem of synthesis is very solvable.
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah I've used a lot of drugs and the only one I'd classify as genuinely easy to get addicted and difficult to quit is nicotine. With weed I go through periods of using it constantly for a couple weeks, and then just getting bored
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by TillE 3y ago
"From a new customer" is the key phrase. This is only a serious issue for amateurs, not for real established labs.
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by TillE 3y ago
The latter really only applies to a handful of huge FOSS projects; there's a long tail of open source which is irrelevant to large-scale web infrastructure companies. I would hope that very few people are actually volunteering to con
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by TillE 3y ago
Use Mission Control for everything, it's great.
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by TillE 3y ago
Well, we already have a mature, real-world Python JIT in PyPy, with impressive performance. I dunno if Python is ever gonna be as fast as Java or C#, but we know it can be much better.
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by TillE 3y ago
In terms of communicating science to a general audience - as these lectures do - I think there's Feynman, Carl Sagan, and that's about it. It really takes a certain personality, a genuine enthusiasm, and their imitators don't
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by TillE 3y ago
Feynman was involved, but not particularly instrumental in the Manhattan Project. I was glad they included his anecdote about watching through the truck windshield.
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by TillE 3y ago
> with high-contrast and clearly-interactable elements Yeah, I miss that a lot. My favorite example is the iTunes sidebar icons going from clearly distinguishable different colors to flat uniform monochrome. Why? Because someone decided
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by TillE 3y ago
If you make Apple devices totally worthless to thieves, you discourage theft. Make them bricks which can't even be harvested for parts. That's the goal apparently, and it makes sense.
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by TillE 3y ago
My friend and I were delighted to find a copy of Penthouse at age 11, which was very much in its hardcore era. Oh no, how terrible. If your kid is old enough to want to poke around and explore the internet on their own, I really doubt they&
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by TillE 3y ago
If Apple ships one, it'll be because they've finally managed to engineer one which isn't fragile, creased, and dust-collecting. The platonic ideal of a foldable phone is exciting, but Android phone makers have been trying for
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by TillE 3y ago
The "Mastodon devs" is still basically just Eugen, or just him making decisions anyway. And he's specifically talked about the need to improve onboarding. He certainly doesn't consider it a non-issue.
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by TillE 3y ago
I think that's basically what TikTok got right. It's providing that experience in short form. But similarly, Amazon has never properly captured the experience of simply browsing the curated shelves of a bookstore or library. I don
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by TillE 3y ago
Don't you have USB-C cables for literally everything else? This is Apple's equivalent to finally dropping micro-USB, everyone is using USB-C now, thankfully. I mean my MBP has a MagSafe charging port, but I use USB-C for powering

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