anjc

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by anjc 4y ago
> Mainly because most of the pictures I usually see of the galaxies in space, they appear as practically identical dots. Never before I've seen this level of detail and the variety of shapes. Do you mean these specific galaxies? If
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by anjc 4y ago
Copy pasting instructions from some random site ( https://printerthinker.com/brother-hl-2130/ ): " If your Brother HL-2130 does not reset properly after putting in a new cartridge, and is still showing a 'toner
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by anjc 4y ago
I agree and recommend them to everyone. That said, their monochrome lasers also prevent non-OEM toners from working without an opaque sequence of key presses. Maybe this is normal for printers but it was non-obvious for me.
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by anjc 4y ago
This is very handy, thanks
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by anjc 4y ago
Ok I agree that these things may happen. I thought you meant cronyism within the actual procurement procedure, which I don't believe happens. The rules and procedures are so strict and transparent here, in my experience. I wouldn'
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by anjc 4y ago
A call is a generic overarching theme, you of course still need to write a proposal which includes the research problem, motivation, and questions. It is sometimes asked to include implications for externalities such as public engagement, c
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by anjc 4y ago
Very disappointed at the cynicism in this thread. It seems that many people believe cheating is acceptable, or even necessary. There is another aspect to cheating that I don't see mentioned. When lazy students become accustomed to cutt
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by anjc 4y ago
How much of the scripts did you handwrite? Very impressive!
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by anjc 4y ago
It's also likely that, as a new student, the writer simply doesn't understand these "performative" aspects yet. The research group isn't succeeding by accident, put it that way.
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by anjc 4y ago
You seem to dismiss publishing as performative when you don't rate the work. I can tell you that a lot of genius work dies on the vine because the researcher isn't capable in these "performative" aspects of the job. And
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by anjc 4y ago
The bill doesn't propose to ban children from social media, but rather bans them from being recommended content. In practice it would likely mean that a child's account will just view most recent or top content, or would require t
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by anjc 5y ago
Had this issue with my XPS 9570. I also had the heatsink issue that is well documented by now, and upon opening it found further significant manufacturing defects that Dell refused to acknowledge. Never buying a Dell again. It's a pity
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by anjc 5y ago
Oh I also hated it at the time, but regardless it was apparently the "vision". I don't think any BS since have captured the charm of 1 and 2, and I think the animation and art are big factors there.
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by anjc 5y ago
> I think that is mainly a demographic difference Possibly so! A shame too, it's my favourite genre and to this day I think 30 year old games are superior to contemporary ones, incl ones that were considered mediocre at the time (Ha
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by anjc 5y ago
> The history is more complicated than that. It's more complicated than that too imo. Before Broken Sword 3 was released, Charles Cecil said they had always wanted the game to be 3D ( https://adventuregamers.com/artic
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by anjc 5y ago
Interesting work. A few points: 1) The article segues from saying "a home team advantage exists", which is provable via score sheets, to "referees are biased against away teams", which is difficult to prove and needs jus
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by anjc 6y ago
Same actually. I haven't had those type of conversations, and moments of inspiration/motivation in a year now, with everything.
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by anjc 6y ago
> Almost always by year 4+ most PhD students are fatigued and starting to get very weary Currently experiencing this weariness and my output isn't great. Covid restrictions + WFH are making it worse I feel but ultimately it's m
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by anjc 6y ago
The Complete Village Vanguard, and Complete Verve, are essential because of the alternate takes, which imo are often better than the master takes.
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by anjc 6y ago
What Bill's talking about applies to artists/craftspeople/experts in a niche. Organisations are vastly more complicated than composition of music, in that many thousands of experts are needed to work together, each with their
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by anjc 6y ago
> providing credit to people to speculate on cryptocurrencies ... turtles People do use it for leverage but who cares. It doesn't undermine the contracts, and certainly doesn't make the concept worthless. You can securely lend&
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by anjc 6y ago
> That is the basic business model of most retail banks. Right > All of those business cases already exist in a reasonably accessible form. Disagree. I live in a wealthy EU country and payments from my bank account have been frozen ma
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by anjc 6y ago
Defi works regardless of the price of the underlying asset
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by anjc 6y ago
Do you always need to trust something in the process, for every product? You have a secure trustless mechanism for consensus, and can assess counterparty risk for a given product by auditing the smart contract (e.g. for Compound, borrowers
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by anjc 6y ago
Every top level comment seems to be making a joke that blockchain has no use, or that IBM have no real use for it. Look at how quickly funds in defi projects (i.e. non-speculative, useful projects) are growing, and please explain how you wi
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by anjc 6y ago
>The tool should have been designed (IMO) as a consumer tool, either a kiosk at CVS/Walgreens/pharmacies to assist with OTC med selection or possibly as a website with ads/referrals. I would absolutely choose a pharmacy ov
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by anjc 6y ago
>Where are the pianists for nonstandard keyboards? > If we dropped the "white keys are for C Ionian and black keys are for 'accidentals'" layout for a chromatic one, a pianist would only need to learn every scale a
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by anjc 6y ago
> Why? Because their hands are too small to play demanding repertoire The link does not and can not conclude this. It can not because it makes a confusing sleight of hand, with an inference between competitions, repertoire, and an implie
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by anjc 6y ago
> Spotify has actual humans with ears Yeah the actual humans with ears are me and you. They use play-time as the basis for recommendation as well as content-similarity, and put effort into de-biasing this data for, e.g., position bias. T
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by anjc 6y ago
Twin Peaks theme? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXrjMaVoTy0

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